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Idk, wanted to try a new greeting.
ANYWHO
I'm back baby! (afteranothermonthofdoingnothingjesusFUCK) I'm sorry about the wait. But this chapter is pretty slow, and I was sorta putting it off. I know, I'm an asshole. Sorry, but I can be very lazy XD
Also. My Discord admin has started yelling at me for this, so I have a new system for telling y'all about my Discord!
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^^^ There's the code to join my Discord. Now wont delete it! Hah!
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I don't have much else to say.
ONTO REVIEW REPLIES!
Justinmil22: Thank you for saying that. Honestly, I need to hear stuff like this more often *Sheepishly scratches head*
The Great Dullahan: She is an OC!
PersonaNinja Lux: Will do!
A Rook and 5 Pawns
Thejmanlt: A Demon. A Demon General-4. That's also how she knows about the Akatsuki.
Yare(Guest): Thank you for saying that. I'll try to remember in the future.
Shinobinoyami16: There will be other girls from other universes. Though probably not female Alucard (Sorry!)
Zentari2238: I dare you to write a good fic while only keeping Canon chars and ideas. Watch the fanbase drown you in flames for only using boring Canon characters and bringing people in from other series 'just because'
Cloth slayer: Thank you for your review! I truly enjoyed this one and I'm glad that you enjoyed the decisions I made. Truth be told the Sylvia torture scene has been cooking since around chap 12/13. So I had lots of time to think about it~
Foxcomm: I'm glad you enjoyed the Sylvia scene. And Rias'll warm up to Issei. Due to how I portrayed her in early chaps and stuff. I wanted her to be a little colder when first meeting Issei.
Inkman92: Bit of both. This is the slow point of the story.
uchihaNaruto247: gladly! Harem list is:
Natsumi
Sayuri
Erza
Esdeath
Tsunade
Saeko
Kuroka (Sorta)
Rossweisse
Olivium(Guest): Gladly. Naruto is roughly Commander-1 (General-5 if he really pushes himself). Natsumi, Esdeath and Sayuri are around Commander-2. The rest are Commander-3/4.
Kurokawa Kazunari: hopefully it goes well (From a story telling perspective) and I don't fuck it up XD
AAAND FINALLY DONE!
With that over. I hope you all enjoy the chap!
Onto "Holy shit your story-line is jumbled" chap 17!
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Blood.
Blood, fire, bodies and rubble surrounded the struggling figure. The young girl's hands and arms shaking from exertion as she tried valiantly to crawl along what had been pristine marble a mere hour ago. Her eyes leaked tears that mixed with the blood caking her face as she struggled along the ground. She ignored the pinky bent at an angle far too unnatural to be anything but broken beyond repair as much as possible as she clawed at the ground and dragged herself with what little energy she had left. She could feel the phantom pains coming from the leg that she knew she didn't have anymore.
Behind her she heard the faint echoes of that monsters steps that slowly grew louder and louder as she tried to continue struggling through the rubbles and dead bodies. She couldn't even feel anything as she had to struggle over the bisected body of her auntie. Numbness and an overwhelming desire to survive emptying her body of every other emotion.
"Oh? We have a survivor? Maybe not all of you Devils are worthless after all" She felt herself halt even as she continued to claw along the ground.
She grunted as she was flipped onto her back, staring at the sky and the face of her attacker. She saw her ruby red lips stretched and caked in blood right before wheezing as the woman's heel landed on her stomach to keep her still.
"You know. This scene is so very reminiscent of one of my childhood. The fire, the blood, the rubble. Oh! And of course the bodies~" The girl felt the first modicum's of anger piercing her shell of numbness at the woman's words "Even the position you are in right now! I was in the same position! Without the missing leg of course. As your family found out. Its quite hard to de-limb me~" She knew this. Having seen her regrow limbs after they were taking off by her families magic, Crack(1) "You remind me so much of myself…Which is why I can't allow you to live. You are a survivor, like me. And survivors like us? We only ever come back stronger than what we survived. And I can't allow that you see. So, Buh-bye!~"
White hot rage enveloped the girls entire being and she screamed in fury while swinging her glowing hand at the woman. Her hand was mere inches away from the woman's thigh before the woman stomped on her face. The glow almost instantly faded from the girls hand as blood, brain, bone and other bodily necessities exploded out from under the woman's foot. The now limp arm smacking uselessly against her thigh before crumpling to the dead girls chest and sliding down.
Sylvia chuckled darkly while stepping away from the young girl and walking towards the one part of the building that she had kept as undamaged as possible. She stepped through the hole that had once been the high-class entrance to the small library full of books. Looking around, she tried to decide where to start first. Even as outside the fires raged on and the message, she had created solidified on the blood-soaked soil.
'2-0 Akatsuki. You disappoint me.
-Sylvia, General-4'
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Naruto strode through his house with a confidence that Venelana had seen before in his father. Every step was long and covered as much distance as possible but measured. He did not waste any energy -well, he did. But considering his age and the limited amount of combat she assumed he had been in, it was still impressive- and left no sound even as he walked over impressively polished wood planks. The Lady of the Gremory household knew this game though, she had been playing it ever since she had been betrothed to Zeoticus at the mere age of 37. The confidence and silent footsteps were a mind-game, a challenge if you will, that most Nobles kept hidden from their children or relatives. It was an unspoken right of passage that all noble Devils had to go through to be considered 'Noble' by the vast majority. It was for this reason that she smiled softly, a smile full of love and fondness, and began to play the game herself. The soft 'click-clack' of her heels on the floor suddenly ceased into silence and she followed him with a false confidence that mirrored his own actual confidence. She noticed the slight stiffening of his posture and how the feline wrapped around his neck suddenly stared at her with yellow eyes intense enough to freeze low-class Devils in their tracks. She knew the feline was a beautiful creature, disarmingly gorgeous in its looks.
She didn't dare underestimate it.
She couldn't feel an identifiable magic source when looking over her with the barest of sensory techniques, anything more than what she used would likely place her under even more suspicion, but she could feel the same aura emanating from the feline as that from creatures matching Ultimate-level Devils and higher. Finally though, they reached the fourth floor. Venelana immediately noticed the difference. Instead of a long main hallway with doors on the sides and branching hallways, there was only a few meters of hallway and only a single door. She followed behind Naruto as he walked inside. Once inside her youngest son waved his arm and suddenly items and fabrics that were around the room whizzed around into what Venelana could only guess was a smokescreen to hide whatever blueprint was on the wall directly to her right. She had only the barest glance at it before it was covered by blurred items, some sort of crystalline-structured hub with smaller crystalline-structured rooms seemingly floating around it. When the items were put away, the blueprint was gone and in its place what she managed to recognize as a computer screensaver (Even with her extremely limited knowledge about technology). Her heart ached at the happy image of Naruto smiling and his current peerage all surrounding or hugging him with large smiles themselves. She turned back to her son and saw him sitting at a desk by a window. She walked over and sat in one of the comfy couches facing him and his large, intricate, wooden desk. She wasn't sure where he had learnt all of these Noble-level mind games, but she certainly approved.
"You wanted to talk?" He repeated his earlier words while staring at his mother.
If he was honest, there was a part of him that was currently screaming to kick her out. To force her out of his life and never talk to her ever again. He didn't completely ignore that part of him, he knew that where it came from was a place of truth and past hurt. But he also followed the part of him that had seen the painful longing in Grayfia's eyes whenever her recent fights with his brother were brought up. How her feelings had never diminished, but instead a singular fight had spiraled into more and more fights and how those fights grew in size. He listened to the part of him that saw that same painful longing in his mother's eyes and couldn't help but sympathize with her. The part that also catalogued her disheveled appearance (At least compared to how she looked when he was still a Gremory) and dragged the shards of his childish admiration for her kicking and screaming to the surface. Because as much as Grayfia had grown angry at her husband over the last few years, as much as their fights had escalated to the point where glaciers and chasms had been found after especially bad ones. She still loved him, with all of her heart. And he saw that same love directed towards him with hauntingly similar purple eyes.
He wouldn't lie, at least not to himself, that look made his skin crawl and his stomach churn violently. And the most annoying thing is that he couldn't figure out why. So he hedged all of his choices on this one conversation. He would give her the tiniest of chances. If that trust was broken in any way shape or form. He would force her out of his life forever, no matter what that took.
"Yes…I'm so sorry" She bowed her head.
"For?" He trailed off with an eyebrow raised.
"For everything since that incident 7 years ago" Venelana said without hesitation "I…I blamed you for nothing. I projected my own insecurities from the civil war onto you…And Rias picked that up and turned it into her own hatred"
"What insecurities?" Naruto asked curiously, one hand digging his nails into his palm.
"Back, during the Civil War. I had a best friend called Faylinn…We had grown up together. Her clan and the Bael clan were allies so it was encouraged as much as possible. When the 72 Pillars began to ally to the old-Satan faction, and the new-Satan faction. Her clan allied to the old-Satan faction. While as you know…the Bael did not. We both believed in the decisions our clan's had made wholeheartedly. So when we met on the battlefield, our fight could barely be called that. It was more both of us trying to convince the other to join our side while half-heartedly lobbing spells at the other." She paused briefly as her eyes began to moisten "Of course it didn't work. My side of the battlefield had to retreat, and I had to leave or be captured. We met again and again, in locations all over the Underworld. Every time we would try to convince each other, and every time it would grow more and more violent as we got angrier and angrier at the others stubbornness. I could see her changing-" She hiccupped and tried to hold her tears at bay "-She grew more and more…twisted every time. Soon she wasn't my friend who I had grown up with for hundreds of years. She was an enemy. I didn't believe it though…I thought deep down that I could save her. I-I don't know what from. But I thought- I thought that I could. And then, one battle she actually came at me with intent to kill. And I didn't want to die. I just- Sirzechs was only 42 by that point. I-I couldn't just abandon him so early in his life! I-I didn't have a choice! She- She barely even spoke to me! I-I tried- I really did! B-But I couldn't-" Venelana clutched her chest as her breathing began to quicken and her pupils dilated.
Naruto realized what was happening almost as soon as she stopped talking and tensed up.
"Venelana? Venelana are you okay?" He asked, desperately wishing she'd answer so he doesn't have to go further.
When she began to gasp and keel over sideways, he knew the distant approach wouldn't work. With a hitched breath he launched himself over his desk with a handspring and caught her before she hit the ground. He held her shoulders and stared into her shaky and unfocused eyes.
"Venelana. Its okay. You're okay." He said firmly, though she didn't seem to register his words.
He hung his head and exhaled while his eyes burned with irritation as he looked her dead in the eye once again.
"…Mother- M-Mum." He managed to force out "Its okay. Everything is okay. You're with your son. The past cant hurt you. You're safe now" He noticed that actually bringing up their blood relation seemed to help her calm down enough to grab the reigns herself.
He slowly, cautiously, let go of her shoulders as a shuddering sob wracked her once again. But he could see the light slowly entering her eyes again.
"I-I'm sorry you h-had to see that…I-I usually have better control of my emotions than that" She tried to laugh it off while weakly smiling.
Naruto suddenly realized where he got his habit of making bad jokes when sad from. Though, it worked even worse on him than it did on his peerage (And that's saying something).
"Yeah….I can imagine" He said somberly while walking back around his desk and sitting down "So….This whole time? You…What? Blamed me for doing the same thing as you?"
"S-Something along those lines. Y-yeah….I-It was stupid of me. I never told you or Rias about it…Y-Yet I expected you to have learned from my mistakes. B-But I didn't think. The situations where similar enough that I didn't stop and consider them. How he was a peerage member you had only had for about a week and a half. How he was hostile to you every step of the way and how your first battle with him was one to the death."
"It was a stupid and snap-judgement decision" Naruto said bluntly, making her flinch "But I suppose it does sort of make sense. It in no way excuses your behavior or actions though." He finished quickly with a glare and stern tone.
She nodded, having already known that for years at this point. It did nothing to lessen the sad look on her face though.
"If there's anything I can do to prove that this apology is sincere. Please. Tell me" She said, bowing in her seat.
"You want to prove that you're sincere? Okay. Fine. I have a test for you. A mental one to be exact" he said, catching her attention as she straightened her back.
She watched as a piece of paper floated across his room and onto his desk while a magic circle flashed briefly over his finger. Her musings as to what it could possibly be were cut off when he tapped his finger on the piece of paper and it suddenly filled with words. Her purple eyes widened minutely, having never seen a spell similar to it before. Rapidly, the words stopped appearing and he handed her the piece of paper. Her eyes scanned over the words at blurring speeds before she blinked and held the paper a little closer.
"You didn't think I would make it easy for you. Did you?" Naruto said, forcibly dragging her attention away from the paper "That particular test took me over a year to work out. So I know, if you can figure it out, that you are serious" He didn't mention the fact that he had spent a good amount of time deciphering it from the Demon's native language.
Venelana's hands shook and a soft smile splayed her features "I promise to work on it every day"
Whatever either of them was going to say next was cut-off when both of them sensed the presence of a teleportation spell. Followed by the appearance of four magic signatures. Naruto smiled slightly and was in the process of calmly standing when Venelana practically jumped to her feet.
"What are three Holy presence's doing here? How did they get here? Do you need he-"
"Everything is fine. I called them here. I would kindly ask that you do not attack them" Naruto said coolly.
Venelana faltered under the glare of her son. Obviously not trusting the three Holy presence's, but also not willing to test his tentative line of trust mere moments after gaining it.
"O-Of course…I just worry is all"
He walked over and placed a hand on her shoulder.
"You really shouldn't. If I can lead my own Clan, I'd like to think I'd be smart enough to choose my guests properly"
"Wait. Your own Clan? But you're still apart of-"
"Nope!~ Look up the Uzumaki Clan when you get the chance. Good evening~" And Venelana suddenly fell through a portal with a startled yelp.
Naruto walked back to his desk and sat down while the portal rapidly fizzled into nothingness. He massaged his temples and leant back in his comfy seat.
"Why tell Venelana about the Uzumaki Clan?" Kuroka asked while jumping onto the top of his chair.
"I want to see her reaction. Whether or not she'll try to force me to rejoin the Gremory Clan" He said while staring at the window.
Before his eyes it seemed to glitch out and roll into itself, soon turning into a second screensaver. Waving his hand he opened a document he had worked on the night before.
"That truly is a marvelous trick. And considering that it isn't magic it'd fool practically anybody" Kuroka praised him while still in her cat form.
"That was the plan~" He tapped a button on his desk "Olivia and co. please make your way up to my office. Natsumi will be happy to escort you" He then leant back and cracked one of his knuckles after it had been feeling stiff.
"Game time once again oh mighty leader?~" Kuroka jokingly purred, getting a laugh from Naruto. Both of them unaware of the brewing storm.
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The soft 'Click, Clack' of Sylvia's heels were deafening as she walked into the council room. The room itself was fairly large, styled in a circular college type layout with enough seats to comfortably fit 500 people. She saw roughly around 320 in the room and made a show of yawning as she walked down the steps towards the stage type area at the bottom of the room, grinning insanely as a few of her fellow General's waved her off or made rude gestures in return. She reached the bottom and shifted her eyes to take up roughly 60% of the surface area of her face to get a full view of the room. Once she had mostly memorized it, she returned her eyes to normal. It was not a moment too soon as the doors slammed open and a vile and powerful presence filled the room. Every General turned towards the door and froze as the figure calmly closed the doors and stalked down the steps.
Red metal plated armour clinked as the man walked down the steps, black eyes flitting around the room and scanning every Demon in there. Sylvia couldn't help the inhumanely wide smile that stretched her face at the sight of her idol. The man that she looked up to above all others.
"What the fuck…an Arch-General is joining the meeting?" A few General's whispered to each other.
Eventually the Arch-General sat down in a seat directly up the front of the room.
"The other Arch-Generals are interested in the supposed information you have. Don't disappoint me." He ordered Sylvia who nodded quickly, her inhumanely wide smile still on her face.
"Of course Sir!" She said excitedly before turning to the rest of the room.
In an instant and with practiced ease, Sylvia transformed her upper body into a large gaping maw with rows of spinning blades for teeth. Inhaling for the briefest moments, she screamed with enough force and at a high enough pitch that all of the wooden tables and chairs developed cracks and splintered slightly.
"Hashirama is going to be so annoyed when he hears about this~" The Arch-General grinned to himself.
Sylvia transformed back to normal and made sure everyone was paying attention.
"Sooooo~ I just get back from the Underworld. And hoo-boy do I have some information for you all!~" And so Sylvia explained everything she had learnt.
In the shadows created by his own spiky charcoal black hair, Madara Uchiha's smile gleamed with aggressive malice.
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AND DONE!
(1): The clan ability of the Belphegor Clan of Devils. An Extra Clan, meaning they aren't one of the 72 Pillars. It essentially allows them to create a tear on anything or anyone they want. If they aren't too much stronger than them that is.
I'm very sorry about the wait. But I had a LOT of trouble with this chap. And honestly, I wanted to make sure that things actually happened. (No matter how small scale they are).
Anyway I don't have much else to say.
Adios!