Disclaimer: I don't own DMC, I don't own Naruto, but I do own the right to subject them all to the horrific torture of fangirlism. *Evil Laughter*
To say that Dante was pissed was an understatement. That pizza place had been his last hope and the little blond brat and his fur ball friend had gotten him banned from it.
When he got his hands on them there would be hell to pay.
"Hey, Dante!" Trish's voice knocked him out of a slightly sadistic daydream that involved a fox and sharp pointy objects.
"You see what I see?" she asked pointing to a crowd of demons trying to stuff themselves into an alley a few blocks ahead of them.
"Naruto" they both muttered setting off at a run.
Dante had just reached the head of the alley when an oddly familiar blue light blew him and a large number of demons against the building on the opposite side of the street.
Trish, who'd figured something like that would happen, had scaled the side of the building so that she'd be able to look down into the narrow space of the alley without being in harm's way.
"…You've got to be kidding me" she muttered before glancing back at Dante who was taking out his mounting frustrations on any demon unfortunate enough to be within Rebellions reach.
"I just finished paying for this coat…" Dante growled at a Blade that had managed to put its claw through his chest.
He grabbed its arm and triggered.
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He couldn't breathe… he couldn't think- he was in too much pain. One second Naruto was looking up into what would have been his eminent death, the next he's being choked against the wall by a white hot hand shaped glow stick.
He coughed as he tried to kick at the hand but his legs were too short and weak to do any sort of damage.
'Let me go! Please let me go! I don't wanna d-' suddenly the hand dropped him and for the first time, Naruto got a clear look at his newest attacker.
'He looks like Dante… only not as old… and Dante's not as scary…'
He took his eyes off the man to look across the alley at Kyuubi who was lying in a growing pool of blood.
The fox wasn't moving.
Naruto hadn't crawled more than an inch towards him when a Pride appeared in front of him with intention of killing him.
It seemed to grin as it swung at him and managed to leave a large gash in his right arm before he could roll away.
"Why won't you leave me alone?!" Naruto whimpered as it raised its scythe again.
"It's not nice to steal other people's kills" a voice whispered from behind the Pride.
The scary man was back.
Before the Pride could turn around, a large ominous looking blue hand appeared around it and slammed it mercilessly against the floor until there was nothing left but a pile of dust.
"Now, where was I?" Naruto shivered as he looked up into the man's blood red eyes. They reminded him of Fuzzy-sensei except this guy seemed a lot more likely to follow through with the threat of killing him.
He grinned sadistically before raising his right arm "You have power. I want it" he said it as though it were the simplest thing on earth.
"B-but" Naruto started. Even though at least three people had tried to explain it to him multiple times over the last day or so, Naruto had no clue why all the demons were after him. He couldn't give the guy his 'power' even if he wanted to.
"Did that sound like a question to you?" The blue arm suddenly shot towards Naruto and the blond screwed his eyes shut. Something told him this was going to hurt.
He waited for the pain but it never came.
"So your girlfriend wasn't enough for you? I'm flattered"
'Auntie Trish?' It'd taken ten minutes of his now infamous puppy eyes before he'd been allowed to call her that.
He peeked open an eye to see Trish being held by that ghostly looking hand looking severely annoyed.
The man just smirked at her. Naruto wanted to warn her about how dangerous that arm was and how it would smash her into dust if she didn't get away… but he couldn't get his voice to work.
"I swear everyone in this family is dysfunctional…"
The hand began to squeeze and Naruto felt tears fall from his eyes. Another person was going to die because of him…it was his fault. It was always his fault.
Across the alley, Kyuubi twitched.
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Dante glared around the street looking for any demon that dared come his way. The demon hunter was not happy- the giant pile of blood soaked demon limbs could attest to that.
He froze when he felt not one, but two very familiar energy signatures coming from the alley.
"What the hell is he doing here?" he muttered before grabbing Rebellion and running off towards them.
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Trish sighed. Things were getting out of hand faster than she would have liked. It was one thing to have to deal with Naruto and his random outburst of 'chakra' as Kyuubi called it, but dealing with Nero while he was on a psychotic killing spree was something else entirely.
Despite being a demon hunter of considerable skill, Nero had proven to be extremely possession prone… it was only May and this was the sixth time this year.
The last time it had happened, they had been working together on a particularly tricky mission and it hadn't been pretty. Nero had ended up with a lot of blood on his hands and not all of it had come from demons.
"Nero, put me down. Now" Trish narrowed her eyes at him. She didn't want to have to hurt him too badly- she genuinely liked the kid. And besides, Kyrie would probably kill her.
"Or what, bitch?" he grinned at her.
Her eyebrow twitched violently. Then again she could send him home in a box. Accidents did happen after all.
"Or I'll fry your nuts off you little prick"
"You know…" he started "it seems like there's a barrier of sorts between us…" Trish raised an eyebrow at him as he disappeared "and you know the fun thing about barriers?" he asked, tightening his grip on her as he shimmered into view dangerously close to her ear.
"They're made to be bro-" he didn't get to finish his sentence as Trish sent a particularly nasty round of lightning at him, forcing him to release her and knocking him into a brick wall where he left a decent sized crater before falling to the ground.
"You like to play rough…" he started, getting up and brushing himself off.
"And your mind is stuck in the gutter" Trish countered. She had to figure out a way to get Nero back to normal and calm Naruto down before more demons showed up. There was no doubt that more would come… not with the amount of chakra he was putting out.
"So, shall we dance?" Nero pulled Red Queen from his back and revved the blade before turning to leer at her.
Trish sighed. For the life of her, she couldn't figure out why Nero always turned into a foul mouthed pervert whenever possessed. She whipped out Luce and Ombra and aimed at Nero's forehead.
"Let's"
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Dante could just feel the vein ticking on his forehead. He'd been expecting to see a lot of things when he got into the alley, but Trish doing her damdest to kill a bruised and battered Nero was not one of them.
"Can someone please tell me what the fuck is going on here?" He snapped, phasing behind Nero to chop him in the back of the neck, effectively knocking him out.
Trish muttered something about 'kill-joys' as Dante walked over to Kyuubi and prodded him with his foot once before picking him up by the back of his neck. The fox growled at him lightly as he carried him over to Naruto who had curled up in a ball and begun rocking back and forth.
Dante sighed as he dropped his devil trigger. It wouldn't do him any good if he scared the blond to death, now would it?
"Hey, kid" Dante bent down to poke Naruto lightly on his side, ignoring the hiss and smell of burning flesh that arose when his skin came into contact with demonic chakra for the umpteenth time today. He could only hope he was developing an immunity to the stuff by now.
"Everyone… Everyone I know dies because of me" Naruto whispered.
"Everyone?" Dante snorted "I'm not dead, Trish's still here and as annoying as he can be sometimes, Nero's alive…not kicking though…" he added as an afterthought.
Naruto looked at him blankly and Dante wondered momentarily if he might have said the wrong thing.
"You're not going to leave me…?" Naruto asked as Trish made her way over to them with Nero slung over her shoulder.
"Meh, I guess you've grown on me…" Dante shrugged and Trish kicked him.
"Violent woman…" Dante glared at her before turning back to Naruto "Look, I'm not gonna leave you. You attract more danger in 5 minutes than I do in a month and you've got some pretty decent potential as a fighter… it'd be a shame if you died so…" Dante was cut off as Naruto jumped on him, hugging him and crushing Kyuubi.
The fox could only groan internally as Naruto accidently put a knee against his slowly healing wound. Apparently he could recover from fatal wounds as long as he stayed in this form… the fact that Naruto had remained unharmed was an added bonus.
"Umm…? Dante? Trish tapped him nodding her head in the direction of a large concentration of demons about a mile away from them.
"Yeah, yeah…" he shifted Naruto in his arms so he could carry the blond in one arm and the fox in another- he'd known the fox had gotten squished, it was just punishment for getting him kicked out of the pizza place.
"C'mon, we've gotta get you sealed" Dante said, ignoring the uneasy look that flickered across Naruto's face as he started walking with Trish and an unconscious Nero following close behind
"And I know just the guy for the job".
AN: Finally got a chance to update ^-^and A cookie to anyone who can figure out who the 'guy for the job 'is.
