Disclaimer: First Chapter
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"Got em."
Kuroka smiled as she looked down from the sky, devil wings were quite good for night travel, and located several men that were heading towards the abandoned church. This was her kind of dirty work, taking down some rogue pricks, giving them a good beaten to get some information out of them. She hadn't been able to fly in awhile, and this was the first time that Naruto was putting his position as master to good use. She, an expert in poisoning people with her magic, was the perfect one for the job of getting information.
"So... it looks like a stray devil thinks that it can walk into our territory, and get away with it?"
"... Seriously, just one... and a Fallen Angel with only one pair of wings?" Kuroka glanced behind her, seeing a Fallen Angel man floating behind her with a spear of light. She was worth at least 5 pairs of wings, it would take at least a Fallen Angel that strong to give her a run for her money. One with only a single pair, now that was just child's play. "You are an adult, right... not a grown toddler?" Kuroka asked as she looked at him.
He had a grown man's body, but with the sheer lack of power he had, even the hidden power he was holding back... she was not impressed with him. His power was barely greater than a newborn Devil, basically, this boy was at the bottom of the Fallen Angel totem pole.
"I'm clearly more adult than one who flies wearing nothing under her clothes."
"You know, you're only talking to an illusion nya?" Kuroka pointed out, as her body vanished, and the real Kuroka appeared behind him, coming out of a cloud that she had been hiding it. She grabbed onto his wings, and sank her claws in them. "You know... a fall from this height would kill even me... think you can survive without your wings nya." Kuroka's seductive whisper was tinted by sheer bloodlust, which she couldn't hold back.
She was able to fly on her body, but she decided not to, instead she had her feet on his back as she pulled at his wings. She could rip his wings off at any moment, and judging by his shoulders freezing up.
"You're bluffing... you can't get information out of me dead." The man spoke forcefully calm.
Kuroka ripped his wings off, a bloody wet snapping sound could be heard as she ripped bone apart. His shout of pain was only matched by his scream of fear when Kuroka started to fly on her own, and left him to fall towards the ground. Kuroka shrugged her shoulders, watching as he hit the ground after a good amount of time. No doubt, if she could hear it, he would have gone splat thanks to the height.
"Nya." Kuroka stuck her eyelid down, tongue out, before she grinned and looked at the abandoned church. "... the fact you were flying around here, and those rogues went there too... that is all the information I need nya." Kuroka could figure out by the clues that the Fallen Angels were based at the church. She didn't need the information out of him about base location.
She just wanted to make him hurt, and she did, since Naruto's first assignment for her was to go and gather information.
She might as well report back to Naruto now.
-With Naruto-
"Why is everyone splitting up?" Koneko questioned Naruto, since they had been split into 2 groups. There was the group they had formed, which was Naruto, Koneko, and surprisingly Issei... and then there was the group of Rias, Akeno, and Yuuto who were watching the area around the shopping district. They were in the housing district, and finally, Serafall and Shizuku were with Asia, the target of the Fallen Angels.
"Why do I have to come along with you?" Issei gave Naruto a glare. "You're hogging all of the girls... leave some for us good guys." Issei complained to Naruto.
Naruto ignored him.
"Rias and Akeno will scare away potential targets, and Yuuto has one of those Gear things... and looks like he trained with it. I'm a human, you look like a little girl, and Issei is a wimp... by splitting up, we can act as bait." Naruto had a dark grin on his face. The group had split up for the sake of splitting up, and any targets in the shopping district would escape that area... and head right to where they were.
Rias' Group was being used to flush out the exorcists, while their group was going to be the place where they escaped to. Nobody would expect Koneko to be strong, and Issei was obviously weak with his visibly untrained body. They would assume that it was one strong looking human with two weak devils, which would appeal to those who only attacked those weaker than themselves.
Issei snorted.
"I have a Sacred Gear too... if anything, you're the weak link here... just wait until I master my power. I'll fight you and avenge Buchou's honor." Issei pointed at Naruto, before he shivered when Naruto sent him a glare. Ice cold blue eyes were pretty damn scary when they were used properly. "... Did I ever say sorry for punching you?" Issei put his hands together in apology.
Right, this guy was apparently really strong for a human, and he wasn't a normal human either.
Koneko glared at naruto.
"... I'm not a little girl, my body is just..." Koneko puffed her cheeks out and glared harder at him for that. "Not to mention, you split up the groups because you don't trust Yuuto or Akeno." Koneko reminded him of the biggest reason for why he chose the groups like he did. He didn't trust Yuuto or Akeno with his back, so he seperated them in a realistic way, to stay out of his way.
She wasn't bothered by it, and he wasn't trying to hide it either.
"Lot of moving trucks... hard to believe all of these houses were bought recently." Issei saw a lot of people were out late, moving their stuff into the homes. Heck, there were a ton of buff people moving into the houses. Strong looking men, athletic appearing women, many of them carrying their own stuff into their new homes.
Koneko looked at Naruto with dull eyes.
All of those people had red spirals on their bodies somewhere visible, so she wondered which gang they were apart of. Considering the "Clan Uzumaki" was Naruto's gang, and that tattoo was like a requirement for people to be in it at this point. People were moving to Kuoh, getting jobs and buying homes, like crazy now. Not to mention construction on a new gym in town had begun, so there wasn't a shadow of doubt that Naruto could be blamed for this boom in population growth.
Well, with all of the buff people, it wasn't likely people here were going to get attacked.
-At the Shopping District-
"Having a 24/7 mall is nice... but I doubt they would be here Rias." Akeno pointed out, though the mall was mostly empty, there were still a fair number of shoppers. "Though... that isn't to say that there aren't other annoyances." Akeno was a little sick of tired of the cat calls directed at her, everywhere they went. Yes, she was hot, and these men were various levels of drunk, but after 15 or so of them, she was a little more annoyed than flattered at this point.
Rias was just glancing around thoughtfully.
"Fallen Angels know memory magic... they can attack here without fear. Keep your eye out. Looks like that little lady is being harassed... Yuuto, do you mind?" Rias pointed to a small woman with a curly blue wig, and very baggy clothes, that was being harassed by some middle school punks. Their age and uniforms apparent, not to mention the fact that they chose a little old lady to pick on instead of somebody their own size.
"Now hand over your purse lady, or you'll be dealing with us... you know, we're like generals of the Clan Uzumaki... right under the big man himself."
"... Destroy them..." Rias changed her orders, she wasn't about to allow her friend's name to be dragged through the dirt. She wanted them taken down and humiliated for this, since as a friend of hers, Naruto might as well be an extension of her own pride. His name being dragged through the mud, was the same thing as her own name being dirtied.
"... Just scare them a little." Akeno whispered into Yuuto's ear.
They were just humans after all.
Both of the young men were sent flying seconds later, before the three of them could do anything. The little old lady, who they assumed was weak, had taken off her baggy jacket and showed a toned, fit body underneath it. She had grabbed both of them men, picked them up by their faces, and flung them a clear 12 feet away from herself. The woman took her wig off of her head, and showed that she had a red spiral on her skull, opened her eyes and cracked her knuckles.
"Now then sonny-boys... what gang did you say you were apart of now?" Little old badass granny spoke as she started to walk slowly towards the now scared boys. She picked up her cane off the ground, and started to pat it into her palm. "You might want to be careful about where you use the Clan Uzumaki name... it will get you beaten." She continued as she whacked them in the ankles as they scrambled to their feet.
Rias sent an approving look, she had forgotten that a couple hundred men and women had decided to move into Kuoh in order to become the guard of the town. This lady must have been one of the people who had been saved by Naruto, and trained their bodies to the human limit to be like him.
"Now then, I think they've been scared enough-" Yuuto tried to calm the women down, but she jumped up in the air and kicked him in the nose. He got knocked onto his butt with a slightly bleeding nose, taken by surprise. "... ow... that actually hurt." Yuuto rubbed the blood with his sleeve. The boys had already gotten to their feet and started to run.
The old lady was examining Yuuto.
"Blond hair... blue eyes... lean... but too lean... not much muscle on you sonny... good looks though... my granddaughter is looking for a guy who looks like Uzumaki-sama... put on some muscle... you'll make her a good boyfriend." The little lady dragged Yuuto to his feet, put her wig back on, and used her cane as a cane, while dragging Yuuto away from his friends.
He looked back at them in confusion, also, this woman had a powerful grip strength for somebody her age.
"It's like Naruto infected this city with his followers... it's kind of hot." Akeno admitted as she looked around. She noticed that more people had red spiral tattoos than just the lady.
Rias just looked at her.
"... Naruto doesn't like you..." Rias reminded Akeno, who just licked her lips.
"But I've always wanted to get a strong man to cheat on his lover with me." Akeno mentioned, and she just received a look from Rias. She thought about her statement, before she clicked her teeth. "... You're saying I can't seduce him?" Akeno took that as a challenge.
Rias just looked at her more intently.
"We both know you can't seduce him. When I took a bath with him, he didn't get hard once. Our body-type alone isn't enough to seduce a guy who seeks romantic attachment." Rias reminded her that Naruto was one of the rare men, who instead of seeking a lover for her body, sought her out for the chemistry he had with them. "Not to mention, you're not ruining my Naruneko ship." Rias was going to firmly push for her ship to happen.
If Naruto and Koneko became intimate, got married, then Naruto would practically be like her little brother.
"Help! She's taking me away!"
"I'll go help him." Akeno sighed, unable to fight the knowledge that Rias was right. Even if she wasn't right, she had just pretty much forbidden her from trying. "You know... I'm surprised you aren't going after him." Akeno pointed out as she left, and Rias shrugged her shoulders.
Even if she did develop feelings for Naruto, he didn't seem like he would return those feelings. She was perfectly fine with being good friends with him. She had hundreds of years to find love.
"I'm fine with being his friend... not all relationships between boys and girls has to be romantic after all..." Rias muttered to herself. She wasn't even lying to herself, she was happy with her current status. She just got out of an engagement, and she had her whole life to find romance. "... I wonder if I can take a bath with Naruto, and get his opinion on Gasper?" Rias wondered out loud with a small smile.
Seeing as the last time she bathed naked with Naruto, she broke her engagement to Riser, maybe if she did it again she could find a way to help Gasper. She would love to have the seal on him broken, so that he could interacts with them all normally. Having her Bishop sealed away was a slight on her record as a King, and it wasn't good for her Bishop either.
*Grunt*
Rias heard a loud grunt behind her, and when she turned she froze for a brief second when she saw a massive man. A guy who stood close to 7 fee tall, with a body so thick that one of his biceps was about the width of her body from shoulder to shoulder. The heavily scarred man lifted up his shirt, and showed the red spiral on his ribs.
"Oh, you're part of the Clan Uzumaki... yes, I was talking about Naruto."
*Grunt!*
"Naruto-sama I mean." Rias didn't know how she had known that was what he found annoying, but considering his grunt sounded angry, she changed her tone. The man gained a small happy smile on his face, and pointed at her hair. "... Red... oh, this is my natural hair color... I'm not a member of the Clan Uzumaki... I'm a friend of Narutos from school." Rias realized that she was alone with this man, Akeno off rescuing Yuuto.
*Grunt?*
*Grunt!*
A second man carrying a large fish, with a similar body type to the first man, joined the man who had been grunting. He grunted at... who Rias assumed was his brother. The second man looked at Rias, before he showed off his red spiral tattoo on his palm. The first brother grunted and shook his head, with the second one nodding his head.
"I'm lost..." Rias whispered, with a small amused smile. These men were communicating using nothing but grunts and gestures. "Actually, both of you are Clan Uzumaki right? Right now, a rival gang has entered Kuoh. Naruto... Naruto-sama." Rias corrected herself when both men sent her angry grunts at her lack of respect.
Note to self, when around a Clan Uzumaki member, always refer to Naruto with the sama honorific.
*Grunt*
"You see, a gang is after a girl Naruto is protecting... but they are everywhere in the city. They are dressed like priests, but they're carrying guns and strange swords. We need help flushing them out." Rias explained, and she tried not to laugh when the second man grunted loudly and gestured into the clothes store in the mall. She covered her mouth when a third brother came out of the store.
He was just as muscular, but his hair was dyed blond with blue tips, and he had a deeper tan than his brothers. He wore a bright pink shirt, with an earring on his right ear. Finally, his tattoo was located on the inside of his right thigh... visible because of his tight shorts.
*Grunt~*
'Even his grunt sounds homosexual...' Rias uncovered her mouth when she had regained control over herself. The three men grunted at each other nonstop, before the third brother nodded his head to Rias and gave himself a hard fist to the heart. "Thank you?" Rias thanked the man, and all three shook their heads and grunted in perfect unison.
The wall of brothers walked away, leaving her confused.
Should she have mentioned that the exorcists were needed alive? Those men didn't look like they planned on capturing, but instead killing.
"Did I hear somebody mention Uzumaki-sama... you, beautiful girl... you seem to have a great body... but it seems that you're a little soft." Hands appeared on Rias' arms, and she jumped away when she saw a toned young woman had been the one to touch her body. The woman was looking her up and down, before she nodded. "Somebody has been skipping her work outs... you know, being thin isn't all there is to health. Don't worry, when girls work out, we don't usually become super muscular... but you could tone your body up." She mentioned as she flexed her body body.
Was this going somewhere.
'... Well, my muscles are all magically enhanced by my devil biology to be stronger than human muscles...' Rias just raised an eyebrow as she thought that. Her body was thin and attractive, not really muscular, but she wasn't just fat either. She did have muscle, it just wasn't really that visible. "You are?" Rias asked, and the woman helped up a sign.
"The Red Spiral gym is now opening a location in this very mall, for all those that want to reach the next level of fitness! The only requirement is a small monthly fee, and to swear your loyalty to our leader, the great Gang Crusher himself." The woman proposed as she showed a membership application... that had a picture of Naruto running, covered in sweat, without a shirt on... and Shizuku riding on his back.
They must have had one of their members take a picture of Naruto, to use for their advertisement.
"I got Yuuto!" Akeno called out as she came back onto the scene, with Yuuto behind her, looking relieved.
The woman went over to Yuuto and poked him.
"... Spiky blond hair, bright blue eyes... but your muscles are too lean... need to bulk up a little... maybe get a little more of a tan... and then you'll be just my type. Come on, lets get you signed up for a membership and turn you into boyfriend material!" The woman grabbed Yuuto and started to drag him towards the in-construction gym. The gym being constructed by members of the gym itself, a lot of buff men working with smiles on their faces.
Rias glanced at Akeno.
"... You know, I think they're trying to make him look like Naruto." Akeno pointed out, and Rias pointed at her. "Okay... I'm going to go and get him." Akeno sighed when she realized that she was being ordered to this this non-verbally.
Rias gave a satisfied nod.
-2 Hours Later-
"So, did you find anything?" Naruto asked Rias and her group. Asia went to bed early, so they were all able to talk about this without worrying about her hearing them. Serafall had gone to bed with her, purely for the sake of protecting her... and not because Naruto put sleeping pills in her drink. He wasn't out to kill like Serafall might do, he was just out to get all of them off of Asia's tail.
Yuuto shivered.
"I learned that your followers who can't date you, want to turn people who look like you into look-a-likes to date." Akeno raised her hand up gently, with a look at Yuuto.
"... I learned I'm too lean..." Yuuto looked at Naruto, and then himself, and saw that Naruto was lean... but still had a decent amount of bulk to his body. Combat muscle, lean but powerful looking. "I also learned that I might not be able to go shopping alone anymore, without getting kidnapped." Yuuto gave Naruto a good-natured glare for that.
Naruto ignored what Yuuto learned, since it had nothing to do with the task at hand.
"I learned your an asshole."
"Hyoudou, remember when you punched me for seeing Rias naked... you're not on my good side." Naruto pointed out to Issei, who just pouted at him, arms crossed.
Rias rolled her eyes.
"You know Issei, if you become a High-Class devil, you can create your own harem of women. You don't need to be jealous of Naruto." Rias mentioned to him, in the hopes that she could end this jealousy that Issei had. "Not to mention you'll have hundreds of years to build your harem." Rias added, and like that Issei was perfectly fine and dandy.
Naruto just raised an eyebrow.
"Back to the topic... we didn't find anything either. So unless Rias found something interesting, I say we call it a night, continue it tomorrow." Naruto mentioned with a twitching eyebrow. They were getting off topic because of Issei's perversions, a reason why Naruto didn't want the teen coming along with them. The guy had been a regular human, and had no gang or fighting experience, he just wasn't somebody Naruto trusted enough to even help with a fight.
Maybe when he became more experience or stronger, but as it was, Naruto didn't think Issei was ready for this.
"I'm gonna get a harem one day."
"I think we're done here." Naruto stood up and mostly ignored Issei. None of them were really that helpful in the end it would seem. Naruto watched as Kuroka in cat form come in through the window, look at him, and instantly he calmed down. The fact that she seemed to know something, made the entire night that he hadn't been able to find anything, worth it. '... She actually came through for me...' Naruto thought as he sat back down, Kuroka hopping into his lap.
Shizuku came and picked Kuroka up, before tossing her off of his lap, and onto the floor as she herself sat in his lap.
"Bad cat... this is my lap ya know..." Shizuku was then lifted up and put down herself.
"Thanks for the help everyone... feel free to get a snack before you go. I'm going to take a bath, and go to bed." Naruto got up and stretched out. He would love it when Kuroka gave him the information he needed, and he could grow from there. He was already going through a lot of work to make everything ready, for when he went on a war path.
Naruto picked up Kuroka, since apparently, the bath was the only place where he was going to be able to talk to her in private.
-Five Minutes Later-
"Don't go try and make any moves Kuroka..." Naruto pointed out as he sat behind Kuroka, washing her back naked. He wasn't about to let her turn this super sexual, like he knew she wanted to. He was fine with her blow jobs in his sleep, so long as she never went overboard like she did.
Kuroka just gave a seductive purr in response.
"... Found their base... that good enough to get your motor running nya?" Kuroka glanced back at Naruto, and then downstairs, hoping to get him turned on at the thought of violence. She pouted when she saw him still limp downstairs, but she took some happiness in him rubbing her back, her tails wrapping around his arm and squeezing it. "I was attacked by a Fallen Angel... but it looks like none of them are really powerful. Either of those princesses could take down all of these Fallen Angels alone nya." Kuroka admitted to knowing the strength of the enemy as well.
The most dangerous person, was perhaps the malicious aura that she felt inside of the church, coming from a human. She had sensed the enemies, and funny enough the strongest enemy there was indeed an insane feeling human.
"Really... how many?" Naruto asked her.
She stuck her butt out to him, and he rolled his eyes, before he started to rub her lower back, around her tail. She leaned forward in relaxation, just like she always did when he did this to her cat form.
"... about 7 or 8 in the church... you took out most of the exorcists yesterday, one strong exorcist... and 4... 3 Fallen Angels nya." Kuroka had killed one of them, so the number was lower currently than what she sensed out. She was good at getting information, it was what she was really great at. Naruto should have just come to her in the first place. "So... does this kitten get a reward nya?" Kuroka asked, before she transformed into a cat form with Naruto washing her fur with shampoo.
Kuroka's eyes twitched, pissed off when Rias came into the bath.
"Hey Naruto, do you mind if I talk with you about something?"
"I'm getting too used to naked women... sure..." Naruto spoke, and he rubbed the top of Kuroka's head to calm her down. She was pretty annoyed that Rias came into the bathroom. 'Thankfully, I'm already pretty calm...' Naruto had mentally prepared himself to fight against temptation when he planned on bathing with Kuroka.
Though, Rias was bigger.
'This cunt... her tits are bigger than mine...' Kuroka frowned in her cat form when she looked at how huge Rias' naked chest was, compared to even her own. She hissed at Rias for a second, but she was ignored by the red head as she just sat down in front of Naruto.
"... So why do you want to take a bath with me?" Naruto asked her, just to know.
He was sort of getting used to never bathing alone.
"My marriage arrangement was cancelled thanks to your advise. I would like to thank you for that." Rias mentioned as she got her back washed. She smiled and pushed her hair out of the way, looking back at him. "You know, you're not smart... but you've given me better advice than anyone else I've ever met." Rias both insulted and complimented him, at the same time.
That both pleased and pissed him off.
She was being honest though, which was exactly what he asked her to do, so he wasn't going to punish her for speaking her mind.
"Then... thanks I guess... now wash mine." Naruto poured cold water over her back, and she actually yelped in shock for it. The two of them switched places, and he leaned forward and allowed her to wash him in turn. "... So... why are you thanking me in the bath?" Naruto questioned that part of all of this.
Why the bath?
"We were in the bath when you gave me advice, and when we're naked... it's like there aren't any barriers keeping me from telling you my problems." Rias felt comfortable naked, she slept naked every night for that reason. She didn't have a lot of shame for her body, and this was just a place where everything was laid bare... like Naruto himself told her.
A place where honesty was easier.
"... Okay?"
"Also, can I get your advice on something else?" Rias looked at his body in the mirror, when he poured cold water over himself a couple of times. She glanced down, and she noticed it. 'I guess men do shrink in the cold... that isn't just a myth...' Rias nodded her head. That was pleasant for her to know, not like it was useful information.
She just knew it was a real thing now, not just something men said to cover for themselves.
"... Rias... are you going to take a bath with me, every time you have a problem?" Naruto asked her, turning to face her, looking her right in the eyes. Right in the eyes, because looking lower than that wasn't good right now. She just smiled, and then she nodded. "... What is your problem?" Naruto asked her with a sigh, closing his eyes.
"Well, I have a member of my peerage who is too powerful for his own good-"
"You two don't mind if I come in, do you?" Akeno asked as she came into the bathroom, and Naruto yelped and covered his junk when he saw who came in. He glared at her, and she just covered her mouth with her hands, and giggled.
His reaction to her was way different than to Rias.
"... Stay away from my ass..." Naruto hissed at her, and Kuroka hissed at her too.
Yes, she was still here... sitting on top of Naruto's head at the moment. Akeno just ignored the hissing, and sat down next to Naruto, lathering her hands up with soap.
"I'm a sadist, but I'm very kind to my allies... but... if you would like to aim your lust at me-" Akeno wrapped his bicep between her breasts, and was actually able to fully wrap them around his arm. Her breasts even larger than Rias' was, and said girl seemed to be getting a little annoyed.
Naruto stood up, poured the coldest water he could into a basin, and poured it over Akeno's head. She shivered, but made no yelp like normal.
"Akeno, I was talking about something important with him." Rias pointed out, since unlike Akeno, she actually was doing this for more than just a lustful reason. She wanted to talk with Naruto in the same place where he helped her get out of her marriage.
"Rias, I was trying to seduce him into having an affair with me." Akeno pointed out, since unlike Rias, she wanted to use this as a chance to layout the groundwork so that she could get Naruto to have an affair with her later on. It was a dream of hers to sleep with a taken man, she didn't even really like men, she just wanted to become the reason a man had an affair.
Rias stared down Akeno.
"It's about Gasper."
"... Okay, but I'll seduce you another day Naruto-kun." Akeno blew Naruto a kiss as she got up, and moved with an extra sway to her hips. She left the bathroom, turning her head and gently patting her butt. "... you're welcome to visit me in the bath any-"
"I will never visit you in the bath... I actually prefer to bathe alone..." Naruto mentioned with a dull tone.
He first bathed with Rias as a way to test her... he didn't do it to open the bathroom door to anyone who wanted to come in. Though, with Kuroka and Shizuku, he really should just get used to this. Having beautiful women joining him in the bath, naked... not to mention Serafall would join him whenever she was over.
"Gasper is a Dhampire with a very powerful Sacred Gear, he can freeze time on targets he looks at... but he has no control over it." Rias continued with the story she was telling him. She got into the tub, and she splashed the water a little to get Naruto to join her.
Naruto picked Kuroka up.
"Sorry, when this is all over, I'll make it up to you." Naruto whispered to her as he put her into the changing room, and went to join Rias. Like that, just like that, Kuroka was happy again when she realized that she could use this to her advantage. "So... what is the problem exactly?" Naruto got into the tub with Rias, and she gestured to her breasts.
"You can use me as a pillow if you want." Rias told him, and he sighed, before he turned around and allowed his head to rest on one of her breasts. "I don't have the power to control him, so he was sealed away in the old school building. I feel helpless, knowing he is sealed away, and I can't help him." Rias spoke with some sadness there.
Naruto thought about it.
"... I mean... what else is there about this Gasper guy?" Naruto couldn't help her, if he didn't know anything about the guy.
"He wants to be more manly... but he enjoys wearing girls clothes, is afraid of being around people, and likes being in dark cramped spaces." Rias explained more about his personality. Naruto thought about it, and Rias watched his face change as he turned visibly confused.
Girls clothes.
"... Does he looks good in them or something?"
"Oh, Gasper is cuter than almost any girl... he wants to be more manly... personality-wise." Rias explained better. Her Bishop didn't want to stop dressing like a girl, he just wanted to gain some more masculine personality traits. "He's got serious confidence issues too. He's a very troublesome child... you two are about the same age actually." Rias mentioned, since like Naruto, Gasper was also 15. Yet, despite being the same age and gender, they were way too different for many to consider them even slightly similar.
Naruto snorted.
"I mean... does he have any goals... if he wants to be more manly, he needs to chase a goal. Having a dream will make him want to get himself under control. I mean, look at me-" Naruto stood up and turned to face Rias, with his thumb pointing at his heart. He was proud, and standing firm in his stance that a man needed a goal. "I'm always chasing my dream, to become the souban of Japan. Protecting my friends, crushing gangs, expanding my territory... getting stronger, and standing by my code of honor is my way of striving for my goal." Naruto always thought about the next step for getting his goal.
Rias looked down, into the water, and thought over his words.
"A goal huh?" Rias spoke to herself, not seeing as Naruto realized he was presenting himself to her, and got back in the water with red cheeks. She noticed when he turned around and used her breast as a pillow, but she was still in thought. "Becoming more manly is his goal." Rias mentioned to Naruto.
He shook his head.
"He wants to be more manly... and I want a ramen for breakfast. Just wanting something isn't enough... you have to strive for it. You have to want it enough, that it motivates you to improve yourself. If he wants to be more manly, then he needs to strive to make himself better, to reach that goal." Naruto mentioned with a wide smile. He didn't have a problem with the cross-dressing, everyone had their own hobbies... and if Gasper looked as cute as Rias said, then it was fine.
He had a problem with people who gave up on their goals, without even trying to reach them.
"His confident issue?" Rias asked him, since his words seemed like a good idea.
"I mean, just compliment him without treating him like a kid. If he is really a man, on the inside, then the compliment will help him gain the confidence he needs to work towards his goal... even more so if it comes from somebody he respects." Naruto spoke, knowing that if somebody he respected said something nice about him, it would make him feel better.
Rias smiled.
"Yeah... yeah that makes sense... I've always just kind of let him do his own thing... and never really pushed him... I should be more active and push him to try harder." Rias could see the value in what Naruto was saying. Rias stood up, which caused Naruto to go fully under the water. She crossed her arms under her breasts as Naruto got his head out of the water, with her nodding her head approvingly. "I've always coddled him... but if he needs me to be supportive, but firm, then that is what I'll do. Thank you Naruto, I really enjoy these talks." Rias spoke as she rubbed the top of his head, and got out of the tub.
She wanted to go and talk with Gasper, tell him that she was going to be more into helping him form and reach a goal. The boy never worked towards a goal, before nobody ever pushed him. They were all too supportive of his fears, but never decided to get him to work to get rid of them.
"Glad to help..." Naruto muttered as he laid back down in the tub.
Finally, he had the tub to himself.
Two small hands made their way to his chest, and Naruto groaned when he realized that he could feel a tongue touching his neck and face. Opening an eye, he saw Shizuku was in the water, her tongue stretching out of it to play with him. Most of her body was under it though.
"You're my prey... that girl isn't going to steal you ya know."
"I will never consider Rias as anything more than a friend... she's just a friend that doesn't know the meaning of personal space." Naruto sent Shizuku a glare, since she seemed to not know the meaning of those words either. What part of the bath was no longer a sacred place for a person to be alone? "Also... you didn't use the pipes to get in here, did you?" Naruto asked her with narrowed eyes.
"I snuck in when the large breasted girl came in ya know."
"Good... well not good... at least the plumbing will survive." Naruto was glad that he wouldn't have to have anything replaced because she messed with the pipes. Shizuku was about to go under the water and down towards his private part, before he grabbed the back of her panties (she was still wearing them) and tossed Shizuku out of the tub. "I'm finishing this bath alone." Naruto's unspoken order was loud and clear, so Shizuku walked out of the bathroom without another word said.
-15 Minutes Later-
A good bath alone was what he needed, drinking a cool glass of milk after the bath was the perfect thing too. Shizuku was in bed now too, seeing as she was feeling tired enough to go to bed. That, or she was faking it and was going to sneak into his bed during the night.
"This is good... I'm just going to take a moment and unwind before bed." Naruto had turned off most of the lights, the house was quiet now. With a quiet house, he could think about having a moment to think about everything that had been happening to him.
Kuroka, cat form, jumped into the chair across from him, before she turned back into woman form.
"Pass me the milk will you?" Kuroka reached her hand out, and it was slid across the table into her hand. She drank directly from the jug, and Naruto snorted in amusement when he saw her magnificent mustache that formed. "Been awhile since we had any time alone nya." Kuroka licked her lips, clearing away her milk mustache.
Naruto looked at her.
"Not since you revealed you were lying to me for years." Naruto mentioned, and Kuroka sighed.
"... I did what I thought was best at the time. I'm a wanted criminal too, and being seen with you in my true form would have put you in too much danger. You were a little kid, and your life was in danger nya." Kuroka passed the milk back to him. Getting him to trust and appreciate her in her cat form had been part of the plan to get him used to her, but it had also been needed to protect him.
...
"What did you do?" Naruto asked her, and she opened her mouth. "The truth, I want the real truth." Naruto corrected himself, because she wasn't going to tell him the full truth.
She would just tell part of it.
"... I'm not a youkai who was born on Earth... I was born in the Underworld. My mother was the Nekoshou Fujimai, and I had a human father. My father was a very talented scientist... he used my sister Shirone for experiments... one day, an experiment went too far and killed both of them. So, with my baby sister I-"
"Experiments?" Naruto asked, interrupting her.
"My father was brilliant scientist, he used my sister and I in order to try and create Super Devils... Shirone has no memories of those times, she was too young. I never told her either." Kuroka didn't end even a single sentence in her usual tic. Naruto just listened to her tell her story, wanting to hear about where his guardian came from. Kuroka's face was actually full of sorrow as she spoke, her cat ears flattened to the top of her head.
She looked at him.
"So... you lost your parents when you were young too..." Naruto mentioned softly, and she nodded.
"My sister and I were taken in by a member of the Naberius family... and I became his Bishop. When I was with him, I became powerful... Senjutsu, Youjutsu, magical power... I was so skilled with it that I became drunk on the power and killed my old master." Kuroka looked away from Naruto as she said that. She couldn't look him in the eyes.
"... The truth?"
"... History repeated itself... My Master tried to use my sister to create a Super Devil. So, I killed him... but I became a Stray Devil because of it. I couldn't take my sister with me... but they tried to execute Shirone... my innocent sister... thankfully... Sirzechs Lucifer gave my sister to his sister, it saved her life. After that, I had to do a lot of criminal things to servive... I'm an SS-Class criminal... then Yasaka gave me a way out... you." Kuroka looked up at Naruto, and she rubbed the tears from her eyes. She looked at him, expecting him to judge her.
Naruto just grinned.
"Sounds like you're a pretty good sister... but who is Shirone, I thought Koneko is your sister?" Naruto asked with some uncertainty, she always called Koneko her sister.
Wait... Koneko was her sister... Koneko was a Nekoshou!?
He couldn't believe it took him this long to realize that.
"Rias Gremory changed her name to Koneko Toujou, since she refused to accept her Nekoshou heritage... even now she refuses to use the gifts she was born with. When I killed my old Master, everyone assumed I got drunk off Senjutsu's power. It's not what happened, but it's possible for it to happen." Kuroka admitted that it was possible for her to go berserk, which was what everyone thought she did. Since then, she had dyed her hands red with so much blood, she couldn't see the skin color of her own two hands.
Not that she cared, she had already killed so many.
"We've both had it rough then, to us unwanted orphans." Naruto raised the milk jug into the air, and drained part of it, before he passed it down to Kuroka. She nodded her head, and finished off the entire jug.
She smiled at him.
"People born in October don't seem to have great luck. We both lost our parents young, and we both decided to screw society... we follow our own rules, and do what we want... I really do..." Kuroka stopped what she was about to say, and just smiled at Naruto. There were no tears in her eyes anymore, she just smiled proudly. "You're a man that would fight the gods themselves, to protect the people you love... when you got shot, you just kept fighting... I just thought that Asia was lucky. You know... at first I really only wanted to use you for children." Kuroka admitted outright to him.
Naruto nodded.
He was aware of that.
"That isn't the case anymore?" He asked, a little glad he wouldn't have to put up with more seduction attempts.
"I got jealous of Shizuku, and I realized that I really cherished the peaceful days we spent together. I don't just want your children, I want to see you smile, and have a family with you. I love you Naruto Uzumaki." Kuroka spoke to him, no lust in her voice, no seductive tone. She spoke with nothing but the true feelings that were in her heart.
Naruto smiled at her.
"Then, I guess I better find a way for you to make up with your sister then." Naruto mentioned with a stretching grin.
Kuroka didn't even bat an eyelash.
"You see... you're a better person than I ever was. Despite the way people treat you, the discrimination you face for your looks... you are always helping people. You would fight impossible odds to help a person... there was no way my heart couldn't fall in love with you." Kuroka's body started to perk up, showing more happy emotions.
Naruto and Kuroka sat in silence, just enjoying each other's presence for the first time in a long time.
"... I'm going to admit, when you showed me your true form... I felt betrayed. The one constant in my life, the only thing that saved me from loneliness was a big lie... but I guess it didn't matter... I'm just happy to have you in my life." Naruto truthfully told her back. She smiled, and gained a little teasing smirk.
"Not ready to say 'I love you' yet are you nya?"
"There is the sassy cat I know... give me time, my life is changing... anyway... I think I've been developing feelings for a few people... and I want to sort my feelings out." Naruto spoke with red cheeks. Naruto put his head on the table, and enjoyed the coolness of it. "... everything is just so crazy right now. Everything is being thrust at me so quickly... I... I'm fine..." Naruto stood up and started to walk away.
Kuroka smiled and waved him bye.
"Goodnight Naruto."
"... You know, my bed is open if you want to sleep with me." Naruto told her, scratching his whiskered cheek awkwardly. The mood of the room between them was better than it had been in awhile, since she first revealed her real form. Kuroka got up and followed him, slipping out of her kimono as she did so, wordlessly. "... you know, the real Kuroka is a lot less slu-"
"No, I'm super slutty... that actually is a real part of my personality. Just because I'm perverted, doesn't mean I can't show genuine emotion nya." Kuroka wasn't going to allow her pervertness to be questions. Just because she was a multi-layered person with different emotions, and had the ability to get serious, didn't make her any less of a pervert. "Heck, now that I admitted I'm in love with you, I'm going to have trouble holding back. When mating season comes around, I'll have your baby in my belly." Kuroka didn't even waste a moment admitting that to him.
When the time came, she was going to be pregnant with his child... his strong genetics, combined with her own love for him would make the child even more precious to her.
"... Great... just great... you know, I really am going to help you and Koneko reunite... I'm sure she still loves you." Naruto told her as he got into his room with her, and went under the covers. She joined him, pressing her breasts into his back as she wrapped her body around him.
Kuroka just snuggled up to him, saying nothing.
'He's surrounding himself with so many people who depend on him... but right now, I feel close to him again... I can't be replaced in his heart. I don't see why I was so jealous, even if he sleeps with other women... I'm still special to him.' Kuroka didn't know why she had been so self-conscious about Shizuku and the others. Naruto wasn't the type that would replace his friends or precious people. She would never be forgotten by him.
-In Kyoto-
"It's not a myth!?"
"Correct... the Tamamo no Mae was indeed a true monster. She was a Nine Tails that had surpassed what it meant to be simply strong. She had abilities that made her nearly impossible to beat... it took the 12 Demon Slayer families and 80,000 warriors months to seal her... she was separated into three pieces." Yasaka calmly explained the truth to her daughter. She even placed her finger into the water, and started to show an illusion on the surface of the water between them.
It showed a small blond girl, her hair in 4 spiral curls, and bright blue eyes. She, even in a childish form, held an unearthly beauty about her. She was the definition of pose and grace, but even the illusion of her radiated with power. She had fanged canines, that showed as she ate from the corpse of an Ayakashi.
The next image, was of a large sealing stone.
Finally, the gates of hell were showed.
"... But... it's a myth..."
"She was the most powerful of the 3 Daiyoukai... unstoppable by nature... if she was killed, so long as her soul survived... she would reappear again and again. Unlike other youkai, she fed off negative emotions... she relished in them to an unparalleled degree." Yasaka swirled the water with her finger, and showed the image of the day that she was defeated.
She was in the form of a giant golden fox, with a silver collar surrounded by blue flames, standing across a gigantic army.
"... How... how..."
"The Demon Slayers separated her into Body, Malice, and Power... her body was reduced to that imperfect form... her malice was placed in the world's strongest sealing stone... and her power was sent to hell and closed behind it's gates..." Yasaka showed the three separate parts she was sealed in again. "Her malice was too great to completely seal though, as was her powers... so she was reduced to her imperfect form... which is sadly... still stronger than I am. Are you okay Kunou?" Yasaka asked with a curious look at the girl.
She seemed scared shitless.
At the moment, she wasn't a threat to the world. The Tamamo no Mae was powerful, not nowhere near the world-threat that she would have been if she could regain her true Perfect Form again. The only way to do that would be to get her original powers by from the gates of hell, which was impossible, since Naruto's family closed and locked those gates years and years ago.
"The boy... Naruto... he said he was the vessel for her power... he dreamed about her... the seal's been broken... she'll eat him and regain her power-"
"If it were so easy for her to get her power back, she could have gone to hell and gotten it back by eating it years ago. No, the seal can only be broken when the vessel makes the choice to give those powers to her. Hell would never give that power back... and I doubt Naruto would willingly give those powers back to her." Yasaka raised a hand to stop her daughter from freaking out. She had been there when the seal had been placed, though she had only been a very small child when it happened.
Based on what she had learned from Kuroka's reports, Naruto would never part with those powers to somebody who would use them for evil. Those powers were just as safe with Naruto, as they were in hell.
"... But... can't she just kill him?"
"If he is the vessel... then the powers fused to his soul. Those powers will follow him to the afterlife, be it Heaven or Hell... or... he might be doomed to the same fate as the Daiyoukai... a never-ending cycle of respawning. As long as Naruto and Tamamo no Mae don't become a single entity... the world is safer." Yasaka calmed her daughter down fully. If the Tamamo no Mae ever wanted her powers back, then her only bet would be to get Naruto on her side. To get him to either give her those powers back, or to get him to use those powers for the reason she wanted them used.
Nobody even knew why the Tamamo no Mae did so many evil deeds in the first place.
Kunou looked confused.
"... that means-"
"Yes, all of the Three Great Youaki, the Daiyoukai, were very real. One is currently dead, while the Tamamo no Mae and Shuten Douji have been reborn again. This is another reason why we do not rage war on the Demon Slayers... without Demon Slayers... all youkai will be eaten by the Tamamo no Mae one day." Yasaka spoke the harsh truth. They required their natural enemy in order to survive, because without the Demon Slayers they would all die at the mouth of the strongest fox girl.
Demon Slayers killed ayakashi, but the amounts of ayakashi killed paled in comparison to the loses they would experience otherwise. Only a few youkai were aware of the true nature of their treaty, that it wasn't just to protect them from Demon Slayers... but it was for the continued existence of youkai and ayakashi both.
The Ayakashi killed by Demon Slayers were just... a small price to pay in the end... because the lives of a few ayakashi who refused to follow the rules was nothing compared to the extinction of all youkai. Not just that, but the Tamamo no Mae would just continue to grow in strength until she started to eat the other species as well.
"... Should I stay guard with Kuroka, protect Naruto?" Kunou asked as she stood up straight.
Yasaka waved a hand.
"Kuroka is the perfect teacher, she didn't even know about Demon Slayers... she is the perfect person to teach Naruto. She'll help him grow strong... but not strong enough to be noticed by the Tamamo no Mae." Yasaka had selected Kuroka very carefully, because she was the perfect person for the job. Even if Kuroka didn't know that she was selected partially because of her ignorance to the truth.
Kuroka would be able to turn Naruto into a youkai-friendly Demon Slayer, keep him protected from ayakashi, and keep him from growing strong enough to be noticed by the biggest threat.
"... but... I thought we wanted him to grow strong?" Kunou had thought they wanted Naruto to become as strong as possible.
"... I'll be honest, I didn't know what the taint in Naruto's blood was. Now that I do know though, I'm glad I planned ahead. Though... I do feel some fear... the Tamamo no Mae manipulated entire countries into civil war. Her abilities of seduction are strong... and he is a teenage boy..." Yasaka pondered the odds that the legendary fox spirit could indeed seduce Naruto to her side. It was the only way for her to regain her true powers.
Kunou frowned a little.
"... Naruto is getting extra help... a Mizuchi is training him... and she seems very good at it. His body and powers are developing far ahead of when they should." Kunou admitted with a deep frown on her face. She looked at her mother, who had a face frozen in surprise.
The Mizuchi were suppose to be down to only a single loli, one that was obsessed with revenge against Demon Slayers.
She took a deep breath.
"Kunou... take every single youkai who is skilled in Senjutsu, and have them create a barrier around Kuoh. Make sure that Naruto can't be sensed by anything outside the barrier. If you have to, tell everyone I give permission to use every single Forbidden Seal we have in our records." Yasaka ordered in a split second. If Naruto was progressing faster than normal, then that was bad. That meant that he would grow strong enough to be sensed by the Tamamo no Mae, the worst case scenario.
Kunou nodded her head seriously, and bowed to her mother.
"I understand!" She turned and started to run towards the exit. She stopped at the front, and turned to look at her mother. "... Is it possible for him to use those powers... can't we make use of those powers to kill the Three Great Youkai permanently?" Kunou questioned, a stray thought that had appeared in her head.
If they could destroy the souls of the Three Great Youkai, then they could end the threat of them forever. No more need to fear, or pretend they didn't exist.
"No... Naruto is human, and thus, he'll go mad with power if he ever uses that cursed power." Yasaka instantly denied, but she wasn't sure about it either. The reason why the Tamamo no Mae was the sole exception to the rule that you don't eat other youkai for strength was simple.
When you ate a youkai and absorbed their power (the power absorption was important) you also devoured their negative emotions. Naruto would have to have inherited the Tamamo no Mae's seeming immunity to those evil desires... or was it learn to enjoy being surrounded by evil desires?
-In Naruto's Head-
"Yes... relish in the screams of agony... oh son of man, who carries my power... our power... these powers are ours now." The Power of the Tamamo no Mae whispered into the ear, as Naruto was once more surrounded by the negative emotions of all of the youkai that she had once consumed. The thousands upon thousands of pained screams were calming to him.
He didn't respond, he just listened to them.
"You're the Tamamo no Mae..."
"I am...we are... you were born as the perfect vessel. The tainted blood in your veins... out of all of those who carried my power... is the first to be fused with my power. You are me in human form... with your Demon Slayer powers, and my powers... you could easily become the Souban of all Japan... that's what we want... power... more power... be it political or otherwise... I conquered several nations." Tamamo no Mae spoke a dark, seductive voice... but it wasn't a voice that was wrong either.
Naruto, ever since he was young, had wanted to become the boss over all of Japan. Was his desire to become the big boss, all his own desire... or was it just the desires of the power inside of him?
"No... I don't need your power... I'm becoming stronger on my own." Naruto stated as he felt the need to resist.
If he gave in... he had the feeling that he was going to lose something important.
"... My powers are your powers... the offer is always open... sweet dreams."
Then, the dream ended.
Chapter End!
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