LEGEND OF THE TRUE SAGE
Hey friends I have decided to start a new story this time a cross over story between high school dxd and Naruto. But I am not abandoning my protector of pride story it's simply a side project an idea that won't leave me alone.
Disclaimer: I own shit neither high school dxd nor Naruto.
summary: in the world where gods and devils walk the earth; where skies are dyed red by the flames of dragons; this is the story of a boy brought back to life after three thousand years to once more be given a chance at the redemption.
A new day
Silence; Endless silence; I don't remember ever feeling this kind of silence. And yet I liked this overwhelming feeling, it was peaceful. I don't want to get up, I don't want to wake up; this silence and darkness is almost like a lover's embrace. It is almost like the times when I slept with Yugito.
Yugito, the only one I ever loved; only one to ever understand me and love me. Thinking off her brought painful memories back, but I don't want those memories I don't want to wake up. Still it felt like someone was calling me, calling me back to the world I left behind. The force is too much for me to ignore and even without thinking I opened my eyes.
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Rias was the only one in the room when the unconscious blonde opened his eyes. She tensed for a moment, barely conscious or not she wanted to take no chances with the boy. The raw display of power knocking out two of the strongest beings in one shot, this boy had definitely more than what met the eyes. Just looking at the person lying in the sofa no one could guess how powerful he truly was. Although on the surface he looked just as unassuming as Ise or Kiba she was aware for her kind looks always was a lie.
"So our guest is awake already? That's a good sign." Rias was shaken out of her thoughts when her brother's voice shook him out of her stupor. "Elder brother why are you still here?" her voice quivered, she was proud of her heritage and her brother but he was the ruler of underworld so his presence here was really a bad sign for the anti faction. "I had to be here, I had to ensure that his presence here bode no ill omen for my home" Sirezech was a very calm man in most of the time even now he was keeping his worries and tension behind his mask of confidence and beside him was the tall and enigmatic governor of the fallen angels.
"Who are you people?" the new voice surprised all three of them as they looked to see the blonde now sitting up. Naruto could feel his voice cracking from lack of use, how long had it been one or two decades. "Who are you guys and where am I?" he asked again.
Naruto felt weak, his body felt heavy, he tried to stand up only to fall down. "Easy there" the tall black haired male said before holding out his hand. It was strong, not buff but muscles in there were totally solid almost like Guy or Rock Lee. The man dragged him upright easily before settling him down on the sofa.
"Hello Naruto-Kun, I am Azazel it is nice to meet you after three thousand years." Naruto could not believe his ears he could understand knowing his name he was famous after all; but three thousand years made no sense.
"You are kidding?" he croaked out loud, "no one can live that long." "Wrong, no mortal can live that long" this time it was the other guy with red flaming hair who spoke. That actually gave Naruto pause he had faced demonic beings before ageless and immortal beings he had seen sage toads over thousand years old. He harbors a being inside his body that is over millennium old.
Kurama could not believe his senses these people were not lying, they were not mortal the quality of the aura the black haired man possessed was almost as old as he. Unlike his host Kurama was not unaware this entire time, being a mass that is connected to the chakra pathways of the world he could sense the passage of time. "He is telling the truth boy" he intervened finally knowing that Naruto will hear it.
The booming voice of his oldest companion shook Naruto off his trance. He trusted Kurama with his life and if he was saying that these odd men were not mortal then there was hundred percent possibilities that he indeed right. But that led to the question were they hostile or not and he had just the way to check it.
Rias tensed at once as she felt the same aura from yesterday appear, although the amount was extremely small there was no mistaking the feeling of power in the aura. She looked at her brother for instruction but the new Lucifer was just as calm as before. "No need to worry my friend we are not enemies." Azazel spoke slowly and calmly. "I know" the answer was plain and simple and everyone could see the change in his posture.
No longer he felt weak or tired, in his place was a man guarded but with an unmistakable aura of power. "Rias leave us" Sirezech commanded as he also took a seat in the sofa facing Naruto directly while Azazel remained standing.
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Naruto was shocked into silence how do you even believe that everything you have worked for is gone; every fight I fought was for nothing. "So I have nothing else to live for" he whispered out to himself and the feeling hurt much more than he even wanted to imagine.
"Well that depends on how you see the world" the words came from Azazel who was watching the blonde with the greatest interest. "First of all you need to learn the world as it truly is" this time it was Sirezech who said to that.
"There is another world that overlaps with your own, one where supernatural beings exist, angels, devils and fallen angels it's not some fancy dream. I am a devil myself more specifically the ruler of devils the new Lucifer, and Azazel once used to be an angel but now he is the governor of fallen angels. For years we have watched over the earth and the mortals you intrigue us despite of being weak you possess a tenacity and will not seen in any where else but now we have peace or almost peace. You have done what were meant to do now you can take rest." The words meant almost nothing to Naruto except tell that he was a small fish on a large pond.
"And how do you suppose I do that? Everything I knew is over every single damn thing I cared about is gone. I am the lone relic of a long gone era" Naruto did not want to be awake; he wanted to go to back to the darkness, back to the silence. "I need time to think but thank you" he spoke finally standing up from the sofa and leaving the room.
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For hours Naruto walked along the streets of the city, full of life, joy and warmth. In a lot of ways it was not so unlike Konoha, while definitely the some buildings were twice as high as the hokage building most were still much like the small home like structures he had witnessed ages ago. But one thing he could sense or rather could not sense that was the distinct hum of chakra. 'How can the chakra become extinct that one thing is the life force of us of the other freaks I could understand but how can a human live without it.' Naruto was confused and he was not the only one, 'this indeed makes no sense but that can wait I can sense a hostile power looming close' Kurama's booming voice stopped him. While Naruto could sense the evil intents to a degree without resorting to his tenet's power it was nothing compared to what the great beast was capable of.
'let him come, I can deal with any who comes in my way' Naruto thought back to Kurama, he was more than confident in his powers and with the age of shinobi gone there was no way anyone could match his combat prowess. 'And even if they could the worst they have to offer will be the greatest gift I can have now' Naruto was tired; he was tired of fighting an endless war his whole life.
The fourth shinobi war was supposed to be when he won his long deserving rest but instead he was thrust in a foreign world and now someone was attempting to attack him. The motherfucker was in for a great deal of pain of that much he was certain. He stopped in his tracks waiting for whoever it was daring to approach him.
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Naruto watched keenly the area he was sure the being was coming from but the only thing that came out was a small black cat. Now any other person would have been lured into a false sense of security but not Naruto as he had sensed accurately the small change in direction. The swing of the scythe hit only air missing the blonde completely. The grim reaper was astonished, he had sensed a soul long overdue and hunted but the attack was evaded now if this was some devil or fallen angel then he could understand but it made no sense the being was surely a human.
Naruto watched the being closely he was wearing a black hooded robe and carrying a scythe much like Hidan once did. He could sense a strange kind of power emanating from the person but he could not identify it. He created a shadow clone seal-less, it felt good to have use chakra after so many days it felt liberating somehow. He himself kept his presence hidden slowly absorbing the chakra of the world activating his powerful sage mode, the eyes changed into the eyes of a toad as a yellowish pigment appeared below his eyes. He watched the attacker he had a different life signature from anything he had seen so far, that alone put him in alert. Following his silent command the shadow clone appeared at the back of the being but keeping a fair distance to avoid the deadly weapon. The plan was simple to seek an opening and defeat, he didn't want to kill, there were a lot of things he needed to know first.
"Why are you attacking me without reason" the shadow clone hissed out only to lean back and avoid the attacking swipe from the scythe. Naruto frowned there was no way that scythe could reach him then what was the attack was it similar to how he himself elongated blades by the application of chakra. Two more clones appeared beside him before vanishing in a burst of speed. Two rasengans forming in their hands before they slammed in the robed figure's back throwing him to the ground. Now Naruto was sure any mortal would die from taking hit of a rasengan unless using some protective jutsu but this creature only groaned in pain before standing up again. This time he moved himself, dodging the furious swipes of the scythe he moved in the creature's range. He slammed his fist in to the humanoid's chest before hitting it with a sage chakra powered rasengan that did the job.
Now as he stood in front of the downed attacker trying to figure out what he should do next. He would have to interrogate the being but that was a given; the question was where to do that. The only viable solution was to bring this creature to Sirezech and Azazel. They were certainly friendly.
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"So what can you tell me about the freak unconscious over there" Naruto asked Azazel seeing as the other man was not there anymore. Azazel just had his suspicions were confirmed as he watched the unconscious grim reaper, from the amount of aura the grim reaper was medium level but that meant he was as strong as the high level devil and Naruto had defeated him without resorting to much more powerful attacks he possessed.
With the threat of Kaos brigade looming all over the world he wanted to have the blond on their side. "The one you just called freak is a grim reaper an agent working for the god of death" Azazel said revealing the skull that was the symbol of every reaper, "they hunt the deceased souls with their scythe but I don't know why this one attacked you. The only thing I do know however is there will be a lot more of them after you and all of them will be stronger than this one." Naruto could detect the faint bit of fear as well as excitement in the tone of the taller man and his curiosity was piqued. He went to face the robed being now identified as a grim reaper; he did not want to admit even after facing all of the nine tailed beasts in combat the hollow eye sockets chilled his spine. "What about the scythe? It is not an ordinary weapon" he spoke the amount of energy imbued in the weapon was not certainly normal. Azazel nodded he was impressed at the perception level of the shinobi, "no it is not. This weapon is tied to his life force and acts as a homing beacon. One scratch form it and any mortal soul will perish."
Naruto contemplated the words he knew what a homing beacon was and if the man was serious then within moments he will be neck deep in grim reapers. He was not afraid of death but he was not exactly looking forward for it as well; not when he didn't know what he was being hunted for. Azazel looked the blonde's jaw tightening before adding, "but you don't have to worry I have added several barriers to the building now no reaper can sense this building even if they stand outside."
Azazel turned to face the reaper now waking up forming a small dagger of light in his hand he stabbed it in the reaper's shoulder blade. The skull's eye sockets glowed in rage as he swallowed the pain without a grunt of pain, "Who sent you after him?" Azazel whispered applying pressure on the dagger driving it deeper. "No one" the reaper hissed its voice cold and furious, "he is a soul long beyond his time and he carries two souls; that is illegal for a mortal". This actually stopped Azazel cold, he had not considered the ramification of a mortal so old, this went against the old laws as it was and he needed to play his hand soon. He created a spear in his other hand and drove it straight through the reaper's skull destroying every trace of the being.
"What did he mean that's illegal?" Naruto was frowning by now. Azazel contemplated the words he was about to say, "Naruto, more than two thousand years ago after the great war between the religions had ended and then some rules were formed to protect the world so that the end war didn't begin early. Your very being disturbs those laws, your existence as a being that is more than three thousand years old is against the law, your soul has escaped the tides of time over it and that is the problem. I don't know how you survived all those years without so much as the scratch of time on it that should be impossible even for some on like us." Azazel paused
"Naruto, I am sure that man is not telling the whole truth while I don't sense any ill intention from him, I am sure he is not without his plans." Kurama the mightiest of the tailed beasts' voice boomed in Naruto's head. 'So what do you suggest' Naruto thought back. "Let me talk to him directly" Kurama grinned the fallen angel was strong almost as strong as his host and he wanted to have a go at him.
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Azazel once more felt himself at the edge as he felt the power of the ancient beast saturate the air. Now he could clearly determine, this aura was at least twice the amount of all five dragon kings put together truly a god slayer power. Never before was there someone who Azazel wanted to fight against so badly. The battle instincts of the warrior angel class were waking up inside him but he forced himself to lock eyes with the now silted red eyes of the blonde demon host.
"You are hiding something leader of the fallen angels and I don't like when someone tries to manipulate me." Kurama's killing intent was weighing down heavily on Azazel who smirked at the sound of the first nine-tails. "Well I can tell you but there is no fun in that why don't you make me talk?" Azazel was smiling full blown twelve pitch black wings erupted from his back floating up in the air.
Naruto cracked knuckles as he prepared for combat against one of the strongest beings, but before he could act a transport magic circle spread beneath Naruto's feet. Azazel watched him disappear in a flash of light before disappearing himself. He needed to see firsthand what the true power of the blonde is, and as far as he knew Naruto only understood the language of fists and if he wanted the power of the nine tails on their side against Kaos brigade then he needed to convince him.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: SO HERE IS THE FIRST CHAPTER OF THE STORY. ON NEXT CHAPTER THE FIGHT BETWEEN NARUTO AND AZAZEL WILL HAPPEN. NOW ON TO THE PAIRINGS I WILL NOT MAKE IT A HAREM FOR ONE THING I ABSOLUTELY SUCK IN THOSE KIND OF WRITINGS AND RIAS IS OUT OF BOUNDS ANY ONE ELSE IS UP FOR GRABS SO TELL ME WHO YOU WANT.