Hello, it's me again. I'm back with a new installment of the blonde shinobi in dxd. Have fun reading.
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Chapter 13
"Multiplication? A talented human indeed yet we sense no sacred gear." It said before it went on all fours- err twos.
"Take him" Naruto threw the child at his clone. "I have to kill a talking fog"
"The power of the old Youkai resides in you yet you do not bear their blood" The eerie being went on both arms sizing up the blonde ninja.
"Yeah, i'm special because I'm a ninja… A shinobi" Naruto said, his eyelids turning a dark shade of orange.
(In the underworld)
Hel, a dimensional field as old as the underworld itself or even older, stood somewhere in an unknown location In the underworld. Formerly a no man's land, an abandoned, barren and desolate place now served as a prison for the most evil creatures In the supernatural world.
Back when tigers used to smoke, different species lived here in harmony before war broke out and the inhabitants fled.
Two magnificent mountains stood beside each other almost like a door giving a peek of what it guarded. Black smoke filled the air, the sky was barren and had no star except for the drifting clouds. The stench of agony, despair, and evil filled the air. A red magic circle formed on the barren ground ,cursed to stay forever futile and out came Sirzechs Lucifer, the king of the devils.
"It's been ages since then," Sirzechs said with Nostalgia remembering when he first visited the damned place.
"Lord Sirzechs, You should have told us you were paying a visit beforehand so we could plan a welcome befitting of someone of your status." A being who looked like a cross between a pig and a goblin garbed in a tattered dark green cloak barefoot bowed before Sirzechs.
Being Maou was good and all but the blatant lip service to earn his favor annoyed him sometimes.
"Is the Curator in?" He questioned.
"Yes sir, He's in his chambers."
"Good. We have a lot to talk about."
The cloaked being sweated nervously before it summoned a huge Wyvern and they set out to the Curators chambers.
On the flying Wyvern, Sirzechs had a bird's eye view of Hel, a long massive wall raced from the peak of the mountains into the distance, widening the farther it got. These 'walls' were a combination of sealing magics engineered to keep the inmates inside the fearsome prison from escaping. Even Teleportation circles were rendered useless inside the prison. It was unbreakable, perfect for detaining extremely strong beings. The ancient devils dubbed it, The Purge.
Sirzechs became lost in thought upon seeing the five great triangular pillars which was undoubtedly the tallest construction the red-haired Maou had ever laid his eyes on. The pillars almost scraped the skies with their pointed tips glowing a red color, the view which was obstructed by the white clouds, closed shut trapping whatever was in there from coming out. The creatures inside these pillars powered the very thing keeping them trapped for eternity. Hence, the glow they radiated.
The fifth pillar was the root of Sirzechs's distress: It didn't glow the red color Sirzechs remembered it glowing. It is said that the pillars will turn scaly when the demons it held escaped and right now, one of the pillars' scaly body was proof enough for Sirzechs to know an SS-rank demon's escaped Hel. Sirzechs scoffed at the notion, an SS-rank demon escaping Its prison was unbelievable but the same demon getting out of The Purge was ludicrous! The Curator better be ready for some serious consequences.
On the 1st gate of the purge stood the living quarters of the Head Warden, The Curator. The pillars holding the demons were at the fourth gate in the middle of the purge. A large group of devils mixed with other races like Ogres, Orcs, Gargoyles mostly hulky monsters took care of The Purge making sure the demons never saw the light of the day.
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The Curator was expecting Sirzechs and as soon as he saw the Wyvern in the distance, he straightened his back and braced himself for Sirzechs Lucifer's probe.
"Lord Sirzechs." The Curator, a surprisingly humanoid being greeted the great Maou. It looked fragile and it's sickly green skin only helped enhance its fragile look but it was an illusion, the Curator could go toe to toe with an ultimate class devil and come out victorious.
"Ah, Curator, how are you today? I couldn't help but notice the fifth pillar wasn't glowing anymore," Sirzechs said, getting off the Wyvern cutting straight to the point.
"Lord Sirzechs-"
"And the fact that it turned scaly?" Sirzechs moved forward, a wave of potent magic filled the air.
"I can explain." The Curator took a step back.
"There's always an explanation, right?"
"Lord Sirzechs-"
"How'd Ashirok escape its prison cell?!" Sirzechs said pointing at the black pillar. "Better yet, how'd he escape Hel?!"
"You must understand Lord Sirzechs, I hid Ashirok's breakout from you with valid reasons as I didn't want to add to your plate." The Curator argued.
"Your job was to keep those demons sealed and not only did you fail but you also omitted the truth from me!"
The Curator swallowed hard, thinking before he spoke trying to look for a valid reason. "With the new alliance knocking at the door, the threat of the Khaos Brigade and the Norse gods who disagree, a loose SS-rank demon seemed less significant," the Curator heaved a sigh of relief when Sirzechs visibly calmed down. "Leave the likes of these filthy demons to me Lord Gremory."
Sirzechs weighed his words and a tiny part of him agreed with the Curator. Sensitive information in times like this was best kept away from the general public but someone is bound to know an SS-rank demon's loose in the human world.
"When were you planning to tell me? Until it spiraled out of your control?"
"I intended to come clean after the alliance but it seems words of the prison break got to you."
"Leave Ashirok to me. As for your punishment, you'll be confined to The purge without access to the outer world for Five years doing hard labor."
"You're too kind my Lord," The Curator said through gritted teeth. He knew what Sirzechs was up to, keeping him in house arrest for five years.
Sirzechs knew there was something up with the Purge after the great war. It was practically impossible for Ashirok to break free from the pillars and If that was - let's assume - possible, then how did he escape The Purge. The Curator couldn't be trusted anymore.
"Oh, and a few members of my peerage are going to investigate this case. I expect your full cooperation and support, Kradios." Sirzechs looked over his shoulder calling The Curator by his name.
"Of course, Lord Sirzechs."
The Curator stood there looking at Sirzechs form in the distance as he rode on the Wyvern back to the back to the gates of The Purge.
"Lord Sirzechs…"
(Back In Kuoh)
Naruto's purple eyes trailed the demon, watching the abomination move on both hands sniffing the air screeching every now and then searching for him. He took a quick glance scanning the entire area filled with debris from destroyed buildings.
Fortunately, the humans around the area were few and luckily, they fled thinking a Natural disaster occurred. Maybe they couldn't see the demon and thought it a Natural disaster? Naruto couldn't tell but one thing was for sure, the fight with the demon dealt a lot of damage to the surrounding buildings.
"I need to get him out of the city," Naruto mused.
It was necessary to get the demon out of town if he wanted to avoid collateral damage.
Naruto let out a sigh mentally preparing himself as bait before he gave his position. Naruto took three strides jumping to a three-storey building.
The demon sighting Naruto threw it's hand forward stretching it to epic proportions intending on grinding Naruto to a smear of flesh and blood, destroying a good part of the second to the top floor in an instant. Naruto emerged unscathed from the cloud of dust grabbing the edge of the roof almost losing his grip before he climbed up and ran towards the east.
Looking to his right, he noticed a purple blur on the road following him, maneuvering its way through the buildings before it jumped up landing on the same roof he was a few feet away from. He led it away from Kuoh moving at speeds that made him appear as a yellow blur and the demon chased after him relentlessly. He smirked when the dense forest on the outskirts of Kuoh appeared in the distance.
Landing on the forest floor, Naruto spun on the balls of his feet, tilting his head just in time to avoid a lightning-fast purple misty hand. He dashed sideways and missed another hand that would have surely ripped his head to shreds.
The blonde ninja didn't like the situation he was in. He was wide open and the demon was well hidden, having the advantage to attack from the shadows. He only had a split second to dodge the demon's arms and that was all thanks to sage mode's danger sensing.
Naruto began jumping around dodging the hands attempting to grab him. He ducked under a wide-spread palm before backflipping over another landing on it, his feet making contact with the surprisingly firm surface. He raced towards the demon on the arm, finally spotting it in it's hiding spot. The demon drew its outstretched arm back pulling him forward rearing it's left hand back. The demon thrust it's left hand forward and one hand multiplied to many trying to skewer the ninja into pieces.
Equipping two Kunais augmented with wind Chakra, Naruto cut through the incoming hands trying to stop him. The demon growled in frustration before enlarging the multiple hands from its body intending on stopping Naruto's advancement.
Naruto blasted his way through the hands with a Rasengan twice the size of his table. Seeing the barrage of tendril-like arms were becoming too much for him to handle. Sage mode danger sensing went off again and he had a sudden urge to look behind. A purple magic circle materialized behind him and a huge balled fist came out of it. Naruto somersaulted over the barrage in the front and at the same time escaped the sneak attack.
With both rasengans glowing in the night sky, the demon glared up at Naruto and retracted all it's hands back. Naruto dived at the demon with both hands reared back.
"Senpo: Odama Rasenrengan!" He yelled bringing both Rasengans forward.
The demon whispered in an ancient tongue and a purple magic circle appeared above its head taking the full brunt of both rasengans. Naruto's eyes widened a fraction when the magic circle absorbed a portion of the rasengans before he forced his way through the magic barrier. The applied force caused both techniques to cancel each other out leaving Naruto in the air, vulnerable.
Naruto, with both arms crossed in the air, glared at the Demon with Rinnegan ablaze. Two purple magic circles appeared at Naruto's right and left. The Demon smirked at Naruto, dipping its hands into both teleportation circles in it's left and right, connected to the ones beside Naruto. It smirked, loving the look of surprise on the Shinobi's face. The purple misty demon's hands came out of the magic circles on both sides of the Shinobi and both hands multiplied to many before they were all balled into fists. Naruto had a look of horror on his face before it turned into a smirk at the last minute and a rain of purple tendril-like fists seemingly crushed Naruto to his death until...
Poof.
"What the…" The confused demon couldn't complete its sentence. Instead of a shower of blood, flesh and bones, all it got was smoke?
It's official, an ancient demon has been added to the list of those fooled by Naruto Uzumaki's number one favourite Jutsu.
A shrilling sound reached the demon's ear, and upon turning its head to the source of the noise, a blue-whitish mass flashed in its vision before Naruto materialized in front of it, his left hand reared back.
"Was he that fast?" The demon thought in astonishment. There wasn't enough time to counter or dodge and the power radiating from the Rasenshuriken in Naruto's hands only helped petrify the demon.
"Futon: Rasenshuriken!"
Naruto slapped the Demon with the S-rank jutsu using it like a melee weapon.
Swoosh
The demon was blasted away at neck-breaking speed, the rasenshuriken followed cutting deep into its body. The rasenshuriken detonated a good distance from Naruto, wind blowing everything away from sight, splinters and huge trees flew everywhere. As soon as the Jutsu died down, he spotted the demon cut in half, purple fluid seeping from the point it was cleaved in half and some spots all over its body.
The demon rose from the ground, its form repairing itself at an astounding rate. A huge magic circle appeared over its head as it screamed, glaring dagger at the blonde shinobi.
"You! We are going to kill you!"
(Back in Kuoh)
John ran back to Naruto's house like his life depended on it and when he got there, he flung the door open and stood at the front door wheezing, desperately filling his lungs with oxygen.
(In the outskirts of Kuoh)
"You disgust me. Possessing a child," Naruto spat at the demon.
"Graww!" It yelled, sending both fists at Naruto. Naruto stopped the incoming fists by thrusting both palms forward and letting loose a wave of wind Chakra to help, he grabbed the offending hand sticking to it with Chakra before swinging the demon around at high speed. Ashirok bounced off the ground unearthing a good chunk of it and still, Naruto didn't let go until the demon became a blur before rearing his hands back swinging the demon behind him. With a primal roar, he gripped harder and threw his hands over his head slamming the demon to the ground. A bruised unhappy demon rose from the crater he occupied black mist seeping from its body.
"You have infuriated us,." It said with an eerie calm levitating in the air.
Play enma the monkey king theme
Like a machine, the magic circle above it moved till it was in front of the demon. Clapping both hands, the magic circle moved till it was right in front of it. The demon took its aim at Naruto, the magic circle widened the moment it placed its hands on it, growing bigger and bigger, widening till it cracked. The ground groaned due to the pressure exerted on it by the magic the demon was conjuring. Spider cracks appeared all over the ground and the spot Naruto stood on split into two and from there, the surrounding areas started falling apart.
(In the underworld)
"Serafall-sama?" Grayfia, Beowulf and Souji were waiting on her orders but she seemed absorbed going through a stack of files holding important details about the demon loose on earth. After going through it all, Serafall stood up with a distant look on her face. "We leave for earth, Now."
(Back in the outskirts of Kuoh)
Naruto stood on the cracked earth leveling a straight face at the infuriated demon.
"Dark Eraser!" It screamed unleashing the magic it conjured.
A huge stream of a dark mist — moving really fast while destroying the very ground they both stood on — zoomed toward Naruto who was on a piece of rock. Calm purple eyes stared at the stream of darkness rushing toward him destroying everything in its path. No, it was sucking everything in, corroding matter at an alarming rate.
"I've faced something like this before."
The shinobi thought of a large earth wall but that would prove useless. All the defensive techniques he knew would prove useless against the demon's attack.
The shinobi raised his hands forward, palms outstretched. He rarely used this technique and actively avoided using it but sometimes, your greatest offense is your greatest defense.
"This one's for Nagato"
He straightened his back, breathed in and out, closed his eyes, turned sideways and stretched his right hand forward building a massive amount of Chakra as he stretched out his palm and then, he snapped his eyes open as soon as the dark stream was near and yelled, "Shinra Tensei!"
A mighty wave of gravity emanating from Naruto's outstretched palm ran over the dark stream completely crushing it to nothingness. It didn't stop there though. An invisible force hit the demon hard launching it away sending it crashing through rows of trees, toppling them over.
Naruto shunshined in front of the demon in mid air with both fists joined together. He hammered the demon right in the face to the ground, creating a crater in the process before he stabbed it's forehead with a Kunai. Ashirok pushed Naruto's fist away from its face and tried to spear his neck open with its right hand extended. Naruto backflipped, missing the fist by an inch, gaining a safe distance from the demon landing with his right hand in front of his chest, both index and middle finger facing upwards while the thumb held the ring and pinky finger tucked in his palms.
For a while there, the image of a mad one-eyed blonde wearing a dark cloak with red clouds cackling madly with his tongue hanging out of his mouth with both hands stretched out and crossed stood behind Naruto before-
"Kaatsu!"
An explosion went off blowing the demon's head off down to it's midsection. The blonde human thought the fight was over before he frowned seeing what was considered impossible happening.
The demon grew another head in seconds.
"This… T-this Thing, How do I kill it?"
"Look closely Naruto. I'm sure it's got some kind of weakness."
In the split second Naruto had a brief conversation with his tenant, the demon was already on Naruto, literally in front of his face, clawing hands about to dig into his skin.
"Grrawww!"
Thanks to sage mode, Naruto was able to act in the small window of time available to him, Purple eyes darting around haphazardly.
In slow motion, Naruto slapped the outstretched hand away and punched the demon in the face triggering a mini shockwave. Naruto's pupil dilated a fraction before he straightened up. Ashirok skidded to a half before it roared at Naruto glaring daggers at him.
Naruto brought his right hand near his face and concentrated a huge amount of lightning Chakra. Lightning burst into life in his hands accompanied by the sound of a thousand chirping birds. He had a little smirk on his face as he leveled a smug-filled glare at the demon.
"Found it."
Instantaneously, Naruto appeared in front of the demon, blue eyes staring at the demon's red. He thrust his right hand inside the demon's mist-like body eliciting a pain-filled cry from the demon. The pain Naruto's lightning coated fist near it's core brought was too much to hold back. Naruto placed his left hand on the demon's shoulder before he grabbed the core and yanked at it with his hand still coated with lightning.
Ashirok's painedined shrill reduced in volume till it stopped. An eerie silence filled the battleground as the demon smirked at Naruto.
Naruto narrowed his eyes at the demon before he opened his fist still inside the demon expelling normal Chakra in his right hand spinning it around before he balled his fist, crushing the core in the process, sending a wave of lightning Chakra dispersing the demon's body to the air effectively killing it.
The forest by now, wasn't a forest anymore. Uprooted trees, uneven grounds, craters and splinters were everywhere. It was obvious a fight occurred here, especially the huge hole made by a rasenshuriken in the middle of the forest.
"Sorry, Nature."
Naruto's fingers blurred through a series of seals before he slapped both hands on the earth.
"Stupid talking fog," Murmured Naruto looking at the botch job repair he did. Well, compared to the topography he and the demon created this was much better but the signs were still there albeit veiled.
(Uzumaki Mansion)
"Is he okay?"
An unsurprised John asked, seeing the child who was possessed in Naruto's house being tended to by Gaia. Martha stood a few feet away from the boy before her face lit up when she saw him.
"Nii-san! You're OK." Martha embraced her brother, happy to see he's okay.
John held her tight in his arms, closing his eyes shut. He gave himself props for staying sane and keeping his emotions under control. After the events that transpired tonight, he isn't going to see the world the same way again after what had happened.
"Where's Naruto?" Gaia asked, wondering why Naruto blew his cover sending a clone and an unconscious child home.
"Gaia-san, your brother… What is he?"
"... Naruto?"
Gaia went silent wondering how she was going to explain about everything to John. Fortunately, she was saved by a knock on the door.
"Gaia-san!" A familiar feminine voice called from the front door.
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Naruto Uzumaki had a deep frown plastered on his face as he ran all the way back home at top speed. He caught a brief glimpse of the headline of the 11pm news airing on the huge LCD screen attached to the tv station building. The headlines read, "10 dead, 3 security officers killed in bank robbery."
"This is much more serious than I thought. Ever since I moved to Kuoh, the city's crime rate was pretty low but since the past 7 days, it has skyrocketed to an absurd level."
Naruto landed on a 12 storey building sticking to the glass walls with Chakra running horizontally across the surface and bounced off when he reached the edge of the building. He spotted the Uzumaki mansion which was close now as Naruto could see the lights in the living room were still on. He landed on his front door, flinging the door wide open.
"Is he up?!" He threw the question expecting an answer from anyone but his question was countered with another question by someone he least expected.
"Naruto, where have you been and why are your clothes torn to shreds?" Kuroka pointed a finger at the blonde. "Did you get in a fight nya?~"
Naruto actually took a moment to stare at Kuroka shaking his head in disappointment. She was still the same as ever, zero courtesy.
The pale-blonde haired detective stared at Naruto blinking every now and then unable to form a sentence. His mind told him to ask questions but his mouth wouldn't open.
Naruto moved to the boy ignoring John's look and placed a hand on his chest. The boy let out a soft moan as a green aura surrounded Naruto's hand and the wounds on the boy healed rapidly in front of their eyes. Martha had a hard time closing her mouth trying to comprehend how the boy's injuries were healing at inhuman rates and Kuroka only raised an eyebrow at the green Chakra surrounding Naruto's hands.
"You can heal too?"John finally opened his mouth, marvelled at the display.
"You're OK?" He asked moving his palm towards John, ready to heal any wound.
"Yeah.. But what was-" John replied but was cut abruptly by Naruto.
"I know you have a lot of questions." Naruto glanced from John to Martha and back to John.
"I'll answer them at a later date. It's late already"
"Naruto, Don't tell me you're an… Alien?!" John shrieked, the thrill of being friends with an alien already brewing in his head.
Naruto sighed out loud. He thought John was frightening sometimes, he was on point almost constantly but he didn't know it… Just spoke casually not knowing truer words were never spoken.
Well in a sense, Naruto is an alien because he's from another universe entirely.
"What happened Naruto? Whose kid is this?" Gaia queried.
"Don't know. I found him in the streets, he was possessed by something eerie."
"Something eerie?" Martha questions staying away from the boy. A cold chill went down her spine every time she looked at the boy, she had to suppress the urge to leave the room.
"That thing you were talking about John, was it perhaps, a purple demon with mist-like properties?" Gaia asked, earning a raised eyebrow from Naruto.
"How did you know?/ Yeah, you're right, ." Naruto and John asked and said at the same time.
"Where is it?" An alarmed Gaia asked.
"I killed it."
"What did you say?"
"I pulled it out of the kid, we fought and I killed it." Naruto gave a short recap of the evening's event.
"Not only were you able to draw it out of the kid but also killed it?" Gaia narrowed her eyelid with suspicion at Naruto and instantly materialized a green magic circle over her palm.
"Where is Naruto?" She asked, a tiny fraction of her godly power manifesting itself as a green aura surrounded her body. The room became saturated with power and the others in the room found it hard to breathe except Naruto who didn't even notice a thing except for the aura around Gaia.
Naruto had a befuddled look on his face giving the only reply he could think of, "Huh?"
"Gaia?" Kuroka questioned not sure why the goddess in disguise looked like she wanted to cause Naruto bodily harm. On the other hand, when was she able to use magic circles?
"Gaia, what's wrong with you?" Naruto asked, taking cautious steps backwards.
The normal humans in the room stared on equally surprised to see a green circle levitating over Gaia's hand pointed at Naruto.
" .know it's you, Naruto." She said through gritted teeth.
Naruto staggered back. "Okay, okay. l-um, ask me a question only I would know the answer to!"
"What are you?!"
"A shinobi."
"A shinobi?/ What's a shinobi?" Kuroka &The pale blonde siblings thought.
"What rank were you?"
"Aw come on Gaia! It's me!" Naruto stomped his foot on the floor like a 5 year old.
"What rank were you!?"
"G-genin."
"What do you call the big threes?"
"Doves, Bats and Crows."
"OK. I believe you." The mother goddess's godly powers recedes as the magic circle disperses.
"What was that!" Naruto snapped, offended that she thought he was someone else.
"Naruto, this is much worse than we thought. Kuoh- No Japan, Hell, the whole world is in danger."
"I don't think I follow." Kuroka joined the conversation, interested after hearing the human world is in danger.
"The rise in crime rates… That's it! And the weird thing I've been sensing all this time…" Gaia trailed off. It all made sense to her now.
"What's a talking fog got to do with crime rates?"
"Well, the crime rates have been up there for the past three days. The precincts are already full of criminals as it is,." John remarked, finding it weird that the crime rates of the city suddenly skyrocketed, but after all he's seen today, he'd totally believe that a 'talking fog' was somehow linked to the bizarre sudden increase in crime.
"It's all because of it!" Gaia's face lit up. The whole thing made sense now. "How did it escape it's prison?" Gaia pondered.
"Hey, I've put an end to this thing. Problems solved," Naruto said, wondering why Gaia was getting all worked up over it.
"Naruto, I know you're strong but a fight between you and that demon… Everyone would have noticed."
Gaia knew Naruto was one strong bastard but she hadn't seen him go all out so gauging his full power was quite vague but she'd put him around the level of a Super devil.
"That thing was pretty weak, Gaia. Sure it was fast with crazy long limbs but still, It was pretty weak."
"You guys shouldn't talk about the supernatural with these two around." The resident feline told the human and goddess duo pointing at the normal humans in the house.
"Why?" John asked, standing in front of Martha in a defensive manner.
"You guys aren't supposed to know. It's for your own good," Kuroka answered.
"The supernatural?" John questioned.
"You will forget everything you heard tonight," Kuroka said, more like ordered, her aura taking a sudden change.
The siblings eyes glazed over for a second before they shook their heads a bit disoriented with a mean headache.
"What the hell was that, Lady?!" John yelled, rubbing his head.
"What the-" The nekomata's eyes widened a fraction.
"Ugh, I feel dizzy, Big bro.".
"Don't you ever do that again!" John hollered holding Martha. Kuroka was dumbfounded, they were able to resist her memory wipe.
"Ok, What are you guys?! Nothing makes sense at all! This guy can multiply and heal people. That woman was covered with a green aura and now you, you're trying to wipe my memory?! Are you some kind of government nut job? You guys are weirdos!" John's finally lost it seems.
"Hn, government nut job,," Naruto scoffed, turning around to face John. "But, there's something I noticed about you, Super cop-"
"It's John!"
"That thing, it wasn't after you." Naruto's aura turned cold in an instant and it was as if a war general took his place. The blonde waited to thicken the tension before he asked with cold piercing blue eyes, "Why?"
"I-i don't know, maybe it attacked you cause it sensed you were the stronger one?"
"How were you two able to resist the memory wipe?" Naruto took a step forward. He's seen the magic trick work on normal humans and other devils had tried it on him but... Let's just say, they were rendered wingless for the rest of their lives.
"L-let's not lose our h-head here, everyone," Martha stuttered.
"Are you doubting me right now?" John asked, a bit offended.
"Why are you exempted?"
"Brother-" Martha grabbed John's sleeve.
"Let go, Martha, this guy-"
"It happens all the time! Let it go!" Martha snapped on the verge of tears. Her sudden outburst knocked Naruto out of his serious mode.
"Hey, Martha, it's alright." John hugged Martha close. "Look, there's someone as weird as us right there," He said glaring at Naruto.
Kuroka had a confused look on her face, Gaia contemplated John's words and Naruto had an offended look on his face. "What, I'm not weird!" He defended.
"Define weird," Kuroka said to John.
"Ever since we were kids, we could see things normal people couldn't. From ghosts to those weird domes everyone gave a wide berth to subconsciously."
A sharp cold sensation shot through Naruto's spine at the mention of ghosts. He still hasn't overcome his fear of ghosts. One would think traveling to a new universe would cure him of his fear of ghosts but on the bright side, it cured his stupidity.
"Martha would cry all day because she was very young and the mean kids would call her names. They Ostracized her for being different and it only got worse when we lost our parents. They disappeared all of a sudden." John held onto Martha tightly, controlling his emotions before he continued. "I became a cop to protect my baby sister and so I could investigate our parent's bizarre disappearance. I haven't found a clue or anything about them and I know what the obvious answer is but I hope I'll find them one day and I'm going to keep on searching till I find them." John had a determined look on his face at the end.
"Yeah, good sob story but, that doesn't explain why you guys are immune." Naruto gave a jerky reply earning a glare from Kuroka and a punch from Gaia.
"Martha had this special ability, sh-she somehow knows when a loved one is in danger."
"So that's how she knew her brother was in danger." Gaia realized.
"Did your parents have any kind of weird abilities too? What did they think about yours?" The mother goddess inquired.
"They told us weird things ran in the family. Our great grandmother could control the weather and my father told me his father could see glimpses of the future."
"There's only one explanation/sacred gear?/I can't sense any sacred gear from them." Kuroka, Gaia and Naruto thought simultaneously.
"Tell me, what's that trinket?" Naruto pointed at the jewelry hidden under John's shirt.
"Momma gave it to us when we were kids" Martha brought out her own trinket. "She told us to always wear it. Always…"
"Have you ever tried taking It off?" Naruto wondered.
"Naruto!"
"What? It's not as if they're going to die as long as I'm here."
"Dick…" Kuroka gave Naruto a dry look prompting Naruto to level a heated glare at her.
"Wait," Gaia moved forward inspecting the trinket on Martha's neck, "what's your last name?"
"Hunter," Martha replied.
"Lemme see that." Gaia moved forward and grabbed a hold of the trinket on Martha's neck. It had the design of a bat wing and a bird wing on the one side and a heart between both wings.
Gaia's pupils dilated a fraction after she saw the trinket. "How old are you, Martha?"
"Um, Sixteen."
"... I see." Gaia zoned out.
The unconscious little boy stirred in his sleep moaning uncomfortably. Naruto grabbed a cup of water before he checked how the boy was doing. The little child was unconscious with a pained look on his face. He had beads of sweat all over his face and Naruto took pity on the boy, placing a hand on his head, channeling a bit of healing Chakra into the boy to soothe his nerves. Kuroka joined him checking up on the boy.
"As of today both of you are going to be staying with us till I'm hundred percent sure about all this."
"Pufffffffffff-" Naruto spat out a mouth full of water on Kuroka.
"You animal!" She yelled exasperated.
"Oi, Oi, Oi! What do you mean stay with us?!" He yelled greatly perturbed.
(An hour later in the outskirts of Kuoh)
"The potent magic is still in the air but no sight of the demon," Beowulf said looking around. "Are you sure this is the place?" He asked Grayfia..
"Yes," She replied.
"With all this destruction… It's obvious a fight occurred," Serafall said standing on the same spot Naruto was when he used the Deva path abilities seeing the path of destruction - Though most of it had been covered by Naruto but a few signs of it were still present - and the massive amount of magic in the air.
"But, who's strong enough to go toe to toe with an SS-rank demon in Japan?" Beowulf threw the question at the group.
"That's the million dollar question," Serafall said staring at Souji. "Although I'm afraid of something more greater."
"In all of Japan… There's only one human I suspect," Souji said, spotting a blood stained fabric on the floor.
"A human defeated Ashirok?" Beowulf scoffed in disbelief.
"Do you think it's him?" Serafall referred to Naruto. "Do you think he's that powerful?"
"Not bad for a human. Very impressive. I guess the mission is accomplished," Beowulf said, smirking.
"No. It just got a lot harder." Serafall had a frustrated look on her face.
"What do you mean?" Beowulf asked, a bit confused.
"That was just a part of it, possessing a fraction of the original's power," Grayfia explained.
Souji inspected the blood stained fabric in his hand, a purple magic circle hovered over the piece of fabric before he balled his fist. Closing his eyes in concentration, he opened them a moment later and the fabric hovered in the air before it was engulfed in a purple blaze.
Souji let a smirk grace his features. "Naruto Uzumaki… Here I come."
"We leave for the blonde's house at once."
(The next day, Uzumaki Mansion)
Yesterday night, History happened in the Uzumaki Mansion. Two Humans - no scratch that - three Humans stayed the night in his house and two of them are going to live with him for a while! Gaia had him activate the security seals he placed around the house, after they had a lengthy conversation about the demon with John behind closed doors. They all silently agreed Martha wasn't ready for dangers like the one they were currently facing. They talked for what seemed like hours but was merely thirty minutes before a reluctant Naruto told them to go sleep on the second floor. The blonde pondered on what Gaia told him about the Hunter and his forced decision to let them stay and before he knew it, he was fast asleep. He was pulled into his mindscape at first light.
"I can't believe this. I mean, I'm the house owner! Why don't I have a say in this," Naruto complained in his mindscape, staring at Kurama's huge red orbs.
"It's for their safety Naruto. Remember what Gaia said."
'But… It was all speculation and she was very vague and oblique about it!"
"Better safe than sorry," The eight tailed octopus said.
"Gyuki, you're backing Kurama up?"
"Naruto, they are your responsibility now. Maybe fate brought them to you," The Nibi no nekomata, Matatabi said.
Naruto narrowed his eyes, staring off into the distance. "It's that bitch again… Fate."
"Anyways, we all agreed to help keep the young siblings safe."
"Come on! What happened to staying away from people's shit? I thought we promised not to interfere with the supernatural world."
Receiving no reply from the tailed beasts, Naruto face planted in the sewer that is his mindscape. "You guys are unbelievable."
"When did you become a hypocrite, Naruto?" Shikaku asked, the normal crazed voice replaced with a calm one.
"... I'm doing this to protect you guys."
"We have already decided, Naruto," Kurama said, rising on all fours. "Just because we fear discovery doesn't mean we should turn a blind eye when someone's in danger."
"There's no danger. I got rid of it, remember."
"The light I once saw in you… It didn't falter, nor did it dim. You casted a shadow over it yourself."
"What do you mean?" Naruto raised an eyebrow at the mountain sized fox.
"Naruto-san?" A muffled voice called from the outside world.
"Someone's trying to wake me up. Better get going." Naruto sizzled out of his mindscape leaving the tailed beasts inside.
"Keh, 'I'm doing this to protect you all' he says." Kurama mimicked Naruto's voice. "We all know you're doing this to protect yourself Naruto."
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Naruto snapped his eyes wide open to Martha's lovely face. Her purple orbs shone brightly in the morning sun as she stared at him with a curious expression.
"Um, Naruto-san," Martha spoke softly,. "Gaia-san requested you to depower the seals."
"Oh, I forgot about that."
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John scoffed, staring at a piece of paper with weird scribblings on it. "I can't believe this thing is keeping me from going out… I'm running late for work!"
"He's still not up yet?!" Kuroka yelled over the loud morning soap opera.
"Kuroka! Turn down the volume and get your legs off the couch! This isn't an inn for you to do as you please and stop freeloading off others!"
Martha looked down dejectedly behind Naruto. Kuroka and Gaia, seeing the sad look on her face glared at Naruto, and John clicked his tongue in frustration. Naruto wondered why the goddess and the feline were glaring at him but shrugged it off. The glare Gaia gave him was the 'I'll have a word with you later' glare and that means he'd better brace for some serious lectures about life and how to behave.
"Kai." Naruto placed a hand on the seal, deactivating it. It gave a faint glow as it's effects wore off.
Naruto was quite against the idea of having the hunters stay with him and he was pretty sure to voice his displeasure yesterday night and he was quite loud about it.
John stared at his sister one last time before he left. "I'll buy you a huge cotton candy, Martha."
Martha smiled at her older brother giving him a nod. Naruto now knew he did something wrong because the smile on her face was fake.
"Yare yare," Naruto sighed. "Oi, Martha, go freshen up."
"Why? Why? Why? Why do you want her to freshen up?" Kuroka challenged, still angry at Naruto. "It's not as if she brought any spare clothes."
"Just take one from Gaia's wardrobe."
"But-"
"Do it before I change my mind." Naruto cut Martha off, grabbing the remote, leveling a heated glare at Kuroka as if saying 'challenge me if you dare' before he turned down the volume.
"I don't have all day girl."
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"Naruto-san, where are we going?" Martha asked, feeling uncomfortable under the leers of men on the streets.
"Tsk, Gaia has no fashion sense. All she knows is green," He sighed irritably.
Martha had a sweatdrop on her face because Naruto wore a neon orange t-shirt tucked into orange denim jeans, an orange sneaker and dark shades. He had orange buttons and an orange wristwatch... Talk about overboard.
"Ah, an orange sports car would have been the perfect ride don't you think, Marie?"
The shinobi never found the need to own a car or a phone. The fastest machine these humans created couldn't keep up with him at full speed and he once chased a jet but that's a story for another day.
Martha nooded behind Naruto with a sweatdrop. Naruto stopped at the bus station waiting for the next bus.
"I never needed a car but now that I think about it, it would have been pretty cool to own a filthy expensive ride" Naruto muttered. "What'd ya say, Marie?"
"Marie?" She thought, shaking her head. "Where are we going, Naruto-san?"
"We're going to get you a change of wardrobe."
"Say what?"
"If you're going to be staying with me for a while, you're going to need clothes won't you?"
"But, we could have just-"
"Nah nah, I'm feeling generous today and I think you misunderstood me back then. Back then, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings. I was only trying to hurt that feline's feelings."
"Feline? You love coming up with weird names for your friends," Martha giggled.
"She's not my friend!" Naruto snapped.
"You say so but your actions say otherwise."
"Huh?"
"Well, I think you bicker back and forth because you like her. If anything, you both looked like lovers to me."
Naruto's face turned green as he made gagging motions. Martha chuckled with a radiant smile on her face before the next bus pulled over. Martha got in first before Naruto and secured a seat for him at the back. Ten minutes into the ride, a brown haired man approached them.
"Excuse me, but does heaven know you're missing?" He said staring at Martha. She became visibly uncomfortable as she shrinked behind Naruto holding his arm. He blasted the brown haired man who was trying to flirt with Martha a nice dose of KI. "Get lost." He ordered.
Martha beamed at Naruto expressing her gratitude, making the blondie scoff. "Next time, you should tell them to get lost with a poker face or an angry face, alright!"
"Osu!" Martha conjured up her most serious face. She seemed rather cute than serious.
"My god… we have a lot of work to do"
(Uzumaki Mansion)
Kuroka lay sprawled in one of the second floor's rooms burning her gaze on the Hyoudou's house thinking about her baby sister.
(Flashback)
"Hey, I know I have no right to butt in between sibling matters and I might seem nosy to you but don't you think it's high time you talk to her?"
"She deserves to know the truth, don't shield her from it."
"The truth?" Kuroka repeated.
"You're afraid she might reject you even if she knew what happened... Well, if you're afraid, there's nothing I can do about it."
(Flashback ends)
Those words still cut her everytime she remembered them.
"Kuroka." Gaia knocked on the open door. "You seem worried. Care to share it with this old woman?"
Kuroka turned her head up and spoke. "It's nothing."
"Listening to John last night, I guess I must have failed at performing my responsibility as an older sibling."
Gaia flopped on the bed with a sigh. "I guess I failed too. We all failed at something in life."
"The blonde is lucky to have zero expectations. He's as free as a bird yet there's this sad, melancholic, self-loathing, pitiful aura around him."
"Well, you're right. Naruto is someone filled with great sorrow, that's why I promised I'll try my best to heal his wound and fill his heart but Naruto won't let anyone that's not me in. His sorrow is too much for me to cure and I have no idea on how to help him. I sometimes think, his sorrow is incurable."
"Woah, that's deep. Naruto had problems like that?"
"More than you can imagine."
"To think of it, I don't know much about the bastard. I don't know what he hates and what he likes except ramen."
Both girls shared a laugh.
"Naruto… If you look past his sour and offensive front, he's a great guy but," Kuroka pouted, a grimace gracing her face. "It's almost impossible to look past his cold abominable personality." She sat up in bed. "I'll try to help in any way I can."
Gaia lips curved up a fraction. "Before you help him, help yourself first. Amend your relationship with your sister."
Kuroka bit her lips and nodded. Her mind made up, when the holidays ends, she's going to confront Shirone and tell her how much she's missed her and how sorry she was for leaving her alone after all these years.
(Scene Change)
"Whoa, it's huge!"
Martha marvelled at the huge clothing store.
The 12 storey building belonged to a famous multinational fashion brand. It was a clothing store meant for the rich and privileged and well, Naruto's lifestyle didn't match privileged so it was quite baffling to Martha, why Naruto chose this store instead of the cheaper ones.
"Come along, Marie."
"Wait, you want to buy clothes from Golden Fabric, the most expensive clothes store in Kuoh?" Martha questioned Appalled.
"Yeah, is there a problem?"
"B-b-but-"
Naruto waltzed into the building with style scanning the entire area for something or someone suspicious.
"Come here, Marie," The blonde called John's baby sister over in a lift. Martha stood beside Naruto as he hit the number nine button. The elevator door closed shut and their ascent began. A few moments later, the door opened with a ding giving view to a sea of different fashion brands.
"Welcome sir, ma'am."
A black haired woman in a black business suit greeted the two customers. Naruto inclined his head a little before he flopped on the couch, finding it comfy. He pulled a golden card with a grain-leaf design out of his pocket and flashed it before the woman's eyes before he laid his head to rest and cross his legs over the armrest.
The woman nodded with a smile and grabbed Martha by her arm pulling her over introducing the various rows of flashy, elegant designers.
The woman picked a shining gown out for Martha and pulled her towards the changing room filled with maids to help her get into her clothes.
Martha tried on different clothes and had varying complaints but the ones that stood out the most were, "It's too revealing" "It's too expensive."
They all ignored her though and brought in more clothes for her to wear.
(Kuoh Police Station)
John wrapped his fingers around the metal handle of the table, he drew it back, opening the drawer to an assortment of files. He grabbed a golden trinket pulling the golden chain attached to it with his other hand.
With a deep sigh, John opened the trinket housing a photo of his parents. "Mom, dad… I'm scared I might not be able to protect her this time."
John clutched the trinket to his heart sighing again. He'd do anything to protect his baby sister even If he had to become a devil. He'd do absolutely anything.
(Flashback)
A 7 year old John crept behind his mother who was busy stroking a katana inside a black sheathe.
"Mom, why do you clean that sword everyday?"
"Oh, my strong prince." John's father lifted him from behind making the little boy squirm. He giggled as his father lifted him in his arm, a two year old Martha sound asleep in his other arm.
"Honey," John's mother smiled lovingly at her husband.
"Well, that sword, Hmm… eer it's a family heirloom that protects our family but bad people want that sword and they'd do anything to get it, so it's a gift and a curse."
"A gift and a curse?"
"Yes, and Papa hopes you never have to use that sword. You, your sister or any of your descendants."
"What does it do? Can it ward off ghosts?"
Both adults laughed at John's question. "Why? Do you want to banish a ghost?" He asked.
"Yeah, a bad ghost. Bad ghosts always trouble baby sister." Little John had a cute pout on his face.
"Listen to my big boy! I'm so proud of you."
"He gets that protective personality from you, Honey."
"Just ignore them and they'll go away."
"You'll always be there to protect us right?" John asked, an innocent smile plastered to his face.
John's father put him down and gave little Martha to his wife.
"Listen, John. Remember to always wear that. Always… And when we're not here anymore, remember to always protect your baby sister."
Little John's mind was still too young to understand those words so he spoke like the child he was. "Are you going somewhere? If you are, take us with you." John embraced the older man.
The older man smiled and ruffled John's hair. "I'll always be with you son. Always.'' Martha and the mother of the family joined the group hug. Little John sighed and whispered how nice and warm his parents were.
(Flashback ends)
"Detective John?"
Hiroshima had been calling his partner for the past two minutes now. "Get your ass moving! Someone just called in an ongoing robbery!"
"What? Yes sir! I'm on my way."
John wore a bulletproof vest and holstered his weapon. A team of specially trained police were ready to support them.
(Scene Change: Uzumaki Mansion)
The last Uzumaki breathed a sigh of relief when the car came to a stop in front of his house. Releasing a grunt of effort, he swam through the raging currents of designers he bought for the platinum blonde teen. He got off the car pushing the stack of bags threatening to fall over back in, closing the door in a hurry.
"Just cause I flashed a royale card doesn't mean they have to give me everything she wore or pointed at!" He raged mentally.
"Naruto-San, are you OK?" Martha stood beside the blonde with a sheepish expression on her face.
Naruto overdid himself this time around. There was a reason Golden Fabric gave a golden royale card to very few special people and all of them were men.
"I-I'll live." Naruto huffed.
"Hey, stop wasting my time and get your belongings off my car!" The Uber driver yelled honking furiously.
Naruto, still under the weather, mentally exhausted and highly irritable at the moment, snapped at the driver. "Shut the fuck up! I'll pay you double your money you fucker!"
"Naruto-san, it's rude to curse at others."
"You gotta fucking curse them to get your point across sometimes."
"Wait, Naruto, is that what i think it is?" Kuroka rushed out with stars in her eyes.
"That's... a lot of bags." Gaia, who was behind Kuroka, remarked.
"Hey, you better start unloading or I'm gonna drive away!" The uber driver yelled again.
"That's it, I'm leaving a bad review on your website!."
"Shut up, Blondie!"
"You wanna go, Uber driver?!" He asked, raising his fists like a boxer would.
Naruto and the driver started bickering back and forth before a blue magic circle appeared and the temperature dropped significantly. The driver went unconscious in an instant while Martha swayed on her feet.
"Naruto-san c-" Serafall stopped mid-sentence upon spotting Kuroka.
Kuroka seeing the devils paled significantly, and in the moment it took her to blink, a gust of wind blew past her. Orange filled her vision, Naruto's orange clad back. He had one of his hands in front of him and he was between her and a huge man she recognized as one of the top five strongest pawns in the underworld.
"Oi, what the fuck are you doing?" The shinobi asked.
Beowulf narrowed his eyes at Naruto. The lanky boy reacted as fast as he attacked and was able to stop his punch, nothing short of impressive.
Souji unsheathe his sword and a second later, he was behind Kuroka his sword raised up overhead.
Swoosh
Clang!
Another Naruto stood between Kuroka and Souji holding Souji's blade back with a Kunai.
"You guys are overstepping your boundaries. Know your place." A faint aura of blue energy surrounds Naruto's kunai as he pushes Souji back.
Souji jumped back and so did Beowulf when they sensed the serious aura around Naruto.
"Leviathan, harbouring an SS-rank stray devil is punishable by death no matter the species right?" Souji asked, brandishing his sword.
Serafall sighed. "No, it's not."
"Lethal force can and will be used if the one who harbours them refuses to turn them over," Beowulf stated.
"SS-rank stray devil?" Martha mused, a bit scared. All she did was blink and now, there were two Naruto's guarding Kuroka.
"Naruto…" Kuroka looked down dejectedly before she took reluctant steps towards the devil group.
"You hate dealing with other's shit so let me take care of mine."
Her eyes were pleading for something to happen but at the same time, her rational side didn't want to bring harm to Naruto and Gaia. No one could fend off a Satan-class devil, the strongest queen of the underworld and two peerage members of the great Maou. She'd at least protect Naruto and the others if she surrendered.
"Oi, Kuroka." Naruto grabbed her shoulder.
"Let me go Naruto. I'm a criminal, an SS-rank devil who killed her master. Do you want to harbour a killer with a bounty from the underworld?!"
Martha blinked again and now, she was inside Naruto's compound sitting at the ongoing scene with clone Naruto beside her. She poked the other Naruto to confirm if he was an illusion but flinched under the glare of the clone.
"Shut your crap." Naruto's bangs cast a shadow over his eyes.
"What?" Kuroka strained her ears to listen to Naruto.
"I said, Shut it!"
Naruto picked her up and threw her into his compound. A faint glow covered the entrance blocking Kuroka's to come out.
"Naruto! Don't fight them. You can't handle them alone. Please let me out!"
"As long as you're my guest, I don't know about a pretty neko with a bounty on her head or an SS-stray whatever. Right now, you're Kuroka, a guest, a pest, a parasite living in the house of Naruto Uzumaki and nobody, I mean nobody messes with my guests!"
Naruto's loud declaration warmed Kuroka's heart like a bonfire and a tingling sensation shot down her spine. "Don't impress me Naruto, I don't think you can handle the aftermath," Kuroka whispered, staring at the blonde ninja. He looked so cool in Orange.
"What's this? I smell love In the air?" Gaia chuckled walking till she was beside Naruto.
"Gaia-san!/Stop, please," Martha and Kuroka called out.
Serafall blinked, her eyes reflecting confusion and wariness. She didn't notice the woman beside Naruto until she made her presence clear.
"Well well, looks like the human's fallen for the stray devil," Beowulf stated.
"Shut it, big guy." Naruto waved a punch threateningly at the big devil.
"Y'know, I've never seen you fight Naruto. Care to demonstrate?" Gaia asked.
"Gladly!" Souji materialized before Naruto and attempted to cut him into two. Naruto leaned back and had to fight the urge to blur through a series of handseals when he remembered his house was right there, beside him. The Naruto before Souji suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind Souji, a Kunai at his neck, drawing a drop of blood.
"Naruto Uzumaki!" Serafall called the blonde who ignored her. "Hey, Naruto!"
Naruto turned around blasting them with KI to get his point across. "Take another step and I'm going to kill him. I'm in a bad mood right now. Don't disturb me," Warned Naruto.
Grayfia and Serafall sighed before the very ground Naruto, Gaia and Souji were standing on was covered with ice. Souji took the cue and escaped Naruto's hold.
"What the heck, why'd you let yourself be captured and by a human no less?" Beowulf berated.
Souji wasn't a pushover himself, he was just testing the waters to have a vague grasp on Naruto's speed and boy was it impressive.
"I didn't want to do this but I guess I'll have to bring you and that criminal in for questioning." Serafall raised her hand and a magic circle formed below Naruto and Gaia.
Naruto wanted to jump away from it but the effect was instantaneous, his body had already frozen to his waist and Gaia too. Naruto tried to break the ice with a Kunai but the edge of the kunai only chipped off.
"It's useless," Grayfia whispered. The ice glueing them to the ground didn't budge no matter how hard Naruto hit it.
With a sigh from Serafall, she breathed out cold air and balled her fist encasing Naruto and Gaia in a block of ice in an instant.
"Naruto…" Kuroka's hands went limp beside her.
"Go retrieve the criminal and wipe that human's memory out."
Beowulf tried to enter the compound but a force field prevented him from doing so. He tried again and met the same resistance.
"It won't budge" He grunted apply effort
Crack
"Too bad, you guys can't enter," Naruto's voice was heard from inside the ice prison they were in.
Boom
The ice cube broke into pieces sending ice shards around. Hot steam came out of Naruto's body before it receded.
"What was that?" Gaia asked.
"It's called Futton: A combination of fire and water Chakra."
"Ah, interesting, you can combine them," Gaia exclaimed.
"Hey, listen. We both don't wanna fight here so why don't you tell me why you are here in the first place." Naruto took a diplomatic approach.
"Last night, did you fight a demon?" Serafall questioned the blonde.
"Yeah, what about it?" He raised an eyebrow, not denying the fact he did.
"Did you kill it?"
"Yeah, what about that?"
"You shouldn't have killed it!" Serafall yelled. "How were you able to kill it in the first place?"
"I wouldn't have if I had known you bats were after it."
"You just made our job much harder," She said, walking up to Naruto with zero fear, she had her guard lowered.
Naruto stared at her small form approaching him. "What do you mean?" Naruto inquired, his anger sated in favour of curiosity.
The end.
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