Okay so I got a pretty good response from the last chapter hopefully the reviews keep up because every one of them makes me want to do that little better for you guys. Oh yeah I feel I made Kuroka's mark a little insignificant so I'm going to alter its design slightly so that it also cover a portions of Natsu's right shoulder blade or something. Some of you have been wondering if I'm just going to use Meliodas' abilities from Nanatsu no Taizai as Natsu's E.N.D powers well allow me to answer your question. Only the black marking, full counter and maybe counter banish or wrath will be used. I'm thing of Using Wrath as an ultimate power for E.N.D but E.N.D wil have other abilities when Natsu becomes more aware of his abilities I'm not exactly sure what these will be yet but Fire devil slayer magic might be one a some sort of Flame curse is definitely one because of things I plan on doing in later chapters. Anyways not much else to say except let's get on with this chapter.
"Ugh my head, what happened?"
Natsu could only ask himself this as his eyes lazily blinked open and his head pounded, his memory must have been a bit hazy as the last thing he remembered was walking into the room and then blacking out.
It wasn't until Natsu actually made an effort to get out of bed he felt himself weighted down by something wrapped around his body. As he struggled slightly he felt two slender arms move up his chest as well as two very, very soft pillowy like objects press into his side. So using his only free arm Natsu through off the sheets covering him to see a very content looking Kuroka splayed out over the top of him in a true cat-like fashion with the absolute bare minimum in terms of clothing on and apparently his clothes had magically disappeared as well.
Natsu honestly had no idea how to react but there were one or two things he was surprised at, one was the fact that he didn't have stop himself from taking Kuroka then and there on the bed and the other was long serpentine orange dragon biting its own tail on her shoulder. Natsu had no idea what it was but after staring for a few seconds everything that happened last night hit the pinkette like a tonne of bricks and he thanked whatever, if there actually was a god in the underworld for his losing conscious last night and that he only marked Kuroka. It was a bit strange for him that he had only known the person that he would be spending the rest of life and marked them after 2 days but he remembered Igneel saying something that with dragons and dragonslayer marking can be instantaneous upon sight sometimes even if they've never met before. "Guess we're gonna be spending a lot more time together…Kuroka" Natsu said a little louder than intended which stirred the sleeping devil.
"NYAAAA! Morning Natsu" Kuroka purred out before rubbing the sleep from her eyes, "Yeah mornin, so mind telling me where our clothes went?" Natsu asked curiously getting a cheeky little smirk from the nekomata. "Yeah you were so warm last night I started sweating bullets so I thoughts we'd both be more comfortable without clothes, there in the wash because they were rather dirty" Kuroka said as she reached out and touched the mating mark on Natsu's neck. "You know what's going on right?" Natsu asked just too make sure this time getting a smile from the black haired beauty.
"Of course I do, we've marked each, paired for life" she beamed a smile which only confused Natsu, "Is that really okay we've only known each other for what 2 and a bit days? I'm not complaining far from it, having someone as strong, caring and beautiful as you as my mate is like a dream come true" Natsu questioned as he leaned up against the headboard of the bed which gave Kuroka a little idea.
Inching herself closer and closer to the pinkette Kuroka crawled seductively towards Natsu making it difficult for the dragonslayer to hide how turned on he was by the she-devil's display. "What a coincidence I feel the same way" Kuroka said before pressing her index finger into Natsu's chest and running it along his well-defined muscles, this only made things more difficult for Natsu as he could feel his throat drying out and a lump forming in the back of his throat.
"You're strong, kind and on top of all that you're easy on the eyes and have an amazing body, in fact I wouldn't mind letting you take me now" Kuroka said whispering the last part in Natsu's ear causing his face to turn beat red. This made Kuroka burst out in laughter as Natsu continuously spluttered words at Natsu's innocent form.
The devil then rose up and made her way to the bathroom giving Natsu an amazing view of one of the, if not the best ass he had ever seen, the dragonslayers eyes seemed glued to Kuroka's rear which didn't go unnoticed by the nekomata who added a very noticeable sway to her hips which Natsu's eyes readily followed taking in every sway made. "I gonna take a shower your free to join me… just kidding" Kuroka said and as soon as she said free to join Natsu's mind went blank and he passed out seemingly with a content look on his face making Kuroka think only one thing "Well I've found my new favourite hobby…tease the dragon" the black cat thought before entering the shower.
30 minutes later
After recovering from passing out Natsu had gotten his and Kuroka's clothes from the wash, after he got changed he saw that Kuroka's clothes were in slightly worse condition than when they went in so using all the expertise he had gained over the years he decided to mend it before Kuroka would finish in the shower and if she was like any of the girls from the guild Natsu knew that wasn't going to be anytime soon.
After making his way downstairs to the front desk and asking for a sowing kit Natsu quickly made his way back to the room and began working on Kuroka's red and black yukata and her orange/gold obi. Luckily after all the missions where the dragonslayer had torn his shirts and trousers apart Natsu actually had a good feel for sowing and was able to patch up Kuroka's clothes no problem.
After a further half hour Kuroka came out of the shower clad only in a towel that struggled to contain her curvaceous figure. Before she could address the pinkette she saw her clothes were neatly folded on the bed she and the dragonslayer had shared last night causing her to make her way over to them. As she held the clothes up she saw that it had been repaired, "Hope I did a good enough job I couldn't have my mate walking around in tattered rags now can I?" Natsu said as he raised himself up from the bed to face Kuroka.
"You can sow?" Kuroka asked in scepticism with a raised eyebrow but her question never got answered as they heard knocking on the room next to theirs "OPEN THIS DOOR UNDER THE SUSPICIONS OF A STRAY DEVIL'S WHERE ABOUTS!" a loud voice boomed making both Natsu and Kuroka freeze on the spot, "SHIT WHAT DO WE DO!" Kuroka whispered in a panicked voice.
"I don't know can't you make a portal?" Natsu replied in an equally panicked voice as the option of having to fight these guys was looking to be more of a prospect which wouldn't be a problem for the pair judging from what Natsu could tell from the magical signatures as none of them were anywhere nears Kuroka's level of power. "It take's time to make those we need time plus I'm stark naked and I don't fancy walking around the underworld nude" Kuroka explained but before Natsu could explain his advanced hearing picked up the sound of footsteps on the floor boards approaching their room.
"It's worth a shot" Kuroka thought to herself before she pounced on top of Natsu with her on top and before he could say a word, "Just shut up, don't say a word" Kuroka said in a demanding tone earning a nod of understanding from the dragonslayer.
Other side of Natsu and Kuroka's door
Two of the devils that Grayfia had sent out in search of Natsu had gained access to the Sitri territory using the excuse that they were hunting a stray devil thus granting them access, they had been going from town to town asking information on anything they could get which has brought them here to the same inn Natsu and Kuroka are staying, in front of the very door to their room. However, before they could knock on the door and announce themselves they were halted by the sounds of lustful moaning and panting as well as the sound of mattress springs squeaking.
They could hear the voice of a woman on the other shouting orders that made them imagine what exactly was going down on the other side of the door, both devils could only turn to one another not knowing what would be the correct protocol to follow, their orders and shoot a brother down or let said 'brother' be for now and allow them to finish. Thankfully they went with the latter and went to the next room to inspect.
Back inside with Natsu and Kuroka
"Geez when I said harder I didn't actually mean it, it was just to fool them" Kuroka teased as she straddled Natsu's waist completely forgetting she herself was still naked save for a towel, of course our favourite dragonslayer (A/N not really my favourite is Laxus just sayin) lost a pint or two or blood from their little roux but Kuroka's teasing was really embarrassing "Shut up, it's not my fault your hot as hell now just hurry up and finish casting the spell" Natsu muttered under his breath "Aye sir!" Kuroka replied unknowingly doing a happy impression causing Natsu to wonder if all felines had the phrase imbedded in their DNA, highly unlikely when he thought about it since none of the other exceeds would say it and Milliana only ever said it on occasion when she was around Happy according to what Kagura had told Erza.
"Quick grab all of our stuff before they comeback, we're leaving the underworld, there's somewhere I want to go for now" Kuroka said as she concentrated on forming a magical portal to the precise location at the precise time she desired while Natsu got all their stuff. "Wow that sleep really helped, I can actually feel a portion of my already is back already: here quick hop through it's ready" Kuroka said in slight amazement as she felt some of her power return to her, but if she really concentrated this current level of power she was at was stronger than what it would normally have been, that and she may have noticed her body felt lighter as well as stronger.
As soon as both hoped through the portal they were surrounded by a mirage of rainbow colours that moved and oscillated so much it could cause multiple seizures. "Hey out of curiosity how many of these portal jumps can you do over a certain amount of time?" Natsu asked with his hands folded lazily behind his head as they drifted through the dimensional space while Kuroka threw on her Yukata and obi. "This will be the last long distance one for a couple of days, because we're going from the underworld to the human world it becomes very taxing on my body so normally I can do about five or six long distance ones in a week, I can do as many short ones as I want even if it's two people but at max I can do two long ones and a dimensional transport in a week before I have to wait about two or three days until I can transport again" Kuroka said in exhaustion before she smiled at the dragonslayer making his face turn the colour of his hair despite his various protests that its salmon.
"So if we're found out we will mostly be fighting or find some other method for transportation" Natsu summed up earning a nod from Kuroka, "Yeah that's the way things will be until my energy is back to normal, I'll be able to transport us short distances together like I said but if we're under attack we'll most likely be found very quickly" Kuroka explained the exhaustion still evident in her voice. "Any specific reason why we are going to the human world?" Natsu asked as he noticed the white light quickly approaching them.
Before Kuroka could answer they both came through the portal and landed in a well-covered area, a mixture of trees and bamboo thickets to hide themselves in and what appeared to be a spring with an assortment of plant life like lily pads and lotus flowers floating about it. It was quite a beautiful sight to behold and although not an extremely large area it was still fairly big and enough to gains the dragon slayers attention who had seen many natural phenomena and beautiful sites but something about this had a simplistic beauty to it. Looking up into the sky it appeared to be only shortly after sunrise in the human world judging by the sun.
"My sister" Natsu was immediately snapped out of his thoughts by Kuroka's saddened tone, "What?" Natsu had heard her he just wanted to clarify, "I wanted to come her because I just wanted to see my sister, she goes to a school managed by the Gremory's and Sitri's" Kuroka said in a saddened tone as she looked towards the ground. "Well then what are we waiting…" "No you don't understand I want to see her but she can't see me no matter what, she's a part of the Sirszech's sister's peerage which makes me her enemy, she already hates me for leaving her without saying anything and the fact that everyone thinks I killed our master to get away doesn't help" Kuroka explained in an even more down trodden tone than before earning a look of sympathy from Natsu who only wished he could empathise with her on some level.
"Well as long as she doesn't see you everything should be okay, and if anything happens you've got me for back up" Natsu said in a comforting tone while holding his hand for the Nekomata to take, "Natsu?" Kuroka was on the verge of tears, she had longed to see her sister for years but upon finding out that she was now with the Gremory clan it complicated things especially with how seriously they took stray devil extermination. Needless to say Kuroka constantly felt a mess of emotions when trying to see her little sister and every time being thwarted and yet here was Natsu making sure she was going to get her chance to see her sister even if her sister didn't know it was alright as long as she was doing well and having good life that's all Kuroka cared about.
As she took Natsu's hand for the first time much to Kuroka's surprise he noticed the top of the blackish red mark on the red side of her neck that went further down into her yukata. "Don't tell me you're only noticing this now?" Kuroka asked in a slightly humoured tone as she rubbed away the tears that threatened to spill from earlier. "Is that?" Natsu started in confusion only to be finished by the black cat "It's your mark and I have to say I love it and think it looks pretty damn cool" Kuroka said as she pulled the yukata down off her right shoulder to give Natsu a better view of the rest of the mark that spread down the front of her right shoulder and split one way onto a bit of her arm and the other way going further down across her right breast.
The shape and design of the mark was like nothing Natsu had ever seen the outer parts of it were black in colour and were akin to flames in shape while also being leaf like but it was the inner design that stood out among everything else.
Crimson red lines running in different directions all intersecting and weaving into one amazing pattern that Natsu recognised as his secret art pattern, his mark was a black and crimson lotus flower. Natsu had been paying so much attention the design of the mark that he didn't realise was staring at Kuroka's breasts for a solid five minutes.
"Not that I mind but if your done staring at my boobs can we get a move" Kuroka spoke up snapping Natsu out of his daze and causing his face to turn bright red in response "I'm sorry I didn't mean to stare but before we go I wanna check out my mark I haven't seen it yet" Natsu apologised while bowing before making his way over to the spring and removing his muffler to see the top end of what appeared to be light blue flames sticking out from his shirt.
Removing his clothes Natsu saw that a crown of light blue flames encircled the lower half of his neck but this wasn't all of it, looking at the reflection of his back in the spring he could see three lines of the same colour veering off from the crown one going down to the centre of his spine and the other two to each of his shoulder blades before ending in light blue circles. Upon seeing this Kuroka's eyes widened, "So this is what my mark really looks like, I saw it last night but then it was only a small flame above your scar but wow this looks awesome it even symbolises my powers by showing the chi points in your body" Kuroka said in awe as she traced her finger tip over the design on the dragonslayers back and she could indeed feel the chi flowing through the mark.
"I wonder if these will be visible when your other marking come up." Kuroka said bringing up a topic that had been on Natsu's mind since he had become aware of them. "I really don't know, I don't have complete control over those powers everything about them feels foreign yet familiar to me" Natsu said in a confused tone before placing his clothing back on much to Kuroka's displeasure. "Well that's neither here nor there, time to see your sister without getting caught…that sounded kinda of creepy didn't?" Natsu asked upon replaying what he had just said in his head earning a nod from Kuroka. "Let's just go"
Near Kuoh Academy early morning
Thanks to the combination of Kuroka's ability to detect devil made barriers and Natsu's ability to track scents the duo found themselves in a positioned that should strongly favour them in terms of remaining undetected and increasing the chances of Kuroka being able to see he sister. An hour passed, then another and another and another until it was afternoon time, both were ready to call it quits until Natsu picked up a scent that was similar Kuroka's along with one that was similar to Sirszech's and another that reminded him of a dragon.
"Kuroka wait is that her" Natsu said as he grabbed Kuroka's shoulder and pointed towards a medium sized group of teenagers comprised of a red head, a raven haired girl, a blonde boy and girl, a brunette boy, a girl that had blue hair with a green streak in it and last but not least a small silver haired girl that made Kuroka's heart stop momentarily.
"Shirone"
The silver haired girl stopped for a second thinking she swore she heard someone use her old name but before she could delve any deeper the redhead called out to her, "Koneko hurry up if we need to start our meeting" this seemed to snap the girl back to reality causing her run after the group who had proceeded on without her.
As Koneko/Shirone walked away Natsu couldn't help but worry for Kuroka and rightly so because whenever he turned towards her she was crying, clutching her hand over her heart and shaking like a leaf so Natsu did the only thing he could he held her close. "Why does it hurt so much, I wanted to see her, I wanted this and yet when I see her I still feel pain why?" Kuroka bombarded her mate with questions, "You can deny how you feel but you can't run from your feelings Kuroka. Outwardly you may have said and thought you'd be content with just seeing her but subconsciously you knew it wasn't enough" Natsu said in a caring tone as Kuroka cried harder into his shoulder.
"Don't act so surprised, your family it's only natural. You're her big sister of course you'd want make sure she was doing well and protect her" Natsu said causing Kuroka's eyes to widen before a slight smile appeared on her face and she stifled a laugh, "I guess I was only trying to fool myself huh?" Kuroka summarised but Natsu didn't say anything in response "Thanks" for what?" "For being you, idiot now let's go I'm sure she'll be okay with her friends" Kuroka said in a slightly happier tone as she began walking away. "And what about you?" Natsu asked still concerned about his mate who stopped in her tracks before turning to her partner, "I have you don't I?" Kuroka replied with a smile which resulted in Natsu smiling before the duo decided to head back the area they arrived at through the portal.
Upon arrival they decided try and make the area as comfortable as possible which was going to be hard considering they didn't have anything to work with. "So what will we do for food, I assume because this is a different dimension from the underworld that the currency will be different?" Natsu spoke up but before Kuroka could answer both her own stomach and Natsu's growled in hunger. "Yeah, hehe, I have a small amount of the currency for here, we're currently in a country called Japan the currency here is yen so you take this here into stores and buy what you want" Kuroka said as she pulled out a couple of 1000 yen bills.
"I can't risk going to the stores I would look too out of place but if you go it should be alright but only get what I tell you okay" Kuroka said in a very strict tone causing Natsu to nod in agreement. "Okay so what do I have to get?"
15 minutes after Natsu left for supplies
Kuroka was silently meditating on a stone in the centre of the spring, while Natsu helped clear her view on her emotions up she still needed to sort through them and calm down so meditation seemed like the perfect way to do so considering the location. However, someone else had different plans. When she heard the sound of footsteps she thought it was Natsu but when she turned to face him she was surprised to see a young white haired teenage boy who looked around the same age as Natsu.
"Who are you, what do you want?" Kuroka asked angrily as she got into a fighting stance, causing the white haired male to laugh, "please we both now you're in no condition to fight so hear me out I have a proposition for you" he said in calm voice causing Kuroka to quirk a brow at the man, "and that would be?" she asked suspiciously while keeping her stance, she knew the man in front of her was not just an ordinary human and was most likely either a devil or a fallen angel but right now she couldn't tell due to exhaustion.
"My name is Vali Lucifer, I'm assembling a team and I want you Kuroka Tojou to be a part…" "No deal" Kuroka quickly put a stop to his offer seeing where it was going, earning a smirk from the now known Vali. "Well this wasn't entirely unexpected but I am quite unsatisfied with your answer so I'm afraid I may have to raise my hand against you to make you join me, as they say fear is a great motivator" Vali said before his left arm became clad in a white light that soon dispersed to reveal a dragon like claw gauntlet which was completely white save for the blue jewel in the centre causing Kuroka's eyes to widen.
"Oh so you know who I am now don't you? Allow me to introduce myself once again, I am Vali Lucifer The White Dragon Emperor, The Vanishing Dragon!" upon saying this Vali became cloaked in a white light which like before disappeared only to reveal him clad entirely in a full body set of dragon armour, "This is my balance breaker scale mail, although not the height of my power it should be more than enough to force you into submission and join me, in fact it may be too much but there is only one way to find out now that you've defied me, if you survive my onslaught then you're worthy of joining my team if not, well we both know what that means now don't we?" Vali spoke in a sarcastic voice which ticked Kuroka off to no ends but she wasn't going to deny in her current state she was scared for her own life.
"Too slow!" before she could formulate a plan Vali, true to his name vanished from site and appeared in front of her a plunged his fist into her stomach for the air as well as some blood out of her mouth which stained the white armour of the white dragon. It was at this exact same time when Natsu was still figuring out what was what in the shop that through his mark he felt a sharp pain prompting him to turn to the hill where he and Kuroka were staying at and it was then he noticed the large plume of smoke and dust rising from there causing him to fear the worst and take off like a rocket.
"I SWEAR IF ANYONE HAS HURT HER I WILL DESTROY THEM"
Chapter end
Well this chapter was a bit different from what I usually write but okay I'll deal with that at another stage, now onto the Vali thing I decide to bring him in a bit early to get it out of the way and sorry that he's so out of character but I really don't like Vali or Issei for that matter so that's that. As for when about this is taking place well there's going to be a time skip in another chapter or two so the main stuff will start roughly around the start of S3 of dxd and that's where Natsu will meet Rias and co. Anyway hope you all enjoyed this chapter as I said there were some parts that were different for me and please excuse my bad grammar I'm terrible with it I know. Anyway until next time see you.