Hey guys!

You know. Despite the overall lack of response to last chap (When compared to others. I still love you guys and thank you for every review) I still think it did pretty well and I'm glad so many of you enjoy it!

I don't have much to say, just that I've been writing almost every night since school started a week ago and I now have a schedule that will (hopefully) allow me to get more chapters for multiple stories out at a quicker rate.

ONTO THE REVIEW REPLIES!

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Dr. Masaki: Everything that you have said is true. I do apologise for the lack of pay-off and suddenness of various plot elements. This is my first ever posted fanfic, so I knew there would be problems. I will try my best to smooth them out and not repeat any as I get better at writing. But please throw me a bone, even a small one?

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Heroaki: I would just like to thank you for this. This and a few other chapters are just what I needed. Ill be honest, this chapter has gotten a lot of flames. And right before reading your review I started having doubts on whether I should continue but….thank you for your lovely comment!

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And with that. The review replies are over. I would like to thank those of you that have enjoyed this story. I really, really owe you guys so much. This story getting such good reception actually helped my confidence a bunch. And even with this chapter. Where I had like ten reviews in a row that back-to-back roasted me and flamed me (To the point where I briefly considered ending the fanfic) The reviews from those who love this story, and want to see it, and me, succeed was just the right pick me up that I needed. I can never thank any of you enough…

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Sylvia felt a tingle of excitement race down her spine and through her nerves. Her lips stretching into a smile that haunted the nightmares of so many of her subordinates. Her ruby red lips stretching and twisting well past what any sort of body should allow them to. The corners of her lips stopped in level with her blood-red eyes and the curve of her smile dipped down to her chin. She lifted up her top lip and revealed the 32 teeth in her mouth splitting into 64 and sharpening until they looked more like miniature rapiers than teeth. A rattling, scrapping giggle escaped her throat as her body flickered like static on a tv screen.

The nearby Demons all scrambled away from her and tried to drown out her demented giggle which belonged locked away in the deepest part of the frozen wasteland. Her fingers twisted and cracked as they elongated.

180 degrees around. 270 degrees in the opposite direction of her joints. 180 degrees around again. 270 degrees in the direction of her joints again.

"Oh my sweet little Successors~" She rasped, the rattling and screeching quality of her voice, even at regular volume, was enough to crack the windows surrounding her "Your attack dogs….Akatsuki~" She purrs, a nail lengthening and scratching along the tiled floor as she flexed the digit. "They're young. Inexperienced. They forgot they had a time-limit~ They forgot that there's far more to our might than Lieutenants and weak Commanders~" She spoke to herself, reaching a hand out in front of her, dipping the edges of her sharpened nails into the miasmic red glow in front of her. "Allow me to remind you why Yahweh-" She expertly ignored the flaring of pain, the blisters and boils that bubbled up from her creamy skin and popped in an instant, sending white-hot agony flowing through her veins. "-Locked us away~"

Blood and pus oozed and dribbled out of the hundreds of popped blisters and boils. Covering her form in the two liquids and causing her skin to crack and dry red and yellow.

"I wonder how you'll break~ I wonder if you'll break?~" She murmured to herself before laughing hysterically like a metallic hyena going through a blender "Oh please don't break~ There's nothing more I would love than to find that secret and use it to break you all to tiny shards!" She cackled, the windows surrounding her turning to powder. "Show me what you hide, my dear Successors~"

Sylvia, a General-4, in all her misshapen; demented looking glory. Stepped through the miasmic energy, and into the Underworld.

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"Grayfia-chan. Please!" Venelana begged, nearly at the point where she was on her hands and knees "It's been three years. I've done everything that I can. But I can't find him! Please. I want to see Naruto again. I want to apologize. Please bring me to him!" Grayfia couldn't help but feel her heart shatter at the desperate tone the older mother begged her with.

The three years of having to both deal with watching her eldest son's marriage fall to pieces and having not been able to even find a hint of where her youngest son and his Peerage went into hiding had done their damage to the Lady of the Gremory household. While by many standards, she was still easily a 10/10. Those who knew her well could also spot the slight bags under her eyes hidden with makeup (Something which she previously never used unless going to extremely high-class balls and gala's), the hair which had lost some of its shine and luster. Her posture had worsened, and her attitude and optimism got worse with every passing day. It had gotten to the point where Zeoticus was starting to consider using every resource and connection the house had to find their youngest son.

"Lady Gremory…" She began before hearing Venelana sob.

"Please Grayfia!" Tears began to roll down her delicate features and only made another knife of guilt stab into her heart "I miss him so much! I want Naruto back! I want my baby boy back!"

Grayfia was silent before sighing silently and nodding slowly.

"Lady Gremory… I know this has been tough on you. I'm sorry about mine and Sirzechs circumstances. I know that it's been affecting you, please do not lie." Venelana began sobbing again "But I think you deserve some closure….I'll bring you to Naruto-sama's house" Her head tilted upwards so fast that her neck popped minutely.

"R-Really? You'll bring me to my Naru?"

"To his house." Grayfia corrected the women gently "I don't have a marker directly on him"

"Y-you will!?" It was almost cruel, how such simple words brought out such joy in the woman "Now? I-I need to get changed. I-I need a dress! Jewelry? Something simple" She began to babble while running around her room to try and find the items she was talking about.

Grayfia couldn't help but smile softly at how excited and simultaneously, how nervous Venelana was.

'I know I promised you that I wouldn't tell anyone where the Uzumaki household is… But I can tell how genuine this excitement is… ' Grayfia thought to herself while watching the chaos unfold.

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Sylvia looked around her, but not how a regular person would do so. Neuropathic and nociceptive pain assaulting her senses as her eyes suddenly spun around her head. Skin rippling and tearing as it moved around her eyes like rippling water. Once she had gotten a 360-degree view of the surroundings, her eyes shrunk into her head and slowly melded out of her front. Blinking a few times to get used to proper sight again, she began to saunter through the Desert that she had been teleported into.

She took a deep inhale of air. Enjoying the new scents and stimuli that the Underworld had, compared to Cocytus.

She continued walking for another two hours before sensing 10 weak magic signatures approaching and smiling seductively.

"Oh dear~ It took two hours to sense and reach me? What a shame~ You certainly have grown weaker. Haven't you my dear Successors~" She muttered to herself before strutting in the direction of the approaching magic signatures.

As she walked, she reverted back to her normal appearance and kept her eyes constantly locked on the signatures. Yawning dramatically as they finally landed in front of her. Her eyes lazily scanned over them. In front of her stood 8 males and 2 females. She saw that they all wore the same uniform, unfortunately for Sylvia; none of them were Akatsuki.

'So these peons are the Devils military?' She thought while looking each one up and down.

She couldn't help but find them disappointing in every aspect. Sure, they had a fairly decent formation if what she was reading from their body language and magic levels were true. But other than that? The three males using weapons had weak grips. Both females had long hair, only one put it in a ponytail. To make matters worse, five of the males had long hair as well.

'Its like they want to die…OOH! What if they do?~ Would regular torture still be just as effective?! Maybe they want themselves to die but keep the others alive?! Could I use one as an example? WAIT! Could already wanting to die be the key? If I somehow make them want to live. Could that be the key to breaking the unbreakable?~' She thought psychotically as the ten Devils stared her down.

"Halt! State your name and species. Under the order of the great Maou Asmodeus, you are under arrest" She raised an eyebrow.

"My name~" They all flinched at the echoing inflection in her voice "Is Sylvia. My species?~ Torturer~" She flew forward.

In a mere second. Two of the males dropped dead. And the rest of them fell into the sand.

"I-I can't move my body! I can't feel anything!" One of the females screams in fear.

"Oh dear~ Sorry~ You have a terribly deceptive body type you know? Your C4 vertebrae was a bit higher than expected~ I only wanted you to not be able to move~ Its no fun to inflict pain when your subjects can't feel anything~" Sylvia saunters over to the girl.

The girl's eyes widen in horror and fear as the monster of a lady saunters towards her, casually stepping on the bodies of her comrades. Eventually the monster reached her and covered her face in shadows. Her fingers morphing horrifically into various pieces of surgical equipment. Not changing to metal or anything either -They stayed flesh and bone.

"Don't worry~ I can fix you up~" The Devil girl screamed in horror.

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The light died down and allowed Venelana to see the surrounding environment. She felt her eyes tear up as the looked around the spacious common room that they ended up in. Various members of her son's peerage idling around and doing their own things. What caught her attention though, was the blood red hair that had been ingrained into her memory and had rarely left her mind over the last 3 years. Sitting at the kitchen bench, patting a beautiful black cat which sat on the bench itself. He was holding a book in his spare hand, the Lady of the Gremory house guessed he had been reading until they had arrived. Now though, hauntingly similar purple eyes stared into her own purple orbs. She could see them widening as that brain that she knew to be as great as Ajuka's connected the dots. She swore that she could hear the neurons in his brain firing off as he comprehended the situation. She felt the swell of magic and desperately stepped forward, an arm outstretched.

"Naruto-kun please wait!" The build-up of magic died down, but now he was tensed -staring at her like a dangerous predator.

Now, she had his full attention. Now, she had everyone's attention. And that wasn't a good thing, especially considering the tense silence and the look in Naruto's eyes. Two sets of purple eyes flicked in the same direction.

"Erza!" Naruto barked, the girl stopping with a blade mere centimeters from between Venelana's eyes.

The Lady of the Gremory household considered the strange red-haired girl before her. She had seen her coming -Of course she had- and could have avoided it, though the speed necessary may have pulled a muscle with how out of practice she was. Nevertheless, she had proved to everyone in that room that she was no less deadly than any enemy they had faced before.

Hovering just far enough from Erza's sternum to avoid damage…Sat a dagger of pure Power of Destruction.

"Naruto-kun. Could we talk? Please!" She asked, her tone pleading, borderline begging.

Naruto looked over at Grayfia briefly, a flash of emotion that both older women had seen many times flowing through his eyes.

"Please don't blame Grayfia. I had to beg her with tears in my eyes to bring me here" Venelana said while extinguishing her PoD dagger and bowing her head "Please. Don't blame her. Please don't…"

Grayfia watches the emotions war through Naruto's eyes as his face stayed perfectly neutral and passive. Before finally he exhaled slowly and went back to patting the beautiful feline on the bench besides him.

"…You said you'd like to talk?" The brown-haired woman snapped her head up.

The tone was cold, the words neutral in their choosing, and his eyes spoke of immense pain. For what exact reason, Venelana did not know. What she did know though, is that Naruto had thrown her a line. He wasn't immediately pushing her away, and for that. She couldn't help the blinding happiness that flowed through her veins and graced her lips in a small, but beautiful smile as she nodded.

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Rias yawned and sat up from the, honestly, pretty stiff bed she had slept in the night before. Hearing the surprisingly feminine yelp and stutter from her 'bedmate' she grinned saucily and opened her green-blue eyes. What greeted her was the fairly small and plain bedroom of her newest Pawn and, of course, the actual Pawn himself. She leant forward and rested her cheek on her drawn-up knee, wrapping both of her arms around her knee and shin as she stared at the perversely grinning boy.

Looking at him now, how plain he looked truly stood out. Especially considering the power that resided in him and had caused her to use all 8 of her Pawn's on him two nights ago. Akeno must have gotten it wrong, because no simple Twice-Critical could ever put a mere human's value from 1 to 8 Pawn's. But it was no matter, he was hers now. And nothing would change that. She would train him to beat that disgusting, pig Raiser. And considering his eyes had never left her quite bountiful breasts, once. She didn't reckon she'd have to try very hard to motivate the poor boy, and who knows, if he does well. She might even be gracious and let him cop a feel. But for now, introductions.

"Hello Issei-kun~" She tittered with a husky voice, instantly catching his attention "Allow me to properly introduce myself. I'm Rias Gremory, a Devil. And your Master~"

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Sylvia yawned as she stepped through the blood and tiny portions of body that covered the sand of the Desert around her. She continued to walk away, the blood on her high-heels eventually drying out or being left behind to clump the sand together as she walked away. What constitutes as the bodies of the squad of 7 being left behind. Of the 7, five had been dissected and chopped up into tiny pieces…Well, chopped was a strong word. Each had been obliterated in their own way. One male was turned into a Devil-pressure bomb by his own bloodstream, how you ask? Sylvia had cut his arm's and legs open and stuck a finger into each wound, easily ignoring the pain as her fingers stretched and split and thinned and spread. The rest of the squad had been forced to watch in horror as he had screamed, and screamed, then as it turned into gargles as his eyes rolled up, then into spastic convolutions as his abdomen and head seemed to swell. Until, finally, he exploded. His limbs had rolled across the now bloody sand, but a few chunks of flesh and bone right above his heart had managed to reach a few meters in height. Another two males had met their end by annoying Sylvia with their yelling and threats. So she had grabbed one, gone a few meters back, and thrown him at the other with enough force to turn both of them into flesh, bone and organ projectiles over the sand floor.

The next to go had been the second girl, who had been cut open as Sylvia rifled through her organs and prodded at her muscles, her death having been highly painful, even as she bled out. And then after that, she had done the same to the third male of the group, having even taken the time to laugh when she reached his dick. The last two members of the squad having been forced to watch as she had chopped it off and spent a solid twenty minutes making fun of it and laughing at it as she waved it around and even took a bite out of it. Though apparently the taste had been so bad that she found it personally affronting and obliterated the thing on the spot while spitting out the chunk of meat.

The last male, from his spot lying in the bodily-fluid soaked sand, had begged and pleaded. Promised her anything in his power. That hadn't saved him either. At hearing his pleading and begging, Sylvia had scowled and knelt down, grabbing his head in one hand and lifting his limp body off the sand.

"You, pathetic scum!" She growled, her features twisting and dementing in her fury "You peons are supposed to be our successors!? My successors!? You couldn't take over for a rock sitting in the sun!" The Devil stared at her in absolute fear and babbled nonsense to try and appease her "A soldier is supposed to fight until their dying breath! They're supposed to never break! They aren't supposed to be turned into blubbering messes by the sight of comrades dying!" She screamed in fury, her scream having once again gained the 'metal-hyena-through-a-blender' quality.

And the final girl had watched as his head exploded inside her grip, his body dropping to the floor and collapsing, blood spurting out of his torn open throat like a fountain.

And then Sylvia had turned her attention to the last member of the squad. The first girl. She took a moment to appreciate her handiwork as she stood over the defenseless Devil. She had indeed fixed the placement of the C4 vertebrae she had knocked a little too far. By then, the Devil woman could feel, but not move -like the state the rest of her squad mates had been in before their demises. The wound having been closed by Sylvia pulling chunks of the girl's long hair out of her head and using it as surgical string. What she had done to the last girl was both more and less merciful than every death other than the male who had, had his head crushed. Sylvia had spent five minutes slowly walking around and grabbing an arm from each body or splatter. And once she had collected five and ripped the sixth off the headless body it was attached to, she had walked over and prodded her body into a spread-eagle position. One arm stabbed sideways into her left arm, acting like a flesh stake. The girl had just begun to scream in pain as the second arm went into her right arm. Then one through her right shin, and then her left. She had then stepped on her limp thigh and speared the fifth arm through the girl's stomach. Screams and babbled nonsense threatened to wear out her voice box completely. Though it was not to be, and with a sickening squelch, the last arm went through her head.

And then after spending another twenty or so minutes moving things around and arranging her message, Sylvia had walked away. And at the scene of the crime? The body parts and blood had been moved to make a message.

'Your turn Akatsuki

-Sylvia, General-4'

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

I'm so sorry!

I never even realized that it's been a MONTH since the last update! I've been following my new schedule, so while progress has been made for every one of my stories. Individual progress has been slowed, so I'll get chaps for one fic out slower than if I worked solely on that chap. It also doesn't help that I've just started my last year of high school. And as much as I don't want to say it, this may be how long you guys will have to wait for each update. I'm so, so, so sorry!

Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed.

Adios!