Hey guys Animefanguy here with a new chapter for this story.
Now some of you had some question in the reviews, I hope that this chapter will answer some of them hope you enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Highschool DxD, wish I did though.
STORY START
The room was silent; the only thing that could be heard was liquid pouring into cups. Rias had her fingers crossed in front of her mouth as she sat behind the desk, Kiba, Issei, Asia and Koneko on her left, Grayfia and Akeno, who was preparing the tea, on her right, on the two couches in the center of the room two people were sitting.
On the couch to her left, sitting like he owned the place, with outstretched arms and his right leg over his left, glaring at the man in front of him was Riser Phenex. He was an individual she loathed and wanted nothing to do with, or be associated with, do to his cocky attitude, his disrespect for anyone below him in social standing, and his sexist beliefs.
On the couch to her right, sitting comfortably, with his right leg over his left and his hands resting on his leg while his fingers were crossed, with a calm demeanor was Naruto Uzumaki. To Rias this man was a mystery, she didn't even know from which House he hailed from, but there was something about him, she wasn't sure what exactly, that made her what to get close to him, to learn more about him, to understand him, and he being handsome didn't hurt at all.
"Thank you" said Naruto to Akeno as she handed him a cup of tea.
"Hmm, the made by Rias's Queen is superb" said Riser with a cocky smile, trying to act superior, as he tested the tea. You could hear the demining tone he used when he called her a Queen, like she was an object. This made Rias angry, but that anger left her and was replaced with curiosity when she saw Naruto narrow his eyes for a second when he heard the tone Riser used, like he was displeased with the disrespect he showed Akeno.
"Thank you very much" said Akeno with a smile on her face, but that smile did not reach her eyes, anyone who could read people could tell she was not happy getting praised by this man.
Naruto closed his eyes and put his cup close to his face in order to smell the aroma coming from the tea, after a few seconds enjoying the aroma the tea released, he gracefully took a sip from the cup and savored the tea's taste.
"Excuse me miss, would you be so kind as to give me your name?" he asked Akeno with a kind smile casing a blush to appear of the raven haired girl.
"A-Akeno, Akeno Himejima" answered Akeno with a small stutter surprising every member of the O.R.C., since when did Akeno stutter? Issei was seething silently about pretty boys getting all the girls and how life was unfair.
"Well Akeno-san I must admit that this is the most delicious tea I have ever tasted" he praised her with a sincere voice and a charming smile making her blush darken a bit.
"Thank you very much" she said Akeno giving Naruto one of her true smiles, since for some reason getting praised so sincerely made her feel warm inside.
Naruto nodded and went back to drinking his tea as Akeno gave Rias her cup and went to stand with the other peerage members, her cheeks still a bit red.
Riser glared at Naruto for outshining him with the reaction of Rias's servant, Naruto just ignored him, making Riser clench his teeth in frustration. Rias was amazed at how easy it was for Naruto to get under the skin of that cocky bastard.
"Now that we are all here, I would like to inform you of the details of the situation" said Grayfia as she stepped forward.
"Now, originally the contract with Naruto-sama's father took priority, do to it being older then the contract with the Phenex House, however because of the event that caused Minato-sama's death along with his wife we believed that Naruto-sama had died as well, which pushed the contract with the Phenex forward, as a result the situation has come at a stalemate" Grayfia explained as everyone in the room had their compete attention to her.
"Because of this the Gremory has come to two solutions for the problem, either Riser-sama or Naruto-sama back down from the contract, or the two will have a Rating Game with the losers contract becoming null and void" she finished and everyone in the room raised their eyebrows in surprise, with the exception of Naruto who raised a single eyebrow intrigued, before closing both his eyes and raising his right hand to his chin. After a moment a cocky smirk appeared on Riser's face.
"Well I think the answer is obvious" he said and looked at Naruto with a look that said 'I-am-superior-to-you'.
"So as you heard you better back off brat, so this façade will be over and I can marry my lovely Gremory" Riser said and everyone in the room looked at Naruto who had his eyes still closed.
"Hey, are you even listening to me?!" yelled Riser, getting irritated by Naruto's attitude towards him, and Naruto opened his eyes.
"Hm? Did you say something?" he asked and everyone in the room looked at him dumfounded. Until Issei started laughing followed by the rest of Rias's peerage her included, and although Grayfia did not laugh her leaps twitched upwards and her eyes showed her amusement.
Riser did not find did funny at all and stood up rage evident in his face as he started to release his demonic power accompanied by his killing intent, then flames appeared around Riser, increasing the temperature of the room as a result.
As the occupants of the room felt Riser's power they each had deferent reactions, Asia fell to her knees do to the pressure, Issei started trembling as he gulped, now realizing how powerful that guy is, Kiba, Koneko and Akeno felt like they had weight on their shoulders, even Rias started sweating a bit while having a frown on her face.
As they all looked at Naruto, they were surprised to find him staring at Riser straight into his eyes, not affected by the display of power at all.
The way Naruto was staring into Riser's eyes unnerved him; there was no hesitation, no fear, no surprise at the amount of power he had, it was as if he was staring at his very soul. Riser did not like this at all; the look that Naruto was giving him was that you give when looking at someone weaker then yourself, someone who is inferior in terms of power, someone who is beneath you, even if Naruto was looking up. Realizing just what that look meant infuriated Riser even more and he was ready to unleash more of his power, until Grayfia intervened.
"Riser-sama please calm down. If you continue, then I won't be quiet about it. For Sirzechs-sama's honor, I won't hold back." Raiser made a serious face after hearing Grayfia's quiet and intense voice. Showing that he is in fact scared of her, he calmed the flames around his body and sighed while he shook his head.
"…To be told that by the 'Strongest Queen', even I would be scared… I definitely wouldn't want to fight the people from Sirzechs-sama's group, which is known to be made up of monsters" he said as he sat back down with a frown on his face.
"Now do to protocol I have to ask Riser-sama, Naruto-sama, do either of you wish to back down" Grayfia asked as she looked at the two of them.
"Of course not, there is no way that I will pass the chance to marry and possess the Gremory heiress" said Riser, with his eyes closed and his hands slightly above his head making a 'U' form, as if it was the best complement a girl would ever want to hear. Rias glared at him, and frowns appeared on the faces of her peerage, for talking about her as if she were an object.
Naruto's eyes narrowed to dangerous levels, for those who knew him that was an alarm, as he looked at Riser with a disgusted look on his face, though Riser did not see it as he has his eyes closed.
"Naruto-sama?" Grayfia asked as she looked at the silver haired young man. Naruto closed his eyes for a few seconds, before looking at the silver haired maid.
"Before I answer that I would like to ask a few questions if it's all right" he said and Grayfia nodded, getting a positive response Naruto looked at Riser.
"My first question is for you Riser" he started as he looked at Riser straight into his eyes with the same intensity as before. Riser, for some reason, felt cold sweat running on the back of his neck, but nodded.
"Do you love Rias?" his question surprised the occupants of the room. Rias was especially shocked, didn't political marriages center on the desire for more political pull? Marriage contracts almost never put weight on the feelings of the ones mentioned in the contract, so why would he ask such a question? Riser snorted at the question.
"Of course I love her, she is beautiful and the heiress of the Gremory" he answered as his cocky face became even cockier, if that was even possible.
"What about you, don't you love her?" Riser smirked thinking he can turn Rias against Naruto since in his opinion saying that you don't love a girl was the best way to turn her against you.
"I do not know enough about her to answer that question" he answered confusing Riser as well as the rest of the people in the room.
"She is beautiful and an heiress to a powerful House, what else is there to know?" asked Riser with another cocky smile thinking that he gave another great complement. Everyone on Rias peerage glared at Riser, with the exception of Asia who was to kind to glare, she frowned, with Rias clenching her teeth in anger, even Grayfia had a displeased look on her face though it was barely visible.
"What else is there to know? How about her favorite color or what she likes to eat most, what are her hopes and dreams, what are her fears. Is she strong, courageous, outgoing, fun, loving, understanding, or is she mean, cruel, sadistic, heartless, uncaring, cowardly? Without knowing all that how can you say you love her, just how shallow is the definition of love for you? Let me clarify something, I do not care who Rias the heiress is, what I do care is who Rias the person is" Naruto answered while looking at Riser with his cold soul seeing stare.
Rias was beyond shocked, she always wanted someone to see her as herself and not just as the heiress of the Gremory, don't get her wrong she was proud to be the heiress of her House, but she also wanted someone to see her as more than that, to see the true Rias, the one that was hiding behind the mask of the heiress.
The members of her peerage were also surprised by his statement, Issei especially since he thought that Naruto was a cocky bastard like Riser.
Grayfia had a small smile on her face and if you looked close enough you would see pride displaying in her eyes, pried of the fact that Naruto had the mindset of his father, a mindset that went against what his House originally believed.
"You dare call ME shallow? ME? The third son of the House of Phenex? I will not stand for this, especially not from an heir of some worthless House. I have had enough of this farce, I am ending you NOW!" said Riser enraged as he stood up and raised his right hand over his head in order to create a fireball and blast the one who dared stand up to him. Rias and her peerage looked at Riser with concern for what he intended to do, while Naruto was just looking at Riser with a calm expression on his face.
Just as he was about to start gathering power a hand grabbed his wrist, Riser turned his head in order to yell to whoever dared to stand in his way, only to freeze when his eyes met a pair of silver eyes with a cold intensity that could freeze hell.
"This is my last warning Riser-sama, one more act of aggression and I will take action" said Grayfia as she kept holding Riser's wrist. The tone of her voice was icy cold and with the combination of her killing intent in the mix, had effectively shut the cocky Phenex up, and he sat back down with a little less color on his face. She let go of his hand and looked back at Naruto.
"Is there anything else you would like to inquire Naruto-sama?" she asked and Naruto nodded affirmatively. He turned his attention towards Rias, his eyes still had the intensity from before, but they now also holed warmth and kindness, Rias found herself drawn to those amassing icy blue eyes that looked at her with intensity, unable to look away.
"Rias-san my next question is to you, and I would like it if you were honest" he said and she nodded.
"Do you want to marry Riser?"
"No" her answer came so quickly out of her mouth that it actually surprised him, he suspected that she didn't what to marry him, no woman with any self esteem would willingly marry a jackass like Riser, but the way she said it showed that she has been trying to get rid of the contract with Riser for years.
Riser frowned at Rias's answer, who did she think she was? As a woman she should just bow her head and obey (A/N: as usual Riser is being a prick).
Naruto nodded at Rias's answer and looked back at Grayfia.
"I have one final question before I tell you my decision" he told her and she nodded for him to go on.
"I would like you to tell me the details of the contract my father made with the Gremory" he told her and she nodded, and turned her right palm upwards, over her palm a small magic circle appeared and a couple of seconds later a small scroll teleported into her hand.
"Before I begin I would like to inform you that since the name of Naruto-sama's House is hidden I will not be saying the name as I read" she said and with a nod from everyone, except Riser, as she opened the scroll.
"First and foremost this contract and its agreements surround the two individuals that are to be married and much less the Houses themselves" said Grayfia and started to read the contract.
"The agreements are as followed:
-First, once the two children of the two Houses meet for the first time the contract comes in effect, then a probation period will be in effect before the marriage can happen, the amount of time the probation period lasts will be determined accordingly:
If they are below seventeen years old then the probation will last until both reach their twentieth birthday.
If they are above seventeen on the other hand the probation will last three years.
-Second, the contract cannot be annulled by anyone during the probation period, not even a Maou.
-Third, the marriage will not be forced during the probation period by anyone, the only way for the marriage to happen before the probation period is over is if both of them agree to it and they are older than seventeen years old.
-Forth, if by the end of the probation period one of them doesn't want to marry the other then the contract will be annulled.
-Fifth, if by the end of or during the probation period both of them want to get married the marriage cannot be annulled by anyone, not even by the authority of the Maou or the High Council.
-Sixth, due to the heir of Minato-sama's House being the last of his House, the Gremory who enters this marriage will have to give up any rights to the Gremory succession as he or she will be the Lord or Lady of the House they will marry into.
-Seventh, if the heir of Minato-sama's House is male, the daughter of the Gremory will have to agree on him having a harem of at least two women, due to the laws of the Underworld.
Those are the agreements of the marriage contract, and it is signed by Minato-sama, Sirzechs Lucifer-sama and Lord Gremory" finished Grayfia as she rolled the scroll and looked at the occupants of the room.
Rias was stunned, she could annul the marriage the second the probation period was over if she did not want to marry Naruto, and no one could force her to marry him, that alone made this contract much more appealing than the one she had with Riser, plus if she did want to marry him no one could force the annulment of the contract in order to force her into another one. And although she was proud to be the heiress of the Gremory she did not mind giving the title to her nephew, after all the title of Lady of a House was higher in standing to the title of heiress, especially if the House itself was of High standing itself and she suspected, do to all the secrecy, that it was. The only true difference will be that her words and actions will reflect more upon Naruto and his House then the Gremory. Lastly for a devil to have a harem wasn't all that uncommon, heck her own father had one with her mother managing it, so she didn't have a problem with that.
Her peerage was surprised by the contents of the contract, as they realized that it was very beneficial for Rias, with the exception of Issei who was crying, muttering 'lucky to have a harem by law' while staring at silver haired young man.
"Guess Jiraiya was right; my father was a romantic, since he gave both me and Rias a way out of the contract. Not to mention that by the time we annulled the contract we would both be at least twenty, which would officially make me the Lord of my House and Rias would be old enough that no one could force us into another contract without our consent" said Naruto with a small smile while having his eyes closed.
Everyone in the room, with the exception of Grayfia, widen their eyes in shock at what he said, and Rias new now that she REALLY preferred the contract with Naruto then that with Riser.
Riser was seething at the look Rias was giving the silver haired bastard, a look that all but said that she preferred the contract with him(Naruto) instead of a Phenex like him(Riser).
"So Naruto-sama, will you be backing down on the contract?" asked Grayfia, and looked at him as he opened his eyes to look right into her eyes.
"No I will not, the only reason I considered it was because I did not know if I could annul the marriage on the chance me and Rias don't mix well as a couple" he answered and Grayfia nodded.
"In that case, a Rating Game will take place in order to decide which marriage contract will continue and which will be annulled" she said and a cocky smirk appeared on Risers face yet again.
'Seriously, is the cocky face his default or something?' wondered Naruto as he looked at Riser who was about to open his mouth to blabber again.
"Well this will be an easy victory" said Riser and clicked his fingers, causing the magic-circle on the floor to glow; the magic-circle had the same emblem of Phoenix that Raiser appeared from. Then shadows appeared from the magic-circle. Fifteen shadows to be exact. Issei was staring, speechless, at the fifteen girls that had appeared as Riser showed that he had a full fifteen-member peerage.
"Well, these are my cute servants" he said with the ever present cocky smile.
"We have already competed in official Rating Games, so there is no way that an upstart like you could bit us;" he directed his attention to Naruto as he said that, that annoying smile never leaving his face. Naruto looked at Riser's peerage with a calculative eye that in all honesty unnerved the peerage of the Phenex.
"I see…" said Naruto as he closed his eyes. Riser perked up hearing his words, his smile growing.
"Oh? Do you now see that it is futile to go against me now?" he said with a victorious look on his face thinking he had already won.
"No, what I see is that you prefer quantity and outer appearance instead of quality and actual ability" his words enraged Riser and hit his peerage's pride.
"I mean, look at then, with the exception of your [Queen] and a couple of your main pieces they seem completely untrained. I bet that those twins will be helpless without their chainsaws" he said as he looked at the loli twins.
"Ha, you may preach that my peerage is not trained enough but I at list have mine where is yours? Oh wait I doubt that you even have a single peace let alone an entire peerage, right?" said Riser and waited for Naruto to confirm his statement.
"No I have a foul peerage as well" he said shocking Riser.
"Oh yea well where are they?" he asked trying to call, in his opinion, his bluff.
"They have other duties, plus I don't see the reason for me to revile my hand to you like you did" he said with a small smile. The statement shocked Riser, only for his shock to turn to anger, but before he could speak again a young girl from his peerage stepped forward.
"Oni-sama what is going on? Didn't you say that we were coming here in order to convince Rias-san to marry you? Why are we even tacking to this peasant?" asked the girl, she had dark blue eyes and long blonde hair that was tied into twintails with large, drill-like curls, and blue ribbons keeping them in place. She was wearing a light purple dress with dark purple accents and a blue bow at the front.
Riser explained to her what was going on and she looked at Naruto differently now that she knew that he was an heir, still he badmouthed her Oni-sama's peerage, a peerage of the House of Phenex and he had to be put in his place.
"I am Raven Phenex, fourth child of the Phenex House and Oni-sama's bishop" she said as she looked at Naruto, and although she would not admit it she found him very handsome.
"I do not know from which family you are from but no one badmouths the Phenex and gets away with it" she said with an act of superiority, which disappeared once Naruto looked at her straight into her eyes, both unnerving her and enchanting her with his icy-blue eyes.
"I am sorry if what I said sounded like an insult to your House but I was talking about Riser specifically. Now we have dragged this for far too long, and I'm sure we all have other things to do, so why don't we speed things up?" he asked and looked at Grayfia.
The maid nodded and stepped forward.
"Very well, since both parties refuse to back down, as I mentioned before, a Rating Game will decide the outcome, the Rating Game will take place in ten days from now at midnight, is that acceptable to both of you?" both Naruto and Riser nodded.
"What about the rules of the game?" asked Naruto and Grayfia looked at him.
"You will informed about the rules before the game starts, I will arrive at you residence five minutes before the game starts in order to take you to the battlefield" she answered and Naruto nodded as he stood up
"Very well then I will see you all in ten days, Grayfia-san, Rias-san, Ravel-san" he said as he made a small bow to each of the three women and disappeared in a flash of yellow light stunning everyone in the room.
-BREAK-
Naruto appeared into a room at his basement with a flash of yellow after he used the Hiraishin; this specific room was made for teleportation purposes so all it had was the magic-circle in the center of the room and a Hiraishin seal at the wall facing the door.
"Yo chief, how did the talks go?" said a voice at and Naruto looked towards the door.
There leaning at the wall next to the door, smoking a cigarette, was a tall man with brown eyes, short, black spiky hair, and beard. He was wearing the standard Konoha ninja uniform with the sleeves rolled up half the way, flak jacket, regular shinobi sandals and forehead protector. He also wore a sash that had the kanji for "Fire" marked on it around his waist, a pair of black bangles and bandages wrapped around the arms of his sleeves. This was Asuma Sarutobi ex-jonin of Konoha and Naruto's knight.
Asuma was the first to join Naruto's peerage, after his confrontation and death in the hands of Hidan and Kakuzu Naruto had managed to save his body, as he arrived right after Hidan finished his 'ritual', after obliterating the zombie duo Naruto decided to turn Asuma into his first piece and thus gave him a second chance in life. The reincarnation of Asuma to a devil led to Naruto acquiring another piece, after they returned to the village and Naruto explained how it was possible for Asuma to be alive, Kurenai asked if she could be turned into a devil as well in order to be with the man she loved. Naruto accepted, and turned Kurenai into his bishop (A/N: Kurenai is not pregnant in this fic).
"Hey Asuma, it was interesting I will explain the details when we are with the others for now know that in ten days we will be participating I our first Rating Game" this surprised Asuma, he did not expect them to participate in a Rating Game until after Naruto reached the age that he was considered a foully matured devil, but nodded nonetheless.
"So anything interesting happed while I was gone?" Naruto asked his knight as he approached him.
"Not really, the Rokudiame Hokage has send us a report saying that the Elemental Nations are in stable peace, even with you gone, seems quite a few bonds of camaraderie were forged during the Forth Shinobi War so even without you –the man who singe handily defeated Madara and Kaguya and brought the peace they now have– there, there aren't any problems, also the Biju say hi" Asuma finished.
Naruto smiled at the news, when he decided to leave the dimension of the Elemental Nations some were afraid that without him there the peace that was created when he ended the war and released the Biju would crumble. Speaking of the Biju Naruto really missed those nine Beasts, Kurama especially since he had been with him all his life, and had learned a lot about them when he briefly had them all inside him.
As a result of having all of the Biju inside him, even for a short time, he obtained three more Kekkei Genkai, Yōton(Lava Release), Jiton(Magnet Release) and Futton(Boil Release), giving him a total of five if you include the two he had obtained from his mother's side of the family, even if his mother only awakened the Uzumaki chains, which were unlocked when the seal that had those two Kekkei Genkai and his devil powers locked was released on its own on his fourteenth birthday, after he had left with Jiraiya. Well he said five but it could be counted as six, as the final form of one of two he inherited from his mother's blood had been always seen as a different Kekkei Genkai.
"You know I'm a still amazed that Kakashi agreed to become the Sixth Hokage, him being a lazy pervert and all" Naruto said with a small smile and Asuma nodded in agreement, mimicking Naruto's smile.
"Anything else?" he asked his knight and Asuma nodded.
"Yes, Kushina-sama called to remind you to call her and tell her how the tacks about the marriage contract went" a gentle smile appeared on Naruto's face when he heard his mothers' name. A few minutes after Naruto and his peerage first appeared in the Underworld, a few days ago, Kushina Uzumaki appeared from a bright light and bear hugged Naruto while tears fell from her eyes. It turned out that Kushina's maternal grandmother is a goddess of great power, and as she came from the pantheon that had complete jurisdiction over the dimension of the Elemental Nations, she was able to take the souls of Kushina and Kushina's mother from the afterlife of the Elemental Nations and make them goddesses as well, though Kushina was not allowed to go back to the Elemental Nations dimension. The revelation of who his great-grandmother was answered the question as to why he was able to obtain the full power of one of his Kekkei Genkai without having to pay the heavy price that usually was required, as well as the few changed to his devil heritage.
"I see I will call her later, now where is everyone else?" he asked as he slowly approached the door.
"Well most of them, except for the two you told to wait for you inside the training room, are in the training zones training the last three members of the peerage" replied Asuma, as he followed his King outside the room.
"Good I want them to be ready for anything that may come our way" said Naruto and they went through the door. Once Asuma closed the door behind them they found themselves inside a hall stretching to their sides, at the end of the hall to their right was a flight of spiral stairs that went both up and down, next to the stairs to the right was an elevator door, on the other end of the hall was a single wooden door, same as the door which they passed through and the door that they were facing. This was the first basement floor of Naruto's estate.
"What exactly are you expecting to happen that has you so worked up?" asked Asuma as they approached the door in front of them, Naruto stopped and turned to face Asuma.
"When we arrived to the underworld I still had three pieces, a mutated Rook, a Knight and the Queen" he started and the knight nodded.
"For the next three days I gambled with one random teleportation jump each day, and for each one I met the perfect candidate for one of my remaining pieces. That is the exact same kind of luck I had in the Elemental Nations when it came to gambling, with the side effect of nearly all the missions I went on were of higher rank then what we thought they were. So if my luck in this world is the same, then I will most likely have the same luck on assignments and any situations we drag ourselves in. That is why I want all of the members of my peerage ready for anything" he explained to Asuma who had a look that said that although he never thought about it, it made sense and nodded in acceptance of the answer.
Naruto then turned back at the door opened it, and entered along with Asuma. The room that they entered was painted white and had six glass domes on top of six pedestals that rose up to their waist, one was in the center of the room and inside the dome was a miniature grand palace made out of marble. The other five made a semicircle around the central one and each of the five domes was connected to the central one with a tube, each of those five domes had the model of a deferent environment, looking at them from right to left the environment representation was, a rocky wasteland, a mountain with thunderstorms, a sea with a few small islands, a canyon that allowed for the existence of heavy winds and finally an active volcano.
These six domes were Naruto's greatest success in his effort to combine fuinjutsu and devil runes; each of these six domes was an autonomous mini-dimension that could be used for training and relaxation, he named them training zones. Apart from being autonomous mini-dimension they had two more main factions first is the ability to change the gravitational pull of each of the zones thus allowing you to train yourself in harsher conditions, the second function is the time difference between the mini-dimensions and the real world, while in all the zones time flowed the same, it faster much faster than the real world, one hour in the real word equaled to twenty-four hour inside the zones, for example if you spanned a full month inside the zones only thirty hours would pass in the real world.(A/N: idea taken from Negima magister Negi magi do not own)
Do to these domes his team had a bit less than eight months to prepare for their Rating Game with Riser. But first in order to prepare appropriately they needed information, after knowledge is the greatest tool that almost always promised victory in a battle, and he had two individuals that were perfect for the job. Looking to his left he saw the two he was looking for waiting for him near the wall.
The first person was a fairly tall man, standing at 6' 3", well 6' 5" if you count his geta sandals; he had waist-length, spiky white hair that was tied back into a pony tail, with two shoulder-length bangs that framed both sides of his face. He also had red lines that ran down from his eyes and wore a horned forehead protector with the kanji for 'Oil". He also had a noticeable wart on the left side of his nose. He was wearing a green short shirt kimono with matching pants; under which he wore mesh armor that showed out of the sleeves and legs of his outfit. His outfit was completed with hand guards, a simple black belt, a red haori with two simple yellow circles on each side, and a big scroll on his back. This man was Jiraiya the Toad Sage and he was one of Naruto's pawns.
When Jiraiya was dyeing after Pain befitted him the toads were able to reverse summon him to Mount Myōboku, were Naruto was at the time for sage training, do to his respect for the man he decided to ask him as he died if he wanted him to reincarnate him, Jiraiya nodded and Naruto did so by using his mutated pawn, seeing that he was worth six pawns. After Jiraiya recovered he informed Naruto and latter Tsunade about his battle with Pain as well as his abilities and the fact that he used six corpses as puppets, which led to the easier defeat of Pain by Naruto without any casualties as Naruto took him on alone as he had finished his Senjutsu training earlier than expected.
The individual next to him was a fairly tall man; he had dark, bushy, brown hair which was mostly hidden by a hood and a set of sunglasses that hid his eyes, he was wearing a grey shirt with matching pants under his light-grey button-up jacket, which had the hood that hid his hair. This was Shino Aburame and another of Naruto's pawns.
Unlike Asuma and Jiraiya, Shino had asked Naruto to turn him into a devil when Naruto announced that he will be returning to his father's original world after staying another year in the Elemental Nations. Shino's desire to discover and bond with new species of bugs had led him to giving up his right as the heir of the Aburame clan to his younger sibling, in order for him to follow Naruto into that world.
"Naruto-sama" said Shino with his ever stoic and emotionless voice. Naruto had tried to have Shino lighten up a bit and not call him by titles when they were with only the peerage, but he hadn't succeeded yet.
"Hey there gaki, how did it go? Did you get a hot girl to be your fiancé?" asked Jiraiya with a perverted smile on his face which caused Naruto to sigh at the perverse nature of his godfather.
"Shut up Ero-Sennin, this isn't the time" Naruto said to Jiraiya as he composed himself.
"I have a job for you two" he said and began to explain what happened at the meeting.
"So I'm guessing you want us to gather information on Riser's peerage" said Jiraiya after Naruto finished talking and Naruto nodded.
"Yes, but for Shino I have one more task" he began and looked at his hooded pawn, "I want you to tag them" he finished surprising Jiraiya, Asuma and Shino until it dawned to them why he wanted to do that, Jiraiya smirked at his godson plan, it was a simple one but ingenious all the same.
"Good thinking gaki, depending on the type of Rating Game we will participate in it will be very useful, and since this is an unofficial game it will most likely have the most basic of rules" Jiraiya said as he nodded his head in approval.
"Prissily, now you better move times a wasting, when you have gathered all the information you can and have tag them come to the training zones, we will discuss strategy then" Naruto said and the two nodded and left the room to go the summoning circle in order to teleport to the Underworld. Naruto then turned to Asuma.
"Go and help your fellow knight, I will come once if finished calling kaa-san" he said and Asuma nodded, approached the dome in the center and put his hand on it, a bright light surrounded Asuma before he disappeared and Naruto left the room in order to call his mother.
THAT'S A RAP
I hope you enjoyed this new chapter and it answered some of your questions, now I will not be updating or righting for a bit due to exams but a I promise to continue as soon as I am able, also flames will be ignored.
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