And we're back! Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I planned to get this out several months ago but obviously that didn't happen.
But other than that I am currently in my first semester of college and I'm jumping in with 27 units of college credit in my pocket due to Advanced Placement tests, which I am very happy about. Also, college is so very easy compared to my high school. Like seriously easy. I had a stack of homework practically everyday in high school. College? I don't even feel any pressure from homework.
Anywho, this chapter is now up, so enjoy!
PS: Some stuff (Pairing plan(?), future, explanations of stuff that I probably won't be able to put in the actual story (Maybe, if I can't put it inside the actual chapter)) at the bottom so please have a quick look!
Reviews:
: I'm not setting this whole entire story to be inside the dxd universe, yes this ARC will be more or less inside the dxd universe, but then it'll move on to another universe with maybe characters coming back once in awhile if needed and mentions of past events. That's how I've planned this whole story to be, a linear storyline that progresses through multiple universes with events/characters/storylines along the way. Eventually, this story is gonna go into space, so I'm going to have to choose what universe I'm going into for that for example. Right now, I'm setting things up before everything gets 'uncondensed' and stops jumping around.
YuukiAsuna-Chan: The reason why I have Naruko bother with guns is because I want her to be balanced. I mean, sure sometimes a curbstomp story is great, but the majority of the time? It'll just turn into a satire/comedy story more often than not. Struggle is a great tool for development. Also, yes. I can see what you're saying, but I don't plan on putting in big parts of other universes. Maybe in the future when everything is more stable, but for now, mentions and small additions would be fine in my eyes.
Erching: Yeah, I've noticed. Honestly I can finish college in about 2 to 3 years if I wanted to. I already have 21 units out of the 120 I need for my Bachelor's right out of high school (AP classes are AWESOME). Probably the hardest part is making sure I get all the paperwork in when I need it and the self-study and self-motivation to keep going.
Seiara: Pairings in this story are going to be… weird. With the way this story is going to be in the future, character death is for sure simply due to age. I can implement a sort of life extension (immortality serum or something or Naruko pulling something out of her ass), but I'm still not sure if I want to or not. I'm planning to write explanations on what happened in the past 2 chapters since the jumps are rather sudden so just fyi.
Guest: I'm pretty sure I wrote in the AN in the first chapter stating that it is going to be a large xover of many stories. So maybe you should read them ya know? Cause they are pretty short anyway to be honest.
Ahemaru 'Ahegao' Henriku: I have read much of his stories so I may have unintentionally put in traits in his stories into this one.
Travis9000: Does it really matter what time period this story is set in? I mean the difference in socio-cultural between 2022-23 and 2016 while can be significant, is negligible in the premise of this story. Plus this is a fanfic. So it doesn't have to be 100% accurate in everything. And yes, I know it doesn't make sense, hopefully I can clear it up this chapter.
Thanks to everyone else that reviewed so far! You have my gratitude!
Disclaimer is in Chapter 1.
"Talking"
"Biju/Demon/Etc"
'Thoughts'
7 October, 2023
Outer Tokyo Prefecture
"Yes, yes. I'll send it to you when I get back, we should have enough shit on Aspari to force them to turn everything over to Wulf."
"Some for us too right?"
"Of course, your guys did provide the intel. Fair's fair."
"Right. Talk to you later then."
"See ya." Naruko disconnected from the channel with a smile on her lips. With the data they just stole Aspari would have no choice but to give everything they have over to Wulf and Koko or else risk really bad backlash from the public about all the shit they've done. That and profits are going to plummet like a bar of steel in water.
"Base is in sight, eta two minutes."
Naruko placed her hand onto her headset, "Copy that Spirit-72. How's the weather looking out there?"
"Not bad, not bad. A few clouds here and there but otherwise skies are clear. Hell, you can see the milky way easy."
"How high up are we?"
"'Bout 12,000 ft. What? You want to go on one of your fancy exits I keep hearing about from the other pilots?"
Naruko smirked, "You can't beat the rush with much else Spirit-72."
A sigh came over the radio, "Fine, fine. I'll tell the gunner to open the door. Have fun. Meet you back at base for debrief. Spirit-72 out."
"Thanks again. See ya at debrief. Spectre out." Naruko stood up in the helo's cabin, nodding to the gunner that was opening the door as the agents behind her all shook their heads, smirks on their faces. She took off her helmet, sighing in satisfaction from feeling the cold air blowing through her hair and scalp. Sealing the helmet away, she stepped to the edge of the cabin and turned around to face the agents. Her smirk got wider and she gave them a quick two-fingered salute before falling backwards into the darkness.
Falling backwards through the night, Naruko looked up towards the sky. True to his word, the sky was crystal clear and she could see the entirety of the milky way, and it was beautiful. She closed her eyes and expanded her senses till she could 'feel' the ground that was rapidly getting closer and closer.
'I'm going to need to check that seal again soon. Roughly a year left before everything hits the fan, fuck me when I came back and found out it was a spacial displacement seal instead of a Genjutsu seal. My group is already off to a good start but really need to up recruitment, training, and better equip them. Need to acquire AA too, SPADS and MANPADS. Good thing we just grabbed Aspari, I'll be able to up the budget by a factor of three.' She thought as she fell through the air.
'China will want to try and take over the country seeing it as a 'New World' and what with their economic situation and lack of space for all their people, so gonna need to plan for that.' She crossed her arms across her chest, 'Seriously, all this work just because I was too goddamn eager to leave the Elemental Nations. Literally the driving reason to why I started up Wulf Western was so I can have a power base to be able to influence things when the Elemental Nations come out from that seal and fund everything I'm doing.'
'Wonder what I should name the PMC I'm building up… Should I even call it a PMC? Or maybe a shadowy paramilitary group. Hmmm….'
8000 ft.
The wind continued to howl past her, her hair going every which way behind her as she fell head first towards the ground, 'Either way gonna need to think up a name for it. HellHound Security? Legion International? FOXHOUND? Wait. Actually that last one sounded good. It sounds good and incorporates foxes! Which to be honest Kurama did his best to influence me with, and worked. But it doesn't really sound all that intimidating...'
6000 ft.
She spread her arms out, T-posing, as she began to move around in a circle in the air, 'Might as well go full out. In addition to gearing out the land troops, i.e. APCs, IFVs, maybe some MBTs as well. Scratch that, make it a definite yes. Should I buy some surplus navy vessels or should I have RnD make up some designs… Same for aircraft. Also need to standardize the ammunition and weapons so we could simplify logistics and everyone can mooch off of someone else if they run out of ammo.'
3500 ft.
'Wonder how everyone is doing back in Konoha. Pretty sure last I checked that seal there was a time dilation field surrounding the continent, so could be instead of the five or so years it has been for me it's only been a year or so for all I know. Didn't exactly check for sure. I'll do it tomorrow. Hmmm… What should I wear then…'
1000 ft.
'Black with dark red orange highlights? Nah, let's just go with a black Under Armour shirt under a grey 5.11 Valiant jacket. Pants? Hmm… Probably the MultiCam Black Tru-Spec Nylon / Cotton Ripstop TRU Uniform Pants that I got back in London. Haven't worn it in a long while. Shoes I'll just go with a pair of Bates 8" Code 6 SZ.'
500 ft.
'Pretty casual outfit to be honest.'
300 ft.
'But pretty comfy, most important part.'
100 ft.
'Well, time to go.' She flipped herself so that her feet was pointed towards the ground before she disappeared below the treeline.
0 ft.
The only thing to hit the ground was the column of air she pushed down in her descent, scattering the bed of leaves from where she would have landed.
7 October, 2023
Tokyo Prefecture
Okutama Municipality
(Newly named) Outer Heaven Base
The four agents walked into the debriefing room along with the pilot of the Blackhawk casually before the pilot suddenly stopped, brake checking the agents behind him, "You gotta be kidding me."
Naruko jovially waved at the five as she sat with her feet on the table, "S'up boys?" She took a sip from the glass of whiskey in her hand, the edges of her lips twitching upwards, "What took ya so long? Was wondering if you got stuck in traffic or something?"
8th of October, 2023 (Gregorian Calendar)
Elemental Nations
Somewhere in the forests of Fire Country
In a very secluded part of Fire Country where there is no population centers or even old hermits within 100 kilometers lay a stone tablet twice the size of the memorial stone in Konoha. Overgrown with vegetation even a skilled Shinobi would be hard pressed to find due to its secluded location and how covered by the forest it was. Inscribed onto the face of the stone tablet though was archaic symbols upon archaic symbols that very, very few could even hope to read, much less decipher and understand.
But incredibly enough it was found one day by complete accident when a Chunin squad of Leaf Shinobi who were on a standard bandit sweeping mission stumbled on it as they were tracking a bandit group. Now, the site is home to a research group attempting to decipher the inscriptions on the tablet.
It was rather early in the morning and most of the shinobi there were still asleep asides from those on watch, but one researcher was already awake. The tablet represented a mystery that could properly challenge him and occupy him for a large amount of time so when the call was sent out for volunteers to research, he jumped on the chance.
Shikamaru was holding a photo of a segment of the tablet showing a certain part of the flowing symbols. Out of all the other parts of the tablet, this one held his attention as it was one of the very few the group had managed to even start to decipher even after the months they've been here. But more importantly, this part seemed more familiar to everyone of the researchers there than the other parts, though no one had yet to find out why.
He was tracing the lines with his eyes when he heard some noises coming from the location of the tablet. Looking at the time, he saw that no one should be awake other than the ones on watch and even then it's not yet time to come back in. Suspicious, he got up from his bed roll and out of his tent to see what made the noise.
His footfalls were silent, as is every single Shinobi nowadays especially those who went through the Fourth War, as he walked towards where the tablet was located. As he reached the tablet he saw a someone in front of the tablet in strange clothing inspecting it. Walking closer he could see that the person was female with long crimson ha- 'No it can't be!'
His eyes widened in shock as he realized who was standing in front of the tablet. Naruko has been missing from the village for a little more than a year and every search party sent out by all the hidden villages couldn't find a single clue.
Although her letter shed some clues it just didn't seem possible that there was anything beyond the shores of the Elemental Nations as those who sought to know what was beyond the oceans found themselves on the other side of where they started. Those who started their journey on the shores of Wind Country would find themselves near Demon Country. So the possibility that there was anything besides had to be wrong. Right?
But the proof was right in front of him. Naruko stood in front of the tablet in clothing he hasn't seen anywhere else and the fact that no one could even find her all this time lent credence to her letter. As he watched her, she traced a few of the lines with her forefinger as if entranced, or possibly in deep concentration. In his surprise though, he accidentally stepped hard enough on a leaf to crunch to under his foot. It sounded oh so loud to his ear.
Naruko instantly spun around with something in her hand. A metal device of some sort with a hole at the end. Wait, her forefinger is curled around a trigger, could it be a gun? But there isn't any guns designed like that, especially with how she held it. With the way she's holding it though it had to be a pistol, it couldn't be a musket at all but the grip and how long it was is rather unusual.
Naruko though, as soon as she saw Shikamaru lowered her machine pistol, the Glock 18 pointed now at the ground instead of her old friend. "Shikamaru," She said, smiling, "long time no see."
"Yes, it has been a long time, a little more than a year right?" He said in that drawl of his, but his eyes was picking up every single detail he could about Naruko: the clothing, the gun, the way she held herself, but most importantly her eyes. She always has been the most expressive of the Konoha and her eyes are basically windows to what she's thinking. Right now though, those same eyes spoke of happiness, surprise, but unusually: caution. Why should she be so cautious of a friend?
Naruko chuckled, "For you and everyone here, yeah, little more than a year. But for me," She glanced at the tablet over her shoulder, "it's been more than five years."
Shikamaru narrowed his eyes, filling that little tidbit away, "That isn't possible. There isn't anything that can dilate time like that. Leaving that aside, where have you been all this time? Everyone has been worried sick about you."
"I've traveled Shika-kun, I have seen countries and cities that would boggle your mind. People that could make everyone here look like uncivilized savages, but at the same time saints of the highest order. Armies with the power to end the world hundreds of times over." She said, her eyes slightly glazed over as she thought back on her experiences. "I've met so many people and experienced so many things. I don't regret leaving ya know? I don't regret it one single bit."
Shikamaru was rather skeptical, "Really? People have crossed the oceans before and they didn't even find a single new island. They all would just come around to the other side of the Elemental Nations. So I am rather doubtful of the places you've been to."
Naruko chuckled, "You would be surprised." She turned around to face the tablet, "This tablet here, which I suspect you've only recently found seeing as you have absolutely no idea what the hell it is, is the only reason why when you cross those oceans you find nothing."
She turned back to Shikamaru, "This tablet is one big fuinjitsu array, which I believe was created by either the Sage of Six Paths or the Otsutsuki Clan way back when, and forced what you know of as the Elemental Nations into it's own universe. Basically everything here is wholly separate of the rest of the world and no one can go into or out of it. Well, least until I came along."
Shikamaru's mind was reeling from the information she just gave up. By all accounts, the Sage was the closest thing to a god the Elemental Nations has ever seen, so by all rights he could've done what she theorized.
"You see, he never thought of someone being able to fully control the Juubi, or at least successfully contain it, like I have. Hell, even he couldn't. So he didn't think someone would be able to bypass the, well, how should I say this, the fabric of reality that is the divide between our world and the rest of the world."
She turned back around to the tablet and pointed to one specific part. "Now, while I haven't deciphered everything on this damn thing, I understand enough that I mostly know what each symbol is for. This part here is for maintaining the fabric of reality that divides our world and the rest of the world. Since I basically cut open a hole in it, I, unintentionally, destabilized the whole seal as it was never designed to be able to withstand such an event."
She then pointed to another part of the symbols, "Right here is where there is a, contingency plan, if you will. In case something caused the seal to destabilize or stop it from working, the seal will slowly start to collect enough nature energy to be able to effectively rejoin our world with the rest of the world, right back to where it was before. Since it couldn't collect all the energy it needed in an instant or else collapse this entire world, it had to do so over time."
Shikamaru at this point could only numbly follow along with Naruko's words, what she's saying here basically means the entire Shinobi world, the entirety of the Elemental Nations, is going to erupt in chaos!
Naruko placed her hands on her hips, having holstered her machine pistol already, and stared up at the tablet, "There is also a time-dilation to this seal but I haven't found exactly where it is yet. I know it's here somewhere, I can see the arrays powering it and other arrays being affected by it, but not that actual array. Either way..." She turned around to Shikamaru who was standing there dumbly after receiving the revelation about what the tablet is.
"Know this Shika-kun. When the seal finally gets enough energy to pull this world back to where it used to be, a very large pulse of chakra is going to shoot out. I would not want to be within at least ten kilometers of this thing, no telling what it could do. There is also the fact that the Elemental Nations is going to go through a rather giant upheaval. New forms of governments, international laws, cultures, technology, warfare, will be shown to everyone." She slowly walked up to him, placing both her hands on his shoulders.
"These last five years when I realized what I had done, I've been preparing. Right now, I'm in control of a very large group, financially, politically, and soon, militarily. I aim to ease us into the rest of the world as best I can, slowly for sure, but it would be best that way. I'm also going to have to stop the rest of the world from trying to take over the Elemental Nations, whether for it's resources, people, anything otherwise. So don't worry too much alright? There is basically absolutely nothing you guys can do on your end other than prepare."
"Fuck…" She said, combing her fingers through her vibrant red hair, "I haven't talked that much in a while." She deftly unsealed a canteen from a seal somewhere and when she popped it open Shikamaru could smell that the liquid inside is alcoholic. She took a large drink of the alcohol and sighed in delight. "Yep, that hits the spot. Jack Daniels' Tennessee Honey whiskey is so awesome~! Really should get more sooner or later though."
At this point, Shikamaru's brain was kinda overloaded, world shattering news doesn't exactly come around everyday and this one is filling his head with too many possibilities and outcomes that his mind just wants a way to escape from it all. What better than alcohol? Thus, he smoothly swiped the canteen from her hand and drank it like a man in a desert would with water.
"Oi!" Naruko called out when he took the canteen from her hands, "That's my alcohol! Even if it couldn't get me drunk, still my alcohol!" She then promptly swipes it back and quickly resealed it. "Anyway… You guys all have two months to prepare what you can, evacuation plans, training, whatever, before shit hits the fan. I've got a year to get more people and equipment to be able to hold our own against criminals, mercenaries, and even countries before you all rejoin the rest of the world."
Shikamaru scratched his head, "Agh… This is all so troublesome…"
He turned around to face the tablet and after a few minutes of silence, "You missed Sakura and Sasuke's wedding you know."
Naruko face softened when she heard that, "Yeah. I know." She hugged herself, "I was pretty impulsive when I made the choice to leave, and a little selfish I guess…"
"The village wasn't the same after you left, well, at least for the Shinobi in the village. Just wasn't as bright as when you were still around."
Naruko scoffed, "Bet the civilians threw a goddamn party after they knew I left huh?"
Shikamaru shook his head, "They tried. From what I heard they put in several petitions to Kakashi to throw a festival celebrating the fact you were gone. He was pretty pissed, to the point that he put some of the civilian council members in the hospital when they kept pushing."
The laugh she let out sounded so hollow Shikamaru almost winced, "Now I'm sure I don't regret leaving… Fight to protect the village? Why should I fight for the people when they hate my guts? That isn't taking into account the five villages stopped fighting each other and how everyone basically mellowed out around the continent so who would we even fight."
"Then what about for those who cared about you? Your friends, your teachers, your family? Are you just going to leave them all behind?"
"I can always visit ya know? Drop in from time to time and see how everyone is doing." She replied.
He didn't say anything after that and the silence dragged on for a bit as both just studied the tablet in silence. Then soft beeping sounds started from Naruko, startling the two. She dug into one of her pockets from which she pulled out her phone.
Taking a quick glance at it, she then put it back into her pocket, "Time for me to go it seems." She then unsealed a scroll into her hand and put it out for him to take, "Here, my presents for Sakura and Sasuke. Some varieties of tomato seeds you can't find here in the Elemental Nations and a chokuto I had made in a country almost the same in culture as ours for Sasuke, and a medical textbook for Sakura."
Shikamaru took the scroll and placed it inside a pocket, nodding, "Alright, I'll give it to them when I get back to Konoha. What was that in your hand anyway?"
"This?" She asked taking out the phone, "This is a communications device in the simplest terms, I guess. But it also has other features. It's basically a mini-computer. So much better than the ones we have here."
"Huh." He said dumbly. Considering the computers in the Elemental Nations were pretty big, slow, and expensive as hell, that was an understatement. "Can civilians get those?"
Naruko nodded, "For sure, hell almost everybody owns one basically. It's almost like a necessity for living in the more advanced countries." She shook it for emphasis, "But while this model is available for purchase for civilian consumers, I had one of my R&D divisions upgrade it with better specs; the upgraded version is about standard gear for my people really."
He chuckled, "I still find it weird that you're in command of a group of people."
A tick mark appeared on Naruko's forehead, "Hey! I can be smart and commanding too ya know? I'm not as dumb as Kiba-baka." She checked the time again, "Alright, I really need to go, six hour time difference is a real bitch." She pocketed the phone and started walking off. She threw a backwards wave to him as she walked off, "Catch ya later Shika-kun."
He threw a lazy wave after her, "Later Naru." The next time he blinked, she was gone.
9 October, 2023
City of Kuoh, Japan
Abandoned mansion
"According to the reports, this stray has been tricking people into that abandoned house and eating them." Said a red-headed girl as she lead her group down a path to said abandoned house.
"Gross!" Issei replied, sticking his tongue out in disgust.
"Tonight's job shouldn't be too hard. Just find the beast and kill it." The girl said flippantly.
"These monsters are pure evil. They don't care about anything but their selfish desires and that always ends in ugliness." The second boy in the group said as they entered the church.
The red-headed girl led them deeper into the house, each person in the five person group keeping their heads on a swivel, "Issei."
Issei turned to look at her, "Yes president?"
"Are you familiar with a game of chess?" She asked without turning around.
"Yeah, sort of." He replied quizzically. "I've played it but I totally suck."
"Right then." She stated as they all kept moving forwards, "As the master I'm the King. My Empress is the Queen. My Cavalier the Knights, my Tank the Rook. My Clergymen the Bishop, and my Foot soldier the Pawn. Devils with titles of nobility grant the character a sense of these pieces to each one of their servants." The group then stopped in an open room from which a horrid smell of death and decay engulfed the area.
"That sounds okay." Issei replied back as his face was turning green from the smell, clearly not at all used to the stench.
"We have a special name for them. We call them our Evil Pieces."
Issei looked at the back of her head questioningly even as he tried to force down the bile in his throat, "Sorry, but why are you telling me this?"
She kept looking forwards, not once looking back to Issei, "I want you to watch and learn. Pay close attention to my devils as they do battle here tonight."
"Oh, ok." He replied after finally getting control over his stomach.
A few minutes passed but nothing happened, causing the red-headed girl to narrow her eyes. "Koneko, still nothing?"
The demure, petite girl shook her head, "No. I don't hear or sense anything."
Before anybody could do or say anything else, a loud bang echoed through the empty house. "Damn it! Let's go!" The redhead said as she started to run down the halls followed by everyone else towards the sound of the gunshot, "If that's a human they're as good as dead!"
As the group ran they could see signs of a fight, but instead of what they would commonly see in fights between the supernatural they saw bullet holes. Fearing the worse, the group ran faster until they came upon an open room similar to the one they had left. Inside though was the rogue devil they were after. While the top of her body wasn't bad, per se, her lower body destroyed whatever attractiveness she could've had.
Her lower body could be well-described as a crazy scientist's experiment combining a spider and a lion. She had four legs with splayed hands for feet and a snake's body and head for a tail, not to mention that fact she was covered in fur.
At the moment though she was lying in the center of the room in a pool of her own blood leaking from a myriad of bullet holes on her body as a group of four people stood in a circle around her. A fifth person was standing in front of her with a gun pointed at her head.
All of them wore some kind of hardened kevlar-weave body armor as a bodysuit. Atop that was several magazine pouches and either one or two shoulder pauldrons. They all had a holster on their hips for a side arm and their knees all had pads on them for protection. Around their necks was an armor similar to what an EOD armor had, although not as thick nor as heavy looking.
All of them had a helmet on that covered their whole head and face and was further accented by red highlights coming from behind their face mask where their eyes would be and from various pouches and gadgets on their person, giving off a rather dangerous and mysterious atmosphere. Each of them, other than the fifth figure, held an assault rifle of some kind in their hands.
Before they could do anything else, the fifth figure, which looked to be a woman if the body shape was a clue, pulled the trigger, sending a bullet into the head of the stray and killing it. The figure then turned around to the group of devils, which caused the others to turn to them and they raised their weapons in their direction. Fortunately for the devils, the woman put a hand up and their guns came back down, although in a position where they can easily bring up.
The woman then began walking towards them, her pistol in hand but pointed at the ground in a casual carry. As she walked, she started talking, "Rias Gremory…" Her voice was digitized though so the devils couldn't identify them, "Daughter and heir to the Gremory family name. Sister of one Sirzechs Lucifer, leader of the Four Great Satans."
She stopped a few meters away from them, "It seems you're a bit late to the party little girl. As you can see," She waved her hand at the dead stray, "the stray is quite dead. Took a little bit of time and ammo but got the job done."
Rias took a step forward while the rest of her group spread out behind her, "We thank you for dealing with the stray, but humans shouldn't meddle with the affairs of the supernatural unless you're with the Church." Normally she wouldn't give out information like that so easily, but considering the woman in front of her already seemed to know so much, she didn't see why she should not.
The woman in front of her chuckled, "The Church are a bunch of idiots who can't look past their own fanaticism. Considering the fact that God is dead, their whole religion is null and void. We're just concerned citizens dealing with the unsavory in the absence of those whose job it is to deal with such trash."
Rias's eyes widened in realization, "You're the ones whose been going around the globe and dealing with the strays!"
The woman holstered her pistol and crossed her arms in front of her chest, "What of it? You and yours have had plenty of time to deal with them yet the strays were let free to do as they wish for years. We just thought we should deal with them since you couldn't get off your entitled asses."
"It is still not your place to deal with such matters." Rias replied.
"Oh? Is it not our place to protect ourselves? Is it not our place to deal with threats to our friends and family? Or is it merely our place to accept the fact that humans are nothing but play toys for the supernatural to use as they wish?" She chuckled, "You should understand Rias Gremory, humanity is no longer the bottom of the food chain. Things are in motion that will turn the entire world on it's head."
She then turned around and began walking back to the rest of her group, "Let's go gentlemen, we're Oscar Mike and time's a wastin'." She walked past the group and they fell in behind her, walking backwards and keeping the devils in sight at all times until they turned a corner and disappeared.
Two weeks later
City of Kuoh, Japan
Shopping District
It was a rather sunny day in Kuoh and Naruko was doing some grocery shopping. She had her earbuds in her ear and she was nodding her head to the music when she accidentally bumped into someone turning a corner, almost dropping her bags.
"Ah! Naruko-sensei! What are you doing here?"
Looking up while reorganizing her bags, she saw Issei and a girl in nun's clothing standing in front of her, apparently the ones who she bumped into. "Oh, hey Issei! How's it going, and who's your lady friend? She your girlfriend or something?"
Issei's face flushed red while the girl's face tried to imitate a tomato, he quickly shook his head, "She's just a friend I met today!" As he was about to say something else he stopped with his mouth open as his eyes actually took a full view of Naruko. Soon, a small trickle of blood could be seen coming out of his nose.
Naruko cocked her head to the side seeing his nose start bleeding before she smirked. She was wearing a white t-shirt and her dark orange bra could be seen under it as the her sweat soaked into her shirt rendering it kinda see-through. Her smirk turning slightly evil, she leaned in close to Issei, his nose bleeding worse the closer she got, "What's wrong Issei? See something you like?"
Not being to take anymore, Issei's nose burst as he finally couldn't hold back the torrent of blood coming out. Naruko's loud laughter rang out through the air as the nun's frantic shouts at Issei joined alongside. As much as she tried to lower his love or boobs at school, out of school is a different matter.
A short while later the three of them were walking alongside each other after Issei recovered from his, ordeal. "Well Issei, to answer your question I was doing some grocery shopping. I ran out of some stuff and I need to restock. Now your turn, who's your friend?"
Issei rubbed the back of his head, "Oh yeah, you were out for the past two weeks weren't you?"
Naruko nodded, "Yeah, had to take care of some personal business out of town." Personal business meaning building a Private Military Company of course.
"Well Asia transferred into the school in the time you were gone. She had a couple of problems though shortly after transferring," Problems meaning some rogue Fallen Angels who wanted Asia's Sacred Gear, "but we dealt with it easily enough."
Asia bowed as soon as he introduced her, "Nice to meet you Uzumaki-sensei. Issei-kun and everybody else has told me a lot of good things about you."
Naruko's eyebrow twitched at the honorific, "Nice to meet you too Asia-chan. I hope Issei-kun and the rest of the ORC has been treating you nicely; and please call me by my first name, not much of a formal person."
Asia nodded, a smile on her face, "Okay then Naruko-sensei, and yes, Issei-kun and everybody in the ORC has been treating me very well. In fact, Issei-kun offered to let me live with him! He's a really nice person!"
Issie's face flushed red, again, and Naruko's evil smile returned with a vengeance, "Oh really now? Well Issei-kun, remember to be protected whenever you're doing it okay?"
Cue Issei having to cover his nose again as it bled again while Asia flushed deep red. "Naruko-sensei!?"
Same day
City of Kuoh, Japan
Naruko's Home
After making Issei pale from blood lost and Asia about to faint, she said her goodbyes to the two and headed home. While it was true she had been out of town for the past two weeks, she did know of what went down in Kuoh in her absence. As much as she would have wanted to be present when everything with Asia happened she had to be with Koko to get some of the equipment she needed for Outer Heaven. Man was she happy at how much she bought, Koko practically had dollar signs in her eyes.
Opening the door, she took off her shoes and set them aside. Entering the kitchen she placed her groceries on the granite counter top and went ahead and placed them in their proper places. With her groceries all put away, she took out a glass and filled it with some whiskey and went upstairs to her, as cliche as it sounds, situation room.
Popping her clones and summoning new ones, she took a seat behind her desk. Checking everything over, she took a sip and sighed, everything seems to be on schedule for the eventual upheaval of the entire world.
24 October, 2023
City of Kuoh, Japan
Kuoh Academy
'The rules say that alcohol is not allowed on campus,' Naruko thought to herself, 'but I say fuck that.' And proceeded to down a large portion of the alcohol in her canteen she carried with her. She's been feeling like something bad is going to happen all day and she definitely needed it. Screw all those people who says there is no sixth sense, every time she's had this feeling she always found herself in the biggest cluster fuck she could have ever been in.
Putting her canteen away in a seal, she grabbed the manila folder on her desk and walked out of the room. She had been going through the student records making sure everything is as it should be and she found that they still don't have Asia's full medical records. As the school's resident nurse/doctor/person who has to fix the perverted trio's wounds after being beat up by angry women, it is her responsibility to keep the medical records of the school up to date. Even if she feels like something is going to go horribly fucking wrong.
School is already out so at this point in time Asia would be with the rest of the Occult Research Club, aka the Peerage of Rias Gremory. The ORC resided in the old school building which is out of the way compared to everything else. Some parts of it are rundown and there are signs saying such, but for the most part the place is just dilapidated and just needs some elbow grease to fix up.
Reaching the ORC room, she could feel the feeling in the pit of her stomach flare up like crazy and she swore she could see lights flaring out from the bottom of the door. Dreading what she'll find on the other side, she nonetheless knocked on the door and opened it. And was hit full frontal with the massive feeling of Devil energy hitting her like gale-force winds.
Looking inside she could see the members of the ORC on one side of the room along with some kid, wait, no that's Riser Phenex surrounded by what appeared to be his own harem on the other. In the middle was Sirzechs Lucifer and his wife Grayfia Lucifuge, both looking rather exasperated.
The moment she entered every single pair of eyes swung straight to hers and Naruko felt convinced the universe absolutely hates her. That or RNGesus is not on her side today.
Rest in Peace Naruko, may RNGesus be ever in your favour, even if they aren't at the hey! This thing is finally out! Its been nagging me for ever and now that its out I feel so bloody free it's exhilarating!
Now, let us talk about pairings. I have a relative story line to this entire massive multi-xover series and it is hugh mungous. Naruko is going to have to go through lots of different stories, meet lots of different people, and do lots of things before she finally meets the ending for this series I have imagined. It will be the absolute culmination of every experience she has starting from this story till that eventual end. But what a journey it will be.
But how is that in anyway related to pairings? Well dear reader, had I wrote Naruko to be mortal, she would NOT make it through this series as she'll die of OLD AGE. This story will be THAT LONG. The only way for her to reach that eventual ending is for her to be immortal and that raises the question of how pairings work.
Most everyone else without something special happen is not immortal as I'm pretty sure even the Devils from Highschool DxD will die of old age since they do age. Angels, both Fallen and not won't work as Angels in Heaven cannot fall in love or else they fall and Fallen Angels, well, they're all some level of insane even if they do live forever.
Thus, any pairings would have Naruko's pairing to be immortal so they could be with her through the story unless something happens or everyone of you will have to go through FEEEEEEEELS every couple of arcs or so. Dead love ones do that you know. So at the moment I'm stuck between three choices: (1) We all have to go through them FEELS, (2) Someone becomes immortal, (3) Naruko has flings and Friends with Benefits.
At the moment though I'm leaning to number 3 with a mix of number 2. Just because you're not married doesn't mean you don't love each other very very much.
So PLANS. I've got them. So many of them. I know relatively where this is all going to go and I promise you all it will be quite the journey.
So see you all in the next chapter, whether it be this one or another one of my stories.
