Act 2 Part 1:
I will continue to do summaries and recaps at the end of every Act, which is going to be like every 4 or so chapters, to make things easier for people to follow and keep up.
Rule#5: Never pass on an opportunity to put your enemies against each other.
A week has passed since the meetings with the Maous. It was very fruitful, Naruto managed to negotiate a good agreement with them for the town. For their cooperation and aid in machinery, design and a few other things they will have to pay an easily manageable sum of gold and to officially be allies that will aid if a crisis is to happen.
The last part of the deal is a double edged swords because a crisis could happen in a day, or a century to which Naruto is fine with as the devils would be helping them much more than they would be helping the devils, and if they stay on good terms then they might as well help them on a crisis anyway.
There were other small things such as no industrial machines of mass pollution but that was the gist of it. Pollution was a thing that Kaguya seriously disliked and Naruto didn't want to risk her going Goddess-Almighty and kill them all over it if it got out of hand.
Plus with few exceptions here and there and everybody will feel like they deserve one too.
There was just one thing that Kaguya didn't quite like…
"Mmm, this place is boring, I thought we would have some fun, us three, what are we doing here?" Complained a certain pink haired devil, the one thing Kaguya was disliking of the deal. For some reason Naruto asked for Roygun to be placed in their custody, Kaguya didn't know why, but she hoped that it is a good one, or else somebody would be in pain.
They had just arrived back on the human world, on their favorite coffee shop on Australia. They were all in human disguises, including Roygun who had to wear less revealing clothes, or actually wear clothes at all and hide her horns. She'd been a pain on Naruto's butt since day one, Kaguya denied her existence and pretended the devil wasn't even there.
"Well she needs to relax and I need to study French, Italian and German. You just sit tight and don't bother us or the people around." Naruto said and took put two phones with two different headphones.
"So you just want me to sit here and do nothing?" Roygun asked and Naruto nodded. "This entire week you haven't asked me to do a single thing, I'm disappointed actually, was expecting some more action and fun. Why am I even here?"
Why was she there? Kaguya wondered the exact same thing.
"Well, let's just say that soon you'll be qualified to fill a position that we will need. Don't even start with the innuendos." Naruto shook his head.
Having a pet devil was more troublesome than he anticipated.
Naruto placed one side of each earphone and began playing French and Italian lessons on four times the speed on either of them.
He completely detached himself from reality and focused only on the high speed tutorials.
-A few hours later-
Naruto took off the headphones and opened and closed his mouth, his tongue felt weird.
He opened his eyes and saw that Kaguya was still besides him, probably passed her 10th milkshake, and Roygun was taking a nap.
Over the course of the past week, he managed to test out that he could use his eyes throughout the day without over stressing himself, so long as he didn't use the Mangekyou or the Rinnegan. Either way he preferred to leave them closed for the majority of time, he was getting used to navigating with sound.
One would think that with bijuu inside him, he would have more chakra, but it was the opposite. They were redirecting and feeding off of his chakra to grow and recover, they'd give some back if he fought somebody that required his full effort.
Naruto looked around at the people on the shop and noticed that something was off. He knew their work schedules by head, and noticed that one certain waitress wasn't working and another was filling in for her.
It could simply be that she was on vacation, but his instincts told him that something was up.
His instincts rarely were wrong. He began to pay attention to his surroundings and the outside of shop. There were some shady people roaming, which he should have noticed sooner.
"Hey there," he greeted the manager, a brown haired woman in her mid 30s. "Is everything alright?"
"No, not really, I was going to talk with you, come with me." she went to the back and Naruto followed.
She led him to a storage room of cleaning supplies.
"Sorry about this, they started to appear this week. Sam said that work is to deal with complicated situations, he told me to wait and see if you would come to us." She continued and Naruto looked around.
Sam was the owner of the shop. Naruto had told him that he worked dealing with complicated situations and helping people. They made a deal with the owner and opened a tab, every month they deposited around 5 grand on their tab. They were on good terms.
"Alright, so what's up? You seriously can get me in trouble like this…"
"Right, so one of our waitresses, Rebecca stopped coming to work last week, then those guys began showing up, stalking this place. None of us know what's going on, she won't answer the phone." She said and began fanning herself with her hand.
The storage room was tight and it was a hot day.
"Aham… so you guys want me to go to her house or something? You can call the police for this type of thing."
"We called the police but nothing changed. If would be great if you could. We would go there ourselves, but could be dangerous." She unbuttoned the top button of her shirt.
"Right… alright I'll see what we can." He inched backwards to the door." He was going to keep talking but stopped upon to notice things, her eyes and dilated pupils, her heavy breathing, her flustered face, the poor choice of meeting place.
She was unnaturally horny, almost to a slutty level. Her posture was different… it was almost like she was being influenced.
He sighed and reached to her shirt, then buttoned it up, she was wearing a blue, lace bra and her breasts were fairly decent, and perky. "Get me the address and I'll go see what's going on."
Naruto then kissed her on the forehead and left the room, she coming out right after.
The first thing he noticed was that Roygun had 'awoken' and had a mischievous smirk, and Kaguya's scowl. All the confirmation that he needed, she must had somehow influenced the manager with a spell of some sorts, he couldn't notice because of senjutsu.
"Huh, that was quick, I thought her hair would be messier." Roygun said as he joined their table.
"Don't do that again." Naruto said and glanced at the manager to see that she was writing down the address of the waitress. "How much were you influencing her?"
"You're no fun, you know that? Are you gay or something? Most guys wouldn't pass up on that opportunity." Roygun said and Naruto pointed at Kaguya besides him, who was very displeased.
"You're not going to help your situation like that. Now how much were you controlling her?" he repeated in a harsh, but low voice, he didn't want to attract attention from the humans around.
Kaguya was watching what was going on inside that tight room. She was restraining herself from killing Roygun, Naruto had a plan for the devil and she would refrain from doing anything… now. She'd have her alone time with the pink-haired bitch sooner or later.
"Not muuuch, she has a lot of pent up frustration, marriage must not be going that well. I just gave her a little push, helped her flourish. Whatever it was that she told you was all her." Roygun smiled and the manager came by their table, left a note and winked at Naruto. "You know that there is no sealing that water dam now that it's open, either drain it up or watch it blow."
"Okay… one problem at a time." Naruto shook the mental image that he got away, it was incredible how many innuendos she could put out. "One of the waitresses has been missing for a week, I'm going to check up on her, you two wanna come?
"My novel is going to start soon." Kaguya looked at him, at Roygun, then back at him. She trusted him... she could leave him alone with that pink-haired devil whore… never mind. Kaguya got up, "I'll go."
Since Kaguya was going, Roygun felt like she wouldn't have as much fun as she could, so she got another idea. "You know what, I'mma stay. Women aren't generally my thing, but since I started it, I'll clean up my mess… and the mess that we'll make, you two have fun."
Roygun smiled at the manager and Naruto sighed, then left with Kaguya.
1 hour later
Near Rebecca's street
They didn't know how to find the waitress, house, even by address, so Naruto got help on the best place possible.
A pizza store, they knew where everything was, it was their job, and the delivery boy gave them detailed, and accurate directions to the street.
Which turned out to be not that far from the coffee shop at all.
It felt good to have some time away from Roygun, he didn't completely trust her to leave her alone in the place, so he left a clone watching from the sidelines. He didn't quite know how to feel about her, there was no doubt that she was hot and attractive, he liked her hair, but she was just too… pushy. It didn't feel right.
"Earlier you said that the devil will soon be qualified to fill a position that we will need. What did you mean?" Kaguya asked Naruto as they arrived in the neighborhood.
"I meant exactly that. Since you asked me about the future, I began to think about it. We are about to have an entire town for us, and it would take too much of our time to manage it." He opened his eyes and glanced around at the houses. "It will be confusing for the town in the start, a familiar face will help. Devils are more likely to listen and obey another devil, I believe that we can turn her into a loyal subordinate by the time that comes."
She wanted to rule over them, but he was right. "What if she doesn't?"
"Then we'll need somebody else. Unless you want to administrate the place, I rather you don't, there are better things for you to do, but you can if you want."
"Let's see how she turns out… should I change my behavior and way of treating her?"
"Just continue being yourself and don't kill her. We need her true loyalty, so things must seem normal. If she thinks we are being nice to her to use her, then she won't ever truly become loyal." He stopped upon finding the house.
The waitress' house was pretty small, but cute. It stood out in her neighborhood, it was white and blue and the front garden was a mess, as if people had thrashed everything. Something definitely wasn't right.
Kaguya activated her Byakugan and looked inside. "She is in there... with her daughter."
"Alrighty then." Naruto began to walk to the door, but Kaguya stopped him.
"Wait… nevermind." She shook her head confusing him, and allowed him to go.
Since Roygun had joined them, she has felt strange. She had no doubt that Naruto was hers, but yet she still felt bothered by her. It wasn't like the devil could take him away from her, so what was it?
Sometimes she couldn't help but think she wasn't the right woman for him, that she wasn't what was best for him. But at the same time she couldn't help but wonder if they couldn't be what is best for each other.
Naruto walked to her door and knocked a few times.
He got no answer, but he could hear sounds of footsteps inside.
He knocked again, "hey Rebecca, it's me, Naruto. From the coffee shop, Sam sent me."
The footsteps got louder as if walking to the door. His sense of hearing had really improved since he stopped using his eyes.
There was a pause as she reached the door, followed by the rattling of keys and the door being unlocked. She opened the door slightly and poked her head out. "You said Sam sent you, why?"
"Because we can help, can we come in?" Naruto asked and Kaguya came to the door as well.
"Yes, come right in." Rebecca opened the door for them to pass and closed right after, then locked it. Her hair was messy and she seemed like she hadn't slept in a while.
"Okay, so what is going on, what exactly is the situation?" Naruto asked and glanced around the house, Kaguya stood besides the door.
"It all started last week, I was coming home from work and I saw a guy from a red camaro beating to death a guy on a motorcycle with a steering wheel lock. I wrote down his license and called the police." Rebecca explained and Naruto nodded as she spoke.
"So let me see if I understand, you were the only witness?"
"Yea, the guy on the motorcycle is in life support. They've been going around my work, Sarah's school, made a mess on my yard, Monday I found a rat nailed to my door. We call the police, they say they will increase patrol, but nothing happens."
"Is this Sarah?" Naruto asked while picking up a picture of Rebecca and a young brown-haired girl around thirteen
"Yes that's her, Sarah! Come over here!" Rebecca called and in came the girl from the picture. "Sarah, these are Naruto and Kaguya, they work as…"
"We are people that Sam thought that could help." Naruto answered and the girl crossed her arms.
"What's with the stupid glasses?" She asked and Naruto turned to Kaguya's whose lips were twitching upwards.
An hour later
Kaguya and Naruto's apartment
"Tell me again why are we helping these humans?" Kaguya asked Naruto as they closed their apartment door, Rebecca and Sarah inside and them outside. They had drove their with Rebecca's car, Naruto made her do a few laps and turns and had them lose their 'tail before arriving, then left the car a few blocks away.
"Because it makes me sort of feel human, help normal people." He sighed and leaned against the wall. "I need a break to set my thoughts in order and make plans, and so do you. Take your time to relax a little, rest."
He had a lot on his plate, he had to study three languages, he had to study electronics and wiring, the composition and structure of ecosystems to replicate their own on Kaguya's dimension, politics. He needed to clear his mind to then focus on those things one by one.
"Very well… I will get up to date with my novels then."
"Great that you want to do that because… they need a place to stay and somebody needs to watch them, you can do that and watch your novels…" Naruto stopped as Kaguya narrowed her eyes at him.
"You want me to babysit…?"
"Yea, it is you or Roygun, and I don't think leaving her alone with them is a good idea…" Naruto trailed off and Kaguya's glare lessened.
"Fine, however I do not understand; why don't we simply don't kill her enemy?" Kaguya asked while crossing her arms.
"Because, he is probably at the top of the food chain, and if people start dying suddenly, others start asking question and they will never be free." Naruto sighed and paused for a few seconds. "Give me a week to take of this my way, will also be around the time it takes me to fully prepare to go to the Vatican anyway."
"What will the devil do?"
"Uhh… she'll help me with this," Naruto said and Kaguya's eyebrow twitched. "C'mon, it isn't like I can leave her alone with them…. wait a second, are you jealous of her?"
". . ."
"There is nothing to be jealous of, don't worry, let's go in." He opened the door and gestured for Kaguya to go.
She did so and found both Sarah waiting with her arms crossed and an annoyed look in her face. Her mother was checking the apartment.
"So what I am supposed to do, just sit here and do nothing?" Sarah asked with a sarcastic tone. Most thing that she said came out sarcastically.
"Yup, that is exactly what you are supposed to do. It isn't so bad there is TV." He smiled and she scowled.
"Can I at least call my friends?" Sarah asked and he closed the door, Kaguya sat on the couch and turned on the TV
"Nope, no outside contact till this is over."
"They're high school students, you're completely paranoid!" Sarah complained and huffed.
"Maybe, but I'm still breathing." Naruto said and went to check the fridge and supply on food. It was low to nonexistent, he and Kaguya never cooked and so they never bought food. "So I'm going to go buy food and I will lock everything, anything you want me to buy?"
"Whatever, I don't care, this place sucks! I rather be killed than live here!" she brought her arms up and turned around. Kaguya's fingers twitched, she decorated the place, who the hell does that girl think she is?
"Well, those are your two options." Naruto shrugged and turned to Kaguya, "You want a milkshake right?"
"I'll miss my spring formal, is it too much to ask for one dance?" Sarah followed him as he prepared to leave.
Naruto sighed, damn teenagers and their priorities. "Look, these guys know where you study, if they have any brains at all, they will put a word out there, you show up and somebody makes a phone call."
"You really think that they would use the kids of my school? Are you serious?!"
"It's what I'd do."
"Oh my God, this is un-"
"Sarah!" Rebecca yelled, walking into the living room. "Mr. Naruto, I am so sorry, we are both very grateful for your help."
"No problem, I'll go do some shopping and see what I can do about your situation, you girls play nice." He said and left the apartment, locking the door behind him.
'Was I that bad when I was that age? Nah… I was probably worse.'
"First thing's first…" He created a disguised clone and sent it to buy groceries, then went to the coffee shop.
When he arrived, the first thing he noticed was Roygun seated where she previously was. The second thing was that the manager had a type of 'glow', he had never seen somebody so relaxed in his life, she was Zen.
Roygun gained a lewd smile upon seeing him, and got up to greet him. "You sure took your time… I know I did."
"I don't want to know. Just don't ruin this place for me and Kaguya, we like it here. Now let's go." he turned around and she followed him.
"You're seriously no fun. In case you're wondering, I erased her memory of it, her body still remembers though, I think I left too much of an imprint on her… and so did you." Roygun said as they left, and Naruto's eyebrow twitched. "So what's the job, where are we going?"
"Waitress is under threat of a local drug lord, we'll help her out but first, I need to find out who and where he is." Naruto said and took out a phone to continue his German lessons. His other phone was with Kaguya in case he needed to contact her and was short on options.
"Help a human? We deal with this type of thing? I thought you only dealt with the serious stuff." Roygun stated.
"Fate of a person's, fate of the world, I just need to cool my head down a bit."
Three hours later
On a building rooftop
Finding the drug dealer wasn't as hard as he expected, the guy was pretty flashy and his car was easy to find, there weren't that many roaming the streets.
The drug lord's name was Fernando Rodriguez, he was in a bar below drinking. He was a Colombian man around his mid thirties, had dark hair with some grey on the side, and was wearing a white suit.
"So what's the plan boss? We kill them all? I use magic to get them to stop?" Roygun asked, looking down at the pitiful human.
"You can do that?" He asked somewhat surprised and she nodded as if it were obvious. "Look at him, I don't think this guy is pulling the shots, we would need to find his boss for that."
"So what do we do?"
Naruto closed his eyes and began to think…
-Naruto imagination classroom-
"Okay, so what do we know about a drug cartel? And this whole situation?" Naruto asked, pointing to a chalk board, there were a bunch of mini Narutos seated on the table.
"Well, Rebecca is pressing charges on Fernando, and he must have some type of authorisation from his boss to kill her." A chibi said and a paper crown appeared on top of his head.
"Right you are, and what do we know about a drug cartel?"
"A drug cartel is like a business." One of the mini Narutos said and the main one nodded. A paper crown also appearing on top of that one's head.
"Right, if to protect a valuable employee from jail and keep making money, they may as well kill the waitress." the main Naruto said and paced around the classroom. "Now how to get them to turn on that employee…?"
"Well, if they think that employee is planning on betraying them, then they will kill him."
"Yea, we can do it like that guy tried to do to us in the forest of death!" two chibis spoke among themselves and the main Naruto remembered when the rain ninja tried to disguise as him to get a Sasuke to give him the scroll.
Great plan, terrible execution.
-back in real world on rooftop-
Naruto opened his eyes, now knowing what he had to do. He had to make it seem like the Fernando is going to flip on his bosses, talking to the police. No,it wouldn't work if is talking to the normal police, it would have to seem like he is talking to the Federal police, gathering money to run away.
"I'm going to go talk to him, get some first hand experience of how he talks, and acts like, wait here." Naruto told Roygun then left the building to go talk to Fernando. Disguising himself as Sasuke with a henge on his way.
The guy was very relaxed, with his three bodyguards, drinking a martini like he owned the block.
"You must be Fernando, I heard a lot about you." Naruto said, taking a seat opposite to him.
"That I am, and who are you?" Fernando asked, taking a sip from his Martini.
Naruto smiled. "I'm a friend of Rebecca, I heard that she has been having a rat problem in her garden."
"A rat problem, eh?" Fernando gave a short bark of laughter, before leaning into his chair. "Sounds like she needs an exterminator then; but kid, you got some brass balls coming here to my joint; what do you want?"
"I wanted to see what her problem is myself, and advise it to take its chances in court." Naruto replied and suddenly he was surrounded by Fernando's three bodyguards in a circle. "Oh?"
"Take my chances in court?" Fernando leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table and then intertwining his fingers. "Now why would I do that when this situation is already resolving itself?"
And at that, his bodyguards lifted their shirts to show their weapons, uncaring in the slightest bit that this was all happening in broad daylight, with plenty of people watching. Fernando really was full of himself, the blonde noted with a sigh.
"Are you sure you want to this?"
A hand signal was the boss' answer and that was all his men needed to charge but Naruto was already moving before they even started their advance on him, flipping the table over him, before getting up and kicking the man behind him on the knee, making the bend over; he then punched another one on the gut, sending him soaring to the nearest wall.
The third bodyguard, meanwhile, was now pulling his gun and when he pointed it at Naruto, the blond grabbed the front of the gun and kicked Fernando to the floor, then Naruto pinned him down by placing his foot on his chest.
"What you doing?! Shoot him!" Fernando yelled and Naruto squeezed him with his foot. The bodyguard tried to pull the trigger, but found himself unable to.
"Funny thing I found out when studying these weapons a while back. But in this particular glock, you can't pull the trigger if the breechblock is stuck." Naruto said, before breaking the thug's hand and punching him on the face, knocking him unconscious. "Now it's just you and me…"
"You…" Fernando struggled to get up but the blonde's foot was unmovable. "You're dead!"
"You're pretty tough to make threats when I'm holding a gun." Naruto bent down and showed him the glock, then removed the clip and ejected the bullet from the chamber. "Ever eaten a bullet?"
Fernando closed his mouth shut and Naruto began to remove the bullets from the clip, and held them all on his right hand. He discarded the clip and with his left hand he forced Fernando to open his mouth, making the bastard swallow each bullet one by one.
"Yummy huh?" Naruto slapped him lightly on the cheek then, "I loved the chat, don't think we will meet again."
"You. Are. De-"
Naruto kicked him unconscious then straightened his clothes and walked away before backup arrived.
Unfortunately, they were too late...
Three days later
Somewhere in the city
Naruto continued his research on the three most commonly used in the Vatican, Fernando, his boss and the structure of the cartel.
Finding out things about drug dealers wasn't that hard, or at least it wasn't for him and Roygun, but he wasn't ready to say it in front of Kaguya, tell her that their 'prisoner' was a decent addition to the team.
Anyways, from what he found out, Fernando was a distributor, that was not so high on the food chain but he had a decent firepower. He also found the link of Fernando and the upper bosses that were in Colombia.
A lawyer and a commuter.
Naruto loved commuters, people that take the same route to work every day, and a punctual commuter? A guy that was always exactly on the same place every day 8:13 in the morning? It was just too easy, almost like he was doing all of the work for him.
It wasn't like he had to worry about an ambush, he was the lawyer of almost every major drug cartel there is.
So he got a long and thick rubber stripe, placed long nails along it and spray painted them to blend in with the ground. When the time came he stretched it on the road, hid behind a bush and waited. And as sure as the fact that the sun will rise again, 6:13 he was there.
He was an elderly man around his mid 50s with grey hair, he wore an expensive dark suit and drove a black Mercedes. His car passed over the spikes and the front tires deflated. He sighed and got out of the car to check what happened, and Naruto walked out of the bush, disguised as Sasuke again.
Naruto smiled. "John-Pierre, I'mma feel real bad if you don't have your insurance card on you."
And the man calmly raised his hands. "Is this a robbery? My wallet is in the car, same with my keys!"
Naruto walked around the car and 'inspected it', "Is this from the seven series, with the leather seats? Tempting but it needs new tires, and I'm here on business."
John lowered his hands. "Business?"
Naruto leaned against the car. "Yeah; so I've been trying and trying to book an appointment, maybe get you on the phone, but no dice. So I thought, 'hey, he is a busy man, I'll just talk to him on his way to work.'"
"What do you want?"
"Fernando Rodriguez. I want to talk to you about his assault charge."
"And my daughter wants a Corvette, I don't discuss my client's business."
"A Corvette, that's nice." Naruto walked around the man. "Don't worry then, I'll do all of the talking. I don't know how much attention you've been paying to your client lately, but he has been a bad boy; witness intimidation, attempt of murder. The type of thing that can bring attention to your other clients."
Naruto placed a newspaper on top of the car, the article read 'Kingpins of Crime'
"You have no idea with who you are dealing with, do you boy?"
"I read the article, or most of it anyway; scary guys, guns, drugs, am I miss something? I doubt El Jefe down in Colombia would want to risk another murder investigation just so Fernando can skip on a few years of prison. Have El Jefe tell Fernando to back off." Naruto turned around and began to walk away. "I'll be waiting here tomorrow at this same time for an answer."
He left around the corner of the street and John took out his phone.
Waiting around the corner was Roygun.
"You think he will bite?"
"I hope he does, would make my life easier and those two can only stay in my apartment for so long, but I don't expect him to." Naruto replied and they both picked up their pace.
"Then what was the point of all that?"
"To plant the seed of doubt. I'm sure you know the phrase 'the Devil is in the details', right? What do you know about the situation?" Naruto asked and they both entered a dark alley.
Roygun furrowed her brows, "The trial is coming and Fernando doesn't know where Rebecca is so he is running out of time and probably getting nervous."
"Anything else?" Naruto asked and she shook her head. "Well that's the most important part anyway, since he's getting nervous he is running out of options, now what we need to do is give him a bit of a push and actually have him run away and do what he would need to withdraw money, which is where you come in; it will make things easier for us to make him seem like a traitor, maybe even make it appear to his bosses that he's talking to the Federal Police to turn on them for some leniency, then they'll kill him."
Roygun blinked and her inner gears turned to fill in the blanks, "Woah, and I'm a devil? That's dark." She shook her head. "I get that you can use your transformation technique to pass as him, but you can't withdraw the money for him, so you need to have him do that?"
Naruto opened a door and they walked inside. "Yea, pretty much, what else?"
"it isn't guaranteed that he will run, so you want me to use my magic and push him into doing that? You know I can just make him turn on them and get it all over with."
Naruto stopped and activated Obito's Mangekyou Sharingan. "Oh yea, of course. But what fun would there be in that? This is our chance to practice a bit, relax. I thought you'd want to watch the confusion in his eyes when his own people kill him."
"Why, because I am a devil?" She asked with a raised eyebrow.
Naruto nodded.
"That's so racist!"
"..."
She smiled wickedly. "But you're right, I love this plan."
30 minutes later
Naruto and Kaguya's apartment
Naruto returned to his apartment to check up on the girls while Roygun had went to do her assignment.
Upon entering he saw Kaguya watching TV from the couch, and Rebecca on cooking something. Sarah must have been on the room, doing whatever it is that she does.
"Oh, hey Naruto. Welcome back." Rebecca greeted him as he entered. She seemed better than when they first met, had gotten some rest, but was still anxious. "Making progress?
"Yea, soon this will be over." Naruto waved at her briefly then sat on the couch besides Kaguya, rested his head on her lap and closed his eyes.
It surprised her somewhat, but after a few seconds she placed her left hand on top of his head and began to caress his hair.
Then Sarah walked in. "How soon? The summer prom is in three days and I already got a date! I'm in my senior year, I can't miss it!"
He ignored the teenage girl, his head was beginning to hurt and he didn't feel like dealing with her.
Unfortunately, not all problems go away when you close your eyes and pretend they don't exist. In this case, it only angered her more.
"Hey are you hearing me! My prom is this Friday." Sarah continued and Kaguya's nose twitched in a way similar to that of a bunny.
"I don't know, this situation might be solved by then, or not." Naruto answered and Sarah huffed and then left to the room.
He couldn't bring himself to care about her prom now. He hadn't slept since he had begun helping them, and having just used the Kamui, he was a bit on edge.
"I'm sorry about her, you know how teenagers are." Rebecca said as she turned off the fire. "You want to eat? I made rice, beans and steak."
Next day
Inside the cafe
"So it worked..." Naruto said to as he ate a snack. It was a hot day, he was only wearing shorts.
"It worked perfectly, I hardly had to whisper anything into his ear. He withdrew everything from his stash, what now?" Roygun asked and he pulled out a notebook and a pen.
"Now we wait, I sent a clone of mine to the meeting with the lawyer and had another on standby, it will now impersonate Fernando and get in contact with the feds. It should take a day or so for them to log it, so we have some time." He began to scribble on the notebook.
"That clone technique of yours is so~ useful… say, what else can you use them for?" Roygun smiled and scooted near him, but then frowned upon not getting a reaction. "Fine, be that way then, what are you doing?"
She tried to read what he was writing, but failed to understand the language. Which made her wonder what was it and where he learned it, Devils could understand every language on the world, but they couldn't necessarily read them, even then there were few she didn't know.
"Making plans..." Naruto answered simply then paused, "huh, the lawyer tried to blow up my clone."
"Duh~ you threaten any serious criminal organization and they will always do one of two things: send a guy to make a deal, or send a guy to make a corpse. You should'a seen that coming." Roygun smiled again then looked around the shop.
"Why you think I sent a clone? Anyway, leave me alone, I need to concentrate. You get a free pass today so long as you don't ruin this place for me, or another person's life." Naruto shooed her away and her smile turned to a grin.
"A free pass huh?"
"Yea, now leave me alone before I change my mind."
With no hesitation or glance, Roygun left the shop and Naruto sighed. It was probably a bad idea to leave her to her own devices, but he needed his concentration.
He needed to formulate a plan, up until now they had been reacting to things, situations, they needed to get ahead. Their 'reactions' would earn them an entire village, which would be great, but still there can be more.
It was a strange feeling, Kaguya was counting on him to plan ahead, and in a way that was what was compelling him to do so.
The first thing he had to do before formulating a plan was separate what he knew, what he didn't know and what he can learn, then came what he needs and can obtain. He learned that from Shikamaru, with his new clarity of mind he could look back into their previous interactions and study their behavior
He didn't know his true enemy, what exactly is it, where is it and things of such. He hoped to learn more about it in the Vatican, but for now that would remain a question mark.
He did know that it is very powerful and that whatever it is that is going to happen, will happen in a couple of years, so he had time to prepare.
Another thing he knew was that there are multiple factions out there, and that gods feed off of prayers and devotion, and some of them are getting weaker, even fading - he learned that from Diehauser's library.
Somewhere in that there should be an opportunity… some way to capitalise on the gods frailty and needs in a way that could benefit him and Kaguya in their mission to prevent the Apocalypse of the multiverse.
That would require a lot more thinking…
Next Morning
Somewhere in the city
Naruto in Sasuke disguise came out of the bushes as John-Pierre's car approached.
"I suppose I should thank you for not busting my tires again. "The lawyer said as he stopped in front of Naruto. Somewhat surprised that the man was still alive and unharmed, despite no body being found.
"You know what John, you're a better guy than I thought, I bet you got your daughter that Corvette after all." The disguised Naruto said with a smile and leaned his elbow on top of the car.
"What the hell you talking about?"
"Thank you, for talking to your client to flip on the big boys. Assault charge gets kicked, my witness is off the hook, win-win." Naruto tapped the car lid and grinned. "I get it, you don't talk about client business, just know I appreciate it. I really do."
Naruto stepped aside from the car, pulled a kunai and jabbed it on the back tire.
"That's for trying to kill me." Naruto then said and walked away, taking a turn around the street.
"You think he'll buy it?" Roygun asked, joining him.
"He's going to be on the phone with whatever contacts he has on the Federal Police before his tire goes flat. My guess is that this will be over tonight. Now we wait for the fireworks."
That night
Naruto and Kaguya Apartment
A drug cartel is like a business, if to protect a valuable employee from jail is the best way to keep making money, they may as well kill the waitress. Now if it looks like that employee is going to flip on them, they will be just as happy to deal with the problem another way, and leave the waitress alone.
True enough, on that same night they took Fernando and executed him, they also pulled out the thugs on the street around Rebecca's house, the coffee shop and Sarah's school.
"It's over, the charge isn't necessary anymore, you two can go home, got nothing to worry about." Naruto told both Rebecca and Sarah. "Yes, you can go to your prom tomorrow. "
"Really?! Oh my gosh, thank you!" Sarah tackled Naruto and hugged his waist.
"Yes, thank you very much, I, we are very grateful for everything you guys have done to help us. If you just wait for my next pay-check I ca-"
"Hey don't worry about it, me and Sam we will settle on something. Just stay out of trouble, that replacement of yours is very clumsy." Naruto smiled and Sarah released him.
He had been awarded enough, Roygun had went the extra mile and stolen Fernando's stash, a bit over a hundred thousand.
"Alright, if you ever need anything you can count on us."Rebecca said and prepared to leave. "Thanks also for the help, and patience, Kaguya. Stop by the shop whenever."
Kaguya had an interesting chat with Rebecca. She had told her a bit about her dillema between emotions and reason, and her doubts, without including the 'save the multiverse' and 'supernatural' part.
Rebecca told her that it didn't matter, she just had to make it worth it
"You kidding? Of course we will, we love the place." Naruto's smile turned into a grin and Sarah kissed him on the cheek, then they both left.
After they left, Roygun appeared in the room.
"Well I'm glad that's over, now what, boss?" Roygun said and sat besides Kaguya on the couch.
"Now I rest, because tomorrow I'm going to the Vatican, I don't know what you two will do. I don't imagine Devils being welcomed there, so I guess you two can stay here or go do something else together…"
"We will go to our base." Kaguya said before Roygun, not giving her a chance to suggest anything. "I need to train and practice my technique."
Seemed like she would finally get her chance to spend some alone time with the newbie. Show the new member of their team where she stands on their hierarchy, and whip some good sense and pain into her.
"Mmm… alright then. Trying to get along, that's great!" Naruto gave Kaguya a thumbs up with a grin.
Roygun went pale. She knew Kaguya didn't like her much, probably due to the constant flirting, but she hoped that Naruto wouldn't leave her alone with the white haired woman-thing.
'Shit.'
Note on chapter: This chapter was sort of to break the flow, steady it a bit, give Naruto and Kaguya some time to think and get into the rhythm. Not just have a constant war and conflict one after another without time to think and plan. Also have Naruto regain a bit of his 'humanity' that he was losing, help a normal person.
Plus I am only human, am extremely busy at the moment and wanted to chill. Plus am updating The Peregrine along with this. Also am working on new ideas.
OCs: won't be appearing anymore or have much impact. Just here for main cast development.
I am trying and mixing up the way am writing, way of line breaks, sorta testing new ways, tell me what you guys think.
General note: Also guys, about the canon characters, they are like 8 year olds now, don't worry, I know very well where and how each of them are, Dulio in a orphanage, Vali being mistreated, Koneko and Kuroka, Rias, Sairaorg… I made a huge chart for consequences and to keep track of where everybody is and how Naruto/Kaguya will affect them. Trust me, I know what I am got myself into chose him to appear before canon, this isn't something I do half-assed, I go big or go home.
I know where they all are, I know what to do with them, they will appear on due time. One of them should appear next chapter.
Thanks The Divine Writer for giving me a hand in this chapter, and an ear on the general plot.
If a Beta wants to try and help me with this, with my erratic writing schedule, msg me.
