Taking details and rough outlines from chapters 20 and 51 to work a bit on my old "Devil's Blade" fic idea.

Like always, I really need feedback on these so I can find out what people like/dislike and so I can work out what areas I need to improve on. So please, review. Another chapter, another attempt to entertain you all. I honestly do not have anything else to add, so on with the show!

Naruto belongs to Masashi Kishimoto.

Devil May Cry belongs to Capcom

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XX Unknown Location, Demon Country XX

It had taken almost two weeks of research and data tracking for Obito, the self-proclaimed 'Madara Uchiha', to find out to location of the demonic portal. Nestled deep in the forests of the rather aptly named Demon Country the ruins lay buried. Pausing for a moment to check the Uzumaki scroll and the notes he'd taken from a dozen scholars scattered across the entire continent Obito checked to ensure he was at the exact location, phasing down through the rock and earth to the ruins would be risky enough without him doing it in the wrong place.

"Yes, this is it… Soon I will be stronger than even Madara imagined, I won't need the Bijuu to create my perfect world." Obito laughed as his Mangekyo Sharingan flared and he descended through the ground beneath his feet. Sinking deeper and deeper, Obito counted the seconds. If he dropped for too long then he'd be unable to flee back to the surface before his intangibility ended… Something he did not want to happen while passing through several tons of rock and earth.

After almost two minutes, just as he was preparing to turn back, Obito felt himself enter some kind of cavern. No light, of any kind, to see by but he could feel himself leave the rock and free-fall towards the cavern's floor. Phasing through the ground and then returning up Obito debated what to do. He needed light but how? The air was thick and stale, meaning there was no way to replace it were he to use a Fire Release technique to generate light.

"And let there be light." Obito muttered as he used a variation of Kumo's Flash Pillar genjutsu to generate enough light to see by.

The great tower wasn't much to look at having mostly crumbled over the eons so that only the ground level seemed to remain, although according to the scroll the tower existed somewhat out of sync with the rest of the world so once he activated the gateway the entire structure should return to its proper form.

Quickening his pace Obito made for the entrance, he had an appointment with the powers of a god.

XX Just Outside Ramen Ichiraku: Konoha, Fire Country XX

As he left Naruto promised Teuchi that yes he would go to his classes tomorrow. Setting off for the apartment complex where he and several other orphans in Konoha's shinobi program stayed the seven year old smiled and whistled to himself, Teuchi had given him two free bowls of ramen on top of the three he'd ordered so Naruto was well and truly fed. Turning down a side street that'd get him home faster Naruto's stomach began to feel weird.

"Urgh, maybe those two extra bowls was a bad idea." Naruto whimpered as the weird feeling quickly progressed into a deep burning pain. Soon the pain was so bad Naruto couldn't stand and dropped to his knees, holding his gut and whimpering from the pain… And that was when the pain began to spread, like liquid fire beneath his skin the pain spread out and traced along a path that Medic-Nin and Hyuuga Clan members would know mapped out a person's chakra circulatory system. As the pain faded Naruto slowly struggled to his feet and limped out onto a main street where another surge of pain once again brought him to his knees with the added effect of making him vomit up all the ramen he'd eaten, along with a mixture of bile and blood. Looking up Naruto gasped. "What's wrong with the sky?"

High above it looked as the early night sky had been set alight, streaks of orange and red shifting and merging high above as in the far off distance a pillar of light rose from the horizon. As he watched the pillar flashed even brighter, causing the red and orange sky to spread and sending a wave of pain through Naruto's body. This happened several times before the pillar became blinding and the pain overwhelming. Naruto blacked out.

"… id! … Id?! … Kid!" Someone was shouting and shaking Naruto as he came back around. "Hey kid! You alright kid?!

"Urh." Naruto groaned as he opened his eyes and found himself staring at a ninja, a jonin from the looks of his jacket. "W-What's wrong with the sky?"

"The sky? Nothing." The jonin grunted as he helped Naruto sit up. "What happened kid, why are you lying here passed out?"

"The sky… That big light…. Made my stomach hurt, really bad." Naruto whimpered as he got to his feet. "It was all red and orange, like it was on fire, and there were things moving in the colours. Like, like monsters and stuff."

"yeah, sure. That ramen puke yours?" The jonin asked, nodding to the still warm pile of vomit by Naruto's head. "Looks like you just ate too much crappy food and it upset your stomach, crap like that'll do it."

"No, no I say it. The pillar made the sky go all weird and made this ring of burning pain on my stomach, you have to believe me." Naruto said, he'd seen it and was scared. When it became clear that the jonin wasn't gonna believe him Naruto stomped away, muttering about how the Hokage would believe him. Naruto had just turned off onto another street when someone called out.

"Hey! Hey kid, stop and get back here!"

Now for most people when someone yelled that after them they'd stop and at least look back but Naruto had been pulling pranks, mischievous and mean spirited, for just long enough that on hearing these words he'd bolt… And bolt he did.

Naruto led the jonin and a chase for several minutes, seemingly able to instinctively know when to dodge and avoid the veteran ninja. The chase might have lasted longer if Naruto hadn't lost his footing along a bank of the Naka River and fell in. Panicking and thrashing about Naruto didn't see the jonin rush down to try and pull him out or the world suddenly blur and distort. He just kept thrashing and trying to get somewhere save.

"Gah!" Naruto yelped as he suddenly landed on top of a glass case, cracking it, and then falling to the ground along with about half a gallon of water. Rubbing his shoulder and getting up Naruto saw he was in some kind of storage room. "How did I?"

Looking into the case he'd landed on Naruto found it contained a funny looking kunai with three blades and weird markings on the handle. Shrugging and turning away Naruto looked for a way out, only to find the single door locked.

Backing away from the door Naruto began searching around the storeroom since it looked like he was stuck there. In a big pile of pages and folders Naruto found a bunch of pictures. Most of them had a guy who looked a lot like a bigger version of him in them. Looking at the face Naruto tried to remember why it looked kinda familiar. Another face that showed up a lot was a pretty looking girl with long red hair and a face that looked kinda like his.

"Who?" Naruto whispered before grabbing at the file and trying to find out who the people where, never mind that he could just about write his own name at this point and so wouldn't be able to make sense of anything in the files. Finding a page with another picture of the girl on it Naruto tried to find something he understood. "Name… Uzu-Uzumaki. That, that's my name! Eh… Uzumaki, Kus-Kushin-Kushina. She's named Kushina, is she… Is she my mother?"

Sticking the page into his pocket, planning to ask someone what the rest said latter, Naruto started looking for something about the man who looked like him. Scattering all the pages that didn't have a picture of the man attached Naruto began to get frantic in his searching.

A loud bang at the door stopped him and made Naruto realise that people where outside. Listening in Naruto realised he was somewhere he really, really wasn't meant to be.

"Someone's breached Storage #112, I repeat someone has breached #112!"

"Put the full Tower under lockdown."

"The Hokage's on his way to open #112, make sure no one escapes."

"Orders are to capture if possible, kill if necessary !"

Hearing this, and remembering the jonin that had been chasing him, Naruto began to panic again and look for some way to get away. Turning on the spot quickly as the world blurred Naruto crashed head first into a bookcase, knocking several novels and another weird looking kunai to the ground.

"Ahhh!" Naruto winched as he rubbed his sore nose. Looking around Naruto found himself in a sparsely decorated apartment. Trying to get his growing panic under control, Naruto went looking for the door so he could try and get home.

The sounds of breaking glass froze Naruto in place, was someone else in the apartment with him? Would he be blamed for the damage? Looking about Naruto spotted a figure in the shadows of the apartment, a tall and almost skeletal figure garbed in a ragged red robe. As he tried to back away the thing focused its biddy red eyes on Naruto and lunged, impacting Naruto with the force of a charging bull and propelling the pair of them out of a window and down to the street four stories below.

As they impacted his attacker seemed to shatter into a pile of sand, while Naruto was less fortunate. Lying there in a broken heap, Naruto couldn't even whimper as a crowd rushed over to check on the child they'd just seen swan dive out a window. As he lay there in agony the crowd commentated.

"Someone get a medic!"

"Hey, that's the Kyuubi's host."

"The hell happened up there?"

"Where'd the other one go?"

As people stood and talked, the bystander effect having taken hold, multiple sounds of breaking glass sounded as more like the thing appeared in the apartment and on the building's roof. A screeching wail alerted the civilians to their presence as the monsters dropped down and began attacking with scythes. The monsters began cutting down anyone who got near them as the crowd panicked and tried to flee.

"Get them! Protect the civilians!"

Several shinobi had arrived and begun to attack the creatures that, although certainly fast, proved no match for trained shinobi… At least until the other kinds started showing up; Some wearing black cloaks that proved even weaker than the red ones, but had numbers on their side. Tall white garbed creatures that appeared able to vanish and reappear at will. Short green cloaked monsters that vomited out bursts of sand and the worst, and most pathetic appearing, that wore simple stripes of cloth and carried massive exploding orbs.

As the monsters used numbers and the alienness of their tactics to slowly gain the advantage against the shinobi who hadn't been involved in investigating the break in at the Hokage's tower and so could respond as quick as possible to the attack. Lying there, forgotten where he'd landed, Naruto could only watch as people and monsters darted about. He couldn't move, in fact it was a miracle he was even alive, and could just hope someone would see and help him.

"Urgh!" Something growled behind him. Acting on instinct more than anything Naruto tried to roll to the side and somehow was able to do so.

"Wh-wha?" Naruto gulped as he watched his mangled hand slowly fix itself. Realising he'd somehow partly healed from the fall Naruto did the only thing he could do, he ran. Running, running and more running Naruto ran as fast and as far as he could but there was nowhere safe as the creatures seemed to be everywhere fighting against shinobi or hunting the civilians. Trying to find somewhere safe to hide, trying to find somewhere far away from the monsters trying to stay alive Naruto just kept running.

"Gaaah!" The roar came from behind him as one of the bomb carrying monsters was cut down in a volley of kunai. The explosion knocking Naruto off his feet and across the street.

"Argh." Naruto hissed as he poked at small shards of stone and metal embedded in his leg. Thinking he heard someone call out to him Naruto looked up just in time to see another bomb carrier die near him and a grey haired ANBU member rushing to try and save him. As the explosive sack hit the ground and detonated Naruto just shut his eyes and waited. When the sounds of chaos disappeared and the blast failed to obliterate him Naruto opened his eyes and looked around. "Huh? W-Where am I?"

Gone were the mayhem and death, the screams and roar of burning fires… In their places were what Naruto guessed the sounds of nature, bugs and animals making noises, and a gentle breeze. Slowing getting to his feet Naruto yelped when something sharp poked him in the butt. Looking down at his feet Naruto spotted an old rusty kunai, chipped and worn so badly most of the blade was gone, with faded markings on the handle.

"Which way… Which way is Konoha?" Naruto wondered as he turned and looked around, no idea where on earth he'd ended up.

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Whoa, this was originally going to be the first of three scenes from a new 'Randoms'… Kinda ran away with itself so I'll post it separate and do the [Sasuke focused] others later. This is Devil's Blade, one of my older fic ideas which does predate a lot of the info about Minato's Flying Thunder God Technique [here it's the result of a partly formed Kekkei Genkai derived from demonic ancestors and you know what the details are all in Chapter 20, read it there]. What was happening was that Naruto's ability is teleportation but without any control he'll home in on Minato's special kunai as they are marked with seals designed to act as beacons that drew Minato to them when he teleported.

Idea here is the partial activation of Temen-ni-gru has weakened the barriers between earth and the Demon Worlds just enough for the lesser demons to break through as well as slowly triggering the latent demonic blood of certain characters [Naruto showed it when he began to regenerate]. The demons breaking through will lead to a massive change in the Shinobi World, with every village effectively going into War Mode to both protect their own and to handle the new missions caused by the creatures… This means everyone either grows up fast [Sakura/Ino being forced to take training serious] and those with effective fighting abilities being focused on and made heroes [Gaara will be the Hero of Suna since his any sand infused with his or Shakaku's chakra can't be used as a medium by the Seven Hells].

As for Naruto, at first he'll be trying to get back to Konoha but once he finds out what the sheet about Kushina [just basic details like name, rank, etc] and hears about Uzushio he'll focus more on that… Over time realising and growing bitter over the fact that the Hokage must have known about this stuff but never told him. Not an Evil!Naruto or a Dark!Naruto fic, just a Naruto who has decided to focus on himself to stay alive in the hell on earth Obito is willing to cause to get what he wants.

I'm dyslexic, so please point out any mistakes in spelling or grammar [I spell things the way they do in England and Ireland, so some things may look off to Americans]. Please leave your opinion via review or send them via PM, I'd like to know what you think. Well, I think that's everything I've gotta say so, hope you enjoyed the chapter.

This is Highvalour saying bye and thanks for reading