Act 1 Part 2 - Rogue: Explore
Rule #2 if you can rest, rest. You never know when you'll need it.
Walking through the ocean wasn't fun, walking through it blindfolded didn't make it any more so.
His medical knowledge wasn't close to that of Tsunade or Sakura, but when he could just touch stuff and voila, it is healed, he could go on and manage without that expertise.
But that didn't make the process any less painful and fatiguing. Ripping out his eyes hurt, a lot, and attaching new eyes was just as uncomfortable, how the heck did Uchiha pluck them out as if they sunglasses, he didn't know, but he learned to respect their tolerance to the pain.
He tore out both of his eyes and replaced them with Obito's right and Sasuke's left eye. They seemed to work, but keeping them up and running was an unnecessary use of his chakra when he needed them to keep him above water and running, so he didn't quite have much time to test them out.
Nor did he try to either, those type of things could be complicated, sensitive, sure he could heal and mend stuff, but should he push his luck? He had felt like he shouldn't so after transplanting and replacing eyes, he blindfolded himself with a piece of cloth, entered sage mode and began running through the sea.
Sage mode also felt different, but that was to be expected, different universe, different energy. Through it he sensed the fish and creatures and used them to 'map' the surroundings and depth of the sea below, to sort of guide him.
It took him a while, maybe a day or two of running, but he 'found' land… not quite the land that he was expecting.
He underestimated his own speed, and the distance between one continent to another, combined with a few wrong turns, he ended up skipping New Guinea, ending up in the Ryukyu islands, just a 'bit' south of the southern part of Japan, Kagoshima.
Upon arriving, the first thing he did was find a place to rest and recover, to then start his search for anything abnormal. It was already hard to find something that you know what it is or what it looks like, even harder to find something that you don't know what it looks like.
But thankfully he had a few factors on his side, the first factor being Clones, why do something alone when you can make clones to help you do it.
The second factor, and equally important if not a little bit more than the first, is senjutsu. By connecting himself with the world's unique energy, he could get a better feel on the energy of people and surroundings.
Things that he wouldn't have noticed without, and maybe that's why Kaguya couldn't see as well for whatever reasons, or if she could then she didn't say. Things like an increase in energy around churches, some people having slightly more energy than others… and then there were the oddballs.
As he and his clones went through the cities, he noticed humanoid beings with different energy signature, that turned out to not be human at all. Strange little spirits lurking around, foxes in human disguise, but those weren't the oddballs yet. The oddballs were humans with different energy signatures deep inside their core.
It was very hard to notice. He had to pass very near them to detect the difference in the feel of their energy. Kind of reminded him of jinchuurikis.
Which served to Kaguya's defense that maybe she wasn't used to the new energies to distinguish them enough, or that possibly the energies didn't appear for her eyes. It was hard to tell which was worse, an energy that her eyes couldn't distinguish or that she was withholding things?
Right now it has been four days since he parted ways with Kaguya and two days since he arrived in Japanese territory. He'd 'seen' what he had to see on the Ryukyu islands and left to the North, to the main part of Japan, where he had higher chances of running into something 'interesting'.
His eyes were still 'blindfolded' but he knew that the name of the city is Kuoh. Because literal blindfolds were attracting too much attention, he swapped them for shades and simply kept his eyes closed.
He was walking around the city with his hands tucked in his pocket when he felt a new type of energy, a demonic type and holy type. The holy type was similar to what he felt around churches and temples but more concentrated.
He tracked the source and came to find two humanoids, now he couldn't see them to distinguish their features, but he could tell through deduction that they probably looked human. Their energies was also easier to detect, so he knew that Kaguya would undoubtedly have spotted them if she ran across them and maybe even he would without senjutsu.
Besides the two, there were more, with dark energy as well, following them, like half a dozen of them.
He followed them for a short while, noticing that they seemed to be on a 'date' they had lunch, went to the park and that was where he stopped following them. It was getting late and if he did continue to follow them, then the dark one's friends would have spotted should he kept going.
Which brings him to his current location, a cheap motel.
"My head hurts so much, no more senjutsu, no more clones…" Naruto dropped down on the bed. "Ah who am I kidding, tomorrow there will be more again."
He rolled around the bed and sat himself upwards.
"Those things, I'm sure that if they exist, then that dark energy source was a devil, it didn't feel human unlike that holy energy." He sighed and took off his shades.
"More important than those two, what were the hidden ones doing? They were clearly trying to conceal themselves from them." Naruto heard from besides him, his alter was back it seemed.
"I don't know, I need to keep observing them, maybe I should talk to them."
"We can't talk to them yet, that's too early and are you ready to fight them and the others watching them? We probably could, but let's play this smart just in case and observe, we're only here to find clues, not dive head on." Naruto heard its footsteps around the room but couldn't feel any vibrations from the ground.
"Yea I guess you're right, err… or I'm right… This is confusing." Naruto chuckled a bit, he was talking to himself he was becoming insane.
"There is no right or wrong between our arguments, we are a part of you we are only helping you come to the best decisions." It said and stopped in front of Naruto. "Also we're heading to the fifth day since the transplant, you should start using them to get used with the chakra drain and effects of them. So long as you don't push too much chakra through them, then there shouldn't be any problems."
"Yea, but tomorrow, I need to sleep now, so stop bothering me." Naruto rolled around the bed and the 'presence' of his 'other' disappeared.
-Next day-
Waking up refreshed and ready for more, the first thing that Naruto did was open his eyes.
At first it was weird, very weird. The world was brighter and much more focused, he glanced outside and saw a pigeon, it was slow, like watching something in slow motion.
He closed his eyes and gathered his concentration, when he opened them again everything wasn't back to normal, but it was close enough.
Thankfully neither of the eyes were taking much of his chakra, it was neglectful on the short term at least. He also should consider himself lucky for both eyes staying in their normal three tomoes stage, and not in their Rinnegan and Mangekyou form. Which was fine, he could figure out how to use their evolution later.
A surprise came when he entered Sage mode and saw himself in the mirror, he didn't have the usual frog colors, he didn't gain any features. But the world became even clearer, especially now that he was using his eyes as well.
Tracking down the source of the dark energy once more, he found out that it was female, and that he was right that they looked humanoid. She was a rather beautiful and well-endowed silver haired 'woman', he could tell that she was hiding something on her back, most probably wings of some sort.
Jackpot, she must be a devil in human disguise, but… Naruto thought as he saw her from afar then looked around for the ones following her. Huh, only one following where are the rest? I should make a clone to look for the one with holy energy.
When there was nobody looking, he discreetly made a clone which body-flickered away immediately.
Now… I observe… Naruto followed and watched the lady from afar.
After a while she met up with two more of her kind, and judging by their body posture around her, they were servants of sorts. They also weren't the ones that had been following her, so it made him wonder if the ones following her were even friendlies at all.
''Look, I know what you're thinking, you want to get information personally, I get it, I'm you, but are you sure?'' Other Naruto said, appearing besides the real him.
''Yea I'm sure, I can learn much more by getting close, plus she seems friendly.'' Naruto prepared to walk over to the supposed devil's location, but was stopped by his Other.
''O kay then, but if we're doing this, we're doing this the right way.'' Other Naruto pointed to the one stalking the woman and her friends and subordinates. ''That thing over there, the one observing them. We can probably sneak up on it and get the drop on him. Before we talk to her we should at least take him down and interrogate it, or even use that technique you thought of a few days back..''
''I'll question him, but I can't use that technique, it goes against everything I believe in!'' Naruto took a deep breath and shook his head, then vanished in a burst of speed.
The poor devil hardly saw what happened, one moment he was looking ahead, the next, nothing, he blacked out. Naruto appeared behind him and chopped him on the back of the neck with a chakra powered chop, instantly knocking him unconscious.
''Hey, it does work on them…'' Naruto chuckled to himself and then picked up the devil and vanished with him to a empty, ruined building. ''I'm glad that they fall down like normal people, would be in trouble if they didn't… I should name that attack, yea, I'm calling it the Uzumaki Chop!''
The devil was completely out cold, so he couldn't respond, and his Other wasn't around either, so he was met with silence.
''And now what…'' he nudged the knocked out devil with his shoe. ''Should probably wake him up… but before that.''
A clone of him appeared besides him and left to go watch the woman that he was observing before, best to not let her unchecked. And with that taken care of, he lifted the devil and leaned his back against the wall.
Smack!
Naruto smacked the devil across the face in an effort to wake him up, but nothing. The guy was completely out cold… speaking of cold, Naruto gained an idea. ''I know what will do the trick.''
He left for a few seconds and came back with a bucket filled with ice and water. Placed the bucket besides the devil, grabbed his head and shoved his head inside the bucket.
At first his body was limp, but after a few moments, he began to struggle to get his head off the bucket and accumulate energy.
Having anticipated it, Naruto pulled him out of the bucket and employed a technique that he had learned from the toads of Mount Myoboku.
Smack!
Naruto smacked the devil on the face, breaking his concentration and stopping the build-up of energy.
''Hey, moron, keep trying and I smack you dead.'' Naruto tried to speak in the language that he learned in Australia, still getting the hang of the dialect. Although what he said, probably wasn't what he intended to say.
Nevertheless, it worked and he stopped trying to build up magic.
''What, are you.'' Naruto pointed at the man and then crossed his arms. The 'man' looked to be in his mid thirties, wearing a trench-coat, black hair and brown eyes, not much out the ordinary.
''W-what are you talking about! I'm just a normal guy, I work in a bank, I have kids! Please don't kill me!'' The man begged and Naruto grabbed him by the neck, lifted him up and slammed him against the wall. He may have been of a different species, but, Naruto could still feel the lies from him.
''You know what you have to do… it is time to use that.'' Naruto heard in the depths of his mind, and the man began to struggle to get out of his grip.
''I don't want to, it is heresy, the sage would be so ashamed…'' Naruto said out loud, actually sounding sad about doing whatever it is, confusing the devil and scaring him.
Upon releasing the devil, it gasped for breath, "please man, I don't know what you're talking about, just let me go.''
"It's going to stick to this story, let's just get it over with."
Naruto grabbed him by the throat again. "Last chance."
The devil smirked.
''Do it.''
The hand holding the devil's neck glowed golden and behind his shades his eyes swirled. The man went stiff and his body became pale right after. Naruto pulled his hand back and along with it a dark substance.
He was dead.
Naruto's body trembled and his eyes opened and closed rapidly as millions of images flew through his mind in a second. The dark substance slipped through his hand as he lost his grip and faded away.
Ploft.
Naruto fell on his back, his mouth opening and closing, there were so many memories, so many images. The technique was a perversion of Ninshu and his own ability to connect with people, he connected with his target and ripped out their essence, a crude version of the human path from Nagato.
Connect and pull, he was great when it came to tugs of war. The problem was that it was untested. He knew about how it worked, he fiddled with the theory, but practice was a whole different story. By grabbing their essence and by connecting with them he went through their entire life, no filters. In this case, that was a lot of stuff, the devil was at least two centuries old.
His head was throbbing, it took all of his willpower to not faint on the spot, it was as if he left two hundred clones studying for an entire year and they suddenly popped. He endured it for thirty seconds, and fainted.
-unspecified amount of time later-
When Naruto woke up, his head was spinning, and he was starving but he was relatively fine. He certainly was better than the dead devil near him, who's half of his body had turned into dust.
"That didn't work out well…" Naruto heard as he regained his vision, the knock-back was such that even the eyes deactivated.
"That was on you, never listening to you again…" Naruto got up and looked around, the devil was still dead and from the lighting on the room, or lack of it, it was now night.
"But I'm you…so you realize the problem with that?" Other wrapped his arm around Naruto's shoulder, and the strange thing was that he felt him. "Sorry, but it was necessary, needed to reboot you and gain information in the process. I ejected the useless information we got from him and kept some snippets that could be useful. Close your eyes and focus, you can go through them too."
"This is just great, if Kaguya and secret cults weren't bad enough, now I got to worry about my own consciousness. A heads-up would have been real nice." Naruto rubbed his forehead and closed his eyes.
"Hey, if it is of any consolation, between you and these things, I'm a fan of you. You gotta take it easy from now on." Outer warned him and disappeared. Flashes and words flew through Naruto's mind. Hell, a passage, civil war, four Satan's, pillars… lots of important stuff, on another time. Right now there was something else really important going on, revolving around king piece and the devil that he was observing.
The guy was a grunt, lots of information, some useless, others invaluable for a newcomer like him, but still he was just a grunt.
"I wonder if Kaguya is having as hard of a time as I am."Naruto sighed and opened his eyes. "Probably not, ugh, there is no helping it, I have to talk with her. Whatever it was that he and his friends are going to do, I might have sped things up."
He felt like activating the eyes, but now that Outer was away, he had access to some of the stuff of the things that it knew, or he knew, and through it he knew that if he activated the sharingans again, then he wouldn't be able to deactivate them. It was confusing to Naruto, his mind was gaining a mind of it's own, and it seemed to be getting more active as time passed.
Staring at his hand, he opened and closed it, and a large spider crawled out from the back of it to his palm and then jumped down. He blinked and it disappeared from the floor.
What the fuck is going on with me… I probably shouldn't activate the sharingan now. Whatever, I can figure this out later. Naruto shook his head and left to find the devil from before, the clones that he had made earlier had dispersed when he fainted.
As he left, he felt that there were several bursts of holy and demonic energy coming from different parts of the city.
He created a shadow clone and had it go to where he felt the 'holy' energy surge, the original went to demonic surge, which was the farthest among the two.
Rooftop hopping in this modern world was tricky, unlike in Konoha, there could be large differences in size from one place to the next, skyscrapers and phone cord, minor annoyances.
Halfway to his objective, the clone that he had sent dispersed and he stopped.
-Clone memory-
The clone had arrived on a park with one large barrier of holy energy. Inside that barrier he found that man that he had observed in a date with the devil. He was in the middle of a fight with a group of people that also had holy energy, among them the leader seemed to be a middle-aged man with light brown hair, who wielded a large white sword with golden lines running along the blade, and a golden hilt.
They are from the same group. why are they fighting? Naruto squinted his eyes and cautiously approached. From their body language it seemed that they knew each other, and through senjutsu he could feel that they were all under turmoil. That hardly seems like a fair fight, time to make it even.
He gathered chakra in his hand to make a rasengan, but as he did the fight reached its apex. They had the man cornered and overwhelmed with their quick and consecutive attacks, he was fast and skilled but was outnumbered, and on the slip of his guard, the leader went through and swiped.
He dropped his sword, his body fell limp and his head slid off his shoulders.
Naruto's eyes widened and the rasengan dispersed as the man's body and head fell to the ground. They didn't seem to notice him outside the barrier, they prayed and lit his body on fire with some type of oil.
-memory end-
They had the same type of energy and yet the killed him… I couldn't help him… Naruto frowned and then shook his head. Maybe it isn't late to get to the others!
He pushed chakra through Obito's eye and the sharingan appeared, morphing directly into the Mangekyou, consequences be damned! He didn't make it that far by being over-cautious, if the Uchiha Sharingan was as powerful as they claimed it to be, then it shouldn't break.
''There will be consequences for our meddling, but we can think about that later… I'll help you with that eye.''
The energy burst led him to an abandoned factory with a barrier around it, this time the barrier was made of demonic energy. He went to touch the barrier, and his hand phased through it, feeling a tug in his eye. His inner self, for as much of a pain in the head that he was, was helping by working around Obito's sharingan.
Phasing through the barrier, he entered and found the silver-haired devil, along with her other two friends that he had seen her with before, surrounded by around twenty devils. Her two friends was a woman with dark skin, in what seemed to be a outfit of the human military, she carried a rifle and had a pair of daggers on her back, while the other was a young bald man, very tough looking.(1)
It all happened very fast, their enemies prepared magical circles and the bald man got in front of the other two protectively, while the woman with the rifle gathered magic through her weapon. On the split second of when the surrounding, enemy devils fired and the rifle woman prepared to squeeze the trigger, a smoke bomb erupted and clouded the warehouse.
A huge explosion occurred from the launched attacks, and when it faded away they three were gone.
Scene break
The three devils coughed and wheezed on the ground.
''Whew, that was a close one, hardly made it in time.'' Naruto said, patting away the dust from his clothes and bringing their attention to him. It was only after he said it out loud that he noticed that he had a much better handling of their language.
''What the… what happened, who are you!'' The silver haired devil asked, getting up, the rest getting into a combat stance.
''Calm down,contain yourselves, don't need to thank me all at once.'' Naruto hopped to a cube a bit elevated from the one where they stood and sat on the edge. Beneath his sunglasses his right eye receded to the three tomoes stage. ''Now if you mean what happened as in how you got into that mess, then that's what I'm trying to figure out. If you're asking about what happened in the fight, then I dragged you all here.''
''Masaomi! I need to go help him! Take me back!'' She glared at Naruto and he frowned.
''Masaomi is a guy with long black hair and holy energy, right?'' Naruto asked her and a feeling of foreboding came up, he really didn't want to be the one to give her the news. ''I'm… sorry.''
''No no no no no! He can't! How?!'' Her energy flared and Naruto's frown deepened, tears. ''I can bring him back! If i use my evil pieces on him, then I can reincarnate him! Take me to his body!''
Reincarnate him? Naruto became weary of them. ''I'm sorry for your loss, I can take you back to him, but… it won't be pretty... they were burning his corpse. I got no business in here, so I won't be sticking around."
He needed her for information, and he was willing to help, but he couldn't show too much interest. All he had to do was wait.
"Please take me back to him." Tears fell from her face, and her two friends came to her support.
"But mistress, are you sure, we are dead if we go back now." The woman with the weapon said, Naruto noticed that she and the bald man had some type of bond with the other woman,besides an emotional one, a magical bond.
"So what, you just want me to leave him?! I can bring him back, I have to…"
"Not if it means you die in the process! And if they really burned his body then there isn't anything we can do, I'm sorry Cle." The woman hugged 'Cle' and she cried into her chest.
Naruto stayed and watched as they had their moment. He took comfort in the fact that he had shades, they were good for masking emotions and eyes, which in his case were both equally important.
After a while 'Cle' stopped crying, for the most part, recomposed herself and went to Naruto. "I'm sorry for the inconvenience… mister. Could you take us to the Underworld, to my cousin's compound, he can help us."
"The underworld is currently out of my reach, I can drop you guys elsewhere on a different city, then I'm gone." Naruto hopped down the cube to the one where they stood on. It was strange how lying was becoming easier, the information that he got from the devil earlier wasn't helping him much now.
''Wait, you said you won't be around because you don't have business here. Who are you, are you some type of mercenary? I can pay, I have money, you just need to help us get to my cousin, Diehauser.'' 'Cle' pleaded' and Naruto stopped in front of her, maybe he could gain something from this.
''You can call me, Naruto. I'm on a tight schedule, but we can come to an agreement, but first let's go somewhere more comfortable.'' Naruto closed his eyes and turned away from her. This city is compromised, I could take them to base, but I don't know how they would react to Kaguya...
"Isn't Kaguya going to come looking for us when she's done? That could be any moment now, chances are high of them meeting her anyway." Outer Naruto appeared on top of the cube where Naruto previously stood.
Naruto was about to answer him out loud, before remembering that they would think he is crazy. Where do I take them then?
"We could take them to that café in Australia, where Kaguya likes to eat. If she senses up,at least she will show up in her human disguise" Outer Naruto winked and disappeared.
"I think I know a nice place, prepare yourselves."Obito's eye advanced to it's Mangekyou stage and began swirling, and as his eye swirled, he swirled out of existence.
"Gotta admit, that's a pretty cool technique." The bald man said, right before being pulled into a vortex and 'spat' on the floor of dark, alley.
The second trip was worst that the first. Turned out that being ejected from the Kamui dimension was more gut wrenching than being dragged to it.
It took them a few seconds to recover, but when they did, they saw Naruto on the street outside the alley. The alley was connected to a 24h coffee shop, Kaguya's favorite place on the world, and a pawn shop.
"Welcome to Australia." Naruto said and walked inside the coffee shop. The three hid whatever weapons they had in pocket dimensions, followed him inside, and joined him on a table on the far corner.
"I can't eat…" 'Cle' said and the rest agreed with her. "I'm Cleria Belial, this is my queen Mana and my rook John."
"Wish I had met you folks on a better occasion. We'll have the usual times two, dear. Oh and a chocolate milkshake." Naruto told a waitress that approached the table. ''How did you guys get into this mess.''
''Well… we were dating, me and Masaomi.'' She held back the tears. ''They must have found out, it is forbidden, he's an exorcist, I'm a devil… I was so foolish, it was all my fault!''
''It wasn't your fault, Cle. It was their fault, they killed him.'' Mana tried to comfort Cleria, who was attracting attention of the people around.
''We were lucky that you were around, Mr. Naruto. But not to be rude, what were you doing in Kuoh.'' John asked and Naruto raised an eyebrow. To tell the truth, or not tell the truth, that is the question.
''You want me to be honest?'' Naruto asked and Cleria recomposed herself to nod, the three paying extra attention. ''Truth is that I was in Kuoh by coincidence, was just traveling… I stayed in Kuoh because I thought something was wrong when I noticed you devils being followed. I had no clue on what was going on or if I should intervene, so I followed the guys that were following you, and observed. I was busy when they made their move, and when I came to help your boyfriend, it was already too late, sorry.''
He seemed to genuinely be sad about not being able to help. ''You weren't too late to help us.''
"Yeah… anyways, let's focus here.'' Naruto took a deep breath. ''Kuoh is most definitely a no go, they probably have the city on lockdown, the major passages to hell are going to be monitored, any ideas?"
"We could disguise ourselves, pull out a distraction and slip by them." Mana suggested and Naruto glanced at John and Cleria.
"Any other ideas?"
They both shook their heads and Naruto frowned and closed his eyes to think.
-Naruto's imagination-
Naruto and Outer Naruto stood in their old classroom in Konoha, on the chalkboard it was written 'IDEAS' and in front of it was a giant flip flop notepad.
''Alright then, so we have to get them to the Underworld, let's see our options.'' Outer flipped a page on the giant notepad and it appeared, 'Teleport them there'
''We already know we can't do that, I'd need to know exactly where it stands in time-space to do that.'' Naruto dismissed and flipped the notepad to the next page, 'Smuggle them with a distraction.'
''That's what they suggested, we can do that but there is a lot of room for mistakes, and we'd be putting our face all over.''
''We can use a mask to hide our face.''
''Yea, but would it matter? Our face doesn't mean anything to anybody in general. The problem is that if we do show our faces, mask or no mask, then the higher ups will start thinking about the newcomers meddling with their business.''
''Right… maybe we are looking at it the wrong way. How about instead of taking them to hell, we bring hell to them, or more importantly her cousin Diehauser.'' Naruto rubbed his chin and the word 'DIEHAUSER' appeared on the chalkboard.
''Yea, I like where this is heading, what do we know about the guy?''
''Not much, but she feels like she'll be safe once she reaches him, so he must be strong or influential, or both.''
''Right, yea, how should we get his attention then? We send a letter, mail, internet? I mean, I don't know the guy, and if I don't know him, then you don't know him, so how we find out what he is into?''
''We could just ask Cleria, no need to make things complicated.'' Naruto winked and left his imaginary world
-Real world-
When Naruto opened his eyes, there were two plates in front of him, with hamburgers, two portions of fries, two cups of orange juice and a milkshake.
The table's surface shifted as if there were things crawling underneath it. Cleria and the others didn't seem to mind, or notice, Naruto reached to touch one of the supposed creatures, but the movement stopped and the table returned to normal.
He couldn't detect any energy on the table or any trace of anything. Whatever was going on, the problem was him.
''Are you okay?'' Cleria asked him, and he nodded slowly and picked up the hamburger. ''Are you paying attention?''
''Yea, now while we could probably do that, how about instead of sneaking you guys in, we find a way to get in contact with your cousin and have him come to us?'' Naruto asked and stared at the hamburger, a cockroach crawling out of it to his hand, he didn't feel a thing and in the blink of an eye it was gone. What the hell is going on with me.
''I don't know, whatever it is, it is painful in here too. I think think that you got some type of brain damage. Your brain can only take so much, implanted super eyes, clones, memories of devils. We should find a specialist, it's getting worse. The sandwich is fine by the way, it is all in our head.''
''You don't look well.'' John asked and Naruto smiled.
''Yea, don't worry about me, go on, let's debate this subject.''
''Okay then.'' John took one of Naruto's fries. ''Wouldn't they cut out all communications leading to him?''
''Would they really? If they intercept and block too many things then he would surely suspect, and would investigate, could use that to our advantage.'' Mana clicked her tongue and Naruto took a sip of his juice.
''Does your cousin have people monitoring the internet? Or is it possible to send letters and mail to the underworld?'' Naruto asked and then shook his head. ''We could use that as a distraction or a way to get you in… this would be much easier if my partner was here.''
''My cousin has a lot of people working under him, might have some on the internet, but not many. There are ways of getting mail to the underworld, we mostly use our familiars for that, they have special 's very risky, they must be monitoring, but I think I remember hearing about certain agencies and groups that do that type of stuff.'' Cleria shook her head. ''Where is your partner?''
''We could use that, my partner is currently busy somewhere else, if she were here then this would be a totally different ball game.'' Naruto stopped to think about it and glanced around. Now that he knew what he was looking for, he saw more details, dates, times, events. Beneath his sunglasses his eyes widened in realization, he was out cold for two entire days. ''Actually, chances are that she is finishing up with her task now, she can come back at any moment now.''
''What does she do?" Cleria asked and Naruto finished eating.
"She does a lot of stuff, will help us out…" Naruto sighed and wiped his mouth with a napkin. "It's been a long day, you guys should find yourselves a hotel or some other place to spend the night, grieve."
"Yea, I guess." Cleria sighed and got up, followed by her Mana and John. "How are we supposed to find you again.''
''Come here, this is my spot.'' Naruto smiled and got up, taking the milkshake with him. ''Before we part ways, you guys have any idea on where you're staying for the night?''
''Umm…'' Cleria glanced at the others. ''I hadn't thought about that yet…''
''Yea, I thought so, you guys probably don't have money that'd work here in Australia either.'' Naruto took out a stack of bills from his pocked. ''Take this, find yourselves a hotel for the night, technically you're supposed to be paying me, we get even later, now you guys take care of yourselves.''
''Oh, wow, yeah we will. '' Cleria took the money and Naruto patted her on the shoulders and left.''Thanks a lot for the help. This means a lot to me.''
-Naruto house-
After arriving at home, Naruto left Kaguya's milkshake on the table, took a shower and crawled underneath the bed's blankets, he hardly got to close his eyes before an all too familiar chakra signature arrived in the living room.
It was, Kaguya, she must have been very busy during the week, her chakra signature was very low, for her, still larger than his own at his peak.
She stayed for a few seconds on the living room and waltzed into the bedroom holding the milkshake that he left on the table. She was covered in dirt and seemed very tired. Drank the entire milkshake in but a few seconds and dropped down on the bed on left side of the bed, right besides Naruto, her robes dispersing as she fell,
''Busy week?'' Naruto tilted his head in her direction.
''Yes, the dimension is done.'' She tilted her her in his direction. ''I see you also have had a busy week. You've implanted an eye from Indra and that other man, Obito.''
''Yeah, my week was crazy… I think I found us a way to get into the occult world.''
''Oh?''
''I ran into a group of devils being targeted by a larger group of devils, got some information off of one of the guys from the larger group and and am helping the smaller group…'' he nodded to himself and chuckled. ''Turns out that there is more to this world than what meets the eye.''
Kaguya half got up, using her left arm to steady herself and got underneath the blanket. ''Busy week indeed, where are these devils?''
''They're here on this city, I'm supposed to meet them tomorrow.'' Naruto also made himself semi-upright and stared back at Kaguya, Obito's eye closed. ''Simple job, they are 'hiring' me to help them get to the cousin of the group's leader where they'll be safe.''
''Hmm, you've got all of this in the week that I was out?'' Kaguya slowly got closer to Naruto.
''Umm, yea, real crazy week.'' He rubbed the back of his head and smiled sheepishly, uncomfortable with her proximity and nakedness.
''Maybe there is some credit in this partnership after all.'' Kaguya said to herself and then kissed Naruto on the cheek. ''Good job, tell me more about it tomorrow, I want to meet these devils, good night.''
She then laid down once more and turned around, leaving a confused Naruto seated on the bed.
(1) closest thing to the woman would be tatsumiya mana from negima.