Shadow of Tranquility (NarutoxHighschool-DXD)
Disclaimer: This story is fiction. All the characters, names and places belong to their respective owners.
This chapter will show more of Naruto's shadow like ability. He's an aspect empowered being and only another or true Aspect (Great Red) can truly counters him! Even then it's still dubious at best since there are more factors when fighting. Does crossover in DXD automatically make this a Harem? I'm not going to debate whether this is a harem or not. The main pairing is Naruto/Koneko and I meant it. Incest is a mortal thing, so let's take a lesson from Gods of Olympus!
=[Light of Serenity]=
Act II
"This is awesome!" Naruto shouted excitedly from the driver seat as he stepped down on the accelerator of the ice-cream truck to increase its velocity. The engine rumbled and roared as it tried its best to push the vehicle through the streets and roads at an accelerated speed. The blond was having a blast after he learnt how to drive these odd contraptions with four wheels. It was done so within a few days ago. At first, he constantly crashed into several walls and building, but now, he got the hang of it somewhat and it was very enjoyable. From his point of view, these automobile was quiet ingenious machine. They were built by humanity to help them get to where they needed go quickly.
"Interesting thing, but it would still be faster if we just fly to where wanted to go," the voice in his head retorted. It had pride in the powers it bestowed upon its host, and didn't like the idea that humans could displace those abilities eventually from what Naruto suggested before.
"No need to be jealous, Kurama. And where's the fun in that? I want to try everything I've missed!" the host snorted with a childish grin. He pulled the levers by his sides with a free hand to shift the gear up as he did a sharp turn around the corner. The truck almost tilted over from the resulting momentum, but quickly returned back on all four wheels again as it created some skid marks with burning stench of rubber in the process. The screeching noise from that attempt overwhelmed the siren for only a few seconds before those annoying sounds behind him dominated the surrounding again.
"Why do they keep chasing me? Do they want a race?" Naruto asked himself as he looked at the side mirror of the truck. Several of the same model vehicles were following his vehicle behind with red and blue rotating lamps within their transparent holders. Those plastic containers were attached onto the roof of the cars.
"Do you want to race? Bring it on!" Naruto shouted out the window at those vehicles.
"Stop you idiot! Pull over!" the cop shouted back over the radio that amplified his voice as Naruto raised an eyebrow.
"Hah, they called you an idiot," Kurama sneered as he heard the insult.
"I'm not an idiot, tsk… they want a race?" Naruto asked himself before shrugging and pressed hard down the accelerator. The truck continued down the road, passing several sluggish cars ahead without much difficulty. A helicopter, as Naruto now knew, was flying above him as it tried to film the speed chase on a highway. Several minutes passed as the cops still trying to get closer to the truck or block him off completely. Naruto was having a lot of fun, but he had enough mind to notice the incoming traffic ahead with more than a few pedestrians walking across it.
"Shit!" Naruto cursed as he stepped hard onto the brake through reflex since he didn't want to run them over. Unfortunately, his powerful leg went right through the bottom, ripping a large piece of metal underneath the truck, and destroying the breaking mechanism in the process. Naruto sweat-dropped as he looked down through the opening he just made. The accelerator were gone too as it was yanked out.
"Crap!" Naruto scolded himself for not limiting his own strength when trying to stop the vehicle. He quickly turned the steering wheel sharply to the right as the truck tried to do the same. Unfortunately, it failed and spun out of control. The maneuver forced the vehicle to tilt over on its side as it slid across the concrete roads. With the recoil, Naruto was being thrown around front seat as he wasn't wearing a seat. He went crashing through the windshield soon afterward and landed outside the hard pavement as he rolled around the ground, scraping his arms and legs.
"Ouch…" Naruto muttered as those scratches he gained quickly healed, fading away and returned his body to normal once again. Naruto lifted his head up from his down position and saw the truck continued slide onward and smashed into the traffic light to the side, destroying that as the bystanders spread out from the incoming accident. All the cop cars braked close behind the blond, and their passengers exited.
"Put your hands up!" The Japanese policemen called out from their vehicles with several of them pointing their guns at the boy, who stood straight up. Naruto eyed them a bit, and brushed off the dust and dirt that accumulated on his attire when he was forcibly expelled from the truck. He wasn't sure what they held in their hands as he turned around from them. He was going to walk away, but was tackled by several officers onto the floor.
"You're under arrest! Put your hands up!" one of them shouted at Naruto, who was a bit confused.
"Okay… why though?" Naruto asked as he put up his hands as requested.
"You have the right to remain silent…" one of the matching uniforms men said and continued to say some very strange things from Naruto's point of view. The blond was also turned over with his front down the ground, and his hands were being placed behind his back. They were bounded by a strange metal rings. Naruto simply shrugged as he allowed them to do that since he was a little confused at what was happening. Apparently, from what he got through the vexed comments, he was in the wrong and was breaking the nation law of some sort.
"Seemed like you can't do those things anymore," Naruto muttered to himself as he was put into one of the cars close by while most of the officers checked out the extensive damage by the chase. Naruto reminisced back in the old days, where you could ride chariots around the cities without much care about anything. The driver and his partner within the car didn't talk to him much when they took him back to their police station. The blond was shoved into interrogation room afterward. Naruto simply sat down at the seat provided in the room, and waited for someone to come in.
"What's your name, where do you live, boy?" the man in front of him asked as Naruto blinked a few times. That man entered after Naruto took a nice nap, and start asking questions that Naruto didn't feel like answering.
'Boy? Oh…' Naruto thought as he looked down at his hand. He remembered that he still looked fairly young like a teenager, so it was technical correct.
"I feel like something is watching us, I don't mean those guys beyond that fake mirror over there," the dark voice called out as it was agitated. The Aspect felt like something was watching it, and didn't know exactly who since it senses did not work with electronics. There were only two people in the room, who were Naruto and an inspector. The room was sealed in with the only door behind the inspector and a reflective glass panel to Naruto's left. Naruto looked up at the small gadget at the top right corner of the room. It was black with a small blinking red light.
"Hmmm, probably that thing right there," Naruto mumbled.
'Isn't that one of those electronics thing that can spy on you anywhere?' Naruto asked Kurama, who nodded. It was also seeing the device through its host eyes. Both of them had gained some knowledge about the gizmos that were available for purchases.
"I studied it before; I still don't like being watched by those things, especially in here… You can fry them with a powerful electric pulse or so I surmised, maybe it's time to try that out?" Kurama suggested as Naruto smiled, ignoring the shouting of the inspector before him. He used his ability amplified his own body's bio electric field, and increased it several hundred folds. The energy wave spread out his body, and into the surrounding space unhindered by any solid object. The sphere of energy was invisible to all as the man in front of him still asking the same questions that Naruto still didn't feel like answering.
Beyond the door of the room and throughout the stations, television screen flickered before they changed from normal display to static, and then shut down completely after a few more moments. Anything electronics in the station was interfered by the electromagnetic pulse generated by one of their prisoners, but they didn't know that.
"What's happening?" the chief called out as his phone also died along with every electronics in his office. Even the darn clock on the wall stopped moving completely. The light began flickering as well as it gave off a spooky feeling throughout the police headquarter. Most of the civil servants were looking around at each other, trying to make sense of what was going on. People were viewing the interrogation room through the one-side mirror left to check what was going on outside as cars' alarm went off.
"Much better… only this guy left now," Kurama replied as it no longer felt like it was being watched either through the camera or from the false mirror. Naruto nodded and maintained the EMP field around the room.
'We need some information, I think I can test out this ability right now since no one is actually looking,' Naruto sent the thought as Kurama nodded with approval.
Shadows oozed out from Naruto's leg, beneath the table while he eyed the man. The black substance crept through the tiled floor towards their target. It ran up the chair and into the man's leg as he shivered slightly, feeling something crawling up his body. He quickly looked down and jumped back as his black tendrils sliding all over his clothes and skins. The cop tried to remove them in his dreadful panic, but despite his frightful attempt, it managed to cover his whole body. Naruto watched the man with some amusement.
The civil servant shook his head, and thrash about before his eyes turned pitch black for a second then they returned to normal color. Black marking formed all over his face, spreading out to cover the side of his cheek. He turned towards Naruto, and like a robot, he walked back to the chair and sat down silently. Naruto tilted his head a little, checking out those lines that appeared on the man's face.
"Wasn't sure if it work perfectly, but I guess it did," Naruto said with a smile.
"Okay, my turn to ask question, who are you and what do you do?" Naruto asked as the shadow puppet in front of him nodded and answered without any pause. Naruto continued asking questions, learning all he could from the man before him, and the man relayed all his knowledge at the request. He truthfully answered any questions the blond might have.
"You let him go?" the chief shouted at the inspector who simply blinked. He looked at the clock, but that was no help since the clock was broken. It took some times for him to notice about there was a half hour gap in his memory. He couldn't remember anything during those missing minutes as the chief continuing to vent anger. Some witnesses had told him that he dragged the boy out of the station and let him go for some reason. It was all very strange as he had no knowledge of that. They didn't even get the boy's name and home address.
Back to Naruto, he was walking around for a bit outside the station with a smile. His hands were still bound by metal cuff so he increased his strength and snapped the linking metal chains. It was night outside as he found a small park. He stretched his limbs a little as being stuck in a room was tiring.
"It worked as intended, although I had to erase his memory," Naruto said with a smile as he ripped off the cuff like they were made of paper and threw them away.
"Did you doubt me? Everything begins in darkness, and will return back into darkness! My power consumes everything," Kurama gloated with pride. It wasn't true as they would eventually find out later. Darkness couldn't consume everything, but it could consume most things. One of the things it could was anyone's wills and minds just like Naruto once had been, turning them into perfect servant with unquestioning loyalty. Good thing Naruto had almost indomitable will and broke out of the hold by his own powers as he ravaged the stars in his rage. Although, it did takes several centuries for that to happen, and he regained control over the shadows once more.
"Yes, I don't doubt you… much, and as you say, everything begins in darkness…" Naruto muttered as shadow spread across the floor, covering the dirt.
"I need the vehicle again since the original got trashed," Naruto concluded as the several blocks of shadow raised up from the ground, joining together. The shifted their shapes and formed the same ice-cream truck as before. The onyx surface of the vehicle faded away and filled with vibrant colors.
Kurama smirked at the new constructed contraption. His power had absolute mastery over the physical world as everything came from darkness in the beginning. As such, the shadow can produce anything physical, limited only by one's imagination. Still, he would need to analyze anything new to make a perfect duplication. It would be cheap imitation and might not work, otherwise.
Shadow also theoretically could form organic things such as human or monsters but they would lack an important and critical item which gave them true life. White Aspect's power would be needed for that as his sister's power connected to the spiritual planes, and give her the power to create souls.
'When everything is at an end, only the soul mattered,' Kurama thought about his sister's words. 'We didn't appear out of now where, we existed because the universe needed us. You are the physical, I am the spiritual, red is the me…'
"Hmm?" Naruto asked interrupting the Dark Aspect thought. Kurama stated it was nothing as Naruto entered the newly constructed truck and checked the refrigerators. He took some consumables out of them before removing the wrapper and began biting into it.
"These tasty frozen liquid is great," Naruto declared as he finished one and grabbed another. Icy treat was difficult to get back when he was born, and he hadn't eaten anything for so long because he simply didn't need to. Foods provided him no benefit as he could simply recreate nutrient from his ability to supply his own body. The same could be said with oxygen and air. But the joy on his taste bud was another thing all together. The foods he had eaten before he left this world were bland. These were different. They were strange and exotic at the same time, thus Naruto enjoyed them immensely.
"Don't you need to find your sister? I mean she's not getting any younger," Kurama asked with a sigh after watching the glutton. The Dark Aspect was sure that the White Aspect, once awakened from her slumber, would show herself and stop the aging process of whoever she inhabited, but Kurama wanted to mess around with host a bit more. Naruto brushed his golden hair back and sweated a little while licking the icy-pole that was firmly held in his hand. He got sidetracked with all the great and interesting stuff that humanity had to offer, and totally forgot about the immediate task he needed to do, and that was to find his sister. He'd been doing it for the past week, and there were just too many possible candidates, and he was constantly distracted when chasing them down. Naruto looked outside the truck and at the night sky above.
"Can't do it now, unless I break into people's home… that would be unlawful apparently, and besides, it's late now so I'm going to snooze a bit," Naruto declared as he finished off the ice-cream. The knowledge from the policemen had helped him to behave properly in public. There were a lot of laws and Naruto felt a few of them were redundant. Naruto closed the truck's door and locked it before snoozing away on the chilling space between the refrigerators. Kurama just sighed again and dozed off as well since there weren't anything else to do.
Birds chirping and children's laughter could be heard as morning came. The kids were running around the small playground with backpacks on, chasing each other, as the blond watched them with a smile from the opened window by the side of his truck. The sun was high up in the sky, warming up the world as usual.
"Umm… mister, are you selling? Can I buy some?" a small child asked as he held some coins and notes in his hands. Naruto eyed the child from his position, and accepted the coins and notes. He was looking at it as the child pointed at what he wanted on the diagram outside the truck. Naruto had a glance at the illustration before nodding. He checked the refrigerator and realized it was empty as he remembered he ate it all. Naruto just shrugged and exhaled shadow fumes into the empty container. The black mist swirled around for a bit before collapsing onto each other, forming into the materials that Naruto wanted.
While it was doing that, Naruto had a look at the coins and notes in his hands.
"These must be money… hey, I need you to analyze it so we could reproduce it again when needed. The current society doesn't use gold or precious metals to trade. They use these things," Naruto said. Kurama responded that he will. Even though they can create anything they desire, they still need to devour one sample first as a blue print of sort for duplication later. Naruto's hands covered in darkness as the coins and notes were submerged into it. Naruto hummed a little and picked up the goods with the other hands.
"It's done… it's not very complex like the foods you seem to consume in large quantity," Kurama jested as Naruto rolled his eyes. He reformed the coins and notes again. He took the goods and returned back to the only window by the side of the truck. He stuck his head out and looked for the kid, who was waiting eagerly outside.
"Here you go, little boy," Naruto said with a wide smile, handling the boy the ice-cream and his money back. The child took both items into his hands and blinked at the money. He'd expected some refund, but not the exact amount he paid before. He lifted his head up at the blond man questioningly.
"Umm… mister, don't I need to pay for the ice-cream?" the boy asked innocently as Naruto chuckled.
"Nope, I give them out for free. It's hot outside so tell your friends to come and get some refreshment, it's the least I could do," Naruto offered as the boy nodded with a cheerful smile. The kid ran toward his friends who were playing in the park. With a few fingers pointing, they all quickly came toward the vehicle.
"Here you go," Naruto said giving out more treats. As expected, more and more kids came, seeing how the blond was giving out free ice-cream. Several adults nearby asked as well. Naruto was hesitant at first but give them what they asked although they took advantage of his generosity. Naruto had to make use his powers to create large amount of them inside the truck as he ran out very quickly. People were crowded by the truck side, trying to get some. There were many familiar faces as they returned for seconds and more.
"Wow… greedy bunch aren't they," Kurama scowled as Naruto shrugged.
'It's alright Kurama, it's not like it cost us anything, and have a look at their faces. Completely contended at something simple like this; I would too, living days side by side with my…' Naruto sent a reply but didn't finish as his face turned dark as he vacated the window. He wished for was something like this, living with his sister side by side without caring for anything else. They were happy as long as they had each other. He had cursed fate, who had taken that possible future away from him, and even now he yearned for it desperately. Naruto sighed, clearing his mind and returned back to the window.
"I want that… chocopop," a white haired girl with golden eyes pointed at the depiction that was painted on the outside of the truck. Naruto leaned out and had a look at it before turning back to the girl and retreated back through the window.
"That girl…" Kurama began, but Naruto interrupted.
'I know. I didn't felt it before until she got this close to me. Now I can sense it perfectly. Her aura is partially demonic… she's a devil and something else as well. The other felt like youkai, but not exactly the same. And from what I could tell… she's a reincarnated devil?' Naruto thought as he watched the girl for a bit. While he despised devils in general, it didn't mean he was completely mindless person, who only sought revenge and killing every devil he could find. If he were, he would turn the underworld into a sea of blood the moment he returned.
That point aside, pureblooded devil was what he had problem with, not reincarnated ones, who probably accepted the exchange when they were in similar situation like him long ago. Naruto looked around and saw the kids wandering about. Furthermore, he wouldn't want to destroy the happy moment by doing something like kidnapping the girl before him and interrogated her in his truck.
"Chocopop," the white-haired girl muttered, still pointing at the diagram as Naruto scrutinized her clothing. It consisted of a white long-sleeved, button down shirt with vertical linings, a black ribbon on the collar, a black shoulder cape and matching button-down corset, and a magenta skirt with white accents. There were a few people dressed like her walking along the nearby street. With some more thoughts, Naruto place his hands down to his side and from opened view of the window. Shadow swirled within it and created the item she wanted.
"Here you go, little girl," Naruto said and handed her the ice-cream.
"Little…" she pouted with slight depression. Naruto sweated a little at her adorable face and created several more of the same treat.
"Don't worry, you will grow soon, here have a few more to help with that," Naruto offered and handed her several more chocolate treats. He thought she was quite cute and not devil-like at all.
"Thank you," she replied and hurried away as Naruto watched on.
"Shouldn't you check her for the stigma," Kurama pointed out, but didn't mention the white hair, one of the traits that his sister' host would exhibit. The chance of her as a host for his sister, Serene, was fairly high.
"I don't think that was necessary. She doesn't look like the correct age, didn't you say I only need to check 15 or older, she looked like 14 or less and that was pushing it," Naruto replied as Kurama accepted the logic. A few more people with the same uniform as the girl came around the truck and wanted some refreshment to cool their throat in the dry atmosphere. Plus, it was free treat and they thanked him for it.
"Let's stay around here for a bit," Naruto suggested, seeing countless of possible targets walking by as he created a cake out of nothing to sample it. He was going to check them for the stigma, but he would need to be subtle about it. Kurama approved the plan and they stayed around Kuoh Academy until something else came up.
XxX(Scene Change)XxX
"Reports came in recently. There is someone in the area that assaulted the female population in the school. The culprit is very elusive," a crimson-haired with voluptuous figure called out as she put the report down on her desk.
She eyed those that were in the room with her. They were her peerage. The closet one to her, who was standing, was Akeno Himejima, her Queen. Further back on the right side of the room sat Yuuto Kiba, her Knight. Koneko Toujou, her Rook, was sitting next to the Yuuto while licking chocolate icy-pole. There was a creamy strawberry cake on her lap as well. It looked recently made. The former nekoshou had a sweet-tooth of sort. Someone had been giving her a lot of sweets, and she was indulging in her addiction without much thought. Rias wondered where Koneko got them from or who was supplying it to her, but decided against it for now.
The left of the room consisted of one person. He was lying on the comfortable couch of their club. Issei Hyoudou, her newest member, was somewhat distraught at the recent event. He was a pawn of her peerage, but was injured as he ran in with some fallen angels a few days ago. The boy still wanted to visit the abandon church to save his new friend, Asia. Rias was annoyed somewhat about that.
"There's someone else that perverted besides Issei?" Yuuto jested.
"Yes, someone seemed to randomly kidnap and undressed various students as the report suggested. The whole thing seemed very strange as their attacker only grope them for a bit before letting them go without doing anything further," Rias answered her Knight.
Everyone, beside Rias, turned lazily at Issei, the most perverted boy they had ever met.
"Culprit," Koneko pointed with her free hands before licking on the ice-cream again.
"You sure it's not him?" Yuuto asked as Akeno smirked.
"Ararara, since the victims described the boy was handsome…." Everyone turned back to Rias except for Issei, who was looking at everyone.
"… and have very gentle touches as if he was only wanted to check something rather than outright groping them," Akeno concluded.
"THAT WAS TOO FAST!" Issei shouted as they dismissed him as the culprit from the word handsome alone. Rias rubbed her temple a little at her peerage continued to tease Issei. But it was true enough. The attacker was described to be very charming, and he didn't go further than only checking his victim's skin for whatever reason. Most of the victims actually voiced their frustration since they wanted him to go all the way.
'My head hurt… I haven't finished dealing with the Fallen Angels that invade the territory under Gremory's protection, and now this…' Rias thought as she looked up at her peerage.
"It also noted that the age of all victims is within 15 to 17. We could narrow down who would be the next potential target since the assailant didn't seem to attack the same person twice," Rias pointed out as her friends nodded. They were still teasing Issei though and the guy was sobbing a little at the playful verbal jabs. None of the devils were assaulted yet, but it only a matter of time.
"Don't we have any sketch of him? It would be easier to catch the culprit," Yuuto asked as Rias nodded.
"It might not be the perfect sketch since the victims was thinking about something else at the time…" Rias's face went red a little as she handed the sketch she acquired from some of the victims. None of them minded being grope by the man at all, and the way they described him seemed to be some sort of delusional fantasy. Akeno took the sketch in one hand, and had a quick look at it before bursting out in laughter. Yuuto took the sketch from the buxom girl and had a glance as well before handling it to Koneko, who wasn't interested much in it initially.
"This is a joke right?" Yuuto asked after Akeno finished her amusement. Koneko scanned the sketch as it illustrated a boy with long, silky golden hair and sparkling oceanic blue eyes with love hearts floating around either side of him. He had a charming smile with starry teeth. Koneko remained expressionless as she covered several features on the drawing with her hands and revised the portrait again. She realized he looked sort of familiar then she looked at the cake on her laps. She blinked but didn't say anything out loud about it.
"IT'S NOT!" Rias shouted as she face palmed. It was embarrassing that was the only possible illustration they had of the culprit. No wondered the police decided it was probably a hoax. However, Rias thought otherwise due to the evidences presented and wanted to investigate this carefully.
"That's what everyone who has seen him thought he looked like," Rias explained with annoyance. Issei had a look at the sketches as well, but couldn't hold down his laughter. The pains in his leg pulse a little as he rubbed it on reflex as it reminded him something bitter.
"I can't even protect one girl," Issei muttered as Rias heard that and examined his posture.
"I told you to forget about her! She's on opposite side, and you didn't need to come in today. I told you to rest with your injuries!" Rias snapped at Issei, who averted his eyes. She shouted some more logics at the idiot before he left the room with a sad face.
"Aren't you a little hard on him Buchou?" Akeno asked after Issei left the room. Rias leaned back on her seat and frowned.
"Issei have to know where he stands," Rias stated flatly as the three others in the room nodded. She gave them the report of the assailant and told them to memorize it and try to capture the culprit if possible.
Author Note:
Just some fun bits in this chapter since I needed to show how Naruto understood law and orders and learn how to behave in society. So instead of telling them to undress in public, he just kidnapped them now and checks their body somewhere secluded. He currently avoided devils because he didn't like touching them due to his hatred of them.
Naruto won't be friends with Rias in this story. He loathed all pureblood devils of sort, and any interaction they have will be very bloody! This is Dark Naruto fic. I already made it clear in the prologue. This is arc is half way (2 more chapters to go) through since he already found his sister, although didn't know it yet, and Koneko taking advantage of Naruto's generosity.
