OniRudra presents:

A Death Dog

I do not own Naruto, Teen Titans, or anything else that appears in this fiction. So read this and enjoy.

Chapter 7,.

Raven was sitting on the roof meditating when she felt it, it was as if the world was being torn apart on the very edges, the feeling of a truly powerful being crossing onto this plane. She opened her eyes as a flaming disk opened above the tower, something fell from the disk.

She watched as the figure fell its descent increasing speed till it was stopped by the merciless steel of the helipad. She stood up and walked over to it, wondering what this being was. It didn't register with the power Naruto had when he was last here. So walking up the stairs she walked over to the now obvious human body. When she saw it, her chest tightened.

It was the blonde dog all right, or so he called himself. He was practically dead. He had bullet holes in his upper chest, his stomach was missing, his two halves of his body only held together by the skin on his sides. He had several nasty cuts on his face, one that went from his crown to his chin, bleeding profusely. His arms looked as they had been dipped in acid, but were healing slowly and steadily. He was bruised all over from what looked to be like a mob beating. She crouched down next to him and tried to heal him.

Her powers didn't respond, that meant she couldn't heal him with magic. She frowned as she checked his pulse, her eyebrows shooting up as it was going so fast that it was practically one long strong beat. 'He has a impossible pulse for someone in his condition, what is he?' She thought as the blonde's eyes opened weakly in the bright light of the sun.

"Raven?" he called as if his voice had been broken to pieces. She nodded as she leaned closer. He smiled as his eyes closed and he fell into a deep sleep.

Raven panicked as the blonde's breathing slowed, but still came out. She looked around and quickly set out to take him to her bedroom; it was the safest place for him, despite whatever he would think. She called her powers to cover the pair as they vanished into the confines of the tower.

Over the next few weeks Raven rarely left her room apart from missions, and the occasional outing. Something her teammates took notice of and were on their way to ask her about right this minute. They all stood outside her door as Robin knocked.

"Raven are you in there we would like to talk?" The boy wonder asked as he knocked again hoping to call the telekinetic out of her room.

Raven looked up from changing the blonde's bandages. This was all she could do for him and so she did it regularly and almost fanatically. She had used her extra blankets and some spare pillows from the hall closet to make him a place to rest in the corner of her room, hidden from sight of the door by her bookshelves. She stood and pulled her hood up as she went to the door, casting the unconscious blonde a worried look, she then opened the door.

Robin and the group were surprised to see Raven appear at the door, it opening just barely. She looked at the four and asked,

"What is it?" Starfire looked to her friends then spoke.

"We just wish to know why you have become the more of isolated and seclusion as of late, is everything well?" She asked as Cyborg nodded and Beastboy tried to look past her into her room.

"I am fine, just had a lot on my mind." Cyborg looked to Beast boy who nodded and Robin was not deterred.

"Do you want to talk about it? We are your friends Raven; we are here to help you." Starfire nodded as the other two showed they were in the effort to help her. She shook her head as she stepped back,"I am fine; just need a little time to myself." The group nodded as the door slid shut and Raven disappeared inside once again.

She stayed there till she heard them all leave and she turned to Naruto, who was now sitting up. His bleeding bandages half falling off him as he looked around. He noticed her and smiled.

"My dear Raven, it is a pleasure beyond words to be able to see you once again." Raven looked at him as he faced her and allowed a smile to grace her features; he was finally out of that coma like sleep. She hurried over to him and touched his arm.

"Are you alright, is there anyway I can help?" He smiled, and then it turned to a wince as he felt the skin pull over his new scars. She noticed this and was about to continue rewrapping him till he stopped her.

"How have you been Raven-hime? Are you alright, I can detect a hint of sadness emanating from you." She looked away as he asked her the question. She had been so worried about him; she still didn't know what had happened to get him in such a state. She pushed these thoughts out of her head as she heard cracks and snaps of bones. She spun to look at him in alarm, he was resetting his bones!

Naruto looked at the sorceress and smiled, ignoring the pain this time as he set his bones in their appropriate place. He frowned as he flexed his arm, his muscles coiling and tightening to a level only he could.

Raven watched as the blankets slid off of him and his body was revealed. It was still just as tan and muscled as she had last seen it, except for the red raw mass that was his abdomen. He was in so much pain, pain she could not even begin to register. How he could push through it was a miracle to her, any other being would have just given up and waited for a death to consume them. Naruto pulled off the rest of the used bandages and tried to wrap himself in the new ones, only for the blonde to prove still too weak to do such a task. He growled as he tried harder to pass this handicap, only to prove unsuccessful. Raven watched this with a feeling tearing at her heart.

He was so proud of himself, too proud to admit it to anyone that he was weakened enough to probably lose to a common thug. She went over to him and crouched down, taking the roll from his pleading hands and continuing her earlier work. She did not find this a burden, but a blessing, that he in all his strength and willpower could still rely on her. She was still wondering about how to ask him how he had been so injured by his trip through the portal.

Naruto sat there as Raven bandaged him. He was not worthy of this, in his opinion. He had killed, more than she could ever know, more than he would ever want to tell her, despite his love for her. He was a killer, plain and simple. This was a fact he had come to terms with several centuries ago, but here, with her, he was scared.

What would she think of him? Would she despise him for what he had done? Had his escape from hell been completely single sided? How could he ever go back, if this was the case, there was no going back?

Raven looked at him. She had spent years restraining and cutting herself off from her emotions. In doing so she had a slight lean towards being an empathic, and she could feel emotions of fear, distrust, and regret brewing in the blonde death dog. As she continued wrapping the last of the bandages she turned his face to look at hers.

What she saw was heart breaking. The boy before her was completely and utterly broken by his past, no matter how much he tried to hide it, it showed through. It showed with a blaring resemblance to a criminal caught in a spotlight. He did not know what to do. So she did what she could think of, she reached out and embraced him.

Naruto felt the embrace around him, and he hugged her back. He would never let her go. He loved her enough to defy the only real home he had and escape from it. He held her as tears began to fall from his eyes. The tears were not of water, which was a human trait, no the hellhound held onto her as he cried tears of blood. He didn't care if he was crying, this feeling he had with her, the combined heat from the two touching was more home to him than any other place he had ever been.

Raven just sat there as the blonde held her, dry wracking sobs pouring from him. She reached to wipe his tears away, only to find his blood in their place. 'He really isn't human, he… he's… a demon like me.' As this thought rang through her mind she pulled herself tighter into his embrace, she could love him, no she did love him, and they were more alike than anyone would ever know.

Naruto and Raven sat there for an indefinite period, every minute seemed like days, and every hour seemed like years. They were held by one who loved them, something both of them missed out mostly their entire lives. But that was behind the pair as they now had each other. Raven fell asleep after the tears falling from her eyes had exhausted her, Naruto just picked her up and laid her to sleep in her bed. He sat at the foot, his body facing the wall but his face watching her. He had slept enough, now he just wanted to be with her.

Raven awoke in the middle of the night and looked to her side, the blonde was gone! She hurriedly looked to his pallet to find him missing from there as well! She sat straight up and looked around desperately once more, and then she tried to locate him.

She found him almost immediately; he was in the ops room. Getting out of bed and wrapping a robe around her she went to him, wondering what he could be doing.

Naruto sat on the couch, facing out the wall of glass that showed the city. In one hand he held his Samaritan's trigger mechanism; the other held a cleaning utensil. He was reading a book on the table he had gotten from his lover's bedroom; it was entitled Magical Relics of Samaria. He had been up for about 7 hours now, reading the pile of books on the table as well as doing other things. He perked his head up as he heard the sounds of bare footsteps coming his way. He let out a breath as he felt her and went back to work.

Raven entered the room, looking to where she knew he would be. He wasn't paying any attention to his surroundings; he seemed to be reading something. As she walked around the couch, he looked up at her.

"Couldn't sleep Hime?" She shook her head and sat down next to him, watching his maintenance over his revolver. His rough hands moving across every inch of the weapon with a tender grace that she had barely seen outside of someone holding a loved possession. Much like her friend Cyborg and his T-car. He put the gun back together after giving it one last scrutinizing inspection. He then snapped it closed and spun it by the trigger guard till he held it out to her.

Naruto had seen as Raven watched him study his weapon as he took care of its maintenance. She looked at it as if she had never seen anything like it. So after he spun it to make sure it was completely secure he passed it to her. The look she gave him caused him to smirk. It was somewhere along the lines of 'what in the hell am I supposed to do with this?'

Raven took the gun from her lover's hand, surprised by the weight of the object. He had spun it a second ago as if it was weightless, and made of glass, holding the thing now that was most definitely not the case. This thing was heavy, she thought about what use the blonde had found for it as she looked at it.

It was beautiful, in a coiled snake about to bite you way. It had an etching that she was sure was an old graveyard, with actual names in the tombstones, foreign names. Its black metal reflected the minimum of light, only enough for the outline to be seen. Its grip was a red wood, probably oak. It was decorated by a shining chain that held an emblem of a dog, surrounded by a pentagram, with skulls of fire on the edges. As she looked at it she felt words beneath her hand, when she looked at them, she was surprised to find she couldn't read them.

"You noticed the etching Raven-hime?" She nodded as she handed the heavy weapon back to the blonde who spun it again, and showed her the words on the grip.

"It says 'Those who hide will be found, those who run will be caught,

Those who fight back will be beaten, and those who cry for god will receive a welcome from hell's burning embrace,

This is our creed and the rules by which we hunt.' It is basically the entire rules of life I lived by before I met you." She nodded as she looked around the ops room.

The dishes in the sink were washed and dried, which she guessed was done because it was her turn. There was a pile of books on the table in front of her from her bookshelves, which looked to all have been read. There was a small bird in the house as well, it watched her with a wary eye, as if it was going to fly down and screech at her if she moved any closer to Naruto. He looked up and rubbed her arm.

"Don't worry about Nicholas; he is just rarely trusting of people. He has been my familiar for about three hundred years after I saved his soul from the witch Thaegan. He usually stays at my villa, but I am guessing he followed me when I made my escape. He has been looking over every aspect of the tower while I was doing these small chores for us, and your friends. Oh please don't try to anger him; he is the only friend I have left from my old home." Raven nodded as the blackbird shuffled its feathers and squawked at her, causing Naruto to look up at him and tell him to stuff himself. Raven looked at him in surprise at his last words; they had come out in caws.

"You speak bird?" He nodded as he finished the book and laid it on top of the others. He looked at her with a shrug.

"The people of this world used to do it all the time a long time ago, I am not perfect but I picked up enough to hold a conversation. I can speak practically every language in this world, and you also probably guessed that there isn't a written dialect that you own that I can't read. It comes with having learned the celestial script, the dialect every language was based off, and every dialect some subspecies of." Raven looked at the blonde in surprise. 'He could practically learn anything, from any dimension, at any time. Wow, that was an unexpected little fact. It is kind of one of those abilities no one would ever trade for anything. He is just as smart as I am, well perhaps smarter but I will never admit it.' Raven smiled on the inside as she changed the language of the conversation from English to Russian.

Naruto kept effortless pace, as if he saw it coming. So she changed it again, and again, and again. German, Sumerian, Mongolian, and to her complete shock Azarathian. Naruto just looked at her with a smile that told her she couldn't beat him; he was too good at this. She huffed and that damn bird made a sound like laughing. She gave up as he wrapped his weapon in an oil clothe and put it in the pack he had. He looked to her and she felt her face grow hot.

She was sitting in the ops room, in her undergarments and a thick robe, facing someone whose distracted gaze could cause her hormones to race with just a smallest prod. She really wasn't unwilling for what they could do together; just she wished they had been together longer. 'Wait I don't even know what he is thinking, he could be thinking of what to do later today, dear Azarath I am starting to lose my mind to the gutter.' Naruto caused her attention to shoot back to the present situation as she could feel the leather beneath her moving, and turning to look at him she couldn't help but goggle at him again.

He was laid back, his eyes closed, and his body relaxed. He actually looked like a normal human being, except for the monster tattoos and the godlike physique. She wiped a strand of drool away from her mouth as her hormones caused her heart to slam into her chest. He looked at her and then reached out, taking her hand and pulling her onto his lap.

Raven wondered what he could possibly be doing, that is until he began to rub her shoulders. She immediately felt her powers loose control, but only for them to be drawn to him, and then dissipate. She was in so much happiness this wasn't possible, this just couldn't have existed without her knowing about it. She moaned as his hands went to where her shoulders met her neck and began to rub in deeper. She could cry it was that enjoyable. She was about to beg him to stop, until he stopped on his own and seemed to be arguing with that damned bird of his.

Naruto was telling Nicholas that they needed some time alone, but the bird was ignoring him, and Naruto was about to resort to turning the bird into a shower of feathers till Raven sat up and stood up in front of him. He looked up at her, making a mental note to try and get her to relax more around him, after all he was able to negate her powers, as confusing as this was to him. He watched as she left and he sat there and looked at the kitchen clock.

"Six-fifty guess it time for me to go into her room, and not come back out till she lets me." Naruto sighed as he picked up the stack of books with one hand and followed after her, Nicholas flying down and perching down on his shoulder, making some comment about him having no backbone.

Naruto flicked the little bird into the wall, only for him to fly right back and peck his ear. Naruto said the bird was an asshole, and the bird made some very interesting references to the blonde's lover's nether regions. Which Naruto then proceeded to barbecue the bird with sparks, cursing the fact he would rebirth in a few hours or so. Now he was cursed with these thoughts of Raven wearing a leather outfit, and brandishing a cat of nine tails at him whenever he was misbehaving.

"There will be no living with the bird after this," he said as he entered her room and lying down on his pallet, planning on sleeping and ignoring the day till Raven had gotten enough sleep. Raven just gave the blonde an odd look before shrugging it off. It not like he was thinking anything bad right?