As I was flying towards my apartment (house), I began humming a small tune while enjoying the wind. It was relatively soon that I touched down in the lawn to see that my door was already opened, feeling anxious I began to circulate my chakra while stealthily going toward a window to see who was inside.
I looked inside to see Jou sitting on the chair with another man idly talking about his current clients. Releasing the breath that I was holding, I straightened up and went toward the shed to change my clothes and put the box in inventory.
I continued toward the toilet and after composing myself, I went inside.
The man motioned toward me and said, "Didn't I tell you he was coming, now give me the 10 gold that I just won" Looks like he is a sensor in some sense.
Jou turned toward me, "Why didn't you just come inside when we felt you near the window?" Grumbling more about the money lost, he handed some money to the man.
"I had to smarten up in case you were with someone important" I replied.
"Good enough reason, anyway I am Ergaran" The man now named Ergaran replied. He was a mid-20 purple-haired man, with wide shoulders and rugged look that screamed experienced.
"Myself Henry, nice to meet to" I greeted.
He tusked, "You should improve your English if you want to make a good impression."
Jou laughed, "Leave the kid alone, he is not a stuffed up person like you"
Ergaran shrugged and sat back down. Jou taking that as queue motioned me to come near the table, "Well, I have a few connections here and they tell me you have spent about a few hundred gold coins" I grew a little tensed. Seeing this he waved it off.
"I don't care about that, what I care about is that you didn't tell me that you have that much to spend and didn't increase the monthly amount that you give me. If you give me a valid reason, I will not press this any further, but remember that if you give a bad reason, I will charge you extra the next year for wasting my time"
While I was focusing on him to listen to his words, I felt a spike in emotions from Ergaran, he was feeling negative thoughts toward me. I noticed him removing his hands from his pockets while sporting a pleasing smile that was wiped from his face in the next second.
I started sweating thinking about the negativity; still, there was Jou here to prevent anything from happening. Jou still had the same emotions as before, seeing as he was waiting for me to speak.
I thought as for how he would say a few hundred gold coins, I only spent that amount at hammer & anvil to buy my sword. Apart from that everything I bought was from different people. Taking this into account I said, "I had a bow that got damaged during a hunt so I saved and bought a sword"
Jou nodded, "That was 3 months ago, what are you going since"
"I was saving for other supplies as I can't hunt for a long period for now" I didn't mention any specific supplies in case he had more than one friend here.
"Why didn't you tell me any of this?"
"I didn't want you to increase the amount of gold I have to pay as I was still saving for the supplies" I looked toward Ergaran from the corner of my eyes to see him watching me intently.
"That's reasonable, not acceptable but reasonable; you will give me 3 gold coins from next month is that acceptable"
I thought about it for a second before nodding.
"Well, my friend here will now inspect you; he is a high-class devil, so behave" saying that he directed me toward the center of the room.
Ergaran too walked toward up and formed a purple circle in the air that caused hairs on the back of my neck to stand up. I grew tense in case an attack happened but nothing happened, the circle spun but then died down.
Jou asked Ergaran, "So, what's the verdict"
Ergaran replied, "As you said still a long way to go before him achieves a the second pair"
Jou nodded than cocked his head, "What about his potential?"
"A pawn" Ergaran lied smoothly, that I noticed due to my ability to sense emotions.
Jou turned back toward me, "Kid you better work harder, you won't be able to advance in rank if you are weak, I refilled the stock already, and will meet you next month"
Jou and Ergaran both began to move outside while taking about drinks at a local bar.
I was happy that they went off, especially Ergaran as he had bad intentions toward me that much I could feel. It was unsettling to not show how his emotions affected me.
Nothing to do now, thinking this I went off to bed as today had sucked all my energy already and now I just want to sleep.
Next month
I knew things were building up to something for the last month. As soon as Jou went off to his own home, I felt as if there was a clock ticking.
This was mainly because the day after meeting with Jou and Ergaran I felt like someone was spying on me; I began to pinpoint the feeling and was able to do so after flying randomly all over the city and noticing my follower.
It was a small bird, probably a familiar, it was following me all over the place, and I just knew that it was a piece of bad news. The bird never got close enough for me to know how it looked or felt but it always followed me. I was not even able to hide using my band [it was following me using my magical signature] simply because I couldn't fly using the band and on foot, I was not fast enough to lose the bird.
I went to rune shop to see about improvement but was told that it would cost about 100 gold coins. I only had 24 coins and as such was not able to buy that. I couldn't even go into the forest as I feared what would happen. I knew Ergaran could easily teleport to my position and there would be no one nearby to interfere.
There was a reason I spent the better part of the month just doing odd jobs in the neighborhood. Apart from that, I tried to increase my fighting prowess but there was not much I could do. I tried to study more about medical to progress further my studies. But the thought about what would happen always clouded my mind and as such, I made no progress.
The bird was absent today and as such that made my hand itch, I knew today was a bad day. I tried to go toward outside to fly over the town as that always calmed me somewhat.
Before I could go outside, the inside of my house began to glow in purple light and I watched helplessly as even with all my chakra enhanced strength I was not able to open the gate. Purple runes began to appear all over the inside.
There was another flare of purple and it looked like Ergaran teleported inside whatever he had done. While it may look like my house, I knew it was not as there was no smell of kitchen that was always present to my nose.
Ergaran looked around and then motioned toward the chair but I was not an idiot, so I remained standing, seeing as I was not going to come, he shrugged and sat down.
"Good instincts kid," He said as a greeting.
I remained quite as whatever I would say would only further help the bastard and began cycling my chakra throughout my body.
He raised an eyebrow at my quietness then shrugged, "Whatever, as I was saying, you cost me, money kid, if you would have just went toward any deserted area there would have been no need for this unpleasantness, now I will just have to get my money worth before sending you off, Of course, you can stop this from happening by just joining our side"
This was seriously not happening while being quite would have helped before, if he had already planned everything and willing to share the information, it was better to get at least some information. Thinking about that, I asked him, "Sending me of where and which side?"
"Nothing personal kid, but you have a lot of potential and if I were to not do anything you would have been involved in with current pussy nobles and I can't let that happen"
Seeing as he has actually not answered my question I asked him again.
"Sharp aren't you, well I can't tell you the location. The side though is old devil's that want to go back to the old ways of being; we were so powerful back then. There were no restrictions; we could do as we wanted" He trailed off as if imagining something.
I quickly began to think about how I could get out of this situation, first being killing the man in front of me, which was quickly discarded as he was a high the class devil and as such could easily kill me, I could only win if I had an element of surprise.
"What if I have gone to the police or told Jou?"
He replied smugly, "One they never would have believed you as you had no evidence, second I would have killed you as soon as got any chance"
As it looked like he was getting back into the flow of things, I started speaking, "While doing what we want is good, how does it affect me?" to change the topic from my death.
His expressions brightened, "As you may have noticed it's very hard to increase your power, in older days, you just have to consume a few hundred human souls and you would easily become a mid-class devil. Apart from that, the current government has made laws such that only the noble house could conduct business in the human world, so people can't even form contracts to earn power and money. It would have been so easy to go there and have my fill" He finished the last part with a disgusting expression.
That expression turned toward me, "Well I was going to give you a chance to join us, but all this talking had made me realize that I have a child in front of me and now I am not in the mood to ask."
Saying this he jumped toward me in blinding fast speed. As he was looking towards my eyes to see my expression I quickly sent chakra to my eyes and captured him in a genjutsu that made his balance slightly off.
The trick worked as while he was still coming fast, it was not as fast as before and I was easily able to evade his initial lunge, The Sharingan is a a very powerful tool, I was easily able to predict how he would perform every action, it's as if I just know the probability of every action he could perform and can easily choose my own course of action.
I quickly pulled out my sword from inventory and swiped toward him, he must have felt something as he flapped his wings and was above my swing. But this put him where I wanted, in the air while he didn't have proper balance. I quickly swung the sword as fast and hard as I could it stuck him in the leg and there was a lot of blood, it looks like I at least reached some depth.
Due to pain, he was able to overcome the genjutsu and finally flew upward while keeping an eye on me. He looked briefly at his leg then shrugged, "Ha, looks like I was right to not tell that idiot that you have as much potential as queen piece, good work brat in that illusion, but now that initial charge is over, I am going to cut you in so many pieces"
I watched in slow motion as he extended his right hand forward and a purple circle originated. I tried to run toward him but could only take a single step before electricity generated from that circle traveled toward me, so fast I could do nothing but watch and then I was screaming myself hoarse.
This went on for a few minutes and it hurt so much, and even after the spell stopped I could nothing else but vibrate and spasm as every part of my body hurt. I tried to move but, I couldn't even control my fingers.
He laughed at my expression and started to walk toward me, "Now, that all your strength have left you, be a good boy and don't try anything else and you can live to see another day, even if as a slave"
As he looked me in the eyes I put everything in an illusion that has made my right arm and hand look unimportant.
He started to lift me off the ground and for a second I thought I have failed but as he didn't do anything to my hands, I quickly began to plan ahead.
While I was doing that he put me on the table and pulled out a long stick, "Bart, now that you had your fun, am going to have my own, do try to make good sound, I would be quite angry if you contained it inside you"
Any plan I have made fled my head as he began to beat the stick all over my body, even if I wanted to I couldn't have stopped the shouts that came out of my mouth or the tears that spilled from my eyes.
He must have had some of his fill as he paused for a minute and I noticed that he really was ignoring my right hand, I literally began to breathe a A little easier and thought back to my plan.
The breath must have signaled him of my recovery as he began to ones again beat me senseless. Various wounds all over my body had begun to bleed and as such these were blood all over the table, as such taking advantage of that, I used my left hand to lift myself slightly and as the next strike came.
The momentum was used to help me slip off the table, he grew angry at that and kicked me in the back with a lot of force, while muttering about brats not even know how to stay still.
He tried to only use one hand to put me back on the table but due to blood my shoulder was slippery and he had to use both his hands.
This is what I was waiting for, as soon as he stopped concentrating on my the lower body I quickly took out the old knife sword that I spent months making as good as possible, it was still not that good as my steel sword.
It had a good enough edge though for me to put it through the Femur, that's where you have a really big blood vessel. I threw him away and using the brief adrenaline generated to concentrate only on Ergaran.
His face blanked for a second then he snarled, "You are going to pay long and hard for this" even with blood loss and damage, he flew easily upwards.
I was not going to give him the chance to cast anything this time, so I first threw the chair in his intended direction, while he was doing that, I switched myself with a box on the opposite side of the room. Slipping on the rune band stopped my magic from coming outside my body.
As he looked back toward the area he couldn't find as I switched place to his back and then using surface walking traveled upwards the ceiling as quietly and stealthily as possible.
It took me only a few seconds to reach near him, and then I formed an incomplete Rasengan and threw myself at him. He must have noticed me as he turned around, but it was a little too late as the A-rank technique struck him on top of his head and imploded on itself.
I couldn't make the technique properly, as even this time there were long cuts all around my hands. It did the job though as the skull exploded and covered me in skull matter.
The technique that was keeping up in a separate dimension (I think) stopped working. With its end, we both came back in my room, seeing as nothing happed here, I first looked outside to see if there was a familiar outside. Not seeing anything, I took a five-minute shower and after putting about all the things even things from the store into my inventory, I went outside with a change of clothes that were getting bloodied even as I started put more magic in my regeneration.
Even though I was feeling both pain and fatigue, I quickly took off upwards in the sky, ones I was sure no one was looking I took off towards the forest. I could have gone to the police or any other person but that would have just alerted the old devil faction that I killed one of their high-class devils and as such became a bigger threat to them.
I could, of course, appeal to meet the great devils but my chances were slim, so the best thing to do was to disappear and disappear fast. The guy (I think it's coming to me what happened there) may have friends that may check on him, or his peerage, as he was a high-class devil.
Thoughts
As always thanks for the review. This is going to integrate Naruto and high school DxD, so there will be fights, massive ones, there will be paranoia and a mad dash to power up. No people from Naruto popping up though. I am doing it slowly with small jumps as from all the fanfic's that just make them op with no concept as to why someone is reacting to something so strongly.
In the case of romance, I don't believe in 17-year-old children knowing their future husbands and harem forming without any problem. The inserted person is already in his 20's so there will be pairings for him. Don't expect anyone in the age group below 20 to have solid romance.
It takes compromises and understanding to form a relationship from both sides to make a relationship last. A teenager generally doesn't have a proper understanding of this.
