Sup everyone, hope you all are doing well as we go from spring to summer. Finally made it to the 3 Factions meeting, I'm kinda going loose with canon as its not my forte, but let's see how things play out. But first to the questions/comments,
Golden Wind God; Perhaps down the line, or in a flashback as the Sins are close with Naruto. Homeboy gonna come around to the whole harem dynamic, he just needs a good convincing.
taiwoeretan1/NaruCrazy; Yeah I enjoyed that show a lot and even checked out the comic it was based on, couldn't resist with the nod. So Lucy here is gonna be sassy and charming as the character from the show/story. Also add in a bit of Bayonetta's playful allure and boom, Lucy's living her best life free of political bullshit. The other Sins will show up too as the Lord of Gluttony and Sloth appeared in an earlier chapter.
TheBrokenTool; The wife of the big doofus is Yasaka, their relationship isn't actually known to the 3 factions and other major players as some unknown being married to one of the most sought-after women and access to the Kyoto Leylines would be concerning.
Demoncreator2002; the main pairing is Naruto&Yasaka, which will branch out to the harem route, cliché I know, but I don't want to just make it happen with the snap of my fingers, Naruto's gotta come around to the concept as its foreign to him.
sleepinglush; thanks, and yeah Naruto's 'home world' is the world of Monster Hunter and his castle is the main base of operations, think of it like a vacation place for his friends and acquaintances, except the three factions cause fuck them. Also, I'm kinda surprised no one's giving me flak for my take on Azazel, then again Shiva's comment about him being the most vile of the Fallen got the idea ball rolling and I went with it. He's actually got some kids running about, and they despise him for good reason.
Spark681; Oh Lucy's making her lil team of Little Angels with the trio, plus they'll be reunited with Kalawarna soon and take their second chance well.
AlexGodz; still bemused that this gets to people, the whole thing was just to get him into DxD without raising alarms, he's still got his natural powers. But I won't continue to blow air if it's not getting anywhere.
rick12; thanks and glad to see your still around bro.
Number1Guest; with kind regards, how about no. I'll keep working on this despite your wishes.
to the story!
-The Hellhold, before Naruto's return-
The Castle was in the process of being completed, thousands of demons putting effort in as Naruto led the construction. The Devil Civil War ended from what he heard, but it wasn't really his concern as while he thrived in the chaos of the war, being among them wouldn't have worked. He saw that the demons native to the Underworld would be driven to extinction by the Devils as the war ending would have them expand and control the entire underworld to try and boost their numbers and recover the loss of civilized life. So he had an idea….
The Unholy Exodus was what the demons called it in their Enochian tongue, least the ones that could communicate with speech. While the Devils were busy fighting each other over their kinds future, Naruto had went around rounding up the demons from their territories in the uncivilized parts of the Netherworld. He made sure he was recharged on his chakra and this new demon power coursing through him as they moved to the outskirts of the realm, he managed to save and recruit Alfred to his cause as they came upon a rift of sorts deep in the mountains. They took their chance and entered through it, finding themselves upon a barren world barely able to hold life. Thankfully Naruto had a trump card, pouring vast amounts of his power into his hands, he placed them on the ground and focused. Waves of energy pulsed from Naruto's hands across the globe as life started to return to the world.
"By God Almighty…" Alfred muttered as he and the demons watched as their surrounding shifted and bloomed to life, the world itself was supercharged by his chakra as it was terraformed from a barren sphere to one teeming with fresh life. Alfred would ask how Naruto did it, but saw Naruto was out cold as he quickly instructed a few demons to build a hut and their legion to settle in as it would be a while before Naruto woke up and saw this world had its own sun and moon.
That was about several decades ago, since then they've all been busy, very busy. Naruto had about a dozen clones strewn about the castle acting as managers while the real one was busy hammering a massive boulder in what was gonna be the Throne Room. They tried moving it at first, but it wouldn't budge, not even to the Barons, Tyrants and even Bruticus and One-Eyed Jezel. He was shirtless and in pants and boots as it was all he had on since leaving the Underworld. Another note was that his curse spread further along his body as Alfred was monitoring it, and things were not looking good, but that didn't deter Naruto as he was making this place for the demons, to give them a home, as well as Alfred.
"There's something special about this rock…" Naruto grumbled as he eventually managed to get a nice fist sized hole into it, setting the sledgehammer aside, he reached in to examine it when he nicked his palm on something sharp. Pulling his hand free and watching his cut slowly heal up, he then felt a pulse of magic and looked to see a human sized hole form as part of the boulder crumbled away into gravel to reveal it was hollow within. He stepped in and looked around; it was bigger on the inside. He then saw that it wasn't completely empty. In the center was a large basin carved of granite and full of what looked like tar, surrounding it were large black crystals, they looked more like eggs of pure obsidian big enough to encase a person on stone pedastals. He counted 9 crystals in total as he approached the basin and curiously dipped a finger in the substance. Rubbing it between his fingers, he then tasted it before spitting it out, just tasted foul and made him feel all sorts of negative thoughts.
"All right, weird rocks surrounding some nasty tasting goop, totally not something out of a cult ritual." Naruto commented to himself. The fluid then rippled as if something was under the surface and before he could react, a large, clawed tentacle of tar lunged out. Grabbing him by the neck and torso as he was lifted into the air and pulled in with a splash. The tar like liquid went still as Naruto found himself in a void of sorts, endless and muted colors surrounded him as well as countless spiked chains digging into his body by hooks. It was clearly agonizing as he grits his teeth, but his attention was grabbed as darkness swirled around him and formed large shadowy figures emerged from the void as they surrounded him. Totaling in nine demonic beings of varying sizes as they gazed down at him with glowing eyes despite their figures of pure shadow.
"Uh… hi?" Naruto greeted his guests as he was more focused on them and not on the pain of the hooked chains digging and pulling at his body. The presumed leader of the group that was humanoid and horned approached as his shadow hand grasped Naruto by the jaw as red eyes met blue.
"Who…. are… you?" The masculine voice of the former king of Hell inquired as Naruto had a feeling there was more to this. Outside in the Hellhold, Alfred arrived to the partially built Throne Room as he looked around for Naruto, all his clones vanishing simultaneously alerted him as the leader of the Arch-Viles, Atrox, accompanied him. They both saw the large boulder he was working on with the new entrance and approached but stopped as magic caused dark crystals to sprout and cover the hole in a criss-cross pattern. Atrox then felt something within his head, almost like a mental whisper and could briefly feel the power within the boulder.
"It's best we return to our duties, the Master is…. Preoccupied." He said to Alfred as he turned to leave, the old man looking to the boulder in light worry before leaving as well as he felt Atrox was right. Within the hidden chamber, lines of energy connected to the crystals as life started to form within them. It would be after some time before the basin shuddered and shattered, spilling the black liquid on the floor as a clawed hand reached out of it and a figure began pulling himself out just as shadows seeped out of the stuff and into the egg crystals finishing the whole process.
Naruto coughed up some of the black goo as his eyes were heterochromatic; both ruby and sapphire toned before settling to amethyst, his body just drenched in the liquid and needing a shower as he slowly recovered. Unknown to anyone, his body was altered while inside that void, changed by those shadowy figures as part of a deal. The large egg like crystals around him began to rumble and crack open as different colored lights flittered through the cracks, each one held a shifting womanly figure within.
-Present, Kyoto-
Kalawarna was a tad bit nervous as she was in the heart of Japan and meeting the leader of the Yokai no less. Now she's heard stories of the woman, a bunch of them from Azazel and how he's enamored with such a beauty and stuff like that. But right now, she's here as the fox seemingly knew of her acceptance into the Hellhold and wanted to meet her. She was called into Yasaka's office and found herself sitting before the blonde kitsune at her desk, she had to admit Azazel's praises of her beauty weren't wrong as she was lovelier in person than just hearsay.
"So, you must be the lovely raven that my dear husband has a soft spot for, nice to meet you, I am Yasaka Uzumaki." She greeted her guest as Kalawarna smiled back and replied.
"Names Kalawarna, you wanted to meet with me, Lady Uzumaki?" the Fallen Angel asked as she was curious.
"Oh please, a friend of Naruto's is a friend of mine, call me Yasaka. I was hoping if I could ask you a few questions regarding your former alignment to the Grigori."
"Yeah sure, what exactly were you wanting to know?" Kalawarna asked as she was much more open with discussing her former ties with the Fallen Angel faction. Ever since finding out about Lucifer being alive again and Naruto's honesty to her inquiries and his life's work, she felt it was only fair in response to him saving her from certain death and helping start anew.
"Well, I was hoping to see how exactly the faction has been functioning on the inside. I've been building a file on the misdeeds of the three factions in Kuoh and across Japan. The Angels are the least offensive while the Devils and Fallen compete for the most offensive." Yasaka brought out a scroll from one of the drawers, unrolled it and summoned a rather thick manila file that was full of papers and some photos.
"Your little team's stunt a few weeks back in regards to Ddraig's newest vessel, the daughter of Dominique Baldwin and letting that crazed lab rat of a priest roam about are a few incidents already taken into account as I'm sure you know my husband helps me keeps tabs on what goes on outside Kyoto's boundaries. Even the town of Kuoh despite the devils claims of ownership." The vixen added as she let the fallen angel see the reports and photos, making her wince as Raynare let Freed just do as he pleased so long as he helped them, which resulted in a lot of innocent blood being spilled. The photos didn't help either as the artificial human was a basket-case and it showed in his kills.
The other papers showed that it wasn't just her team that fooled around, Fallen hunting Yokai and humans for sport, Stray Devils causing issues and even a few Angels getting haughty. All in all, she could guess Yasaka was considering extreme measures if the factions kept fucking around. She couldn't blame her either, she controlled a small island, they held sway over pretty much the whole world.
"My dear Naruto, bless his crystal heart, vouches for you and believes that you were just in a bad place and time and your team made some highly questionable decisions. I, however, am a bit skeptical. It's just given the track record of the Grigori leaves so much to be desired and I was wondering if you could help explain a few things in finer detail about your former faction." Yasaka drew some papers and had her pen ready as she smiled. Kalawarna knew this was a subtle questioning of sorts. With a light sigh, she knew she had nothing to really hide, so fuck it, time to chirp like a bird on energy drinks.
"Where would you like me to start?" She asked as she gave a light smirk, she was down for sticking it to Azazel if it means seeing him get chewed out by his peers for poor management.
"From the beginning when you joined the Grigori, if you would." Yasaka replied as the blue haired angel took a sip of her tea.
-Within the depths of the sea, Sanctuary, days later-
Deep in an underwater tunnel was an explorer, clad in a thick and bulky white diving suit with orange, yellow and gray colors mixed in. Two air tanks on its chest connected to the large helmet via a tube as its eyes glowed a light blue in the dark of the cave tunnel. The headlamp on the helmet was turned on as the explorer was busy hammering away at the wall and removed a hefty chunk of shiny red ore, the prize they were searching for. Flicking their wrist as the gaff folded in half, they tucked the large ore chuck under their arm and pressed a button on their suit arm. The tether attached to the back of the suit pulling them back and up to their ship at the entrance of the winding tunnel they were in.
The ship itself was shaped like a sea slug, round and horned as its body was all metal and lights. The explorer paused and went to one side as they opened a compartment up and deposited the ore they retrieved amongst the collection of other colored and shaped rocks before closing it. They slipped into the opened cockpit as the tether pulled them into the seat and the compartment closed around them. The sea water was filtered out as the explorer settled in and pressed some buttons on the dash before taking the control stick and steering out and up. The ship propelling with its thrusters through the dark depths of the deep sea as inside the cockpit, the owner had a full 360-degree view of the area around their ship via sensors in the ship along with cameras and lights acting as the eyes of the ship to navigate through the sea. All in all, it was a perfect vehicle to explore the oceans.
The explorer opted for some music and turned on the music player on the screen, setting it to 'On Meloncholy Hill-The Gorillaz'. The music pulsed to outside the ship and into the sea as the person's head gently bobbed to the music. Schools of fish and other marine life swimming along the ship as it was a serene scene to capture, ironic considering this all belonged to an evil bitch of a Devil, or as what everyone knew her as by reputation. The ship plotted a small course and made it to the landmass that the Hellhold was built on.
Letting out a sonar pulse from the ship with the push of a button, the animals all scattered as the ship took a large carved tunnel into the grounds under the castle. Swerving and gliding along the tight corridor and coming up to a moonpool that led to a small section of the castle, her private quarters. Coming up to dock, the voyager pressed a few more buttons and pulled a handle as a mechanical arm came down from the room and latched onto her ship, pulling it up and securing the now parked submarine as the moonpool closed the metal doors as steps formed up with a ramp.
The cockpit opened again as the person disconnected from the ship tether and shut her sub down as she left it. Walking over to a wall with an imprint of her aquanaut suit by a wall terminal, she stepped in as the mechanical arms surrounding the human sized indent got to work unsealing and peeling open the bulky yet secure diving suit.
The lovely and nude figure of Katerea Leviathan let out a sigh as she inhaled fresh air and stepped out of her diving suit. Letting her hair loose from the bun she had it in, she walked over to a computer and sat down in the sleek chair and pressed some buttons on the keyboard. The drone detached itself from the underside of her submarine and crawled up to the compartment housing her treasure in the sub. Once collected by its small robo-pincers, it hopped off and scurried away, humming a small tune as she smiled at her mechanical helper. It was a funny tale on how Katerea came to call the Hellhold her home, it happened to involve a certain Dark Lord of the Castle as they met in Hawaii during a small vacation of hers and his magnetic charm got to her.
The brunette got out of her chair and walked into her bedroom, her own living space set up as an underwater base/home complete with essentials and things to enjoy. There was her bedroom, the bathroom, the garage and the kitchen. Her residence was within the section of the castle called the 'Forbidden Underground Waterway' where the more aquatic demon denizens made their home. She personally liked the area as it led out to the seas of Sanctuary for her new hobby, studying the marine life and exploring the depths of the ocean and collecting any treasure she could find. She opened her mini-fridge and got a bottle of kelp smoothie, opening and enjoying its taste as she fed her demon fish in the large tank she had set up and watched the vicious little monster fish snapping at the meaty food floating down.
"Calm down you guys, there's plenty more to share." She giggled as she took off her glasses and went for a shower to get cleaned up from her hobby. Once finished, she dressed herself in some capris, a bikini bra and sandals. She spent most of her morning in the ocean and was planning to type up some reports and examine her findings when the metal door of her room was knocked on.
"Katey~! You in there? I made breakfast!" The voice of a woman came from the other side as Katerea smiled and allowed her guest in, another reason that Katerea was convinced by Naruto was something near and dear to her heart, her family. The door opened as a young woman with waist length purple hair with a side ponytail and red eyes came in with a tray of interesting looking food. Her attire consisted of a blue and white shirt with blue arm warmers, silver knuckled fingerless gloves, an ornate silver belt leather mini skirt over blue stripe yoga pants and black strapped steel toes boots. Her most striking feature was her pointed ears and small horns poking out of her hair.
This was Alma, least that was the name she used in public in the mortal world. But Katerea knew her as Leviathan, or Levy as she insisted on being called by Katerea, the Demon Lord of Envy and creator of her virtually extinct clan. Alma beamed with a smile as she offered the freshly cooked food, which to any normal person looked like cruel gruel and poisonous dishes whipped up to melt you from the inside out and other horrible things. But for someone like Katerea, it was a gourmet meal.
"Grilled Blue Ringed Octopus with tangy Jellyfish spread, salted baguette and Deeseama Jelly along with some fresh squeezed mandrake juice to top it all off!" The purple haired babe announced with a proud smile as Katerea couldn't help but salivate at the smell of the food before her. Deeseama were one of the many types of demons living in the Hellhold, and demons eating one another was commonplace really. At first a devil like her was hesitant but found herself enjoying cooked demon now and then. She accepted the tray and sat down on her waterbed before patting to her side as Alma happily sat next to her child.
"It looks fantastic, Levy." Keterea complimented and took a bite of the octopus, moaning at the explosion of flavor as the octopus was marinated in rum for hours and grilled to perfection, its poison not harming the she-devil as it had a sweet taste to it. She cut a tentacle and added some of the spread before offing it to Alma, who ate it up with a hum as the two shared the nice breakfast. In another life, Katerea would have still been driven by petty vengeance and seeking to overthrow Sirzechs and his friends all so she could regain her family heritage under Rizeviim's delusions of grandeur. Thankfully she was shown a different path and a much better life with her 'mom' thanks to Naruto.
-Elsewhere in the castle-
Raynare, Mitlett and Dohnaseek looked around in wonder as Naruto led them their new living quarters, Luise had opened a portal and dropped them off and letting Naruto handle things as she resumed her daily life in LA. The trio of Fallen Angels had been enhanced by her magic like Kalawarna had, but not the same sexual manner. Their wings were out and reflected their change; Raynare's had a maroon hue to the insides of her wings and akin to a heron, Mitlett's were shorter like a goldfinch and had a yellow inside with a white stripe on the back, Dohnaseek's were like that of a vulture, large and imposing as the light hint of steel grey on the tips only added to the warning and his age.
"I know its probably not much, but these will be your rooms since Lucy's purged you of Azazel's trackers. Hope you find them to your liking, also…" Naruto walked over to one of the occupied rooms that had a blue door and a wreath of azure roses. Knocking, the group heard 'coming' before it opened to reveal Kalawarna in yoga shorts & sports bra, panting a bit as she was working out with a wooden sword in hand.
"Hey, whats up?" She asked as Naruto motioned to their guests.
"Got some friends of yours moving in, wanna help them settle in?" He asked as she peered out her room and spotted her friends. Smiling and setting her wood weapon aside, she walked over and hugged them as they hugged her back.
"I'm happy to see you guys are ok." She greeted them as they broke the hug.
"So, this is where you've been this whole time?! The hell, Kala, you could have at least let us know." Mittlet pouted as Naruto cleared his throat to get their attention. "I'd like to keep this all under wraps for now, which meant she ended up here while you three were taken to Lucy's penthouse following that little botched plan of yours. Consider this your second chance as the Devil herself sees potential, Azazel cannot and will not be able to reach you here as me and him don't talk. Anyway, I got things to do, if you have any questions regarding your living spaces, Kala can help you out, ciao~." He waved with a smile and wink as his form burst into black mist and flew off. Mittlet and Dohnaseek picked their rooms and went in as Raynare noticed how Kalawarna's gaze lingered on Naruto as he left.
"Wait that's the guy?" Raynare asked as she got Kalawarna's attention.
"What are you talking about, Ray?" the blue haired fallen tried to deflect, but Raynare crossed her arms under her bust as Kalawarna referred to her by her nickname.
"Kala, I've known you since we both were tending to Heaven's grand archives before we fell. You've never really shown interest in anyone, besides me, beyond needing an itch scratched since we were part of the Grigori. So, what about blondie rock candy has your cold angelic heart fluttering?" She inquired as she poked at Kalawarna's stomach with a light smile, she did like a bit of juicy gossip and was curious about this guy that her best friend was crushing on as she never would have guessed Kalawarna to be the loving type. For her part, Kalawarna just shrugged as she guided Raynare to her new room.
"Maybe if you behave, I'll tell you a bit about him. Let's get you three set up." The fallen angel helping her friends with their new places to stay.
-Back with Naruto-
He was taking a quick shower in his room as before Lucy showed up and dropped off Kala's friends, he was tending to his garden and finished de-weeding the place. Sure, he had many demons that could do the work for him, but he liked to do things himself sometime. He didn't notice he was joined until a pair of arms wrapped around his torso from behind and her naked body pressed against his from behind.
"Room for another~?" Yasaka's voice hummed as her hands helped scrub the soap onto his chest and generally enjoying feeling her husband up. Naruto just cracked a smile as he let her play and replied.
"Help yourself, honey, take it Kunou came with?" He turned and both blondes shared a kiss as his hands felt her up and went to work lathering her up in the fruit scented soap much to her approval.
"She's busy with some schoolwork and Kuroka offered to help out and watch her." Yasaka stated as their kiss broke, and both were starting to mess around under the shower.
"I see, and how did your meeting with Kala go?" He asked while they got busy.
"For a so-called loyal member of the Grigori, she was eager to spill the beans on how our resident crowfather is severely lacking in leadership and corralling his murder. Then again, the files I received from the Grigori on her team were all outdated and no one bothered to update them." She answered as from what she learned, it wasn't just them that took issue, the whole group had issues in total over time and Shemhazai was having to do double duty with Baraquiel to cover for Azazel. No wonder Kokabiel had it easy enacting his schemes. She bit back a moan as he pinched one of her nipples and groped her breasts.
"Well that explains things, he was super upset when he found out Kala's living here and got aggressive when I told him she's not available. But its out of his hands now, speaking of, Lucy dropped off the rest of her team if you want to talk to them too and get anymore interviews before the Faction meeting." He suggested as her left-hand raked nails down his abs and started to fondle his crotch. The vixen leaned in and nibbled at his neck and gave a lick.
"In due time, darling, right now I need you to help me unwind from my work~" She giggled and smooched him again. He just grabbed the showerhead and sprayed her with ice cold water as she squealed and jumped him as they got to something far more enjoyable than a warm shower with noises filling the bathroom.
-Kuoh Academy, The 3 Factions Meeting-
The academy was empty of students and staff as it was being used as the official meeting place for the Leaders of the Three Factions: Azazel representing the Grigori, Michael representing Heaven and Sirzechs representing the Underworld. Of course, each leader had a small group of their finest fighters attending the meeting as a safety precaution and defense. The room was tense as the Three Leaders took their seats and got things started. Everyone of course took notice that Azazel was in a wheelchair and had heavy bandages around his torso, but refrained from asking as from a look, he really did not wish to talk about it. Its been a couple weeks since said incident as things simmered down.
"It's been a long time since we've officially come together for a matter like this." Michael started as he glanced to his fellow supernatural.
"What's it been, a couple centuries, maybe longer?" Sirzechs added with his own smile, while the Devils had their own civil conflict, neither the Angels nor Fallen did.
"Where does the time go?" Azazel chuckled with a bit of a wince as he was looking to break bread and connect with his peers. The conversation soon shifted to the incident that was narrowly avoided with a certain warhawk of a Fallen Angel.
"You'll have to forgive us for weighing suspicion, Azazel. But we have been noticing you stockpiling on Sacred Gears, not to mention the defect and attempted assassination by Kokabiel. What's your game?" Sirzech's asked with a stern gaze as he heard all about the fight between Rias and Kokabiel and saw the scar she got from his spear. Needless to say, he was super serious and was wanting answers for Azazel's negligence.
"Me? I can assure you guys I have no hidden motives, now about my people collecting Father's gifts? That's to ensure they don't fall in the wrong hands."
"And Kokabiel's actions in trying to ignite another war?" Michael inquired as he also was cautious, that and he knew Azazel still had Solarion in his possession.
"By the time we found out about his plans, he already was making his moves. The dude does not represent my faction and I disavow him completely. Besides, I did manage to take him out and into custody with thanks to my associate. I'm here as a man of the peace." He thumbed to Vali, who just rolled his eyes as everyone glanced to him. Course a few in the room actually knew how events transpired, but let Azazel save face for now as he was being questioned.
"Not only that, but we should also be thankful of our new Red Dragon Emperor for his hard work in stopping the traitorous Cadre." Azazel motioned to Issei as all eyes were on him now. Azazel's big grin to Issei and all the attention had the boy a bit bashful, but he smiled and scratched his head.
'That's not what happened, what are you doing?' Baraquiel thought as he studied the room and watched Azazel pin the attention to Vali and Issei as the heroes. The doors to the room opening caught everyone's attention as they were locked and sealed with magic before the meeting started.
"Sorry I'm late, the traffic was a nightmare." Yasaka announced as she strode into the room with a smile, flanking her were two tengu guards. She was dressed in a stunning red kimono with a black flame pattern as her crown rested on her head.
"Lady Yasaka, we were not informed you would be attending, regardless this is between the Three Factions." Serafall said as she WAS the one in charge of Foreign Relations. Yasaka just smiled and rebuked as she moved to take a seat at the large table.
"Why yes, you have a point, Lady Leviathan, but this is MY country. And I have become quite concerned with you lot going about and doing as you please, I have been keeping records and from the looks of things, I'm beginning to reconsider the contracts set up…" She left her words hanging as she scanned the leaders and their groups.
"Whatever do you mean, we have the Kokabiel situation taken care of and to my knowledge, none of ours have made any acts within Kyoto." Sirzechs pointed out as Yasaka's grin twitched and she simply summoned that thick folder she had for all the dirty deeds of the three factions within Japan.
"Just because I live and watch over my hometown of Kyoto, doesn't mean I have eyes and ears throughout the country, especially Kuoh."
"Kuoh belongs to House Gremory and Sitri, fox, you have no say in our territory!" One bold Devil barked out, only for a quick glare by Sirzechs to cow them in as Yasaka quirked an eyebrow at that outburst.
"Really now? I seem to recall the initial lease on the territory being set up with House Belial, not Gremory and Sitri. I also know that Cleria Belial was the initial owner of the territory and was quite adamant about keeping the peace, before her untimely disappearance. I know ownership was given to your two houses in order to not lose the land and now I am here to air some issues." Yasaka opened the folder and began leafing through the papers and photos.
"Lord Michael, your faction is the least offensive with the occasional angel or priest acting out on haughty superiority." She passed the specific papers to him as he frowned at what he was seeing, turns out he needs to be a bit clearer with his group.
"Lord Sirzechs, I understand your group has its fair share of difficulties but do please try to double down on the number of Strays running about. I've had a few instances of some getting close to Kyoto." Sirzechs grimaced as he looked over the evidence on his people acting out as his peers all didn't like it either.
"As for you Lord Azazel… tsk, tsk, tsk… I hate to humiliate you in front of your own brother, but how is it someone like you can claim to be a man of peace when you don't even bother with keeping your people in line?" She asked as this had Azazel frown as she handed the biggest stack of evidence to him.
"Excuse me?" He asked as he didn't even look over the evidence, but to the vixen as for once, he wasn't oogling her. Yasaka just hummed as she continued,
"Did I stutter? I have been keeping records of all three of your factions and your actions in Japan. You can try and cover it up and play it easy and clean to your friends, but I will not tolerate being lied to. You think I don't know about your obsession with the Sacred Gears and how you value them over your own faction? How about you let everyone here know that it was one of your Fallen that murdered two innocent humans and they are reincarnated devils in this very room." She revealed as several looked to Issei and Asia now in surprise, believing they were reincarnated by choice.
"I gave no such order to harm them, Raynare and her squad betrayed us." He snapped back as Yaska hummed as if understanding.
"And what of Kokabiel? From what I heard, he's been quite bitter about the war, and it was only a matter of time before he left, were you that blind to your peer to see what he was doing?" She asked as both Michael and Sirzechs were studying Azazel and noting how she was getting at him. She then brought out a few papers, interviews she had with Kalawarna and her friends.
"Because I have spoken with miss Raynare and her team, and they all came clean about how the Grigori has been doing over the centuries. They all admit that things aren't well and that you are always either busy with your experiments into Sacred Gears, or just chasing women, Dohnaseek even concedes Kokabiel approached him decades ago about breaking away from your group to reignite the war, and you did nothing since then. To me that doesn't sound like a proud leader, if anything it makes me question your capacity to lead in general. So tell me, are you willfully negligent to your duties, or do you just not care despite your claims?" She finished as Azazel clenched his fists with his frown deepening.
"Wow, was not expecting the meeting to be like this." Akeno whispered to Rias as all eyes were on the leaders.
"If I may cut in, before Azazel here pops a blood vessel at being caught slacking, what exactly brings you here, besides to bring up our mistakes?" Serafall asked as she was getting a kick out of seeing Yasaka dress down Azazel for his uncaring leadership as she was also upset her dear sister was almost killed by the traitor Cadre.
"I'm glad you asked. While the current evidence I have brought up for each faction is well documented, I am generous enough to give you a choice." She started.
"And that is?" Michael asked.
"The choice is simple, clean up your presence and keep a tighter control on your people, or I will be forced to have you all barred from Japan. I've already had to close down the buildings you brought a while back and will issue a full refund after reviewing the evidence before coming in today." Yasaka looked to Sirzechs and Serafall as they were surprised at their sudden loss of investments in Kyoto. Now that the ultimatum was loud and clear, the three heads of the factions were left to decide as others in the room whispered amongst themselves.
"She can't do that."
"She's just a meager fox, we are the Devils."
"What do you suggest Lord Michael, she's in the right."
Yasaka's ears twitched as she drowned out the chatter and her eyes were on the trio as she held her gaze on them. Baraquiel examined the reports and photos of the Fallen crimes within Japan and winced, he wanted to believe Azazel was looking out for them and yeah, he had his faults, but was it really that bad? In the back of his mind, the burning thought still remained of Kokabiel having a hand in Shuri's death and if it was covered up. Just before a definite answer could be given, Azazel had to get something out.
"What's your angle here, Yasaka, you've never had problems from us before, so why now?" At that Yaska just laced her fingers together and rested her chin on them.
"Its quite simple, The Three Factions of Judeo-Christianity have the entire world at their fingertips, their influence spread across the globe and entrenched deep within mankind's society. I only run this small island nation compared to what you have, and I am doing what's best for my people, the humans and this lovely nation I call home." She answered with a look of determination.
"Just because you have the world, doesn't mean I will just sit aside and let you dictate terms on my turf. You are guests here and I am the landlord, am I understood?" She got a nod from pretty much everyone as she had put her foot down. "Now that we are on the same page, allow me to call in someone whose helped me compile all this to bring to your attention." She brought out her phone from her sleeve and sent a text to Naruto. Everyone watched as she smiled and set her phone down, before anyone could ask. The whole building shuddered and darkened a bit as Naruto entered the room the same way he did when he first met Yasaka. Giving a little display as he broke through the fabric of reality and closed it behind him while entering the meeting with a smile.
"Ah, Mr. Uzumaki, what a surprise you are here." Michael began as Naruto simply walked over, pushed some random devil out of their chair and took it as he sat down next to Yasaka.
"Sup Mike, how's Gabby doing?" He replied as some angels were affronted by the casual way he addressed the Leader of Heaven.
"Wait, you are the one supplying Yasaka with false evidence against us?" one devil demanded as Naruto snorted. "False? You guys act like your entitled to the world. I'm just the guy trying to help others that get shafted by your bad behavior." Naruto responded as he leaned back in his seat. That's when Serafall asked the question.
"And what is your relation to Lady Yasaka, Mr. Uzumaki?" The two blondes shared a look and a small smile, well its not like they were going to hide it forever. Naruto's hand lay on the desk as her's slid into his and they locked fingers. Leaning in to share a kiss as she asked, "After this, want to watch a movie? I hear Kunou's been wanting to see that new Space Samurai movie."
"Yeah I got free time. Let's finish up here first." He said as they looked back to the people in the room; 3, 2, 1…. The room burst into commotion as mostly the devils and fallen were demanding answers on how Yasaka could mingle with a nobody like him and other surprises as he was still an unknown person, who the hell was he and so on.
"Lucky bastard…" Issei found himself muttering at how Rias's friend landed a babe with such a huge rack, they were bigger than Akeno's! Of all the commotion, one was the loudest and got everyone's attention.
"GOD FUCKING DAMN IT!" Azazel's shout of fury filled the room and made the windows shudder a bit as everyone's gaze snapped to him in surprise at his outburst. Not only that, but he managed to stand up from his wheelchair with fist slammed into the desk. The adrenaline wore off as he let out a pained grunt and sat back down, looking around as he realized he made a show. The Devil leaders were both confused and a bit put off, Naruto & Yasaka held back their amusement at his temper flaring for such a mature being and Michael, well he just gave a stern look of disapproval and a slight shake of his head meant 'control yourself now'.
"… Anyway, does that answer your question?" Yasaka asked as Serafall looked to her and Naruto then nodded as she really had no issue, sure she was curious about Naruto as she heard about him from the Phenex/Gremory party, but that was it. Well she's sure she could ask Rias to see about setting up a meeting as she heard they were friends as she was head of Foreign Relations, and he was a newcomer in the eyes of everyone.
"So you're the one pressuring her to push us into these lies with this trumped up evidence, why the hell should we listen to an outsider like you? Maybe Azazel is right in saying that you're a threat to us all!" A fallen angel snarled out as Naruto just rolled his eyes, seems Azazel can't help but talk bad about him to his cult.
"Who said they were false, and I didn't come alone." Naruto snapped his fingers as the building shuddered again and dozens of demons from the Hellhold poured into the room through summons and surrounded everyone. Throwing alarm into the air as the minor mooks were pinned down by some as other had their weapons trained on others.
"What is the meaning of this!?" Sirzechs growled out as now he and his peers were on guard, his PoD wafting in hand as everyone was looking to Naruto for answers.
"Incentive, I know some of you want to deny these claims, but Yasaka and I aren't here just for our health. You guys want to move forward and redo the peace treaty following the shit with Kokabiel, we just want to make sure things are better for any other parties. After all, this isn't your island." He explained as another demon entered the room through a flash of hellfire. Atrox took a deep inhale and let out a long sigh as he arrived,
"Ahhh, the mortal realm, how I have missed you…" He drawled as the Devils Angels and Fallen took caution to this large humanoid demon, who in turn looked over them all with feigned interest.
"So, this is the legendary Three Factions that govern the world, I must say I am…. disappointed. Atrox muttered out as he observed the gathering before him.
"And who the fuck are you supposed to be?" Azazel snarled out as he was held down by a Shield Outsider and a Tyrant had its cannon aimed on his back point blank. Atrox just chuckled at the words of the Fallen Cadre.
"A relic of an era long gone, born through the forbidden union of mortal and mystical. My mere existence was an affront to grandfather's law, but then again, you know all about breaking the golden rules for your own leisure, don't you?" The leader of the Arch-Viles shifted his gaze among the crowd as his hellish gaze fixed onto Azazel and his fanged mouth shifted into a cruel grin.
"Father."
Aaaannndd that's it! Sorry for the lateness, iI wanted to have this out yesterday, but got caught up with birthday stuff and work, but hey, a day late doesn't hurt, does it? I figure to split the meeting into two and the ensuing ambush by the Khaos Brigade will be a bit different, considering some changes in loyalty for characters. Please leave a review of what you think and/or a PM if you want to reach me. Hope you all are having a great summer.
I should probably go back and edit some stuff in previous chapters to smooth things out, just grammer stuff here and there.
Hell is Fun21 signing out~
