Ophis vehemently fought the urge to sigh. The boy, Issei, was blinking back at her with a bewildered expression plastered over his idiotic features from across the dark blue counter. Though she couldn't quite blame him for his confusion, as she herself was a tiny bit confused by her current predicament. One day she would get her revenge on that blond sadist, rest assured that it would come. Today however was not that glorious day.

Mostly because that same sadist wasn't around.

"So run that by me one more time?" Issei asked.

Without giving into the urge of strangling the sacred gear user for making her repeat herself, Ophis did just that. "Naruto is off taking care of a contract and left me in charge of the shop. I'm supposed to deal with any requests to the best of my ability and oversee your training for the day."

Issei nodded slowly in response.

"Yeah, that's what I thought you said." He muttered slowly. "So does this mean that I can get the day off?"

A light frown tugged at the corners of her lips. "If I have to suffer than so will you."

Issei hung his head in defeat. All thoughts of a peaceful and productive evening completely tossed out the window at the girl's rather dry response. He mused on how strange it was that Naruto was actually out of the shop for the entire day. Must have been a helluva request to drag him away from his pride and joy for so long.

"What about the other guy? Why isn't he here?"

Sparing him a glance, Ophis shrugged her shoulders and returned her attention to what Issei assumed was manga currently hovering in front of her face.

Issei let out a tired sigh. "Can you at least tell me what I'm supposed to be doing?"

Without tearing her eyes from the hard book, Ophis pointed to a mop and bucket leaning far off in the corner of the shop. Issei's brow twitched, and he inched his neck back to level Ophis with a look that clearly read, are you fucking kidding me? "He wants me to clean?"

The infinite dragon god turned the page and then nodded an affirmative.

Issei was outraged. "Are you serious? Clean what? This place is practically spotless!" He gestured to the borderline empty store. "More over, what the hell kind of training is this?! When do I get my harem?! None of this is what was promised! I swear he's just messing with me now!"

Ophis flinched at all the unnecessary yelling going on. Although she expected this kind of reaction, and luckily so did Naruto. "Big brother also told me to remind you that it's either this, or I send you to Red for another friendly sparring match. You decide."

Issei had crossed the gap between him and the mop in a matter of seconds. After a minute or two of nervously mopping the same spot while attempting to not pass out due to flashbacks of having his body crushed and spine shattered. He paused, and then hesitantly turned his attention to the still reading Ophis. Biting his lip, the teen considered his next words for a moment before nodding to himself.

"Um, O-Ophis-sama, could I maybe ask you something?"

. . .

Issei deadpanned. "R-Right, well, I'm just going to go ahead and ask anyways. Just how long did it take the demon to grant you your desire? Since he had to take on Red to give you back your rift, or whatever, it had to have taken awhile right? Days even?" His eyes suddenly burst into stars at the thought. "Naruto probably had to duke it out with Red didn't he?! Oh! That must have been such an awesome fight!" He quickly realized what he had just said. Wait, what? No!

Why would a fight like that interest him? Were he actually there, Issei had no doubts he would've turned tail and ran at the first sign of conflict. Still, lately, he couldn't deny the thrill of getting stronger. The feeling of coming closer to mastering his scared gear and the satisfaction—

"Twelve minutes."

"Come again...?"

Ophis spared the flabbergasted teen a glance. "It took him exactly twelve minutes. Five to talk to the overgrown lizard. Two to impress it. One to create the pocket. Four to actually convince it to take the deal."

Issei twitched, the mop in his hands snapping in half as his rage consumed him. That lying, lazy, good-for-nothing bastard!

Kuroka blinked owlishly, partly in curiosity and the other in mild amusement, as she watched Naruto hang upside down from the tall tree they were currently, and very discreetly, occupying. A pair of binoculars were pressed against his eyes and he was curiously humming aloud while mumbling incoherently to himself.

"Do you really need to use those?" She asked.

Naruto removed the binoculars and faced her, a wide grin spread spread across his oddly marked cheeks. "Nope! But this is a stakeout, and I'll be dammed if I don't look professional while doing it!"

Before the two was the most prestigious—and recently now co-ed—Academy in the entire city, Kuoh. The impressively sized Victorian exterior was impeccably maintained. The vibrant blues and pale whites looked pristine, serving to accent its raw architectural beauty. The building looked almost brand new despite its age, and radiated an aura of pure class. No pun intended.

Why exactly were they here of all places? I bet you already know, you clever little shit you.

Kuroka made a request and Naruto had to fulfill it.

"Well...I've spotted the person you described. Looks nothing like you by the way. And it looks like she is currently decaying away in a boring classroom. Oh, the poor soul. I don't think she's gonna make it..."

The heartfelt frown and genuine remorse that all but shimmered his eyes almost made Kuroka believe him.

Almost.

"I expected nothing less. I doubt she would look anything like me with the way things are anyways." She retorted easily.

Naruto discreetly noted the rather nervous edge flickering behind the girls hazel eyes.

"Say...I'm not gonna lie to you. This is about the weirdest thing anyone's ever asked me to do. That's saying something too. Considering I'm supposed to give someone a harem of all things. I mean, I'm not even sure I can really charge you for something like this..." He crossed his legs and ran a hand through his blond locks. Naruto couldn't help but pry, his curiosity was honestly peaked. "A single glance? That's really all you want? You need to see this person so badly that you're willing to make a deal with me of all people? Knowing that I could effectively ask anything I want in return? I could tell you to kill yourself for all you know and you'll have to do it. Like it or not."

Kuroka smiled thoughtlessly. "That's exactly right. I'll do whatever it takes, even if you were to say...ask me to bare your children!."

He groaned at the last bit. "Not this again. Listen lady I've already told you, not until I'm financially stable with a clear cut plan for the future. I can't just have my kids growing up with such an unreliable dad ya know! We can talk about it later down the line but not now." He paused, and then smiled. "Although I suppose I can see where you're coming from. I have no room to talk myself. Given the chance, I would do anything to see the people I care about again. Even if it's just a single glance. Hell, I would probably bare someones children too."

A single brow was raised in response to his comment. "Oh?" She opted to ignore the last bit. "I wasn't aware you even had people like that. You don't look like it."

"Everyone has people they care about. Saying something like that is almost the same as saying I'm not human or something. Which I am."

Kuroka waved of his concerns. An eerily cat like smirk curling her lips back up. "Of course, of course, though that wasn't what I mean..." She winked at him, her dark ears twitching softly while her tail swished about lazily behind. "It's just the way you are...if that makes any sense. It makes it hard to imagine you in that kind of light. Doesn't seem like you were even born really. More like created."

Naruto nodded an affirmative, which only served to confuse Kuroka.

"You're actually not too far off." He began as if nonchalantly discussing the weather. "I was sorta-kinda created about a year ago. Or is it reborn? Hmm...that's a pretty good question honestly." He pursed his lips and adopted a thoughtful expression "Dimensional travel can be a bit complicated. More so when things turn out the way they did for me." He shrugged. "Oh well, I don't fully understand it myself. All I can tell you is that I've got plenty of people I care about! I just can't ever see them again."

. . .

"That's a rather depressing thing to say."

"Not really, it's only depressing if you think about it. I'm just stating the facts. You're a pretty cool cat." Pun intended. "And you're the first person to ask me something that didn't involve a selfish motive. You just want to see your beloved little sister, right? What was her name? Shitone? No wait...Shiromae? Damn it! Sh—"

"—Shirone." She corrected him. "Please don't butcher her name like that."

Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly. "Sorry, I'm bad with names. Like I was saying though, I can definitely understand how you feel! For you see..." He pulled out a picture of a scowling Ophis from seemingly out of nowhere. "I also have a cute little sister to take care of! Although considering the trick she showed me last week I'm not all that sure if she's even a she anymore. More like an it now, maybe? She did turn into an old man after all..." He paused to ponder on it for a moment before quickly shaking his head and resuming. "My bad, I get distracted super easy nowadays...

I suppose what I want to ask you is why haven't you tried to do this yourself yet? You've had plenty of chances to I'm sure. Given your status as a stray."

Kuroka couldn't quite fight the narrowing of her eyes. "So...you know about me?" She murmured cautiously. Underneath the sleeve of her kimono, she flexed her hand.

Naruto nodded once while crossing his arms and beginning a brief explanation. "Yeah. I had Sirzech tell me a few key details about the underworld and devil's in general. Had Micheal do the same thing only with the angel's. Really, there's a crap-ton about this world I didn't know! God's. Devil's. Dragon's. Hero's. Nine tailed foxes. Angel's. The fallen. Senjutsu. There's apparently more too, I don't think I'd be able to count them all on just two hands!"

While it did sound like he was implying he could sprout more arms, Kuroka was more concerned over the fact that he had already made contact with Sirzech.

"You can relax by the way." Naruto flickered his gaze to her obscured arm. "I'm not gonna turn you in or anything. Personally, I think it's downright stupid that you're being treated this way for just wanting to protect your little sis."

Kuroka inwardly cursed herself. For a moment, she had forgotten entirely that the same guy who was recently cracking lame joke's just a second ago was still a downright god-like being. Though that did nothing to ease her nerves, seeing as even Micheal and Sirzech would be powerless against the horned blond nonchalantly floating next to her.

Long story short, if conflict did erupt she would have a better chance at running away than actually fighting.

And even then her chances were slim to none.

"It's..." She hesitated. "It's complicated."

Kuroka expected a many different things. For him to pry more, perhaps give some heartfelt advice. Maybe even outright admit that he didn't have all answers. Something that wasn't a short, almost bored nod and a casual dismissal of her blatant hesitation.

"Alright. I'm cool with that." He said nonchalantly. "I don't very much enjoy complicated stuff anyways."

Who...?

Who the hell was this guy?

"Besides, it won't change a thing! You're about to learn something, neko-chan! When you makes deals with me you can bet I'll deliver in surplus!" A confident smile curled his lips upward and Naruto slammed a proud fist over his chest. Right over the bold lettering that read 'Madara is a total douche! Uchiha are hax.' in rather cartoon lettering.

Not a second later and he vanished from her line of sight.

"What?"

Koneko was having a rather boring, but otherwise peaceful day so far. No stray devil's to take care of, no wishe's to fulfill, and to top it all off a very big bowl of her favorite candy was waiting for her back in the club room! Prepared by none other than Akeno herself. Her bright yellow eyes fell into a sleepy haze at the thought. The line between reality and dream quickly blurred and what was once a classroom full of students was now a bright world of giant edible candy.

If only her dream could've lasted a little longer.

Sleepy eyes blinked owlishly as her, and by now the rest of the class, realized, there was a blond stranger currently floating above her desk with a grin that could have rivaled a fox. Or maybe a shark.

"Yo! You Shirone?"

Koneko's eyes widened.

How did he..?

What?!

"I'll take that as a yes!" The blond titled his neck back. Eyes locking with the visibly gaping teachers muddy brown from across the classroom. "Yo! Name's Naruto Uzumaki! Sorry to interrupt your lesson and all but I need to borrow little Shirone here for really urgent family reasons. I've got someone who'd like to have a chat with her. You don't mind, do ya teach?"

Perhaps it was the now uncomfortably razor sharp teeth or the blood red demon orbs piercing through his very soul. Whatever the reason, the likely terrified teacher swiftly nodded his head. "O-Of course, U-Uzumaki-san. Ju-just be sure s-she gets back on t-t-time."

His grin widened. "Thank you! I'll be sure to do that!" The now named Naruto returned his attention to a stunned Koneko and with a single wave of his hand the two were gone. "See you around, everyone!"

Not a minute later the class burst into mass hysteria.

Kuroka gaped. Koneko glared.

With a resounding clap, Naruto wiped the tears from his eyes and took a breath, fanning his face while speaking. "I know this must be a lot for you guys to take in! But you're family! You have to talk! What if one of you dies and then the other is left with nothing but questions?! Is that what you want?!"

Koneko was not amused. "Sister, where am I? Why am I here?" Her eyes darted over to the now openly weeping Naruto. "Who is this guy?"

"Kukuku. Who am I you ask?" Slowly, almost ominously, Naruto rose. Arms falling limply to his side as a red haze began to wisp off of his body in a manner reminiscent to smoke. "I'm a lot of things—ruler, first and foremost." Shaggy locks obscured his eyes from view."I am a conqueror of sorts. I've been known to be a kind of demon too. With a flick of my tails the oceans rise and mountains crumble!" The room they were occupying was suddenly quivering. Despite their best attempts, both sisters couldn't help but gape in awe.

"I AM KURA—" Naruto suddenly stopped mid-rant and slapped himself. In an instant, the dark energy vanished. "Oh my god. I'm so sorry you had to see that." Naruto chuckled sheepishly and rubbed the back of his head. An apologetic grin spread about his features. "That happens sometimes when I get excited." He then wiped a bead of sweat from his brow. "At least it wasn't Shukaku this time, he's a nut."

Koneko deadpanned. You're the nut.

Kuroka had to once again refrain from tearing the blonds face off. She nearly had a heart attack! "You know..." She shifted her attention back to her bound younger sister. "I never told you to kidnap her. I just wanted to see her."

Naruto easily waved off her concerns. "I didn't kidnap her. I saved her. Trust me, she would've ended up dead with how bored she was."

"I'm still right here you know."

Naruto brought both hands up and slapped his cheeks. "My god, there I go again! Forgive me please! I'll go ahead and give you two some privacy now. I'm sure you have a lot to talk about!" A fanged grin threatened to split his face. "If you'll excuse me, I'll be taking a tour of this place, for practical reason's of course! I'll be back in say, thirty minutes? Maybe an hour?" Naruto shrugged. "Screw it, I'll see you when I see you!"

With a final wave, he vanished without a trace. Leaving behind two sisters to, as he so promptly stated "talk it out" between each other. A task that was much easier said than done. Kuroka, despite herself, couldn't help the small smile that sprouted over her soft features when she could no longer feel his presence.

Yeah, Shirone was glaring daggers her way. A clear spark of resentment in her younger sisters eyes—but damn it if he wasn't right.

It was nice to see her again.

"Well..." Koneko's glare intensified as she spoke up. "This was a lot more than I bargained for, but I suppose it isn't too bad. I don't want to waste any precious time. So let's talk, Shiro-chan! Nya!"

At the older sisters happy chirping, the younger of the two quickly realized that her peace and quiet had come to a rather unsurprising end.

Issei was sure he'd cleaned the Gutsy Toad inside and out at least four times now. A feat that took him the majority of the past hour. And throughout this entire time, Ophis hadn't spoken a single word. And the same two words continued to echo from within him.

Twelve minutes.

Twelve...fucking...minutes.

Naruto had impressed Re, who was about the strongest thing he had ever encountered, created an entire pocket dimension for the equally sadistic overgrown lizard, and apparently showed off his real estate skills all in one go. He could do all of that in twelve minutes but couldn't help him at least start his dream!

As much as I love Jiraiya-dono's work, I'm starting to really want the real thing! The brunette stole glances toward the floating Ophis every now and again. And I'm starting to think he's secretly building his own while I sit here harem-less.

Truly, Naruto Uzumaki was a sadist of the highest pedigree. Before he could even bother with opening his lips, Issei found the words and breath quite literally smacked out of him by some invisible force.

"Don't even try to strike a conversation. Your pathetic intent is written all over that mediocre face of yours." Ophis idly tended to a single strand of her raven locks that was currently blocking her line of sight. "The only reason I deal with Naruto is because he's strong, and because I do owe him this much. You, and the rest of this annoying band however, are not as strong as him. Therefor I can impose my will all I want." She spared him a single blank glance.

"To make a long story short. Shut up, keep sweeping, and maybe I won't banish you to the ninth level of hell."

. . .

"Does...Does that even really exist?"

The manga the darkly dressed girl was previously reading snapped shut, eliciting a slight jump from the paranoia ridden teen. "Perhaps. Care to find out?"

A venomous, snake like aura surrounded her, and once again Issei was reminded of the fact that everyone around him could instantly crush him like a bug. He was thankfully saved by the doors of the shop bursting open. A confident, if not slightly bruised Vali swaggering in shortly after.

"Boss! I'm back! When do we start my training—?" As soon as his eyes landed on Issei, a scowl swiftly replaced what was once a wide grin. "Oh. You're here, eh? Still trying to upsurge the bosses power? Well I won't let you! That's a job reserved only for me! And I'll kill anyone in my way!" A fire burst to life in Vali's orbs. "I'll be the one to defeat Naruto-sama!" His closed fist met chis chest. "And then I'll—oof!"

His rant was cut off midway as a clean towel and a bottle of spray collided with the snow colored teens stomach.

"You, Naruto wants everything in here to sparkle by the time he comes back. Not a single speck of dust you hear? Otherwise a certain fallen angel will be catching wind of what you and everyone else in my little group was really doing behind his back. Understood?"

Vali needed no further encouragement. Like Issei before him, the chosen wielder of a dragon practically threw himself at his given task. Although with a noticeable amount of gusto.

"Of course! No doubt this is a task that he's cleverly crafted to conceal some type of training to make me stronger! And as the bosses second-in-command Ophis-sama, I won't refuse! I'll have this place so clean that the boss will have no choice but to acknowledged me."

I never noticed how weird he was. Ophis mused to herself as Vali went on with his rant. Oh well, not really her problem anymore. From her position over the counter, Ophis watched as the two opposites began to clean and tidy the shop up.

A shop that was, as Issei already noted, pretty damn clean and mostly empty. Though she tried to fight it, Ophis couldn't help the tiny smirk that curled her lips up. Naruto was a demon alright, but she supposed things haven't been as boring with him around.

Rias released a low groan as she strutted down the empty halls of Kuoh Academy. The perks of her overly-protective/loving brother also being the head of the school itself were nice at times. This time around however she couldn't truly find any way to ease the doubt in her mind. In less than a week, she would be married to one of the biggest assholes she'd ever had the displeasure of meeting.

Riser Phenex was a holier-than-thou, narcissistic, arrogant, and distasteful bastard who's only interests were women and power. He was also the man whom her father had promised her hand in marriage to in an effort to combine their two pure clans and as a direct effect, increase both the Gremory and Phenex families power.

The only problem was that she didn't want to marry him, or anyone at all. At least not at the moment. Rias didn't even want to think about what would befall her peerage where this to happen either.

To put it bluntly, she was desperate...very desperate, and entirely out of options. So when word (and panic) spread around the school about some blond devil kidnapping young women. Well, she had a pretty good idea of who it was. Where the hell is he?! I've set up wards and senors everywhere and I even contacted the Student Council but there hasn't been another sighting...of...him.

Her own thoughts began to slow when her bright blue eyes locked with a pair of shiny, bone white horns and a mop of arguably familiar shaggy locks. All of which were connected to a somehow perched sideways over the wall blond who was currently decked out in the male variation of the school gym uniform.

There was no mistaking it. That was Naruto Uzumaki.

Naruto seemed to have noticed her as well, because he was already waving animatedly in her direction with a wide grin on his face. "Oh! Is that you tomato-chan? I didn't know you were a student here too! Sirzech never mentioned ya!"

Rias's lip twitched ever so subtly at the unwarranted name calling and the casual mention of her brother. It would seem the two had already met. Which could possibly mean her chances of securing the blonds help might have taken a regrettable plunge.

But she was desperate enough to try. And you know what they say...

"Hey! I couldn't help but notice this absolutely delicious feeling of pure defeat radiating from you!"

Desperation only attracts vultures.

His grin seemed a bit more wild, and Rias could have sworn that fangs were now jutting from the corners of his lips. "Luckily for you, fixing peoples problems and coming up with solutions is my specialty! I think I've messed with you enough as it is anyway! Why not come by my shop tomorrow and we can talk there? What do say, little red?"

His close proximity wasn't enough to throw her off. The fact that she didn't even register him move from his previous spot over the wall however did.

"I don't know where your shop is." She admitted sourly after a moment.

Naruto tilted his head. "Of course you do! You've been staring at it for the past week now!" Before she could even speak, Naruto raised his hand in an attempt to shush her. "Trust me on this, just do what you normally do and I promise that this time around, you'll see it." He winked.

"You don't even know what I'm going to ask for! How are you so sure you can provide a solution for my particular problem if you don't even know what my issue is?"

Naruto only grinned. "You're right! I don't, which means the only thing left to do is to come to my shop and find out if I can or cannot!" He shrugged his shoulders. "Either way I've wasted too much time already! I've got physical ed. next and I don't want to be late for that! I heard we're going to be playing dodge-ball. Which I have no idea what that is to be honest, but I'm assuming it involves dodging a ball."

Rias was baffled by the sheer amount of inane babbling spewing from his mouth. Why was it that all of the insanely powerful beings were all bat shit insane?

"Ah! I'm gonna be late! Until next time, tomato-chan!"

Just like before, Naruto vanished into thin air with a simple wave goodbye. Leaving Rias behind to inwardly fume over the fact that once again she couldn't get a single thing from him other than a few taunts and a casual dismissal. For one such as her it was admittedly a bit frustrating to say the least.

Although one thing was for sure. Naruto Uzumaki was trouble, the type she never thought she would have to deal with either.

Stray devils? Angels? Fallen angels? She could handle that no problem.

A psychopathic blond with horns who could casually warp the very fabric of space and time at will?

Now that was an entirely different story.

Another sigh escaped the redheaded girl. Time to alert her peerage of their newly found plans after school.

p.s I gave a little shout out to an old favorite of mine titled 'Freedom has a Price' in this chappy if any of you noticed.