Enjoy this chapter, it is a ninety-nine-percent action oriented.
For the people complaining about Naruto's fear of Ophis, remember this: What makes someone brave is that they fear something, but are willing to spit in its face if confronted. They aren't afraid to face their fears, which is what makes someone brave. Naruto wasn't running from Ophis, he was making sure the battle occurred away from the school.
Harem Update:
Rias, Akeno, Koneko, Kuroka, Xenovia, Irina, Gabriel, (Serafall), (Grayfia), (Ophis). I'm holding a poll for the three of the characters in parentheses, only one of them can be in. They all have something that make them slightly incompatible, and I'm only comfortable forcing one of these in.
Once the poll is completed, the full harem is set in stone. So remember if you want something changed, put it in your review. This is not set in stone yet!
The Second God
She extended her hand as if trying to recruit him. She wanted him, and Naruto knew what she wanted him for. Someone had been gathering large amounts of devils, demons, witches, fallen, and etcetera. Naruto knew why she had come to him, she wanted him.
Naruto's face was calm. He made sure to keep it that way, showing fear would be the worst way to negotiate with the dragon. She was not a human; she had no morals, no emotions. She didn't have feelings; she was more like an animal. If he showed weakness, she'd pounce like the animal she was.
"You want me for what?" Naruto asked. When he was growing up, his brother had told him to always stay calm no matter what. Lucifer knew always what he was doing, and how to accomplish what he wanted. He remembered one time where his Father had confronted Lucifer about some matter not known to Naruto; he stayed calm and extracted information. Lucy once told Naruto information is more deadly than his Father could ever be, and to be a truly powerful man you must have information.
She stared at him with her unnerving spheres. He couldn't even classify them as eyes, they were false. They had no emotion in them, none at all. Every part of her body was a lie, she was a dragon in a costume – a poorly created one. "You will join me." She said, with authority.
"Join in doing what?" Naruto asked. She had no reaction, only one single blink.
"Help me kill Great Red." Like it was nothing, she plainly spoke those words. Great Red was a supremely powerful being, probably the most powerful being ever to exist. But he had done nothing to gain the ire of Naruto. The red dragon had never even touched humanity for as long as Naruto had ruled the heavens.
Naruto simply did not understand. "Why?" There was no need for so many influential people to gather for the murder of such a being. From what Naruto knew Great Red had done nothing to anyone. He was probably the most peaceful man to ever exist.
"He is annoying." Naruto couldn't help but flinch. That was no reason an entire army to gather, the entire situation was a joke – one Naruto couldn't help but laugh to.
"That is one of the dumbest reasons for war I've ever heard of." Naruto said, forgetting who he was speaking to. He immediately regretted what he said; he could feel her power beginning to swirl around her figure. She was preparing to attack.
She retracted her elegant hand, it was then when he noticed the snake slithering within her sleeve. "You are too much of a threat to remain neutral. Die," Her stoic tone struck a blow in his heart. He was scared again, but his face never changed.
"Nice one, genius." Naruto didn't know how exactly Kurama was able to use sarcasm in such a situation. He was always able to crack a joke, but Naruto never could laugh. Sometimes, it was easy to think Kurama could just simply see the future.
Naruto twirled Father in his hand, the sword was the strongest Holy Sword ever forged, if there was anything that could kill the Ouroborus, it was Father. He spun the blade so it pointed behind him, he wasn't known for his proficiency with a blade – but it had to do.
She opened her mouth wide, and for a portion of a second he saw a pale man with long black hair, green eyes and pointy smile. Snakes leaped out of her mouth in rivers, larger than dogs and quicker than wolves. Naruto felt his body reel back, he always had a weakness to the creepy, and the Infinity Dragon was indefinitely scary.
With the sound of thunder Naruto swung his blade in a long arc, webs of electricity dissolving the snakes all the way to Ophis' unmoving self. She never let it touch her; she was quicker than even electricity.
He jolted as a hiss came from his feet. The grass green snake leaped up to his neck and was quickly thrashed away as Naruto's wings came into action. As it fell, thousands upon thousands of similar snakes swallowed it, until they began swallowing each other. It was a disgusting sight of saliva and gulps. They grew and grew, until the final snake remained bigger than even a skyscraper.
Its tail was suddenly poised around his neck, constricting his breathing as it raised him above the snake's abyss of a mouth. As his body began becoming unresponsive, his grip on Father surrendered – it fell slowly into the depths of the snake's system.
Naruto then snapped his fingers, and the snake thrashed as Father destroyed him from the insides. The skin blackened and it writhed under the intense voltage. Naruto landed on the ground softly, watching as the snake slowly became nothing but a bed of ashes, Father lying upon it naturally. Thunder descended from the clouds and danced in the blade, it was the perfect avatar of pure energy.
The Ouroborus was behind him, he could tell. She had this irregular signature of pure power, she was his natural enemy. She was the being who represented Nothingness and Chaos, against he who represented Order and Nature. "Why do you continue to fight? I am Infinite." She said. She didn't understand feeling, she would never understand Naruto.
Naruto scoffed, his blade returning to his possession. "I'm not the type who watches as he gets fucked! I'm the type who does the fucking!" He turned to see her eyes. She was glaring at him, but she had no anger in her eyes. Naruto hated seeing that, it freaked him out.
"That was very inspiring."
"Shut it."
"So you want to fuck me?" She asked. Naruto hesitated, his mind suddenly out of place. Did she even know what she was saying; did she even know what sex was? He was frozen in complete confusion. His mouth didn't form proper words, he just stuttered.
"Uh, that's – uh, not what I meant." Naruto attempted to say. She didn't even blink at his words; she just stared at him like a mannequin in a window. Even Lucy had feelings, he would smile and frown and cry. Everyone was supposed to have feelings, so what was this standing before him?
He blinked, and then she was in front of him. She barely reached his waist, her costume was tiny. She stared up at him, and then he all he could see was blur. He was hit, and sent flying into a nearby forest until he eventually stopped at a particularly tough tree. His back ached in pain, his arms attempting to manually heal his broken back, he couldn't stop his groans of pain from coming out.
The trees bended to his will and reached their branches to sooth his back. It was only a second before Nature healed his broken bones. To think a simple hit would do this to him, the Ouroborus wasn't someone to take without extreme caution.
"You have two choices: Continue being trashed, or Sync. Choose," Kurama was plain and calm. He could feel the Ouroborus making her way towards him, she wasn't walking. She was running, and it was lighting fast. She was on him in seconds, her fist raised next to her cheek.
Naruto quickly used the trees to throw him out of the way. Her punch was a small meteor, causing a crater larger than a pool. She turned her head to watch him, and then she was running again.
Naruto breathed in, and out. He felt Nature hugging him to her sweet breast, and she changed him. His eyes were frog-like, and around it was a lake of orange. He slid into a liquid-like stance, continuing to breathe calmly.
Her fist came quicker than a bullet, but his face slanted enough for it to pass narrowly. His fist struck her gut and she twirled into the skies. She didn't have wings, but she stopped herself in the air. She looked shocked, her eyes wide as she clutched her stomach.
"That hurt." She said, slowly. Naruto growled as his fists danced with the lighting. She got the brunt of the strongest punch he could muster, and yet she still stood upright. She was truly on the level of a true God.
"Yeah? Well I got twenty times that ready to drop on your ass!" It was a bluff, a well-constructed one. The Ouroborus probably didn't know the limits of her opponent, either way she wouldn't care. Twenty times what he just did would at most leave her down for a couple seconds.
"I haven't seen you this worked up in a long time. I don't want you to die, Naruto. Sync with me and survive." Kurama said, continuing to insist in his beyond dangerous idea. If they synced, and it failed, he would become a rampaging force, no better than a mindless beast. Was the damage he would cause worth survival?
"I'll put you down if it fails. I can promise you this." Naruto sighed. Now he had no excuse, he would have to.
Naruto breathed and stood stock still. Black energies began encircling Naruto from the depths of the earth, swallowing him whole. It was a tornado of pure pain. It dug into his skin and replaced it at their will. When it finally died down, he was absorbed in a golden glow. Out from his back were nine metallic tails, his own design. They moved by themselves, they who were sentient.
His felt his twenty wings come from his back, and then another. Forty wings, golden in colour, emerged out of his body. They brightened the forests and were a sun in their own right. His felt them, he felt his new body. He felt like what he was meant to be, a God.
The Ouroborus remained in the air, and Naruto just eyed her. Her head tilted as she stared down at him, he felt amazing. She went at him with what Naruto could only assume as her full speed, but to him it was easily traceable. He took towards her with all forty wings, he was just as fast. Even the air was split by his speed.
"Shit…"
His blade made contact with her neck, and such an action caused the forest to illuminate. She went spiralling down to the forest clutching her jugular, but she wasn't the only one writhing. Naruto felt as his own golden suit began soaking black. It dug into his skin once more, but it didn't replace anything. It just tore into him, like an animal. Its teeth ripped through his flesh easily, such pain he couldn't handle.
Naruto felt a large explosion by his cheek, sending him spiralling to the earth. The blast was nothing compared to what he was feeling currently, it was killing him. He felt his conscience slowly losing grip. His tails flew everywhere, destroying trees by the dozens.
He stood up and growled. He tore at his eyeballs and his own teeth, the Ouroborus Dragon had already fled. He couldn't feel her presence anywhere. In his last moment of conscience, he felt Father stab into himself.
"You runt, you really are weak! You better be grateful to me… and to your beloved Fourth, who sealed me inside a twerp like you!"
That voice, it sounded so familiar. Naruto always wondered what that voice in his head looked like, but a giant nine-tailed fox was never what he thought. He was glaring down at a small little boy, with blond hair and an orange jumpsuit.
Naruto couldn't help but see the resemblance between the two of them, they looked so similar. When Naruto was a kid, he loved orange, he would always ask if he could dye his hair that colour, but his Father would tell him how his blond hair is what they all shared, and if he rid himself of what made them family, what were they? Lucifer had blond hair, and so did Gabriel, and Michael. Father had blond hair, and it was said to rival the sun in how bright it was. Naruto left his hair blond, because of how much he loved his family. But when Lucifer had left, he died his hair silver to signify his denial of his blood. He betrayed them; he was no longer an Archangel.
As much as Naruto wanted to deny it, he loved Lucifer as much as he loved his father. They both died in that war and it tore him apart.
Naruto looked around his area. It was a sea of black, and he was drowning. Naruto wondered whether this was what happened when Gods died, was this the afterlife to the afterlife. Was he to replay dreams over and over, it didn't sound too bad actually.
"What's left for me?" Naruto wondered. Faces came to mind, Gabriel. Michael, Raphael. Even Sirzechs, Grayfia, – Azazel even, who used to be his best friend; he cared for them all. Michael looked up to him, Naruto was the eldest now – what would he do if his big brother died? Gabriel always would cry when he left, but he would always comfort her saying that he would return shortly. What if he never did?
"I… want to live."
"Hurry up, idiot! This kid is going to fucking kill you!"
He heard Kurama shout, and then he felt his body move into motion by itself. He was waking up.
Next chapter is Saturday/Sunday, so stick around for that. Hopefully all of you are enjoying the story, I am enjoying writing it. I have a lot of trips planned however, so there are going to be times where chapters might be delayed – so don't panic! I have an end and everything planned for this story, so there should be no way this story will be abandoned. There might be slight hiatuses, but this will be completed. I promise you this!
This chapter was written in English (Canadian)
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