PA: Here is another chapter and the start is drawing ever closer now so I hope you are all ready for when it takes off. Anyway I doin't have much more to say here so I am just going onto answer some reviews:

fresh prince1: I guess in a way it would be, though I am not really sure what you are referring to?

Deiru Tamashi: I did have a full Christmas chapter planed, but I decided to change it up and make a canon chapter meshed with what would have been a omake.

Nyx as the night mother was something that I had been thinking about since I first thought of 'Night Children'. She is hardly used which I find a little sad I mean Thanatos is used much more than her, heck I even think that Erebus is used more.

Kuroka loves Naruto so much so that she couldn't dream of hurting him on purpose in any way, it is the main reason why she has taken a small step back and waiting for Naruto to fulfill his promise to Rias, plus she is fine with just hanging around with Naruto until then.

WindyCitySlayer1: Naruto's goal is to reach the first class. I do plan to go into the classes further in probably the next chapter or when Naruto comes back to the devils. I am glad that you like Irori's personality, it is still being crafted though and more of her is shown this chapter.

Venelana should have expected something like that, she was asking them to help find a vampire prince from the Carmilla family. Also I do plan on having some fluffy moments in most chapters.

Otaku97: My own line to your first question, though you could also view her as a vampiric god if that helps? Naruto's judgement weapon gets shown in this chapter, or at least the first version of it.

Aishiteru or Koishiteru; I feel that Kuroka, someone who, at least in this story, is so passionate would not skimp out on things relating to that which she cares about. So yes while it is a bit old fashioned, I don't really think that anyone would care seeing as mentally Naruto is already over 200 years old in a sense.

Mokamiharu: You clearly aren't reading the story so don't bother reviewing again.

dragonmage666: It is somewhat hinted at in this chapter, though Naruto also knew kind of what was happening when he drank from Kuroka when they arrived back at the Gremory House Hold.

Cormin12: It is the widely 'believed' date. If the actual date was listed anywhere I would use that, but for the sake of being able to have it understood I will just leave it as the known 25th.

AnimeA55Kicker: That will be revealed later when he returns to the Underworld.

BrightShadow17: I don't understand what you are asking for with Kuroka, it seems to have been cut off?

nights decent: I am glad to see that we have the same view of vampires then haha!

syrein: Eh sometimes it just happens like that, some stories people really like others they don't.

Mikaeru346: As in you don't know who Jesus Christ is? Or you do not understand that he was Dracula?

Disclaimer: I own none of this.


It hurt, it hurt so much that she almost couldn't bare it. She wanted to be left alone yet no one would give her the chance. Her mother had returned, informing her of what the vampires had decided. She wanted to curse them, to spit their name on the ground, but they only wanted what she did... She wanted her Naruto back.

Her lovable vampire who would pick her up no matter how many times she fell. When she needed someone to defend her, he was always there standing in front of her like a shield, yet now he was gone... She pulled her legs closer to her chest and cried silently into them. Resting on her bed at the current moment with Grayfia watching her.

The reason was simple, Venelana feared for the mental health of her daughter. She seemed so fragile and broken. It also made her feel like punching out her husband. He had set up this arranged marriage behind her back, along with that of Rias. Now though, she could safely say that her daughter seemed to truly be in love with her Queen, said Queen which had vanished without so much as a trace.

No that wasn't true, they knew he was taken by Vampires, but the Tepes and Carmilla faction, the two main factions that nearly all Vampires were joined under, had never even heard that he existed. She could remember the coy smile on that Progenitor First Class when she spoke, "And so he is returning to the Night," Shortly before she vanished just after the countless number of illusions fell.

They had been so utterly defeated by a race that was thought to be inferior to Devils. Though now Venelana could see that it wasn't the case. Devils held more numbers than Vampires, but Vampires had a stronger quality of troops. She had seen some of them in training when she had checked with Esturge to see if he had any news on Naruto, which he didn't, or he wasn't willing to tell her.

The children, they were incredibly strong and fast, and they were just civilians. She saw the children all bow down low as the Rose Guard passed and nearly cower on the ground when the Dead Guard left the capital in order to search for Naruto. An elite force of ten thousand strong. The last time they saw true actions was in the first conflict in where Heaven had to step in to stop Dracul from taking control over all of Europe.

Venelana heard that an uncountable number of Angels lost their lives that day and if it were not for that fight happening shortly before the Great War between the three factions, Heaven would have surely been able to take both the Fallen and the Devils.

Though Rias, to her none of this mattered, she did not care if he some to become some King, she just wanted the one she loved back. Rias bit her lip and lifted her head up, staring up at the full moon above her, it almost always was a full moon in the Underworld, just as it normally looked to be nighttime. New years had passed by and her wish had not come true, though it would not stop her from fulfilling her resolution. Clenching her fist tight she stood up, not caring at all that she looked like a mess and glared across at Grayfia whom raised a brow at the sudden change in attitude.

"Grayfia... Could you please gather my peerage and Onii-sama if he is not busy?"

The maid in question pursed her lips slightly, "He currently isn't. Can I question why?"

"We need to be stronger, much stronger. How we are now isn't enough, that man showed us that. We couldn't do a thing against him and he dealt with us as if we were just toys that he was bored of... I don't want anyone to look down on me like that again! We need to be strong... The one holding Naruto-kun captive is much, much stronger than he is," Rias answered honestly with a fire burning in her eye.

Grayfia though back on the event, It was clear that Naruto had fought with a bit of intensity, from the lingering essence in the air he had gone into his 'Wrath Drive' as well. Yet he was still defeated, she wondered if it had been a close match at all, though the only ones that may be able to tell her are Kuroka and Irori, both being long gone. Nodding slightly Grayfia stood, despite the time after seeing the look in Rias' eyes and knowing that her peerage had basicly been on standby since the event, "I shall have them prepared momentarily, you should take this time to dress and bath as quite frankly your appearance is quite haphazard."

Rias blinked a few times before looking herself over in the mirror across from her. Her eyes were all puffy and red while her hair seemed to be in knots. Her skin could no doubt only benefit from a decent scrubbing as well, nodding to herself she smiled, "We will become strong just like you were... When you come back, or if we bring you back, you won't have to do everything yourself anymore."

Grayfia left the room, signalling one of the maids that was going by to watch after Rias for her. She quickly moved down the hall preparing to gather the peerage for training only to run into Kiba, the young boy was leaning against the wall, his lips pursed into a thin line, "Naruto-san..." He started. Grayfia wondered what the boy would have done had she continued walking and ignored him, or had she asked him to gather the others. Instead she stopped and rose a brow at the boy.

"I didn't know him well, no In fact I didn't know him at all. I know that he was important to everyone here though, I can see that clearly. This Gasper... Rias' new Bishop... He is strong, stronger than the rest of us when he losses his calm," Kiba placed his head down a little, "Compared to Naruto, how strong is Gasper?"

Grayfia rose her brow slightly further, "Gasper would not last a second against Naruto-sama," She stated cleanly causing Kiba to falter and nearly trip forward in shock.

"W-what?"

"Naruto-sama was able to fight against Rias-sama, Akeno-sama and Koneko-sama without so much as a spec of dirt landing on him. He used to fight entire peerages because he was bored, for you to try to compare someone to him... It is actually quite insulting Kiba-sama."

Kiba stood there with his mouth slightly ajar, "B-but..."

Grayfia narrowed her eyes slightly, "I shall put it in a way you can understand then," She knew that the boy had seen these people fight as they all had a defeated look when they returned together, "He is faster and stronger then Sairaorg Bael, smarter than both Rias-sama and Sona Sitri combined and his magic, at times can be just as dangerous as the Power of Destruction which Rias-sama uses. On top of that, he never saw himself as truly strong, he understood that he was strong for his age, so he tried to compare himself to those of Lucifer-sama's peerage... The peerage I am a part of and found his spirit somewhat crushed... But the point was, we had to focus when we fought against him."

The young blonde gulped slightly, Sirzechs Lucifer was known to have one of, if not the strongest group of fighters as his peerage, to hear that they had to focus to fight against the Queen of the peerage his was a part of was shocking. Someone around his age had that much strength and still believed himself to be weak? "He... How can I get the others to rely on my like he did?"

"Become strong enough to carry their worries and your own with a smile," Grayfia spoke without a second though, "Naruto-sama believed if he was not able to do that than he could not call himself a true Queen."

Kiba gave a small nod of his head, "T-thank you, and I apologize if my words caused offence, but I heard all of these stories, yet I never really got to see him actually fight."

"Whom do you believe froze the forests around here on that night?" Grayfia mused as she passed by, pausing a few steps later, "Rias-sama wants you all to be ready, you will be training alongside her for a time to increase your abilities."

"I understand," Kiba said though Grayfia was already long gone, considering she was walking the maid could really put some distance between them in only a matter of moments. Kiba looked down at his hand and tightened his fist, "Become strong enough to carry their burdens along with my own while maintaining a smile?" He mused to himself and looked up at the roof, letting his lips almost painfully form a tiny smile, how long had it been since he had put on a smile? "If that is what it takes to be a true member of this peerage, than I shall do just that Senpai."

Akeno watched on with her lips in an awkward position. She had heard the entire conversation and found it staggering to finally know an inkling of how much pressure Naruto put on himself. Did he always believe that he had to work that hard to give that much to the peerage?

She bit down on her bottom lip, drawing a thin amount of blood in frustration. She knew that he trained hard and he put a large amount of pressure on himself, So much so that he even took up training them all, she regretted the negative thoughts she had of him when she was covered in sweat from his training or his spars, he always knew exactly how far he could push them and always put them to that limit each session, he was truly trying his best to improve them, even the way he dealt with them in the spars, it was so that they wouldn't lose their face if they ever came up against an opponent that wasn't harmed by their abilities, he did so much, took care of them so well and even listened when they no doubt bored him to death with their rambling about subjects that he really should have no interest at all in.

There was a small tug at her side and Akeno looked down to see Koneko standing there, looking up at her with a blank expression on her face, a mask to hide how turn up she was over the event of losing her sister again, not to mention the male she looked up to both in the same night where she wasn't able to do a single thing to stop it, "We must become strong, for Senpai and for Nee-chan."

"Indeed Koneko-chan."

Koneko looked up at Akeno for a moment, a small look of confusion crossing her face before she frowned, "It sounds better when Senpai says it..."

Akeno let out a small chuckle, "I just can not pull off that deep and authoritative tone that he does, not to mention his voice still sounds so smooth when he does it..."

"Senpai is Senpai."

"That is a good way of putting it."


Standing out in the middle of a large floor that was littered with cracks that were slowly repairing themselves, were three people. Their hair all relatively the same, one of the females had pale skin and blood red eyes, a somewhat bored expression on her face as her hand rested on her hip, her supple lips pressed into a thin line, her fangs barely covered behind them as long straight silver hair flowed down to her plump backside. Though it was currently covered with tight black leather, doing very little to hide her curvy body. Hanging around her neck was a silver and black rosary that stopped just short of delving into her breasts, "I don't think that he is taking us seriously Kahlua."

The mentioned Kahlua was darker in skin, almost to the point where her 'tan' was often thought to be fake. Hanging from each ear was a silver rosary with small diamonds resting inside of them. Her eyes were blood red while her hair was long and wavy holding the color of a light blonde while a white dress hugged her body and flowed down to the ground, a split was formed on the side so that she could move easier, "He is still new to this Moka-chan and maybe you shouldn't be so hard on him?"

"What because he is going to become King?" Moka huffed and gave a light shrug of her shoulders, "I only respect those with strength."

The person standing across from them was Naruto Carmilla, his clothes were a little dirty and he had a healing bruise on the side of his face, courtesy of a kick from the 'mighty' Moka. His white and blonde hair was draped down onto his shoulders as his lips were pulled into a thin line, his icy blue eyes examining the two.

There was a small amount of static just as the bruise finished healing signalling someone was about to talk over the speakers, "Naruto... You can stop holding back now, oh... That's right you didn't know, here let me just release the restriction on you," There was a flash over Naruto's body as large amounts of symbols started to peel off like paper, "Myself and Issa wanted to see how you fared when you were under the weight of ten times the Earth's gravity... Our research is done. Issa just wants you to not kill his daughters for how they have been."

Naruto knew the voice, it was that of Miyabi Fujisaki, Class One Progenitor and formerly known as Alucard, the child born from Dracul before his demise. He wasn't a Blue Blood as Dracul wasn't able to pass it on, even still he is one of the strongest vampires alive and very bad news for anyone that got on his bad side. His skin is pale and his hair is black and slicked back. He was normally clad in a dark suit shirt and black suit pants.

Issa, the one mentioned earlier looked like an old count, stubble and hair included, it to, like Miyabi was black and he was one of the few that could stand on equal grounds with the man. Normally clad in medieval robes that a king might have worn back in those times he had been in the running for 'The Vampire King' before Dracul reared his head.

Feeling the large weight lifted from his shoulders Naruto blinked a few times and flexed his fist, "I was wondering why I felt sluggish," He looked up at the two vampire girls, they were both Class Five, he was about to start until a voice called to him from over the speakers.

"My child..." It was Nyx, she was the only one who ever called him that, not only that but he had memorized her voice by now. A few months with someone will dot hat to you, "Unleash your soul."

A sigh came form Naruto's lips, as a wisp of white came from his mouth, he grabbed it in his right hand and slowly started to pull away, "My Judgment shall be cast as the only absolute," He swung the wisp down to his side as he finished, a large great sword formed in a flash while intricate symbols ran along it flashing a number of different colors before locking into a pale blue. The ground around him was blown away as the two sisters took up defensive stances, "I still hate the feel of you," Naruto spoke casting a glance to the large blade only for it to glow a vibrant red and have sparks of electricity to fly from it attacking everything around him.

Moka grit her teeth, his eyes were now dangerous, not confused as they had been before, she widened her stance and took a breath in only for him to vanish from in front of her, snapping her head around she saw red sparks coming from beside Kahlua. Pushing off her back foot she shot forward and moved her sister out of the way before bending her back at an impossible angle as the large blade soared over the top of her body, though it didn't even need to hit her directly, the lightly coursing around it currently tore through her clothing around her chest and stomach before searing the flesh. Pressing her hand against the ground she flipped back, narrowly missing the back swing of the blade.

As she landed she saw Kahlua moved and her arm changing into a large blade that stopped the destructive one of the blonde in its tracks. Though she had a pained expression on her face. Moka jumped up and moved around Kahlua intending on striking out at Naruto's exposed side.

Though when she landed and looked at him she saw his eye resting on her form and had to dodge a stream of black flames, Naruto seeing her now on the move again spun and landed a kick to the middle of Kahlua's stomach causing spit to fly from her mouth and send her flying back a few feet as she quickly pulled her arm down to stop herself from moving any further.

Kahlua looked over to him and saw he had his sights set on Moka who was still healing from the wounds inflicted by the passing of his sword. Her blade turned back into an arm covered in burns, though Moka was still suffering worse, she had also gotten her foot touched by the black consuming flames. They didn't hurt at all which was what was so dangerous, though they consumed all types of energy and power at a rapid rate. Seeing him take a step forward and ripped her earrings out and let her hair fly forward quickly turning it into razor sharp needles that flew at the blonde.

Naruto jumped back and swung his blade at the needles sending out a few arcs of lightning that caused an explosion that knocked Moka backwards.

"Moka-chan remove your rosary, we can't keep fighting him if we hold back now that he is giving his all!"

"Kahlua..." Moka bit her lip but did as she was told feeling the power rush through her and set her sights on Naruto. Her injuries healed in an instant and a single step was worth ten maybe fifteen as she speed across the floor getting right into his face as time seemed to slow down.

His left hand was risen up to right beside his mouth as he glanced in her direction, "Who said I was giving my all?" He chomped down on his hand and his blue blood hit the floor causing the two girls to feel like screaming in pain, it was the same whenever Naruto got a cut, every vampire in Atlantis knew of it, the closer you were, the more intense you felt it, like you needed to rush to his aid, Moka froze in her tracks and clutched her burning head only to be knocked away by an explosion of energy. Her body rag dolled along the ground and she felt like cursing him, normally it was only a need to protect him, but if he focused on certain vampires while he was bleeding he could make them feel immense amounts of pain.

Then just as it came it vanished allowing her to stand back up panting slightly as she glared daggers at where Naruto had been standing only to gape like a fish out of water, it was the being that Krul had described to her. The power that only a Carmilla could use, 'Wrath Drive'.

Kahlua was in the same boat, feeling the energy wash over her and nearly push the poor girl into the ground under its pressure, "It was a neat trick, leaning to be able to enter Wrath Drive without an incantation, did you know that all I had to do was to draw my own blood while thinking about it?" Naruto showed them where he bit showing it had already healed, "Now we can start in earnest, you had best keep your focus."

Moka was suddenly sent flying back as Naruto appeared in front of her before she could respond, Kahlua went to help her sister only to find herself snatched into the air and pinned to the ground by her throat, cold eyes staring her down as his wings stretched themselves out behind him, "To slow," He whispered out to her, lifting his blade to the side and blocking Moka who had rushed over to protect Kahlua before standing and bringing her with him. Kahlua tried to will her hair to move only to be forced to bite down on her lip to stop herself from screaming when his wings impaled her through her shoulders before flicking her at Moka.

Moka rotated in the air as she was knocked off her feet, gently grabbing Kahlua and placing her onto the ground as they stopped moving, she snapped her eyes up at Naruto who was standing there, watching them his expression blank, almost as if he were bored. Then he was right in front of her again his sword about to cut into her shoulder only to be pushed off to the side as the sound of metal hitting metal rung through the room. Never in her life had she been happier to see Krul, which was saying something, normally she couldn't stand the damned brat who thought she was so much better than the rest of them.

Her gauntlet had deflected his blade while her Gothic skirt flickered a little because of the speed she had used to get here, "This is a strange form of training, how to you hope to get stronger if you do not test yourself brother?"

"Krul..."

"Moka, Kahlua, heal quickly I will try to keep him at bay!"

Moka grit her teeth, "What can you do Sixth class your poison doesn't work on him anymore remember?!"

Krul had been promoted when she brought Naruto back, though she knew it would not last for long, the Night Mother already told her that if she continued to improve at the rate she was then she would earn another promotion in a month or so, "Be quite sow, just focus on the task you have been given," With that she vanished into a swarm of bats and forced Naruto back. The reason was actually quite simple, she had not been focusing all of her efforts into improve herself, though they had come somewhat as well. Her focus had been to make her techniques and abilities more dangerous, for example the standard bat transformation was linked with her Judgement Weapon. She knew for a fact that the sisters wouldn't be able to do a thing against it.

Her bat form though was currently taking a beating, the lightning from his sword was hitting her all over, if she hadn't been his punching bag a few months ago she may have already succumb to the pain, no instead she just grit her teeth and pushed through, quickly turning into a thick fog before instantly stopping it as she saw the red arcs dancing through the heavy moisture in the air. Now she stood across from Naruto, having not been able to land a single strike on his body, between his wings, his hardened left palm and his blade, she was not able to make it past his defense.

Though she had been able to push him back away from the two who were now standing up to move again. Naruto though saw this and didn't seem to be too thrilled, letting a sigh leave his lips Naruto opened his left palm and his hair started to whip around like it was being tossed about by the air.

Krul narrowed her eyes as she saw a black mist seeping from his mouth, the bastard had learned how to use his air abilities it would seem. His plants were poisonous, his fire ate energy, his lightning was pure destruction and his ice made itself stronger with everything it covered. What the hell could his air possibly do?

Naruto though increased the rate at which the mist left his body, changing into something that could be called a miasma that started to blanket the ground. It rushed past Krul before she could properly react to it, the miasma quickly washed over her and entered her body, her eyes going blurry as her body started to feel weak, time around her started to slow before Naruto simply broke apart like he was made of glass.

She looked around quickly, trying to find the blonde only to feel a rough hand grab her hair, the pain shot through her body feeling like a raging fire, the next thing she knew her body had been lifted off the ground and she was being spun around in a circle before she soared through the air, her back crashing into the large wall as it tried to let her go further, a spider web of cracks forming around her as blood slowly came up from her lungs and entered her throat before causing her to cough and splatter it onto the ground in front of her.

A narcotic? She mused to herself, though she noticed that the thought seemed to take much to long to come to fruition. Her senses were slower than normal, she couldn't keep up with him where before she could, a slight laugh left her body and the burning pain that flooded her chest almost felt like a strange ecstasy, "Your air... It makes our senses shoot through the roof but because of all the additional information they work much slower."

Her lips took on a small smile as she tried to lower herself to the ground, though when she caught sight of what had happened she froze, the area around Moka and Kahlua was completely destroyed, both girls seemed to be out cold, she figured that her voice was not working properly either that or everyone was much to caught up like she had been now to respond.

Issa had his hand stretched out in front of him like a steel board and her brother's neck was snapped like a twig. She saw his eyes roll backwards yet his mouth still continued to move, almost like it was on autopilot. She saw Issa take a step back in shock, had he attacked her brother because of what had happened to his daughters? She didn't know.

What she did know is what she was able to see now, bleach white bone started to cover Naruto's legs, quickly rushing up and forming a skin tight armor that snapped his neck back into place and extended to his chin and parts of his cheeks while leaving the majority of his face clean. His hair followed the trail set by his new armor and became longer and white before wrapping itself up in a loose ponytail as a tail and wings sprouted from behind him.

Krul made to open her mouth, to say anything only to feel a hand clamp down on her shoulder, turning her head ever so slightly she could make out the smiling face of Miyabi before everything went dark with a dull pain to the back of her neck, the bastard had knocked her out?

Issa blinked in shock at what was in front of him, he had seen this form before, it was what Dracul used when he entered the battlefield, although the Vampire King's had been black in color and not white. The eyes in the head he had just struck slowly focused back onto him as a large explosion of power rushed from the body, Issa made a movement to react only to feel his body go numb and fall towards the ground.

Miyabi let a smile stretch across his face as Nyx landed beside him, hovering behind her were the girls that Naruto had been fighting while the now armored blonde was glaring daggers as his once blue eyes turned to a light lavender. His pale lips parted and showed off impressive fangs as a growl came from his throat.

Before Miyabi could do anything more though Nyx took a step forward and wrapped her arms around the armored vampire, resting his head into the crook of her neck and soothingly rub a hand down his back. Nyx could feel Naruto calming down in her arms, a part of her wanted to smile at that small notion as she felt the armor slowly pull itself away as his body went limp. She quickly checked his vitals and found that he was back to full health though his energy was nearly flat lining, "Less than ten seconds, but this does prove to everyone whom may have doubted him that he has the power of Dracul."

Miyabi let out a small chuckle, "He is going to need to improve himself drasticly, though I think I would have licked to see Issa get hit around a bit by my little brother."

"It would have brought them to an equal level. The armor enhances their current abilities, but because of how short the duration Issa would have been able to win if he had of just spent a short amount of time defending, that said, we need to increase the duration for which Naruto can hold his form, Miyabi I leave that to you... We can call your experiment a success though I believe," Nyx spoke as a soft smile came over her face.

Miyabi ran a hand through his hair before pulling a cigarette out of his shirt and lighting it with a click of his fingers, "Project Ice Queen and Moon Cat are moving quite well. Now that 'The King' has started, it will not be much longer that we can keep him contained if he doesn't want to be."

"He uses the 'Evil Pieces' correct?" Nyx questioned.

Her response was a small chuckle from the smoking vampire, "He does, though it is funny how little of a devil someone actually has to be to be considered a King. As you know we took samples of his blood when he arrived and after his body was joined properly," Miyabi quickly covered and saw Nyx nod, showing that she remembered being told that, "We closely inspected his levels of demonic taint... Less than a single percent now as opposed to the five percent he had when he came here. It doesn't seem to be decreasing anymore for now, which is good, it will allow him to gather strong followers."

Nyx nodded once more, looking back to the girls behind her, "Have trainers prepared for them, the children of this generation need to be much stronger than they are currently."

Miyabi gave a small chuckle before he took a long drag from his cigarette, letting the toxic smoke wash through his supernatural body, "These kids are really going to hate us when we're done here."

"That does not bother me, for them to hate us means that they are alive, for that they will need the strength that we can give them Miyabi. Should you fail in this matter I wi-" Nyx though was cut off as the man lifted a hand up lazily to stop her.

"Yeah yeah, I know, you'll make me embrace eternal night."

"As long as you know."


Irori clenched her teeth as she took a stance again, from the corner of her eyes she could see Naruto standing there, watching over her like a hawk. The reason was quite simple, he was teaching her a new way to use her ice magic. A way that was once shown to him by Grayfia, but he could not find a way to incorporate it into his fighting style of 'bigger is better'.

She looked to the front and saw Kuroka standing there, they were... tense still. Honestly she wanted very little to do with the cat, thinking that she had ruined Naruto's chance at a happy life. That was until the blonde had said that maybe this was just the path he was meant to take, that they were meant to use to improve for what was no doubt bound to come.

Sliding her front foot forward slightly she pushed an open palm up towards her breasts while her other pushed down towards the ground, once twice and a third time she did this shifting her feet as she did, getting a feel for the flow of magic as it pushed through her body. Then it started with a slow jog before she jumped into the air, a sharp spear jousting out of the ground below her as she rode it towards Kuroka, jumping off before the impact and watching the Nekoshou who quickly ran her finger through the air, creating those strange symbols that she saw Naruto use for his most complicated spells or his little gimmicks.

The ground below Kuroka shot up and formed a protective dome of strong tile which the spear shattered against. Irori gritted her teeth at how easily her spell was blocked, flicking her right hand out behind her as she spun backwards through the air, clutching tightly to the blade that formed and letting it shoot her towards Kuroka.

The girl in question rapidly blinked her eyes at the surprising move, having expected this to just be a ranged battle where they pitted magic against one another until one ran out of energy. The blade came closer and Kuroka's dome fell as she faltered in the energy needed to maintain it, though a number of orbs quickly formed around the Nekoshou all poised and ready to attack. The blade was now directly in front of her and Kuroka sent the orbs out to attack only for the sword and Irori to vanish into crystals that showered against her form making her feel incredibly cold.

Having seen a move similar to this before Kuroka dashed backwards out of the cloud and narrowly dodged the large number of spears that shot out from it towards her person, had she been inside dodging would have been next to impossible, she would have had to create a full barrier around herself and the ground below her in order to block it, even then with the ice already in the air Irori's spell would have been quite powerful.

Though it seemed that it wasn't the end as a large number of blades shot up in a line towards Kuroka causing the Nekoshou to quickly send out flaming orbs to destroy the line, it skipped past her and she blinked as she saw Irori appear from one of the swords, a faint mist around her body.

From the corner of her eye Kuroka could see the blades rapidly closing in on her from all sides, inwardly frowning she crouched and jumped up high into the air, twirling around and showing everyone just what was under her short kimono, which today was nothing Naruto noted with a small amount of amusement.

"Mugen" (Dream) Kuroka whispered out though her voice carried clearly to all present, Naruto instantly dispelled the illusion by flushing his system with his magic while Irori stumbled slightly at being caught in such a quickly cast illusion.

She could feel razor wire cutting deep into her skin and pulling tight around her face, taking a small breath in she crossed her hands over the top of one another, her palms opening against the restricting force of the wire that seemed to be digging deeper and deeper to the point where she felt her arm break under the force but kept pushing forward, biting through the pain as it was nothing compared to the loneliness she suffered in that tube, or the pain of having her body ripped apart and put back together time and time again.

She could feel the magic from her toes to her forehead rush towards her fingertips. She didn't have the reserves for the spell that Naruto had recently taught her, at least not by herself, if she was using his blood than it was a once of cast, something to be used at the start of a fight and it would take her out of it as she was completely drained from its use. Now though she did not have the privileged of being able to use that, having already used up quite a sum of her energy using the new style of fighting Naruto had been teaching her, though there was something that she could do.

"Frost Pack, Hunt of the Cat," Her words were almost roared out as a pack of ten wolves formed around her growling and snarling as the leader took a step forward and let out a loud howl distorting the world around Irori and removing the illusion that had been cast on her. With the wire now gone Irori could breath much easier, though her skin still stung from the lingering effects of the illusion, she could not flush her system with magic, mostly because she didn't understand how to undo multiple layered illusions with that method, and knowing Kuroka it would have been a multiple layered one just to screw with her.

Irori watched as her wolves started to circle before their noses all twitched and their heads turned up to face Kuroka, the Nekoshou widened her eyes slightly as the wolves took to the air, forming small platforms of ice under their feet as they ran.

Narrowing her eyes Kuroka let out a small huff as a black and purple miasma formed at her feet slowly spreading towards the wolves who ran straight into it before stumbling forward and crashing down around Kuroka's feet, it would seem as though the Nekoshou had been learning poison based spells from Naruto again, gritting her teeth tight Irori glared at the wolves and clapped her hands together twice causing their bodies to erupt into a shower of ice shards.

Kuroka quickly dropped downwards towards the ground, though the moment her feet touched she heard the soft clunk of wood hitting tile and quickly turned to see Irori right in her face, sweat pouring from the girl after constant use of spell after spell, though it didn't stop her from landing a double palm strike to Kuroka's stomach, "Frost Bite!"

The Nekoshou didn't have a chance to respond as an eastern styled dragon erupted from Irori's hands and forced Kuroka into the far wall, her body bouncing off of it from the force before it broke and showered her with a mountain of ice. Despite her tired body Irori lifted a hand up towards Kuroka and clenched it into a fist, "Frost Prison!" The ice quickly spun before forming a sphere around Kuroka seemingly trapping her in place.

That was until it was quickly burst open with bright purple flames and a scathing look was sent the Queen's way, "That's fucking cold nya~!"

Irori looked up and couldn't believe it, now she was done, completely spent not even fumes left in the tank as Kuroka lifted her hand and formed a large sphere made of the flames she broke out of her prison with. Though before she could even think about throwing it Naruto appeared in front of Irori and gave a kind smile, the orb in Kuroka's hand vanished in an instant now knowing that the fight was over.

"You did good Irori y-"

"I lost..." She trailed and turned her head towards the ground.

"Of course you did nya~" Kuroka quipped causing the head to snap up and glare at the woman, "Stop with the nasty look nya~. You have been out of that tube full time for only a handful of months with only that much time actually spent towards training yourself nya~... On the other hand I have been fighting for years already and when the Night Children first saw how weak I was... Well they spent two years making sure that I would be able to stand by Naruto-kun's side nya~!"

"I... I..."

"What are you fighting for Irori?" Naruto questioned, tilting his head to the side slightly.

The girl in question blinked at him as she felt her hand starting to slip from her own sweat on the tiles below her, "W-what do you mean?"

"If you don't have a strong reason to fight, you will find getting stronger will be harder, you need something to drive you forward, something important to you, mine is to become strong enough that both the Carmilla faction and the Tepes faction will be forced to see me as someone important so I can start mending the ill blood between them both... I want peace among the vampires, that is what I fight for. Also to keep my word to the Gremory family of course," He added as what seemed to be an after thought.

Irori turned her head slightly to look at Kuroka, which in turn prompted the girl to give a small chuckle, "I want to become strong enough that I can protect my sister and so that I can always stand by Naruto-kun's side nya~!"

Honestly she should have expected that answer, pursing her lips slightly she tried to think, why was she trying to get stronger? What was her goal? Her dream? These were things that Naruto had spoke of a handful of times, though she didn't have one, she of course knew what they were, it was just that she didn't have a strong feeling of something she should be doing or something that she wanted to do.


Kiba was panting, his body leaning against a sword that was stabbed into the ground as he looked forward with near dead eyes, the reason was simple really, he had asked to be trained by Sirzechs' peerage, thus he was facing a living legend, Souji Okita the former First Squad Captain of the Shinsengumi.

The man appeared to be in his late twenties wearing the traditional uniform of the Shisengumi which consisted of a haori and hakama over the top of a kimono, the sleeves of which were tied back by a tasuki. Souji had a small frown on his face, "You say you want to become as strong as Naruto, yet you do not put in the same amount of effort as he does..."

"I.. I can't give you anymore, I am exhausted."

Souji made a sound of irritation, "Three days and three nights," He spoke looking out to the west, "With only a full day of rest between, that is the training regime that Young Sairaorg has taken up just to catch up to Naruto. By the end of the third day his mind has already shut down and it is up to his body to continue training, he does not complain about being tired, no, he complains because he isn't training enough!"

"B-but that's impossible..." Kiba looked down to the ground, there was no way his body could do that.

"It is because of that word 'impossible' that you are struggling so much. Remove it, never speak it again. The only way for you to become strong is to surpass both your body and your mind, currently your mind is telling your body what it can and can not do," Souji gave his head a light shake as he reached for his blade drawing it slowly and holding it out to the side in one hand, "Tell me young fledgling, do you believe this to be possible?" Raising his hand into the air he brought it down with a thunderous crash destroying the ground around him and causing a crack to fly out along the ground splitting it in half and destroying a large stone pillar nearly fifty feet away.

Kiba was watching with wide eyes, "T-"

"Do not bother. You ask for training and when we give it to you, you claim it to be impossible. Clearly this is not worth my time," He spun on his feet and sheathed his blade, walking away from Kiba, that was until he heard the sound of feet sliding across the ground.

"W-wait!"

Souji turned his head back slightly, cocking a brow at the young boy, "What is it?"

Kiba plucked his blade from the ground, it felt heavier than hell right now and he could feel his muscles burning as he moved, "I may not be able to train for three days... And I know that no matter what I try, I will not be able to replace Naruto. That is clear and something that you don't need to tell me, but if I let you walk away now, I will only get further and further behind, I need to be stronger, I want to protect Rias and the others, but at the moment I am the weakest..." Kiba pointed his sword at Souji causing the man to raise his brow slightly higher, "I have sold my soul to the devil, now it is time to let the demon take command of my body."

A soft chuckle came from the former captain, "Well it seems that you may have a way with words after all young Kiba, now make another blade and hold them out to your sides parallel to the ground, it is time for squats!"

Kiba nodded his head and did as he was told, feeling a deep burn in his body as he called out another sword and the protesting of his muscles as he started to perform the squats, not a single complaint came from his mouth though, this was important, he could not let a chance like this slip by, for now he would just have to block out all the pain his body was telling him about and focus on something else, "By the way... If Sairaorg-san trains for three days straight, how long does, or did Naruto train for?"

Souji let out a small laugh at that, "Three months with a week of sleep afterwards," Kiba faulted in his squats and nearly fell to the ground, "That boy is a prodigy as well as being a genius of hard work. It is the reason that Sairaorg compares himself to Naruto, it is also the reason that we all had to start training again, it wouldn't be right for us to lose to such a young child now would it?"

Kiba widened his eyes, "N-Naruto made you all start to train again?"

"Indeed, he came close to beating myself a handful of times so I needed to increase my training as did the others. The only one that I think whom he didn't get close to at the time was Grayfia, though that was more than likely due to the fact that they hardly ever fought, more just worked on techniques and spells together," Souji tapped his chin a few times in thought, "They were closer than you would think. In fact I see Grayfia stare off blankly into the air at times at places that they used to frequent together. If I had to say something in regards to that, I would believe them to have seen each other as siblings, they understood one another, though we do not see Grayfia often now, she has thrown herself into training in a spatial dimension."

Kiba nodded as he continued, his legs had become numb, maybe he had now damaged his nerves so much that he could not even feel the pain? Or maybe he had gotten used tot he feeling now, he could not say, "Why would she need to train though? Isn't she the strongest Queen in the Underworld?"

The air around the two became quite still, "Grayfia was there when Naruto was taken. Apparently she came against people that outclassed her and they were the ones that took Naruto away. We, we do not know what is happening to him, but Grayfia may believe it is her fault that he is missing in the first place."

"I always saw Grayfia as being one of the strongest beings... But to think that she was outclassed alongside the Maou and the Lords and Ladies... It is mind bobbling," Kiba got out between breaths, "Then again, the vampire that we fought against was so far above our own level that it was like a game to him."

"The vampires had detailed information on everyone inside of the house at the time, it allowed them to use our weaknesses against us to their utmost effectiveness," Souji let out a bitter sigh, "A close combat mage kept me on the backpedal long enough for them to capture Naruto and leave. For sword users like us, close combat mages are really bad news."

Kiba nodded his head as he continued doing his squats, that was information that he would have to file away for later, he hadn't seen a mage type fight in close quarters before, but he could picture that it wouldn't be fun at all.


If anyone were to see Kuroka now they would more than likely be shocked, this was due to the fact that only a handful ever saw this side of her, her lips were pursed in slight agitation as she studied the book to her side, in front of her was a piece of paper and in her hands was a light brush with some ink just to the right of the paper for her to use.

Sitting across from her was Naruto, who was letting her go through some of his older books that the Night Children had been able to save from his house after the attack all those years ago. In his lap currently rested the head of Irori whom had trained until she passed out earlier in the day. Krul was seated on the bed beside him, a look of confusion etched onto her young looking face as she peeked at the book that Naruto was reading.

It had been nearly a year since they had arrived here to begin their training, in that time Irori had earned the title of 'Ice Witch', though she openly stated that she didn't like it, in secret she was happy that her skills were being noticed.

Kuroka became 'Hell Cat' to some, taking her use of poisonous purple flames to the next level while she also studied in many of the different types of magic that Naruto knew.

Krul had once again risen in rank now rank five as was Naruto, though there was talk of him becoming class four in the next few weeks. Though he could already stand against some of the class threes when he used his 'Wrath Drive' and "Judgement Weapon'. His 'God Slaying Mode' was something that he couldn't recall tapping into, though Nyx said that he still needed to train with it as his memories of doing so would unlock when he entered the form again.

Inside of 'God Slaying Mode' Naruto was able to fight against two class two vampires at the same time, it was still not enough to fight against Miyabi or Issa, both were incredible in their own right and it was his goal to be able to stand against them before he left on his own. The world could wait that amount of time. Not to mention that the level of opponents he would be facing once he left Atlantis would be numerous and more than likely of high quality, so the stronger he and his group could become in the next few years meant that they would have a much higher chance of all returning to the places they wanted to be most.

Without warning ice shot out a few inches from Naruto's shoulder and coiled around something causing a small amount of blood to run down the length of the icicles, "Maybe if you stopped breathing so heavily when you got a look at my neck Moka, you may actually be able to savor a taste of my blood no?" Naruto mused tugging a little at the white shirt collar and exposing his pale skin towards where the ice had formed.

There was a small shimmer of light as blood red eyes appeared glaring at Naruto with an intensity that shouldn't be shown outside of battle. Her jaw was unhinged and her fangs were inches from his skin. Slowly her agile features shifted and her mouth closed shut, her silver brows narrowing slightly as her eyes hardened a fraction more, "If you weren't scowling so much you might actually be quite beautiful Moka," Naruto spoke with a small wave of his hand the ice around her throat pushing Moka further away as Naruto fixed his shirt.

Moka would have let out a small snarl only to think back on the blonde's words, whether he wanted to take note of his actions or not, he was still the next in line for the throne of 'King of the Vampires'. So instead of her planned scowl and snarl course of action Moka pressed her lips into a thin line and her eyes softened a fraction taking on an almost neutral expression.

"You talk about beauty, yet you study things like 'Abyssal Magic'. Do you even understand what it says in that book?" She questioned hesitantly, at least on the inside,, externally she tried to hold a bold visage to the others.

Naruto rose a brow at her question while the others in the room turned and watched the two that were speaking, that being Kuroka and Krul. Irori was still asleep, though Naruto had to stop stroking her as his mind was too occupied at the moment to manage that task and this conversation, " I am working on the principal of it at the moment, I have no intention of using 'Abyssal Magic' any time soon. The structure of the magic itself is quite impressive and I plan on using the multi start foundation to use group spells. Primarily myself and Irori being able to use an incredibly wide and potent ice based attack by casting one spell but from two points expanding its targeted area of effect. Or were you trying to say that you believe that I am making a mistake by studying what has been labeled as 'Black Magic'?"

"I wanted to know why would you try to study something like that, or was it because of who you are, that you are drawn to things like this? To events that should be hidden from the world, are you drawn to power? Or are situations like this drawn to you?" Moka gave him a suspicious look before lightly shrugging her shoulders and letting out a tired sigh, "It seems that I will just need to watch you closely from now on, though while I am here, you may ask me for help, god knows you need it with the lack of good help you have around here."

A subtle clacking of appendages rung out in the room as a large shadow cast itself over Moka, the silver haired vampire slowly turning to come face to face with an anthropomorphic spider whom was hanging upside down by a spool of thread, "Does the vampire know how to prepare my masters meals?" Arachne questioned, her brows risen lightly as Moka paled in shock before skirting herself backwards, her head shaking rapidly from side to side, "Is the vampire capable of understanding the complex mannerisms between 'Life magic', 'Death Magic', 'White Magic', 'Space Magic', 'Time Magic' and lastly 'Black Magic'?" Moka once more shook her head at the question while Arachne moved closer, clicking her tongue against the roof of her mouth, "Then how does the vampire plan to offer her 'help'?"

"I-I-I..." Moka stuttered out trying to look away from Arachne only for the woman to lightly grab her chin, causing them to stare at each other for a few seconds, Arachne took this time to slowly wink with each one of her eyes, watching as Moka stiffened and somehow became more pale with each eye.

Naruto gently closed his book as he let out a small sigh, "Arachne please do refrain from sending Moka into shock, though it is quite funny to find out that she has arachnophobia," Naruto pursed his lips slightly, gently stroking the head of Irori and filing away the small pur she let out for later, "Though the fact that you are here, would that mean that you were able to find it?"

Arachne turned away from Moka and let a sweet smile cross her face, "Of course," She extended a hand out and let a white magic circle form above her palm showing the symbol of Carmilla, the same mark that was on Kuroka and Irori's backs. Out from the magic circle came a black book wrapped up in ornate chains with a thick lock on the front of it, "The rest are out of reach for myself, though if you were to go master I have no doubt that you would be able to procure them," She gently slid a finger through the chain and moved the book over to Naruto who gently took it from her with a small nod.

"Thank you Arachne, this must have been quite troublesome but I assure you that it was worth it. I do plan to recover the others, I assume you have their location?" Naruto questioned as teh chains around the book slowly undid themselves under a white glow.

"Of course, they are scattered about in a handful of the temples in India, I do have their locations but describing them further right now would be tedious as we are not currently leaving, or would you ask that of me master?"

Naruto pursed his lips slightly, "No, you have done enough for now, rest and make sure it is enjoyable, these soft days may not last forever Arachne."

"Understood," And with that she vanished, leaving the room full of confused people all looking at the book in Naruto's hand. He had in a way brought them together and held them all as a group. Moka had some of her color return to her. She leaned forward, trying to read the symbols on the book, having been taught since she was still in the womb she understood most languages, though this one eluded her, she was about to question just what it was, her mouth open and her tongue and lips moving to contort the sounds coming from her throat only for someone with much less 'tact' to beat her too it.

"Hey Naruto-kun what's that nya~?"

Moka bit the inside her of cheek, drawing blood and from the look on Naruto's face, that smug smirk, he knew damned well that she was irritated, it really did not help that he had to be one of the most if not the most attractive being she had met before. His tongue trailed along his lip, wetting it slightly to avoid a potential crack from moving them as he spoke, "It is 'Alpha Verse' from the series of 'The End' books, it is rumored that they were written by God himself before he died. They were sealed by a number of gods to protect what they contain," He flicked open the first few pages and scowled, Moka fought to keep her emotions in check, that look of frustration on his face was much to alluring for her, "Sometimes you are much to clever for me... I wonder what you find so important that you would go to these lengths to hide it from me old man?" Naruto growled out softly.

"W-what does it say?" Moka stuttered out,her pride and confidence had really taken a blow today between the spider, the cat and Mr Attractive.

"Apart from the fact that I need to gather all of the books, I need to open them in the presence of 'One that Fell dragging others with him, One that stands above his wings golden like the sun, one that took the name of he whom was killed and lastly, the child of light that was drowned in darkness'... What fun," Naruto drawled out, he would have sunk his fangs deep into his lip, but seeing as he had two vampires in the room with him, it would not really be in his best interest to be that careless.

Krul tapped at her mouth with one of her fingers, a look of confusion on her face, "That gathering of beings does not sound friendly. Though it can be ignored for now right? I mean we still have to fetch the other verses correct?"

Naruto closed his eyes and gave a small nod, "Indeed. We shall start to gather them next year, in the meantime I want you all to continue training and become as strong as possible."

"Ahhhh~"

All head turned to the source of the noise, that being Irori whom had woken up and was now sitting up, leaning slightly against Naruto as she rubbed at her eyes. After a few moments she noticed that everyone was looking at her, "I missed something didn't I?"


PA: Next chapter we have a time skip and the start of canon. So until then space cowboys and girls.