Vt Creator here, and I still don't own anything.
The general length of my chapters are usualy plot. They are as long or as short as plot makes them to, changing according to the amount of things I want to show. This one ended up being a bit short because there isn't all that much to cover.
"When nothing remains, everything is equally possible"
-Unknown
"..." Large Hazel eyes met with golden cross-shaped ones. Toujou Koneko, low class devil and Rias Gremory's rook. Her attire was that of her Kuoh uniform with a oversized hiking bag on her shoulder.
"..." Naruto staired back at the petite girl, which hardly reached his waist.
Munch.
Koneko brought a chocolate cookie to her mouth and bit a piece. "Are you my teacher?" she asked, breaking the silence between them.
Munch. Munch.
Naruto broke eye contact, turned around and then started walking away. He had experience with the silent types, more specifically the ultimate emotionless loli. Ophis held the title of '#1' least giver of fucks in existence, whether as a loli or an old man, one thing never changed, could drop a nuclear warhead on her back and it she wouldn't even blink.
A testament to how noisy and annoying Great Red could be, but that is something for another time.(1)
Silent talk was something he knew through and through, it was all about the body language, and he made sure Koneko understood, in her own way.
Some of the people in the streets looked at the two with mixed reactions, some finding the little girl carrying the over-sized bag strange, other finding her cute, other wondering why the blond man with her didn't help and some having all three thoughts.
After around fifteen minutes they arrived in a small forested area, Naruto went straight in, and after five more minutes, they arrived in front of a tree with a door in it's base. In front of it was none other than Kalawarner.
Recognising the person in front of the house as the fallen angel that attacked Issei, Koneko got into a fighting stance.
"If that is your stance, then I really have much more work to do than I imagined." Naruto said to Koneko, then glanced at Kalawarner. "She is coming with us."
Koneko relaxed her stance a bit, which was when the bushes behind her started to rustle.
"Aha! You're that Fallen Angel that attacked me!" Issei shouted, jumping out of the bush and getting next to Koneko. Kalawarner went to prepare a Spear of Light, but before she even could stretch her hand, Issei disappeared.
"I sent him back to his house asleep. Not worth my time." Naruto said simply, walking towards the door. Arriving quickly at the door, he grabbed the knob and glanced back at Koneko. "Are you coming or not?"
"So what's with this tree? The door won't even open." Kalawarner groaned. He had left her there waiting for around two hours, and she had tried almost everything on the tree, but the damn thing wouldn't budge!
"You can't open a door that doesn't exist." Naruto replied to the woman and then turned towards Koneko, "are you just going to stand there?"
His gaze made her flinch and the sound of his voice made all of Kalawarner's hair stand, the memory of the last night was still pretty fresh.
-Flashback-
The meeting between her new boss Naruto and her former boss Azazel was just about ending. Kalawarner and all her former partners sans Dohnaseek were making their way towards the exit of the club, Naruto and Azazel a bit behind discussing something they couldn't hear.
The volume of people at the entrance had thinned down and spread around the interior of the club. In the front facing them both was Crom, leaning against the wall next to the front doors with his arms crossed.
He was calm and still, didn't say a word as they passed, didn't even acknowledge their existence, he just stayed there, watching the entrance as the other guards did their jobs.
"So we have come to an agreement, it wasn't that bad now was it Azazel?" Naruto told him as they passed by Crom.
"You keep your end, I keep mine." Azazel replied, following right behind him.
Now as soon as Azazel stepped out of the club, Naruto turned around and grabbed him by the throat, then slammed him against the outer wall of the club, causing a subtle 'static' to go around the structure as if there were a barrier inside.
His sudden attack brought no reaction from the humans outside, instead they didn't even seem to notice their existence. Mittelt and Raynare both took a step back and prepared light spears, Kalawarner chose to do the smart thing and just watch.
"Now that we out, there is something I want you to understand." Naruto made Azazel look at him in the eyes, which were turning gray along with the rest of his body, "I will only say this once, so pay attention. I don't give threats and I also don't make em, so the next time you decide to be brave, I will devour every bit of your soul, am I being clear."
Cracks started appearing around Azazel's face and his hair turned into a dark gray color.
"Am I being clear?" Naruto repeated, ignoring the other two fallen that were holding spears to his back.
"Crystal..." Azazel muttered, the light in his eyes fading away.
"Good." Naruto released his hold on him, allowing Azazel to fall onto the ground lifeless.
A few seconds passed and Azazel remained motionless, dead. Then suddenly his body started to regain it's color, his skin retained it's tan and his hair regained it's usual dual color.
"One more thing, because of this, I will be keeping these two from next week onwards. No 'buts' no 'ifs', and if you two children dare lift your hands up to me again, I will send you both to the core of the moon." He turned around and started walking away. "You coming or what, Kalawarner."
-Flashback end-
So Kalawarner really was on her best behaviour.
Koneko looked at him, the tree, Kalawarner, and walked over to had told her to be on her best behavior, she didn't say what could happen if she didn't, but the petite girl would trust her.
Such is the amount of trust that she has on her.
When he twisted the knob, a very bright golden magical circle appeared around the tree and then expanded, forcing Koneko and Kalawarner to shield their eyes from the light.
As the light faded away, an entirely new place became visible. They had all been transported to a grassy hill.
"Welcome to Zanaris." Narutos said, to the two, looking far into the horizon.
Koneko was in awe, the entire place was so clean and filled with nature energy, that she was having a hard time processing. Even the atmosphere and the air felt different to her senses, felt pleasant, which was actually something a bit strange at the same time
"Zanaris?" Kalawarner repeated.
"A project of mine, my first attempt at civilization and democracy. In here I can freely control the flow of time, because you two will need much more than just a few months, I am setting time to pass seven to one in comparison to Earth." Naruto answered and then turned his gaze towards the sky, which was starting to become cloudy.
"You really made all this?" Kalawarner asked, looking around in awe.
"That's what I said." Naruto's eyebrow twitched. "At first this was only a project of mine, I wanted to try to make a perfect place, with no war. I wanted to try and understand the Biblical God better and find out if it is even possible... There are a few bad eggs, but things have been going great." He replied, gaining a smile.
They didn't know it, but him even mentioning the plane, his creation, was a big deal. Much more was it to take them into it, though one could say that he has been taking all sorts of leaps of faith if one paid attention.
"Incredible..." Koneko muttered. For a creature like herself, a nekomata that had grown used to the pollution of the world, the place was magical.
"Welcome home." Said a feminine voice from behind them, making Koneko and Kalawarner turn towards the speaker. A tall, voluptuous red-haired woman dressed in a scanty version of the typical witches outfit that exposed a lot of her skin, her hair being divided into four long and thick braids, two on the front and two on the back. On her right hand a large light staff a tad bit taller than herself, divided on the top into to inwardly curved antlers.
"Hello Eileen, good to see you again." Naruto greeted the woman, and the staff on her hand vanished, only to appeare on his own hand, "I will be taking this back for now."(2(
"I was only borrowing." She replied, then looked over to the two girls. "So this is your new slave, and that one the pupil. I don't see why you would taint our sacred place by bringing them here, but if it is your wish, I obey."
"I want to trust em." He shrugged. "Besides, if they do anything stupid I can just smite em. Now before we get on to training, I believe it is only right to introduce you, since you also will help me with torturing them."
Both swallowed dry. They didn't like it one bit where things were going.
"This is Eileen, my first creation. She is in charge of overseeing this dimension and making sure everything is developing well. In here her words are law and her authority is only overruled by my own." He turned towards Kalawarner. "For the next five weeks, you will be under her care, any questions?"
"Uhh..." Kalawarner pondered on it for a bit, "what will happen after the five weeks, training over?"
"Over?" Naruto chuckled, "I will send you back to Earth for two days so you can relax and work, then you coming back and the cycle repeats itself... Well we are going to get started here, roughen her up as you like to turn her into a true warrior, just don't brake her beyond repair, Eileen."
Kalawarne gulped.
Eileen grinned, "I will take good care of her, my lord. I'm sure we are going to have lots of fun."
With those words said, both disappeared in a red flash.
"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea..." Naruto said to himself in thought, Eileen was his first creation, something she takes great pride in, but also she had always been the most distasteful towards his other servants. Pushing those thoughts away and deciding to trust his creation, Naruto shifted his attention to Koneko. "Before we start, it is important we both get to know each other so that this works, so tell me about yourself."
Koneko staired at him for a bit, then took off her backpack and took a seat, "... What do you want to know?"
If were to answer that truthfully, the answer would have been 'nothing', because he already knew everything he wanted and needed to know about the nekomata, but it wasn't about him knowing her, instead it was about her telling him things, so he chose to just play along.
"Your name, likes and dislikes, dreams, hobbies, things of the sorts." Naruto answered, taking a seat and placing the staff on the table.
"..." Koneko stared back blankly.
For a moment Naruto briefly wondered what was with the emotionless lolis around, first Ophis and now his newst pupil. Was it something like Loli season?
"I'm Toujou Koneko, I like kittens, candy and hip-hop, I dislike perverts," she remembered her newest teammate, "my hobbies are eating sweets and listening to hip-hop, and my dream is..." She paused in thought, only to realize that she had no dream, she had no objective.
"Well you'll have plenty of time to think about that..." he straightened himself up, "Name's Naruto, I have no intention of telling you my likes and dislikes, as for my dream... I have a few hobbies."
'Only got his first name...' Koneko sweatdropped, so much for sharing information. "What is the staff?"
Naruto hummed and looked at the staff in between him and Koneko. "This little thing? It's a tool of mine. I created it in the foundations of this plane, and bound it to this reality. In short it is basically a Universal key or a cheat sheet, that lets the user manipulate anything with the particles from this dimension."
There was a lot more to the staff, but he decided that she didn't need to know.
Koneko staired at the staff blankly for a few seconds and slowly reached for it, but Naruto took it and brought it closer towards his side of the desk, making Koneko quickly retract her hand.
"No touching, this staff has a will of it's own, you could say that it has a..." Naruto paused in thought, "... Very problematic personality, even I would have trouble bringing you back if it has its way with you, anymore questions?"
"..." Koneko averted her eyes from the staff and Naruto, "... Are people in here? Why doesn't anybody know of this place?"
"I wouldn't exactly call them 'people', you would have to see for yourself at a later time... Now here is your first lesson, sometimes one of the best ways to lie is to simply tell the truth. Most have heard about this place in one way or another, even humans, yet few believes it exists, and the ones that do aren't taken very seriously." Naruto chuckled and got up from his seat, his chair disappearing as soon as he got up.
Koneko seeing that he was waiting on her, quickly followed right after, and the table along with her chair also vanished.
"For starters we will work on your speed, reaction time, resistance and mobility in battle... Say are you familiar with dodge-bolt?" He asked and a several lights flashed above, making her look upwards to see that the sky was covered with dark clouds and that a thunderstorm was starting.
-Meanwhile In the hotel-
"Ah hello Naruto-san, how is Kalawarner-san's new work? " Asia asked as Naruto entered the hotel room.
Naruto had told her that Kalawarner had applied to a very stressful job and would be busy during the week, and weekends at night. Being the good girl that she was, Asia believed it without question.
Asia along with Valerie were both on the sofa watching TV. It was passing a western Christian show and Valerie seemed quite bored.
"She will be okay," he replied and glanced at the TV then at Valerie, "Asia, do you know what a familiar is?"
"Fa-miliar?" She repeated, tilting her head to the side. It served to answer his question.
"They are pets, supernatural pets. I don't particularly have one, nor do I need one, but today is generally the day that the portal would open to go there. If you want to find yourself one, I can take us there before it opens." Naruto replied, walking towards the sofa.
"Ah, really? Yes I always wondered how it is to have a pet, back in the church we had pidgeons but they always run away..." She frowned, and both Naruto and Valerie sweatdropped.
"Okay then, you two get ready. Pack lunch, we may end up having a picnic in there." He told them, stopping behind the sofa.
"Ah, a picnic! This is going to be great right Valerie-san?" Asia asked the dhamphir, unconsciously pulling out her most dangerous weapon, the puppy eyes.
Valerie tried her best to avert her eyes and avoid contact, but it was already too late. She was blasted full force before getting her defenses up.
"I-I don't think it would be a good idea, I will just stay here..." Valerie said, settling her eyes on the carpet.
"Nonsense, you should come, you also need a familiar, and it's not like you have anything better to do?" Naruto asked rhetorically, glancing at the TV.
"Uhhh... Of course I do, there are a lot of, ehem, interesting things going on in TV that I want to watch." She said lamely, and then sighed. "When we leaving?"
"Then we leave in twenty minutes." Naruto said and patted Asia's head, then left the room.
-20 minutes later-
"Uwah!" Asia gasped as she along with Naruto and Valerie were teleported to the Familiar Forest. "Ne ne Naruto-san, how are familiars like?"
"Pretty much anything that moves in here is a familiar, and some things that don't move." Naruto said and started walking, Asia and Valerie close behind to not get separated.
To Asia the place was fascinating and new, as they walked she saw a pair of strange blue birds that seemed made of crystal, but they both flew off right before she pointed them out.
Valerie was also somewhat impressed by the place, not as much as Asia, but it did have it's charms on her.
After around ten minutes of walking in the forest, Naruto stopped and the bushes in front of them started to rustle.
From the bushes leaped a young man with brown hair, a beanie hat and a hikers backpack. "Aha! You are the firsts to arrive today, say, from what continent you from?"(3)
"We are fine, on our own, leave." Naruto ordered, but the boy seemed to ignore his Naruto in favore to eyeing the two girls with him.
"You ladies looking for any familiar in particular? I am Zatouji, the Familiar Master and I'm the best at what I do, what can I do for you two?" He asked walking past Naruto and going towards the two.
Now normally, he probably would have been smited right there, but luckily for him, Asia was present. So Naruto settled for the next best thing.
"Hey Zatouji was it?" Naruto called out to him, making the guy finally turn to him.
"What?!" He asked a bit annoyed and the bushes besides him started to rustle.
"Incoming." Naruto replied and a medium-sized black blur bursted out of it dragged Zatouji into the woods.
"Ah, Zatouji-san!" Asia yelled in worry, looking at the path he was dragged through.
"He will be fine, he did say he is the best at what he does." Naruto told the nun and patted her on the head.
Valerie snickered, knowing for sure that by the timing, it couldn't have beena coincidence.
"Naruto-san is sure he will be okay?" Asia asked him and he nodded.
"Yea, it is like he says, he is the best at what he does. You can help him by praying for him, he would be offended with our help, so we should just keep going." Naruto replied and continued walking.
"Ah, Naruto-san is right!" Asia exclaimed and then clasped her hands in a prayer motion, completely unaware that she would only be hurting him more due to his status as a devil.
And so they continued going for a couple of more minutes until they reached a caverns entrance. There were several warning signs on the entrance as well
"Do we really have to?" Valerie asked him and he looked back at her blankly.
"Actually no, it would probably be better if you two stayed out here, just don't stray too far, I won't take long." Naruto said and started walking inside, leaving the two alone, or so they thought. Leaving Asia alone in devils territory was one big no, Valeire maybe but Asia not a chance, so he left a clone watching them in the shadows... Just in case.
The entrance of the cavern was slippery and dim. The ceiling filled with stalagmites and magical bats(4), while on the ground were samanders and snakes of varying sizes.
As Naruto continued his descent, the light completely faded away until only his golden eyes could be seen. The creatures got also got larger in size and thinner in numbers, the farther he got, the lesser creatures he encountered on his way.
Eventually he reached a large pathway ,with a stream passing through the middle, on the end of it Naruto could see that there was a pathway underwater, however still above water, blocking it's way was a large, blue-green reptile with nine heads.
"..." Naruto stared at the beast, whom stared back at him with all of its nine heads. Then after five seconds, he started walking, and just as he reached it, the hydra stepped aside, allowing him to pass by and dive into the pathway.
Many would normally think that hydra's were mindless beasts, that rampaged and destroyed everything they came across with, however that was quite far from the truth. While they did enjoy causing destruction, they were far from mindless, they just like many dragons refused to communicate with lesser creatures.
And so Naruto swam through the underwater passage like a bullet, the farther he got, the more gold and jewelry could be seen on the ground signifying that he was getting close to his objective.
"Ah," gasped a beautiful blue haired woman as Naruto bursted out of the water, "I didn't expect you to really show up, especially through the long way, Evil Dragon God."
"Tiamat..." Naruto said, settling his gaze on the woman, who was sitting on a chair looking at a large monitor showing the above view of what seemed to be devils battling against other devils.
"Whatever it is that you want, be quick, I'm busy." She said and the image of Naruto started fading away. The next thing she knew Naruto had grabbed her by her throat and slammed her against the monitor. He didn't use much strength, Tiamat hardly felt pain, the monitor however was lost.
"Ah there it is, I missed that ferocity, if you keep going like that I'm going to have a problem down there." She replied with a grin, looking at him in the eye.
"I have no time now for distractions." He said and then released her.
"Aww, no time for role-play? How sad, what made you come here like this then?" She asked mentally counting it as a 'win' for herself, not that Naruto cared.
"I came here to make you my familiar." Naruto said simply, looking at her with his usually bored gaze.
"Just like that? You come here and ask me to be your familiar?" She asked with a grin, "I can't simply submit, this isn't how this works, if you want me to be yours, you have to beat me in battle."
She stopped talking after Naruto started chuckling, "You Dragon Kings are so prideful, are you sure about this?"
Tiamat narrowed her eyes and nodded, "I am positive."
As soon as she stopped talking, Naruto disappeared.
"Huh?" She muttered, then coughed up a glob of blood, a hand-shaped gap on her stomach and Naruto appearing several feet behind her with his body leaning forword as if he had suddenly came to a halt. Not a single drop of blood on his hand.
Ploft.
She fell to the ground face first, and a puddle of blood started to form underneath her from her wound.
Naruto then walked over to her, knelt down, grabbed her by the back of her head and made her look at him in the eye, "Is that good enough for you?"
Cough.
Tiamat tried to speak, but ended up coughing a glob of blood onto him.
"Thought as much," he said and then placed his free hand over the gap in her stomach, "wouldn't it have been easier to just say 'yes'?"
By the time he had finished talking, the wound had been closed, her dress fixed and she could once more breath freely, but all the strength she had was gone. "I have a... Debit with Ajuka, the Maou... He will find it strange that I'm not... reporting to him anymore."
"I don't give a crap about what he thinks. Can you walk?" He asked, his tone not passing any type of concern.
Tiamat gritted her teeth and tried to get up, only for her arms to fail and herself fall to the ground again.
However instead of falling against the ground, she found herself looking upwards, he was now holding her bridal.
"Hmph, never thought of you to like such things, still missing a ring." Tiamat teased with a grin, really, she would lose her life but wouldn't lose an opportunity to tease him. It was pretty much the only thing she knew that affected him, even if a little.
Twitch.
Ploft.
"Ow!" Tiamat nursed her bum comically and then Naruto teleported her away, much like he did Dohnaseek.
"What's wrong with the world nowadays." Naruto said to himself and then sighed, the problem wasn't only Tiamat. Since he came back to society, he oftenly found himself questioning what had gone wrong with the world, teenagers watching porn together, politically correct devils, what was next? Church exorcists using leather S&M clothes?
Pushing away those thoughts, his body faded away into black smoke.
-In Zanaris-
Seven hours had passed since Naruto left her in the his dimension, Zanaris, and it had been seven hours of pure hell.
"Move bitch, we're just getting started!" Eileen said after creating several energy filled orbs of various colors and sending them towards Kalawarner.
Quickly rolling to the side, Kalawarner evaded the first one, which expanded into a several sharp cristals, however she didn't manage to evade the second and the third, which brought down two thunderbolts down on her.
Unable to withstand it, Kalawarner fell to the ground dead.
"I said... We are just. Getting. Started!" Eileen, pointed her left hand towards Kalawarner and the thunderbolt marks started to disappear, until all damage had vanished. "Rise!"
Gasp.
The Fallen Angel sprung back to life and immediately flipped to her left, just as three very sharp metal spikes came up from the ground.
Kalawarner had lost track of how many times the red-haired woman had killed her during those seven hours and now she was sure that calling her a devil really wouldn't do justice. Thankfully for her though, every death was fast and painless.
"I also do not like having to waist my time here with you, but myy lord has ordered me to make a warrior out of you, and that I shall do!" Eileen said and created several other multi-colored orbs.
-Somewhere else in Zanaris-
Naruto watched from a spot among the high clouds as a nearly naked Koneko ran in zig-zags, across a barren wasteland towards seemingly nowhere.
"Tick, tick, tick..." He said to himself, pointing his staff downwards towards Koneko.
BOOM!
A sparkle of light flashed besides Koneko just as she rolled to the side, missing by half a second. Thankfully for the nekomata, that blast was never meant to explode, instead it only expanded for around a meter diameter and then is what he liked to call 'dodge-bolt', a 'game' that involved him sending a bolt or another type of attack on the last place that her feet touch every two to five seconds.
Hardly had the sound left her ears and a streak of light descended from above.
-Outside cavern-
"Isn't this little guy so cu~te? I think I will keep him." Valerie said to asia, hugging onto a small, round, black and red bat.
"Ah, he is cute..." Asia placed her hand on top of it's head and slowly started patting, "what will you name him?" Asia asked, going over to Valerie and
"Well then first you should probably know it's a female." Naruto said with a tone of amusement, walking out of the cavern and joining the two plus bat.
"Naruto-san!" Asia yelped and hugged the man, "I'm so glad, bless the lord!"
"Well I see you found your familiar, good for you." Naruto said to Valerie while patting Asia's head. "Now all we have to do is find yours."
"Naruto-san found his familar?" Asia asked enjoying the petting.
"I did, two actually... I'm starting to get hungry, aren't you? I left you both here for a while, so how about we have that picnic?" He said and 'looked' around, "I believe we still have plenty of time."
"Wonderful! Valerie-san can you help me prepare everything?" Asia asked, once again pulling out the puppy eyes technique.
Valerie tried averting her eyes, but like last time, it was already too late. Critical hit, right in the feels. It was at times like these that Valerie wondered if the nun was aware of her powers.
Ploft.
"Auuun~!" Asia tripped on a tree branch and landed nose first into the ground, scattering around the contents of her backpack, wrapped sandwiches, her bible, cloths and the usual picnic stuff.
Naruto staired at Asia with a tiny smile, perhaps it was the old him coming out, or his dragonic blood and it's affinity to pure hearted maidens, or maybe even both, but he was actually starting to enjoy the blond nun's presence.
Valerie snickered after seeing Asia trip, and then went to help her. Who was she kidding, there was no way she was aware of her special power.
While the two were gathering the things and preparing everything, Naruto noticed the bushes besides Asia rustle. A small blue dragon snuck out of it and 'stealthy' made its way towards one of the sandwiches behind Asia and Valerie.
"Humph." Naruto grinned, it seemed that they had found Asia's familiar, even if she hadn't noticed him yet.
(1)-Seriously guys, people often underestimate how noisy Great Red truly is. Like reduce him into Biker form, as if he would be capable of even trying to adapt to humans. He isn't the type to accommodate himself to others. The DG is a almost endless void, yet somehow Great Red managed to boot Ophis out through sheer annoyance. I'm pretty sure she would have simply tried to find a spot far away from him still in the Gap before trying anything else, and if you can't find a spot of silence in the Endless Void... You have a problem... A big Red problem.
(2)- Eileen or Irene Belserion from Fairy Tail without the scar on stomach. I chose her because of the hair really. No Zanaris isn't the Fairy Tail dimension, it could be, but I don't want to overcomplicate things.
(3)-In the novels he was a relatively young guy.
(4)-The specie of Rias familiar.
Okay guys, sorry if this chapter was a bit short, but like I said at the top, the length usually varies on the amount of things I need/want to cover.
Also yes Naruto is in a lot of places at the same time, I know I am changing a lot of things, he is at least a millennia older and very much stronger, but a lot things remain.
Next chapter is the one Riser shows up, along with a bit more things. It may take me a bit more than this one, but I will come through.