Helloooo my lovely, esteemed, beautiful, sexy, handsome faithful readers! How have y'all been? It's what now, Two months? Can't seem to remember and I'm too lazy to go check it.
Waddup waddup. I've got good news and bad news. The bad new is, due to some unexpected unforeseen events, the exam was postponed... Again. Indefinite. Till further Notice. The good news is my hands missed the feeling of typing so I wrote two chapter, chapter 13 and 14 pretty quick but Chapter fourteen suddenly disappeared without a trace… 11k+ words, disappeared like fart… Never to be smelled again… Just like that. So I'm gonna have to make do with what I remember.
Well, that's the gist of it so have fun reading!
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Checkmate28: Y'know, a lot of people overlook Naruto's impressive strength in sage mode. It's great to have someone remind me cause I do forget sometimes and let's just say I made a mistake ne. I didn't take that into consideration when I was writing that fight scene.
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Dasgun: Ah, my man Dasgun. How's life been to ya? You gotta teach me how to make these emoticon thingies. I suck at them T o T.
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plums: I'm gonna disappoint you bro. Rias Is gonna keep poking till Naruto snaps or if they find a way to co-exist peacefully or become friends or if she witnesses Naruto's full power. I'm not talking sage mode here. I'm talking about big guns! And that's gonna be looong into the story or not. Who knows? And as for Naruto being 'stagnant', you guys don't get the picture I'm trying to portray here. Maybe when I'm done with the next flashback arc, you'll understand why Naruto is the way he is. Just stay tuned and you'll know why Naruto doesn't want to change.
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Azaira: Azaria-san… Guilty as charged and I'm working on 'editing' the previous chapters. I've edited chapter 1-4 and five Is on-going but I can't post that yet not until my beta approves it is safe to read. About Kurama and Shikaku being OC, I don't see anything wrong with it. These guys are stranded in another universe with no way home and they only have each Other so I think they'll have to put their differences aside for that reason.
Flying swallow: Discombobulated. I had to check that up in the dictionary and it took a while before I could comfortably pronounce it. I even starred the word and I've been using it pretty much lately. I hope the preview won't be DISCOMBOBULATED anymore once you've read this chapter. (⌒_⌒) Haha.
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aGnamZer0: Kekeke. I actually came up with the idea when I was wondering… Naruto's Identity should be concealed and what better way to do it than Henge no Jutsu? Now here comes the problem, I don't want him to look like anyone from the elementary Nations cause that'll make him emo and broody so I thought of something strange and fast and sonic came up.
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This chapter was beta-ed by Destructo008.
Chapter 12
"Hmm... Miso, beef or pork ramen?"
A tall handsome blond man mused, staring at the rows upon rows of instant Ramen. A stack that promised the heavenly delicious taste of Ramen. The stylish package gave off a glorious glow which beckoned him and he obeyed.
Now what to do? There are so many flavours of ramen to choose from in here.
Naruto's eyelids narrowed, leveling a heated glare at the stack of instant noodles, eyes dashing back and forth, a bead of sweat cascaded down the side of his face, his eyes twitched every now and then, his lips thinned, his brows furrowed, his brain going through a world war trying to remember, to access, to ascertain… To choose one, out of the many packages of deliciousness right in front of him. His jaws tightened as the internal tug of war rose to unbearable lengths. His fingers scrambled around, gliding over the surfaces of all the different brands of instant noodles, trying to pick one but failing miserably. He went through a panicking frenzy and was this close to exploding before he suddenly got a revelation which brought a startling relief and he almost facepalmed at his stupidity.
"Meh, I'll take it all"
There was no rule saying, 'pick one only' so Naruto took 'em all.
The huge ass Headphone resting on Naruto's neck jiggled with every step he took with the music still playing just loud enough for him to hear, he was clad in a burnt orange armless jacket and blue shorts. Gaia was too busy coming up with a new recipe to go shopping and the task fell to Naruto so here he was, doing a mundane task with his signature bored face on. That was before he saw the rows of instant noodles on the shelf.
"This is a woman's job, dattebayo!" The sudden resurface of his old verbal tic annoyed him greatly.
Speaking of annoyance, the ladies in the store just can't keep their eyes to themselves. Naruto could practically feel their eyes burn holes through his body. Looking at a list of food items and other appliances they needed, He took a sideways glance at the grocery cart which was half full. He moved to a secluded part of the store away from human eyes, put the headphones on and continued his shopping in peace away from prying eyes.
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"Get down! Put your face on the floor!" A short fat man screamed as he drilled holes through the ceiling with an Uzi letting loose a few rounds after his declaration.
"This is a heist, not a drill!" Another green haired man yelled with a mean look on his face.
Two accomplices were stationed at the stores exit which was also its entry point while four others patrolled the store trampling on some hostage who dared raise their head.
Their leader, Quavo, sauntered over to the register where the cashier was.
"Hey gorgeous, nice morning isn't it. Now, mind telling me your name?" He reached for her face and traced a long finger down her cheek.
"M-martha" She replied, filled with trepidation.
"Martha? That's a fine name. I'm Quavo In case you were wondering."
Quavo had a brown hat covering his slicked back jet black hair with a brown vest over a white shirt tucked into blue jeans and a light brown boot. He possessed sharp facial features, pale skin, thin lips and deep blue eyes with a stubble on his face.
"Now, I know you've seen this happen countless times in them movies and we all know there's always one person dumb enough to hit the silent panic button but this isn't fiction my dear. This is real life. If you press that button indeed, them pigs will arrive in them white 'n blue tin cans with sirens wailing but before then, think about all the sick things I could do to you."
Martha, a 16 year old girl who looked way too mature for her age with shoulder-length platinum blonde hair with curly bangs casting a curtain over her forehead all the way to her eyelashes. Her pink lips added to her appeal, big purple orbs which radiated happiness all the time had been wiped off to be replaced with utter fear.
"Now, you wouldn't want that, would you?" Quavo asked.
Martha couldn't speak, all she could do was nod. All her life, she's always been a wuss incapable of fighting for herself and subsequently, she relied heavily on her older brother who was a detective but right now, her older brother wasn't here to protect her.
"As I said before you've seen this in movies and you know how this entire thing is going to proceed, Hm." He finished with a smile.
Martha quaked in her shoes but she steeled her nerves for what she was about to do. Her onii-chan would be proud of her.
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Naruto pushed his cart at a leisure pace looking at the assortment of instant noodles lying inside the cart daydreaming about a girl dressed in a stupid ramen costume serving him as he soaked in a pool of broth. An eccentric dream for most but a heaven for Naruto.
"Hey you, get your fucking face on the floor!" The man who drilled a hole through the ceiling yelled.
Naruto tore his gaze from the cart and leveled a glare at the man. He pulled the headphones off and tightened his grip on the cart. No matter where he was, trouble always seemed to find him.
"And you are?" He asked.
Naruto heard the sound of guns going off earlier and didn't give a shit about it cause it wasn't his problem - he thought the sound was coming from out of the store or from a busted tyre - but if the current situation turns out to be what he thought it was, which was highly possible cause of the huge man pointing a gun at him, it would annoy him greatly. He wasn't in the mood to play with thieves.
"Looks like I wasn't clear enough." The man punctuated his words with intimidating steps towards Naruto.
He was pretty huge as his form cast a shadow over Naruto who had to crane his neck up to look at his face.
"Do you wanna die, pretty boy?" He grabbed Naruto's face.
"Let go." Naruto's voice became eerily calm but it carried a faint trace of irritation.
"Or what? You're gonna tell your mom on me?" He sneered.
Naruto grabbed the older man's wrist and with little effort pushed it away easily. For Naruto, it was easy but for the older man, it was like trying to push a loaded truck. He purposely held back so he could pry the man's hand off his face slowly, enjoying the grimace on the older man's face as he struggled.
"Fuck, I'm gonna-"
Naruto threw the criminal's hand aside and slapped him in the face… Hard. Naruto watched as the man's neck snapped sideways and went stiff from the sheer force alone and fell with a dull thud. He was sure he heard a cracking sound which means the man was probably having a serious case of whiplash or he was KOed instantly or maybe dead. Anyways Naruto pushed the cart over the downed body and stepped over all the while whistling a tune.
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Quavo sat on a table opposite Martha caressing his twin blue pistols, a weird colour for a gun, whispering incoherent words to it. Martha took advantage of his distraction and reached for the smartwatch on her wrist discreetly. She fingered the buttons carefully, sparing one last glance at Quavo, she pushed the button and the nearby police station were notified and they sprung into action which was surprisingly where her older brother works.
A short knife went past her cutting a deep wound on her left temple. She didn't cry though, the fear was petrifying. Quavo tipped his hat lower till it stopped at his eyebrows.
"Tsk tsk, they never listen," he said as he placed the blue pistol on her forehead parting her bangs. "Sayonara, little one."
The squeaking sound of a cart's wheel interrupted the moment. The moment that would have followed if he had squeezed the trigger, would have sent Grey matter, blood and flesh all over the place.
"Um, excuse me, coming through." Naruto pushed Quavo aside and stared at Martha who was gaping like a fish out of water.
"How much do these cost?" Naruto pointed at the cart beside him.
Quavo and his henchmen were lost. Even the customers on the floor. The tip of a cold metal touched Naruto's temple as a clicking sound went off.
"Who the fuck are you, fucker?" Quavo didn't like this one. Not an ounce of fear was present in his eyes or his body language. This blonde man gazed at them like they were a fly buzzing around.
Naruto sighed, they never take a hint. "Get that away from my temple."
Quavo was a millisecond away from squeezing the trigger before Naruto parried the arm away and a blue flaming bullet shot out of the gun, Naruto's eyes which were used to high speed projectiles, caught the Bullet's form for a moment before he tilted his head and it went past his face drilling a hole through the wall. Before he could take aim with his other hand, Naruto caught his wrist and pointed it upwards. He drew the criminal forward and reared his his head backward before he delivered a nasty headbutt to the bridge of his nose which reeled him backwards as he nursed his nose.
"Shoot him down!" One of them yelled.
Naruto placed a hand on Martha's head and forced her down, for cover, kicked the cart at the man closest to him and slipped into the many rows of shelves in the store out of their sight. All thanks to his ninja instincts kicking in.
"Fire at everything!"
The hostages screamed in fear as the criminals opened fire on where they thought Naruto was destroying that section of the store.
"Hold your fire!" One of them screamed.
"Where is he?" A white haired thief asked his companions.
One of them heard a skull crack before he crashed face first into the floor before losing consciousness with blood trickling down the floor from his head.
Naruto went after the next person with a twirl as he released a spinning back kick packed with chakra enhanced momentum and torque to his face sending blood, saliva and a handful of teeth flying out of the guy's mouth. The blond ninja cared less about killing them right now because he wasn't holding back his physical strength.
Quavo watched Naruto fight with keen interest and knew he was far stronger than an ordinary human, He wondered if Naruto was a supernatural being or if he at least knew about the supernatural to a certain extent. This one might be like him, he thought.
Bang!
Bang!
Naruto skillfully dodged the bullets advancing forward at impressive speeds. He neared a white haired one and disarmed him, knocking him unconscious with a drop kick in the throat using him like a wall to bounce off as he performed a backflip before landing perfectly on both feet with a pistol in hand.
"Tsk tsk, Pansies... Their whole lot." Quavo remarked with a dry look staring at his fallen lackeys. He clicked his tongue showing no remorse for his fallen underlings. He waited expecting the two he stationed at the entrance/exit before he sighed realizing that Naruto had already taken care of them. Maybe when he disappeared back then. "You know, I brought them rats here for an excursion. Like a field test or something, you get? I normally let them lower rankers do this but today, someone told me I'd find someone interesting in a grocery store."
Naruto advanced forward and came to a halt when Quavo used Martha as a hostage.
"Ah ah ah, You squeeze that trigger and her life's forfeit" Quavo had Martha in his crosshairs.
Naruto raised the gun anyways.
"What kind of hero are you?! You're gonna sacrifice the damsel in distress just so you can kill the villain?" Quavo asked incredulously.
"I'm no hero" Naruto held the gun with both hands and closed one eye for dramatic effect. Clearly, Quavo had the upper hand but he seemed to have bought Naruto's bluff.
"You're different youngin, I wish I had people like you around me. Such a shame really, killing you would be a big waste so let's finish this like the old west do, hm? Whaddya say?" Quavo said with a creepy smile. The expression Quavo had on was off-putting. The smile and his face were a great contrast.
"What?" Naruto asked with a furrowed eyebrow.
Quavo had a nagging feeling that Naruto was the type that would kill a target and a hostage to accomplish a mission.
"Let's duel boy."
"You're weird," Naruto commented.
Quavo stepped away from Martha and holstered his twin blue pistol. He raised both arms up and Sauntered till he was in Naruto's line of sight.
"Whadya say, Hm" He asked with his creepy smile still present.
"That's a big no." Naruto squeezed the trigger.
Quavo, with lightning speed, drew out his twin guns and fired at the incoming bullet Naruto released. Both bullets collided in the air before they fell looking harmless on the ground. The flames on Quavo's bullet consumed Naruto's bullet till it was ash.
The whole store went silent. The hostages didn't dare raise their heads in fear of getting killed by a stray bullet. Martha was the only one beholding this spectacle. She was astonished not because Quavo shot a bullet in the air but because of Naruto's display of courage, power and precision. Though there was one thing she looked past, the half pissed off look on his face.
Naruto, on the other hand, was impressed. The leader was very good. He took aim, this time at Quavo's head and squeezed the trigger twice. Another clang sound and both bulletsfell on the floor harmless.
Naruto was officially pissed, this guy was mocking him. He had two guns and he stopped Naruto's bullets with one which means he was free to take a shot if he wanted to. The shinobi spotted another pistol lying two feet ahead.
Bang!
Bang!
Four guns went off. Naruto had taken two steps forward and kicked the pistol upwards with his feet before he caught it with his other hand and rained bullets on Quavo moving forward.
Quavo mirrored Naruto till Naruto was in close proximity with a gun pointed at the left side of his face. Naruto had already discarded one when it ran out of ammo. Quavo had a gun at Naruto's right eye and another at his stomach.
"I won this round, Hombre," He said.
Naruto looked from Quavo's eyes down to his stomach.
"You think so?"He asked.
Using speeds greater than a human eye could follow, Naruto slapped the gun at his stomach and Quavo took that opportunity to land a kick on Naruto's stomach. The force of the kick pushed Naruto back four feet.
Bang!
A cut appeared on Naruto's face.
A hole appeared in Quavo's favorite hat.
Naruto kicked the other gun away with his right leg and back kicked Quavo in the stomach with the other leg while in the air. They both engaged in a brief bout of taijutsu with Naruto smacking him around till they were out of sight.
Quavo smashed into a wall before skidding to suicide. "Fighting him in close combat is suicide." Quavo deduced early.
"You're strong, boy. No more kiddies gloves." The blue guns pulsated a deep, dark aura as they levitated.
"Balance..." He began loving the horrified look on Naruto's face.
"Fuck me!" Naruto blurred out of sight and reappeared in front of Quavo with a Chakra enhanced fist reared back.
"...Brea-ack" Naruto socked him in the jaw sending him crashing out of the wall and into two buildings. Both guns disappeared and Naruto took a deep breath.
"That would have been troublesome" He sighed, dusting an imaginary dirt off his shirt. "Now, where's my cart?" He turned around to go find it.
"Put your hand where I can see them!" A man in his late twenties, in a white shirt with a black butterfly pattern and red pants with a mop of pale blonde hair and purple eyes pointed a normal pistol at Naruto.
"Hey, I'm just a customer!" Naruto shouted with a raised fist.
"Get down on your knees!" The man yelled at Naruto.
Naruto straightened himself and placed both hands on his waist and asked. "Who the hell are you?"
"I'm detective John from Kuoh Police Department." The detective fished out a pair of handcuffs from his back pocket and at the same time flashed a badge at Naruto.
Naruto sighed as he went down on his knees, his hands on his head. "Should have raised my hands when he told me to."
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"So, what you're telling me is 'you' single handedly defeated a group of criminals and fended off the leader of The Spix Cry group?" John didn't find it hard to believe. He just didn't believe a single ounce of what the eccentric man was saying.
"That's the gist of it. I'm awesome aren't I?" Naruto asked with a sense of pride in his accomplishment.
The last Uzumaki sat with his legs crossed shaking impatiently as he scanned the police station with his handcuffed hands on his legs. His eyes landed on Martha who was telling her brother everything she saw with great enthusiasm.
"...And that's when you came in." She finished.
"OK. I'm gonna ask you some basic questions, Naruto-san" John said with professionalism.
"Fire away," Naruto said with his trademark bored face.
"Name?"
"Naruto."
"Full name?"
"Naruto El Ramen"
John glanced up from his computer screen giving the blonde a flat stare.
"What? I like ramen topping. In fact, I love ramen topping." Naruto said, staring at John's purple orbs.
"Get serious Naruto-san." He said with a straight face.
"Fine. Killjoy," Naruto mumbled under his breath. "Name's Naruto. Naruto Uzumaki."
"Naruto Uzumaki."He said typing his name in.
"Age?"
Nothing in the world could have prepared John for Naruto's answer.
"Infinity." He answered with a dead serious look on his face.
"Naruto-san!" John raised his voice.
Naruto seemed like the irresponsible rude type that didn't give a shit about anything and the type to get under peoples skin for their own amusement to John and that care-free attitude was grating on his nerves.
"But onii-chan, he saved my life and a whole lot of people in the store." Martha tried to defend Naruto, something he didn't care about at the moment. He saved those people including his baby sister so can't they just call it a day and let him go home?
"Martha, yes he did but I still need to question him and write down his statement. This is all due process and just because he's a hero doesn't mean he should be disrespectful."
"Touche." Naruto said. He really enjoyed toying with the cop.
"Naruto-san, I'll ask again, How old are you?"
"I'm Nineteen."
"Nineteen?"He asked again, a bit surprised.
Naruto glanced sideways with a disinterested look.
"Occupation?"
"Nin-"Naruto held his tongue deciding he's played with the pig enough, Not that he was playing this time around anyways.
"Teacher. Class 3-B homeroom teacher actually. Kuoh academy in case you were wondering."
Kuoh Academy. Those two words cemented Naruto's fate. You see, Martha loved Kuoh Academy but unfortunately they couldn't afford it. They were both orphaned at a young age so they worked hard for everything they possessed today.
"You"re a teacher? B-b-but but you're so young" John stuttered.
"Kuoh Academy?! Wow, you're so cool, Sensei!" Martha beamed.
Naruto raised an eyebrow at Martha staring at the plaster on her cheeks. Must have been from that knife wound earlier."Sensei? I'm sure I've never seen your face in school."
An embarrassed blush stained Martha's cheeks. "I've always wanted to enroll in Kuoh Academy, it's my dream school but we can't afford it yet." She said dejectedly.
"Wow. I would have loved to help you but a pig that shall not be named ruined my mood earlier today." Naruto replied with a board smile.
Of course John understood the cryptic message but Martha on the other hand seemed oblivious as she tried to wrap her head around it.
"Err, Naruto-san, you did a great job defending innocent lives. The police can't thank you enough" He said awkwardly. John's sudden change was partially due to the look Martha shot him.
"The stylist writhe group or whatever you called them... What's that?" Naruto asked with veiled curiosity.
The crime rate in Kuoh had been increasing recently and Naruto didn't care one bit. Maybe a devil was behind all this so that means, that's devil business and that's a no-no for him. The Gremory kids would handle that.
"You haven't heard of them?" John asked.
"Of course I have. In fact, I hear about them all the time and I know everything there is to know about them so I wonder why I'm even asking you this in the first place!"Naruto words were dripping with sarcasm.
John shot him a look that clearly reminded him he was crossing boundaries.
"I'm sorry. It's just that I've been stressed out lately."Naruto apologized.
"A dangerous crime unit headed by a more dangerous man called Quavo. They've managed to evade capture all these years and their leader was said to have killed a whole squad of SPRT, special police response team. You don't know how lucky you are to come out with your life intact." John said.
"Quavo? So that's his name." Naruto questioned rhetorically.
"He's an infamous dangerous criminal. He's always with his signature guns, twin blue pistols. His guns have specially made blue bullets we can't ID. It's like this guy handmade them."
"Of course you can't, it's his sacred gear. But to think a thief with a sacred gear was on the loose… That's disturbing" Naruto pondered with furrowed eyebrows.
"Naruto-san?" John called bringing the distracted blond's attention back to reality.
Naruto cleared his throat as he relaxed into the chair.
"That will be all, you're free to go."He gestured at the door.
John stood up and extended a hand to Naruto for a handshake. Naruto looked from the extended hand to John's purple orbs and raised his handcuffed hands.
"Oh, I almost forgot about that" a sheepish John freed Naruto from the metal constraint. The blonde teenager rubbed his wrists after the purple eyed detective freed him, relieved he could once again stretch his hands wide.
"Well then, goodbye super cop!" Naruto stood and gave a two-fingered salute. "Marie,'' Naruto nodded at John's little sister.
Naruto was two feet away from the door before John's words stopped him in his tracks. "Thank you for saving my baby sister's life."He gave a deep bow of appreciation and Martha followed suit.
Naruto pursed his lips and nodded twice before he left the police station.
"What a weird guy."John said before getting back to work.
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Naruto was about to hiraishin home outside the police station before he remembered something important.
"Ah! I knew I forgot something!" Naruto yelled, making the passersby in front of the police station stare at him. He ran back into the police station when he finally remembered what it was that he forgot.
Naruto flung the door wide open, locked eyes with John and asked, "Where's my Cart?"
(Scene change)
"I'm Home"
"Naruto, What took you so long?!" Gaia screamed like a worried Mom.
Naruto unceremoniously dropped on the couch face first and answered with a muffled voice, "Had to stop a robbery."
"A robbery?!"
"Hm. Some fools tried to rob the store I was in and what's weird is that the leader had a sacred gear."
Gaia sighed unsurprised. "This isn't the first time humans have used the sacred gears for evil."
"Sacred gears… Those things are hard to deal with. They're no fun."
"Yeah, some sacred gears are even strong enough to kill gods. They're called Longinus."
"Longinus?"Naruto repeated.
"Thirteen in total. The strongest one is currently possessed by Cao Cao, the leader of the Hero Faction."
Naruto's eyes darkened at the mention of the Hero Faction and Cao Cao which Gaia noticed.
"Cao Cao, I get this feeling that one day I'll be seeing him again and our meeting will be ugly."
"Kyoto… You haven't been there ever since?" Gaia said, looking at a despondent Naruto.
"...I miss them, ya know."
"Then go visit them. Make some time to go see how they're doing."
The mother goddess thought Naruto should have at least paid them a visit to let them know how he's doing. The poor people might think Naruto found a way back home or something worse might have happened to him.
"That's a luxury I can't afford," Naruto said.
"The only thing holding you back is you, Naruto."
"..." Naruto pondered on what the goddess said, not exactly sure about what she meant.
Naruto turned his head towards the TV, watching the afternoon news going on. As ever the shit was depressing and it seems like the increase in crime rates wasn't limited to just Kuoh.
"Let's watch something interesting. News' no fun."
"Like you know how to have fun." Gaia snorted. There's nothing wrong with watching the news. It was more educative than the action movies young people loved to see. The Avengers vs Morning news! What would you pick?
Naruto scoffed. "I don't think an old woman like you knows how to have fun."
Naruto moved just in time dodging a lightning fast projectile in a crash course heading for his skull. The projectile broke into pieces with a loud clatter on the floor.
"Ah, my remote!" He yelled dramatically and shot Gaia a dry look.
With a snap of her fingers, the destroyed remote levitated inside a green magic circke till it was restored to it's original state
"I still hate magic… show off."Naruto looked to the side, mumbling the last part. He wouldn't admit it but, magic was awesome.
"Hn."Gaia had a smug smirk on her face. Seems like Naruto's rubbing off on her.
"Well, there's this new movie… Wanna see it together?"
Naruto grabbed two beers from the fridge replacing them with the ones he bought yesterday. With great precision, he flipped both bears towards the table before vaulting over the couch to a new console switching it on before bouncing off the floor with a backflip, grabbing the can of beer along, and landing on the couch perfectly.
"See, I know how to have fun."
Gaia nooded unconvinced. She sat beside the shinobi with a cup filled with popcorn.
"Hey, I was the prankster king back at home."
"Pfft, Naruto Uzumaki, the stick in the mud, a prankster?…"
Naruto sapphire orbs widened in disbelief. "You think I'm lying"
Poof
Kurama the Kitsune joined the chat.
"Trust me, you don't want to be a target of Naruto Uzumaki."
"It's starting!"
The trio watched different movies throughout the day to the late hours of the night before calling it when Gaia started yawning frequently.
(In a random guy's apartment)
In a dimly lit unorganized room, an average looking man with a pot belly wheezed roughly as he chugged the contents of a bottle. The average room reeked of alcohol and vomit and the wooden table creaked as he slammed the bottle on top of it.
"Why don't I just end it all..." He said with remorse. "My daughter... My sweet daughter. I brought her to this world but yet, I haven't brought her a single good thing" The Old man Drowned his sorrows in a mouthful gulp of Alcohol.
The old man puffed his cheeks when he felt the urge to puke. He stumbled on the floor when he tried to reach for the bathroom door handle before dumping his stomach's contents on the ground.
"How am I supposed to pay her tuition fee?" He cried. The stench of the vomit on the floor made him nauseous. His nausea came back full force and he quickly emptied his stomach's contents holding his stomach on his knees.
An eerie silence descended into the house. It was like the wind itself stood still for a moment. The silhouette of a cloud seeped through the window like a fluid before it took a demonic humanoid form. It bent to the man's ear level and spoke, "You poor little thing. Your daughter doesn't need a pathetic man who drowns his sorrow in alcohol only to vomit in his own living room. What she needs is money and there's a lot of ways to get it."
The silhouette pointed at the old TV on the old shelf. A bank advertisement was going on.
"We will take from those who have to give those that don't." The old man stared at the silhouette in trance as if it's words were his salvation.
"Come. Take my hand." The silhouette extended a clawed hand." Take my hand and receive a portion of me."
The man reached out with both hands and the moment his hands touched the otherworldly being's hands, his eyes went completely black before he started screaming, a black cloud of smoke erupting from his body.
"Haha! Yes, We like the greedy ones." It hissed like a snake who's just found it's prey.
(The next day)
Naruto came out of bed today with a goal: To have as much fun as possible staying indoors.
He tried his best but he quickly lost interest in everything he tried to do.
"Oi, kozo, care for another round?" Kurama came out to play video games with Naruto. Thanks to his opposable thumbs, something Gaia hadn't noticed until now, he was able to grab the controller.
"Nah, I'm too bored for a rematch. All I've done is play video games."
Gaia sighed in the corner. She tried to contact his friends - keyword friends - but Naruto had none. The closest thing he had to friends was the red dragon emperor. Naruto once told her he could tolerate Issei, Asia and Kiba to an extent but the rest were bats to him. Unfortunately, Issei wandered off to the Underworld which left one person.
Ding dong.
Talking about a certain person.
"I'll get it." Naruto said. Kurama proofed back to the seal when He reached for the knob on the white wooden door. Naruto flung the door wide open and his mood dampened even further upon laying his eyes on the person in the front door.
"Kuroka… what an unpleasant surprise." Naruto greeted without luster.
A grimace graced her beautiful features and with little effort, she brushed Naruto aside.
"Gaia-san! How have you been" Her mood changed instantly as she gave the goddess a hug.
Naruto closed the door and went back to the game he was playing, ignoring them and just hitting the buttons with a dull look on his face.
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"I can see. He's more 'Naruto' than usual," Kuroka said, scanning Naruto with something akin to pity. "He's just clicking the buttons. Don't worry! This sexy cat will have him purring in no time!" Kuroka
marched straight to Naruto.
"Good luck. Be careful." Gaia whispered cheering her on.
Kuroka placed herself between Naruto and the screen. "Oi, Naruto, let's play a versus."
"Go. Away."Naruto replied curtly.
"Little Naru's scared of me?"
Naruto knew what she was doing and decided to play along anyway. He grabbed the other controller and gave it to her.
Naruto won every single game they played.
"You're good, but i bet you can't beat me at sports games" Kuroka boasted.
And so they played sports. Mostly racing and the blonde menace proved to be too good. He proved he was the king of video games in his house.
In the end, Naruto had a smug look on his face.
"I wanna wipe that off his face!"Kuroka raged mentally. "You're lucky I don't have much talent for video games." She said hoping not to lose face. It was all for naught though.
"Hn, Loser." Naruto channeled his inner Uchiha very well. Sasuke would be proud, heck, Madara's soul would have given him a proud nod of approval.
"I bet you'll fail at other games."
Naruto raised an eyebrow at the challenge and replied, "Hn, Bring it."
They tried different games from puzzles, to scrabble, to rock, papper, scissors, to any game an average person could play. They tried all sorts of games and Naruto stood victorious. At one point they tried Magic/Chakra enhanced games which came to an abrupt halt when Kuroka broke the table in frustration making Naruto glare at her as he demanded another table be bought instantly.
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It was 9:20pm and Kuroka, miffed at her losses today, challenged Naruto to another game. A game of poker.
"That's a bad idea," Naruto said reluctantly.
"You're scared?"She asked.
"Yes, I'm scared. I'm so scared I'll win all your money and have you weeping on my floor." The blonde human had a huge sweatdrop on his head.
"My Naruto-chan, such arrogance."Gaia's interest piqued when she heard a game of poker.
"It's not arrogance. I'm just extremely lucky at poker."
"Really? Let's play poker." Gaia knew this was a game she could win. She had extreme luck herself and Naruto might be over exaggerating.
"I'll be the dealer!"Kuroka said.
"Alright. Time to go find that deck of cards!" He yelled with enthusiasm looking forward to crushing the supernatural duo.
He fumbled around the house looking for playing cards. "Huh, I thought I had one... Oh well." Naruto did a crosshand sign and poof, the blonde's clone had already sped off to the closest store in search of playing cards. The clone hiraishined back home a minute later complaining about stupid errands and his short existence before he dispelled.
"They look new," Kuroka noticed the cards were in pristine condition.
"Yeah I just bought them" Naruto replied casually.
"How? You were inside your room a minute ago" Kuroka said
Naruto raised an eyebrow at her question and nonetheless, he didn't justify her question with an answer.
The black Nekoshou swiftly opened the pack and shuffled them with a dealer's grace. She then dealt two cards face down to both players.
Both players had 7,000yen cash on the table. They had to make do with yen. No chips available.
The minimum bet was 50yen.
Naruto puts in a small blind of 50yen.
Gaia takes the big blind.
"Floop." Kuroka called as she dealt out three cards, face up, for both players .
An Ace, a 10 and a 9 on the center of the table for both contestants to see.
Naruto was all fired up and ready for the game. When was the last time he played poker? He knew he had good luck but how would he fare against a goddess? Was she subjectible to his insane luck? Naruto was about to find out.
"I raise 100," Naruto puts in 100yen.
"I raise 250," Gaia raised Naruto by 150yen.
"Call," Naruto matched her raise.
650yen in the pot.
"Turn."
Kuroka placed a King of spades on the table.
Gaia took a quick look at her hand.
"I raise 150yen," Naruto raised without looking at his cards.
"I call," Gaia's expression didn't betray anything. She had a good poker face on.
"River," Kuroka placed the last card on the table which was a Queen.
"Raise 100," Naruto raised.
"Hold on a minute. You don't know if you have a good hand," She warned.
"What? You scared?" He taunted.
Gaia narrowed her eyes and replies, "I call."
With 1,200 yen in the pot, Gaia dropped a 9 and 8 on the table.
"You lose."
Naruto slammed his cards on the table, A king and a Queen.
Naruto wins with two pairs.
Kuroka collected the cards and took her time to shuffle them this time around. She was rooting for Gaia this round -well, she was rooting for Gaia in every round - Naruto Uzumaki must be brought down.
Gaia placed the small blind and Naruto automatically took the big blind, 50 and a 100 respectively. "Goodluck, Gaia."
Kuroka's slim digits placed three cards on the table ignoring Naruto's incredulous look. An 8, 6 and 5.
Naruto, like the shinobi he was, peeked at his hand discreetly.
"I raise 100," Gaia raised with an unreadable expression rivaling Naruto's.
"Call."
"Turn!"
A 7 appeared on the table.
"Check,"Gaia knocked the table for emphasis.
Naruto glanced at her.
"A little cautious, are we?"Naruto said pondering for a while before he made his decision. "I Check."
350 yen in the pot.
"River."
The last community card was a queen.
"I bet 100,"Gaia was highly optimistic about this round.
"Raise 150!"Naruto raised by a 50.
"Call."Gaia said calmly.
Naruto knew he'd win anyway so he reached out for the pot. Gaia slapped Naruto's hands away, earning a glare from the blonde man. "Let's see your cards."
Naruto sighed a bit irked by Gaia's intrusion. Both players flipped their cards over at lightning speed at the same time. Naruto's blonde eyebrows shot to his hairline at the cards Gaia had in her possession.
"It's a draw," Gaia had a little smirk of her own.
Both players had a flush. A 9 and a 10.
400yen for each player.
"Not bad for a goddess..."
A sudden silence descended on the blonde ninja's living room.
Naruto only realized his lapsus when Gaia gave him a wtf look. Fortunately, Kuroka didn't notice a thing because she was too busy reshuffling the cards.
"Phew!" Naruto breathed out a sigh of relief.
Round 3.
"Flop."
"I fold," Naruto ended the game prematurely.
They continue playing for a while.
Naruto: 4- 0 Gaia.
"See, I told you. I'm unbeatable." He gloated.
"I wish I could join in." Kuroka had a pout on her features.
Poof!
A clone poofed into existence beside Kuroka.
"Oh, I totally forgot about this ability nya."
"Dumbass." Naruto remarked under his breath.
"What did you say?!" A furious Kuroka asked.
Naruto picked his ear with his pinky totally ignoring her.
"The more the merrier," Gaia said, pulling out a seat for Kuroka.
"It wouldn't hurt to have another loser join the game. That means more money for me." Naruto snickered with a little smirk directed at Kuroka.
"It's on Uzumaki!"Kuroka cracked her knuckles accepting the challenge.
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One hour later.
"We haven't won a single game!" Kuroka wailed and for some reason Naruto felt gratified seeing her like that.
"He's good alright," Gaia said, equally exasperated at Naruto's unreal luck before gulping down a cup of water.
"Please just one round nya. Just one round!" She begged him with both hands joined together.
"Kekeke, Despair weaklings!"
Naruto had a crazed gleam on his face behind the pile of his winnings, lightning flashing in the background and his dentition was somehow replaced with a sharks. He really enjoyed teasing the black cat.
"Weakling huh? Let's play one more round." Gaia had a gleam in her eyes that reminded Naruto of her status as a goddess.
Fun Fact: Naruto Uzumaki is the only ninja to have ever played poker with a divine being.
"No problem," Naruto said, leaning back on his chair.
Naruto had a sinking feeling when he accepted the challenge. A little voice in his head was telling him to call it quits for today but his ego, his mountain sized ego, wouldn't let him. With a quick nod from Naruto, the clone dealing collects the cards. While shuffling, the clone made an error sending the stack of cards sprawling over the table.
"Whoops." Clone Naruto exclaimed a bit flustered.
He gathered them back at lightning speed and reshuffled with extreme precision this time around. The clone bent forward and laid a pair of cards for each player before he straightened up.
10,000 yen for each player.
"Floop."
The first three cards were a Jack of spades, Queen and an Ace.
"I bet 500," Gaia began.
"Call," Naruto and Kuroka said simultaneously.
"Turn." The clone placed the fourth community card on the table. A love of Three.
"All in,." Gaia announced.
Naruto stopped for a moment before sparing a sideways glance at Gaia.
"Is she frustrated?" He thought, thinking her move irrational.
"All in." Kuroka didn't think much of it and decided to follow Gaia's lead.
"Ho, What's this? Kuroka went all in?"
Two chibi Naruto suddenly poofed into existence on Naruto's shoulder, one had a halo on his head while the other held a red pitchfork.
"Let's fold Naruto, we can always play another game next time." Naruto with a halo on his head advised.
"That's unacceptable! What happened to our pride? Uzumaki Naruto never backs down!" Pitchfork Naruto egged on.
"Listen to me Naruto, you have to fold." Halo Naruto yelled using a megaphone and had somehow grabbed Naruto's ears and was pulling it.
"Kuroka went all in and she's a pussy cat! A pussy! You wanna know another word for pussy? It's a Wuss!" Pitchfork Naruto grabbed Naruto's eyelids as he yelled at the top of his little lungs with his pitchfork pointed at Kuroka who was busy staring at her hands scratching her head.
"Argh, damn it all!" Naruto flapped his hands around ending the existence of both chibi Narutos. "All in." He said with narrowed eyelids. He chose to go all the way ignoring the feeling of trepidation he had.
"River," Clone Naruto intoned, placing a spade of Ten on the table.
With 30,000 yen on the line. The three contestants peeked at their cards.(hands?)
Naruto had a clover of Ten and King. A straight flush.
Kuroka had a pair.
Gaia was calm, too calm... Maybe she had a good poker face? Or was she dealt a bad hand?"
"Hmph, I'm the best," Naruto patted himself mentally when saw his hands were the best on the table. He relaxed on his chair and flipped his card face up for everyone to see.
"I won this round... Again." He cackled and made haste to collect his wins but a firm grasp on his wrist stopped him midway.
"Naruto-chan, don't be too hasty..." Gaia said in a sickly-sweet tone.
A bead of sweat rolled down Naruto's temple till it reached his chin. The bead of sweat glistened mid air on it's journey to the table top as Naruto's eyes glazed over. He went silent with his clone staring at him with an alarmed look on his face. They turned their head back to the game with a sigh before they suddenly paled looking out the window again at a specific spot: The third floor of the Hyodou house.
"Shimata!"
Naruto and his clone blasted off, breaking their window in the process. Their speeds sent a wave of air around the room blowing away the cards on the table.
Two cards, Gaia's in particular, danced in the air before it began it descended to the floor on a broken piece of glass beside Gaia, A spade of King and Queen.
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Naruto appeared on the ceiling of the third floor staring at two strangers holding Mr and Mrs Hyoudou at gunpoint. Issei's parents had their eyelids shut tight and Mr. Hyoudou had his wife in a protective embrace. As Naruto stayed stationery, crouched under the ceiling, his brain analyzing different ways to cause the thieves indescribable pain, he pondered on the greatest problem. How to pull it off with his neighbors right in front of him.
It wouldn't take a genius to figure that Issei's parents were totally clueless about the supernatural even though they lived with devils and their son was one and Naruto would love to keep it that way.
Hand to hand combat? He could lie about having formal training - which wasn't a lie at all - but dodging bullets, his clones taking care of the thieves in the other floods was another problem.
Naruto remembered reading different comics about gifted people wearing spandex to conceal their identity, saving people, fighting crime in the city. The problem was that Naruto wasn't a hero and he wasn't interested in wearing spandex nor interfering with things he had absolutely nothing to do with. Now how was he going to do it? His clones had cleared their floor and now, it was time for him.
"Katon: Haijingakure no Jutsu" Naruto whispered with a half ram seal before puffing his cheek, breathing out a cloud of ash.
The thieves below had a coughing fit before they went limp. A sudden gust of wind blew the ashes away and all that remained was a befuddled Mr and Mrs. Hyoudou still holding each other staring at the downed bodies of the guys who tried to cause them bodily harm.
"Honey, what just happened?"
"I don't know. I'm gonna call the police" Issei's dad said before stepping on something. He raised his legs off the ground and a bat shaped black metal was lying on the floor.
"Batman?"He yelled with disbelief, his black orbs widening behind the glasses he wore.
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The blonde shinobi walked in, a frown on his face, blood stains on his knuckles and clothes.
"Naruto! Why'd you run away all of a sudden?!" Kuroka yelled upset, standing beside the window holding a broken shard. She sniffed the air twice before squinting her eyes at Naruto. "You smell like ash"
"Naruto?" Gaia stared at the blood stains on his body.
"It happened again…" He said staring at Gaia. "An armed group of robbers tried to rob our neighbors"
Gaia shot up to her feet aghast. "Are they okay?"
"Yeah. They're good… A bit perturbed if anything"
"Let's go check up on them," Gaia said, pushing back the chair she sat on.
The wailing of police sirens gained their attention.
"Hey look, did they call the police?" Gaia asked, looking through the broken window pointing at the police car parked in front of Issei's house.
Naruto moved closer to see for himself. He traced the edge of the broken window and made a mental note to repair them as soon as possible.
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"Thanks for your cooperation." The older white haired detective said standing to his feet. The couch he sat on sagged a bit due to his well above average weight.
"Thank you so much Detective Hiroshima." Issei's mom bowed to the detective.
The other detective fingered the edge of the batarang in his hand before scratching his pale blonde hair in confusion.
"There's nothing to worry about, detective. A vigilante posing around as Batman is on the loose."Detective Hiroshima explained seeing the confused look on his partner's face.
"That doesn't explain how he was able to beat all of them," the other detective argued. "I don't think their story adds up. How about the sudden ash and gust of wind?"
"Like I said Detective… Batman." Hiroshima wiggled his fingers in the air. Mr. Hyoudou gave a nod to Hiroshima in full support of his theory.
A knock on the door interrupted them.
"Naruto-san!" Mrs. Hyoudou's eyes lit up when she saw Naruto walk in with two women in tow behind him.
"Mrs. Hyoudou we haven't been formally introduced. I'm Gaia, Naruto's sister," Gaia introduced.
"What?! Oh my, you never told me you had a pretty sister," She said moving closer taking Gaia's hands. Gaia asked how she was feeling which she responded well to.
"Wait, Naruto-san!?" The pale blonde haired detective purple eyes widened drastically.
"Oh, Super Cop, fancy meeting you here." Naruto said, surprised.
Hiroshima and Kuroka looked from Naruto to John.
"Sir, meet the hero of the store robbery incident." John introduced enthusiastically.
Hiroshima's eyebrows went up to his hairline. "Naruto Uzumaki, it's a pleasure meeting you. The police and Kuoh in general can't thank you enough for your brave act." He said, extending his hand for a handshake which Naruto shook. "You live around here, son?"
"Yeah, we're neighbors." Naruto answered.
"I see…" He said staring at the distance. "Well, I believe my work here is done." He nodded at Ms. Hyoudou before going out.
"You live around here? That's great!" John said before he followed his senior out.
Naruto looked at Kuroka, Gaia and Issei's mom who were chatting like a robbery never happened in the first place to Mr. Hyoudou who had his eyes glued to the newspaper. He pursed his lips and stood there awkwardly.
"So, anything missing?" He asked no one in particular. "OK, I'll stop talking and just stand here"
For some reason, Naruto felt left out that night.
(The next day)
Naruto glared at the afternoon sun with contempt, Cans of beer in a nylon bag swayed back and forth with every step he took walking back from a visit to a construction company. He sighed thinking about his broken window. He had more than enough money to repair his broken window but the recent increase in crime rate was really bothering him. In the newspaper, on social media, TV and even little kids all talked about it. Naruto would sometimes pay attention when his neighbors ranted on and on about the emerging issue and the government's attitude towards it.
Pocketing his right hand, Naruto scanned Issei's house in his line of sight with a bored look on. The ORC weren't in so that means they're in the underworld. The Underworld, he idly wondered what it'd look like. Was it like the humans in this world depicted? Well, he wasn't curious enough to visit the place personally.
Naruto stopped when his sensitive ears picked up a sobbing sound. Searching around, he had to do a once over spotting a woman wearing a yellow apron on a cream shirt and white pants squatted beside the Hyoudou's bin with her head buried between her legs. Naruto placed a hand in his pocket intent on ignoring the weird stranger.
Maybe Issei got someone pregnant, Naruto thought before he noticed a long mane of white hair and a purple ribbon.
"Grandma, I still don't have a boyfriend," The squatted girl sobbed.
Sliver, Her hair was silver, He noticed when he got near. She was so absorbed by her sorrows, she didn't notice he was in front of her even when he kneeled on one knee in front of her.
"Oi," He said as he placed a hand on her head.
Rossweisse felt a warm hand on her head and lifted her head up to the face of one Naruto Uzumaki.
"You alright?" He asked with a straight face.
"Uzumaki-san," She wiped her tears. Naruto stared at her trying to memorize her face with his hand still on her head.
"Ho, I had a hunch it was her," Naruto remembered those green orbs and now that she was near, he had a clear picture of her face. Her red, tear stained face.
"I'm fine," She said, removing his hand off her head. The Asgardian wiped off the little tears that escaped her eyes with the back of her.
"Good. Crying doesn't suit you,"Naruto replied before he stood up.
Rossweisse placed her hand over her red cheeks, flustered a stranger, saw her crying and the fact that he complimented her.
"Err, would you like to err- take a seat or something?" Naruto said while gesturing at a bench. "Or a can of beer? If you're thirsty."
"I'm fine, really," She said sniffing, shaking her palms spread out in front of her.
They both stood there awkwardly for a while with Naruto's beer on the floor.
"Um, where are you coming from?" She said trying to steer the topic of the conversation away from her.
"The park. I love visiting the park."
"Ah," She exclaimed, nooding.
"Do you live around here?"
"Yes, temporarily," Rossweisse said pointing at Issei's house.
Naruto's eyes followed her fingers, his eyes landing on Issei's house. "I see."
The both stood there awkwardly with Rossweisse looking somewhere else except Naruto's blue orbs and Naruto was trying to think of something to say. Finding none, he gave up. "Well, I'll see you around."
"Hm. You too," She replied.
Naruto had a thoughtful look on his face throughout the short trip back home which was really short as his house was next to Issei's.
"She looks familiar, somehow but I can't seem to remember where I know her from."
Rossweisse's green orbs followed Naruto's back till he was out of sight, a tiny smile on her features. She turned around to go inside before she saw Naruto's beer lying on the floor.
"He forgot to take that."
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"How'd it go?"
"I hired them and they're coming to fix the broken window three days from now."
"That's great," Gaia said, looking out the broken window. "Azazel came to the Sekiryuutei's house while you were out."
"Really?" Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Why'd he visit?"
"Idk, with the crime rate and the attempted robbery, maybe Azazel wanted to check up on them." Gaia figured.
A knock at the front door cut their conversation short. Naruto gave Gaia a look and gestured to the door before he flopped on the couch face first. The mother goddess shot him a look before sighing. She opened the front door see a sliver-haired young woman.
"Oh, hello," Gaia greeted.
Rossweisse's green eyes widened a fraction when a female beauty opened the door. "Um, good day!" She greeted awkwardly. "Uzumaki-senpai forgot this outside," She said, extending the nylon bag.
"Uzumaki senpai?" Gaia repeated mentally. "Oh, thank you very kindly," The goddess took the bag.
"Do you live around here?"
"Yeah, we're neighbors actually," She replied.
"Would you like to come in for a…" she trailed off staring at Rossweisse.
"No, thank you."
"Oh," Gaia's face lit up when she finally figured Rossweisse out. She was talking to one of Odin's Valkarie. "How are you related to my little brother?"
"We're colleagues."
"I see… Well, I'll see you around," She said before shutting the door.
Naruto, still face down in the long chair, suddenly shot his head up, a look of terror on his face when he heard the door click shut. "Ah! My beer!"
Naruto's rushed attempt to go find his alcoholic beverage was cut short by Gaia.
"Looking for this?"
"How'd you know I was looking for that?"
"A lady brought it here, she said you forgot it outside, a colleague of yours. Didn't get to know her name."
"She's someone I know," Naruto snatched the bag from Gaia. "Want some?" He asked.
Naruto cleared the table, looking for a good movie to see while Gaia grabbed some snacks. Ten minutes into the movie, another knock on the front door called their attention.
Gaia narrowed her eyes at Naruto with her hands folded across her chest.
Naruto who had his mouth glued to a can of beer glanced at her discreetly hoping she would go answer the door if he drank the whole content of the can slowly but alas, another knock on the door foiled his plans.
Removing the can of beer from his mouth reluctantly, Naruto slammed it back on the table and shot Gaia a dry look. "I'll go get it," He said while mumbling about something under his breath.
The moment Naruto opened the door, his expression went from a dry one to a straight face back to his bored one.
"Hello, Naruto-san/Naruto-sensei," Two platinum blonde male and female greeted Naruto with smiles on their faces.
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"So, lemme get this straight. This smoking hot woman," He said pointing a finger at Gaia. "Is your older sister?" He finished moving his finger towards Naruto.
"What? Don't we look alike?" Gaia questioned.
"How's this possible?!" John yelled out in disbelief.
"Big bro, stop prying OK. Just cause they don't look alike doesn't mean they are not siblings…?" Martha said, a bit confused.
"See! You partially agree with me!" John exclaimed.
"But for some reason, I get this feeling Gaia-san Isn't ordinary, like she's way above us," Martha beamed.
Naruto almost choked on his beer while Gaia shifted uncomfortably with a strained smile on her face.
"Huh, That's weird, I get the same feeling too. Maybe it's due to her heavenly beauty. Who knows, she might be a goddess in disguise," John said carefreely. He chuckled at his own joke and Martha joined in laughing with Naruto and Gaia laughing along awkwardly.
"Really Naruto-san, thank you for saving my little sister. If it weren't for you-"
"It's nothing, really." The blond house owner cut him off.
"If there's anyway I can repay you."
"Stop calling me Naruto-san. Naruto's just fine."
Gaia beside Naruto smiled at him. He might be a rude jerk sometimes but deep down, there's still that drive to protect those in danger inside him somewhere. Martha just beamed at Naruto with her chin resting on her intertwined fingers.
"Hm, Naruto," John said with a smile on his face.
They all sipped beer in silence except Martha who had a refill of orange juice.
Gaia suddenly broke the thickening silence. "Well since today's a special day-"
"Today's a special day?"Naruto asked, unaware.
"We rarely have visitors but today, we have two! And I'd like to prepare something nice for them."
"Oh, we wouldn't want to-"John wants to decline but Gaia was having none of that and Naruto cut him off.
"Don't worry, her food tastes heavenly… It's as if a goddess prepared it," He said with a smirk, loving the strained smile on the two platinum blonde haired humans and the huge sweat drop on Gaia's face. His fun was cut short when Gaia gripped his sleeves hard and yanked with enough force to knock him off balance. Luckily, Gaia pushed him back to balance before he fell.
"Naruto," She said through gritted teeth, "I need you to run to the store and get me-"
"There's never enough ingredients…" Naruto whispered, shaking his head with narrowed eyes zoned out staring at the distance.
"Oh and don't be late," She finished slapping his shoulder.
"I'll go with Naruto," John said. He saw the distant look on the blonde's face and figured he ignored what his sister said.
"Fine." Gaia replied.
Martha waved at them before they left.
"Gaia-san, when are they going to come back?"
"Well, given all the variables - especially Naruto - Maybe An hour?"
"An hour!" Martha cried out and Gaia nodded. Martha's purple orbs glanced at the analog wall clock. "Whoa, then that means we'll be here till 9pm?"
"Is that a problem?"
"Nope. Not at all," Martha chuckled, happy she was alone with a woman who reminded her of her dead mom for some reason.
(In the underworld)
"Sirzech-sama!"
A high ranking devil barged in breathing hard. The stack of papers on the great Maou's table went flying across the room by a startled Sirzechs.
The red haired Maou sighed, massaging his forehead "What is it this time?" He asked irritably.
The devil picked up the irritation in his voice and went down to his knees his head bowed for what he was about to say would surely bring the great Maous irritation to a new heights like never before.
"It's about Hel, Sir," He said.
Sirzechs sat up straight back to Maou mode.
"Um, I-II told them to t-tell you about it when it happened b-but the Curator toldusnottosayanythingnottodisturbyoutellingushehaditunderwraps" The lesser devil was visibly shaking on the floor scared witless.
"Calm down, talk to me. What about Hel? What happened there?"
"Sir! An SS-rank Demon escaped Hel four days ago!" He yelled, closing his eyes in fear, hoping he'd survive the wrath of the great Maou.
Sirzech's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates as he shot up from his chair. "Look at me in the eye and tell me, which SS-rank demon was it and where did it escape off to?"
The lesser devil dared not looking Sirzechs in the eye. "Earth, Sir."
The devil heard Sirzechs breathe in sharply and the room temperature suddenly became hotter. He dared to glance at the great Maou, seeing a thin layer of the power of destruction seeping out of his body. He began praying to anyone out there so he could survive this.
"A demon, An SS-rank at that, escaped Hel, wandered off to Earth, four days ago and you're telling me now?! What demon was it?" Sirzechs ordered his anger at its boiling point. The devil raised his head and the great Maou saw the look of fear etched on his face.
"It was A-ash-"
With a wave of Sirzechs hand, the devil spoke no more. Sirzechs Lucifer's pupils shrunk back a fraction as he sat back on his chair.
"Thank you for working up the courage to tell me about this. You're dismissed."
As soon as the devil left, Three devils rose from a red magic circle conjured by Sirzechs. They all stood at attention seeing the look on Sirzechs face.
"I have a very important mission for you on Earth, your priority is to neutralize the target and bring it back. Keep it low-key as much as possible." Sirzechs informed." The team leader's Serafall."
Grayfia wondered why Sirzechs created a four man cell with a Maou as the leader.
"Are we finally going to probe that Blonde?" Souji asked, a bit excited.
"No, it's something far more important… An SS-rank demon escaped from Hell," Sirzechs saw the look of surprise on their faces and thanked his stars for the fact that Rias and Sona, along with their respective peerages, were in the underworld safe and unaware of the demon's escape. There's no way they'd want to sit this one out if they learned about it and an SS-rank demon wasn't something they could deal with right now. Even a squad of Ultimate class devils would be hard-pressed to defeat an SS-rank demon.
Sirzechs wished someone would pat him on the head and tell him he's doing fine. Being a Maou is really hard sometimes. Odin's visit is just a few days away and with the terrorist group, Khaos Brigade, on the loose who knows how audacious they might be and there's the fact that not all Norse deities are in consensus of Odin signing the treaty and now, there's an SS-rank demon loose on Earth. Who knows, Sirzechs might tender that resignation letter sooner than expected.
(Back on earth)
The Sun's done it's job for the day and it was time for the street lights to take over the night shift. Of course, big brother Moon, junior brother to great Uncle Sun, the chief Staff of the night shift, took it's time supervising the street lights making sure to illuminate the hard to reach spot where the street light rays can't reach.
Two humans in particular, Naruto and John, walked back home in silence in the cold breezy night. John offered to take the grocery bag but Naruto declined. It was really hard to start a conversation with Naruto because he gave short replies.
"So, you got anyone you're interested in?" John asks all of a sudden. This one would surely get anyone interested.
"No."
"No? Not even those pretty girls everyone talks about in the neighborhood who live beside you and the fact that you teach in the same school?"
Naruto stopped for a moment before he resumed. "I'm not interested in bat-women."
"Sorry?" John said unfamiliar with the term.
"Lets just say looks can be deceiving."
"So, they have a skeleton in their cupboard, who doesn't? I mean it's not as if they're devils with bat wings." John said with a blithely look on his face.
Naruto found it quite amusing, the fact that this guy was on spot every time. If Naruto didn't know he was an ordinary human, Naruto would think he was faking it.
"There's no such things as magic, devils, gods, angels and even ninjas."
"Whoa there, slow down. Ninjas? Ninjas are totally real!" Naruto's voiced out involuntarily. The shinobi in him wanted to prove his existence.
"Have you ever seen one?" John deadpanned.
"You bet your law enforcement ass I have," Naruto replied heatedly.
The Blond fought in a shinobi world war damn it!
"Yeah, I bet they were dressed in black and had throwing stars and what else? they could walk on walls and run on water? Better yet they can breathe fire with an intricate movement of their fingers?" He said sarcastically, forming a poor tiger seal.
Naruto narrowed his eyelids at John, sizing him up. He also made a mental note to keep an eye on John. This guy knew way too much.
"Ninjas are just a figment of someone's imagination I swear-"
"I'm starting to dislike this guy," Naruto had a tick mark on his left cheek. A sudden urge to prank the policeman rising up.
"Hey! Wait up Naruto!" John yelled trying to catch up with the Ninja.
Naruto had quickened his footsteps reciting a verbal exercise for anger management. His muttering was cut short when he stopped abruptly sensing something that was out of this world, something sinister. He turned his head to a dark alley where the sinister signature was coming from.
"Naruto, wait up ack-"John suddenly went wide eyes and by the looks of it, he sensed it too.
A woman went past them looking over her shoulder wondering why the two of them stopped all of a sudden.
"She didn't notice,"
To solidify Naruto's analysis, he waited until two guys went past them and still, they couldn't sense it. Naruto glanced at John sideways.
"This guy…" Naruto stared at him.
Naruto decided to investigate the eerie alley ignoring John's warning not to. It was a dead end and a little child squatted at the end of the alley sobbing, her back turned to Naruto. A flashback of a silver haired woman crying hit him and he had to shake his head to get rid of it.
"Naruto! Don't wander off alone," John whispered behind him, eyes darting back and forth.
"Can't you hear it?"
"Hear what?!" John asked on the verge of throwing hysterics.
Naruto moved closer to the child still hearing the sobs loud and clear.
"Hey! I can hear something. Almost like a sob."
"Now he does," Naruto thought rolling his eyes giving John a look like when Kakashi saw Obito kissing Rin's photo.
Naruto could see the little child clearly now when he got near. White gown riddled with stains, black hair almost brown due to dirt and dust and a foul smell emanating from him/her. Judging by the long hair, Naruto decided it was a she.
"Oh my God, It's just a child," John breathed a sigh of relief.
"Are you okay?" Naruto asked his guard still up. He gently placed a hand on her shoulder as the child slowly turned around sobbing.
"Nii-chan-sob-i need-sob-your-SOUL," The child whispered, red eyes glowing with madness, human dentition suddenly replaced with a monsters.
The little child opened its mouth wide enough to swallow Naruto's head. He rejoiced with sick glee as another human fell prey to it's deception. What he liked the most about it's victims was the look of terror, utter fear in their eyes as he devoured them but there was something wrong with this human, he had no fear in his eyes. Maybe he's too scared to react? His teeth were a millimetre away from Naruto's face, purple slime and saliva dripping from his mouth. The other human beside Naruto screamed at the top of his lungs just the way the possessed child liked but unfortunately, that one will not be harmed.
Back to the blonde one… The look on his face morphed from Indifference to a mix of irritation and anger.
Boom!
"Ack-"The possessed child choked feeling his shoulder blades crack the moment it made impact with the alley wall. A hand around his neck tightened uncomfortably as he wheezed for air grabbing the hand obstructing his windpipe.
"Trash,"Naruto said with contempt.
"Naruto-san!" John screamed.
"Do you know us?" The possessed child asked, his voice deep and demonic as if a group of people spoke at once.
"Oh my God!" John behind Naruto exclaimed, full of fear, for the child had his neck bent at impossible angles, sharp claws replaced fingers, green veins spread across his neck and his voice, his voice gave John chills, goosebumps appeared all over his arms.
"Get out this child," Naruto ordered with a calm face, the child's feet dangling in the air as it struggled against Naruto's hold.
"Silence, Lowly human! Your likes cannot order us," The possessed child clawed at Naruto's face trying to break free. The grip around his neck tightened. The more he tried to break free, the more Naruto tightened his grip. His fingers dug deep into Naruto's hand injecting him with a purple viscous liquid in the process.
"Naruto! It's poison is trying to take over your body,." Kurama warned, already working on repelling it.
"N-naruto-san, w-what- a-are you going to-" He couldn't believe it but for the first time in his life, he was in a dilemma very few are faced with. His hands shaking uncontrollably, he took aim, the trigger squeezed halfway. His conscience wouldn't allow it but Naruto's grip on the child's neck was so tight the child could choke to death. His glowing red eyes softened, the madness in it gone like it was never there before, eyes misty with unshed tears pleaded to be freed and right there, he made a decision that would haunt him for the rest of his life. He closed his eyes and hoped his baby sister would forgive him.
"You won't come out?" Naruto asked tightening the chokehold he had on the child.
The child roared and hissed at Naruto digging its claws deep into Naruto's skin. He watched as purple bled into Naruto's eyes with black concentric circles overlapping it. A gut feeling to never mess with the human choking him rose but he squashed it down. Even the great devils feared him, then why fear a human who had this weak child's body in a chokehold.
"Ningendo," Naruto intoned.
"Im-impossible!" The demon inside the child screamed mentally feeling it's consciousness, it's body leaving the child's body.
"Naruto! stop or I'll shoot. You're hurting a child!" John said with his gun pointed at Naruto's skull.
He heard Naruto say something that sounded like 'human path' and took a step backwards. The child, if it was a child at this point, screamed in excruciating pain mixed with a demonic voice.
John was never one to believe in the supernatural but right in front of his eyes a dark fog like being with red glowing eyes screeched as Naruto pulled it out from the child who was levitating in the air, His head reared up, hands spread out wide. The demon's head came out little by little as it struggled against Naruto wanting to stay inside the child.
"Impossible! Impossible! Impossibllleee! We can't break free," The demon glared at Naruto with loathing and Naruto leveled his own glare at it.
"Get out!" Naruto yanked, pulling the demon out of the child, throwing it at the opposite wall.
John's purple eyes trailed the demon's form as it hit the wall and fell on it's arms. John backed away in fear, his gun slipping out of his hands.
"W-what-" John looked from Naruto who had a hand on the child to the demon on the floor rising. His eyes made contact with the demon's and he was petrified with fear. Long thin demonic arms extended getting bigger as it neared John, big enough to grab John's entire midsection.
"Get down!" Naruto screamed, springing into action with the child in his arms, he pushed John out of harm's way holding the unconscious boy. The demon, seeing John was out of it's reach, and smirked at Naruto.
(Back in the Uzumaki Mansion)
Martha suddenly fell down, feeling dizzy. Gaia caught her in time before she hit the floor. She placed a hand on her head in worry feeling her body temperature.
"Hey, Martha, are you okay?" Gaia asks before she snaps her head west eyes wide.
"No way," Gaia felt it two days ago but she thought she was under the weather but sensing that 'thing' again couldn't be a coincidence.
"My brother… He's in danger," said a distressed Martha.
"Don't worry. Naruto's with him," Gaia tried to ease her worries.
"No, you don't understand. He's in danger beyond human capacity," she said crying.
"Listen to me, Martha. Naruto is going to keep your brother safe, alright. Naruto's gonna protect him," She said before hugging her.
(Back in the demon's alley)
Play need to be strong ost
"You… you humiliated us!"
It screamed to the heavens before rearing its hand back enlarging it to epic proportions breaking the alley's dead end. Debris flew around and a sharp gust of wind cut Naruto's cheek and the boy in his hands.
"Run John!" Naruto screamed, tearing his eyes from the demon to check whether John was Ok.
Big Mistake.
Turning his eyes back to the demon, a huge purple demonic arm covered his vision.
"Fast."
There wasn't even enough time for a Shinra Tensei. Naruto turned around, squeezed his eyes shut, braced for impact before hugging the boy to his chest in time before a huge palm riddled with thorns slapped him in the back out of the alley at lightning fast speed.
Naruto grunted, coughing out a mouthful of blood while moving in the air against his will at high speed. He opened his eyes and for a split second, everything in the world blurred by before he focused and everything slowed down to a pace he could understand. He noticed he was headed to a collision with a brick wall.
He turned around shielding the boy from harm's way again taking the impact with his already bleeding back. Spider cracks appeared all over the walls and Naruto was embedded in the center, still holding the unconscious child. He fell to the ground on his knees a moment later breathing hard. The cold wind blew at the exposed injury on his back, blood seeping from it onto the floor.
Naruto checked the kid and a wave of relief washed over him seeing the child was okay sleeping like a rock.
John was a few feet away from the demon and the demon didn't even spare him a glance. It's focus was on Naruto as it hissed at the blonde teacher.
"Naruto! The injury is taking longer than expected to heal. Taking more of those might be dangerous. Be careful," Kurama warned.
"Oi, what's that thing?" Son Goku asked.
"I don't know Son. I've never seen anything like it." Naruto gasped, seeing a purole blur in his line of sight with the help of the Rinnegan. He tipped his head to the side and his left ear went deaf due to the impact of a purple fist embedding itself where his head was a moment ago. The arm was extended and Naruto couldn't see where it came from in the distance with the little light provided by the moon.
Fwip
The demon appeared in front of Naruto who had backed away from the wall on his knees. Naruto could see it clearly now that it was so near. It's body looked like it was made out of purple mist and its eyes a deep glowing red. It's teeth looked like an endless row of pointed long sharp teeth. It had no lips and lower body. Instead of a lower body, it had a cloud of purple mist and it's waist upward looked humanoid.
"You... how dare you," It demanded staring at Naruto's purple orbs.
It's other hand raced from the distance returning it's original length and he placed it on the wall opposite Naruto's face. "You do not fear us. You will make a good vessel for us."
"No thanks but I gotta ask," Naruto's face went from exhausted to serious. "What are you?"
The demon chuckled at Naruto's question, loving the look on Naruto's face. "You are unworthy to know our Name, Human. You are but a mere ant to be trampled on," It said before dipping it's claws into Naruto's face. Naruto screamed in pain before a clone he created kicked the demon away.
The demon skidded to a half and screeched at both Narutos.
.
"Multiplication. A talented human indeed yet, we do not sense any sacred gear," It said before it grew sharp claws and went on all fours- Err, twos.
"Take him,"Naruto threw the child at the clone. "I have to kill a talking fog."
"We sense the powers of the old Youkai in you but you do not bear their blood."
"Yeah, I'm special because I'm a ninja… A shinobi," Naruto said before his eyelids turned orange.
The end.
Idk if the poker scene was good. I have an average understanding of poker.
Watch out for chapter 13 where the face off continues. Naruto vs Talking fog… Who will win? Till the next time I update, stay beautiful y'all.