AN: So, this is an idea coming to us after much consideration and thought, and inspiration from FTDS, better known as Fairy Tail's Dragon Slayer. I felt it would be a good way of apologizing for being absent for so long, and get this story out there.

Major AU all around, so Flames will be used to roast any haters of my ideas.

(Chapter 1-Subject Name: Naruto)

It was raining.

The smell of fresh rain always comforted him when he was sad, or when he was so far away from home on a mission.

Naruto had never told anyone this. Would probably never tell anyone, either. He wasn't one to open up to others, well, he wasn't one to open up to people he didn't trust or like. It was just easier to keep things inside and away from the eyes of other people.

It had been how he was taught all his life, even if it was just a short twelve, almost thirteen, years. It was that same lesson pounded into his head: Emotion was weakness. Weakness was Intolerable.

And whereas a normal person would be aghast and horrified at the idea of teaching children to suppress their emotions, Naruto didn't complain. His...caretakers, for lack of a better word, had given him food, clothing, shelter, and a means by which to defend himself, so going along with their brutal, harsh training methods and styles was a small sacrifice.

After all, The Executioners were the oldest organization in the Elemental Nations, hunting criminals to near extinction using any method they wished, while also remaining completely neutral in the genocidal war going on between Tyrus and the religious provenance of Indiashka. And while a great many of the Executioners were of Tyran nationality, a good few came from the religious state as well.

None of that really mattered to Naruto. He had been born in a time of horrendous bloodshed and war, and his earliest memory of growing up in the small backwater village he had lived in before being found and recruited was of watching soldiers of all nationalities tear each other apart, sometimes literally, like wild beasts.

Such things had a way of numbing you, and, he supposed, that was what the training was for; get used to cruelty, depravity, and brutality so it won't be as bad when you experience such things yourself.

And, the methods they employed to teach and train went hand in hand with learning to use the powerful internal energy that was Chakra.

To use it properly, that is, to not go insane and murder everyone around you, required intense physical and mental discipline. So much so, that only ten people every thirty years learned how to use it at all, and even then in incredibly specialized ways with limited abilities, called Jutsu. He had to suppress a shiver at the thought of that training. Even the normal Executioner training, which had a ninety-five percent was out-aka dying-rate, paled in comparison to Chakra training.

He and his nine fellows had been hand selected to receive the special teachings and Chakra abilities of their forefathers. He was just unlucky enough to have been assigned the Chakra of the Ten-Tailed Wolf. Don't get him wrong, it was so powerful it could obliterate entire dimensions and allowed him to regenerate from wounds and harm of any kind instantaneously, but the power, like all powers, came with a draw back. He began to suffer from a horrible case of insomnia, sometimes going weeks without sleep, and developed a sociopathic nature. It was almost impossible, when including the training, of both Executioner and Chakra based, of controlling and suppressing emotion that he simply stopped connecting emotionally with other things. Truly, he had absolutely no empathy for others of any kind.

But none of that mattered anymore.

He was free.

Or as free as being in a jail cell could be.

What had happened was, Naruto had gotten curious about what all he could really do with his Chakra, so instead of asking the Captain as he normally would have done, he went and stole the Forbidden Scroll to see if there was any kind of information.

He hadn't of anticipated that the first ability he saw recorded had been an Inter-Dimensional Transportation technique, nor did he expect it to backfire and drag him, the scroll, and pretty much everything in his small room with him.

What was most curious, however, was that as he was being transported, he idly thought he saw a giant red dragon in the rainbow of colors. Which was preposterous. Dragons had been extinct for over two thousand years.

When he had woken up from unconsciousness, it was inside of a jail cell for the city of Kuoh Police Department.

They had interrogated him five times already on his sudden appearance before he gave up and just stared at them until they left him alone to think on what to do.

Now, his first order of business was to retrieve his weapons, armor, scrolls and other assorted bits and bobs that had been transported with him. Easy enough. These people were pathetically weak. Evidenced by the broken arm one of the officers now had after he had made the huge mistake to physically touch him.

Second order of business was to find a place to stay and recover. Also easy. Abandoned warehouses and empty homes would be good enough for that.

However, since he was in a jail cell, he decided to relax for a few moments. Having spied a mirror on the wall, mayhaps checking to see if the trip had done anything to him physically.

As he examined himself, he made a few mental notes. He was still on the shorter side for his age, standing, barely, at 4'9", although he made up for it with his thin, lean, muscled frame. His hair was still blonde and messy, shaggy from his decision not to have it cut a few weeks ago. His cheeks still had the jagged whisker like scars going across them from his unfortunate run in with a rather sadistic man by the name of Volfe, which had also cost him his left eye as well, with the remaining right one being a deep oceanic blue. Although he did notice that his one remaining eye did have a dark set of bags under them.

The police had let him keep his clothing, it seems, as he still wore his long sleeved black shirt and black pants, with his favorite white hoodie over it, the hood doing a good job of pushing his spiky bangs onto his forehead, with his favorite pair of boots, the ones that had the orange straps on them, on. And so were his gloves as well. He liked these too. They had orange straps as well. And finally, covering his missing left eye, was a simple strip of cloth cut to work as an eyepatch. His right arm was covered completely in bandages, hiding it from prying eyes.

Simple and easy.

Now, how to get out of this cell...

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Naruto was rather happy as he looked up at the building he had chosen to be his home for the foreseeable future.

Breaking out and retrieving his stuff had been amazingly easy. And, in some small part of him that he refused to acknowledge, he was actually...disappointed. These were the people who were tasked with the duty of protecting the citizens of this city? Anyways, all it had really taken was to wait for the officers to fall asleep so he could pick the lock with his emergency bobby pin he always carried after the Volfe Incident.

His stuff had been unceremoniously tossed into an evidence locker by the police, and after a few moments, back in his possession.

His armor mainly consisted of a metal plate attached at key points and bits of tactical gear attached to others. All of his weapons (which consisted of three swords, several thousand kunai and shuriken, a first aid kit, and several scrolls containing all of his worldly possessions, and the Forbidden Scroll) were secured to his person.

Back to the present, the building that Naruto had chosen was located inside of a school compound and was fairly tall, covered in ivy, and very dark, if not a bit spooky. Naruto tilted his head a bit before bringing his hands up into a cross sign, causing three puffs of smoke to appear before they dissipated to reveal exact copies of himself.

"Alright, we'll split up and cover the entire building. If you see anyone or anything of major interest, dispel. The information will come back to me so I can decide what to do with it." Naruto ordered in a quiet tone of voice. His clones nodded and began to slowly explore the building.

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It didn't take them long to find the occupants of this building, all of whom were gathered in a central room.

After going through a few options of introduction, the blonde decided to just do it and get it over with, like ripping off the arm of a Mirelurk. Swift and relatively painless.

After arriving at the door that his clones had indicated, Naruto reared his leg back, and after a brief instant of channeling some Chakra, kicked the door clear across the room, where it embedded itself in the wall.

As he stepped over the threshold, Naruto idly took stock of the occupants.

The first and most obvious were the two young woman on the other side of the room. The first had long red hair and greenish-blue eyes, wearing a sort of school uniform, which accentuated her large breasts. The second had long dark hair tied up by an orange ribbon and purple eyes, wearing the same uniform as the red haired girl, although her breasts were slightly bigger than the red heads.

Then there was the petite white haired girl with golden eyes staring at him with narrowed eyes that belayed her shock and fear, an emotion he was used to seeing in the eyes of others when it came to him.

And finally was the handsome blonde that Naruto immediately dismissed as a threat. While he could sense a great deal of latent and dormant power inside of him, it was obvious that his fellow blonde was incapable of accessing it properly, thereby removing him from the threat list.

Indeed, his senses were telling him that all of the occupants weren't exactly human, especially the white haired girl, she reminded him somewhat of Yugito, the Jinchuuriki of the Two-Tailed Cat, which took the form of a giant cat made of blue fire.

Interesting.

The redhead gave him a deadly glare that did little to affect him. He had seen scarier on the faces of both men and women who were many times more dangerous than her. "Who are you? What are you? Which of the Three Faction are you from?"

Faction? Well, he was an Executioner. What was he? As far as he knew he was human. And it was kind of obvious who he was. He was Naruto. "My name is Naruto. I have no idea what you mean by the Three Factions and I am...eighty-three percent sure that I am human. May I ask what your names are?"

The redhead replied hesitantly. He assumed she was the leader of the group. "My name is Rias Gremory. Beside me is Akeno Himejima, my Queen. By the door is Koneko Toujo, my Rook, and Kiba Yuuto, my Knight. Why are you here?"

Naruto nodded and filed the names away. "I am seeking shelter from the rain. I would be most appreciative if you allowed me to share your dwelling until it stops."

The girl, Rias, gave him a look for his rather formal request before she nodded. "I have half a mind to deny you, but if you tell me how you managed to make my door fly three inches into the wall, I'll let you stay here."

And so Naruto explained, in vague details, what he was and how he used Chakra, which the girl Koneko winced at, to fight. At the end of it, Rias was quiet while looking at him in the same manner that a lot of politicians did after they saw him perform or fight, as if she were weighing his worth and value as a person.

He didn't like that look. Despite his emotionally stunted nature, he still felt some kind of anger at being judged like meat.

Finally she spoke. "Tell me, Naruto, do you have a family?"

Family? He didn't really recognize what the term meant, but from what he knew it was a group of biologically related individuals who lived together. "No. I do not believe I have a...family."

The other girl, Akeno, asked him then. "What about your parents?"

Ah. That he was familiar with. "If you are refering to my biological donors, I do not believe I have ever met them."

Rias gave a short nod, secretly disturbed by the clinical answers he had been giving while Akeno gave him a thinly veiled look of pity. "And if I were to offer you a family and friends? Give you a home?"

Naruto blinked and looked at Rias, idly noting that the blonde boy and the small cat-girl had moved to either side of the red haired girl. "I would inquire as to what you would require of me to give in order to receive shelter."

And again, Rias gave a nod and proceeded to explain all about Devil's, Angels, Fallen Angels, and the Evil Pieces. At the end of the rather long explanation, and several inquires made by Naruto in regards to the duties of a Peerage, he had a pretty good idea of what Rias wanted. "My idea, Naruto, was to offer you a position in my peerage, thereby giving you a home and a family."

The young blonde tilted his head. "At the cost of, generally speaking, my freedom, as well as my loyalty to become your personal tool for the destruction of your enemies, correct?"

Okay, so, he was obviously paying very close attention when she explained the workings of a Peerage. "Not necessarily. All I would really ask of you is to fulfil any contracts that you are given and, occasionally, fight enemies who threaten us."

And Naruto contemplated the offer. As far as he knew, Rias had absolutely no reason to lie to him or harm him. And even if she did, he was confident enough in his own abilities that he would be capable of killing everyone in the room in less than thirteen-point-seven-six seconds. And as long as she didn't start ordering mass executions..."Very well. I will join your Peerage. What piece did you have in mind for me?"

Rias smiled at him and gestured with her hand, her remaining pieces appearing. "Normally I would have an idea as to what piece to use, but I have no idea what area would be best. I figured I would let you pick."

Naruto gave a curt nod and simply grabbed the piece he wanted. Rias raised an eyebrow before she nodded with a smile. "Would you please lie down on the couch so I can start the ritual?"

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This place was pathetic.

At least, he thought it was.

The people here were so weak and soft, so complacent in their supposed 'strength' that they forgot the age old lesson of 'There is ALWAYS someone stronger than you', so much so that they became little to no threat to him at all.

Some of them had learned that lesson the hard way. Broken bones would heal, as would the other numerous injuries they had suffered at his hands. Did he really care? No.

All that mattered was finding his charge and ensuring that nothing happened to cause any major damage while he tried to find a way back home.

He just hoped the boy hadn't done anything too crazy. And if he did...

Well, let's just say it wouldn't be pretty and leave it at that.

AN: Okay, so, like I said this is a Major AU, and an explanation is coming next chapter for why that is as Naruto gets to know his fellow peerage members.

As for the pairings, well, after some thought I decided to give Naruto a decent sized harem:

Akeno

Ravel

Koneko

Mittelt

Le Fay

Sona

Tsubaki

And for the OC who appeared at the end, well, he isn't going to be a villain. More of a major character really. And for this story, he will have a harem as well:

Serafall

Yasaka

Kuroka

Kalwarner

Rossweisse

Now, as for the OOC changes I've made to Naruto and the Narutoverse, well, they will be explained later as well, with some of it in the next chapter as well.

As for abilities Naruto has, well, I've got the basic list here, but things change and evolve, and these are just the absolute OOC basics I'm willing to show:

Respira- A black fog that extends from him that ages whatever touches it as fast or as slowly as he wishes.

Da Capo- A special ability that can rewind a single moment for a single object or person.

Shadow Clones- Solid, corporeal clones who can function and act on their own, as well as transmit memories and sensations back to the user.

Initial Chakra Cloak- Acts similar to Canon Kyuubi Chakra Mode v1, creating a shroud of energy around Naruto in the shape of a wolf.

Chakra Cloak- After significant physical damage has been inflicted upon Naruto in Initial Chakra Cloak, his skin peels back to use his own blood as an armor for his physical body to protect him.

Devastation- Naruto causes a massive detonation of energy that destroys any physical matter it touches, at the cost of significant damage done to his body equal to that of how much matter is destroyed.

Impure Resurrection- A necessary Evil that Naruto has if he ever needs help in learning something. Rarely, if ever, uses.

As you can probably tell, Naruto will be OP, but not the strongest in the world. And that isn't taking into account his mental and emotional problems.