Busy with exams, sidetracked by other things, but here's the third chapter. If you don't already know, I edited the second chapter.

Contrary to popular belief, the Underworld was not much different from Earth, bar the fact that the sky is purple and that there were no oceans, only large lakes. He'd always thought Lucifer didn't lose much when he fell from Heaven – if anything the rebellious devil had gained an entire circle of Hell to himself and his race. Naruto quite enjoyed spending time in the Underworld as his drinking buddy Zekram would always bring him to the latest bars and new hot spots. The occasional odd look would be sent their way while they paraded the entertainment quarter of Lilith, but no one dared voice their dissatisfaction towards a human in their territory as he was one of Zekram Bael's only friends. Not to mention most devils dismissed him as a threat since Naruto gave off no presence at all.

It had been days since they started their alcohol binge. Along the way, the new Satans had joined them in their partying, celebrating their promotion into ruling positions of their race. They signed up for the whole package – bar hopping, nightclubbing, karaoke, drinking games; nothing related to alcohol was left out. By the end of the week, Zekram was sent to the hospital for alcohol poisoning, Naruto and Ajuka had thrown-up a week's worth of food, Falbium had passed out – though no one could tell if alcohol had anything to do with it – and Sirzechs had been dragged home, a fuming Grayfia pinching him by the ear. Only Serafall, the smallest in stature of their group, had managed to stay on her feet miraculously.

"That was fun, Naru-tan! We should do that again some time." She had happily suggested. The men of their party shuddered remembering how much alcohol her tiny body could put away.

"Ugh, never again." Naruto groaned while covering his mouth to stop from vomiting more. Ajuka agreed.

"Hurk! I think I'm gonna hurl again." The green haired Satan ran to the nearest garbage bin before emptying the contents of his stomach.

"Zzzz…" Amidst the chaos, Falbium slept on, uncaring of the noise his friends were making. Naruto shook his head at the lazy Satan.

Legend has it only a flute from Lavender Town can wake the lazy Satan up.

It had taken two whole days, but the four Satans and Naruto were fully recovered from their week-long escapade and were ready for a serious discussion. If Falbium of all people were paying attention, the ensuing conversation was probably really important.

"Naruto, you are one of, if not the most powerful druid and sage alive. We need your wisdom on an issue which has recently come to our attention." Sirzechs began. "A large number of devils are reporting that their dreams are plagued by a beast of titanic portions which matches the description of an apocalyptic dragon from the Bible… Would you happen to know about this beast?"

Naruto tapped his chin in deep thought while the four leaders of the Underworld awaited his answer. "Nope, never heard of it."

It truly surprised him too, as he and Sasuke had never created anything to do with dreams since neither were knowledgeable on the subject. Sure he had lived a long time, but Naruto had spent most of that time goofing around like the knucklehead ninja he was. With the knowledge of something that he didn't create existing, Naruto's heart swelled with excitement.

"Do you guys know if only devils see it or do other races see the beast in their dreams too?" He asked.

"So far… only devils have seen it. The number of devils who have seen this beast which are redheads is also abnormally higher than devils with other hair colors." Ajuka read from his notes.

"Hehh? Have you seen it, Sirzechs?"

The crimson Satan looked white as a sheet. "Actually, it roared at me in my dream. I almost wet the bed. Grayfia had to comfort me for a while after I woke up." Naruto had to commend the man for always being able to tell embarrassing stories about himself without hesitation or shame.

"So what will you do, Naru-tan?" asked Serafall. She had yet to see the beast in her dreams.

"This is interesting. Really interesting!" Naruto exclaimed. "I want to meet it."

After some investigation and digging, Naruto found out that even humans, youkai, fallen, and even angels who don't usually need sleep were encountering the red dragon in their dreams. He surmised that since he was highly in-tune with his subconscious mind and could enter his mindscape, he did not really dream when he slept. He turned to his tenants for suggestions.

"Kurama, is there any way for me to dream?"

"To be honest with you, I don't think there is." Kurama replied. Before his host's hopes were dashed, he continued, "However, that doesn't mean you can't enter someone else's dream. Remember the Yamanaka clan and their interrogators?"

"Right, Inoichi and Ibiki had a jutsu which allowed them to enter their targets' subconscious. Saiko Denshin (Psycho Mind Transmission) if I remember correctly. I'll have to look through my old scrolls to see if I copied it from when I was still Hokage."

Thankfully, Naruto had never broken out of his habit of spamming Shadow Clones to get boring stuff done – like copying down jutsu from the village vault as a precaution should anything happen to the scrolls inside. All that was left was a willing volunteer.

"Sirzechs-sama… what is this deviant doing in our bedroom?" Grayfia asked her husband in a flat voice.

Naruto recoiled and winced at her words, her monotone somehow making the words sound much harsher than she intended.

"That's rough, Grayfia-neesan. It's not my first time staying at your palace anyways," Naruto retorted.

"But it is the first time you will be staying in our bedroom."

"…Point taken."

The crimson Satan chuckled at the dynamic between his wife and his long-time friend. Naruto was a easy going, fun-loving free spirit who did not care much for decorum, manners, authority and etiquette. Naturally, this irked the ever-vigilant maid of the Gremory family, who believed that proper behaviour should be displayed no matter the environment one finds themselves in, took it upon herself to discipline the ancient yet juvenile druid. Naruto, in good nature and firmly believing he could handle whatever Grayfia threw at him, agreed to her demands. That was the last time he would ever agree to letting Grayfia torture him with lessons on table manners and proper greeting customs. She had even forced him to break his habit of inhaling ramen from a bowl within seconds. By the end of the week, Naruto had developed a healthy dose of fear towards the Queen of Lucifer's peerage. Hell hath no fury like a maid witnessing idiotic behaviour, specially if that maid was one of the strongest women in Hell.

"Naruto wants to try make contact with the dragon of dreams, and I'm allowing him to do so with me as the conduit as I sleep. But I'm not letting him do this for free, of course. He owes me a favor I can cash in anytime," Sirzechs explained, winking at the end of his sentence.

Grayfia gave her husband a long, hard stare, her silver eyes exemplifying her no-nonsense personality. Her eyes narrowed.

"Very well, then, I shall retire to my room in the maid quarters tonight," She turned, but stopped midway, a dangerous look aimed at her husband, "Please do not waste a favor from Naruto-dono on something stupid, Sirzechs-sama."

With that said, Grayfia left the two men alone. Naruto looked to his side to see Sirzechs sweating a bit. Naruto had to hand it to Grayfia; that woman could read her husband better than a Sharingan could.

"What were you going to ask as my favor?"

"I was going to ask if you could help me with planning my next prank on Ajuka."

Naruto's eyes shined with a mischievous gleam.

"What? That's it? Save the favor, you know the prankster sage would never pass up an opportunity to mess with that guy."

Sirzechs snickered knowingly.

"You're still sore that he beat you at Shogi aren't you."

"He did not beat me! I was going easy on him! I've been playing Shogi since before you two were alive, there's no way he's better than me at the game!"

Naruto sat on an ornate chair by Sirzechs' bed while the devil himself laid on the silken sheets. He eyed the druid with a hint of worry in his turquoise eyes.

"Look, I trust you Naruto. But try not to fry my brain, yeah?" It would be terrible for the Underworld if their newly elected Lucifer was put out of commission so soon after his ascension. Not in the sense that they lost a powerful super devil capable of fighting pantheon gods head on, but the embarrassment it would bring to the devil race as a whole that their Lucifer was rendered a vegetable by a human. An immortal, powerful – if not the most powerful – human, yes, but even after millennia of witnessing humans adapt and grow, the supernatural world still underestimated them.

The sage understood his friend's worry. It was a delicate jutsu, made especially difficult by his large reserves. Naruto likened it to pouring water into a narrow bottle without using a funnel, taking extra care not to spill any water down the side of the bottle. In his case, he was trying to fill a test tube with a tsunami. He had to limit his own chakra output, which would've been impossible for the old him. Thankfully, tens of thousands of years of training, developing and experimenting with his chakra had honed his control to perfection, and he was confident that Sirzechs would come out unharmed from this predicament.

"Don't worry," He reassured the devil. "You'll be fine, I promise."

The hesitance is Sirzechs' eyes visibly eased, hearing his friend say the P-word. If Naruto promised, then he was going to come out alright.

"Not like your mind was normal to begin with."

A vein on Sirzechs' head bulged.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean?"

Naruto's mouth twisted into a wicked grin.

"Oh, I know all about your secret fetishes and fantasies," the Satan paled. "Never would have guessed you had a thing for little sisters! I hope Zeoticus and Venelana don't get pregnant with a baby girl in the near future so you at least have time to grow out of this phase."

"HEY!" Sirzechs shouted indignantly. "It is NOT a phase!"

The Lucifer slammed his palm across his lips, not meaning to let that slip, but the knowing smirk and condescending look on Naruto's face sealed his fate. He groaned.

"…Don't let Grayfia know."

"I'm afraid it's too late. How do you think I found out?"

The devil froze. He was staring into blank space, eyes unmoving. His mind had shutdown and broke.

"Shit. That was just a joke. Now I'm gonna have to repair his mind with Saiko Denshin as well. Oh well, worth it."

Naruto took a deep breath, focusing intently on the internal environment of his body. Molding his chakra into Inton, he willed the chakra to travel to his right hand, forming a shell around it. With one last look at the unconscious Satan, Naruto placed his palm on the devil's forehead and dove into the mind of Sirzechs Lucifer.

Naruto had been wandering the mindscape of Sirzechs for what felt like hours, though he couldn't really tell how much time has elapsed since time passes differently in the subconscious mind. The crimson Satan's subconscious took the form of a wasteland. He trudged through what was mainly in the Satan's damaged mind: trauma. Having fought in the Great War which ended in a fickle armistice, then fighting a war against his own kin to maintain the fragile peace between the three Biblical factions, Sirzechs carried the emotional baggage one would expect from a war veteran. As a Super Devil, his capability to wipe out entire battalions was often put to use when the descendants of the four original Maou were still in power, thus most of his trauma was associated with guilt and remorse for all the lives he had taken. Still, he was the heir of the Gremory family, until he was elected Lucifer after the civil war. Both roles implored that he maintained an aura of strength and authority. It was stressful to always keep up that front, so in an attempt to mitigate his own distress, Sirzechs adopted a goofy persona which his friends did not think would help. Much to their surprise, Sirzechs' mental health slowly improved as he recovered from the post-war trauma, but it still took someone as strong as him centuries to do so. He had not gotten over his feelings, but rather had come to terms with them, and accepted that they were a part of him as much as his laidback nature now was. Ajuka on the other hand had instead compartmentalized his guilt; his serious and hardworking personality made it much easier for him to rationalize his actions and cope with them.

Naruto had not actively participated in the Great War apart from slaying the four original Maou and sealing Trihexa as God, but he had witnessed the conflict and felt the suffering of his creations through his negative empathy (AN: Negative emotion sensing is a mouthful. Negative empathy essentially means the same thing anyways) and connection with nature through senjutsu. He understood them to an extent.

The Underworld Civil War, however, was an entirely different ballgame. It was not really a civil war. There were no skirmishes, no strategic planning, no tactical advances and retreats. No, what began as a political movement by those who were fed up with war slowly descended into a confrontation between the Old Satan faction and the New Satan faction. The Old Satan faction, made up of pro-war houses of the remaining 72 Pillars, were always ready to fight, whilst the New Satan faction, tired of war, wanted to end the conflict in one fell swoop. What resulted was a slaughter as the Old Satan faction could not match the might of two super devils with only one of their own.

Naruto had not observed the Civil War, and this was his first time seeing things happen through Sirzechs' point of view.

"You're getting side tracked. We are here to find the red beast."

Naruto nodded to himself. Kurama was right. Besides, seeing the happenings of the Civil War would not change much in the grand scheme of things.

How wrong that would turn out to be.

Naruto continued on, searching for the section of Sirzechs' mind which was responsible for dreams. It didn't take long – or maybe it did – for him to stumble upon a heavy mist in the wasteland which seemed to radiate an unknown source of power. The closer Naruto got, the more that power source began to resemble that of one he was familiar with – dragons.

The mist surrounded him now, obscuring his view of the environment, but the silhouette of a dragon trudging through the wasteland was unmistakable. Naruto's heartbeat started to quicken in anticipation of what was to come. A dragon that he had not created, what would he be like? How strong would it be?

"I think we're going to have a great fight coming up, Kurama!" He mentally yelled with excitement.

The fox shared his sentiment.

"I hope so, Naruto, but if he's like the elder dragons we might need to be careful" the bijuu replied to his partner.

Naruto was having none of it, however, and took off bounding, unable to contain his childish excitement any longer. He crouched low, palms on the ground, before pushing off with all four limbs, leaping through the mist.

And crashing straight into the dragon's nostril.

"Yowwwwch! Watch where you're going, dude, or I'll give you a piece of my mind!" A booming voice resounded in the wasteland. The dragon sneezed, ejecting Naruto from his snout and onto the ground of the wasteland.

The sneeze was so loud it dispersed the surrounding mist, blown away by the breath of the colossal beast. It was just as the Satans had described, a massive red dragon bigger than even Ddraig. It wasn't the biggest dragon Naruto had seen, but it was a dragon Naruto didn't create, and that was impressive.

"I'm covered in dragon snot, yuck. Come to think of it, I wonder how Ddraig is doing ever since being sealed in the Boosted Gear?" He reminisced the time he and Sasuke had created the Sacred Gears.

Naruto stood, brushing and shaking the mucus off him. He peered up at the gigantic beast. It was at least one hundred metres in length and wingspan and had a wickedly sharp horn on its snout. Naruto shuddered, thinking that he was almost skewered alive by that thing. It wouldn't kill him, but it would have hurt like a bitch. Its scales were a deep dark red the shade of blood while the dragon's underbelly was mostly beige. It peered right back at Naruto, a defiant look in its yellow reptilian eyes.

"What are you staring at, huh?" The dragon asked rudely.

Naruto scratched his head.

"Well, you. There's nothing else around here worth staring at."

"Quit staring at me! It's annoying," was the response he earned.

Uncaring of the dragon's complaints, Naruto shrugged. He came to see the dragon, he wasn't just going to turn and leave because the beast demanded it.

"I came to meet you. My name is Naruto. Do you have a name?"

The dragon took a deep breath, his chest swelling. He stood on his hind legs, raised both his arms, before curling his forearms towards his head, flexing his biceps at the puny human.

"I am the dragon of dreams, and the dragon of dragons! I am the mighty great red dragon, Great Red!" It bellowed its introduction at Naruto. "Tremble before my might, puny human!"

Naruto clapped, applauding the dragon. He could appreciate a dramatic introduction every now and then, and actually did it himself sometimes.

"So… Your name is Great Red? And you say you're the dragon of dreams?" He asked for clarity.

The now named Great Red nodded. He would humor the human's questions as he clearly worshiped the Great Red if his applause was anything to go by.

"I exist in the dreams of all creatures, and the dreams of all fuels my power. I am invincible!" The dragon flexed again, this time posing on his side and forcing his triceps to swell.

"Ah, I get it now." Naruto thought to himself.

Great Red existed because of the dreams of everyone. The dragon meant it not just in the sense of the images the mind conjures while one sleeps, but also the dreams and aspirations of all creatures. That was why Naruto did not dream, because he doesn't have any aspirations. He'd already achieved his goal of becoming Hokage of Konoha and bringing peace to the shinobi world. In this world, he was just messing around and having fun procrastinating aimlessly. He ultimately needed to bring peace to his world, too, but he was immortal, and he had all the time in the world to bring peace. It wasn't an aspiration as it was something he knew he would accomplish one day.

Dreams and aspirations were powerful driving forces, enough that they were extensions of people's willpower.

"A spiritual energy, Just like yin chakra."Kurama realized.

Great Red was born from the spiritual energy released by humans, devils, angels, and even pantheon gods over thousands of years, as almost all of creation had dreams and aspirations of their own. It was also the reason why Great Red currently only existed within dreams.

"He might just be as invincible as he says he is." Contemplated Naruto. He didn't get much longer to ponder his thoughts however, as he had to blur away from where he was standing to dodge an unexpectedly fast claw.

"Oh! You're fast, and I can sense that you're strong!" The dragon was pleased. He liked to fight strong opponents, which was why he liked to appear in the dreams of strong people. He also liked the color red, which was why he liked to appear in the dreams of redheads. Great Red was a simple dragon.

"You can sense me?" Naruto was genuinely surprised.

Great Red grinned while nodding at him.

"You aren't connected to nature when you dive into someone else's mind. If you had done this while Sirzechs was awake, he would be able to sense your power as well." Kurama informed him.

"Well, let's give him a fight he'd remember, partner. Since I'm not limited by senjutsu in here, we can go wild. Wake up the rest of the crew."

Kurama grinned in anticipation, rallying his bijuu siblings, and all readied to synchronize their chakra with Naruto's. Great Red gathered his breath, before unleashing a monstrous roar, sending a wall of force careening in his opponent's direction.

Before the shock wave struck Naruto, his form lit up brightly, engulfed in golden flames. The pupils in his eyes morphed into a cross, and nine pitch black orbs swirled into existence behind him. Gathering all of his Gudodama (Truthseekers/Truthseeking Orbs), he flattened the one remaining large orb to shield himself from Great Red's attack.

Glancing behind him when the onslaught of forced had passed, he grinned in excitement as he found that the ground that wasn't directly behind him had been crushed by the force, and that was just Great Red roaring. The Truthseeker returned to its original orb shape, before Naruto held it above his palm, readying his counterattack.

"Rasenshuriken and their variants are out of the question since they're overkill, but we can still give him a taste of our might with a regular Bijuudama. Let's let him have it guys."

The tailed beasts aided Naruto, the head of Kurama's chakra avatar emerging from the ground, enveloping their host. The fox avatar opened its maw, infusing the Truthseeking Orb with positive and negative chakra.

"The ratio is 8:2." Came the voice of Gyuki.

"I got it."

Not wanting to be outdone by Naruto, Great Red gathered and condensed magic in his throat. With their respective attacks primed and ready to fire, the two combatants let loose tremendous battle cries and unleashed their power. The fox head roared, sending out a wave of yellow chakra surging at Great Red, while the dragon howled and launched a bright crimson beam in retaliation.

The two attacks met, before Sirzechs' dream was engulfed in blinding white light.

Panting from exhaustion, Naruto, his back firmly stuck to the ground, looked to his side, where Great Red lied on his front unmoving. The two were spent after their fight. It had gone on for a good while after the their techniques collided. Mustering what little strength he had left, Great Red turned to stare at Naruto, groaning as he shifted his neck. The two maintained eye contact, mutual respect visible in their gaze.

"Man, you really are strong. I haven't been pushed to the brink like that in literal ages!" Naruto told the dragon in between breaths. "Feels good to let loose every now and then."

Great Red grunted in return.

"You're strong too. Stronger than the other creatures I've fought while in their dreams, including the one whose dream we're in right now."

Naruto chuckled, knowing that while Sirzechs could give him a run for his money, the dragon spoke the truth.

"Say, once we've recovered, I think I could help give you a physical body. What do you think?" He asked his new friend.

"I've tried it myself, and I am a dragon who can turn dreams into reality," Great Red snorted. "If you manage to do it and I can't I will gladly call you Boss for the rest of eternity." He clearly didn't believe Naruto could achieve what he couldn't, since he was the Great Red.

Naruto snickered, knowing that Great Red would be calling him Boss by the end of the day. He had already devised a way to give the dream dragon a physical body. Once Naruto and Great Red recovered from the fight, the shinobi proceeded to pull out a brush and ink from the pockets of his trousers. When asked how those items fit in his pants, Naruto merely told the dragon it was a family secret.

Fuinjutsu was Naruto's substitute after Sasuke had sealed himself within the Longinus. Naruto could still use Banbutsu Sozo to create small objects and life, but he could not do so on the scale that the Six Paths Yang seal and Yin seal in combination could. However, Naruto could seal some yin chakra for storage, and over time, if needed, he could use the stored yin chakra to create something big, as if the Six Paths Yin seal was being used. It was how he created new Sacred Gears in secret, but more on that later.

Since Great Red was an existence based entirely on spiritual energy, Naruto didn't need to use any yin chakra to create a physical body for Great Red. What he needed fuinjutsu for in this case was to draw a massive Hiraishin shiki which would transport Great Red into the Dimensional Gap while infusing his form with physical energy simultaneously. And so, Naruto put brush to ground and began drawing the seal while Great Red watched with muted curiosity.

Dropping his brush, Naruto wiped some non-existent sweat off his forehead in a dramatic gesture.

"The preparations are done. All you need to do is step into the middle of this circle."

Not really one to think things through, Great Red stepped into the circle, uncaring if it was some elaborate trap by Naruto. Besides, he believed that his newly made friend would not do that. They fought and gained an understanding for each other through trading fists.

As the dragon stood in the middle of the justu shiki, Naruto bit his thumb and began weaving through a barrage of hand seals, ending on Tatsu (dragon), and slammed his right hand on the edge of the massive seal. The seal immediately began imbuing Great Red with physical energy drawn from Naruto's Yang seal, making the dragon's eyes widen as he could feel himself start to gain a physical body. The seal was acting so quick that when the dragon turned to Naruto, he didn't manage to say anything in response, but he had seen Naruto wink and heard the sage's words.

"Next time you see me you have to call me Boss, remember that!" Was the cheery words his Boss told him before the seal transported him out of the dreamscape and into the Dimensional Gap, leaving Naruto alone in Sirzechs' dream.

"Well then, I could use some ramen after that ordeal."

He couldn't shake the feeling that he'd forgotten something very important about sending Great Red to the Dimensional Gap, but if he forgot then it probably wasn't important anyway.

One minute, she was enjoying her silence in solitude. The next, it was shattered by a massive celebratory shout.

"WOOOOHOOOOO! FUCK YEAH, THE FEELING OF REAL WIND AS I FLY, HAHAHAHA! I LOVE YOU, BOSS!"

For the first time since she was born, Ophis started to develop emotions, and the first one she found herself feeling was irritation.

Lifting his hand from Sirzechs' head, Naruto peered out the window of his friend's bedroom. The sun was up, indicating that he'd been in Sirzech's dream the entire night. That was fine though, he had a lot of fun fighting the dragon. He was distracted from his thoughts when the devil finally stirred in his sleeping and started to wake.

Sitting up, Sirzechs let out a loud yawn while he stretched his arms and cracked his back, sighing in content afterwards. He looked around his room and found Naruto sitting on the same chair he'd been in last night. He couldn't remember when he fell asleep, only managing to recall that Naruto had said something so mortifying that he'd passed out from hearing it. He'd also had a really weird dream.

"Good morning. How's your head feeling? Sleep well?" The sage asked.

The Satan nodded slowly in response, trying to remember what the dream involved. For some reason, it was hazy and difficult to recall the details, but he was vaguely sure that he watched Naruto fight the red dragon to a stalemate.

"…Just how strong are you, Naruto?" He asked out of curiosity. He knew his friend was incredibly strong for a human, but he didn't know the extent of Naruto's strength. This earned him a raised brow from the druid sitting beside him.

"What brought that up?" Naruto asked in return.

Sirzechs rubbed his forehead, trying to ease the headache that had settled after trying to piece his dream together.

"I dreamed that you fought the red dragon of dreams. You were using some bizarre power… Did that actually happen?" Knowing that it very well could've since Naruto's aim was to access his dreams.

"No, of course not. I'm just a sage or a druid or whatever you want to call me. If I was strong enough to fight a dragon you would be able to sense my power. What nonsense are you spouting?" Naruto answered with his signature kind smile. On the surface he looked calm and (AN: ready, to drop bombs, but he keeps on forgetting what he wrote down!) collected. Internally he was sweating bullets that he might have blown his cover. If Sirzechs remembered seeing him create Great Red's physical body, he would be in trouble.

Much to his hidden pleasure, Sirzechs dropped the subject, saying that he trusted his friend's words. He laughed, and slapped the Maou over the head, just in case, to get rid of any lingering thoughts about the dream.

Unknowingly, something he said had tipped Sirzechs off. Despite what his wife and close friends thought, Maou Lucifer was not stupid. He trusted Naruto, which was why he dropped the subject. Despite claiming he did not fight a dragon toe to toe, Sirzechs still knew that Naruto was immensely strong, even by the standards of a druid. Even if he wasn't as strong as a dragon, he had seen the resourceful blond man easily fight off High class devils; Sirzechs should still be able to sense some of Naruto's power, but the sage gave off no presence at all.

As far as he knew, Naruto did not wield any Sacred Gears, but his knowledge on them was second to none bar perhaps the leader of the Grigori. He knew that Naruto was old, older than even him, which was a feat not many humans alive could claim. And he realized that despite being friends with the dapper blonde for centuries, he did not know where the enigmatic ninja originated from or what his past entailed.

Naruto was shrouded in mysteries.

But it did not matter.

He was a friend, and despite being human had never shown prejudice towards devils. He was kind, a bit lazy and procrastinated all the time, but someone you could count on when push comes to shove. He was great company and showed compassion to all, never letting race come between his bonds.

Sirzechs smiled.

Yes, it did not matter where he came from or who he was, because Naruto was as genuine as a person could get, and Sirzechs was one-hundred percent certain Naruto was a loving person who cherished all his friends and family.

He loved everyone, just like God.

The Satan giggled. He couldn't picture the lazy bastard who loved fooling around as God.

I want to clarify something very important to the plot and the direction I'm taking the story in.

Naruto isn't God because he is all-powerful. He isn't all-powerful. He is strong, definitely in the top 10 of the DxD universe, but being God doesn't automatically mean he is the top Dog. I understand that people attach different meanings and expectations to capital G God, but to me, and to this Naruto, being "THE" God doesn't mean being strong. He is was one half of God because he along with Sasuke created this world. Now he is God because Sasuke left him with this responsibility.

The Burden of God is to be the one who creates, protects, punishes, and forgives. Since Naruto cannot create on the same Godly scale without Sasuke, he carries the burden of protecting, punishing, and forgiving. He can destroy, too, but destruction is what Trihexa embodies.

Also: is a Naruto who managed to seal Trihexa away while fighting the four original Satans without Kurama and the bijuu really a nerfed Naruto?