Chapter 2
Learning Truths
In the manor, everyone was standing still. Nobody could fathom what they were seeing at this point. Looking at the woman in front of them and then the woman next to Sirzech, it made no sense. They could not understand who the hell she was and why she seemed to look like Grayfia. Well, a few were thinking something and looking at the woman in question holding the cooing baby and then back to Grayfia seeing her terrified.
"Hello everyone." She bowed her head and smiled down to her child who was cooing at her mother wanting attention.
"Who the hell?" Zekram smiled,
"Isn't it obvious Sirzech?" The Lucifer stared at his grandfather and the Devil King,
"What are you talking about who is this imposter?" He laughed,
"Obviously this is the real Grayfia."
"WHAT!" The whole room was shitting bricks, how is this possible!?
"Quite joking grandfather this is obviously a fake!" Rias could not imagine it but he countered,
"Of course it is her, I recognize her aura better than anyone. She was brought before me by Naruto ages ago when she surrendered to our side. I can't believe it I didn't notice it before." He smiled at the woman, "You were always here?" She shook her head,
"Contrary to the official story, I always hated Sirzech. Nothing against him personal but he was too clingy for my taste and I felt the need for someone that was more suited for me. So, as the story goes for the rest of the higher ups I didn't choose to marry Sirzech I married Naruto." The Lucifer frowned at this,
"Then who is this?" He turned to his wife and mother of his son with a questioning glare. While he was not angry about the revelation as this woman was the love of his life he wanted to know who he had married.
"Why don't you tell them the truth Selphie?" The woman frowned,
"What are you talking about fake?" Grayfia smiled brightly and this started to form a cold aura in the room. Serafall and the others that used ice could feel the power was much stronger than theirs. This terrified Serafall as now she realized that if this was the woman that fought her for the title of Leviathan she might have been handed a vicious ass whooping.
"Why, how you froze me in my home in the Ice Shell. Doing this, taking my place in the world as Grayfia comfortable destroying my husbands heart, destroying the ties that bind the clans, all so you could pretend to be me for Sirzech." Selphie, the woman standing next to Grayfia frowned,
"I don't know-,"
"It's the truth." Selphie frowned at Yami who blew smoke into her face, "Grayfia-nee would not lie about something like this and plus she has something that you don't have."
"What?"
"This." Grayfia removed the back of her dress and showing a intrictate tattoo on her back. It took the form of the Lucifuge family symbol and showing a crown sitting in the middle of the clan sign.
"This." Everyone that knew what that meant paled but the younger ones did not and Selphie freezed up.
"Wait that's-,"
"Yep." Yami smiled at the group, "That birth tattoo is given only to the next head of the family and given what happened to her brother, this is Grayfia." He laughed, "Meaning she is the rightful heir to the Lucifuge family and she is the true Grayfia."
Sirzech was the one taking this the worst, the woman that was standing next to him was his wife sure but she lied to him.
"Sirzech-kun." He turned to Selphie, "Please know I did not lie to you because of one reason or another. All I ever wanted to be with you, to be in your arms and tell you how much I love you. But you always had eyes for Grayfia that I couldn't stand it. So in a moment of bad judgement I did this to be with you and finally have my dream fulfilled." Sirzech stared at the woman, a minute passed before he hugged her and smiled,
"I love you all the same. Nothing will change that just promise me that we can talk about this in length." Turning to Grayfia, "Now about you," She narrowed her eyes at him,
"If you are going to demand answers, I suggest you back off now. I have my child with me and if you dare lay a finger on me or anyone in this house Naruto might remind you why you didn't anger him again." Sirzech flinched.
How could he forget that brutal day. After it was discovered that Selphie as Grayfia was having sex with him in her bed with Naruto he flew into a rage. This rage was legendary as it took most of the clans everything they had to stop Naruto from killing him. After the event Naruto demanded retribution for this insult to his honor and fought Sirzech in a straight up knock down fight. While he was powerful, Naruto was always on another level to begin with. But it was worse now given that he was fueled by absolute rage and hatred and this lead to the worst day of his life. More in the case, after clashing with Naruto he had massive burn scars all over his body and even lost a few years on his life. Naruto told him if he wanted to he would have killed him for this and to keep her while he left and thus destroying the fragile friendship that he had with him and the others. Naruto disappearing to the mountain was something only the Phenex clan knew about and refused to tell him or the other Maous about out of spite for what happened and just turning a blind eye to the fact they spat on him.
The tense moment was interrupted by Ravel who walked up to Grayfia and peered at the baby,
"Grayfia-sama is this my neice?" She smiled,
"Yes would you like to hold her?" She nodded to this and quickly held the baby close to her and smiled down at her little niece. The baby in question stared at her for a second and then grabbed some of her hair that was in her face and pulled on it. She grunted,
"Woah pretty strong baby there." She smiled,
"Yes given who her father was I figured that would be the case." Turning to the rest of the room, "Please have a seat we are serving dinner and then discussing what tomorrow's schedule will be."
After taking their seats with Grayfia sitting at the head of the table, Zekram given a luxury chair of comfort as per-orders by Grayfia, and the children being forced sit in the arms of Venelana and Lady Phenex everyone began digging into the food.
"Now then," Grayfia looked at the group with a dark look, "Tomorrow I'm going to let all of you go into the nearby village that we have set up on this mountain. Please note that the leader there is aware of the people here and has made it clear that they treat you with curtiousy but dare to do anything uncouth to them and I will make sure Naruto knows after I tear you to shreds myself." Yami blew smoke while sitting against the wall,
"Plus my wife is the leader of the village so do something like that and I will kill you myself." The group gulped at the large man who gave them a very dark grin.
"Also, I have sent a message to Naruto alerting him to your presence and should hear back from him tomorrow hopefully but given his training I'm not sure." Lord Phenex asked,
"Is there a reason my son is training at this time?"
"I'm afraid so, you see a while back Naruto encountered a powerful deity that was demanding he come with them. He refused and to protect us he went all out with the creature in question fighting with it toe to toe. However due to the energy of the creature in question he suffered from a poisoning that messed up his control of his power. So at this point, he is having to retrain himself to use his full power again." This worried everyone that knew Naruto as this was a rare thing, someone powerful enough to give him this much trouble? Who could it be?
"Anyway," Turning to Grayfia she smiled at them slightly, "Please enjoy your meal and we shall continue the tour of the mountain sometime tomorrow. Also," she gave them a cold glare, "Do not wander around the house without permission or try to enter places that are restricted by the maids or I promise your death will not be swift."
The group gulped at this comment and after eating their meals went to their own individual rooms and waiting to see what tomorrow will bring for them.
Time Skip
After the group had a chance to get their bearings and head out of the house, they soon were taking to a nearby town. Arriving at the town they were surprised that the whole place could almost equal the size and population of the town of Kuoh itself. But upon entering the town Sirzech and the other Maous with him and the elder devils were shocked,
Everyone in the town had neko features either by having a tail or ears, gold cat like eyes, or even having two tails signaling they were Nekoshous.
"What the hell!" Sirzech turned to Grayfia who was holding her daughter in her arms, "Explain this now!" The woman glared at the former friend of her husband,
"What was that?" He glared back,
"How come Naruto his harboring the Neko race? Did you not hear about what happened?" Grayfia glared harder and her aura was becoming more and more intense.
"Don't take that attitude with me asshole. Given what you have done I don't think you really have some high moral ground to stand on." He flinched but did not back down until Serafall finally seeing how things were going to go got between them.
"Okay everyone calm down!" Turning to her friend she glared, "Sirzech we are here as guests and as guests we are not allowed to say or do things that will get us kicked out of here." He grunted but relented while Serafall turned to Grayfia seeing her still glaring at them but also her daughter also seemed to be glaring at them. "Grayfia please understand where we are coming from in this situation, we are confused with the presence of the Neko race here in the mountain without knowing about it." She raised an eyebrow at them and turned her head,
"You never told them I'm guessing?" Everyone turned to Lord Bael and he smirked,
"Nope." Grayfia sighed,
"That would have been nice to know before bringing them here to the home of a race that is said to be almost extinct."
"Wait hold on time out!" Everyone turned to Issei, "What the hell do you mean these sexy cat women are extinct? I mean they are all gathered up here in the mountains and living here and stuff!"
"True," Serafall sighed, "Years ago a Nekoshou named Kuroka killed her king and became a SS-class criminal. The death was caused by the use of Senjutsu and the aftermath was devils calling for blood. I did everything I could to prevent the hunting but someone allowed this to happen while I was running damage control and thus the race was hunted to extinction with the exception of one or two that are still running around." She turned her head, "Well we thought at least, as you can guess the faction that the Nekoshou race was not too happy about all of this that happened at this time."
"True but what you all failed to notice or failed to look into is that the asshole that was Kuroka's King was planning on using her sister for experiments. Basically he was planning on torturing and breeding a child in order to learn the secrets of Senjutsu and then use it on himself to gain the powers to manipulate nature itself." She glared at the group, "Of course Naruto got word of this after the poor girl ran into him while he was wondering on one of his rare days off the mountain and he quickly spring into action. He saved all the Nekoshou's that were still alive, bringing them to the mountain, explaining why Kuroka did what she did, and finally negotiating with Yasaka to keep the devils from going to war with multiple races due to this."
Hearing this Sirzech narrowed his eyes,
"She's here isn't she?" Grayfia frowned,
"What if she is?" Before Sirzech could say anything Zekram finally coughed,
"Word of advice Sirzech, stop while your ahead. Otherwise you might get all of us killed." He pointed to the pissed off Ice woman and at the same time some of the nearby Neko's looking at the group with hatred and loathing. But the scariest expression was Yami who staring down at the group showed the darkness forming out of his arm scaring the shit out of him.
"Try it, I fucking dare you asshole, you go after that poor girl after everything that has happened and I will fucking end you here on the mountain now."
"Yami!" Everyone was released from the tense situation when they saw a beautiful woman walking to them. She had gold eyes, black cat ears, and wearing a tight looking black dress and having a killer figure compared to most women. Next to her was twin of sorts but she had dark purple eyes with slits and had a slightly bigger bust and ass compared to her counter part. They would hesitate to say the first Neko woman calling for Yami was about a D-cup while the other is about an E-cup.
"Yori what are you doing here?" She smiled,
"I heard from some of my kin that we had visitors to our small town so I thought I stop by and see who it is." She frowned, "Surprising that we have so many and at the same time some unwelcomed guests but," she bowed to them, "Let it never be said I'm not someone that is willing to extend an olive branch. Welcome to our humble home, please enjoy your visit and please note that anything done against the women here and you'll answer to me." She showed off her two tails behind her and smiled darkly at the group with Senjutsu permeating from the air.
The group nodded their head before she walked up to Zekram Bael and handed him a key and a seal,
"Naruto-sama asked me to give this to you when you came to visit. This is a rune tag only keyed to you that'll take you to your own private villa here on the mountain and he has it decorated just for you. Also, the key is for your house to use as you please." The man smiled,
"I will thank Naruto when I see him." She smiled but saw the other woman was sniffing the air,
"Is there something wrong Kari?" She frowned, walking up to Kiba she sniffed him for a bit.
"Your pretty stressed child?" She smiled and licked his cheek making him blush and Tsubaki glare at the woman. "Tell me are you holding onto some kind of dark secrets?" The teen frowned,
"I am and I don't want to tell you about them." She smiled and grabbed the boy by his shirt and started walking away with him with a sway to her hips.
"Well how about we talk after we free up some of that stress you are caring around?" Kiba gulped turning to the woman named Yori,
"Can you-,"
"Have fun my child and try to be careful with him Kari I think he is a virgin!" The group was shocked, jaws hitting the ground with how blatant it was she was about to drag him off and bang him. But what was funnier is that Riser was glaring at the low class devil getting to bang a sexy kitten woman like that while the women in this town were not going to give him the time of day. Issei was pissed that Kiba was going to lose his virginity before him and he was angry knowing that he was right, pretty boys get all the shit while people like him get nothing.
Tsubaki, already crushing on Kiba was furious this cat woman was taking her love interest. So without waiting for her king she took off after them and was shouting at her to unhand Kiba. The group was shocked how out of character she was acting in this case and how she was crushing on Kiba making Issei even more jealous.
"I swear she has the worst libido that I ever seen of Neko's." Yori smacked her husband's chest lightly,
"I didn't hear you complaining for the last few days." He smiled,
"Yeah yours is a healthy sex life with me not like her." He kissed his wife and soon Yori purred,
"Your damn right." She smiled at the group, "Now then I will start a tour of our village and please note, yes the Nekos are aware who you all are and they are going to be on their best behavior but if I find one of you does something I will punish you before Naruto-sama does so." Soon the group continued into the town and seeing the place was a thriving home was amazing to all of them. Especially considering while they were tense the group made it clear that the women were not happy to see them.
"After the massacre, Naruto-sama helped build our new home here on the mountain. He took us in and protected us from other races that found out we were up here and tried to come and finish the job they started. However, with him and his peerage we never had to fear those that dared to enter this mountain. Especially since IT prevents those unworthy of coming to the mountain from coming here as well."
"It?" Yori frowned,
"I'm sorry but what I'm talking about I can only tell you that Naruto-sama is the one that has to tell you. The rest of us were sworn to silence due to some incidents in the past."
"Interesting." Zekram saw a black hair woman in the distance and she was holding two children in her arms while another was wrapped around her waist. "Is that?" The group turned and were shocked to see who it was and the woman in question was frozen in fear and shock.
"Kuroka!" Sirzech was about to power up but soon found a sword at his neck,
"Move and I promise on the name of my master I will fucking remove your head right here and now."
"But you know who she is!"
"True but at the same time you refuse to hear or listen to her side of things making me wonder why you were picked to become the devil king?" The man growled,
"It does not matter she is to be held accountable for murdering a pure blood devil." Zekram seeing how tense things are shouted,
"Sirzech hold your tongue!" The entire area saw the man glaring at the group, "We were warned to not try anything and that means trying to arrest an innocent woman with her children. The fact you have the audacity to ignore me makes me wonder if you can truly be trusted." He then turned to the Neko in question who was holding her children close in fear, without warning and to the shock of everyone present he bowed to the woman. He had his head in the dirt and was dirtying his nice pants by being on his knees.
"Zekram-sama!" The man growled,
"Shut up!" The group clammed up and he deeply inhaled before saying, "Kuroka on behalf of the Bael family and the devil race I would like to apologize for what has happened to you. It was not fair in the least and you should have never been subjected to it. Rest assured your name will be cleared and the truth of what the devil family did to you and your sister will be made public for all to hear."
Kuroka was shocked by this but saw one of her children getting out of her arms and crawling to the man. She looked at him and tilted her head with her ears twitching and tail wagging behind her.
"Nya." She pat the man's head and he smiled,
"Thank you little one." He picked up the child and carefully held her in his arms.
"I must say you have adorable children Kuroka who is the lucky father?" The woman still tense smiled,
"Naruto-sama nya." The entire group was shocked but Lady Phenex and Ravel quickly approached her and asked to see their grandchildren/niece/nephew closer. She agreed but kept them close in fear of them getting hurt for being half-breeds.
"The oldest one is Fujima," pointing to her daughter in her arms. "I named her after my mother as she reminds me so much of her and makes me wish she was here to see these precious children nya." She held up the little girl that is younger than Gil and Artoria but older than Elasa. She had dark gray hair with blue eyes with slits in them and whisker marks on her face similar to Naruto. Her ears and tail were gray in color giving her more of a distinct look compared to her siblings. "The boy in my arms is Minato." The group looked at the boy baby who was slightly younger looking than his sister but he had blond hair and hazel eyes with no whiskers on his face. His tail and ears were blond with white outline in and around. He had a smile on his face and Ravel quickly picked him up and cuddled with the adorable child. Lady Phenex took the oldest and was just holding her close to her bossom which lead to the baby trying to drink from her breasts. She laughed at this and the group turned away from the moment other than Lord Phenex who laughed with his wife and played with the children as well.
Kuroka smiled and pointed at the one in Zekram's arms who was pulling on his hair and causing the man to grunt. "That is Kurome, she is the youngest of her siblings." The child in question looked at people staring at her with a blank expression but they notice that she was the closest in looks to her mother and father. Dark blond hair that was darker near the roots, a blue left eye and a hazel right eye and no whiskers on her face. Her cat tail and ears were similar to hair in color and made her more adorable. Especially when her cheeks puffed up in annoyance at the strange people staring at her.
Koneko passed out.
'Kuroka… children…' She thought as she blacked out.
"Koneko." Rias said as she tried to wake her Rook up.
"Mama…" Fujima muttered as she pulled on Kuroka's outfit, pointing at Koneko. "Aunt Shirone, nya?"
Kuroka felt her heart tighten at this as she looked at Koneko's prone form.
"No… She isn't your Aunt Shirone, nya." Kuroka said disheartened.
Before the group could continue with the display of affection they hear a scream sending Yori into a mad dash. Kuroka right on her heels and the group quickly followed careful with the children in tow. Gil helping his sister moving quickly to keep up with the adults while Elasa was just sitting in her mother's arms now asleep.
When they arrived at the scream they saw something that made them boil in anger. Riser, who had snuck off from the group earlier after seeing the low class devil get a neko woman, was harassing a female nekoshou who was trying to fight him off. The others in the area were about to turn his ass into mush but Yori got there and hit the man in the face with a healthy amount of Senjutsu sending him flying. Landing into a building he tried to sit up but saw the woman and Yami glaring at him and she was feral,
"The fuck were you doing!"
"I was just having some fun, not like she has the right to deny Riser." The woman stomped on his face,
"She sure as hell does when she is only fifteen you fucker!" The girl in question while looked more mature than most the truth is that she was only this way after years of training and good genes. "I want you out of my town!" Yami nodded his head and without warning all the devils were removed from the premise of the city while they could feel the large concentration of Senjutsu radiating in the air.
"Your lucky you little shit," Riser who was now underneath the grip of Yami could see the darkness forming around his body. "Anyone else and I would have skinned them and brought their head as an offering for my wife. If not for your brother I would slaughter you." He threw him to his parents where his father smacked him across the face.
"We WILL talk about this behavior at a later time got it!" Lady Phenex had a smile on her face that promised pain but he snorted,
"She had no right to deny me a true pure blood. Not fault she was a slu-," He felt a sword pierce his chest and saw that Gil was aiming the blade at him and more weapons were coming out.
"Finish that sentence and I'll kill you father's anger be damned!" Angelica nodded her head before smacking her son for cursing in front of the other children.
"Alright," Zekram who was handing Kuroka her daughter who was frowning being out of reach of the fun man. "Lets head back to the manor before we do something else that angers the Nekoshou and Nekomata." Kuroka sighed,
"Guess that means I'll see all of you later. Tell Naruto-kun I'll be over when he comes home nya. Come on kittens we are going." The children whined about leaving the warmth of the strangers that were their family but they went with her. From there she teleported back into the town leaving the group there to walk back to the manor.
On another part of the mountain, there was a blond maid wearing a very revealing dress and having one part of her face covered by the hair. The woman had an umbrella with her and was ready at a moments notice given her short skirt allowed free movement.
Next to her was an identical woman who had a slightly larger set of breasts and had her hair done up longer than her counterpart. She was sitting there with a her sister and they were watching the person in the middle of the crater standing there with an intense aura about him.
The man in question was covered in flames making it almost impossible to make out any part of him other than his blond hair and some faded marks on his face.
"Naruto-sama." Hearing his name the man turned his head,
"What is it Hilda?"
"We are sorry to interrupt your training but we are here to report that you have guests at the palace."
"Really?" The flames died down a bit but he was still covered in them. "Who is it?"
"It is your family my lord, the Gremory family, peerages, and Sirzech and Serafall have come with the faker." Naruto's eyes narrowed at the thought of his former friends and sighed,
"I see and they need me for something?" The two maids nodded their head and saw him walking up to them slowly. He was like a predator, gazing upon them as if measuring their worth to him. They shivered in fear as they were fearful that his rage might be turned on them. It was no secret what happened all those years ago in the Underworld to them and the peerage as all of them found out at some point. But bringing it up with Naruto was almost forbidden to the point that most would find themselves in the path of his anger.
"Anything else?" The bustier maid shifted,
"Yes it would seem they visited the Neko village and caused a scene. The usual thing when finding out about their race being alive and that your protecting Kuroka her and children. But also," She gulped, "Your brother Riser Phenex sexually assaulted an underage Nekoshou girl in the town to have his way with her. It was stopped," she frowned feeling the fire growing more intense from the comment alone, "Thanks to Yami and the others there and they were removed from the city."
"I see." Naruto frowned at the thoughts of his siblings. He honestly had high hopes for all of them when they were born. While he did not come down from the mountain he still tried to keep an eye on them. Hell the only one of them that knew about him or at least knew his face was Ruval as he was burn during the time of the war.
When Riser was born he had high hopes for him as well but at this same time, hearing how he acts and the way he behaves made him wonder if they were really siblings. He all but disowned his brother in annoyance as he demanded better and better gifts for every birthday until one day he sent a letter telling him he would not get anymore gifts from him due to his horrible behavior and attitude. From what he learned he did not take this very well.
Ravel was the hope of the family with her being younger than her siblings. She had self-control, powerful magic, and seemed to have a better grasp of politics and strategy than her idiotic king/brother. Honestly, he was considering giving her to one of his pieces who was promoted that way she could learn the path of being a king and then pursue her own peerage at a later date.
Naruto was also aware of the others, the Gremory's and Sitri's and what they had been up to for the time he was gone. More importantly he knew his family was engaging Riser to Rias and sighed knowing why they were here. He was not a fan of the engagement for different reasons but the one that being the biggest is that Rias would do anything to get out of it. He knew about his brother's reputation and thus he was sure the man was finally going to push her to doing something drastic. If that happened then his family would be humiliated from this and he would not allow that to happen again.
"Never again." The fire exploded from his body and soon turned pure white with tints of black inside of it. His figure was covered in the fire but you could make out a dark silhouette standing there with dark red eyes and a demonic physique.
"I won't allow it! I will not allow them to humiliate me again! NEVER!" The pillar exploded rocking the entire mountain and this sent the group in the distance shivering as they felt the power. Making them wonder what it could have possibly been until Grayfia smiled,
"Seems Naruto-sama found out and is heading home now."
Chapter End