Didn't think I'd need to clarify, but some readers expressed confusion... this story starts a few days at most after chapter 699. Sasuke was leaving the village, maybe one or two days away. I thought that had been clear, but since it was not I apologize.

That means The Last, and Naruto and Hinata being together, would be over a year and a half to happen in canon. In other words, there is almost no chance of Boruto and Himawari appearing. There is small chance of them being even born in this timeline.

IIIII

"Uriel just laughed at me and said it was just a copy of his flames… but they aren't! They are concentrated sunlight, not flames! They burn when I hit something, but that is because it is concentrated!"

"Stop moving your arms," Ino complained, shining a light on Gabriel's eyes to heck if she was concussed. "You are definitely related… No wonder you look like his Oiroke…"

Naruto nodded at that, "yeah, I didn't tell anyone, but it was based on how I imagined an older sister would look like at the time. You know, orphan stuff."

"I'm just glad you remembered me, even if you didn't know it," Gabriel smiled, giving him a hug.

While still sitting on his lap. She had been talking for a while about people of Heaven Naruto didn't know but at the same time knew… Like, he didn't need a description to imagine a dark-skinned Raphael or a ginger Uriel swinging a sword of flames.

"But anyway, this energy you are telling me reminds me of Jojo's Hamon…"

"Yes! I really tried to recreate Hamon! I'm still not able to do most of the things they do, but I think I'm doing a good job!"

"You are," Naruto said, rubbing her head and making the angel close her eyes with a smile.

"I wonder if she'd be so happy if she knew what kind of pranks were done with the Oiroke…" Ino teased.

Naruto paled.

"Well, I always made sure not to hurm anyone but their pride and never do anything permanent, so it's not like I did anything really bad…"

"Oh, really?" Ino asked, her smile turning predatory. "Then there is no problem in telling her?"

Naruto started sweating cold.

Gabriel looked at her, curious.

"Meh, I doubt she is as clean-shaven as—"

The bunny was quickly knocked out of Kaguya's shoulder by a flying shoe.

"DoN't WoRrY mOtHeR… tHe BuNnY iSn'T eVeN dIrTiEd…"

"Oh, ok then," Kaguya relaxed and went back to her popcorn, ignoring the dizzy Zetsu.

"I am, though," Gabriel said. "I consider it a matter of hygiene."

Silence followed her statement… before the devil girls nodded in agreement.

Naruto blushed.

Ino was pensive.

Issei was thrown backwards by the strength of his nosebleed, causing the people nearby to be splattered in it.

Naruto's eye twitched. He felt a bit bad for exposing someone like that for a prank without knowing, but it was overpowered by the sense of being surpassed with one statement

On the other hand, that was the perfect distraction Naruto needed to change the subject.

He turned his attention to the other angel there…

Well, not counting Metatron and the Fallen ones.

Well, a bit to Metatron. He had been filming them for a while with a small camera with "Gabriel" written on the side, "because it is an important meeting" he had said.

Michael shifted nervously, as unlike with Gabriel Naruto's gaze was serious. He kept glancing from him to Gabriel, as if comparing the two.

Sweating nervously, he wondered what exactly he had done wrong already to the young man that was the reincarnation of their Father. Because if Metatron vouching for him wasn't enough, Gabriel's behavior certainly was.

"Fath—I mean Naruto-sama, it is "sama" right? I am sorry for not coming for you earlier. If I has even imagined—"

"Are you the one currently leading the Churches?"

The question was asked without any mirth. If Micheal didn't know he wasn't remembered in more than small sparks he'd be heartbroken, but since he did he just winced.

"Well, yes, technically… I mean, they have their independent leaders, like the Pope for the Catholics, but—"

"Then who do I talk to, if I were to ask for an explanation for throwing away a 'Holy Maiden' whose only mistake was healing without prejudice?"

Michael winced again. "Oh…"

The girl who was serving tea widened her eyes. "Naruto-sama, there is no need—"

"Of course there is a need! Even if it hadn't been you, Asia-chan, someone was punished without doing anything wrong! Who know who else had the same done to them!"

Michael's head dropped. "It is true. Asia Argento is not the only one who suffered unjustly. Without Father in charge, our powers given to us by our believers began dwindling… We were forced to remove from our midst those who could cast doubts in our teachings, like miss Argento with her ability to heal our enemies, or those that found out about your previous incarnation's death that did not accept it properly."

Shame for his actions, for the evil he allowed to happen, filled Michael… but it was too late. "It may not be the fairest course of action, but it was the best I was able to choose at the time."

Naruto shook his head.

"I'm far from the right person to condemn someone for making poor choices, but you had other options."

Shikamaru assumed from there. "Talking with those that found out their god is dead to see their feelings on it, they may be willing to act even harder on his old desires. Or if they aren't willing to go away but still lost their faith you could have had them transferred somewhere they'd still be doing their job but not interacting with those not in the know. And I'm not sure what happened with Argento-san, but the problem seems to be that she is able to heal those the religion consider evil too… shouldn't the ability to heal indiscriminately be seen as better?"

"And that's not counting the bad things that were done in the name of the Church," Naruto continued. "I admit I didn't research much, but… the Crusades, or Pope Boniface VIII, or the burning of Joan of Arc, or of Willian Tyndale, the Witch Hunts, indulgences, the Holy Sword Project, these just some examples. And unlike the humans, you were in the lead the whole time."

"I… I admit that I should have been much more strict to humans in charge of the Church…" Michael finally said, tears threatening to fall from his reddening eyes. "I… I know it is just excuses, but I was left in the lead of all angels with no warning and even less training. I've been splitting my time between leading the angels and trying my best to keek Heaven's system running… so I had to make some hard choices to keep both in the best condition, and some of them were to close my eyes to the actions of others.
I know why you are angry, some of the actions I had to look aside fill me with shame—"

"But not enough to change your ways," Naruto accused calmly.

"I tried! The Church is getting better! But... it took me a while until my siblings convinced me that you would be ashamed of me if you saw the things I let happen, and now the path to recovery is already too long. And now you come back, and I am doing my best to face you for my faults, but…"

Naruto sighed.

"I am not ashamed of you. I am not your father, just his reincarnation, but from what I can feel of him in my heart, he wouldn't throw you aside.
You can be sure though, he would be extremely disappointed that you became so callous."

Michael couldn't hold it in anymore, and with a strangled sob started crying.

Naruto sighed.

"Gabriel, would you please get down? I'd like to talk to my friends a bit."

She nodded and jumped down, her happy expression gone. She made no move to console Michael though.

IIIII

Naruto motioned to Kiba so he could join him in his talk with Team 10. The devil was pensive, but followed him.

Choji quickly put his hand on his shoulder in sympathy.

Ino sighed. "I know you feel bad for making him cry like that, but that is something you had to say, and he needed to hear. Else it'd be over your heads for who knows how long."

Shikamaru nodded in agreement. "I am a bit out of the loop of what you said, but from what he said he ended up becoming Heaven's version of Danzo as Hokage for a while… he may have gotten better, but he still ended up allowing some pretty heavy shit, even if he didn't do it himself. This seems like one of the worse punishments he could have been given in a personal level."

"It is more than that," Kiba said. "Oh, I'm sorry. I am Kiba Yuto, I was a victim of the Holy Sword Project and was turned into a Devil because I'd have died otherwise.
Michael's actions were reprehensible, but he did not Fall because, whether we like them or not, he was sincere in that they were never once motivated by anything but love for his fellow angels and father. He justified it to himself that they were the best thing he could do at the time, even if the things he was turning a blind eye to were terrible things. Even if I and my friends suffered from his actions, he measured them and, in his eyes, he considered them justifiable.
And then first his siblings, and now his father, even if his reincarnation, tell him his actions were unacceptable… everyone he sullied his soul for…

Don't get me wrong, I don't thing I'll ever forgive him. But… I don't think I can hate him anymore either."

Naruto nodded. It was a good thing there were people he knew here, he knew in his head he was right but he was still feeling guilty… even that small conversation helped.

IIIII

"Are you feeling better?" Naruto asked.

Michael nodded, eyes still a bit red but more composed.

"I'll take Kiba's lead. You are not forgiven. You will need to work as hard as you can to make amends for your mistakes. They will not be forgotten. Neither by me, or by yourself. However, I can't think of a worse but fair punishment than those two. As long as you never forget them and try your best not to repeat them and to make amends, Kiba is willing to be civil, and I am willing to give you a chance to prove yourself a better person."

"That is all I could possibly ask," Michael replied with a smile.

Naruto nodded.

"Now, since we mentioned Kiba, could either of you explain to me what is the deal with these Excalibur swords? I mean, they aren't really pieces of the real deal… are they?"

Michael smiled. That was a good topic for conversation, in his opinion.

"Ah, those… they were pieces of a sword, but not the Excalibur…

We asked the Lady of the Lake herself, and she allowed us to use her techniques to forge a third and fourth swords, similar to Excalibur and Galatine. Each of us Four Great Seraphs gave our own contribution to the blades. There was just one problem…"

"It was too strong and no one could wield it?" Naruto guessed.

"Uhm, yes. How—"

"It just makes sense. Since even the pieces needed someone to either be born able to use them or to go through a treatment, to be able to use all seven in one blade…"

He shrugged. It made sense to him.

"Er. Well. As you said, the sword ended up too powerful for any human we knew of to wield at the time… so we broke it in seven pieces and we reforged them into separate blades, each with its own property. The original blade was unnamed, but since we used the same techniques as the ones used on Excalibur itself they became known as the Lesser Excaliburs. Eventually the story was mutated by the people and people started believing they were the original blade once."

"I see… and which was which?" Naruto asked, curiosity clear in his voice.

"I myself did Rapidly, which I personally consider the stronger one battle-wise, both in defense and attack. Raphael, since his specialty is healing, made Blessing, which increases the strength of rituals like healing ones, and Mimic, which can be turned in many tools, not just weapons. Uriel worked on Transparency and Nightmare, both which use illusions, to turn the user invisible or to cause fear. I have no idea why, since his area of focus are his flames, but he mentioned something about the sun causing mirages and halucinations on deserts."

"I made Destruction and Ruler!" Gabriel puped up.

"No one I know says 'no' to Gabriel when she really wants something… she either convinces you, or beats you up then convinces you. Her blades clearly reflect that part of her."

No one had anything to say to that…

"Oh, so you really are related. The others sometimes call it Naruto-kun's Talk no Jutsu when he isn't around to hear."

Oh wait, Sai did.

A bit more awkward silence later, Naruto cleared his throat.

"Uhm, that is very interesting, but I was more talking about you saying you made a 'third and fourth' swords. So, which was which?"

"Oh," Michael started, surprised. "They were all the same sword. We actually forgot about the 'second Excalibur'."

"'Second Excalibur'?" Kiba repeated, surprised himself.

"Yes, you see, Excalibur and Galantine were two sides of the same coin, Excalibur was related to the moon and Galantine was to the sun. So we had to forge a version of both too. Of course, being beings of Light, we focused our followers on the Galantine, even though they eventually became known as Excaliburs due to that being the famous one of the duo."

"So all the Excaliburs are actually the second Galantine?" Kiba reinforced. "Then what happened to the actual second Excalibur?"

"The Lady of the Lake is keeping it," Michael said. "She assured us no one of evil heart would be the one to take it from her, and that when the next guardian of the blade found out about it it would already know where to find her and it. She also assured me, though, that it would be its next guardian, not its ultimate wielder."

Kiba and Naruto drew a breath, and looked at each other.

"I found it," Naruto said. "The right lake, I mean. I was because of feeling a draw to it when I met Kaguya. We can go together there later."

Kiba nodded.

Naruto draw a breath, before releasing it to calm down. Things were moving pretty fast, but he was used to it… just not out of pranks, running from retribution for his pranks, or battle.

"We have two more things to deal with, and by then the dinner will be ready."

"Please tell me it is not ramen…" Ino complained. "You could live your whole life with just the stuff, but not everyone else feels like you."

"Well, excuse me for them being my best recipes. I didn't expect Choji to be here to teach me other things and when we met I had already bought all the material."

"Excuse me Choji, I've heard about arguments like this… am I supposed to feel threatened since I'm dating her?" Sai asked the closest person he knew.

"To be honest I have no idea," Choji answered.

"Fine, we'll eat your ramen this time. Choji, you'll be responsible for teaching Naruto new recipes while we are here."

Choji rolled his eyes, but nodded.

Naruto shrugged. "Anyway, we have two important matters to deal with before this talk is over and we can eat… Number one, Ino's patients."

Ino blinked, before looking at him seriously. "Be careful what you say, Naruto. I wasn't able to talk to them yet."

He nodded, before continuing. "Not saying too much, Ino's patients were tricked by a devil, turned, and abused. I rescued them, but that's all I was able to do for now. If they wish, is there a way to make them stop being devils?"

Michael looked at him pensive.

Rias and Sona looked at each other with wide eyes. "Who was it?" Sona asked, anger clear in her voice, her cold tone promising suffering.

"Someone I already took care of. Acted like he was important, but I do not care. He could have been Lady Amaterasu herself, I would have done my best to punish him as befitting the crime."

"He was raised under the domain of the Shinto deities," came Naruto's voice from the angel in silver armor, the usual booming voice not good for a recording.

"Thanks Metatron. As I was saying, I eliminated Diodora Astaroth like the blemish in the face of the existence he proved to be."

"Astaroth?" Rias repeated. "Like the clan of Lord Beelzebub? If people found out—"

"If that may cause a war like he said, so be it. As long as everyone that follows me do so because they agree with my actions and not just out of lip service. I have no desire to associate with those that'd approve his."

Another awkward silence followed that. After all, Naruto literally declared a personal war on anyone who would be on Diodora's side. No one there did, but there was no doubt by anyone in the room that he would follow on his word for anyone that did try to argue the point.

Michael cleared his throat, trying to bring the point back.

"Unfortunately, the only person who knows how to undo it, if it is even possible, is the creator, Ajuka Beelzebub. Supposedly Heaven's system could do it, but I am not knowledgeable enough in it to do so. As far as I know, the only one that would be able to use it for such would be… well, you."

Naruto sighed. "Ok, that's a bit disheartening, but is a good way to go to the second question… Heaven's system. How is it, does it need much maintenance, and how hard would it be to fix a few errors and changing some rules?"

"For example?" Michael asked, thinking.

"Changing the rules for angels falling to not be so rigid, changing the rules about them going back to normal so it becomes easier, changing the rules so humans with Sacred Gears revived as devils from then on don't keep them—"

"What?" the two devil Kings exclaimed.

Naruto waved a hand. "Don't worry, just the new ones. The ones already turned will keep them, since it is already a part of their sense of self."

"You can't do that!" Sona tried to argue. "That'd change completely the state of recruiting for peerages from now on, and not in a good way!"

"Though," Naruto argued back. "From what I gathered, Sacred Gears were given to humans to protect them and put them in equal footing to the other races. You devils used a loophole by turning them into devils and taking the weapons of humanity for yourselves.

I am closing a loophole that was never supposed to be there. That is non-negotiable. Be glad I am willing to let those already turned keep them."

"But… but that's not fair!" Rias tried to argue.

Naruto glared at her. Rias felt a heavy weight bearing down on her, as if a wrong move could mean her end, and it was completely unrelated to him being the reincarnation of the God of the Bible.

"Do you want to know what else is not fair? Devils are stronger. Devils live longer. Devils can use magic easily. Humans only have Sacred Gears, and then devils came and took them for themselves without even giving them a choice in some cases.

No. Sacred Gears are weapons made for humans, and for humans they will stay. No one will get one who isn't a human anymore. And by that I mean that even if I can eventually do like was done to Enoch when he became the angel Metatron, the angel also loses it.

That was how they were supposed to be. And so that is how I will make them be. Treasure the ones you have with Sacred Gears. Soon they'll be the only ones."

"Maybe… not so soon…" Michael said with a wince. "You see, I have no idea how it works to do those changes, and since you don't seem to recall neither do you right now… So you will probably need someone who could help you analyze the system and teach you to do those…"

"And you don't have anyone who could help, right?" Naruto continued with a sigh.

"Well, not still on our faction…"

Naruto sighed… then made a face like having an idea… that he disliked… then got frustrated… then angry…

"Damn it Naruto, say something! Making faces won't help anyone here!" Ino shouted.

"It helps me," Kaguya said while eating her popcorn, but was ignored.

"Shikamaru!" Naruto said, eyes wide. "Hey man, great thing you are here! I just had an idea, but it is a bad idea. Such a bad idea even I can tell it is a bad idea."

"That is a bad idea," Ino agreed.

"See? So please Shika, say something, anything I could do besides—"

"Call Orochimaru."

"Damn it Shika, you had one job!"

Shikamaru sighed. "First, don't call me Shika. And second, he is the only people we know that could do it properly. As much as the title of 'genius' is just thrown around in our land, he deserves it, and proved time and time again, for good or for ill."

"Damn it!" Naruto threw his hands in the air, the arms following and keeping them in range because he wasn't Kakuzu that could just detach them. Well, he could the right one but… "that was my only idea, but even I can tell it is a terrible one."

"Well, I don't have a better one either," Shikamaru countered.

"Yeah, we already established that."

"Since when can you say 'established'?"

"I don't know! Oh kami, this is happening, I am going to ask Orochimaru for help, I can already feel Tenzo's stare and Anko's hands trying to strangle me…"

"That is the feeling of being a leader," Choji said sagely.

Naruto just glared at him.

IIIII

Koneko looked at Naruto out of the corner of her eye.

As much as he was the reincarnation of a god, and now that she paid attention she could feel a few flunctuations of holy energy coming from him from time to time, sometimes in an uncontrolled stronger wave, his body was definitively of a human… besides the capacity of using chakra, but the other four humans also had that so she surmised it was not that.

But then… why could he use Senjutsu so well, on the level of her sister at the least – and that's including any remaining hero-worship… yet seemed to feel none of the berserker rage?

Even the food was a second place to these thoughts… which is why she could be excused for almost jumping when a hand touched her shoulder.

"When you are done meet me outside," the second Naruto told her in a low voice, hearable but not disruptive of the rest of the dinner, "we need to talk."

She nodded nervously, and left as soon as she was done.

Rias looked at the original Naruto, "what was that about?"

"It is something I noticed about her. It may be personal to her, so I'll let her tell you later."

Rias frowned. "She is my friend since we were young. We have no secrets from each other."

"Then you won't have a problem with her telling you later," Naruto finished.

…only to then notice something.

"Hey, you clothes look a bit like the nuns' today. What gives?"

"More like a porn version of them," Mittelt muttered, but everyone heard.

Naruto shrugged, though. "It doesn't show up that much. As long as she isn't cold, I guess."

"No, I mean it is a porn version of a nun's clothes. She even admitted it earlier."

Naruto looked at Mittelt.

Looked at Rias.

Looked at Xenovia and Irina.

Looked at Mittelt again and pointed at Xenovia and Irina.

"It is for fighting!" Irina said, suddenly embarrassed of how form-fitting her bodysuit was.

Then Naruto pointed to Ino.

She smiled at that and waved her hand to the others watching.

"Er, well…" Mittelt started.

Naruto then pointed at Sai.

"…what?" he asked when the others looked at his clothes… and his exposed midriff.

Everyone got Naruto's point by then.

Rias pouted at that. So it'd take more than showing her skin to get him… Oh well, he wouldn't be worth it if it didn't. It was no problem. She had the time.

So focused they were in their conversation, they didn't notice a third Naruto leave with Kiba.

IIIII

"Hey Koneko-chan, can I call you Koneko-chan?" the Naruto clone asked.

Koneko nodded while looking around. They were in a clearing surrounded by trees, surrounded by nature.

She could feel the Nature energy that saturated the place.

"You can feel it too, can't you?" Naruto asked, serious. "I can feel you drawing it without even trying, but throwing it away and keeping it out."

Koneko nodded. "I… I'm a Nekoshou. It is a kind of Nekomata that is able to draw Nature energy easily… But when my sister tried using it to strengthen herself with Senjutsu she…"

"Pulled a Jugo?" Naruto asked. Seeing the confusion in her face he explained. "Jugo is someone who is a friend of a friend. He has the natural ability of drawing Nature energy easily, and all the time… the problem is that he doesn't know how to use it, and thus he sometimes has some attacks of… well, murderous fury."

Koneko absorbed the information, and nodded. "Do you mean, it is not because they are using Senjutsu, but because they are doing it wrong?"

Naruto nodded, then sat down on the ground, tapping beside him. "So, you must have been holding the fear of going their way for a while, uh…"

She hesitated, but sat down beside him. Flinched a bit when his hand fell on her head, but then had to resist purring at the small massage it did.

"You see, anyone can use a bit of Nature energy to strengthen themselves if they can draw the energy… well, at least everyone with chakra, not sure about the ones without. The problem is… how to explain… ever heard of sweet iced tea? It is made by making tea, adding sugar while it is hot, and then letting it cool. The whole process is important, you need hot water to make tea, but if you let it cool down before adding the sugar it won't dissolve properly because the tea isn't hot."

"So you are saying the problem is that they aren't absorbing the Nature energy properly?" Koneko asked, understanding coming to her. "They are getting it, but it isn't mixing with them properly."

"Yup. That means that an excess of Nature energy is in them, and thus they are being draw more and more towards their basic nature."

"…are you saying they are like that deep down? That we are all violent and raging like them?"

"No, no," Naruto corrected her. "When I said 'basic', I mean really basic. Fight or Flight instincts level of basic. And since humans are predators, and I'm assuming your sister is even more since she is a kind of nekomata…"

"Humans are predators?" the girl asked, confused.

"Forward-facing eyes, only predators have these," Naruto explained. "We are something called 'pursuit predators', I'm not very good at it but basically we outlast our prey."

Koneko nodded. "So, since you said you only know that everything that uses chakra can use Nature Energy properly… does that mean that it has to be mixed in the chakra while molding it instead of added to it?"

"Bingo!" Naruto said. "But… it has to be done properly, else you'll risk becoming too much one with Nature…"

Koneko looked in his eyes in confusion, so she saw Naruto make a face.

"For example, when I was taught, it was with the training methods of the Toads from Mount Myoboku… so if I used too much Nature energy in the mix I would become more and more toad-like, and would risk drawing more and more… until a point I'd become a stone toad with no way to turn back into myself."

Koneko shivered at that. Becoming a stone statue forever, of a toad, cat or anything really…

"This is why only those with large chakra reserves attempted the training, the proper balance becomes easier to get. But… I don't think you'll have too much problems."

She almost tilted her head, but that could risk stopping his hand petting her. So she decided to speak. "Why?"

"Because… you're a natural. Sure, you don't know how to mix it, but you very likely already draw exactly what you need. And that also solves another problem I had that you probably won't ever have."

"Which one?"

"For someone to usually draw Nature energy, they can't move. After the mix is made, you have until it is used up, but then you have to draw again. I got really good at drawing it, like, I can mold a lot in less than a second compared to my old one minute to draw enough for five. My teacher used to use toad summons that drew the energy for him. I can actually ask Kurama to do the same for me if I'm not able to get that second. But the point is, by myself I need that second to draw the energy.
You may not."

"I see. And when I do it…"

Naruto smiled. "Not if, when. I like that.
Yeah, when you do it, you'll probably be able to be a Sage all the time."

"A Sage?" Koneko couldn't help turning to him, surprise clear in her face.

"Yup. That's the name given to someone who can use senjutsu properly. Where I come from, at least."

"A Sage…"

"But, if you decide to learn it from me… I have to warn you, it may not be such a long road, since you're a natural and I was a quick learner, but it'll be hard. And painful."

"Painful?" Koneko asked, confused.

"The only way I know to push out excess Nature energy is the one used to me… hitting someone with a special stick that'll expel it all away. So it'll both hurt because of the stick and because the Nature chakra will be pushed out by it a bit violently."

"…when do we start?"

Naruto nodded at her serious expression. "The original is a bit occupied right now, and he is the only one who can contact the Toads to get a copy of the stick. He'll try to contact you when he gets it.

Koneko nodded.

"Wait for me for a minute while I get some money for ice cream for us?"

Koneko nodded so fast, the smiling Naruto thought she was at risk of dislocating her neck.

IIIII

"Does that change anything?" the other Naruto asked Kiba.

"I… don't really think so," Kiba admitted. "While I once hated holy swords, especially the Excaliburs, Galatine or not, now I made my peace with them.
…but I'd still love to see an actual Excalibur, though, even if not the original," he smiled. "Call it a swordsman thing."

Naruto nodded. While his meeting with the Fourth Hokage was tempered with the knowledge that he was the one that sealed Kurama in him, and then later by the fact he was his father, he always wanted to spar against him and the Third. And then he fought alongside them in the Fourth War! He guessed a swordsman seeing a blade on par with one of the strongest swords in legend would be on about the same level.

"What do you think she meant when she said that the future guardian would be the one that'd know where she is, though? Do you think it'll be my blade now but not forever, like Kisame used Samehada but it eventually chose KillerB? Or I'll just be the guy that'll carry it to the next person?"

"I guess… you should ask her that personally," Kba said, shaking his head. He got the jist of the example, but didn't know what the names meant.

"Good point… I'd like to go as soon as possible, but the boss thinks that most people he is going to talk to soon, including her, he should talk to personally, not through us."

Kiba nodded. "Makes sense, I guess."

"That means we aren't going right now, though…"

Kiba shook his head. "Thanks for thinking of me, but… this is important, but so is everything you are doing right now."

Naruto nodded. "…hey, wanna spar a bit?" he asked suddenly, pulling out a kunai. "From what I gathered, your Sacred Gear is already very useful for many things, and it got even better right? Show me how many different ways you can think to use them in middle of battle."

Kiba looked at him… and two swords formed in his hands. "You're on."

IIIII

"So… how's life?" Naruto asked before flinching from the awkwardness of the question.

"To be honest?" Michael answered, not noticing it, "Life has been a mess ever since you died. I mean, I know I made a lot of mistakes, but I wasn't ready, I wasn't meant to shoulder the authority and responsibility. I'm not made to be the boss, never wanted to, second In Command is good enough for me.
To be honest, I was very depressed and was mostly going through the motions… which is the real reason I took so long to come check why Metatron wanted me to visit the town, to be honest.

I… I'm pretty sad about our talk, both that my mistakes were pointed out and I had to admit to them and that that was all we talked about since Gabriel had been able to tell you wathever you wanted… but I'm also relieved there was a talk to be had, since it meant you are here."

"Well, she actually started talking before I could ask anything…" Naruto reminded him. "Also, being Second In Command means taking over when the First isn't there, but I can see that you just lost your leader and father, had no training and had no idea there was even a chance of it happening. And I doubt you guys would accept anyone else but him leading you so it's not like your stay would be temporary either."

Michael nodded. "Pretty sure that, just like quite a few Falls were by Father's death affecting them emotionally," he paused, noticing the guilty looks of three of the Fallen present, save for Dohnaseek, "I know that me presuming to take his place was the cause of some more…
But now… you are here…"

"Uhm… I… you guys understand that I'm not him? While I may have his soul, I have my own body, my own mind, I am my own being. A Shadow Clone is closer to the real me than I am of him. I know I acted like I would just a few minutes ago in the heat of the moment, but… Why do you think I should lead you? Why do you think the others will follow me?"

"We don't," replied Gabriel. "But… I can feel it, your soul is his, and also Yeshua's, the will of Father changed yet strengthened by Yeshua's kindness learned on his time as a human like iron combined with carbon to make something even stronger than before, and all of this forged and tempered in a hard but good life. I mean, there is something in there that makes you your own person too, but your connection to Father is undeniable.
Also, your hugs feel so much like him…"

She then threw herself on him and started rubbing her head in his chest. Instinctively Naruto petted her, and she smiled peacefully.

"What Gabriel means is that we do not expect them to just take you as Father, reincarnation or not… even if she did. However, aware or not we all can feel it. I am sure the Fallen felt a connection to you as soon as they were talked with, even before they realized it, but while the connection is there you, as you said, are your own person. Even if you were pure Father you had your own life experiences, when you mean Yeshua…
No," he continued, shaking his head, "we do not expect them to accept you right away. But… if you talk to them, convince them to give you a chance… I am sure they will."

Naruto sighed at that. "To be honest… I don't like the idea of leading you guys just because I was born with his soul. I mean, I want to be Hokage. It is a position only for the best in the village, and you need to both be strong and accepted by the forces. Something I spent years trying to get with my own effort…
and now you guys want me to take you over because of how I was born and not of what I did, and want your forces to be made to accept me right away instead of us interacting and them actually learning about me beforehand, because of something I had no control over… what are you doing, Metatron?"

Metatron had been slowly approaching him as he was talking.

"I don't know how the zoom works in this and did not want to mess up trying to guess on a live feed…"

"Oh, that makes sense—live feed?"

"Yes, I did tell you this was an important moment for us Angels. Right now only Heaven is receiving the feed, but we'll edit it properly later and give copies, and I'm sure the Fallen will have one on their hands pretty soon."

"They just saw me saying I didn't want to lead them—"

"Because you thought it would be unfair. Trust me, that speech that, I will reinforce for the audience, you did not know they could hear, and they know I cannot lie even if I wanted to, will get you more acceptance from them than anything else you could have done."

Naruto fell silent, blushing a bit in embarrassment.

Choji chuckled at this. "Naruto, never change."

"I don't think he knows how to," Sai said for him. "And I think this is a good thing."

"Nah, he got more mature as time went on… not much though. But the important things are still the same, I guess."

Naruto sighed. "The plans I mentioned, did they hear?"

"Including the argument of whoever you wished to ask for help fulfilling them was a bad idea in your mind but you didn't have any better.
Incidentally, I am pretty sure the only two I am aware of that could help are on opposite forces, and while we are attempting to agree on an actual end of our war instead of just a cold one, they would complain about the plans about Sacred Gears for personal reasons."

Naruto sighed. "If I had someone from my land go to Heaven to help me do the changes, huw much trouble would that be?"

"You would need to be either yourself or one of your clones with him constantly to keep him there," Michael said. "But I do not believe he'd be affected by any changes, since he is not from your domain."

"Meaning that even if he had a relapse it would do him no good," Naruto nodded satisfied. "And I was already planning on keeping a clone with him, both to watch and learn from him so I can do this myself in the future."

Michael nodded. "I believe this is all we need to do for now,Naruto-sama."

Naruto nodded.

Metatron turned of the camera.

Michael looked at Gabriel.

Naruto looked at Michael. Looked at Gabriel. Looked at Michael. Looked at Gabriel.

And rolled his eyes.

"You know, I grew up an orphan, so I never got many people to give me hugs… But you are a grown-up man, Michael."

"I am sorry, Naruto-sam—"

"If you want one, just ask first."

Michael looked at Naruto… and threw himself on the side Gabriel was not.

'This is weird…' Naruto thought… 'but not really bad… is this how being a father really feels?'

He looked around, and sighed. "Anyone els—"

The question wasn't even finished when he was dogpiled by everyone but the shinobi, Kaguya, who just ate her popcorn and laughed, her plushy, Sona, her Queen, and Issei, who just looked in jealously.

"Hey, who pinched my butt?"

"Ara ara!"

"Hey Akeno, not fair!"

"Ouch! That was not an invitation to do the same, Gremory!"

"Not sorry!"

IIIII

So yes, Orochimaru is coming next chapter. And unlike Team 10, his visit had been planned.

To be fair, save for Orochimaru and his guards/babysitters no more Naruto characters are really planned until the Rating Games tournament where all the factions join, but just like Team 10 things may happen that change my mind…

Fun fact, I am a fan of NaruIno. As well as NaruTayuya and NaruAyame. No, this won't be a NaruIno fic, I already established she is dating Sai right now.

So, yeah… even if the devils now in the know say nothing about Diadora, Naruto's decision to fix the bug with Sacred Gears staying when the owner is turned into a Devil will make him pretty unpopular with them… But at the same time they have no real argument against it.

And yes. As I told before, I'm expecting complaints for this, but I couldn't think of any better person to help fix the Heavenly System than, of all people, Orochimaru… Of course, he will be watched, by Anko and Tenzo and with a Naruto clone with him all the time to learn as much as he can to be able to do it himself and to pay attention so he doesn't mess anything up, but still… Orochimaru.
The only other people I could think of are Azazel and Ajuka, and neither met Naruto until now and even if they did Naruto wouldn't know much about them besides them being enemies right now. Azazel betrayed God once already and Ajuka… Naruto killed his… brother? Cousin? …relative.

Ah yes, Gabriel making Excalibur Destruction and Ruler may seem like a joke, but she is the Archangel of Messengers, Military (in Islam) and Destruction (Judaism and Islam). The others were made up on the spot… I'm hoping they make some sense. Uriel's use illusions, for invisibility or outright psychological attack… I mentioned mirages, but my actual idea came from faery fire, but… well, can't have an angel saying outright he used fairies as inspiration since fairies exist. Raphael, the reasons were as explained. Michael kept the remaining one, really.

Speaking of the Excaliburs… I always thought of making it be Galatine, but originally thought was for it to be the original one… then there was the Arthur Prototype event in Fate Grand Order and I saw his Noble Phantasm… just had to make a second Excalibur but with Archangel-named seals instead – and thus the second duo was born.
I'm not sure it was the best idea, but you know how ideas are when they get stuck in your head…
Also, from what I gathered in Wikipedia using the the twelve archangels are Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Sealtiel, Jegudiel, Jerahmeel, Barachiel (yeah, I know… canonically Fallen in DxD by this point, but… In fact, his existence in DxD canon is why I'm using the Eastern Orthodox ones, Coptic Orthodox are different but DxD only says "Orthodox" when I searched), Camael, Jophiel, Zadkiel, Abaddon. What archangel is what seal, I have time to choose still.

Now for something completely different…

A question for the readers about the future of the story.

I'm not sure if it is anime-only or if it was in the light novels, but there is a scene where the people in Issei's class have to make something with clay that happens soon after the fight with Kokabiel, but before the Peace Conference.

I think I explained it, but in case I didn't, Naruto's divine powers are not controlled. Sometimes he is the same human Naruto (who can fight a goddess) as ever, others he has a burst of divine energy out of his control, like when Pearl Jam was recreated as a Sacred Gear, or Kaguya freed. Koneko says so in this chapter too.

So… I was thinking of Naruto making a young angel that looks a bit like his mom, since he looks a bit like his dad… and accidentally giving life to her. Since, you know, God can do that.

Now, you guys have a few options.

One of them is telling me it isn't a good idea, and I'll have to think of something else for him to make. I have some ideas, but none are good enough in my head.

Another is to make her an OC in body and soul.

The other option is to make her have the soul of a Naruto character. I was thinking someone like Haku, Neji, Itachi and Mito Uzumaki (and yes, three of the four were originally male). You can suggest others, but it can't be Minato or Kushina themselves, since he would be imagining another child for them when making her, someone who would Fall right away (like Jiraiya to Lust), or someone who would be happier staying dead (Obito is with Rin, as are the Ame Three with each other). Also no Nawaki, because he is said to be like young Naruto by Tsunade and we already have a Naruto.
Also keep in mind I did not decide if I'll make movies and games count before suggesting someone from them.

That's the three options, really. Nothing, OC, or reincarnation as a little girl.