Disclaimer: First Chapter
Even NORMAL people know about Saints, and Asia WAS a celebrity that people travelled the world over to get healed by her. Naruto can talk to Koneko about Asia, without it raising any red supernatural flags to either of them, since he's talking about a celebrity that is RUMORED to have healing powers.
Story Start!
'So, there is a former Saint coming to Kuoh.'
Koneko was not with the church, nor did she pay attention to the human world nearly as much as other people when it did not involve her select interests. She didn't know that one of the Saints had been kicked out of the church, but it would seem that it was a pretty big event.
"A former Saint... with the rumored ability to heal... that sounds like... Asia Argento?" Rias stated as she heard what Koneko had to say.
"You know her?"
"She possesses the Twilight Healing, and people were travelling from around the world to get her rumored healing. She's healed many people, the fact that your boyfriend has heard of her is no surprise." Rias shrugged her shoulders. Koneko breathed a sigh of relief, before she smelled the air around Rias.
"... You smell like butter."
"STILL!?"
She had washed her hair SO MANY times, but the smell of butter had not yet gotten free from her body. No matter how many showers and bathes she took, it was like somebody had soaked her hair in butter and now the smell was permanent. It was ruining the tips of her hair, the fact she was washing it so much that was. Rias grabbed a lock of her hair, before she smelled it, and sighed in annoyance when she realized that she wasn't able to smell it. She had gone nose blind to the smell of her own hair.
"I guess I'll go get a haircut later... but more importantly, when do you plan to come clean to your boyfriend about-"
"BOYFRIEND, the school mascot has a boyfriend!?"
"Who is he?" Koneko asked when she saw a boy entering the room with Yuuto and Akeno, raising an eyebrow. She had been teleporting to client houses form her apartment after she started to date Naruto more, so she was a little behind on what had been happening in the clubroom. She knew that Rias had been skipping days of school to watch anime, and that her brother had joined her for 2 days, but that wasn't important.
Rias stood up and gestured towards Issei.
"This is Issei Hyoudou, yesterday he joined my cute peerage as a Pawn, and Issei, this is Koneko Toujou, my cute Rook. She is your senior in the world of devils, so show her respect." Rias introduced the two of them to each other. Akeno had been following Issei really closely the last week whenever he wasn't at school, which prevented him from being approached by Raynare.
He was informed of his situation.
Then, he became a devil in order to fulfill his dream.
"Hello, thank you for having me... YOU have a boyfriend!?" Issei was polite, then went mad when he remembered that she had a boyfriend. She was the cutest girl at the school, and gave off the most unapproachable vibe that he had ever felt before.
Koneko punched him.
Hard.
-With Naruto-
"Asia Argento."
Kuoh only had a single airport, and he knew who all of the passengers on any given flight were thanks to them being public records. So he just waited for the moment that she stepped off of her plane, arms crossed and on the look out for any Italian girls who were wearing church clothes, and he found her right away.
"Oh, did Raynare send you to pick me up?"
She was a cutie.
"No, you're not going to be meeting up with... Raynare was it?" Naruto asked her, and she seemed visibly confused by his words. Naruto grabbed her suitcase and lifted it over his shoulder, before he used his free hand to grip her small body by the shoulder. He didn't drag her by any means, but his grip made it so that when he walked, her body was compelled to walk as well.
She looked a lot like he did.
She had the same golden blond hair, the same peach colored skin, the same rounded eyes, and the same heart shaped face. To anyone and everyone watching them, they had to look like siblings. The only different between them that was not gender based, but their eye colors being blue and green, which both were genes that could co-exist in the same family tree and show up.
"She didn't send you?" Asia was visibly confused by that.
She did follow him though as he led her to a limo, and opened the door for her so that she could get in. She was either a very trusting person, or a very naive person, because she actually got into the limo of her own free will. He raised an eyebrow at that, but mentally relented that she must have grown up in an place where she was not taught to distrust strangers.
"No, I'm here to talk to you and offer you a job to make ammends for the blood that you spilled."
"... What?"
"Tell me if I'm correct, but you were kicked out of the church because you healed some kind of demon... and it killed people?" Naruto asked her, and instantly her happy face fell into sadness. That alone told him all he needed to know about her guilt, because she was visibly guilty. She looked like she really regret what she had done.
"I... I... he was hurt... he was dying... he needed somebody to save him."
"So you are guilty, did you stop to question why a devil was at the church... and I've done some digging by the way. That devil you saved, was it this man?" Naruto pulled a picture out of his pocket and showed it to Asia.
She blinked, before her eyes lit up in recognition.
"Yes-"
"He's a rapist, he gets nuns kicked out of churches and rapes them... ever since you were kicked out of the church, I've had a couple employees of investigating this. He's not just a rapist, he is a murderer... and you healed him when he was fatally wounded... correct?" Naruto asked her as he laid the facts as he knew them out straight. He was easily able to put two and two together with all of the money he had spent gathering information on this matter.
Turns out even devils needed to use passports to enter other countries, so their was documentation on this devil. He just had to go from there, and it was simple to put the facts together. Wherever he went, a beautiful young girl from the church was kicked out of her religion, and just vanished.
"I... he's a..."
"That's right, you saved the life of a man who is, more than likely, raping a woman right now... I'm here to ask for your side of the story... do you need a moment?" Naruto asked Asia as he leaned forward.
She looked like she was going to puke.
All of the color was drained from her face as she covered her mouth, visibly trying not to lose it in his limo. Naruto waited for her, but he could tell what was going through her mind. She knew that the man had killed the exorcist that was chasing him, but she did not know about the rapes. She also might have also hoped he only killed those men in self-defense, putting blind trust in her natural enemy.
"He... he was..."
"A rapist and a murderer, these are all of the women that have gone missing because of him. All women of Christ like yourself." Naruto laid out a bunch of women's pictures in front of her, and Naruto pointed to Asia. "... my opinion is that he was trying to get you kicked out of the church, so he could capture you and rape you too... you weren't aware of any of this?" Naruto wanted her to confirm that with her words.
"I... no... I didn't... dear Lord... what..." Asia grabbed the sides of her head as tears leaked out of her eyes. She shook her entire body, trembling with horror at the kind of monster that she had helped. "Why... are you... why are you telling me this?" Asia had to know why he would give this kind of information to her.
He pointed at her.
"You're going to pay for the blood on your hands, I've personally sent money to the families of the men who died to this monster. I've offered them the chance to work for my company, but you deserve to be punished... and the best way you can atone for this, is by taking his life." Naruto stated as he leaned back and crossed his arms. "You'll also be working for me if you wish." Naruto offered that as well.
She would get one of the lowest jobs he could think of, being a maid to watch over his apartment, but it was the only place that would be safe for her to work off her debt to him for paying those families.
"... Kill... I don't know... I don't think I can kill, and even if I could... I don't know where he is."
Naruto lowered a moniter in the limo, and turned it on.
It showed a devil hanging by holding chains in a room by himself.
"Diodora Astaroth, I haven't spoke with him personally. But you see, his picture was an exact match for a man in this city. Funny, it would seem that he was waiting for you here... I believe he plans to save you from this Raynare woman, then rape you himself until you break." Naruto was completely prepared. It was no hard feat for him to track down this man when the man was already in the same city as he was, waiting for Asia.
"What!?"
Stunned, shocked, and hurt were among the various things that Asia was feeling right now when she heard what might have been planned for her. Naruto looked at the devil being restrained with no emotion on his face. He opened his hand, and a dagger handle, the Anti-Magic Muramasa knife version. He tossed it to Asia, and he looked at her.
"He... he was... I saved his life... he... he's evil."
"At least 15 rape victims, and 2 murder victims, and I'm discovering more of them. If he does not die, then more people will suffer. The rapes he has committed in the past are not your fault, but the fact is you should have never healed him... people have already died because of what you did Asia Argento. If you don't kill him, I will... I won't allow this monster to haunt the shadows of the human world after today." Naruto stated as he looked at Asia with determination in his eyes. He leaned forward and pushed the mechanical handle into her hand. "I'm going to work you to the bone, you will atone for your mistake with blood, sweat, and tears. Now, tell me your side of the story." Naruto didn't ask her.
He told her.
"... I... when I was 8... I learned I had the power to heal-"
"You were made into a Saint by rhe church, and for 8 years people travelled from all over the world to get healed by you. You ARE a celebrity Asia, I don't want to hear your life story... for 8 years you did great things, you helped a lot of people. You were willing to sacrifice your womanhood for the greater good, if you had stayed with the Church, you could have helped a lot of people... why did you give that up?" Naruto asked her that part of it.
"You... you don't understand... I was lonely... and... that man was dying... he was going to die alone... I just needed to heal him... let him run away..."
"That is your story... you healed a man being chased by exocists, thinking he would run away... he was at the Vatican, he was on your home turf. Why was he even there to begin with. You didn't ask yourself any of these questions?"
"I didn't... I pitied him... but you don't-"
Naruto glared at her.
"I fully understand, because I want to help people to. The difference is that I know that some people have no hearts, they can't be saved. I try and give everyone who can earn a second chance that chance... I'm going to give you a second chance, but some people are clearly beyond redemption... you were lonely, so you pitied him because he was lonely." Naruto could see that more tears were forming in her eyes.
"I'm sorry... I really... hic... I really didn't know." She was bawling in tears.
She now knew the kind of man who she saved, she knew that the entire reason she saved him was because he schemed for her to do it. She even now knew that he had followed her to Kuoh so that he could kidnap her and rape her. She had saved the life of a truly evil man, and she knew she deserved to be kicked out of the church for what she had done. She had known that she deserved it the second he killed those men. She thought that was punishment enough for her sins though, that she could practice her faith by herself.
She had not been punished enough.
"... I'll... I don't know if I can do it..."
"Okay, if you can't kill him... then say the words, Diodora Astaroth, I sentence you to death... just say those words." Naruto told her as he looked at the moniter screen the entire time he spoke. Asia looked at it with her tear stained eyes as well.
"Diodora Astaroth... I sentence... I sentence you to... de... death..." Asia didn't have a lot of strength in her words.
She said them though.
"Gaaaaah!"
Diodora's head came flying off of his shoulders on the moniter, the chains ripping his head clean off his shoulders the second that Asia finished her sentence. Her sentencing him to death with her very own words, Naruto would accept that. She was not the kind of person who could easily kill others, even if they were truly evil people that deserved it. In a way, she was just like him, but she was more naive than he was. He believed that everyone could be saved, as long as they had a heart that had even a speck of light and love to it. As long as a person was capable of love, then they could be saved.
Some people just were not capable of love.
Diodora Astaroth was dead.
"You sentenced him to death, the first part of your atonement has been paid for. You'll be my personal maid, more than 70% of your paychecks will be used to pay back what I spent to help your families and cover several other expenses. I expect you to work your ass to the bone every day, you will get 1 day off a week... once you had completely paid back what you owe, you will be giving more regular hours and will get to keep your paychecks... if you wish that is... do you want to work off the rest of your atonement?" Naruto asked her, since he could not force her to work for him. He could make her life a living hell if he wanted to, but he didn't want to do that.
She was a good person.
She deserved to be given the chance to clean the blood off of her hands, she deserved that much since her heart was capable of love.
"Ye... yes sir."
"You're a maid, refer to me as Master. Iruka, take Asia to get measured for her uniform, and-"
"I'll make sure to train her myself, gotta say that I'm surprised at being replaced like this."
"Nobody will ever replace you, but now you can focus on the more important things. This way, you don't have to work as hard... you can spend some more time with your son." Naruto stated with a smile, since he knew that life was not easy for the man who had been forced to take in the child of somebody else, but also raise his own adopted child. The man managed to live 2 lives, and it was not an easy 2 lives to live. "... maybe it is time you find yourself a wife as well." Naruto chuckled at his own joke.
Iruka just smiled from the driver's seat.
That was the day that Asia the Saint, became Asia the Maid.
Naruto looked at the pictures of the women that got raped again, before he blinked.
"Ah... this one is a man..."
Well, it would seem Diodora was an equal opportunity rapist.
Chapter End!
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Fact: In the LN, not the anime, 1 of Diodora's Bishops was a man.
