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"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Spellcasting"
"Monster or Demon Speaking"
'Monster or Demon thinking'
"Monster or Demon Spellcasting"
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Xxxx4yearsagoxxxX
Naruto was running along the corridors of the dungeon. Behind him was a group of bugbears frothing at the mouth during their chase. Naruto for his part was just grinning as he passed a thin nearly invisible wire that he slid under and simultaneously spun around skidding on the ground. Now the bugbears ran across the wire snapping it and from the shadows above dozens of crossbow bolts shot out piercing the bug bears around the necks and heads. Most died instantly while others fell to the ground in heaps still trying to claw their way towards Naruto as he shook his hand in a so-so motion.
"Good but I still think that fighting them head to head is more fun." He said as from a shadow in the wall Chloe emerged. She was currently dressed in a skin-tight black leotard that had long sleeves. Along her arms were gray bandaged wraps holding leather arm guards in place on her arms. Her legs were left uncovered except for knee length black leather boots with dark blue detailing. Her chest was covered in a half metal half leather breast plate. Around her head she wore a hood that doubled as a waist length midnight blue scarf.
"Oh, c'mon you have to admit that using traps and luring clueless victims to their demise is very thrilling!" she said overly excited about the fact. Naruto flared his arm dramatically gesturing towards the cat girl.
"Chloe, ladies and gentlemen. The assassin that enjoys her ways way too much!" Chloe giggled at his antics as she flared with on over dramatic bow.
"of course!" the pair actually began to laugh lightly as Naruto shook his head.
"You know we should do this more often, it must get boring at the Hostess, having to work all the time." Naruto said. He loved that pub, mainly because of how much he loved Mama Mia's secret recipe ramen. However, he knew how dull working and doing the same thing over and over could be. That's why he loved using and learning magic. He could find different spells and different ways to fight. He really couldn't imagine doing anything else other than adventuring with the people he loves.
"It can be a bit draining sure. Though it's a thousand times better than the deal I had before." She said with a shrug. She remembered how being an assassin had been nothing but hardship after hardship. Then her clients began to get a little too greedy and requested her to take down targets that were far to difficult. There was little to no doubt in her mind that hanging up her daggers was the best decision of her life. Though taking them down every now and again wasn't too bad either.
She remembered when she first met Naruto it was one of her last contracts before Ryuu's. Apparently, Naruto took down a bandit group that was robbing and attacking citizens and low-level adventurers. The boss of said group wanted a bit of revenge and so they hired her to take Naruto out.
XxxxflashbackxxxX
Currently Chloe was traveling over roof tops her newest contract on her mind. 'Blonde hair, Renard, wears a black and orange coat. Should be easy to spot. Name is Naruto something. Frequents the Hostess of fertility but I would probably have better chance waiting for him at the dungeon of the guild. Although it seems odd that he was just a level four. From what that slob told me he sounds much more dangerous.'
It was the one thing that bugged her. The group that was taken out was rather large, so it was hard to believe that he single handedly took them all out. Though she was getting paid and not to think but to kill. Reaching the Guild, she quickly made her way to the roof avoiding being spotted. The sun was already dipping low in the sky so she knew that it wasn't going to be little while before her target emerged.
Bringing around her satchel she placed it in front of her before beginning to prep her various weapons and poisons. With her target being a level 4 she knew that he probably had a poison resistance skill. So, to counter act that she used a paralysis poison that acts almost instantly. It wouldn't be lasting but it would give her openings to exploit.
Carefully placing her twin daggers into their sheaths coated in light green transparent poison shinning in the orange light of the falling sun. Pocketing a couple of smaller knifes she waited and began to notice a slow trickle of adventurers began to come out of the dungeon which eventually became large groups leaving the entrance.
Keeping her head down she peered over the edge of the side and scanned the different adventurers. It took a little while and Chloe finally spotted her quarry. Blonde fox tail though his head was covered with his coats hood. The coat though matched the description she was given as well as the book that was hanging from his hip. He came out with two others one dressed in a black cloak and another with bright pink hair. Odd color.
Keeping her eyes on her target he appeared to share some words with his companions. Before they entered the guild and Chloe backed away tightening the satchel and straps for her sheaths. Peaking over the guild roof rim and saw that the two companions walking away from the guild into the streets. She became worried when she failed to spot her target with them. Looking around she froze and nearly jumped with fright when she saw him staring at her from the fountain the hood still shadowing his face.
They stayed like that for a moment before Naruto turned and began walking towards the city. Quickly doing a last second fastening of her equipment she set off sticking to the roof tops so as to not be spotted as easily. Quickly making her way towards the side of the square Naruto disappeared to she spotted him turning a corner into a sprint and she cursed under her breath and gave chase.
However, Chloe realized just how outmatched she was in terms of speed when compared to Naruto. Even sprinting and taking shortcuts along the roofs she would only catch glimpses of him as he made his way around corners. Cursing again she jumped down to the ground so as to better focus on speed rather than balance. Charging forward she pushed everything she had into her run trying to catch up with her target.
Eventually after what seemed like an endless chase of narrow alleys and sharp turns, Chloe found herself skidding to a halt as the alley she followed Naruto into. The alley was dark as the sun had all but disappeared below the sky, it was also a dead end and her target was no where in sight.
"where the hell did he go?" she asked herself as she suddenly felt an immense force connect with her back making her fly forward and smack into the wall of the dead end.
"You know I used to have to hide and avoid people in my child hood." Chloe heard the voice but the impact had rendered her unable to speak with a lack of air to allow for vocalization.
"I was good too but training my ability to hide and making it effective forced me to also train my ability to perceive. So, no matter how good you are I'm going to know your there." He said taking a seat in front of Chloe waiting for her to get her breath back.
"Why… why didn't… you kill me?" she asked trying to regain her breath.
"Why would I?" he asked and after a few seconds Chloe managed to give him an incredulous look.
"You do know why I'm here… don't you?" she asked. Naruto for his part closed his eyes and began to think.
"Well judging from how your dressed, the fact you were keeping out of the sight of general public, poisoned blades." At that last part her eyes widened. How could he have known about that. She poisoned the blades on the roof while he was in the dungeon.
"I can smell the poison, its strong." He said his nose scrunching in distaste. Chloe's eyes widened before she slumped.
"Of course, it does have quite the bitter smell." She agreed slumping against the wall. Whoever Naruto was it was clear that he out matched her. She knew this as soon as he struck her. For a moment before the impact an image flashed in her mind. It was a gargantuan fox like beast. Just seeing it was enough causing every instinct she had to scream at her to run. There was little doubt, Naruto was possibly the most dangerous person she had met.
"So, I don't remember meeting you before, so I am confused why you would want to kill me." He stated as Chloe nodded.
"your right to be confused, personally I have no vendetta against you. I was hired. I'm an assassin." She said and Naruto sighed.
"You wouldn't happen to have been hired by a rather fat asshole with a nasty scraggly neck beard and droopy eyes?" He sighed again when Chloe nodded.
"Yeah he was quite revolting." She admitted and Naruto laughed.
"Right well how much did he pay you, or promise you?"
"sixty thousand Valis." When she said that Naruto seemed to deflate.
"Sixty thousand?" he asked and she nodded and he growled.
"The hell is up with that! I am worth at least Sixty Million easy!" he raged though in Chloe's eyes it was like watching a childlike temper tantrum. "Stupid slob. Well, you can't kill me. That's not to say your not skilled you probably are but the fact is that I'm just stronger than you." Chloe nodded conceding that fact.
"Its actually surprising since were both level fours. You must be on the brink of leveling up." She said as Naruto rose but cocked his head to the side.
"I'm not level four." That caused Chloe to freeze as she looked up and pause in her ascent to her feet.
"What level are you?" she asked and even though his hood shadowed his face she could still see the grin on his face as he chuckled.
"That's a secret." Chloe was expecting something like that.
"But any way how about we take out these other wannabe killers of mine?" He asked as Chloe stood but was confused at his statement.
"Who?" just then six figures dropped from the roof tops around them surrounding them. Each one of them were dressed in dark brown armor with tattered black cloth covering their heads and faces. Each one of them were equipped with twin set of daggers. Chloe's eyes darted from person to person and she noticed a mark on their armor.
A spider impaled on a dagger on its web. The same symbol that the Slob that hired her had tattooed to his arm.
"Looks like the little kitty couldn't finish the job. Well sorry cat but we'll be taking over now and also your contract is terminated." On of the cloaked men claimed before dashing forward looking to slice Chloe's spine before she could react. That plan fell short when his head was grabbed by Naruto and thrust into the ground with enough force to crack and crater the cobble stone.
"Now now, don't you know its rude to attack someone before their ready." He said lifting the man and spinning around and tossing him into a building wall effectively collapsing it. Chloe shook off her surprise as she drew her dagger the poison gleaming in the star light. Quickly parrying on of the assassins and kicking them away she flipped back away from another as they slashed at her. Sweeping the legs out from another she quickly drew her blade across his throat deep enough to draw blood and for the poison to do its work as the assassin stilled like a statue.
Another assassin came at her from behind as she jumped up flipping so that her head was facing the ground as the assassin passed under her. Once she hit the ground she shot forward just as the assassin spun around and she stabbed him in the leg and he went still just like his companion. Before she could rest three more dropped down from the roof and went at her and she didn't have time to counter.
"FoxFire!" She heard Naruto call out as three streams of blue light shot pass her and impacted the assassins resulting in medium sized explosions of blue flames sending the three to the ground charred and smoking. Turning she saw Naruto one hand outstretched with flickers of blue flames on his fingers and an assassin clutched in his other. Around him were the four other assassins that jumped them initially. Quickly smashing the assassin he was holding through a wall he motioned for her to follow as he ran out of the alley.
"Who are these guys?" she asked as she caught up to him.
"The remnants of Widow's gang. I knew they were going to come after me sooner or later, so I guess they sent you hoping you were going to tire me out and make the job easier." He quickly explained as the two turned and entered a large square opening in the buildings. Open enough to make the fighting easier but remote enough so they weren't going to be seen.
"I hate being lied to." Chloe snarled twirling her daggers in her hands bracing for the fight. Her tail twitched with anticipation and she ripped off her hood and immediately her ears began to twitch as well trying to pick up the slightest sounds and pinpoint the assassins. Turning she saw that Naruto had done the same thing and she couldn't help but blush. He had bright golden hair and sun kissed tanned skin and rather adorable whisker marks on his face. His sapphire eyes immediately gained him a place in her fantasy boy harem.
"Thirty and from the sound of it their all lightly equipped just like the ones in the alley." Naruto said snapping Chloe out of her fascinations. She looked around but couldn't spot the assassins he was talking about.
"Where are they?" she asked and Naruto smirked as he raised his hands.
"Element of Kitsune! Solaris!" He shouted and from his hand a small golden glyph appeared and from it a fox made of glowing golden energy formed leaving trails of golden energy as it bounded in the air illuminating all the shadows and revealing the assassins hiding in them.
"There they are." He said his hands igniting with the blue fire once again.
"You take the ones on the right I take the ones on the left?" Chloe asked a sense of excitement she hadn't felt in a while bubbling up inside of her.
"Sure, and after this why don't we pay widow a little visit?"
"Oh, you read my mind."
XxxxFlashbackEndxxxX
Chloe found herself smiling at the memory it was one of the only contracts she liked to remember with fondness. Although annoyingly enough every time she tried to have… private time… she could only imagine copies of Naruto's in a harem and she often wondered if perhaps there was a spell that could clone him.
"Heh heh heh." She lowly giggled to herself at the thought with a slight trail of drool going down her chin.
'Huh? What's up with her?' Naruto wondered as he looked back at Chloe's odd behavior.
'Obviously she's in heat! You should take the little kitten to a nice secluded area of the dungeon and help her out a little!' Naruto nearly tripped at his tenant's sudden interruption to his thoughts.
'Has anyone told you that your nothing but a filthy perv!' Naruto mentally shouted and all he heard was deep laughter.
'Many, many times. Though they never seemed to complain all that much about it after I got to work.' Naruto shook his head, why did he even ask. His tenant obviously sensed his discomfort and forced images of Ino, Chloe, and Ryuu to his mind, all naked and steamy. Naruto's face exploded in a red blush as he almost tripped over his own feet and blocked the fox's laughter and his images.
"Naruto? You cool?" Chloe asked as she leaned forward to view Naruto's face under his hood. Though with the way she cocked her head and eye brow, her emerald eyes gleaming with curiosity almost made him go weak kneed. Plus the remnants of the Fox's mental images didn't help.
"N-no its nothing." He said hiding his face under his hood as Chloe shrugged.
"Right. Well I'm hungry. Wanna head back up and get something to eat?" Chloe suggested and Naruto nodded.
'You could always eat her.'
'Shut up!'
XxxxPresentdayxxxX
It was currently about Mid-day when the trio reached Orario and disembarked from the wagon and payed the man who took them. Naruto, Ino and Ryuzetsu than began to make their way through the bustling streets. Ryuzetsu had all but assaulted the City vendors and many stores as they walked along. It was like unleashing a sugar junkie into a candy store as she examined every nook and cranny of the streets and everything that was being sold.
"Hello there young lady! Wish to try some freshly grilled sail back fish? Free samples!" A woman vendor called out as Ryuzetsu bolted to her and tried some of their fish. Her eyes lit up as she swooned over the flavors.
"Oh Gods! I've never tasted anything so good!" she cheered as she darted from Vendor to Vendor trying each one of the free samples.
"Wow, you sure this is the same Dark elf that kept kicking me off the Wagon?" Kando said who was resting on Ino's shoulder seemingly exhausted. Ryuzetsu still annoyed with the Carbuncle had taken to throwing him off the wagon during the trip as she was still very annoyed with the rodent.
"pretty sure she is." Ino said as she and Naruto continued on through the city slowly making their way towards the center where the guild was located. After a bit of walking and having to peel away Ryuzetsu from some vendors.
"Your really excited about all of this aren't you?" Naruto asked as Ryuzetsu held a Kabob in her hand filled with meat and veggies.
"Are you kidding? Back in my old village they were so backwards that they didn't put any thought into quality of the food we ate or even if it tasted all that good. Plus, this place makes my village look so tiny its absolutely insane!" she said eagerly eating away at the kabob she had.
"right, c'mon the guild is over here." Ino said leading the group to the building next to the tower of Babel. Ryuzetsu was amazed at the sheer size of the tower as she actually fell down while looking up.
"H-how did you guys even build something like this?" she asked as she got up following the two adventurers inside.
"Don't ask us, we don't have clue." Naruto said as they entered the guild. Once again Ryuzetsu found herself amazed just how intricate and beautiful the craftsmanship of the building was when compared to her own villages. The chiefs house could fit into the guild no problem and that was her villages biggest building.
The three went up to the desk and Ryuzetsu saw that they were approaching a brown haired half elf.
"Hey Eina! We're back." Ino announced as the Half elf looked up and smiled.
"Ino, Naruto! Welcome back. So how did your mission go?"
"Failed, unfortunately." Naruto said causing Eina to widen her eyes.
"Well that's quite rare, any reason why?" she asked. The Kurama Familia had a near perfect track record when it came to missions so for one of their members to fail a mission was a rarity. Especially if it was one of their top members.
"The monsters in the area wrecked the ruins by the time we arrived. Nothing but rubble so mission failed." Naruto explained. Eina frowned but nodded.
"Very well, unfortunately since the mission was failed you forfeit the payment." Ino waved her off.
"Don't sweat it. Lets head home." She said pushing off the counter Ryuzetsu following her. Naruto went to follow but was stopped by Eina.
"Um, Naruto a moment please."
"What is it?"
"I have some concerns about one of my charges. An adventurer named Bell, I think you might know him." At this Naruto suddenly straightened his posture becoming slightly more serious.
"Is he okay?" he asked.
"Right now, he is. It's the supporter he hired that worries me. A member of the Soma familia."
"Soma huh?" Naruto said his tone becoming sour. That Familia was nothing but trouble lately. First those Miach Familia members a few days ago and now Bell.
"Where is he now?"
"He headed in a few hours ago with his supporter. I've already asked miss Wallenstein to keep an eye on him but…"
"Don't need to say anything I'm on it." he said turning and running out of the guild. He found Ino and Ryuzetsu standing out of the guild waiting for him.
"Huh? Naruto where are you going!?" Ino shouted as he ran past the pair.
"Head back to the Den without me! Something I have to take care of first." He answered as Ino reached out to him but just shook her head.
"Um? Shouldn't we follow him?"
"Nah, whatever it is he'll be fine. Come lets introduce you to our goddess."
"Goddess?"
"Yeah, don't worry she's nice. Though she's a bit clingy." With that the two girls left the guild as Naruto entered the Dungeon and not wanting to waist anytime Naruto dropped on all fours gaining some odd looks as he ran like a beast.
"Wrath of Inari!" He called out mid leap and in a flush of blue fire he was coated in an fox avatar made of the azure flames. Two crimson eyes appeared on the fox as Naruto released a ear piercing roar startling the people previously staring at him as he became a streak of blue fire. Speeding and scarring adventures as he literally blazed past monsters and people in the caverns of the dungeons.
Every step he took left a scorched paw print and a flurry of blue flakes of flame as he sped on. It wasn't long before he was able to pick up the scent of his student. Skidding to a stop he cancelled his spell and the flames dissipated with a flush as he began to scan the ground.
'You got anything?'
'Some heavy negativity energy. Three headed your way.'
No sooner did the fox make his observation did three adventurers come out from around a corner. He smelled it quickly, blood and not from them. Those items they were carrying they had the scent of a female on them. The three adventurers made to dash pass Naruto but he held his arm out clotheslining one and then driving his fist into the gut of the second sending the second into the third.
"Now where do you think your going?" Naruto asked to the one he clotheslined seeing as he accidently knocked out the other two when they hit the ground. The one left conscious he saw was a Racoon with Brown hair and a brown ringed tail. The man was some mix between fat and muscular like a blacksmith that ate a lot but never got out for cardio.
"Who the hell are you!" the Racoon demanded as he looked at Naruto reaching for a red crystal-like red blade. Acting quickly Naruto shot forward and grabbed the mans wrist grasping it hard enough to where he was forced to drop the blade.
"Now all I want to do is talk surely we can do that?" Naruto asked and received a spit to the face in response.
'Naruto somethings heading towards us big but not really a threat. Though I do suggest you hurry up if you don't want to get caught.'
'you should take over then, just give him a good scare.' Naruto could hear the dark chuckle as he felt his consciousness become hazy and his vison bled into a red haze. The racoon he was interrogation just saw Naruto shake and spasm for a moment and when the Renard looked back up he saw crimson slit pupils staring back at him with black sclera. Then slowly Naruto's skin began to darken.
His left side began to become almost pitch black as tendrils of black energy began to flick out of his skin. From these tendrils crimson flames began to puff into existence as Naruto's left face continued to contort. The teeth on his left side began to morph into sharp deadly fangs and his mouth seemed to turn upwards in a vicious smile on his left side.
From his head a long pointed ear formed out of the blackness and streams of red energy seemed to flake off the blackness as from his lower back eight black and red energy tails joined his now crimson furred tail. The racoon had long lost his courage and bravado and had devolved to a stuttering slobbering mess. Once the Transformation seemed to slow Naruto's left side had completely become covered with the black energy and red bits of flames flicked off his skin from time to time.
"Now, Talk" Naruto's voice had taken on its possessed tone as the Racoon did all he could to control his own bowels in the presence of this demon.
"W-we rob-robed some prum b-back t-t-there." he said pointing a shaking hand back in the direction from which they came. "S-she had s-s-some oh god!" he cried as Naruto grabbed the Racoon by the rim of his shirt and pinned him against the wall.
"Keeep Going." He said in a low growl as he could now sense the monster slowly coming closer.
"She h-had great equipment! I swear that's a-all!"
'He's Lying but that's all we need.' The fox said as the black energy and mutations on Naruto's body began to recede until all that was left was the normal blonde-haired blue-eyed Renard.
"W-what the hell was that!?" the Racoon all but wept.
"None of your damn concern. Now you listen hear if you go anywhere and prey upon the weak or steal or hurt anyone ever again. I will find you and you'll learn that I can be a lot worse got it?" he threatened his eyes flashing red for a moment before he seemed to pass out from the fear and Naruto dropped him.
"I hate the Soma Familia." Naruto muttered as he once again took off in the direction from where the three thugs came from. It didn't take him long and the stench of blood became greater and as he made his final turn he found a shredded corpse of an adventurer. Kneeling down he could tell that the wounds were made from mandible blades, most likely a killerant's.
However, the hair and build of what was left of the corpse didn't match bells. Moving away from the body he continued and picked up the sound of feminine crying as he rounded a corner and came upon and opening in the tunnels. Near the wall he saw his apprentice Bell kneeling down clutching a Pallum girl in his arms.
Around Bell Naruto could see that the floor was littered with dozens of Crystals from monsters. The amount actually impressed Naruto as he was sure Bell had to take the monsters on by himself. With a quick scan the fox reported that no monsters were near them and that it was clear. After hearing that Naruto relaxed as he waited for Bell's little moment to come to an end and the Girls cries became softer and eventually they became none existent as the Prum girl succumbed to her exhaustion and injuries and fell asleep.
"So, I leave for a few days and you get yourself into this kind of trouble?" Of course, Naruto didn't know that for sure but her thought it would be fun to mess with Bell for a little bit. At the sound of his voice Bell whipped around though carefully as to not disturb the girl in his arms.
"N-Naruto!" Bell exclaimed as he saw his, for lack of a better term, master standing there. "Your back."
"Yeah I arrived a few hours ago. Eina sent me in here because she thought you might need a hand." He explained as Bell sighed and slumped his own tiredness catching up to him and Naruto quickly came forward and steadied him.
"Easy their little rookie. Mind telling me how this happened?" Naruto asked taking up the Prum girl in his arms as Bell stood up with him.
"It's a long story." Bell admitted.
"We got a little bit of a walk ahead of us, lets head this way." Naruto said making sure to pick a different route than the corpse, so Bell didn't have to see it.
XxxxEntrancetothedungeonxxxX
"So, you hired this girl as a supporter, so you can have some back up in the Dungeons." Naruto said as the two adventurers exited the Dungeon.
"Yes" Bell answered as Naruto went through the main points of his story.
"Then she robbed you once but you failed to notice and just thought your dropped your new dagger."
"Yes."
"And then she had continuously swindled you out of your full reward but you thought you were going fifty-fifty."
"Yes."
"Then to top it all off, she robbed you a second time after all that and trapped you with a bunch of ogres leaving you for dead."
"Well… she did say that she hoped that I would survive." Naruto shook his head as the two took the road towards Naruto's Familia's base.
"Bell, I'm starting to think that maybe instead of training you in magic I should teach you how to read people." Bell blushed and had the decency to look bashful.
"I'm sorry." The white-haired teen said dejectedly.
"Ah, its fine, I've been tricked a lot during my child hood so don't sweat it but learn from it." Naruto said remembering some painful memories from his past. It didn't take lone for them to arrive in the secret entrance of Naruto's home. Bell took a moment to marvel at the beauty of the tree and then watched as Naruto lifted his leg to press on a hidden panel seeing as he was still carrying Lilli.
Then an opening appeared in the trunk of the tree as Naruto adjusted Lilli and jumped down. Bell hesitated for a moment before following him. He was a bit freaked out by the slide but he came to a rolling stop at the bottom landing face first in the padded floor.
Looking up his eyes widened seeing the area they were in.
"Welcome, this is the home base of the Kurama Familia, we call it the Den." Naruto said as he led Bell down the Hallway of portraits and into the main common room.
"Naruto! I was wondering when you would arrive. Ino took your new friend to the baths to wash up." Kurama said when she sensed Naruto walk in. Marking her place in the book she was reading she looked up and clenched the book she was holding hard enough to scratch it slightly. She saw the scantily dressed girl in Naruto's arms and had jumped to the wrong conclusion.
"What do you think you're doing! Are you into little girls now! I already told you that your ass is mine!" she all but shouted her tails swaying agitatedly behind her as Naruto just gave his eccentric goddess a deadpan stare.
"First off, she's a Pallum. Secondly whatever your thinking, stop it. Her and Bell got into a bit of trouble and I told them they could crash here." He said gently placing Lilli down and Mito jumped up sniffing the girl.
"oh, well in that case." She said taking notice of the white-haired teen with Naruto.
"Yeah what are reading right now?" Naruto asked walking up to his goddess.
"Oh nothing but pure art." She said unashamed as Naruto snatched the book out of his goddess hands.
"Right well I'll be confiscating this art. Your brain is rotten enough." He claimed as his goddess jumped onto him pressing her rather large breast into his back.
"No! you can't take my art!" she wailed as Naruto blushed from the feeling of her bosom pressing onto his back and in her mind Kurama smirked knowing exactly what she was doing to him.
"Then maybe you shouldn't jump to such perverted conclusions." He said shaking his goddess off as she pouted. Usually she seemed regal and flirtatious but take away her art and she became nothing more than a child.
"Now if your could please send word to Bell's Goddess, Hestia that he's here so she can head on over." He requested walking over to Bell who looked pretty awkward as he shifted from foot to foot.
"It's okay Bell take a seat we'll get you some food here soon." He told Bell as he nodded and sat near Lilli.
"By the way Naruto how was your mission? And what is that thing in your hood?" Naruto expected that first question from Kurama but was slightly confused at the second. Reaching up he felt fur then his eyes widened.
"Tachiel?" He asked as the fur shifted and he could feel weight press onto his shoulder as the Red Carbuncle came out of his hood and towards his face. Naruto for his part felt rather silly.
"I'm going to be honest, I kinda forgot you were here. Your just so quite." In response Tachiel's eyes narrowed as she flicked Naruto's face with her tail causing him to flinch slightly.
"Kay I deserved that. Right Kurama, This is Tachiel a Carbuncle." Kurama looked at the small creature with some awe before smiling.
"Well, I didn't think I would see your kind ever again."
"Wait, you know about Carbuncles?" Naruto asked his Goddess who nodded.
"Yes, They are a special type of spirit like Undines, Gnomes and Sylphs. Though they have a special fondness for humans. I haven't seen one in ages." She explained lightly scratching Tachiel underneath her chin eliciting a purr from the carbuncle. Then they both heard an angry meow as they looked down and saw Mito looking down seemingly grumpy at the attention she wasn't getting.
"Oh fine, spoiled girl." Kurama sighed picking the cat up who nuzzled the goddess.
"anyway, your mission?" she asked, and Naruto gained and slight smile but it had a bit of bitterness to it. immediately that feeling of foreboding returned from when Naruto first left on his mission.
"Maybe we should talk somewhere else?" Kurama suggested as she and Naruto went up to his room. Once their Naruto took of his cloak and Kurama sat on the bed. When he placed his coat and other armor on the mannequin in his room he took his seat next to his Goddess.
"So, tell me what you found." She said as Naruto took in a deep breath and released it.
"We found ruins, hidden but they… they were Uzumaki ruins." At this Kurama's eyes widened.
"Are you sure?" Naruto regained that bitter smile and shook his head.
"There's no mistaking it. It's called Archive City, it was meant to serve as an off shore academy from the Uzumaki homeland. It was breath taking, the amount of power I could feel radiating off the very walls was enough to make me feel like I was home. The knowledge, Kurama, There were building sized shelves stretched out as far as the eye could see. Not only that but it turns out that the Carbuncles had been living and thriving there for millennia. It's were we met Tachiel and Kando." He said as the goddess turned her attention to the carbuncle who sat on the floor stoically as Mito began to lick Tachiel's face.
"I see, so why do I get the feeling that theirs a but coming in this?" Kurama asked as Naruto sighed and laid back on the bed looking up as the ceiling.
"but we found something called the naming stone. Apparently when an Uzumaki child receives their name at birth its magically etched onto the stone and glows blue." He explained and stayed silent for a moment, though that moment felt like hours to Kurama as she had taken to laying next to Naruto using her elbow to prop herself up. It was easy enough to see the turmoil in his eyes at the next fact he was going to reveal to her.
She could always tell when something was bothering him and she hated not being able to help him at times.
"Though, the names only glow when their alive. Once and Uzumaki dies their names will remain but the glow will fade out." Another pause.
"my name was the only one glowing. The rest were dark and empty." For a moment Kurama processed this information until it dawned on her. It was essentially a giant sign telling Naruto he was the last living Uzumaki.
"Naruto… I'm sorry, I…" she couldn't find the words. She knew the feeling but not to this extent. She lost people she loved sure, but they always left children behind, legacies. Proof of their exitance and proof that a little part of them will always live on to the future. Naruto didn't have that, he was the legacy, the last child.
"I've come to terms with it. I come from a family of heroes. I take some comfort in that." He said and suddenly he found himself pressed into Kurama as she wrapped her arms around him. "Kurama?" he asked as he could feel the goddess nuzzle the top of his head.
"Naruto, you might be the last Uzumaki but that doesn't mean you are alone. You have your brothers Sasuke, Kiba, Shika, and choji. You have your sisters Sakura, Hinata and even that old hag Tsunade. You have those that love you like Ino, that little cat girl from the pub, Ryuu." Her grip suddenly tightened as her heart beat quickened.
"and me." She said lowly, but Naruto heard it and his eyes widened. almost instinctively he wrapped his arms around his goddess drawing her in closer. He could feel her breath tickly his fox ears. Her tails wrapping around his legs and his own tail mingling with hers.
He began to think about all the times he felt outcasted when he was younger even after he arrived at the Familia. How he didn't know how to interact with anyone and how terrified he was of them thinking he was some kind of monster. Kurama was his guiding hand, his goddess. She would always welcome him with open arms and with a smile.
Even after he discovered his secret she only drew herself closer and he became closer to her. If it wasn't for that he doubted he would be the man he was today. He probably would've never had the courage to talk to Ino for that first time and fall in love with her. As he went through all these memories he realized something.
At first his feelings for his goddess were pure gratitude and jubilation. But slowly those began to morph and evolve as he grew. From feelings of admiration to adoration, then finally to something a little more.
Looking up his sapphire eyes connected with his goddess's crimson. That stayed like that for a while before Naruto drew himself closer. Slowly inching closer to his goddess's face and in response she too began to inch her own face closer to his.
Closer.
Closer.
Naruto could smell her breath, like flowers in an open field.
Closer. Naruto closed his eyes.
Then he felt pressure, not on his lips like he expected but on his forehead as he opened his eyes to see Kurama had dipped her chin so that their foreheads connected.
"Maybe… we can just stay just like this for a little while?" she asked every fiber of her being wanted to finish what they started but her brain got the better of her. She had for Naruto long ago, she hid her feelings in plain sight with her flirtatious nature and constant claiming of his rear. But that was just a façade. A way to be close to him yet not.
His kindness and tending nature was like a calm lake gentle and beautiful. Yet his will and strength to protect those he loved was as powerful as a maelstrom. Ever since Naruto got her little Mito she was hooked at that moment. Though how could it work for her? She was immortal.
She knew that if she truly let him in he would be wrenched from her hands sooner or later by either a blade or time itself. She met him as a boy, fell in love with him as a man. But she didn't know if she could say goodbye to him as an elder or if she could say goodbye to him at all. She never felt like this before, she fancied men of course, but this was like destiny. A red thread of destiny.
Naruto smiled and gripped his goddess tighter.
"Yeah, let's stay like this."
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"Bell!" Hestia called as she entered the underground room both she and her only Familia member currently occupied. She had just finished a days work and was looking for some cuddle time with her favorite adventurer. She had removed her shoes but then got confused. It was late enough in the day that Bell should be home by now.
Looking around she saw that he wasn't on the bed, couch or even in the kitchen. Now she was beginning to get worried. Turning back to get her shoes so she could head to the guild and check for him or even hopefully bump into him on the way. She didn't make it two steps before she felt a piercing pain in, he shoulder as she screamed out and looked down seeing an insect like spike piercing her shoulder.
The spike suddenly bent like a spider leg and hooked her as it dragged her back as she grasped it but couldn't move all that much through the pain. Looking around she saw through her tears that the leg extended to a shadow she missed in the darkness of her room seeing as she hadn't flicked on the lights yet. The long insect like leg dragged her so she was directly under the black mass as it began to writhe and move.
Thousands of clicking sounds were audible as it moved like the sounds of a when a bug will scuttle across the floor but intensified by the size of the creature. The mass then seemed to allow a part of its body to fall and Hestia realized with horror that is was humanoid in shape. It was a female torso and the arms and hair were dangling from it. Slowly and with a sickening creak the females head began to raise and with horror Hestia saw its face.
It seemed to be a beautiful woman but Hestia saw past that, she could see the cresses in the face and eventually the creature gave up the farce. The cresses expanded revealing a four part mandible jaw lined with teeth. Hestia began to scream again hoping against hope that someone would here her. He screaming intensified as a large tongue like protrusion began to slither out of the throat of the creature.
Then, in the blink of an eye the tongue lashed forward and split at the end revealing a pair of curved mandible fangs and they sunk into Hestia's throat as she immediately felt her body go stiff and she began to feel suction from the tongue. She couldn't scream or even move as she could see the black veins on the tongue begin to pulse.
After what seemed like an eternity the creature retracted its tongue but Hestia was still paralyzed. Thin trickles of blood began to leak from the puncture wounds on her throat as she looked as the creature closed its mandible jaw forming its false face once again.
Then it began to convulse and its face began to become bumpy in a way that made it look like something was crawling under its skin. Its face began to morph and twist its hair, which was once sickly gray began to become black. Then with horror in her eyes she saw her own face staring back at her. Her blue eyes were small and maniacal in appearance and the cresses present before seemed to have faded away now making it look exactly like her own evil twin.
The creature then grinned revealing rows of sharp needle like teeth and then it said something that made her blood freeze and pure unquestionable terror grip her heart.
"BELL!"
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There is chapter 10, our checkpoint. And let me say that I am extremely sorry for the delayed update. The holidays were just a bit hectic and I hope that you all enjoyed your own holidays. I know its late but Merry Christmas and Happy new year's. Now as stated before Chapter ten is the end of the Harem voting so without further a due lets check the Poll.
Kurama 80
Freya 78
Ryuu 77
Tiona 76
Chloe 73
Right so we have Kurama taking the lead followed by Freya and Ryuu. Then we also Have Tiona and Chloe. Ryuzetsu got bumped out so I'm probably going to have to make her into a apprentice character like Naruto and Bell. If your girl didn't get voted in I'm sorry maybe in next story. So the Harem is locked in and it is Ino, Kurama, Freya, Chloe, Tiona, and Ryuu. Once again let me know what you guys think and if you can get the word out as I want more people to be able to read this. If you guys could help out with that it would be great and amazing.
Also for the character sheet I'm am still trying to figure out the best way to do it since it was a unique and special request by EventNyaan. I will get to it but until then please leave any other idea's for character sheets so I can get to work on them as well as EventNyaan's request.
That's all I have so leave a review and let me know what you think.
Until next time this has been your Average, Ordinary, Everyday Fallen Angel!