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If Naruto forgives either of his parents, it'll be Kushina, since she has a somewhat legitimate reason for forgetting about him.
Also, Gasper... Guy or Girl?
Lastly, sorry that this took so long...
Next chapter of phantasmal underworld GOOOOO!
Chapter 3:
Go with the Flow.
"Nami no Kuni?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow, "Not much. Small island country with no ninja, protected by the ocean, trade hub... why?"
Venelana cleared her throat, "I have received a contract from one of the residents. It would appear that the country has been taken over by a man named Gato. He has the country in a lock by cutting off all trade. The local bridge builder is preparing a bridge to break Gato's hold, but he needs some protection. So the client used a contract to call for help. I want you to go there and deal with the situation."
Naruto nodded, "When?"
She smiled, "You still have today to spend with your friends. You can leave sometime tomorrow."
"Right. Well, I guess I just have to relax now..."
Venelana giggled, "Oh no you don't! Did you forget about tonight?"
Naruto groaned as he realized what she was referring to. They left Venelana's room to see the girls and Grayfia waiting for them. When she saw him, Grayfia remembered something, "Naruto-sama, what do you wish to wear to the premier tonight?"
"Premier?" Orihime asked, ceasing her examination of the curtains.
Naruto nodded, "Yeah, a red-carpet event for my new movie, 'Overdrive Reloaded.'" This film was a remake of an older movie. It broke box office records the year it came out, so they decided to do a remake. (I made this movie up, if there is one, then I don't know it.) Naruto played the villain of the movie, Drake Hornigold, and he had even gotten some tips from the actor who played him originally.
The girls all gained sparkles in their eyes at this, "Can we come!?" Kurumu asked, wanting to be on the red carpet.
Naruto nodded, "Yeah, I can bring all the friends I want."
The girls all started planning on what to wear, until Venelana pulled out a credit card, "Come girls, let's go shopping!"
They all nodded and teleported away, leaving Naruto and Grayfia, Naruto looked over to the maid and said, "I'll just wear my usual."
She nodded and left, Naruto sighed and walked around the manor, he decided to head for the gardens, he always liked it there. When he arrived, he saw that he wasn't alone, sitting up to a table, eating a piece of cake, was a small white-haired girl.
Naruto walked up behind her and scratched a spot on top of her head, "Hey Koneko-chan, what are you doing here?"
The girl, upon realizing who was petting her, melted into his hand and said, "We're off from school..."
"Ah, so Rias and Akeno are here too?" Naruto said, he received his answer when a pair of arms slipped around his neck and he felt two large mounds press against his back.
"Hello Naruto-sama... When did you arrive back?~" A sensuous voice said into his ear.
Naruto, having grown used to it over the years, said, "There you are Akeno, where's Rias?"
Akeno let go of him and pouted a bit, "It was so fun to make you blush... Now you don't even twitch..."
"I know, not even my charm works on him now..." Another voice said from nearby, Naruto turned to see an older, and much more beautiful, Rias walking toward them, "So Naruto-kun, how was your new school?"
Naruto shrugged, "It was alright, though I gained the rest of my peerage since I went."
"Really?" Rias asked, "You're always so careful with your pieces, so who did you recruit?"
Naruto smiled, "You'll meet them eventually, so how's school been, and where's Gasper?"
Just after Naruto said that, a box near a bush popped open and said Dhampir popped out, "Right here!"
So Naruto spent the next few hours catching up with Rias, Koneko, and Akeno. When they sensed a large group of people teleport into the manor, they went back to the entrance hall to see Venelana and Naruto's peerage back. Rias was a bit threatened by all the beautiful girls... She had a crush on Naruto and she thought that now he wouldn't care about her any more... One glance from her mother told her that she was being stupid.
If they got married, it wouldn't be a problem, devils didn't care about incest too much.
Akeno felt a bit cautious as well, she was not conceited in saying that she was beautiful, but these girls had looks, and bust sizes, on par with hers!
Koneko took one look at all the huge busts, looked down at her own chest, and gained a dark cloud above her head.
After introducing everyone, the girls left to put on their dresses, though as they left, Naruto saw Sakura and Koneko staring at each other's chest, to each other, and then they shook hands with sparkles all around them.
When they were ready to go, just before they left, Venelana walked out and said, "By the way Naru-chan, I told her that you were back."
Naruto froze and turned back to her, she nodded and he instantly felt a sudden sense of doom, the girls were confused, what woman could make Naruto so afraid!?
"NNNNNNNNAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUU-SSSSSAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMAAAAAAAA!"
Naruto spun around just in time for something to slam into him, the girls jumped back to see a girl with angel wings in an exceedingly skimpy maid outfit hugging the life out of Naruto, "Naru-sama how could you not tell me you were back first thing!?"
Naruto sighed at his personal maid (1), "I'm sorry Jibril, I just didn't think it mattered if I told you, since I'm only going to be here for a few days."
It was two years ago, Naruto had met her when he was looking for an ancient book on magic, Jibril owned the library, and the only copy, she agreed to hand over the book if Naruto would impress her in a battle of brains and brawn, so they played a word game while fighting. Jibril was a Flugel, a race created by the angels to replace soldiers lost in the great war, but they proved to be... difficult. They would kill simply because they wanted to, they would love to fight, yet they couldn't fall, no matter what. So they decided to get rid of the Flugel, but one survived, a prodigy baby named Jibril, the youngest and strongest. Even if she wasn't a prodigy, she would be exceedingly powerful, one pair of Flugel wings was equal to two pairs of angel wings, and Jibril was stronger still. She was the toughest opponent Naruto had ever fought, bar none.
When they met, Jibril looked down on him and proclaimed that a 'lowly' devil couldn't possibly beat her. But he did, and she was enamored with his power, leading to her falling for him. Due to their inability to become corrupted, she couldn't be reincarnated, though she was more than happy to be his personal maid and assistant. (She's wearing her normal outfit in a french maid style.)
"Naru-sama's so mean..." She said, gaining a few tears in her eyes.
Naruto sighed as he introduced her to everyone.
Meanwhile, Jibril couldn't help but let her mind wander to the moment she saw Naruto's true power... She was the only one who had ever seen it, Naruto practiced in secret, she alone knew his full potential. Even now, just thinking about it made her shiver...
Flashback.
Jibril giggled to herself as she licked some blood off her cheek, the battle was fierce, but she was coming out on top, "I'll let you leave now. You can't win, we're close, but I'm slightly better."
Naruto looked up and said, "As we are now yes. I guess I'll have to use it now..."
The Flugel watched as he placed his arms in a cross formation in front of himself, hands clawed, and eyes closed. Jibril felt familiar energy arise in him, "A sacred gear? So he's part human..." When she finally saw it, her eyes went wide...
Then she started laughing.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Please tell me that you don't expect to beat me with that! The most useless sacred gear in existence!? HAHAHAHAHA~" Unfortunately, it was true, Naruto's sacred gear, while rare, like he's the fifth person in history to have it rare, it was regarded as the most useless.
Naruto took a deep breath and released all his power. Jibril stopped laughing and looked back at him.
Then she knew she had lost.
"Wha-What is this!?" She yelled as the world was cracking around her, everything was cracking like a pane of glass. She turned to look at Naruto and was instantly transfixed by his eyes...
His pupils had dilated, and inside them... never ending ribbons of blue, green, and gold, along with countless pinpricks of light. It looked like there was a whole galaxy in his eyes.
Naruto held up his hand and prepared to snap, "It's not that it's useless, it's that nobody was using it right."
He snapped, and Jibril's world went white.
Flashback end.
Jibril was pulled out of her memories as Naruto asked her what she had been up to, one thing was for sure, Naruto was going to go far in the world...
She would be right there to support him.
A few minutes later, Naruto was standing outside by the hummer limo. He was waiting for the girls to get done so they could leave. Eventually, the girls all walked out, making sure to flaunt what they had to Naruto.
Rias wore a red evening gown that accentuated her curves, Akeno wore a black cocktail dress, Koneko had a silver gown, Moka wore a black Gothic lolitia dress, Kurumu wore a strapless yellow evening gown, Mizore had a pale blue dress with a hoop skirt, Ino had a dark blue one-sleeved cocktail dress, Sakura wore a red Chinese style dress, Tenten had a black dress like Sakura's, Hinata wore a purple kimono with pink obi, Yakumo had a green mid-thigh length yukata, Chizuru wore a gown decorated with thin stripes of leopard print every few inches, Lillian wore a glitzier version of her usual dress with no hat, lastly, Orihime wore a dark orange evening gown that made the innocent and bubbly girl look like a sexy seductress.
They all loaded up into the limo, teleported to the human world, and headed off for the premier. They arrived and watched as the other start made their appearances, Naruto saw quite a few people he didn't want to, like Avalon Clark, Naruto really wished she wasn't part of the movie...
She kept hitting on him every chance she got, and he seriously wasn't interested, she was the typical Hollywood stuck up actress. There was also Cameron Black, he played the villain's second in command, and he seemed to believe that he was the greatest thing to happen to Hollywood since sound. When it was their turn to get out and walk down the carpet, Naruto got out and ignored the cameras and reporters.
He turned to help Orihime out of the car, she stepped away and waited for him to help everyone out. Once they were all standing and about to walk to the door, they were being bombarded with questions from the reporters, they simply ignored them all and walked to the door to the theatre, the girls all trying to hold on to a part of him. People seemed to be wondering why Koneko was holding a box over her shoulder, but they just ignored it.
When they entered, all eyes turned to them, and proceeded to widen exponentially. All throughout the filming, Naruto never once showed any interest in Avalon, even though she was one of the most beautiful actresses in the world, but seeing these girls explained it, these girls blew her out of the water.
As the girls went in to get seats, Naruto walked to the concessions stand to get drinks, he could sense Cameron and Avalon coming up behind him. He turned around to see them giving him some of the most fake smiles he had ever seen.
"So Naruto, who are they?" Avalon said, plainly trying to hide her jealousy.
"Friends." Naruto answered plainly.
"Where were you hiding them buddy?" Cameron asked while putting his arm around Naruto.
Naruto simply removed the arm and said, "I wasn't, they just wanted to come tonight, now if you'll excuse me." With that, he walked back to the theatre with the drinks.
Avalon was livid, she wanted Naruto! Not just because he was a total hunk, but he was seriously famous, and she liked putting herself on a pedestal.
Cameron wasn't happy either, he hated Naruto, so much that he had even tried to use a contract with a devil to have him killed... Summoning the devil worked, but when he heard the name of the target, the devil went pale and said, 'Fuck that! I'm partial to living!'
When the movie started, Naruto and the girls sat down and got comfortable.
After the movie - Limo
The girls were all talking about the movie, while Naruto was reflecting on it. Working on the movie was one thing, but watching it was always different.
One thing that the girls al agreed on, was that the scene where Naruto went shirtless was the best part, and also when he drove off to plan his next move.
When they arrived back at the manor, Ino, Hinata, Tenten, Orihime, Lillian and Chizuru got ready to head back home. Though Yakumo had decided to stay with Naruto.
"Are you sure?" He asked, wanting to make sure that she truly wanted to.
Yakumo nodded, "Yes. My family situation has been getting worse, it won't be long before they don't let me out at all... Plus with Kurenai refusing to teach me..."
Naruto nodded and said, "Of course you can stay, we can set you up a room later."
Yakumo and the whole peerage said goodbye to the ones leaving, Moka, Mizore, and Kurumu had nothing else to do, so they, like Yakumo, stayed with him.
"Oh... We're gonna miss you Yakumo!" Tenten said, giving her old friend a hug.
"Take care of yourself okay..." Sakura said, a bit sad.
"What are we going to tell people when we show up without her?" Hinata asked.
Ino thought for a minute, "We could say that we were knocked out and when we woke up, she was gone... So we immediately packed up and went home... We could make the genjutsu easy to sense so they believe it easier..."
Naruto nodded, that would work.
The next day - Karakura High School.
Orihime took a deep breath and waited for her friends to show up, she was on the roof and had asked them to talk at lunch. As she was waiting, she sensed something. A devil, but it felt malicious and wild, "A stray... Based on his power, I could kill him easily... Wow! Did I really just think that!? Naruto was right, becoming a devil really messed with my head..." (2)
Ichigo sighed as he and the others walked up the stairs to the roof, Orihime seemed really nervous, when they arrived, they opened the door to see...
Orihime and a man in a suit?
Though the man... he felt worse than a hollow...
Rukia went stiff at seeing him, he was a devil...
On paper, the three factions and the soul society had a simple, 'you leave me alone, I leave you alone', relationship. Sadly, a good number of Shinigami thought that devils were monsters, and Rukia was one of them.
She didn't hate them, and she had never met one, but the only thing she had to go on was the Kuchiki elders, and they had told her that they were all monsters. They were about to walk out, but Orihime spoke.
"What do you want stray?" Ichigo and the others were a bit startled, that wasn't how Orihime usually acted...
Tatsuki was a bit afraid at the change in her friend, that didn't sound like the bubbly girl she knew at all!
The stray chuckled, "I'm here to extend an invitation. I am starting up a group of strays who don't want to be slaves to their pureblood masters... I want to know if you'll join us... You must hate being under your master's thumb."
Chad was confused, "Master? Does he have Orihime confused with someone else?"
Tatsuki stared, "He has to... Orihime doesn't have a mas-"
"My master has been nothing but kind to me. Now leave." She said, stunning them all.
The stray chuckled, "Come on sweetie... All purebloods are self-centered assholes! Come with me and we'll kill them all!"
He then found a blade of red energy at his throat, coming from Orihime's hand, "Listen to me you filthy mongrel. I will stand by my master until my dying breath." Her wings erupted from her back, "Now leave before I stain the floor with your blood."
If everyone watching was surprised before, now they were mortified, what happened to Orihime!?
"Fine, but I'll be back..." The stray said, until he found himself face down with someone on his back, then he felt someone knock him out.
"She might have let you go, but I think it would be easier to just kill you now..." Chizuru said with her cat ears and tail out, holding a kunai from Naruto to the devil's neck.
Ichigo walked out with everyone and said, "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON HERE!?"
Orihime and Chizuru turned to them and stopped.
A few minutes later.
Orihime was out of her 'devil mode' as she liked to call it. She had just finished explaining herself and Chizuru being devils, and how long they had been, "I'm sorry if I scared you... Naruto said that my personality conflicted with a devil's so much that my evil piece created a split personality that is everything a devil should be. Sometimes I switch back and forth without noticing..."
Tatsuki placed her hands on Orihime's shoulders, "Why didn't you tell us? Why didn't you tell me!?"
Orihime gained a sad expression, "I'm sorry... I was afraid of what you'd think..."
Uryu shook his head, "After all we've been through, you think we'd care about this?"
Orihime nodded and Tatsuki bopped her on the head, "Stupid..."
Orihime let out a few tears, and Rukia smiled, she was happy that the elders were wrong.
Nami no Kuni.
Naruto walked up to the house/inn situated on the water in Nami. Moka, Mizore, Kurumu, Yakumo, and himself were about to meet the client, and they had changed back into their casual/battle wear. Though Mizore had chosen to put her stockings back on.
He knocked on the door and waited. When it opened, it revealed a woman with long dark hair, "Can I help you?"
Naruto nodded, "I am Naruto Gremory, devil of the Gremory House, I believe you made a request by way of contract?"
Her eyes widened, "That actually worked!? Please come in..."
They all got situated at the dining table and Naruto spoke, "So you want us to get rid of Gato?"
She nodded, Naruto continued, "Very well, though a couple rules. One, we use our own methods to accomplish the mission. Two, you don't reveal our status as devils to anyone." Tsunami nodded again.
"Though one thing... I think my father hired shinobi from Konoha..." Naruto's eye twitched as the girls flinched. After that, she explained how the situation started, including Inari's attitude problem and Kaiza.
They spent the next few days gathering intel on Gato and his operations. He had hired a few shinobi, but nothing that they couldn't handle, Naruto was currently walking through the woods looking for Zabuza's base, but instead he happened upon the man himself fighting a team from Konoha...
The team was made up of a Nara, an Akamichi, an Aburame, and Ino, lead by a huge man with a beard, Naruto recognized him from the pictures around Jiji's place. Asuma Sarutobi, that was his name. Naruto watched as Zabuza and Asuma clashed, he leaned against the tree and waited.
After a brief clash, Zabuza was wounded and struck by a few senbon in the neck. He fell and a hunter-nin appeared, thanking them.
Naruto walked out and said, "A convincing act, but not enough."
Everyone looked to see him, Asuma and Shikamaru immediately analyzing him, with Chouji not knowing what to do, and Ino gaining a sparkle in her eye and jumping a bit. The hunter-nin's eyes widened under her mask, she grabbed Zabuza and shunshined away.
Asuma analyzed this new player, he didn't have a headband, so he wasn't a ninja, but he carried himself with confidence, and he didn't bat an eye at the battle he was obviously watching.
Naruto turned and saw Tazuna, "Ah. So there you are, Tsunami-san hired us to help protect you. Follow me Konoha-nin, I'll lead you to Tazuna's place."
With not much else to do, they followed.
When they arrived back, there were... multiple reactions. Shikamaru didn't care about anything and sat down to put his head down on the table, Chouji gained a blush at the four extremely beautiful women, lastly, Ino subtly gave them a wink.
Asuma's reaction was the most analytic, He immediately noticed the missing Kurama heiress, but she didn't seem to be in any kind of trouble or stress... There were a few other things, the pink haired girl had a deep bloodlust, the blue-haired one was giving off a subtle charming genjutsu, the purplette was nearly lowering the room temperature, and the boy... there was something familiar about him...
After doing introductions, the two teams decided to head to bed, Asuma, being incredibly tired, decided to leave the questions for the next day, and so he and his team went to bed as well.
Later that night.
Moka tossed and turned on her futon. She was so hungry... in all the excitement of the last few days, she had forgotten to drink one of her blood packs... now she didn't have any with her!
She sat up, letting the blanket fall off her bra and panty clad body, she stood up and walked down the stairs to the living room. She sat down on the couch and tried to forget about her hunger, but she knew it was useless. She would slowly go crazy until she got blood, she needed some, badly.
"What's wrong Moka-chan?" She heard Naruto's voice ask from the stairs, she turned and had to force herself not to jump when she saw his bare neck.
She shook her head, "Nothing, I'm fine..." She said with a forced smile.
Naruto noticed easily, he then sat down next to her, "Please don't lie to me Moka-chan, just tell me what's wrong." It was then that he noticed that she'd switched to her vampire form, she was also licking her lips while slowly inching toward his neck, "You're hungry."
Moka realized what she was doing and jumped back, "I'm sorry, I just haven't eaten in a while... I'll try and control myse-"
She was stopped by Naruto placing his hand on the back of her head and placing her mouth near his neck, "Go ahead, have all you want. I'd never let you go hungry Moka-chan."
Her eyes went wide as she opened her mouth and licked his neck, she had never drank from a living being before, but she had heard that it was much better than blood packs. She bit down and pressed herself into Naruto, her eyes dilated as the blood flowed into her mouth, as she drank, she felt a heat spread from her mouth throughout her body, it was the most delicious thing she had ever tasted!
The heat spread throughout her body, she felt like someone lit a fire in her soul, she was grateful that Naruto didn't notice, when she stopped, she took her mouth off and said, "Thank you Naruto-kun... I think I'm gonna stay down here for a minute."
Naruto nodded with a small smile and walked back up to their room. As soon as he was gone, Moka's legs turned to jelly and she collapsed onto the couch, "Aha!" She spent the next few minutes calming down, "That was much more intense than I imagined, it must have been a combination of not eating and my feelings for him..."
She took a few more minutes, wiping some blood off her lip and sucking it off, she then changed back to her sealed form and walked up to their room to sleep. When she arrived, she saw that Naruto was already back to sleep, she sat down and covered herself with her blanket. But before she could go to sleep, she heard Kurumu's voice, "Soooo~ What happened?"
Moka turned to see Kurumu staring at her with a gleam in her eye. Mizore and Yakumo were also looking.
Moka blushed a bit, "I just drank his blood, that's it..."
Kurumu nodded, "Okay... So why do I smell sex on you?"
Moka turned over, "What are you talking about? As if I would..."
Mizore gained a small smirk, "So if you pulled that blanket down you wouldn't be completely soaked?"
"Shut up..." Moka said in a rare moment of embarasment.
Yakumo, feeling sorry for the vampire, said, "Come on... Maybe we should leave her be..."
Kurumu giggled a bit, "Alright we're sorry. It's just that we get so few chances to tease you."
With that, the four girls lie back in heir beds and followed their King into the realm of dreams. One thing that they didn't notice however, was a black cat with a curly tail sitting on the open windowsill watching them with a mischievous gleam in it's yellow eyes... The cat jumped into the room and crawled over to Naruto, snuggling into his side.
The Next Morning.
Naruto's nose twitched as he felt something tickle him, he opened his eyes to see the girls still asleep, and the beginning rays of morning light just beginning to shine through the window. He looked down to see what caused his discomfort, and he saw the cat...
He stared at it for a minute before sitting up and picking it up, taking it to eye level. It opened it's sleepy eyes and rubbed it's eye, Naruto sighed, "You really like to show up whenever it suits you don't you, and where's your hat?"
The cat yawned and gave him a sleepy smile, "I just wanted to leave it off for a while, and is it bad that I'm here?" It said in a light and playful girl's voice.
Naruto smiled and shook his head at his familiar's attitude, "No it's not... Welcome back."
She smiled and took the opportunity to climb up onto Naruto's head, setting herself in his hair. Naruto sighed and got up, changed out of his pajamas, ignoring the cat's look, and headed downstairs to see Tsunami making breakfast.
She heard him and turned to smile at him, "Oh you're up, I just got up a few minutes ago myself." Then she noticed the cat on his head, "Um..."
Naruto reached up and scratched the cat's head, "Ah, sorry. She's my familiar, it's an... assistant to a devil. I promise she's very well behaved."
Tsunami nodded, "Well as long as she doesn't make a mess."
Naruto's feline companion huffed, "It's not like I do it all the time..."
"Did she just..." Tsunami asked, blinking.
"Yes she did. Most familiars can't talk, but she's special..." Naruto said, giving the happy cat another round of petting. It was true, she was special when it came to familiars. She was born a regular cat, however her mother was exposed to potent magic somewhere, giving the kitten incredibly strong magical power. Power that Naruto had sensed, leading to the two meeting.
Naruto sat down and waited for breakfast, as well as everyone else to get up. It wasn't long before the smell of breakfast filled the air, leading to everyone waking up and coming down. After Asuma dragged Shikamaru down, they all engaged in some small talk. Incredibly awkward small talk, but talk none the less. Mostly about the cat, but Naruto just said that she was his personal summon. Simple, and not entirely untrue.
Asuma debated bringing up Yakumo's presence and asking her to return to the village, he decided against it. If it came to a confrontation, he didn't know if he could win... From what he could see, the four teens were very strong, and Yakumo was nowhere near as weak as everyone thought she was. Though it seemed that Ino was hitting it off marvelously with them, Yakumo he would understand, from what he had heard they had been friends for years. But it was the ease with which she conversed with the other four that got him confused...
Shikamaru was also noticing this, and while he didn't think it was anything to be concerned about, he was definitely curious.
Once Tsunami was done with breakfast, she set some plates down in front of everyone, they all dug in with gusto, except for Moka, she just picked at her food. When asked why by Tsunami, she said, "I'm afraid that my bloodline doesn't require me to eat normal food. I still can, but I don't really need to."
This definitely got people's attention What kind of bloodline made it so people didn't need to eat?
Chouji seemed mortified, "I can't imagine never eating! It sounds horrible..."
Moka shook her head, "It's not that I don't need to eat. It's that I don't eat regular food. Speaking of which... Naruto, May I? I'm still a bit hungry..."
Naruto sighed, "Alright, go ahead Moka-chan." He said as he loosened his collar and exposed his neck.
Everyone was wondering what he was doing, until Moka turned into her vampire form and she leaned , showing everyone her fangs. They were getting a bit concerned, then they were shocked as Moka bit into Naruto's neck, drinking down his blood, while a small drop escaped, going down his neck.
When Moka was done, she licked up the stray drop and drew back, licking the blood from her teeth and lips. As she returned to her sealed form, was amused by the other's wide eyes, "I don't need to eat, but I need to drink blood to survive. It's always fun to see people's reactions to learning that." She said with an amused smirk.
Tazuna shook his head, looked at his sake bottle, and tossed it out the window.
Asuma shook his thoughts away and focused on the mission, "So Tazuna-san, do you know where Gato's base is?"
Tazuna sighed, "I'm sorry to say I don't. He never lets anyone who finds out life long after."
"It's a mansion in the forest. Near the center of the island." Mizore said taking a bite of her frozen eggs.
Shikamaru looked up for the first time, "How do you know that if I may ask?"
Kurumu spoke up this time, "We were hired by Tsunami-san to take care of Gato. Since we two groups are working toward more or less the same end, we might as well help each other."
Chouji stopped eating for a second to say, "Where were you guys hired from? You don't have headbands, so you can't be from a ninja village."
This time it was Yakumo who spoke, "We can't tell you that. But we are working to help Nami. The same as you." On a side note, Asuma made a mental note that she was a part of whatever organization it was.
"Come on Sensei! What's the harm? The more the merrier right?" Ino said with a smile.
Asuma sighed, "Fine..."
"Excellent." Naruto said, "Now to share what we know. Zabuza and that hunter-nin are obviously working together, we've also figured out that Gato is going to betray them."
"How did you figure that out?" Shikamaru asked.
Kurumu chuckled, "I can be very persuasive when I want to be..." Succubus charm for the win. She had charmed some of Gato's thugs, working her way to someone who knew what the scumbag was planning.
Ino took on a thinking pose, "Based on the injuries Zabuza sustained during the battle, he should be out of commission for about a week..."
"Then we have a week to train and get stronger, I just hope it'll be enough." Chouji said, finishing off his breakfast.
Naruto then spent the next few minutes explaining what they learned about Gato's plans. The fight would take place on the bridge. Gato would wait for Zabuza and his associates to finish fighting, whether they won or lost, and show up with an army of thugs to wipe out whoever was left.
"So whose going where?" Shikamaru asked, his tactician's mind going to work. Normally he would already have some idea, but he knew nothing about their new ally's abilities.
Naruto thought for a second, "Asuma-san and I will take care of Zabuza and the hunter-nin respectively... Mizore and Ino can come as backup to protect Tazuna or take care of any reinforcements Zabuza brought along, lastly, everyone else goes to take care of Gato's army.
Asuma nodded, it was a solid plan, "What about the crime boss himself?"
Naruto gave a small smirk and pet the feline on his head, "Don't worry. We'll take care of that." Everyone shivered as the cat got an expression much like a regular one got thinking about playing with the mouse it had just caught.
"Why are you even trying... You'll all just die anyway." Inari said quietly.
They all got quiet as he said that, Tsunami's eyes widened a bit, "Inari! They're risking their lives to help us,you should be grateful!"
He shook his head, "Nobody can beat Gato, they're going to die!"
"Is that what you really think? Or is it just easier to give up?" Everyone looked over to Naruto as he continued, "Tsunami-san told us about what happened to Kaiza. WhileI can understand that it was traumatizing for you, it seems like an insult to his memory to just give up. As yourself this Inari, if he were here, what would he be telling you to do?"
Inari stayed silent at that, Naruto was right, he had just given up without a fight... With that, he stood up, "I need to go think..." He then went up the stairs to his room...
After that, they had all dissolved into their own tasks. Asuma took his team out to train, Naruto and his familiar left to scout out her entry point into Gato's mansion, and Moka, and Kurumu stayed with Tsunami to protect her, lastly, Mizore and Yakumo protected Tazuna while he worked on the bridge.
A few hours later, Naruto was jumping through the trees back to the house, when he spotted something. It was the hunter-nin, but in a pink yukata and looking around a clearing. Naruto stopped on a branch and debated going down and talking to her. On one hand, he could take her out now and have one less enemy to deal with, on the other hand, he could approach her and maybe convince her of Gato's betrayal. He debated his options for a minute before shrugging and dropping down just behind her.
Upon hearing his landing, she jumped halfway across the clearing, "Kya!"
"Hello hunter-san."
She pulled out a few senbon from... somewhere... Then got into a low stance and glared at him. Naruto rolled his eyes and said, "If I wanted to hurt you, I could have easily done it when you didn't know I was here."
She stayed in the same stance, "Be that as it may... I'm not stupid."
"I never said you were." Naruto said while staring her straight in the eye, "If so you should know that Gato intends to double-cross you. It's easy to spot, so easy that you and Zabuza couldn't possibly be blind to it."
Her grip tightened on her senbon and a hint of doubt entered her eyes. Not just at his words, but the whole situation... She was armed and poised to strike, yet he simply stood there, watching her, almost like whatever she did, he would have an answer for it...
"Say we have noticed... What's your angle?" She said, wanting to know why he was even talking to her.
Naruto raised an eyebrow, "Angle? My only angle is that I want to avoid any unnecessary bloodshed, plus, let's be blunt here... You want him dead as much as I do..." Naruto knew he had hit the nail right on the head when he saw her eyes widen and her guard drop a bit, before she realized and put it back up.
"If you and Zabuza-san want to be free and live a happy life, my family and I can make that happen. When you come to the bridge, have an answer ready... I'm Naruto by the way, Naruto Gremory." With that, Naruto turned and walked away.
"Wait, I need to ask you something..." When he stopped and turned, she spoke, "Why do you fight? What drives you?"
Naruto took a moment to think before responding, "I fight to protect my family and my friends. I care about them more than anything else in the world, and I'd gladly give my life to make them happy and safe."
She smiled, "I think that you have the right idea... I believe that people can become truly strong only if they have someone to protect. My name is Haku by the way."
Naruto nodded with a small smile, "It's nice to meet you Haku-chan. I hope you and Zabuza take my offer, but even if you don't... It was still a pleasure."
One week later.
So, the week passed much the same as before, with Naruto and his group scouting around and working where they were needed, while Asuma's team alternated between training and guarding Tazuna. A few days ago, they had split into their planned groups, just in case Zabuza was up earlier than planned. Speaking of which, the team of Asuma, Naruto, Ino, and Mizore had just walked onto the bridge, to see all the workers knocked out and a thick mist had descended onto the bridge...
The four stood at the ready as Zabuza and Haku stepped out of the mist, as Asuma stepped forward to start the battle, Naruto beat him to it, "So... Your answer?"
Asuma wondered what he was talking about when Zabuza spoke up, "Haku seems to trust you on some level, but I don't. What proof do I have that you mean what you say? How do I know you're not just going to sell us out to the Mizukage?"
Naruto nodded, he understood Zabuza's concerns, "I assure you, I have no intention of handing you over to an insane tyrant. As for meaning what I say... You'll just have to trust me. It's either taking a gamble with me, or with whoever Gato hired to kill you."
Ino watched silently, Naruto had told the present members of his peerage about his plan. While she agreed it was a good idea, it was also a good idea to keep your guard up. Meanwhile Zabuza was watching Naruto for any hints of deception, finding none, he sighed and hefted his blade over his shoulder.
"...Alright kid, you've got a deal." He finally said.
Asuma took this opportunity to speak up, "Would someone like to explain what's going on?
Naruto turned to him, "Sorry, but I offered Zabuza and his accomplice a place with my family to get away from the hunters in exchange for becoming our allies against Gato."
"Well it would have been nice to know that beforehand..." Asuma said taking out a cigarette.
The heterochromal redhead simply smirked a bit and lifted his hand, "Now to start the other team's task." On the back of his hand, the Gremory circle appeared and flashed a few times before disappearing.
It was that moment that twelve individuals appeared around them. They were all wearing headbands, though crossed out, one stepped forward and said, "Well, looks like Gato was right about you Zabuza. He sent us to watch you, and now that we've caught you off guard-"
"Actually I knew you were there, I just didn't care." Zabuza said in deadpan.
Asuma took a puff of his cigarette, "Same."
Ino and Mizore nodded as Naruto didn't even acknowledge them.
The twelve idio- I mean ninja, got angry and charged. They had a sound strategy, two per opponent... they didn't last a minute.
Naruto dodged a punch to his head and slammed his knee into one's gut, then used him as a shield to take the other's kick, before tossing his meat shield to the side and launching a straight punch into the other's jaw, knocking him clean out.
Asuma just whipped out his trench knives and gave two clean slices, cutting his opponents down easily.
Zabuza just swung his sword and bisected the two after him.
Haku disappeared in a burst of speed and jabbed needles into the necks of the two near her.
Mizore and Ino looked at each other and nodded, then they jumped, letting the ones charging them run unto each other, then they shot down and nailed all four of them with a kick to the back of their heads.
Naruto shook his head as he saw their enemies get demolished. Gato should really stop skimping on the help... If he wasn't going to die that day.
With the other group.
Shikamaru and Chouji watched as Moka and Kurumu ripped through the thugs. The two gennin had just taken out quite a few themselves, but Moka and Kurumu were just... destroying everything. Kurumu had sprouted two pairs of wings, a tail, and claws. She was flying around, slicing through anyone who had the misfortune of being in front of her. Then there was Moka, she was in the middle of the group, punching and kicking everything that got near her, each and every move had to have been breaking bones...
In reality, Kurumu had cast a wide-spread illusion/charm hybrid that effected all of their opponents. It not only made them slow and sluggish, it also made them distracted whenever they saw Moka's or her own beauty.
They shook their heads as they returned to their wn fighting.
A few minutes Later, Gato's army was reduced to nothing.
Moka walked around, looking for any not yet out of commission, while Kurumu flew around doing the same. Once they were done, they returned to where Shikamaru and Chouji were. Moka noticing the loks on their faces, "What? Did we scare you?"
Kurumu, getting in on the teasing, pouted a bit, "I'm not that scary am I?"
They laughed as the two gennin blushed a bit. Kurumu then stretched and said, "Okay... let's head back, I'm kinda tired..."
"What about Gato?" Shikamaru asked, the tyrant was still locked up in his mansion.
Moka gave a low chuckle, "Don't worry, he's been taken care of..."
Chouji was too scared to ask any more.
Inside Gato's mansion.
Gato was cowering inside his office as his two bodyguards stood outside, "What the hell happened!? One second everything is going fine, then my men are getting slaughtered like animals!"
Meanwhile, outside the office, Gato's bodyguards were thinking about getting the fuck out, when they heard a noise, "Who's there!?" One of them said, while they both drew their swords.
"Come on out now! Don't make us come and get you!" Despite their tough facade, they were shaking like leaves.
They then heard it, soft footsteps on the floor... They watched the hallway for whoever was walking toward them. But they nearly died of relief when they saw that it was just a cat...
One of them sighed as he put his sword away, "Man I nearly shit my pants..."
The other gave a nervous laugh, "Me too, but how'd a cat get in here?"
They both looked back at it, a black cat watching them with glowing yellow eyes..., before it seemed to smirk and was enveloped in pink smoke...
Gato heard his guards talking, who the hell let a cat inside!? But that was cut off when he heard them start panicking, then there was a sound like a cannon shot, and the sound of bodies hitting the floor...
Gato watched the door as he heard footsteps drawing closer, when the door opened, he saw... a total cosplay hottie!
A short sexy black dress that conformed to her bust and body, thigh-high heeled boots, long strips of cloth hanging from the long sleeves. She had long purple hair. curling at the end, with two cat ears with white tips on her head, and enchanting yellow eyes...
She smirked at him and said, "You must be Gato... You're gonna die!"
It was then that he realized that she was the one who killed his bodyguards, "W-wait! If you let me go, I can give you anything you want! Money, power!"
She just gained a malicious smile and said, "Nope. Prepare to die." She then put a finger up to the side of her head and moved it in the 'crazy' motion, "Pumpkin, Pumpkin Pum-pumpkin: Halloween Cannon!" (3)
Tazuna and Tsunami's house.
Naruto watched as an orange bean shot up into the sky. He shook his head at the crazy cat's flashiness, "Blair..."
A few days later.
Naruto stood with everyone else at the end of the completed bridge, Blair in cat form on his head, now with a witch hat on her head.
Tazuna walked up to them and said, "I can't thank you enough for your help, without you all, we would have been doomed."
Ino chuckled embarrassed, "Aw, it was nothing..."
Naruto gave them a smile, "We just did what was right. There's no reason to thank us."
Tsunami shook her head with a smile, :Be that as it may, we'll all be eternally grateful."
Inari went up to Naruto, "I just wanted to say... Thanks, for getting me out of my funk."
Naruto chuckled and ruffled his hair, "No problem, just remember to take care of your mom for me okay?"
Inari nodded with a few tears in his eyes.
Naruto then urned to Zabuza and Haku, "So, are you two ready to go?"
Haku nodded with a smile while Zabuza looked to the ground, "I have something to say... I'm not going. I'm gonna head back to Kiri and join the rebellion, but I want you to take Haku."
Haku's eyes shot wide open and she turned to look Zabuza in the eye, "What do you mean Zabuza-sama!? Did I do something wrong!?"
Zabuza shook his head, "Of course not Haku... But I want you to be happy, I'm not meant for this, but you are. So as my final order... No, as your father, I want you to go with the brat."
Haku started crying as she held onto Zabuza, he took a second to respond with a hug. After Haku had calmed down, they shared a tearful goodbye and Zabuza jumped off toward Kiri...
After everyone had said their goodbyes, Naruto, Haku, Moka, Kurumu, and Yakumo returned to the Underworld and Team 10 left for Konoha.
Tazuna turned and took a good look at the bridge, "Now what to name it..."
Tsunami thought for a minute before a name came to her, "How about, the Underworld Maelstrom Bridge?
Everyone present thought about it, and agreed that it was a cool name... so they all agreed on it. But only Tsunami knew the true significance of the name, paying respect to the people who helped them...
Konoha, a few days later.
Asuma had just finished reporting the mission to Minato, as well as Kushina, who was there to talk to Minato, including everything about Naruto and his companions. Shikamaru added in what happened to Gato's army. Minato dismissed the team and turned to his wife, "So Naruto was in the nations..."
Kushina nodded, even though she desperately wanted to see her baby again, she knew that he probably wouldn't want to see them... She then turned her thoughts to the mission report, "Sounds like Naru-chan has gained quite a peerage... A Vampire, a Succubus, and a Yuki-Onna, as well as Yakumo... Though if she's a member of his peerage it stands to reason that Ino, Hinata, Sakura, and Tenten are as well..."
Minato nodded, "Do you want to talk to them about him?" He asked, knowing hoe broken up she was about this. Not to say he wasn't, he just knew that it hit Kushina far worse...
To his surprise, she shook her head, "No... Just leave them be. I think I need to go lie down for a bit..."
Minato sighed as she left. they had both been beating themselves up over the situation with Naruto... The kids had... different ways of dealing with it. Nozomi was both excited and scared to see her brother, excited because she had never really known him, but scared that he'd hate her or not want anything to do with her... Menma at first, shared her attitude, before he started getting upset that he hadn't been born with devil powers, sometimes Menma was too ambitious for his own good...
With not much else to do, Minato turned his attention to setting up the chunin exams...
Chapter end!
Now, some things...
1) I would have made Jibril a part of Naruto's peerage, but I watched no game no life after I got it set in stone, so yeah...
2) I think we can all agree that Orihime is nothing like what a evil should be... So I made it so the evil piece, in preparation for turning her into a devil, created a sort of... alternate personality, that is everything a devil should be. It is now called, 'Devil Mode.'
3) Yup, Naruto's familiar is Blair from Soul Eater. I went there.
Now, the chunin exams will start next chapter, and all of Naruto's peerage will be taking part in them.
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