Summary ~ Naruto that for some reason, is in Otogibana city along with his previous burden along the ride. So far he still did not figure just how he got sent here since his memories is still a bit blurry. The previous Rokudaime Hokage try to settle in this city without causing too much trouble, that for some reason keeps on finding him and always make a turn for the worst.

Disclaimer ~ I don't own anything from either Naruto / Ookami-san / DMC / Spice and Wolf in this story aside from the plot.

So without further ado, on with the show…

'Internal thoughts'

"Speech"

"Demonic speech"

Jutsu/technique

AN : This is a real chapter and not an AN!

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He didn't say anything as he lays her down. Cupping her face one last time before he abruptly stand and face the man in red.

KILL MAIM DESTROY OBLITERATE DEMOSLISH MUTILATE HARM DISFIGURE DIMEMBER

"…I'll fucking kill you. It's a promise of lifetime."

His voice distorted as he is, contains the cold fury of a thousand avenging demons ready to let loose on her killer.

"…and I'll make sure I'll enjoy every fucking second of it…"

The figure just smirk as he keeps on pacing around the room, occasionally kicking up the papers on the floor. Naruto follows his movement with only his eyes not moving his head to turn. As the figure finally stops, he wipes of the blood on his face, and then smirks towards Naruto before jumping out from the already broken window of the office.

"Do you think you can escape me, filth?"

Naruto dashes towards the window before stop on the frame, or what used to be a frame of a window, crouching with both his feet and right hand on the ledge, his left arm hanging in front of him as a counter weight against his tails. Looking down, he saw the figure gives a two finger salute as he falls backwards towards the ground before somersaulting and landed on a car roof, breaking all the windows of the car and setting the alarm off. Not wasting any more time, Naruto jumps off as well but run down the wall to gain more speed.

"Kie ru. (Die)"

He jumps off the wall and dive towards the figure cocking his right hand back as the left hand opens in front of him. Naruto's tails are flailing behind him as the wind violently howls against his speed of decent, making the figure to actually be stunned for a second.

That's all that Naruto needs.

"Shougekiteki! (Shocking!)"

Naruto drive his right hand down with stupendous force, enough to create the car that happens to be under the figure fold before breaking into two parts, before the Naruto fist reaches the ground and create a red shockwave of youki that blow them away from ground zero. Unfortunately for Naruto, he missed the target.

Dodging a blown half of a car casually by tilting his head to the side, an amused grin appears as he watches the blown car tumbles along the street a couple of time before finally stopping. In the process, he turns his head away from the enrage Naruto.

A bad mistake.

At least to normal people.

Naruto not willing to let the figure to flee again, dashes forward to catches his enemy off guard. As he rapidly closing the gap between them, he readies his right arm again to the back for a forward thrust.

"Icchokusen! (Straight!)"

Naruto let the straight punch fly along with his sudden burst of speed to make the air surrounding his right arm distorted to form a red streak as the punch moves forward. The figure sways to Naruto's right side, completely dodging the super charged punch easily. Finally, tired of playing around, the figure removes both of his guns from his holster and aims them towards Naruto with both barrels overlapping each other's sides. As Naruto's earlier punch stops, a wall of displaced air that the punch made pushes both Naruto's and the figure's cloak, making them sway in the wind. Both stay still for a while before Naruto stand up straight from his punching position and look to his side just enough that he can see the figure at his back.

"So you finally are going to give up running huh? How convenient. I guess even cowards know when to stop."

The figure just shrugged nonchalantly, getting on Naruto's nerves even more.

The figure finally makes his first move in the fight by firing rapid fire of leads from the twin pistols. Naruto dodges the flurry of bullets by running zig-zagging as he approaches the figure yet again. He waits for the figure to finish the current magazine inside his guns before making any move. From what he had observed in this world, this guns need bullet to fire. Those bullets were held by a cartridge called magazine that contained preloaded bullets that will be inserted to refill the empty guns. The time for the figure to reload will be his cue to make his move.

The barrage finally stops, and Naruto instantly changes direction of his dash towards the figure in a straight line, only to be amazed as he saw the figure flair up his cloak, throwing up two of the mag into the air. Then he drop his empty mag while spinning making the inertia of weight of the mag to stall in the air as he turns and slipping the blank pistols right into the place where the filled magazines are in the air in one smooth motion. Now fully loaded, he point out both of his guns towards Naruto as he approaches from his side, one with a straight arm out another under his chin. The figure noticed the astonished face of Naruto, smirks yet again.

Damn, he is pissing him off!

But the distance between the two can be nullified with two more steps from Naruto, which Naruto take full advantage to get him inside the striking area. As Naruto closes in, the bullet that fly towards him are simply swatted away with him blocking using the well reinforced Gilgamesh. Crossing both of his arms in front of his face, the bullet that headed towards Naruto simply diverges away from him from hitting the gauntlets. Now that the distance is nil, Naruto stand face to face with the still smirking figure.

"Koutou Suru Ryu! (Rising dragon!)"

The opportunity of getting a strike in is not wasted by Naruto as he unleash an uppercut that finally connected with the figure's chin, lifting him along with Naruto into the air. Not nearly done to pound in the face of the figure in, Naruto let loose barrage of his own fists and kicks in the air, actually looking like he is defying gravity for five second before finally kicking the figure into a wall in a nearby building, burying him in the dented wall. Then, almost instinctively, Naruto kick the air hard, creating a demonic magic circle that act like a youki construct platform, propelling Naruto towards the figure for the finishing blow.

Only to meet with the tip of a broadsword.

The clash between the metal gauntlet against metal broadsword creates yet another shockwaves, one that far surpassed the other as the sonic boom blows away all the glasses in the vicinity to smithereens. The struggle to overpower the other lasted a mere second before Naruto is blasted away to the opposite wall on the other side of the street. Shaking his head a couple of time to clear of the cobwebs, he slowly stands up to see that the figure is hefting his now in his hand broadsword onto his shoulder. Naruto is getting even more frustrated that his assault earlier didn't look like it did much damage to the figure.

"RRRAAAAAAHHHHHHHH! WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE!?"

Rage once more consumed his mind as he rushes out of the crumbling hole of a wall towards the figure ahead. The figure not wanting to be outdone, rushes forward as well fully intending to use the sword of his to good use.

To slay demons.

Both meet on the street once again, only this time both are exchanging blows for blows with each other. Hook meets air. Slash missing by a hair's width. Both combatants fight to their hearts content with one out of rage, the other just for the sake of fighting. Clangs after clangs after clangs of metal meets metal echoes the street as sparks fly with the intensities of the struggle of power and skills. Locking for the first time since the bout, both of them stare into the other's eyes. One filled with rage of unholy fury, the other with uncontained mirth. Naruto is getting floppy with all the maddening wrath of avenging Horo, making unnecessary movements is now breathing heavily against the vertical pressure of the broadsword against his crossed arms in front of him. Damn him. Damn this smirking figure. Damn his ungodly skill and strength. Damn his unparalleled agility.

Damn damn damn damn…

And this is when an advice that he had taught his student come into mind.

*flash back*

Naruto is sparring against the frustrated Saburo who is still trying to land a hit against the untouchable wind that Naruto is. For every strike Saburo launch, Naruto would just weave through it like a leaf in the air, dodging the attacks flawlessly.

"Dammit! Stay still!"

"Yare yare, now why would I do that? Isn't the whole purpose is for you trying to hit me. If I get hit then that will hurt you know."

"Ahhhh! Kuso da!"

Saburo yells out in frustration as he punched the ground hard. His breathing is heavy and sweat covered his body making his shirt to stick onto his skin, showing to now developed muscles that covered his body from the training he had done. Naruto take that as a cue to stop the spar for a while in order for Saburo to catch some breath. In all honesty, he is very proud of how far the once weak and scaredy cat that Saburo was to the now almost chuunin material in pure taijutsu he is getting to be. Heck, he almost feel a pang of jealousy rise from within him to see Saburo progress so far.

"Saburo. The key of a fight is to stay completely calm. You need to be able to fight with a cool head."

"tch… easy for you to say when it is me that is being his ass handed…"

"Hmm, what's that? Did you say "please train me on the pole on top of the lake again?" Oh well since you ask nicely…"

"NYYAAAAAAA! NUUUUUUUUU!"

*flashback end*

Realization hit Naruto hard as both his eyes widen before he jump backward to disengage. Doing a quick breathing exercise to calm his nerves down, he stand straight as he re-assess his current opponent that seem to be a level beyond anything he had fight before with the founder of the Uchiha being a close second. The figure hefted his broadsword onto his shoulder again, breathing slightly heavy, seeing as his sword moves up and down slightly.

Good. At least he is not the only one to be taxed out of the fight.

"Time to take this fight up a notch."

Naruto runs his hand on his hair to the back, flickering perspiration out of his hair before channelling youki in his entire body to move in a fixed pattern that he know by heart now after so many years of practicing. The youki starts to cover his arms, then his legs and start to spin picking up the winds to form an outline on the limbs. Outline of spiralling mass of youki and wind.

"Fuuton: Jinsoku na Kaze Soukou no jutsu. (Wind Release: Swift Wind Armor technique)"

The wind armor now fully enveloped Naruto's limb with it spiralling away from the fists and feets, making a funnel of swirling red wind. The figure shielded his eyes with an arm as the winds from the jutsu end up picking up dusts that swept the area. Giving a low whistle, he talks for the first time in the night.

"Hmm, you got a trick up your sleeves."

"I thought the cat got your tongue. Who are you? No, what are you?"

"Name's Dante. Pleasure to meet you… erm, what's your name?"

"Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki."

"Right. Nice to meet cha' Naruto."

"ENOUGH! I don't intend to leave this leave this place unless you're dead. Now en garde! Chiso Kiba no Mai! (Dance of the bloody fang)"

"Whatever you say…kid. Sword Master!"

"Let's Rock!/ Let's Rock!"

Somewhere else, Nelo is standing in front of a large opaque black wall that somehow manages to rises from the underground, evidently with all the earth displace here and there along with uprooted trees. In its hand is a red glowing orb that seems to pulse against the structure in front of it. As every time the orb pulse, weird greenish veins throb with power on the wall, synchronising with the orb. Nelo walk towards a pedestal that has a perfect space to put the orb in, after one last look towards its hand, Nelo put the orb into the space.

"Ahh… a perfect fit."

No shit Sherlock. That's what I said earlier.

"Silence you bumbling buffoon. Just because you are on the other side, doesn't mean I can't kill you."

No you can't. I'm the almighty in this story, so HAH!

"Don't test my patience mortal. Or I will skin you and feed you to Cerberus."

Oh, you mean that three headed puppy? Cute…

… is what I suppose to say in the script, but I don't like it. Now, are you going to cooperate or receive divine punishment?

"… tch."

Yeah, I thought so.

The dark knight steps backward as the wall pulse one more time before a bright but dark light burst into the dark night with malicious aura of dread and death from a portal near the middle of the structure. Then, one by one, demons from the underworld emerges with reckless abandoned, hungry for a craving that is deep within their accursed blood.

Chaos

"Kukukuku. It seems that the mortal called Shinji do have some use after all."

The dark knight look behind him, right across the wall structure is a massive demonic looking magic circle drawn with red liquid that seems to slowly turn darker and darker, with the metallic smell lingers in the air surrounding the place. In the dead centre the circle is the boss of the Matou Group, Shiji Matou.

"Haha, hahaha, AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Sugoi, sugoi, sugoisugoisugoisugoi da! Yes. Yes! Destroy all that wanted to oppose me! Ahahahahahaaaa~!"

I really don't like that guy. Too bad I can't just kill him now.

"Enjoying yourself, Shinji?"

"Uwaaa… you're so good at this stuff, Nelo!"

"Please spare me your praises mortal. It meant nothing to me."

"Datte sa(but), with all this army of demon, we can really rule this city! No, no that not it. We can rule this entire world, AHAHAHAHAH!"

Shinji throw both of his arms in excited ways with his shit eating grin. His eyes are wide with insanity as he sees demons after demons fly, walk, crawl, teleport and so many other way to move, going past him without giving any notice towards the single human in their path.

"Such a glutton, perfect material to become my puppet. Kukukuku… alas, Shinji. I need you to do some work for me."

"Yare yare, what do you need?"

"It had come to my attention that the gate can't be opened wide enough without a maiden to be sacrificed using Yamato. We need the gate to open even wider to get the high demon to get through. And oddly enough, the demon I sent has yet to return with Yamato. Odd…"

"Is that it? I'll just take some whore from somewhere aro…"

"YOU FOOL! Don't you know anything? I don't need defiled women of a whore. I. NEED. A. MAIDEN. AS. IN. VIRGIN!"

As Nelo grabs Shinji's shirt, he tug him closer and closer towards his face with each of the stress of the words. Nelo darkening eyes leaks the full intention of turning Shinji into a bloody pile of meat if he didn't listen exactly what he is trying to say.

"W-w-well why don't you just say s-s-so? Hmm… ah, I think I know just who will do the job…"

"Then bring her here at once. Don't try my patience mortal."

"GAAAHHHHHH!"

A figure was blown away right into a wall, caving it in and leaving a rather large hole. Naruto shakily tries to stand up as he put on some force against his arm that pushes against the wall. His face are littered with scraps and cuts, one particularly deep and long going down his left cheek all the way to the jaw. His metal mask long gone and his hair are down, covering his eyes as he huffs taking in the much needed air.

"Haahh… haahh… haaaah… grkk…"

He winces as he pushes himself up from the ground, leaning against the wall for support.

"Haahhh… Hmm?"

"Haahhh… haahhh… You had enough yet kid?"

Dante walks in through the hole that Naruto went through earlier. He is in no better shape as Naruto is in, however his breathing is much, MUCH more even then Naruto currently is, his clothes are a bit roughed up, a bit of tear here and there but nothing too much.

"…I guess this just doesn't really cut it."

Naruto walks slowly towards a corner of the room, suppressing the urge to flinch every time he aggravates a wound. He reaches the corner before kneeling there for a few moments.

"Horo…orega anatano chikara kashi tekurei. (lend me your strength)"

At the corner is Horo, who is still clutching Yamato against her chest. During the fight, they had gone closer to the original building they have met. As in Lady Luck would have it, Naruto was blown back into the office. Naruto cupped her face again with his now slightly bloody right hand before he gently pries Yamato off her. Standing up with his back against Dante, he unsheathed Yamato slightly with his thumb before disappearing from Dante's sight.

"What the-"

Naruto appears behind him facing away from him with Yamato almost back in the scabbard. As the final inch of the blade finally is in the scabbard, a burst of blood in a straight line from the left shoulder to the right ribs appears on Dante.

"-fuck…"

As he finishes the word, Dante falls to his knees before falling down to the ground against his face.

"Kyuusoku Nakiri. (Rapid slash)"

Sighing in relief, Naruto purge all the excess youki from his system, losing his demonic appendage in the process. Holding the O-katana so that the scabbard is pointing upward away from his back, Naruto turn around so that he can see Dante again.

"It wasn't you is it?"

"Took you long enough. You cool down yet kid?"

"Enough to smack your head."

*smack*

"Ooowww. Hey, what is that for?"

Dante for once is being flabbergasted for being hit for no apparent reason by Naruto. Truth is, that really feel good, the blond mutter silently enough so that Dante could not hear it.

"Why the hell did you did what you did you bakamono? (stupid man/person)"

"Why not… *smack* Owwww…"

Naruto sigh again for the man stupidity. Knowing full well now the killer of Horo is not this man… wait, demon?

"So what gives it away? What makes you think I didn't do it?"

Naruto stares the still laying down Dante. Truthfully, even he doesn't know exactly why he thinks of it that way.

"…I guess your blade works did the talking for you. Every swing, every block, every parry, you carried your pride along with it. This is not something a cold blooded killer will be able to do."

"Big words from someone barely six teen. You're not from here are you?"

Silence.

"Ken ki. The honour of a swordsman. To actually see one in this time of date, must be my lucky day."

"I've been meaning to ask you this before. What are you really? Your youki is dense and chaotic yet it feels like it is natural. You're not human and yet, you're not exactly demon as well."

Dante sit up from the floor before dusting his cloak a couple of time with both his hand, kicking up some cloud of dust. He then put back his broadsword to his back, locking it there magically without anything to hold it down.

Sweet trick.

"Yeah well that's becoz I'm not one. I'm a half breed. Dad met with mom when he come here and… well aside from getting it on like rabbits, dad seal off the demon gate that connect between the two world. So we only get half of his blood flowing in us, the other from or human mom."

"Wait… we?"

"Yeah! Me and my twin bro. his name is Virgil though I have no idea where he had gone off too. By the way, why did you have his precious sword?"

Naruto look towards the O-katana that he is holding. This actually belongs to Dante's brother? Then why did Horo have it?

"Your guess is as good as mine. Wasn't mine to begin with. It's Horo's."

Naruto said it as he walks back towards Horo. Willing Yamato to disappear, the O-katana breaks into millions of glittering light before vanish from sight. Suddenly, with the fight rush he had experience warn off, the full blow of Horo's death struck him again.

"Horo…"

Hugging the prone figure close to him, silent tears falls mixing with the blood that was shed earlier from the battle against Dante. Speaking of Dante, he just let Naruto mourn quietly without any witty remarks from him. Carefree as he is, even he knows when to quit. Not to mention he already met the occasion before. Even a badass like him can cry, showing the world that he is as human as any other in the world because in the end…

…devils don't cry.

"Dante, you are here before me. What happened?"

Naruto asks Dante with a subdued voice, the rattling of his voice from the stubbornness of showing any trace of crying from before. Even if the effort does not really had that much of effect, Dante ignore it anyway.

"Abyss. Demon that is summoned with blood as a medium. One is in the office trying to take Yamato away from the chick."

Well that's explains the blood on his face when the two met for the first time.

"I get rid of it when you come in. You know the rest."

"So you don't know who did this?"

"Nop, not a clue."

"Soka (I see)…"

Silence falls. Naruto's hair shadowed his eyes as he refuse to let go of Horo's body. Dante, not one to enjoy any sort of silence struck some conversation in.

"You ask me earlier what I am right?"

"Yeah, you keep on stalling."

"Not really. I thought since you're a demon you would know who I am from the story I tell."

Naruto just shakes his head negative.

"Not really since I use to be a human. That last transformation is as close as I can get to full demon."

"Heh, no wonder then. Right, to put it simple, I'm a devil."

A devil? Naruto eyebrows rises slightly as he stare at Dante for some more details.

"Devil? What's the difference with demon?"

"Hmm… I'm not really good at explaining complicated stuff. Easiest way to explain it is of all the weakest of the weakest of devils is the strongest of the strongest of demons."

Naruto sweat drop as he heard the rather simple way to put the differences between devil and demon. Which is really fortunate since Naruto is a bit of dumbass as well.(Oyy! Who are you calling a dumbass!)

"Look kid, I come here for the sword your chick had. It once belongs to my twin brother when pops decide to let his kid have his old sword. Gotta let it run in the family."

Naruto look at Dante who crosses his arms and lean towards a wall with his shoulder. So, that's why he is here in the first place. But, can he just give Yamato to Dante? Sure this sword is his brother's to begin with, yet…

"No. Not yet. I need this."

…yet, this is pretty much the only momento he had left to remind him of Horo. Gilgamesh is almost destroyed when his Jinsoku na Kaze Soukou react violently against the broken Gilgamesh. Horo had warned him in the past to not overload it. After the transformation, that is the absolute breaking point. Gilgamesh main function of suppressing Naruto growing demonic bloodlust was null and void when the transformation takes place. That, and overloading it with even more power from Jinsoku na Kaze Soukou causing it to break down from the stress. What was the term again? Something about broken phan.. phan…

Broken Phantasmoon?

Somehow that doesn't sound right. Anyway…

As Naruto held Horo in his arm, Dante walks towards them slowly. His face is all business and absolutely out of character to anyone that knows him personally. Naruto does not care. He doesn't care if he has to fight against Dante again for the rights of claiming the O-katana. He'll fight with tooth and nail if he has to. Dante stop right in front of Naruto.

"Heh, then keep it."

AN ~ Yeah this is me… again.

Finally after some time the poll is finally closed. So you guys can go look at the result of it in my profile. This is something that I work on while the poll is up so this is something that will happen one way or another. Decide to post this to make amends to my dear reader for no update for 2 week.

Well I hope you will be satisfied for now. I will be working the latest chapter with the way my dear reader had voted;

Horo live and the pairing will stay between Horo and Naruto.

Though I won't be able to work on the latest chapter this week since I got some urgent work to do, but it should be up in 2~3 week. So look forward for it.

Shawn-san out.