Chapter 1 Namikaze Naruto

Naruto Namikaze was like most teenage boys. He loved video games, sports, and girls. However, there is one or two things that set him apart from other teenage boys. Three whisker marks on his cheeks, birth marks, but also symbols that he is part Yokai. Him being only half Yokai takes away his ears and tails, but leaves him with whiskers and a foxy grin. This isn't what separates him from other boys. No, the two things that make him different are...

"You have your notebook?" A deep voice resonated in the blonde's head in question.

"Check." Naruto said out loud looking in his school bag.

"How about your school books, do you have those?" Another voice asked.

"Check."

"Hey I was helping him with his things, stay out of it you over grown lizard." The first voice said in annoyance.

"Over grown-I am a dragon you self-proclaimed god." The second voice retorted back in equal annoyance.

"I am not a 'self-proclaimed' god I am a god. Naruto I'm going to finally teach this gecko to respect his betters."

"Betters? I think you mean elders you old fox."

"Old? I am not old I am experienced. I have been part of battles that would cause you to molt."

"Birds molt stupid old fox. I may not be as experience as you, but I have had my share of battles."

"Oh please, my battles could shatter the very universe."

"Will you two shut up!" Naruto yelled out. Luckily, he was the only one in the house. He glared at his reflection, really, he was glaring at the two occupants in his mind. "Kurama, D'draig; your arguments are what got me labeled as the 'weirdo' at my last school. Now I have a fresh start at a new school and I don't want you two arguing while I'm there. You are roommates, you're both my partners, so you both have to get along."

Naruto let out an exasperated sigh. "Sorry." Kurama said, he didn't want the blond to be outcasted like he had been before.

"I'm sorry too." D'draig said a green glow coming from Naruto's left hand.

"It's okay guys, look D'draig, Kurama, it doesn't matter how long either of you have been around, and it doesn't matter how long we've known each other for. What matters is that we get along with each other and work together."

"Wow that was surprisingly deep, and intelligent." Kurama said, D'draig snickered.

"Oi, I can be smart, I mean I am smart, I got into Kuoh Academy, didn't I?" The two were still snickering. The truth was his grandfather got him in. "Oh whatever, I'm heading out." Naruto dismissed the two, ignoring their growing laughter. Instead, he made sure that he was presentable while still being comfortable. He had his dress slacks on, his shirt untucked but buttoned up. His jacket was on but open and the sleeves rolled up to just pass his elbows. His blond spikey hair was still unkept and untamed as always. And his blue eyes shined with eagerness.

He's been wanting to get into this school for two reasons, one was because the school is prestigious. Anyone with this school on their resume is guaranteed a worthwhile job anywhere. The second is that it was once an all-girls school until about two years ago. Even though it has been co-ed for this long, the ratio of boy to girl is five to one. He was all but assured to find a girlfriend.

Naruto is what one would call a hopeless romantic. This is due to his grandfather's influence. One of the many things that the old man taught Naruto was how to romance through his books. Some might say that the books his grandfather wrote was smut. But about seventy-five percent of the world, three awards for best-selling novel, and four movies with another one on the way would disagree. Naruto is one of the seventy-five percent, although he didn't care much for the sex scenes, he was more entranced with the romance between the main characters. He wanted that himself, a romance that normally shouldn't be, but happens all the same.

Given this schools reputation he would find quite the catch. "All right, this is the first day of the rest of my life. Let's go!"

XxX

Rias Gremory was what one would call perfect. She had it all, looks, status, money, even title. No one would disagree that she could have whatever she wanted. Except for herself. There was one thing that she could not have, and that is freedom to choose who she could love. Title and status, comes at a price.

What the other students at the school did not know, is that Rias was a Devil. A high-class devil from the prestigious Gremory clan. The clan that produced the current Lucifer, the clan that had impeccable control over magic. Rias herself was also considered prestigious because she holds the Power of Destruction. An ancient technique that not everyone in the Bael clan, from which her mother hailed from, could utilize. This ability combined with the Gremory control over magic meant that Rias and her brother have the potential to be the most powerful Devils in the underworld.

As said before this power, this potential came at a price. When she was still just a baby her mother and father signed a contract with another prestigious clan, Phenix. This contract was of marriage between her and their son Riser. Did she love this person? No, she did not, but that didn't matter, she has been told all her life that she had a duty to uphold. That duty was to marry Riser and produce offspring with the magical control, Power of Destruction, and the Phenix's own regeneration. Truly any children these two produced would-be powerful Devils.

But Rias didn't love him, she couldn't love him. The guy was everything she hated about high society. One of the reasons she has been living in the human world on her own for the last two years was to get away from that life. Another was so she could formulate a plan in peace that would get her out of the contract. She just needed that perfect piece to complete her plans and bring her closer to her main goal.

"Checkmate." She said smiling at the dumbstruck look of her best friend.

Himejime Akeno considered a mid-class devil, she was just as beautiful as her friend and [King]. She was Rias's [Queen] and would go to the ends of the earth if it meant her happiness. So, she too was looking for a way to help her [King] out of the tough spot that she was in with the marriage contract. "Good game Buchou." She smiled and stood up. "I'll fetch us some tea."

While she was gone to get tea, the smile on Rias's face fell. Replaced with a frown as she thought of her plight. For the last two years she has found nothing in terms of assistance with nulling the contract. However, she has not spent the last two years just researching, she has also been training her current peerage members. Trying so terribly to get them to be at the strength she needs to defeat Riser. It seemed that the only way that she could get out of the contract was by winning what is called a Rating Game.

Rating Games are used to settle disputes between Devils, as well to show the strength of one's peerage. Now while she herself have never been in a rating game, she has been studying them and devising various strategies to win with the limited number of members that she has now. Another reason she was in the human world, was that she hoped to find a new member. That diamond in the rough. That key element to win against Riser and get her freedom to love who she wanted.

"What in the Underworld?" Her eyes widen, a crash was heard, she turned to see Akeno with wide eyes as well. At her feet was a metal tray, broken tea kettle and cups, as well as a puddle of tea pooling out of the kettle. "Do you feel that?" She asked her [Queen] not at all caring about the spilt tea. Without a word they both rushed to the window, throwing it open they searched the school grounds for the source.

Walking in through the entrance was a teen boy, at first glance he looked like a delinquent, due to his blond spikey hair and whisker like marks on his cheeks. He was stopped by a teacher who seemed to be scolding him for some reason. But she didn't pay attention to that, both Rias and Akeno could feel the power coming from the boy. Power that rivaled her own maybe even exceeding it. Raw unattempt potential could be felt rolling off of him. "Who is that?"

"I don't know, but I will find out for you Buchou." Akeno left the window to first clean up the tea, then to find out about the boy and how he could help her [King].

Rias still stared at the boy a smile forming on her face, a type of smile that she never thought she would have. A smile of hope. 'It seems I may have just found my diamond in the rough.'

XxX

"I'm telling the truth Sensei it is my natural hair color, see the roots." Naruto flipped up his hair in the front to show the roots.

"Hmm, seems to be true, so are you from America?"

"No, I'm from Kyoto. Look Sensei school is going to start and I don't want to be late for my first day." Naruto tried to give the teacher the most pleading look he could muster.

The older man gave him a skeptical look. "Fine but I have my eye on you, what's your name again?"

The bell rang at that moment. "Well look at that better get going, see ya Sensei." Naruto took off.

"Hey get back here," He reached out to him but didn't move. He didn't know his name, but he would find out and keep an eye on him.

"Geez, that guy was a jackass." Naruto said to himself as he was getting his shoes off. He found his shoe locker, by going to the one that had his last name on it amongst the other N's. Closing his shoe locker he turned to head on to class.

"Everyone is like that sometimes, especially to those that are better than them." Kurama had said. It came off as arrogant but he was trying to be sincere.

"Thanks Kurama…I think."

"Excuse me." Naruto heard a feminine voice from behind him.

"Whoa, whose the babe?" Naruto said to himself mostly but the girl in glasses heard him.

"My name is Shitori Sona, President of the student council. What is your name?"

"Namikaze Naruto." Naruto answered recovering from his shock of the girl.

"Watch yourself kit she's a Devil." Kurama growled out. Kurama knew somethings about Devils, but not much.

Naruto nodded mentally to his partner. 'Easy Kurama.' The fox nodded from within Naruto's mind.

"Namikaze-san have you read the student handbook?" She crossed her arms giving him a similar look as the other bespectacled woman next to her, a look of suspicion.

"Uhm should I have?" Naruto didn't read the handbook, he figured it was the same rules as any other school. Don't start fights, don't talk back to teachers, and wear all parts of your uniform.

She let out an annoyed sigh. "In the hand book section 3 paragraph two states that hair dye is not to be used unless cleared by the school first. Did you clear it with the school to dye your hair blond?"

"Why does everyone assume I dye my hair, that guy's hair is blond too." He pointed to a pretty looking boy that happened to be walking by. He had a group of girls with him that were smiling until Naruto pointed them out.

"Yutto-san has natural hair color. He is also not from Japan."

"Look lady," She gave him a look of shock and anger at his dismissal of her title and calling her 'Lady'. "My hair is natural too." He turned and decided he was done with the conversation.

"Namikaze-san, while I will give you the benefit of the doubt, I do not like being dismissed so suddenly. I will overlook it this time as a means to an apology, but I ask that you be more respectable. Have a good day Namikaze-san." She turned and walked off with the other girl in tow. Naruto looked around and saw that all eyes were on him.

"Great." He said as he walked off to the office to get his class assignments and directions to said class.

While walking away Sona turned to her friend. "Tsubaki, did you sense that?" She asked lowly.

"I did Kaicho, he seems to not only be powerful but in possession of a Sacred Gear." The now named Tsubaki answered her President and [King].

"I'm going to assume that Rias had already sensed him, so I will leave him to her. She needs someone of that caliber to help her with her goals." They ended that conversation and went on to matters related to the student council.

XxX

Rias liked history, especially Japanese history. She was happy that the class was the first one of the day. Learning about history was a great way to start the day. It worked out that the history teacher was also her homeroom teacher as well. While the man was young, he was still balding, he wore small round glasses and had happy eyes that were always full of love for his students. He always wore the same brown suit with a different colored tie each day.

A knock on the door brought her attention away from the teacher to the door, the same for the other students. The teacher walked to the door and slid it open to see who it was. Rias eyes widen when she saw the same blond boy that was arguing with the Physical Education teacher this morning. They had a short conversation and the older man led the younger one into the room. He looked out to the students with a smile.

"Class we have a new student joining our homeroom and class today. Go on young man introduce yourself."

"Thank you, Sensei." The boy said, he turned to the class and bowed before them. Rising up he gave them a toothy grin. "Hello and good morning, my name is Namikaze Naruto, it's pleasure to meet you all. I'll be in your care." He bowed again then rose and smiled at the class.

"Great, well Naruto-kun the desk in the back by Rias-chan is free. Dear could you raise your hand please." Rias shook herself out of the shock and raised her hand.

Naruto had a look of surprise on his face. He walked over and took the desk behind her. "Hello I'm Rias Gremory. Oh sorry, I'm not from Japan Rias is my given name." She corrected herself, she was really flustered, mostly because she knew that this boy had a lot of potential and a Sacred Gear. She couldn't help but think that he was the answer to her problems. If she could convince him in joining her, then she was sure that her freedom would be within her grasp.

"It's fine Gremory-san. It's a pleasure to meet you. I'm Namikaze Naruto."

"It's a pleasure as well Namikaze-san. If you need any help feel free to ask. Also, I would be happy to show you around later during a break."

"That would be great, I would need it." He chuckled. A clear of the throat got their attention. While Naruto looked up, Rias had to turn around to face the teacher.

"It's great that you two are acquainted now, but please save conversations for after class." They both said sorry. "It's fine, now let's move on…" He got back to his lesson. While Rias paid attention to the teacher, she couldn't help but drift back to the boy that was now sitting behind her.

Naruto on the other hand was already over the meeting and was now bored out of his mind. He hated history, but knew he had to have it. While he could always study it later on his own, with his special study technique. He decided to ignore the teacher and have a mental conversation with his tenants. 'I can't believe she's a Devil too. Is this school just full of Devils?'

"As far as I can tell no, while there are about a dozen or so Devils not all of them are Devils or any other kind of supernatural beings. Just steer clear of them kit, Devils usually care about one thing, power." Kurama said.

"Kurama, I get that you don't trust the Devils, but they all aren't that bad. One of my reincarnations was a resurrected Devil. They didn't seem bad at the time. My last container cared only about boobs than anything else. I still have nightmares about that time." D'draig added in.

'I know Kurama, thanks, and thank you too D'draig.' Even though he couldn't see it, both nodded. In Naruto's mind scape, they both looked at each other, then glared. It didn't take long for them to get back into this state. Even though they both wanted the best for Naruto, they still did not like each other.

XxX

'Oh man, why does school have to be so long? I just want to go home, train and get in some gameplay.' Naruto whined in his mind. He had his head in his arms silently weeping and thanking whatever gods that listen to him that the day was half over. It was lunch time at the moment and Naruto was planning on going to the on-site canteena that the school had. However, as he was getting his motivation to move, he felt a tap on his shoulder.

He looked up and saw that Rias was looking at him, she had a welcoming smile accompanying her cute features. "Hello Namikaze-san, would you like to join me for lunch? It'd be a great way to show you a bit of the school. Plus, if you don't have a lunch, I can have the vice president of my club whip us up something."

Naruto considered this; he could definitely go for free food. After all the best kind of food was free food. Plus, he could use the money that he had for lunch to get some ramen on his way home. "Kit, don't forget what she is, be careful, she may try to turn you into a devil and make you, her slave. Watch yourself, it be best to just turn her down."

'Kurama, it will be fine. I need to know more of the school, plus who am I to say no to free food?' He heard a low growl from his partner. 'Look, I'll be on my guard, if things go south we'll get out of dodge. Sound good?'

"Okay." Kurama growled out.

"Sorry, it sounds great Gremory-san. Lead the way." Naruto stood and grabbed his bag.

"Excellent. Right this way Namikaze-san." Rias directed him toward the door. Soon she took the lead and began walking towards the exit of the school. As they were stopping by their respective shoe lockers, Naruto took notice how there were numerous glares on his person from the other students. They intensified when Rias came to him. "Ready?"

"Yeah, hey is it just me or is everyone glaring at us? Or is it me they're glaring at?" Naruto questioned.

"Sorry about that. It's no secret that I have a certain status amongst the students as a 'Great Lady' it's just a silly title. You know how high school students can be."

"Okay, but why are they glaring at me? It's not like I groped you or anything."

"It could be because you look like a delinquent. That and you were scolded by a teacher and the student council president this morning."

"Wait you heard about that? That just happened like three hours ago."

"Namikaze-san, this used to be an all-girls school. One thing that girls are excellent at is spreading gossip. I wouldn't doubt that Sona heard about your interaction with the teacher and decided to scold you as well. She's always been a stickler for the rules."

"Geez," Naruto placed his face in the palm of his hand. "I can't believe that my rep is actually worse than at my last school. Wait, you're on a first name basis with the President?"

"Yeah, we're childhood friends." Rias smiled but didn't say anything else.

"Hang on, so the two Devils in different school related activities are childhood friends? Something don't smell right here Naruto, get out now." Kurama warned.

"Now hold on Kurama, let's not be hasty here. Even if they are child hood friends, that doesn't mean that they both have plans to use the hatchling. Plus, the clubs may be a ruse to have their members that they reincarnate near them." D'draig tried to rationalized with the fox. Both have had experience with Devils, however, ones experience is vastly different from the other.

'Guys, please just keep quite, I already have a bad rep as it is, I don't need an outburst to make things worse. Plus as I said before I will be on my guard. Now please.' Naruto stoped himself because he noticed that him and Rias were at their destination.

"Here we are, the Occult Research Club."

"Tsk, that's not conspicuous at all."

"Shut up~" Naruto said lowly under his breath getting irritated.

"What?" Rias questioned with worry, afraid she offended him.

Thinking fast, "Shut up no way the Occult Research Club that is so awesome." Naruto tried to play it off that he was excited to be here. He was laughing awkwardly while rubbing the back of his head.

"Yes, do you have an interest in the Occult?"

"You could say that." Naruto tried to stay vague to keep up the appearance that he didn't know that she was a Devil.

They walked into the building, Naruto followed the red head to the club room, from here he could smell the scent of cucumbers, bread, tuna, mayonnaise, tea, and various sweets. One of the perks of being a Fox Yokai was increased senses. So, he suspected that for lunch was sandwiches and tea. "Well we can talk more about it over lunch."

"Sounds great." They walked into a room that was really spacious. If it didn't have all the furniture in it that would be the case. Two couches, a coffee table, a big desk, a comfy desk chair, book cases, and a plant or two to give the room some color.

"Have a seat." Rias said as she took a seat on one of the couches setting down her school bag. Naruto sat across from her, while doing the same that she did with his school bag, he eyed the various cookies and chocolates that sat on a fancy three tier platter. There were already tea cups, sugar cubes, cream, and spoons set up on the table. Soon an extremely beautiful brunette with the longest pony tail ever grown came out of the back room. She was carrying with two hands a platter with a tea pot and three plates with an assortment of colorful sandwiches. "Namikaze-san this is my Vice President, Himejima Akeno."

The new woman bowed her head, "It's a pleasure Namikaze-san."

"Likewise." Naruto said, 'Geez what is it with female Devils being knock-outs?'

"It's how they lure men into committing sin so they can eat their life force." Kurama growled out.

"Pretty sure you just described a succubus." D'draig deadpanned.

'Guys, seriously, stop!' Naruto yelled into his mind trying not to say anything out loud. Naruto grabbed a sandwich and took a bite. "Wow these are really good Himejima."

"Glad you like them Namikaze-san. Try some tea too." She poured him a cup. "One lump or two?"

Naruto gave a confused look, then it dawned on him. "Oh! Sugar cubes. Sorry I'm not use to all this fancy stuff. Well, three should do it, and some cream too, but I can get that."

"By all means, it's fine, it is no trouble Namikaze-san." She fixed the tea how he instructed. She stirs it as well, tapped the side of the tea cup twice, then blew away the steam. She set it back down in front of him. "Enjoy."

"Thanks." He took a sip. "Wow this is really good."

"Thank you once again Namikaze-san." She bowed then retreated back into the kitchen.

"She just wanted to show off." Rias said smiling. "So Namikaze-san what do you know of the Supernatural?"

'Here we go.' Naruto thought. Immediately Kurama went on a tangent, but Naruto ignored him. "Well depends on what you mean by Supernatural. If you are talking such things as like vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and demons. Then yes I do."

"What do you know of Devils?"

"Wow to the point." The statement seemed to shock Rias a bit but she recovered quickly. "Well, let's see, I know that you are one," Rias lost composer now, "I also know that Himejima is one as well." There was a clatter from the other room, Akeno emerged with a surprised look on her face. "I also know that the student council President and Vice President are Devils. I am assuming that the entire student council are Devils. If that is true then I assume that your club mates are Devils as well."

"How…How did you know?"

"Well," Naruto threw a sandwich in his mouth and chewed it. He also leaned back into the couch and propped his arms on the top relaxing. "I'm a Yokai, well half Yokai. Still I can sense these things."

"So, you're part Yokai?" She relaxed a little, she had thought that a human knew about the supernatural in her experience that would mean said human was an exorcist. Since that wasn't the case she could relax. "That explains the whisker marks."

"Yeah, since my dad was human, I didn't get the ears or tails, just whiskers, and the senses of course." Naruto smiled again. "Can I ask a question, Gremory?"

"Go ahead."

"Did you call me here to ask me to join your, group or whatever it's called?"

"Peerage, and to be honest, that was on my mind."

"Why?"

"I thought you just had one question?" The blond shrugged and kept his smile. "Well, I could sense a lot of potential from you. I thought that I would make you an offer to join and grow as a Devil."

"While I'm sure that is true," Naruto leaned forward and grabbed another sandwich. "I can tell that you are still hiding something." He started to eat the sandwich to give her a chance to answer.

"I'm not sure I know what you mean." She grabbed a sandwich as well and started to nervously eat it. She wanted to tread lightly with the blond. She wanted to make sure that she said the right things. After all, if she told him that she wanted him to damn his soul for all eternity so she can possibly get out of a contract he would definitely refuse.

"If you can't be honest with me, then I think we are done here." He took a final sip of the tea and stood up. He grabbed his school bag. "Thanks for the food Gremory. See you in class." He started to leave.

"Wait!" She called out to him. "Please just wait. Look I'm sorry for not being honest with you. It's just that if I told you why then I feel like you would definitely say no."

"Depends on what it is really, but to be honest, Devil or not, I don't really care. I prefer honesty over anything else."

"I'm sorry," The bell chose that time to ring. "Listen, could we possibly continue this after school? I'll tell you the reason then and you can meet my other peerage members as well."

"That's fair, okay. I will stay after school and listen to what you have to say." Naruto left the building.

Rias slumped into the couch. "Well, that went well." She glared at Akeno for the statement.

XxX

Naruto let out a huge sigh. He was back in the Occult Research Club room. He was introduced to her other club members. The white haired Yokai girl kept giving him curious looks and glances when she thought he wasn't looking. He could still feel her eyes on him whenever she did it. He also learned that the pretty boy with blond hair that he pointed out that morning was a Devil. Rias didn't mention the other member that he could sense in the building. He believed that she may have a reason for that. He would have to ask her about that later. For now he had just heard Rias' story.

The gist of it was that her parents, before she was born, signed a contract with other noble Devils. This contract was for marriage and would bring together two families with extraordinary powers. Also, the two would produce a pure-blooded Devil that had the healing powers of the Phenix, the magical control of the Gremory, and the Power of Destruction of the Bael clan. She has tried asking her parents to cancel it, but her father refuses to. He gives her the excuse that it is because of duty and honor that she must go through with it. Her mother tried the excuse that she herself found love in a marriage contract and that she could too if she gave the Phenix heir a chance. Her brother, who apparently is the current Lucifer of the Underworld, says that while he has a lot of power the contract is legally binding. She had no choice but to go through with it. There apparently was only one loop hole.

This caused Rias to go into another story, this one about the Civil War that the Devils fought after the Faction war. She didn't go into detail about the war between Devils, instead she explained what came of the war. One of the new Satans, Beezlebub, created magical devices called evil pieces. These devices could reincarnate someone into a Devil, or give a Devil power of the piece they would be infused with. This 'person' would then be bound by the [King] that gave them the power. Should they go against their [King] depending on the severity of the disobedience, punishment would follow. She of course went on to say that she and her family do not treat their peerage members as slaves, but rather as equals and family. That is why the Gremory have never had a what is called a Stray Devil.

She also added in that Stray Devils are ones that did kill or tried to kill their [King]. These ones would be labeled as Stray's and hunted down. In a sense a bounty would be put on their head so that the Stray can be taken care of. In some cases, her or the President would take down Stray's if they showed up in their territory.

Rias then got back on topic and explained that if she were to compete in a Rating Game with Riser and won, she could void the contract. Rating Games were a way that Devils could solve disputes without wars breaking out against Devils. Also no one died as a result of a Rating Game, but some were brutally injured. Some have even gone into coma's and to this day have still not woken up from them. The games were ruthless, and Riser is one of the best at these games. He is even one of the few Devils to have a full peerage. Meaning that he has a Devil representing each piece.

That did cause her to go on to explain that some reincarnations may take one or more pieces to reincarnate. It usually depended on the potential the individual had, and the power that the [King] had as well. More pieces helped to make up the power gap if there was one between the individual and the [King]. Some pieces have been known to mutate, this piece of information had actually come from D'draig, since one of his past wielders who was made a devil had a piece that mutated to compensate for the power difference.

"If I can't beat Riser in a rating game, then that's it, I would have to marry him." She finished her lengthy explanation. "I wanted you to join so that I could have a better chance at winning. I'm sorry."

"There's no need to apologize Gremory. You were honest with me and upfront, even if it took some coaxing." Naruto sighed again. "While I am sorry for your situation, I don't wish to join you."

"Is there any way to convince you?" She pleaded.

Naruto sighed again. "I'm sorry Gremory, what you are asking is for me to give up my freedom. I get that you do allow your members more freedom than other devils would, and that is great, still I have no desire to be a Devil."

"I understand, but could you at least give me the chance to convince you?"

"Well," Naruto paused for a moment. "I suppose that would be okay, I can't guarantee that my answer will change though."

"That is great to hear." She smiled, at the corner of her eyes tears of happiness began to form. She quickly wiped them away. "Also, if you'd like you could train with us."

Naruto perked up at that. "Train?"

"Awe shit, here we go again." Kurama and D'draig said at the same time in Naruto's mind. The boy was a training freak. He may play video games when he has spare time, but he prefers to train. His sessions of training get more intense and insane each day. For example six months ago, his grandfather taught him how to make what's called a gravity seal, a seal that can changed the gravity surrounding the person by multiplying it by a set number. Currently Naruto was training on ten times earths normal gravity. He's broken his bones so many times that Kurama and D'draig had lost count. His muscles have been torn and repaired pretty much hourly.

"Yes, do you like to train?"

Naruto had the biggest smile on his face at this point. "Yeah, I love to train, I don't have any one to spar with though since my Grandpa is usually out of town for months on end. So, to have someone that can take a punch would be great."

"Well, you are more than welcome to train with us, as well as sparing with one of us. I take it that your grandfather is quite strong?"

"Yep, the strongest Yokai out there. He's a sage too."

"Sage?"

"Yes, a title he had gotten from the Toads."

"Toads gave him a title?" Rias continued the conversation. Everyone was listening carefully.

"They're a type of summons, not a normal summons like what other beings have. It's something linked to our chakra. They're talking toads, some as big as buildings. Depending on how much chakra is used factors in to the size and skill of the Toad that you summon."

"Interesting."

"Yep, I also signed the Toad contract so I can summon them too. See we can summon them to send a message, spy, or fight. Mostly we call them to fight alongside us."

"That sounds like it'd be handy."

"Yep. So anyway, see the Toads are the only ones that can use and teach Senjutsu."

"What did you say?" The question came from the small girl in the room. She had her eyes glued to the blond at this point.

"The toads can use and teach Senjutsu. See it's where-"

"I know what it is, I also know that Yokai can go crazy using Senjutsu, its dangerous. You should tell your grandfather to not use it." She had a glare on her face, only it wasn't directed at him but rather something, or someone else.

"Uhm, not sure about that, but my gramps has been using senjutsu for years now, that's why he is labeled a sage. He's also a Yokai and hasn't gone insane from it, he just for some reason takes on frog like features. Do you know someone like that?"

"He doesn't go insane? Are you sure?" Gone was the glare but rather a hopeful look.

"Yeah, listen to be honest I don't know much about senjutsu, Gramps hasn't taught me yet. Sorry I can't go into more detail on that. But like I said to be able to spar with someone would be awesome. When can we start?"

"How about tomorrow? After school?"

"Can I do one now with someone, I've been itching for a good fight." Naruto was bouncing on his feet at this point.

"I don't mind to spar with him Buchou." The blond boy spoke up. "Yutto Kiba, pleasure senpai." He stretched out his hand to shake with Naruto. Naruto took it with a grin on his face.

"Yes, let's get started, where can we fight?"

"Everyone is gone for the day, why not the track field, should be enough room." Rias suggested.

"Sounds great let's do it." Naruto grinned.

XxX

"What is going on?" Sona asked as she noticed that Rias and her peerage, plus Naruto, was at the track and field. She decided to go and ask her friend. It seemed as though a fight was about to start between Naruto and Kiba. "Rias what is going on here?"

"Oh, Sona, I figured you'd still be here." Rias gave her friend a smile. "Kiba-kun and Namikaze-san are about to spar. Care to watch?"

"Did he agree to join you?"

"No, but he said that he doesn't mind to hang around while I try to convince him."

"So a spar is going to do that?"

"Who knows? Namikaze-san was just wanting a spar."

"So a human is going to spar against Yutto-kun?"

"He's not human, well not fully. He's half Yokai."

Sona's eyes widen a bit, but she nodded her head. "That does explain his whisker marks."

Akeno walked out to the field between the two boys. Naruto had a large grin on his face, he was hopping in place ready to go at any moment. Kiba summoned a sword and got into a stance he stared at the other blond trying to anticipate his move. "Now, you two will fight until one is pinned or one gives up. I will stop the fight if things get too bad. Now don't worry about minor cuts, as I or Buchou can heal you. Ready?"

"Yep." Naruto was still bouncing on his feet with excitement.

"Yes." Kiba answered simply dropping further into his stance.

"Begin."

Everyone was shocked when Naruto quickly threw a kunai knife at Kiba. The blond knight swiped it away with his sword. In doing so gave the other blond time to vanish from site due to speed. Kiba turned immediately to block a strike from Naruto's other kunai he had in hand. He pushed the blond off and swiped at his side. Instead of dodging he took the hit, Kiba widen his eyes in shock when a bench from nearby was cut in half replaced the blond in a puff of smoke. Kiba swung again to block shuriken now. 'Where is he getting these? Could he have a sacred gear like mine?'

Kiba didn't have time to further reflect on what the blond was capable of, he had to turn on his heels to stop another strike from Naruto. Acting on instinct Kiba instantly summoned another sword to block another strike, from another Naruto. "Two?"

"That's not all." He turned to see four more clones heading his way each armed with a kunai knife in each hand. Naruto threw a kunai knife at Kiba, who was still trying to hold off the other two Naruto's. The kunai hit open air as Kiba activated his [Knight] ability and disappeared in a burst of speed. What he didn't know was that Naruto was still able to track his movements.

"Sword Birth." Kiba had forgone all hesitation to use his Sacred Gear and decided to bring out his best attack. Naruto back flipped away from the swords, his clones took the hit to try and slow it down. Naruto flipped onto a wall that stopped the attack as well as knocking it down. Naruto leapt from the wall to land on a tip of one of the swords. To everyone's shock it did not pierce his foot. Instead, it acted like a foot hold and allowed the whisker marked boy to propel himself towards the blond [Knight]. Kiba reacted by instinct and conjured another attack. "Sword Birth." The attack hit Naruto head on. He was reduced to shreds, Kiba stared in shock believing that he had killed the half Yokai.

"Nice reaction time, and no hesitation either, that's good that's how you stay alive." Kiba spun around to see that not only was Naruto fine, but was standing on the side of another wall. Kiba looked back at the pile to see another bench that was torn to shreds.

"How did you-" Naruto took off in another burst of speed. Kiba blocked another attack from the half Yokai. Three clones threw more Kunai knives at the [Knight]. Kiba pushed off of Naruto and swiped them away. More clones came at the blond Devil, this time they only had their fist. Thinking that he was out of weapons, Kiba decided to use the blunt side of his sword to block the punches and strikes. "Changing up the strategy?"

"How could you tell?" Kiba turned around to see Naruto standing behind him, a victorious smirk on his face. "I win though, boom."

Kiba was confused at first, 'What does he-' His thoughts stopped when he heard sizzling from his sword. Just as he noticed the strange paper on his sword, there was a loud bang and Kiba was sent to the ground.

Kiba groaned as he tried to figure out what happened. When he opened his eyes he saw Naruto standing above him. Instead of a kunai in hand he had his hand outstretch to help him up. Kiba smiled and took the offered hand. "Good fight." Naruto smiled.

"Thanks, although I can't believe what I saw. How did you do all that? You had physical clones, not illusions, you didn't take any hits, and you were standing on the side of the wall. How?" Kiba was confused, while he knew he lost, he was just wondering how he lost.

"Simple, my chakra and chakra control." By now Rias peerage plus Sona was around the two. Akeno was working on healing Kiba while Rias looked Naruto over.

"You used your chakra? Koneko-chan has Chakra but I've never seen her use it that way." Rias said confused. "Not a scratch, you were able to keep up with and match Kibas speed. How?"

"Again chakra. Has Koneko-chan trained under anyone to use her chakra?" Naruto asked.

"No, I don't believe so…" She looked at her short [Rook] the small girl shook her head.

"See, my gramps taught me how to control and use my chakra to perform ninjutsu. Ninja arts. So far he only taught me three jutsu's, or techniques aside to the summoning. Substitution, which is what I did with the bench. Shadow clone, which is how there were physical copies of me. And finally the transformation."

"Transformation?" Rias asked.

"Transform!" Naruto shouted out, he had made a hand sign with his hands. In a poof of smoke there was another Rias standing in front of her. "I can transform in to just about anyone or anything." The Rias Naruto had said. In another poof of smoke Naruto was back. "That's all he taught me so far. He said that when he's in town next he'll teach me a super awesome and powerful technique. I can't wait." Naruto was giddy with enthusiasm.

"Wow I had no idea you could do so much with Chakra." She looked at her [Rook]. "Would you like to learn?" Koneko was silent and unmoving for a moment. Then she nodded her head. "Great I'm sure Naruto's Grandfather wouldn't mind to teach you."

"Actually, I could teach her. What do you want to learn?" Naruto asked.

Koneko paused for a moment, she looked down at her hands focusing on them. "I want to be stronger."

"That's doable, now do you mean realistically or metaphorically?"

"I want to be both physically stronger, and have strong chakra. I don't want to have to rely on senjutsu." She had determination on her face.

"You have guts, I like that. Great if you'd like we can start tomorrow." The small girl blushed at the praise, but nodded.

"Well, while that's all great, there is the matter of the field." Sona gestured to the track field. It was in rough shape, two broken benches, plethora of swords, and a crumbled wall.

"Sorry about that Sona, we'll take care of it." Rias put her friend at ease.

"Great well I'm beat so I'm going home." Naruto turned to leave.

"Wait Namikaze-san, you helped with this mess, you could at least help in fixing it as well." Sona commanded. Naruto slumped his shoulders.

"Alright, I'll help out." He answered dejectedly. He put his index and middle fingers on both hands into a cross sign. "Shadow clone jutsu." He called out, seven clones of the blond came to life from poof's of smoke.

"Great this won't take long then, everyone lets get to work."

XxX

'That was a lot of fun.' Naruto thought as he was walking home from school. It was late in the evening but he still had fun. Even if he had to stay and clean up his mess, sparing with the other blond was very entertaining. It was also a great way for him to test his skills on a physically stronger opponent. He looked at the piece of paper that Rias had given him. She instructed him that if he needed her or decided he wanted to become a devil, he would just need to put blood on the paper and she would teleport to him.

"Glad you had fun kit, but remember watch your back around those Devils. Just because one gave you a good workout, doesn't mean you should trust them."

"Calm down fur bag, the hatchling is fine. Naruto listen, being a Devil isn't that bad really. But this must be something you choose to do. In my past lives I have seen at times what happens to those that was forced into that life."

"You guys are great for worrying about me, but it's fine. Everything will be perfectly fine." The two weren't very reassured, but they decided to dismiss it for now. While walking Naruto sensed an incoming attack he leapt out of the way of a giant sword. It dug into the ground cracking the pavement. Naruto looked to the masked man in a robe with a strange symbol on the front. It was an A but it looked like it was scribbled with someone's none dominate hand. The A was within a spiked circle with three C's. The one on the left was reverse, and curved upward, the one on the right was curved upward as well. The final C was at the bottom but pointed down.

"Who is that?"

"Oh no, Naruto run, get out of here now!" Kurama shouted.

"Kurama who is that-" He was forced to cut himself off, another hooded masked figure with the same symbol on his robes attempted to pierce him with a long red lance. "Who the hell are these guys?"

"There followers of Apocalypse, best bet is that they are here to kill you."

"Who the hell is Apocalypse?" Naruto rolled out of the way of the giant sword that attempted to cleave his head off. He was pierced in the stomach by the lance, but disappeared in a puff of smoke only to show a log on the lance. "Kurama please explain who the hell are these guys?" Naruto asked from his hiding spot. His senses screamed at him to dodge, which he did, just in time too. Where he once was laid a crater about three feet wide and a spiked ball on a long chain within it. Naruto looked to see yet another hooded figure, they were pulling the chain retriving the ball. Naruto spun and leapt to his right to avoid another pierce at his back from the lance wielder. He was now surrounded by the three. "Okay guys look, you might have the wrong guy, see I'm just a normal high schooler on his way home from school." They didn't speak. "Silent types hey, well I will just be going now." He threw down smoke bombs, when the smoke cleared the blond was gone.

About fifty feet from the three, Naruto was running trying to find safety. Anywhere that could hide him from the three figures that wanted him dead. "Kurama care to fill me in."

"It's a long story, I will tell you whe-look out!" A gush of wind, then pain was felt in Naruto's stomach. "Nooo!"

Naruto looked at the hooded figure, this one without a mask. He had red eyes and black hair and three scares on the right side of his face. He still had the robes the others were wearing on. In Naruto's stomach was a red bladed katana that burned. It was completely through him. Naruto coughed up blood. The man ripped the sword from his stomach and Naruto fell backwards as blood started to pool around him. The man gave him a death glare as he put two fingers to his ear. "It's done, let's go." With a woosh the man was gone. The other three disappeared as well.

"No, no, no he's not healing." Kurama yelled from within Naruto's mind. "No Kit hang on, hang on."

"Come on hatchling, just focus your chakra on the hole." D'draig tried to help Naruto, even activating and boosting his power. From the hole black vine like tendrils started to spread as if the blond was infected. Every time he tried to focus his chakra. The tendrils would grow faster. "He's fading, no Naruto, come on. Shit why isn't anything working?"

Soon a red flash of light over took the area as the seal for the Gremory clan appeared next to the blond. What they didn't notice in their panic was that Naruto's blood had pooled onto the paper given to him by Rias. "So did you change-Oh no, what happened to you?" She was instantly by his side. Her hands glowed green as she tried to heal him, she focused her magic on the wound.

It wasn't working, while the wound did close up, the black splotches were still there. It was as if he was injected with poison. "No, Naruto-kun, no. I can't heal you, the black splotches look like some kind of poison intended for Yokai. If you were a Devil, you'd be fine." She got no response. "I don't want to do this, but I have no other choice. Please forgive me for taking this from you." She summoned a small chest to her hands.