Disclaimer: First Chapter
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*Jingle*
"I did it... I got the bells... after 10 years... I did it..." Shironeko spoke through her pants as she looked at the bells in her hand. Her entire body was covered from head to toe in injuried that she had sustained while fighting against her master. She was bleeding from the ribs, having a large cut going across them, and both of her arms were bruised and beaten. Not to mention her left eye was swollen shut, and her left cheek was bruised and purple.
Her eyes were yellow, duh, but instead of her usual slit pupils, she had bar pupils, with orange rings around her eyes.
She had been his student for nearly 10 years now, and finally she mastered the Toad Sage Mode. Though years of hard work, she had managed to finally take the bells from her Master. She fell to her knees out of pure exhaustion when her Sage Mode ended forcefully. She didn't completely faint though, and managed to remain sitting as her body started to sweat from overuse of the legendary technique.
"Yes, Shironeko, you got the bells." Naruto clapped his hands together with a smile on his face.
Since Shironeko had become his student, she had been the first person to ever complete the training that he had set forth, and in record time. Lilith was still training to reach her potential, while Shironeko had finished her training under him.
"Kaa-chan! You did it!"
A small child ran out from behind Naruto's legs, a girl about 5 years old, a small Nekoshou like Shironeko. The girl had long black hair that went to the middle of her back, and she had a single black tail, yellow eyes, and black cat ears. She was wearing a little black kimono, and appeared to be a black haired version of her mother... but much younger.
"Yeeeaaaah... I'm dead." Shironeko fell on her back as her daughter ran to her side and jumped into her bossom.
Naruto walked over to her.
"I'm very proud of you. You're my first student to complete their training. Not even Yasaka managed to complete her training. You've done your daughter proud, isn't that right Kuroka-chan?" Naruto asked the young nekoshou with a teasing smile. Kuroka sat on her mother's stomach, and nodded her head proudly at Naruto.
"Kaa-chan did awesome Naruto-sama!"
"Totally dead."
"You know, five years ago when you told me you mated with another student and got pregnant, I thought about ending your training... and I'm glad I didn't." Naruto offered Shironeko a hand to stand up. She didn't take his hand, because she wasn't able to take his hand. She couldn't move anything of her body, so Naruto leaned down and picked her up bridal style, Kuroka and all.
"Kaa-chan's the greatest Kaa-chan nya!" Kuroka embarrassed her mother by showing a cat-like verbal tic, but she didn't stop her daughter from doing it.
"You kicked my mate off the mountain." Shironeko mentioned dully, and Naruto shrugged his shoulders.
The man had zero potential for Sage Mode, so he had to go.
He walked through the halls, before he stopped in front of the "Students Living Area" and opened the door with his foot, showing many different bedrolls that were placed inside. Naruto moved her over to the one that was her bedroll.
"I've also kicked off 40 other youkai students who wanted to learn Senjutsu, and failed. Now that you have Sage Mode, you can go and find him again. After all, after today you are no longer going to be studying under me. Your training as my student is complete, and now you must carve your path in life yourself." Naruto gently set her down in her bed. Kuroka crawled off of her mother, before she looked at the bells that were in her mother's tightly gripped hand. Shironeko barely managed to lift her hand up, and she gave Naruto the bells back.
"... That makes me sad... I'm going to miss you Master." Shironeko spoke, and Naruto reached down with the bells.
He tied the bells to the side of her head, tying them gently to her hair.
"They are your bells now. Consider them a graduation gift from me to you. I'm trusting you to keep them safe." Naruto ruffled her hair, and she did smile at him. She was beaming at his words, happy that he was giving her such a meaningful gift. The bells that she had been working for years to get from him, were the gift that she would be able to treasure for the rest of her life.
They were the proof of her guts and determination to master Sage Mode.
Kuroka looked at the bells.
"Kind of cheap nya." Kuroka stated, both Naruto and her mother laughed at the innocence of the little kitten youkai. Naruto stood up to his full height, before he looked down at the woman with his proud smile lowering into a calm smile.
Her training was over.
Her training with him was over at least. If she wished to continue training herself, and develop her skills further, that was up to her. She had completed the training program that he had set forth. Out of all of his students over the years, even Elsha with her Boosted Gear, Shironeko was the first person to actually complete her training and see it through to the end.
"Once you recover, your time on Sage Mountain will have come to an end. Next time we meet, I want to see how much stronger you can become on your own." Naruto told the young woman, she was still a young woman to him, even though she was now in her 30s in age. "Lilith, begin preparations for Shironeko's goodbye party." Naruto told Lilith, who was standing nearby the door and watching the entire thing going down.
Lilith didn't show it on her face, but she was feeling good that Shironeko and her little daughter were done with their time on the mountain. That meant that Lilith would have her Master to herself until the next time a youkai felt brave and made the journey to the top of the mountain.
If that ever happened again.
"Lilith will begin right away. Goodbye Cat." Lilith gave Shironeko a polite bow.
Shironeko scoffed at the politeness, knowing that Lilith was just glad to be rid of her. Only a few more days, and the two of them wouldn't have to see each other, which made the Greedy Dragon happy.
"I wants to start training nyan!"
Lilith looked at the small nekoshou, while even Shironeko looked at her daughter with some surprise. Naruto glanced down at the knee-high girl, seeing as the girl had a similar personality to her mother, he could understand wanting to do the same training. Naruto leaned down and poked Kuroka in the chest, pushing her onto her butt. She landed at her mother's side, who had expected a similar reaction.
"Sure, start your training by being a good girl for your mom. I've got business to take care of somewhere else, so I'll see you all tomorrow." Naruto stated as he stood back up, and started to walk away. Kuroka ran towards Naruto and grabbed onto his leg, holding onto them as he walked. He kicked his leg up backwards, and tossed her across the room.
"Ow!?"
Right on top of her mother, who hadn't expected her missle of a daughter to come flying and hit her in the center of the chest. Naruto vanished in a burst of speed, leaving the room through the open window... because why close a window? No reason, not reason to close a window at the top of Sage Mountain.
-Location: Naruto's House, Italy-
Naruto smiled as he walked through his living room of his home. He looked around, and he saw Aurum was sitting on the couch watching the TV. She hadn't changed much in the 10 years they had been together, but her face had matured a little. Her hairstyle had changed so that it was cut short, and she was wearing a long white that had the belly of the dress enlarged.
"How is she doing?" Naruto asked as he sat down next to Aurum with a soft smile on his face, placing his hand on her bulging stomach.
"She wants ice cream." Aurum told Naruto, and Naruto placed his head next to her belly. He placed his hand on her belly, rubbing it gently as he checked the small chakra suppressing seal that was on her stomach. "Are you worred about the paper?" Aurum asked Naruto, who nodded his head.
He didn't know how his chakra would affect the unborn babies of this world, even more so for a normal human like Aurum.
So he was going to suppress the chakra inside of the unborn baby as much as possible just to be on the safe side. If he could completely erase the chakra, that would be even better. Since her mother didn't have chakra, their unborn girl's body would not be required to have chakra to survive like his body did.
"It won't be long... she's going to be born any day now." Naruto spoke with just as much excitement as when his first child was going to be born. "It always amazes me that there is a tiny human inside of you." Naruto gently pressed his entire face into her bump, rubbing both hands up against it.
Aurum had to jiggle.
To think a man older than human history itself was such a goofball, and still able to take so much joy just from an unborn baby made her happy.
"Yep, little Asia will be born really soon. I love her to death, but I want her out of me... right now." Aurum admit that carrying the little bundle of joy had been hard for her. Harder for her even more so since she wasn't fit for pregnancy. The doctors had actually told her that for her health, it would have been best for her to terminate the pregnancy early or risk her very life. "I hope I can raise her." Aurum spoke as she lifted her hand to her heart.
Her heart.
She had a very weak heart, the act of having a baby and giving birth alone was something that doctors said could stop her heart.
"Worrying so much isn't good for you or the baby. What are we watching?" Naruto asked as he finally paid some attention to the TV.
"A live news story, a local school is celebrating the Five of May." Aurum explained to him, and as boring as he found some holidays, Naruto had to raise an eyebrow at that.
"... It's the 11th... they are celebrating a little late, don't you think?" Naruto stated his question deadpan style. It was nearly a week too late to really celebrate the holiday that had already long since passed. "Think anything exciting will happen?" Naruto asked with a grin.
His wife shrugged her shoulders.
She blinked, before she groaned and held her stomach in pain. She leaned forward and gave a yelp when another wave of pain overcame her. She looked down at herself when she felt her thighs get wet, and since she had great bladder control, she was pretty sure that she knew what was going down.
"My water broke... My water broke?... My water broke!?" Aurum shouted out when it really hit her.
The baby was coming NOW!
"You call the ambulance, I'm going to-" Naruto grabbed the phone off of the coffee table, and he passed it over to her. Since he still didn't believe in using cars, he was never going to willingly use them himself, he knew she was going to need a ride. He would have offered to carry her... if she weren't pregnant. If he travelled too fast, it could put a lot of pressure on her body, and jumping from building to building would NOT be good for her or the baby. You did not jump from building to building while carrying a pregnant woman giving birth.
That was just a horrible idea.
"Oh my god, a monster is attacking the- GAAAH!"
Naruto and Aurum both looked at the television and saw the reporter get decapitated by a large mechnical beast. In moments, the live broadcast was showing a scene of carnage as men, women, and children were all slaughtered by something that Naruto was pretty sure was made by a certain mad scientist... to make life more interesting. Naruto looked at his wife, before he looked at the TV as the live feed cut off.
"Aurum..."
"Just go, they need you more than I do right now. I'll call the ambulance... I'll be fine. Go and save as many people as you can. When you're done being a hero... we'll have a daughter." Aurum told Naruto with confidence in him. Naruto leaned down and kissed his wife on the forehead.
He took his cloak off and draped it over her body, giving it to her as proof that he would be coming back for her.
"I'm sorry... I wish I was a better husband, but I can't ignore people suffering... I'm off." Naruto told her sadly at his own inability to be with her for the birth of their daughter. Naruto started to ran towards the door, opening it, before he jumped on top of the house and stayed still for a moment.
Entering Sage Mode, Naruto looked around, sensing anything that could have been created by that man.
Naruto sensed chakra.
Naruto could sense chakra, but not coming from a human. He was seeing chakra being used to fuel some kind of machine. He could sense all of the lives that were quickly being lost to the beast.
-With Orochimaru-
"Your life has been a little to... boring, don't you think? Lets see how this spices things up." Orochimaru spoke with a sly grin on his face as he watched the moniter. A boring world was boring to watch, so he had been waiting for the perfect moment to begin unleashing his creations on the world.
What perfect moment?
The moment that Naruto's next child would be born seemed like the best choice to cause a little chaos.
Time to have a little fun.
-DxD-verse-
"Hilda, take Xenovia and run... keep our daughter safe. I'll run out and distract that thing... I'll try to give you a chance." A blue haired man spoke to his wife as he looked at her holding their crying baby. The man was well dressed, wearing a suit so that he and his wife could visit Church... church that just so happened to be right next to the school where the monster was attacking.
The monster had finished attacking the school, and had moved onto the next building where it could see people.
"Paul, you'll die if that thing sees you... We should stay hidden." A green haired woman, with browned hazel eyes whispered urgently as she held her baby tighter to herself. She tried her best to stop her child from crying, if they could hide them maybe the creature wouldn't notice them, and move on to somebody else.
A giant, 8 foot tall, mechanical spider walked through the the building, looking for any victims it could use to draw out it's target.
The spider's body was covered in thick, bright metal armor, and all of it's legs were sharpened to the point of them being blades. It had several indents in it's body colored red, with holes in the middle of the indents, leading into a glowing red core. While it was 8 feet tall, it was close to 16 feet long, and each of it's legs had strange gun-like weapons on them.
It looked towards them.
Paul jumped out of hiding and waved his arms to draw it's attention.
"Hey! I'm over here, I bet you can't..."
Paul stopped waving his eyes, when faster than his eye could see, the spider swung one of it's legs at him. A red line appeared across his neck, before he collapsed to the floor, his head seperating from his body. Hilda had been in the middle of running away, before she came to a stop when she saw her husband die.
"Paul!" Hilda changed directions, forgetting everything when she saw the love of her life die in front of her.
The spider swiped at her, taking her legs off of her body. She gave a quick scream of pain as her body hit the ground. When she hit the ground, her crying baby rolled out of her arms and towards her dead husband. Her baby had a couple of small burns from the carpet, but the bigger threat was the fact that the spider was looking at them now, and raising it's legs up high to finish both of them off.
Hilda didn't feel dead when the spider swung it's legs down at them, even though she shut her eyes as tightly as she could.
"You bastard... Damnit Orochimaru... Getting innocents involved."
Hilda looked up and saw a tall man standing in front of her, holding Xenovia in one of his arms, while stopping the giant spider's blade leg with his other hand. Naruto looked back at her, before he turned on his heel and flipped the spider over his shoulder. Hilda saw the spider get thrown through the wall, before he vision started to quickly fade away. Everything started to get numb for her as she bled out through the slives arteries in her legs... the legs that had been cut off.
'The baby looks fine... Though her parents...' Naruto looked down at the dead father, and the nearly dead mother. Naruto looked at his cut hand, despite being in Sage Mode, the spider had managed to cut him. 'The spider's legs are made of the same material as Sasuke's sword.' Naruto realized mentally when he saw the spider getting back up in the middle of the road.
Naruto's body started to glow golden.
"Pro... Xenovia... protect... our... daughter..."
Naruto glanced back down at the woman, and at the crying baby in his arm. The woman reached out with her hand, and grabbed onto her husband's hand. She looked up at Naruto with her eyes pouring out her tears. A large hand came out of Naruto's chest and rushed towards the spider, grabbing it and slamming it into the ground before it could stand back up. Naruto took this chance to lean down and closed Paul's eyes. Hilda looked back to Naruto, and at his golden glowing form.
"Xenovia... Does she have any other family I can take her to?" Naruto asked Hilda, who shook her head.
Naruto saw the light leave her eyes.
"Target: Aquired... Chakra Absorb."
"Damnit, it can absorb chakra." Naruto saw his chakra arm get absorbed by the holes in the spider's body. Naruto stood up straight and looked at the baby in his arms. He chakra a third arm made of chakra, and used it to cradle the baby to his chest, and protect her. "I'm going to have to hold back... to many people around." Naruto said as the spider started to rush towards him. Naruto jumped on top of the spider, dodging it's slices narrowly. He jumped off of it and landed in the middle of the road.
"Chakra Return Cannons."
The cannons on the spider glowed, before it shot Naruto's chakra back at him. Naruto would have dodged the attack, but doing so would cause his chakra to hit the building behind him, more than likely destroying it. Naruto created a large fox head, and had it open it's mouth, catching all of the attacks, before closing around them. Naruto contained the explosion inside of the fox head, before it vanished and the spider started to swing it's legs at him again. With his enhanced defense, Naruto started to use his arms to block the legs without letting them hit the crying baby held against his chest.
"You might be made of same thing as Sasuke's sword... but you still have joints." Naruto stated when he caught one of the legs, and punched it in one of it's joints. The leg snapped off with ease, since Naruto destroyed the joint keeping it together. Naruto used the leg as a sword and grabbed it with both hands, raising it above his head, before it slashed the spider across the head. The head was sliced in half, and the spider collapsed to the ground moments later.
Naruto didn't drop his transformed state, even when it looked like he had killed the robot spider.
"Waaaaaah."
"There there, don't cry... it's going to be okay." Naruto let the third arm vanish as he held the baby with his actual arms, cradling it and rocking it. Naruto placed his hand on the injuries Xenovia had, before they started to heal up. With her rug burns gone, Xenovia's crying lessened a little. "You were just in the wrong place, at the wrong time..." Naruto said softly, never taking his eyes off of the spider.
Knowing Orochimaru, the spider was going to do something the second he took it's eyes off of it.
Naruto heard sirens going off, and saw police cars rushing towards the scene, having finally been able to drive to try and shoot down the "beast" that was taking so many lives. Naruto glanced back at the spider.
It started to rain.
The weather channel had predicted that there were going to be storms on and off during the day.
"Ah, bah bah."
"Yeah, my face has whiskers." Naruto felt Xenovia's baby hands touching his cheeks, placing with the bar shaped whiskers on his face. They were bigger than normal thanks to his transformation. "... Looks like Aurum is making it to the hospital safely too..." Naruto could sense the fact that Aurum was on her way to the hospital in the ambulance. He could sense she was moving pretty quickly.
The spider's eyes glowed, and it started to spray acid out of all of the holes in it's body. Naruto covered Xenovia with his hand, stopping the acid from hitting her. The acid did nearly nothing to his body, but the buildings, cars, and people around that were hit started to melt. Even the spider's body started to melt, leaving an unstable core behind sitting in a pool of acid. The chakra core of the robot started to blink when it came in contact with the acid, blinking faster and faster.
"BAH!"
"Oh shit it's a bo-"
*BOOM*
The entire area was covered in an huge explosion that wiped out everything within a 30 meter range of the core. The explosion being black in color, and Naruto covered himself Xenovia in a layer of chakra to protect her from the explosion. He formed 9 chakra tails to contain the explosion as much as he possible could. Without the tails wrapping around the explosion, there was a good chance it would have destroyed the entire city... maybe even more knowing the man that was Orochimaru.
"Bah..." Xenovia continued to play with Naruto's face, his chakra protecting her from the explosion, both of them in the middle of a large crater.
"-mb... It was a bomb." Naruto powered down. Naruto looked at Xenovia, and he held her against his shoulder. He held her very carefully as he jumped up onto the nearest rooftop nearly 50 meters away. He made sure that she wasn't hurt by his jumping, and he started to make his way towards the hospital that his wife was on her way to. Xenovia screamed in childish joy at the wind rushing in her hair. "... You're too young to understand... It's for the best you don't know what you just lost." Naruto spoke softly as he looked at the joyful baby.
She just lost her parents, but she seemed to only be a few months old at best, there was no way she understood that she had lost her only family.
Her parents had died to try and save her.
Naruto landed in front of the hospital, which was busy and active. Sending out all of their ambulances, no doubt to go and see if they could find any survivors from the massacure. Naruto landed in a place where nobody would see him, his feet touching down in the shadows, before he walked into the light and made his way towards the hospital entrance. Naruto walked into the entrance, and saw doctors and nurses getting everything ready for all of the possible people they would have to try and save. He sat in the ER waiting room, knowing that his wife would be there any minute now.
Any minute now.
Any minute now.
Any minute now.
Any minute now?
How long had it been?
"Naruto Uzumaki?"
"Yes... Doctor Jones?" Naruto asked, remembering the doctor who had been taking care of his wife's checkups through out her pregnancy. Naruto stood up and shook hands with the man, and he shook his hand loosely. The man seemed saddened by something, and Naruto could see that in his eyes. "Did Aurum come in without be realizing?" Naruto asked, since maybe they just brought her in through a different entrance. The hospital did have multiple places to bring people in after all.
Jones shook his head.
"... I'm sorry... there was an accident on the road... The ambulance your wife was in went off of the road in the rain. Your wife... didn't make it." Jones spoke softly to Naruto, who felt his heart break a lot when he spoke those words.
Naruto took a deep breath.
"... Thank you for telling me... Is my daughter... Did she make it?" Naruto asked, and Jones closed his eyes.
He shook his head.
"Your daughter wasn't inside of your wife when the accident happened... but we don't think she would have survived. It would take a miracle... Would you like to see your wife?" Jones asked Naruto, and Naruto sat back down in the chair, his legs not working anymore. Naruto closed his eyes, and placed a hand against his face. Xenovia was asleep on his other arm already.
Naruto let loose his breath.
"... I think I need to take a walk..." Naruto told the doctor, who nodded his head in sympathy. Naruto stood up and walked towards the exit of the hospital.
"Naruto."
"What is it Kurama?" Naruto asked with a heavy voice. Naruto walked into the rain, so that the rain would cover up his tears.
"I'm sorry this happened... but I left a little of my chakra in your daughter. My chakra in her is gone now... but I can promise you that she is safe. The doctor said it would take a miracle for her to survive... Your daughter has your luck." Kurama softly spoke to his only friend. Naruto smiled lightly, before his eyes turned down.
Were his genetics a curse.
"Where is she now?" Naruto asked Kurama, who had a little of his chakra inside of his daughter until now.
"Last I saw, she was found by a nun... She's being taken to a somewhere else. Are you going to go and get her?" Kurama asked, knowing Naruto better than anyone. Naruto nodded his head in response, knowing that he would be getting his daughter. "I'm very sorry about your wife... she was a good woman... She was a great woman for you, and made you happy." Kurama spoke with sincere sadness that Naruto lost somebody close to him once more.
Naruto shook his head.
"Now isn't the time to mourn... I just learned my daughter is alive. Anyway, Aurum isn't dead so long as I carry her will in my heart... She hasn't died... she's just joined the rest of my loved ones, right in her." Naruto spoke softly as he placed his thumb against his chest.
Kurama grinned inside of Naruto.
"You're still crying."
"Shut up idiot, I'm not crying... it's just the rain. Also, your a bastard, you know that? I told you that I didn't want Asia to have chakra." Naruto stated to his tailed beast, who snorted. Of course, Kurama knew that Naruto was very thankful for what he did. "I can't sense any chakra in the area though... Did you say her chakra vanished?" Naruto started to building hop towards the general direction that he believed Asia would be in.
His wife decided on that name before their baby was born.
"My chakra in her vanished, I had to use all of my chakra in her to keep her alive. Whatever chakra she had should be gone... anyway... your daughter was born with something that absorbed her chakra..." Kurama noted for Naruto, who raised an eyebrow in surprise. Actual surprise that his child was born with something that absorbed her chakra.
"A Sacred Gear..." Naruto whispered when he realized what she had inside of her.
"Hard left, two miles that way." Kurama informed Naruto, and Naruto made a hard left, before he started to run towards the direction Kurama pointed out. Naruto looked and saw a Church, one of the orphanages that were run by the Vatican. Naruto's speed allowed him to cross the two mile gap near instantly, even while holding a baby gently in his arms. Naruto softly landed on top of the orphanage, knowing that he was going to have to go in there and take his daughter back.
"Bah?"
"She woke up... Well, at least Asia will have a friend growing up." Naruto mentioned to himself as he jumped to the ground and started to walk towards the Church entrance to go and get his daughter.
"What are you going to do to Orochimaru?" Kurama asked Naruto, and Naruto sighed.
Yeah, that was a problem.
"... I can still talk with the other Tailed Beasts using their chakra in me. Orochimaru is about to deal with 8 very pissed off Tailed Beasts. I'm going to ask them to destroy all of his labs... remind him not to fuck with me." Naruto spoke threateningly, knowing for a fact that Orochimaru was watching him.
-With Orochimaru-
...
"... I might have messed up." Orochimaru winced when he realized that he had accidently caused Naruto's wife's death with his actions. That meant that Naruto was going to turn the Tailed Beasts against him... which would mean that he would indeed be losing thousands of years of research and all of the creations he had developed.
Naruto didn't make threats.
He made promises.
Chapter End!
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Naruto didn't need to leave behind a clone, because he was using Sage Mode to watch over her. With the danger gone, he powered down and went to meet her at the hospital.
He had no reason to suspect that the ambulance would crash on the way to the hospital.
