Gremory's Fox
(A/N: Alright, so this was a little something I've been working on for a long time now. So far I'm on chapter four but I have resolved, after the untimely demise of Lightning among the Stars, to take a leaf from the book of my friend stargatesg1fan1 and not post things unless they are completed.
Info about this piece: it is NarutoxHarem, Naruto does replace Issei in Rias' Peerage. Issei however is still a character, so Naruto does not have Boosted Gear or any other type of Sacred Gear. He only has Narutoverse techniques and the like, as well as various bits and pieces he picks up in Rias' service. He has absorbed the Kyuubi so he technically classifies as a Kitsune but is more like a Hanyou. He will become a High-class Devil with a Peerage of his own, and he will certainly do so faster than Issei does in canon... though that doesn't exactly narrow it down given that Issei hasn't become a High-class Devil yet. Additionally, Naruto is already a Middle-class Devil as of the beginning of this story.
Anyway, I'll let the fic get on. Enjoy!)
Prologue: The Strongest Pawn
It was late at night, outside a deserted old house.
"Alright, listen up!" Rias said, "The stray devil we're after today has been contracted because it's killing humans. Koneko, if you'd do the honours?"
Koneko nodded, turned around and kicked the door off its hinges. One by one, the Peerage filtered into the house. Rias was last, preceded only by a figure wearing an orange jacket with the hood up.
"Be wary," she murmured.
The Peerage split up, checking the rooms. Through it all the hooded figure stayed at her side, looking back and forth.
"Are you alright, Naruto-kun?" she murmured.
"Yes," Naruto replied quietly, voice deep enough to class as male, but pitched high enough that he was obviously still young, "But I think-"
"Buchō!" they heard Kiba call, "Found it- whoa!"
"Despicable," Koneko's voice came a second later, followed by a solid THWACK of flesh meeting flesh and the stray devil, lower body twisted into some hideous chimera of lizard and horse, smashed clean through the wall and bounced twice before fetching up against the opposite wall.
It struggled to its feet, revealing a man's contorted and corrupted face leering at Rias, "Lucky hit, you little bitch, but it'll be your last- ARGH!"
Kiba was next to it in a flash, sword slicing the stray's arms clean off. As it screamed and lashed out with its clawed feet, Akeno emerged from the opposite door and raised her hands.
CRACK.
The stray shrieked again, this time as lightning coursed across its body to the sound of Akeno's soft laughter.
"GREMORY WHORE!" it roared, swatting Koneko and Kiba away with its tail and sprang towards Rias, "I'LL KILL- ACK!"
Naruto had stepped in front of Rias, hands flicking through strange gestures before both hands jerked out towards the stray. A scant second later a shockwave blasted the devil clean through the roof.
The stray flew higher into the air, until something small flashed past it and its vision filled with yellow light.
Suddenly, Naruto appeared above it, a swirling ball of bluish light in his palm, and the stray watched his death approach with a soft cry of "Rasengan!"
The stray howled in anger as the attack ground into its stomach before it was launched back down and hit the ground back inside the building.
In another flash of yellow, Naruto once again appeared over the stray, two long golden tails with white tips lashing out and impaling it to the ground as another much larger ball of blue energy formed above Naruto's hand.
"For your sins, face your punishment," Naruto intoned, and then the sphere descended and reduced the stray's head to powder.
Naruto rose as Rias approached him, "Are you alright?"
"Yes," Naruto pushed back his hood and turned to face her, "I am, Buchō. Though I think I may leave the hood down in future. It makes my ears itch." One of the two white-tipped fox ears poking through his spiky blond hair twitched slightly where it had accidentally folded back on itself under the hood, before Naruto fixed it with a flick of his finger and an irritable huff.
Rias regarded him fondly. He was young, about Kiba's age, with an angular face, three whiskers on each cheek and large sapphire eyes.
"Good. I'm glad of it, Naruto-kun." She ruffled his hair.
Naruto beamed back at her, then suddenly shot his hand out to one side, catching the Hiraishin kunai he had flung into the sky, before spinning it quickly around his finger and stowing it back inside his cloak.
"Anyway," said Rias, "Good work everybody. Let's go home."
Naruto nodded and stepped up close to his King, who put her arm around his shoulders as Akeno, Kiba and Koneko came over as well. The Gremory sigil flared and the group disappeared.
-GF-
Back at the old schoolhouse, Naruto stepped up to a door and opened it, walking inside and shedding the orange hooded jacket he was wearing.
The room was filled with sports equipment, most of which Naruto himself had altered using fūinjutsu so that it could stand up to the wear and tear of a shinobi training regime.
Stepping onto a training mat in the centre of the room, Naruto settled into a practice stance and began moving through katas.
Naruto had insisted to himself that he would serve his Buchō with everything he had, and had ordered more than a dozen different martial arts training kits as well as accompanying gear off the Internet (boy had he been amazed when Yūto had introduced him to something encompassing the entire planet that contained an almost limitless access to everything!) and settled down to practice and learn them all.
"By now," he thought as he threw himself through the moves, "I've studied jiujitsu, aikido and judo for moves I like. I still have karate to study, and that's just the Japanese martial arts! I have so much to learn for this mixed style I'm putting together, but…" he paused to clap his hands, and a fūinjutsu-powered training dummy accelerated towards him, wearing a variety of armour pieces and carrying a bokken, "I made this promise to Buchō! I will become the best for her! I will…" his hand shot out and struck home, and the dummy exploded into splinters as Naruto's chakra-powered punch ploughed through its abdomen, only to reform thanks to its fūinjutsu array.
Clenching his fists, Naruto launched into a furious attack pattern, "I WILL BECOME THE STRONGEST PAWN!"
