Second chapter is up. I made up more bullshit about how Heaven and Hell came to be, so if you're upset by my illogical explanation... Well, there isn't much that you can do. I guess you could leave angry reviews, but I assure you that there's probably only going to be one major character coming from that whole nonsense I came up with.
Many of your are probably going to be mad by the time you're done with this chapter, but just read the AN at the bottom after you're done.
Thanks to everyone who left a review, favourited and followed.
The streets a while away from the Gremory mansion were bustling, little Rias Gremory having made an excuse to leave the mansion to visit town by herself. After she reassured her parents and her brother, who attached himself to her ankles, crying rivers as she tried to leave, that she was capable of taking care of herself and that part of the town was also Gremory Territory, they allowed the girl to leave but told her that she was to be on her guard at all times.
No worries. She had a friend by her side.
Rias giggled as she watched her best friend, a grown man by several million years, run down the street in excitement, pressing his face against the glass window of a shop like a sprightful puppy. His new look was catching the attention of everyone, especially the older and single women who found Naruto to be very adorable despite his dashing appearance.
Naruto's clothes and eyes had transformed, the horns and metal headband that he had were gone and his eyes were an amazing cerulean-azure blue, like shimmering pools of untouched waters found near recluse beaches. His hair was less white and more golden, making no difference as it still made him stand out as equally as he did in a crowd.
His face remained untouched through his transformation, the strange scars lining his slightly rounded cheeks still making him look like a cat. Naruto's clothes had morphed into ones that fit him perfectly, allowing him to blend into the current time period. An orange jacket zipped up to the upper portion of his chest and a pair of worn blue jeans. Wearing nothing beneath his jacket allowed Rias to see his slightly protruding pectoral muscles and the corner of his collarbones.
When he had clicked his fingers, she hadn't been expecting him to shapeshift and hide his form. He told her it was an illusion of sorts, incredibly realistic, but it was indeed an illusion.
She still had a slightly difficult time believing he was a god.
Rewind back to last night.
"After all, we're best friends aren't we?" Suddenly, his head snapped back and he gave Rias a chagrined look, "Also, I feel like I should have mentioned early that I'm a god."
If Rias had been drinking water, she would have spat in all out that instant.
"God?!" This wasn't good! If her new best friend was God and he found out she was a Devil, she would totally be smitten straight into the depths of... Hell... or was it Hell's Hell? She didn't know, that was still something she wanted to figure out.
"Uh-huh!" He nodded care-freely, as if the fact that he was a god didn't matter to him at all. Rias nearly screamed at his expression, tugging at her hair, "Cool huh?"
"Bu-But I'm a Devil! Aren't you gonna, y'know, smite me or something?"
Naruto scratched his head and frowned in confusion, "Well, I wouldn't go as far as to call you a devil. I mean, you're super adorable-" She flushed at the compliment, "-but I wouldn't smite you just because you misbehave. I used to misbehave all the time and they called me names too!"
His face morphed into one of mock hatred, pretending to be the villagers from so long ago, "Like 'scoundrel', 'parentless scum','demon-child', and my personal favourite, 'The Incurable Orange Plague'!" Obviously, he didn't know about the existence of Devils, Angels, both Fallen and Pure alike, but Rias didn't know that either. Having just awoken from his slumber proved to be a hindrance due to the fact that he needed to catch up in many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many, many years of history.
Choosing to question him about the names he had been called for another time, Rias slid her hands down from her face, pulling her face downwards in exasperation, "I'm a Devil, a Devil-Devil!" She emphasised, but received a blank look from Naruto, who she guessed was still clueless.
The girl then went on to have an in-depth talk with Naruto, who entered her room through the window and curled up at the foot of her bed like a cat, propping his head up onto his hands and staring at her as she educated him in Hell, Heaven, Devils, Angels, Fallen Angels and many more things. Sometime during the educational trip, Naruto blinked and realised that Rias' clothes, her cute red pyjamas, had been replaced with that of a rather promiscuous teacher's outfit, her nose was home to a set of thin glasses that gave her a 'sexy librarian' vibe and her hair had been done up into a ponytail. A blackboard had appeared behind her and she was furiously speaking, using a long stick to smack at different points of the board as she explained at a rapid pace.
By the time she was done, she realised that Naruto had been distracting himself by creating random objects out of thin air using Banbutsu Sōzō, piling the bed with an assortment of items that were created out of the boredom of Naruto's imagination.
Rias' right eye twitched rapidly at the casual use of his godly powers, but it gave her a good idea of what his character was. He didn't seem to care if you were someone important or an everyday-Joe, someone powerful or weak. As long as you were a good person, he was more than happy to make friends with you.
She supposed she could educate him another time, choosing to spend time with her newfound friend in order to get to know him better.
However, out of the heap of junk that had be created throughout her lecture, there were some items she identified, such as an oar, a stuffed bear with, for whatever reason, a platypus beak standing up on its hind legs, and a castle made entirely out of cards.
But the one that stood out was the one he had held in his arms, supported by his unmeasurable strength due to the fact that it was made entirely out of marble. It was a beautifully detailed bust of a gorgeous woman, starting from the very top of her large breasts.
With a kind face, a soft and shy smile playing on her round lips, eyes lacking pupils and a hime haircut, she was the type of woman that would emit an alluring atmosphere that would unintentionally steal the attention of men from their wives. The marble figure did a fine job entrancing Rias as well, the girl being unable to break her sight from the grace of her face.
Not realising that Rias had stopped in her lecture, Naruto's gaze was set furiously upon the woman's prepossessing features, his blue eyes going wet from staring so hard, as if he was trying to remember every last detail of the bust's visage to get everything perfectly in order. She watched as he gently trailed his thumbs over her face, running them across her white cheeks gently as if indulging himself in the last touch of a lost lover. The tip of his index finger glided tenderly across the smooth material that replaced her skin, caressing what was her jawbone.
Sorrow spilled from his eyes briefly before he shut them, hiding his tears from the world as he took deep breaths and began releasing the melancholic feeling from his body through slow exhalations. Ever since that day that he had eaten that fruit, he tried his best to distract himself from the fact that he left someone important to him behind, more than likely heartbroken. It had gone well, keeping the burden off of his heart, but it finally caught up to him.
Although Rias knew little to nothing about Naruto so far, it was obvious that he was old, very much older than he looked. And due to the longing looks he gave the unmoving carving, it was obvious to the little redhead that he knew the woman from another time period. Perhaps she was his wife, a lover, or just a very good friend, one that he didn't want to part with, but had to due to the limits of mortality.
Rias stood there, already reverting back to her original clothes, sharing his sadness despite not knowing what the sadness was about.
After a minute of silence, Naruto's conflicting eyes slowly opened and a smile grew on his whiskered cheeks.
"Wherever you are... I hope you're doing just fine, Hinata-chan." He murmured, unheard to Rias, and slowly setting the statue onto the ground, careful not to wake the inhabitants of the house up, "Now... Where were we, Rias-chan? You said something about Devils?" Rias, although irked and vexed by Naruto's constant childish behaviour, found herself smiling silly when she realised he cared naught for his position as a god, blushing as the man offered her a bouquet of blood red roses that went with her hair, a stupid grin on his face.
She supposed that this was what a friend truly was, one that had shown multiple sides of himself to her in one night.
End Flashback
Men and women stared in confusion as Naruto darted from window to window in the busy street, earning gasps of horror as he literally jumped over the hood of moving cars to get to the next street, unable to contain his awe at seeing new things.
He gasped and flinched away from a television, not expecting the new cooking anime to pop up.
On screen, Yukihira Souma was preparing the meal against the Tenth Seat and God's Tongue, Nakiri Erina, his final battle against her in a Shokugeki with the main focus as noodles. Pulling up the sieve containing the ramen strands, Souma quickly dried them off by flicking his wrist, removing all the excess water in the sieve. Tossing the bundle of ramen into the bowl, he twisted his body and grabbed the handle of the ladle that had been in the boiling broth, gently pouring the fragrant and cloudy soup into the bowl with the ramen. Grabbing the previously chopped spring onions, he sprinkled them over the ramen, topping it off with two fish cakes that looked rather similar to the man who was drooling all over the window.
Souma smirked as he served the bowl towards Erina, pulling the cloth he wore as a headband off of his head in a single tug, turning his back to her. Erina growled at the sight of his confident stature, picking up the spoon aggressively before dunking it into the broth and taking a sip of the body-warming broth. Her cheeks darkened heavily, tears forming in her eyes at how the broth tasted. Unwilling to admit defeat, she grabbed the chopsticks and skilfully picked a few of the thick and noodles up into the air, watching as it taunted her by gleaming in the light, showing off its well coated sides. Using the spoon once again, she unhappily picked up a naruto and filled the spoon with broth and chopped spring onions, yet again. Chomping hard onto the chopsticks, she quickly released the noodles into her mouth before pouring the steaming soup into her mouth.
She paused, eyes widening in shock.
Erotically moaning, her clothes were blasted off of her body extravagantly, the beauty shielding her bare flesh from Souma's sight, not wanting her rival to lay his eyes upon her womanly parts.
"It wasn't much." Souma commented, winning the private contest between the two before the screen cut to an advertisement about the very same show.
Having been starved of his favourite food for multiple lifetimes, Naruto didn't care if the ramen was real or not, choosing to assault the glass screen with his tongue.
"Whoaaaaa~! Raaamen~!" Rias could hear his cries from the other side of the road, the gilr laughing loudly in her ruffled dress as people began taking photos and videos of Naruto licking the window childishly, attempting to get to the animated ramen behind the glass window.
"Naruto!" Rias called out in mid laughter, causing the man to turn to her with wide blue eyes, his tongue still hanging out of his mouth in mid-lick, "Stop licking the glass, I'll get you real ramen!" Quicker than a greased hog, Naruto had dangerously run through traffic again just to reach Rias, kneeling before her like a puppy awaiting his treats for performing his newly learned trick.
The girl dragged her friend down the street, uncaring about the looks people gave her as she skipped down the sidewalk, pulling an excited looking Naruto -who was chanting 'Ramen~!' over and over again- by his hood towards the nearest ramen stand she could recall, which was in a nearby mall.
Luckily for Rias, the amount Naruto ate did little to her vast family fortune. She did look slightly chagrined as the owner of the ramen stand had apologetically kicked everyone out when Naruto made his order of five hundred bowls of miso ramen and two hundred of shrimp. Currently, the entire store was working on overtime, sending bowl after bowl towards Naruto, who mercilessly guzzled each one down like the starving god he was.
"Remember how I told you that I didn't have this Heaven or Hell thing back in my day?" Naruto spoke as he swallowed a mouthful of noodles. Rias nodded, still in slight awe at the fact that Naruto transcended Hell and Heaven both, more than likely being older than anything on the Earth, save for the planet itself. Their talk last night after Naruto's thing with the statue had amazed Rias beyond belief, and she had wanted to wake her parents up to inform them about Naruto's status.
Unfortunately, Naruto would have none of it. Grabbing Rias around the waist, he pulled and sat her onto his lap, placing his chin on the top of her head as he explained why he couldn't expose himself as a god as of yet. Rias sat through the explanation with a red face, embarrassed that Naruto -her best friend!- was treating her like a child.
Granted, she was a child, but still!
"I think I figured it out," Rias' eyebrow rose up in confusion at his words, catching her off-guard, "About how Heaven and Hell came to be. Hold on to your butts, cause I'm about to-" He paused to down a bowl of broth, wiping his mouth with his jacket's sleeve, "-blow your mind." Rias smirked at his words, finding them to be rather strange for someone to use. Naruto had a way with words that... Well, he had a way with words and that was about it.
"Okay, so originally, back in my time there was only the Pure Land, which apparently, you would go to whether or not you were a scumbag in life. I don't know what you do there, but that's where you'd go after death, but you'd have to go through some kind of middle plane of existence first which my sensei had experience himself." He shrugged, "Met his dead dad there or something, I can't really remember."
Rias nodded and took what he spoke in, mentally drawing out a mind map as he spoke.
"Now, I'd like to think that as time went on, humans came up with religion. And then, I know this sounds really crazy, but since religion was so strongly believed in it actually managed to alter the Pure Land, somehow splitting it and therefore creating Heaven and Hell." Rias gave him a slightly dubious look and Naruto rolled his eyes at her suspicion, "Hey, I said it was going to sound crazy, but when you've personally fought a goddess to the death as a mortal, you'll learn that not everything is impossible. Besides, this is all just a guess."
Rias admitted defeat to that, having heard his story about how he fought a goddess with his friend who perished in battle. Judging by Naruto's face during the tale last night, she figured that he was being serious due to the hard look he had in his eyes at the memory.
Still, she found it surprising that he held no ill will to the goddess, Kaguya, saying that she just was doing what she believed in, just like him. Both of them wanted the same outcome, peace, but had different methods of doing so. Where Kaguya wanted absolute destruction of Humanity, Naruto wanted to preserve it. But the god admitted that he was saddened to find out that war still plagued the world, that people were still hurt through violence, rape, and all kinds of ways.
He admitted that sometimes he wondered about the lives he would have saved from allowing Kaguya to destroy humankind, saying that he often got the feeling that if he had allowed Kaguya to wipe away life on Earth, those that had suffered at the hands of evil wouldn't have suffered at all. The women who were raped wouldn't have experienced it if they never existed. War wouldn't run rampant through the Middle East if they never lived in the first place. Children didn't need to watch their parents leave the home and never return, killed in battles that could have been solved by peaceful talks.
What kind of peacekeeper was he if he couldn't even keep the peace?
Rias had smacked that out of his head fast, telling him that it wasn't him that was to be blamed. Although doubtful, Naruto thanked Rias for snapping him out of his funk before continuing with his story.
"Anyways, somehow the Pure Land must have split, and this is a long shot, maybe, just maybe, during this split a few souls got loose through the cracks and managed to get themselves reincarnated and reborn as normal humans. I wouldn't be surprised. Shit like that has happened way too many times to count when I was still a kid. Of course, they definitely wouldn't remember anything from the Pure Land or their pasts lives, that's for sure." Naruto recalled the Akatsuki members and those Kabuto had resurrected during the war, about how they seemed to never remember being in the Pure Land. He picked up another bowl and brought it to his lips, this time gently drinking the broth that fell into the black hole he called his stomach.
A soft smile was hidden behind the bowl at the idea of...
No. Best not to get his hopes up.
Quashing the brief flutter of hope, Naruto set the bowl back onto the table, absently thanking the woman that came up and collected the stack of bowls that Naruto had piled up on the counter.
"That's amazing..." Rias rubbed her chin in thought, her mind map completed. The map spanned across a full section of hermind she had cordoned off, a sign in front of the entrance to the room stating, or warning, that whatever logic she knew should be dropped upon entering, and her disbelief should be suspended. A bright neon sign took the space at the top of the door, the words 'NARUTO' blinking obnoxiously in bright orange.
"Well... That's five hundred down." Naruto sighed, patting his stomach contently before he sat upright, grinning with a pair of worn chopsticks in his hands, "Another two hundred to go!"
"YOU HEARD THE MAN!" The owner shouted to his chefs, who quickly went back to work, "TWO HUNDRED MORE, STAT!"
Rias grimaced, wondering if her family did, in fact, have the money to support Naruto's addiction to the noodle and broth combo.
Eh, maybe he could make more money using that creation power of his.
The vast whiteness seemed to stretch on for miles and miles, an endless sea of white clouds surrounding the throne room of Heaven. The centre of the room held the large seat, made entirely of milky marble, the seat was grand, to say the least, in a simple way.
The Seventh Heaven where God once resided was quiet, with only a single figure in the room enjoying the temporary tranquillity before they would return to the other levels of Heaven to join her brothers and sisters. Ever since God had died, she had been coming here, to sit alone in peace to ruminate. Her hand twisted and dipped into the fluffy cotton, silently enjoying the feel of the clouds as thoughts ran through her head briefly.
There had been so many of their kind falling from Heaven, their emotions turning them into those who would sin and those who had sinned, into Fallen Angels. It wasn't their fault though, seeing as how they too were once human.
And humans were full of sins, some able to control it better than others.
Luckily, the population of Heaven had been stabilised, with some of them having been reincarnated into angels through the Brave Saint system. And the occasional one had risen through the ranks, theirs wings increasing as they grew in power, yet retaining their kindness. One of them, having grown so strong, had gained the title as one of the Seraphs a few lifetimes ago.
Sitting upon the steps that led to the grand unoccupied throne of God in seiza, she waited calmly. She had been doing so ever since she was still a human, before she had been reincarnated as an angel. It was her system, a habit she had developed whenever she had nothing to do. All she had done whenever she was bored was waited, and waited. She didn't know what she was waiting for, but she just wanted to wait.
She whose heart was filled with unadulterated care and affection for one she knew not, the truest form of love residing deep within her bosom waiting to emerge.
She whose love and mind transcended lifetimes, even if the reason for her love was but a faint blur at the back of her mind.
She who, as a human, fell in love with the bright globe in the night sky, and yet again in her reincarnation as an Angel, even if she couldn't figure out why. Why had the moon caught her heart? She couldn't tell, but some said it had to do with her-
'Wherever you are... I hope you're doing just fine, Hinata-chan.'
-Pale eyes that glowed just like the moon gently opened and twelve wings burst from her back in a show of grandness, as well as power. Twisting her head, she looked around the empty level, noticing that no one had called.
Calming her irregular heartbeats, the pale skinned beauty got up off the steps slowly, making her way barefooted through the sea of clouds.
How strange. She could've sworn she heard someone... Must have been her imagination.
Shrugging, Gabriel took flight, her white eyes unblinking as she took flight, blonde hair billowing behind her from her intense speed. It was a surprise that her thin and short white blouse -that was nearly being ripped off her body at the speeds she was travelling at- hadn't accidentally released her endowed chest from its confines, not wearing a bra beneath her shirt due to the fact that it was more comfortable going commando.
Actually, many of her breatheren had actually fallen due to the fact that she unknowingly wore skimpy clothes all the time, with many of her male counterparts unable to keep their eyes off of her body, falling to the sin of Lust. Luckily, most of them were able to resist watching her whenever she bent down to pick something up, choosing to look away and think happy thoughts or simply knock themselves out with a well-placed punch.
Poor Gabriel didn't know why she was being surrounded by unconscious and bruised members of Heaven.
If you haven't figured it out yet, Hinata got reincarnated into Gabriel, who was born as a human in my fic before getting reincarnated as a Angel.
You can review if you want. Favourite and Follow if you'd like too. sive for a 3k/1 chapter story of mine.
People were upset, so I edited it from Hinata to Gabriel. She's practically the same person, except not. Same personality and everything. So just imagine Gabriel with Hinata's eyes, you unhappy campers. Even if that still pisses you off, why don't you just think of her with blue eyes or something? Can't be that hard.
Take it this way, a set of eyes on the conflicting side.
I also intend for Issei to perv on her, but Naruto will more definitely cockblock the shit out of him.
This is also the story with the most reviews in a single chapter, which is slightly disappointing to me as I try my best in my other fics.
Oh well. I can understand. It's a different take on HSDxD x Naruto Crossovers and probably hasn't been done before, which is why everyone is reviewing for me to update it.
Do note. In ten weeks, I'll be sitting for my national exams. So don't expect me to update much, if not at all.
Anyways, be sure to check out my other fic, both Naruto only and crossover X Naruto. Still in stock of Avatar:TLA , RWBY and many more.
See you if I make it through N-Levels.
-Ure