Naruto needed to find anything abandoned in the city, somewhere where he could leave an obviously non-human woman alone for a split-second to set up his plan at getting out of his responsibility in this situation.
His clone was getting the necessary materials from home and local stores in order to properly bind the supernatural girl.
The good news for the original Naruto was that Kuoh Town was a relatively old place, it had numerous abandoned areas littered at the outskirts of the town. So the problem wasn't even really about finding a place to hide away, so much as a good place to go to before her comrades found her energy signal again.
When he spoke with Rias, he made sure to get out of her as much information as possible in regards to any faction that he might encounter.
One of the things that he remembered about either the regular angels or fallen angels was that their number of wings signified their power. The weakest of them had one pair of wings while the strongest among them had six, the girl he knocked out had only a single pair of them.
The fallen angels knew that this was devil territory, so it was a very good guess to say that she was not working alone. Another very good guess was to say that she has fallen comrades waiting for her while she was flying in the sky and surveying the area like a scout.
Naruto didn't want to alert the fallen's comrades just yet, but he was counting on their intervention later. He just needed to set himself up first. After running from rooftop to rooftop near supersonic speeds in order to not alert any of the normal humans milling around, he reached an end to his journey by finding a suitable place to set up his plan.
An abandoned factory.
It was a bit of a ways away from the nearest building so that none of the normal civilians could be bothered by the work of the factory presumably. It was good enough in short notice.
Naruto quickly jumped incredibly high, high enough to reach the clouds and landed safely on the smokestack of the large building. Naruto grinned as he jumped down the long shaft into the interior, this would work.
Raynare groaned as she woke from her painful nap, her eyes opened to find nothing but darkness before blinking repeatedly for her eyes to get used to the lack of light.
She frowned when she looked around to see that she was in an old and rundown factory, a place where some humans would try to make some product to sell in mass quantities.
She moved to stand up but was unable to, she widened her eyes as she realized she was tied onto the chair with something and couldn't get up. She looked down to see what was holding her and her eyes widened again, this time in outrage due to what she saw.
Rope.
She was held by fucking rope.
She immediately tried using all of her strength to break free from something that should not be able to hold her as well as it was managing to. This was rope right? But she didn't know that this rope had an additional feature to it, a slim piece of chakra paper slapped on the rope behind her so that she couldn't see it.
She began to use her light energy in order to form a spear and break out of the strangely powerful ropes...
Then stopped.
"Wh-what's going on!?" the fallen angel asked incredulously. Why couldn't she call upon her light energy!? It felt like somebody was putting a large damper on her powers and it made it exceedingly difficult to use them properly.
"Ah, I see you're awake fallen-san." a voice spoke a voice in the darkness.
Raynare froze at the sudden intrusion of total silence and rapidly turned towards the direction that the voice was coming from to find her unknown assailant. While her fallen eyes were very powerful by default, the darkness was all encompassing in this seemingly abandoned building and cloaked her unknown enemy. She grit her teeth at this fact, she was in a tight bind both literally and figuratively.
"Oh? So fallen angels do feel fear? Good to know for later." the voice said again, but closer this time.
After a few foreboding steps, Raynare finally met face to face with her captor in the form of a young man.
The young woman took a quick look at him to gauge his power, he didn't seem like much...
He had very pale skin, bordering on unhealthy with black pants and a black-grey top that didn't extend to his belly button. He had dark eyes with equally dark short hair.
"Hello, nice to meet you at last fallen angel-san. You can call me Sai." 'Sai' said with a smile.
Raynare just frowned at this, the smile looked off...even forced. This guy was strange, but he also had the advantage with this rope so it was best not to provoke him too much.
"Who are you and what do you want? Were you the one who attacked me?" Raynare demanded of her captor. 'Sai' just stared at the black-haired girl for a moment before replying.
"I don't think I want to answer any questions ugly." 'Sai' responded with that weird smile.
...
"...Excuse me?" Raynare growled.
'Sai' just looked confused, as if he didn't truly understand what he said was considered offensive. "I'm sorry did I hurt your feelings? I was simply giving a truthful statement, would you rather I lie about it? Very well, you are very beautiful." 'Sai' said with that strange smile again.
But by this point Raynare wasn't paying attention, this would probably be due to the fact that she was absolutely furious. She could take certain abuses from others who are superior in power and prestige if need be...but she would not take this from some random human asshole! She didn't notice that her light energy was beginning to practically leak out of her in decent quantities due to her emotional state.
The third party observer could only smirk at the fruition of his brilliant plan. 'Perfect.'
'Sai' just tilted his head in confusion at her anger, which in effect only pissed off the fallen even more. However before Raynare could explode onto the pale human, she couldn't help but notice that the boy's strange smile shifted again.
A small twitch on the side of the mouth that tilted upwards was all she saw.
But after that all she saw was red.
"You...! You think you can get away with this!? I am the most powerful fallen angel of my generation and the daughter of one of it's most powerful members! Your insolence will not be tolerated!" Raynare shouted in anger, completely losing her composure.
"Hoooh? You're the strongest fallen of your generation? How sad since you have been delegated to what seems to be a glorified scout. How the mighty fallen angel faction have fallen. Especially when one of their supposed prodigies was tied up by a human." 'Sai' said with a slightly twitching smile. Although the young fallen was too angry to notice or care about any of that. But deep inside 'Sai' hit a deep-seated fear inside the young girl.
Disappointment.
That triggered fear turned into seething rage at this boy's presumption that she was beaten...
If only she could break free...!
The third party observer looked at the ceiling where 'Sai' stood and smirked. Just on time it seemed.
'Sai' snapped his head to the ceiling as it practically exploded from descending spears made of light. He quickly dodged all of the spears by back-flipping away from their intended targets and stood back up in order to study the situation.
Three fallen angels quickly fell through the hole made by their spears in order to release their bound comrade, but one remained in the air. 'Sai' concentrated his focus on that one fallen angel in order to gauge their strength, he knew that this fallen was the strongest among the bunch.
Meanwhile Raynare was finally freed from the cursed ropes and quickly thanked her friends for breaking her out, but then she paled when she saw who else joined the rescue.
Her mother.
The woman that Raynare was referring to finally decided to join everyone else on the ground level and descended onto the ground gracefully. 'Sai' just narrowed his eyes at her appearance.
She had many resemblances to the fallen he had captured earlier today and was a breathtakingly beautiful woman with a buxom figure. She had long blue hair which stretched to her waist and vivid violet eyes. She looked just like the younger girl, the only difference being that her face had an adult appeal which the younger didn't have yet. But 'Sai' was paying more attention to something far more important than her looks.
She had four pairs of wings.
"This is it...? This is the downer who defeated a fallen angel? You are an even bigger failure than I thought Raynare..." spoke the obviously more powerful fallen. Her tone made Raynare flinch slightly before turning her head away from the scornful older woman.
"Vretiel-sama, what should be done with the human?" the only male fallen angel said to the older woman, he was staring at the pale human that was just studying all of the supernatural beings silently. "What do you think Dohnaseek? Eliminate him immediately, he must pay for laying his dirty hands against my daughter." Vretiel spoke without much compassion, almost bored as a matter of fact.
Raynare widened her eyes and opened her mouth in order to warn her comrades not to take him lightly, but she was too late as all but Vretiel and herself immediately formed spears of light and attacked. 'Sai' just let loose a small grin as he saw all of these fallen charge him with confidence.
He quickly took note on who his opponents were; there was a woman with long blue hair and a too-tight business suit that was form-fitting, a little girl with blonde twin-tails and a gothic-lolita styled dress, finally there was a middle-aged man with short black hair and a gray trench coat over a white dress shirt with a black fedora.
All in all, a colorful group of characters.
All in all, nothing worth worrying over.
For the fallen, one second this human was standing still while studying them, the next he was in between their formation. Before any of them could respond, he grabbed the blue-haired woman's leg with his left arm and lashed out with his right leg in order to smash the blonde fallen through a nearby wall. In that same second he grabbed the fallen wannabe detective's face with his right hand and with both of them in his firm grip...pulled.
The immediate end result of this was a wannabe business woman smashed into a conveyor belt and a wannabe detective smashed head-first into the ground with 'Sai' standing there with a small smile.
...
Raynare just gaped as three of her comrades were thoroughly defeated with minimal effort, she was stronger than all of them but they were still fallen angels. He was just a human...
Vretiel just gave a hard stare at all of the downed fallen before clicking her teeth.
"Looks like I have to get my hands dirty. Raynare! Be useful and grab your friends before they get caught in the crossfire...I'll deal with this boy myself." Vretiel said with a dark look in her eyes, she was destined to clean her daughter's mistakes it seemed. She had to defeat a mere downer instead of leaving it to regular fallen angels it seemed.
She wasn't happy about any of this.
So she quickly formed two spears of light and spread her four pair of wings...
Then she quickly dove into the pale human with supersonic speed in order to kill him with one move, but much to her own shock he managed to stop her spear with a metal knife that he procured from out of nowhere. Her shock was replaced with a snarl as she infused more light energy into her second spear, then she raised her arm in order to destroy the strangely powerful human.
'Sai' widened his eyes as he immediately backed up to dodge the light spear, but the attack was too close and he was forced to use his kunai in order to change it's trajectory.
*CLANG*
The resounding sound from the clash of the two weapons echoed along the abandoned factory and 'Sai' got out of the exchange completely unharmed. But the same cannot be said about his kunai. The reliable weapon has been split down the handle cleanly with 'Sai' holding onto the remnants. 'Sai' quickly threw the remnant of the weapon at the four-winged fallen, but she swiped the affronting weapon with her spear before it reached her. She then turned back towards her prey...
Then she saw a pale face.
She saw stars as a strong right hook knocked her back through the ceiling.
'Sai' landed upside-down on the ceiling before running to the hole made by the fallen group. The second he poked his head to the roof of the factory, he immediately had to duck since a light spear went soaring where his head used to be. Several more light spears rained down at the hole to make sure that the pale human didn't get to the roof without getting hit by one of them.
Up in the sky, Vretiel was scowling darkly as she wiped her bloody nose. The boy had a mean right hook, she'd give him that. But he made a fatal error in this little skirmish, where she had to admit that he had the advantage in close combat...
"But now..." Vretiel said with a cruel smirk as her wings flapped and moved her further and further away from the factory. Raynare had finally done something worthwhile by moving the rest of the weak one-wings away from the factory.
Now she can't be held responsible for their deaths once she finishes destroying the factory.
'Sai' quickly went through the hole in the ceiling once the barrage of spears have reached a lull, he scanned through the sky for the leader of the enemy group. Then he noticed a light, a bright light that could initially fool a normal human into thinking that the God from the Bible was blessing them...
But 'Sai' knew that the light was nowhere near as nice or as benificial as that.
"Shit...!" 'Sai' cursed as he jumped back down and desperately did some hand-seals before the entire world exploded around him.
To the humans who were living normal lives close to the abandoned factory, the explosion that would rock their sleepy town was sudden and loud. To a certain fallen angel, she just reveled at the destruction she caused and the death of the human that dared to cause her pain.
The only other conscious fallen angel there just watched her mother cackle at the destruction before turning towards the crater that once held an old man-made structure. She thought about the pale human before hardening her eyes.
"Good riddance..." Raynare mumbled, she only wished that she was strong enough to destroy the wily human herself.
There was no point in sympathizing with an enemy, it would make her weaker than she already was. The last thing she wanted to do was be a bigger disappointment to her mother, she was meant to surpass her after all.
"Come Raynare, we're leaving." Vretiel spoke with a commanding tone, she wanted to get back to their base as soon as possible. This whole debacle was an utter waste of time, although she was interested to learn that a human had become powerful enough to actually blitz her. But for now she had a more important mission, she slid her gaze towards her daughter as she carried all of her comrades.
Yes, a far more lucrative mission indeed.
The third party observer walked into the crater of the old factory before leaning into the center of the explosion where 'Sai' once stood.
"...Come on, there's no way you got killed that easily. You're me after all." Naruto said with exasperation. In response to the blond's statement the ground began to crack, then the ground gave way as 'Sai' broke through the ground like some sort of zombie from a horror movie. 'Sai' then gave Naruto a thumbs up once he finally got a firm footing.
"Mission accomplished boss!" 'Sai' said with a grin that did not fit on his face, at least as far as Naruto was concerned.
"Ugh...please turn off the henge already..." Naruto said with a sigh, he knew that he was a pretty good actor when he needed to be. His prank against his future best friend after they became genin but before they got assigned to Kakashi-sensei was proof of that. The problem was staying 'in-character' was tough for the blond after a while, he simply wasn't good at keeping fake appearances.
The fact that 'Sai' grinned at all was proof enough of that.
'Sai' sighed before turning off his henge and turning back to his original appearance; an exact replica of Naruto. The original just nodded towards his clone before speaking again. "Alright, please disperse yourself so I can see what I'm dealing with in the fallen angels." Naruto said, getting the experience that the clone gained from the small battle was better than hearing it.
The clone nodded and dispersed the chakra inside itself in order to give it's creator the memories it had. A POP later, the clone's memories began to transfer to Naruto.
Naruto grinned for a moment as he saw how his clone managed to get away from the destruction of the factory; Doton: Moguragakure no Jutsu (Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole technique). A jutsu that Naruto used to defeat Neji during the chuunin exams...man he totally forgot he knew that jutsu. Naruto then frowned as he remembered the clone's clash with the fallen angels, in a straight fight he was positive that he could crush all of them without too much effort, but the way that the four-winged fallen had attacked the factory...
Her wings gave her the ability to fly, something that wasn't usually a problem for the young shinobi since he could jump extremely high. But this woman had the speed to react fast enough to his own if given at least a split-second warning and the durability to not just fall over after a single punch. If she stayed high in the air like that and Naruto took account of gravity slowing him down on his ascent...
The blonde clicked his teeth at this weakness, something as stupid as the ability to fly was not gonna keep him down. Her attacks weren't even things that would kill him, just something that would hurt like hell.
The blond looked up to the starless sky and grinned, he just had to improvise a little then.
But before he makes plans on how to do that...
"I did it! I am the best at what I do 'ttebayo!" Naruto cried in glee, how could he not after all? His fool-proof plan had been an absolute success; he wasn't to blame for the capture of a fallen angel and he didn't just cause a war between supernatural factions. He couldn't help but worry a lot at the fact that he could have caused a war in this world!
Naruto frowned for a moment though, making the clone buy rope and a pretty early seal he made during ero-sennin's three-year trip was all vital in making his plan work. The plan was to get the fallen angel's comrades to help that girl; Raynare, and have them defeat the clone without Naruto being implicated.
The seal he used was pretty low level, it was meant to capture academy students and cause disruptions to their chakras. It was pretty easy to break out for any ninja since they knew the Nawanuke no Jutsu (Rope Escape Technique). But for supernaturals, it would be a decent enough trap to make it seem like the fallen's kidnapper was genuinely trying to keep her bound.
The problem with this was the simple fact that the small disruption seemed to knock Raynare's control of her powers so thoroughly that she couldn't even use it properly. So Naruto had to improvise and try a different tact.
Piss her off and let her energy run amok from her loss of control.
So Naruto made a clone and had it henge to the only person that could piss people off as easily as breathing.
He would buy a nice gift for Sai when he got back home.
But his improvisation worked beautifully, his clone quickly angered the young fallen to the point that her light energy began to leak enough that her reinforcements came to break her out. His clone then had to make the fight believable enough for the fallen angels really think that he was seriously killed.
It worked and Naruto was freed from the prospect of starting a war.
So with that, Naruto decided to leave the area before the normal humans decided to check the factory, an explosion was pretty eye-catching after all. He then disappeared in a burst of speed and reappeared in-between crowds of civilians so that he could blend in. It was only when he was sure that he was in the clear that Naruto thought about another problem.
What to tell Rias?
This was Gremory territory and there were fallen angels either staying in it or are dangerously close to it. No matter how he looked at it, the truce of the three factions wouldn't hold up when the little sisters of Lucifer and Leviathan were threatened.
But at the same time if he did tell her...what would she do? Would she try to negotiate with the fallen? Would she ignore them?
Would she declare war by attacking...and more importantly, would he let her?
Naruto just combed his hands through his hair and blew out some air in frustration, he was definitely not used to this crap.
The worst part was that he had no choice but to rely on Rias for this delicate situation since she was the only one trained for events like this. The only other people he knew where he could talk to about this were Yuki, Mio, and Maria...but he didn't want them to get involved in any of this.
Yuki was practically a neutral while Mio and Maria were technically on the run from the government in the Underworld.
He shook his head, he had to tell Rias. There was no getting around that fact since there was no one else to turn to, the fallen had to be dealt with before the Maous were aware.
He would have to deal with Rias' decision when it came and make his own decision from there...
...Man this sucked.
The blond made it to Kuoh Academy just in time to catch the end of the final classes, he was supposed to find Hyoudou Issei...but first Rias. He moved around the Academy to reach the headquarters of the ORC and quickly knocked on the door.
...
Naruto knocked on it again with more force when he didn't receive an answer, but then he noticed a little note in the front of the door that he didn't notice before. The shinobi bonked himself on the head for being an idiot and quickly read the letter, hopefully it would give him Rias' location so that he could-
'Sorry, the Occult Research Club is out studying the occult right now. Please come back at a better time. Thank you!'
Naruto stared at the note with dim eyes, Rias just generally chose shitty times to appear or disappear didn't she?
Naruto's temper didn't improve any when he saw a drawing of a chibi-Rias on the note, it seemed to be winking and wagging its finger as if to admonish Naruto.
He decided that the door should be made into splinters.
So Naruto decided to save the issue for later and instead search for the illusive Hyoudou. So he picked a random student that was going home for the day to ask, that student just so happened to be a female.
So was the next one.
As well as the one after that.
Now Naruto was confused, why were all of the students he talked to acting like he was asking them for their three sizes? Each one of them made a sour face and just advised him to never ask such a question to them ever again, it was pretty weird. So he decided to change his tactics by asking a guy this time, other boys were still pretty rare in Kuoh Academy so he was mostly asking girls by this point.
He decided to ask the boy with glasses that was seemingly spinning around in a circle in order to seemingly leer at the girls that passed by.
Huh. Well everyone had their quirks right?
"Ahhh! It's ero-megane! Don't let him look at you! It's said that he could calculate your three sizes with just a glance!" screamed a female student that was doing her best to cover herself up even though she wasn't indecent.
...
Ok then, maybe the guy is a creep. But he might have some good points, after all Ero-sennin and Kakashi-sensei were both big perverts right? So maybe this guy had a heart of gold hidden under his perverted exterior. Yeah, he won't judge-
"I can see theeeeeem! I can see all of your beautiful measurements! Nothing escapes my gaze! HAHAHAHAHA!"
...
Maybe...wait. Has he seen him before?
Naruto squinted at the 'perverted glasses', as the girls were referring to him anyways. Now that he looked at him closely, he could swear that he's seen him somewhere before...it was hard to tell since he had such plain features though.
Then something clicked. An army of women chasing after three boys, there was one among them that carried glasses.
"IT'S YOU!" Naruto shouted with a dramatic finger pointed at ero-megane, this broke the perverted boy out of his sexual harassment when he heard the loud shout. He sent an annoyed glance at Naruto as he was forced to stop his favorite hobby while in Kuoh to deal with what looked like a delinquent.
That and he couldn't help but dislike the blond immediately since some girls were sending shy glances at him behind his back. Damn it he hated blond boys.
"Whaddya want bastard?" the now dubbed 'ero-megane' said with a frown, he didn't want to talk to any guy that attracted girls. Naruto just squinted his eyes at the boy's hostility, what the hell did he do? Naruto decided that he should ask this strange guy whether he knew a Hyoudou Issei and be done with it.
"Hey, do you know where I can find a guy named Hyoudou Issei?" Naruto asked casually, but before he could follow up with his question he saw the glasses-wearing boy literally sprint towards him before giving him a steady stare.
"How much?" 'Ero-megane' asked, this just caused Naruto to stare at him incredulously. What the hell was he talking about right now? Seeing the blond's expression, he just lifted his glasses and spoke again with more emotion.
"You want me to betray my comrade...one of my closest friends...then you better pay me enough to make up for my horrible betrayal! It is so sad but he will understand! I want to lose my virginity...so please get me a woman!" 'Ero-megane' cried with tears flowing down his eyes.
Naruto just looked at him with dull eyes for his pathetic plea, Hyoudou was his friend and he would betray him for sex? Really? This guy didn't have a redeeming bone in his body. "Tell you what...I'll talk to some girls and see if any of them could-" Naruto tried to speak, but he was immediately floored when the boy in front of him bowed towards him like some sort of deity.
"Issei's near the girl's locker rooms trying to find a good peephole! Please make my wish come true!" the pathetically perverted boy cried.
Naruto decided that Issei needed new friends. As fast as possible.
Then he registered what the glasses-wearing teen just said and slapped his hand on his face in a facepalm. Maybe they really were perfect friends for one another...
Looks like they were perfect friends with one another.
Naruto was having déjà vu as he was staring at a teen with brown hair trying to look for any hole or crack in the girl's locker room. He remembered when ero-sennin did the same thing when he was trying to peep into the women's hot springs. Usually this would call for the 'ero-protocol' for his own shits and giggles, but he had to actually talk to the kid, not get him killed. So Naruto opted for walking behind the teen and poking him behind the head.
It was only when an annoyed plain face with an annoyed set of brown eyes glared back at him that he recognized the illusive Hyoudou.
"You were with 'ero-megane' when you guys were chased by that horde of girls..." Naruto deadpanned.
At this Issei just locked up and stared at Naruto in horror. "You're...you're not going to turn me in are you!?" Issei said with panic welling up in his stomach. The three of them barely managed to get away from the horde before his last class started, but they were no doubt still sore at their antics...so if this blond were to give them his location...
Naruto just shook his head in response much to Issei's apparent relief, but the shinobi then grinned at the pervert. "I won't tell them...but you gotta do something for me first." Naruto said cheerfully, Issei's fear returned as he realized that unless he did whatever this guy said, then his high school life would become a hell of a lot more unpleasant for a long time.
Issei opened his mouth in order to try to reason with the blackmailing blond, but he stopped when Naruto finished his demand.
"You gotta listen to what I have to say seriously Issei, if you don't then you could either change your life for the better or ruin it for a long long time." Naruto said with a cryptic smile.
Issei wasn't sure if he should make a break for it or not.
He decided to give a shot at the very least.
"Hey look it's a UFO!" Issei shouted dramatically towards the sky, he sorta felt like an idiot because it was one of the oldest tricks in the book.
"Really!? Where!? I didn't know they had a faction of aliens here as well!" Naruto said with sparkles in his eyes.
...
Ok time to make a quick get-away. Issei dashed off from his location near the girl's locker room and made his way behind an old school warehouse. He hoped that the blond would eventually leave him alone before trying his peeping attempt again...
"Yo."
Damn it.
Issei looked to his left and found his annoying stalker just looking at the sky, still searching for UFO or just mocking him?
"I still can't find the UFO you pointed out, but that's fine. I'll look for it later, that'd be a pretty cool picture to show your friends ya know? Also, smart idea in hiding behind the warehouse. No one will hear our conversation here." Naruto said cheerfully, completely unaware of Issei's escape attempt.
Issei just groaned.
"Ok, so you ready to hear me out now? What I'm about to tell you is super important and cannot be told to anyone else. Unless you want to die that is, but I wouldn't recommend it." Naruto started, but he seemed to be scaring the perverted boy with his blunt statements. Well, he was being truthful here and he would much rather be truthful and have him face the good and bad rather than give him a nasty surprise later.
"Don't worry about it, just don't tell any normal people and you will be fine. Now, I'm here as a favor for a friend of mine, I'm sure you know her since she is pretty famous at this Academy...her name is Gremory Rias and-" Naruto tried to say but was interrupted by a thoroughly excited Issei. "She wants to talk to me!? She wants to talk to me!? I accept! I accept whatever she wants me to do!" Issei said with enthusiasm, if he gets on her good side then maybe he could get a 'sexy' reward!
Issei's fantasies were ended the second a hard slap upside the head hit him and sent him to the ground with a lump on his head. The perverted boy just sent a halfhearted glare up at the perpetrator.
"What the hell bastard!? I accepted your offer so why did you hit me!?" Issei demanded while holding the painful bump on his head. Then brown eyes met blue eyes with startling intensity as they gave him a hard stare. "I don't know if you had any problems in trusting people in your life...but don't you fuckin' throw away your freedom so damn easily." Naruto spoke seriously.
Naruto had no trouble if Issei heard what Rias was offering as well as the realistic negatives of her proposal and accepted afterwards. But for him to say 'I accept whatever she wants me to do!' so easily without hearing what he actually had to do bothered him a lot.
No.
Issei couldn't accept something like this so easily, he had to think about whether the price of his humanity and his freedom was worth it to become a devil.
If someone heard his thoughts, then they would ask a reasonable question; isn't this against the Rias' wishes in regards to the favor she asked? To the casual observer, yes it is. But to Naruto he was helping Rias.
If Naruto just gave Issei the positives of becoming a devil without giving him the negatives, then there was a chance that he would become unsatisfied and try to rebel against her. This would inevitably make Issei into a stray devil and the demonic powers he now had would turn him into a monster without a king to keep him in check. In the end, Issei would probably be killed, Rias would lose prestige, this could sow doubt in her Peerage, and she would be back where she began.
If he failed in bringing Issei into Rias' Peerage then there were no negative outcomes in failing her favor, after all a favor was a favor. If he did bring Issei into her Peerage though, then she would owe him a favor, one that she couldn't deny as long as it was within reason. Naruto suggested this before so that everyone in their little 'Kuoh pact' could learn to depend on one another and begin understanding one another. So Naruto had to be the first one to make it work.
But he definitely wouldn't give up his morals for it.
So Naruto grabbed Issei by the shoulder and gave it a squeeze.
"Let's talk Hyoudou Issei, like I said this will change your life from here on in. For better or for worse. So the least you can do is make sure you make the best decision by listening to me." Naruto said with a firm tone. Issei saw the firm look that the blond was giving him and sighed.
"Fine...let's talk."
So they talked.
A certain daughter of the original Lucifer was looking around Kuoh for a certain blond.
Naruto promised Mio that they would leave together properly, but the blond seemed to have performed a disappearing act...again. It was strange to the young girl that someone so eye-catching could disappear so easily, she even entertained ideas with Maria that maybe their blond savior was a ninja.
That was a good laugh.
But as of now, she was annoyed at her blond savior due to his pranks that she was sure he had done on purpose.
Making her call him 'onii-san' was way too embarrassing! The fact that she had to say it near classmates in her age group and that Maria teased her mercilessly about it wasn't helping at all!
Now she was annoyed at the fact that he seemingly forgot that they were going to walk home, she hated to admit it but Mio was beginning to depend on Naruto. So much so in fact, that she didn't feel as safe when he wasn't around, he just had an aura that spoke of an unyielding spirit. So she wanted to stay close to him...
Not that she would ever admit it.
So after asking around the Academy she finally found out what her 'onii-san' was up to.
Looking for the infamous pervert Hyoudou Issei.
She heard horror stories from the other girls about the ghastly deeds of the 'Perverted Trio' and she decided that Naruto couldn't be allowed to influenced by such a person. Naruto was already a handful as it was, she didn't need to add 'pervert' to his admittedly few failings.
When she voiced her beliefs to her new friends in class when they were preparing to leave, many of them couldn't help but point out that she was acting more like a jealous girlfriend than like a concerned sister.
She ignored the accusation.
Mio finally reached the last confirmed location of Uzumaki Naruto and checked the girl's locker-room. When she looked around, she noticed a set of foot tracks that moved away from the area towards the old warehouse. She supposed that was about as safe a bet as she could get, so she walked the distance to the warehouse.
Once she arrived, she came upon a peculiar sight, she finally found Naruto but she also found a brown haired teen that seemed to be engaged in a serious lecture by her annoying savior. It was a peculiar sight, what could Naruto be telling this boy?
But before she could move closer without either of them noticing, Naruto turned his head towards her direction and gave her a smirk.
Damn it. He found her out before she could quench her curiosity.
So she moved closer to the two boys and was about to address Naruto when the other boy finally noticed her.
"OOOOOOOOHHHHH!" the other boy all but shouted out in amazement, what the hell? Who was this guy?
The boy leered at Mio's form without conscious thought and his nose started blowing out steam due to his rising excitement.
Mio just took a step back in shock at how the brown haired teen was behaving. The horror stories spoke of such perversion in muted whispers in the girl's bathroom...this can only be...
"...Hy-Hyoudou Issei..." Mio stuttered, she was face-to-face with womankind's number one enemy. She had to leave here as soon as possible before he began to harass her, so she quickly grabbed Naruto by the arm and physically dragged him with her.
"He-! Hey! What the hell Mio!?" Naruto cried out in surprise as he was getting dragged away by his pseudo little sister, he still had to tell Issei about the duties of a Peerage member! But Mio was determined to leave before the pervert's brain restarted.
Issei managed to shake himself out of his stupor, but only did it in time in order to see the beautiful girl dragging the blond away.
...
"...What do blonds have that I don't have!?" Issei cried out in despair with comical waterfall tears flowing down his face. It wasn't fair that the only two male blonds of the school got all of the love! The perverted boy finally stopped his despairing and turned solemn in order to answer Naruto's question...
The question of becoming a devil of Gremory Rias has finally begun to be taken seriously after Naruto told him about most of the pros and cons of becoming a servant. Could he really give up his carefree life for the chance of restarting his life for a better one? Naruto even said that if he worked hard enough, that he can not only get lots of money...he can also attract a lot of attention from female devils!
That thought alone when watching the many stereotypes of sexy she-devils in porn magazines was pushing him to go for devilhood! But did he really want to get targeted by other supernaturals...?
Hell he thought that the blond was crazy when he mentioned all of this. He quickly changed his mind when he met with a physical copy of the same whiskered blond after a puff of smoke. Soon after he was taking the blond's words seriously...
Man his head hurt! He was just an ordinary high school kid! What kind of teen deals with shit like this!?
But he also didn't want to miss such a chance at being something more than just a bug under everyone's shoes. Maybe he could be just like that sensei that Naruto was talking about one day...
He had to go home and really think about this.
Mio dragged Naruto through the Academy to leave the school grounds. She kept going on about 'how he shouldn't be influenced by perverts' as if he was talking to Issei due to his perverted charisma. He tried to ensure her that he wasn't going to go pervert on her but she seemed adamant on keeping Naruto away from Issei. He couldn't help but shake his head in amusement at her antics, she was acting so childish, but she was doing it for his sake so it came out as a little cute instead.
As Mio continued her little rants, Naruto noticed that there was someone waiting for them at the Academy entrance.
Maria waved her arms around frantically towards their direction with a big smile, Mio finally noticed her guardian and couldn't help but groan in embarrassment since a lot of students were staring at the seemingly little girl.
"Naruto-sama! Mio-sama! I've been waiting for you two for a long time you know?" Maria pouted, Mio just gave the crafty succubus a dull stare. She seemed to be in high spirits again, so she was sure that she was up to something again. The loli's next words only confirmed Mio's fears.
"So I heard that you have admitted to your classmates that you're prepping Naruto to be a perfect boyfriend! I never knew you had it in you Mio-sama!" Maria said cheerfully with a hint of sly smile making it's way to her lips. Naruto looked on in amusement as Mio sputtered her own defense of the charge placed against her.
"Where the hell did you hear that from!?"
"Well...your new friends were talking about your declaration to save your 'nii-san' from the dangers of the Perverted Trio. My my Mio-sama...are you trying to win Naruto-sama's heart?" Maria said with an increasingly growing smirk. This was probably due to Mio's steam that was coming out of her ears due to the incredible amount of blood that was swimming towards cheeks.
"Yo-...You...Maaaarrrriiiiaaaa...!" Mio began dangerously, her anger and frustration growing to the point that she would lash out. Maria widened her eyes to the newly aggressive Mio and began to back up, maybe she pushed her a little too much?
"Wa-Wait Mio-sama...it was just a joke! Please! Mercy!" Maria cried out to her charge.
"No."
Naruto heard pitiful whimpers from the succubus from the rest of the day.
Naruto stared at his newly made fuin barrier.
It would work this time, and no damsels in distress would deter him from actually training this time.
Maybe.
The young shinobi was standing in the middle of the forest where he found Mio and Maria a few days prior. It was night time and the blond left his home for this forest to test out a few things. First and foremost, he wanted to check whether the kuchiyose no jutsu could ever be used as a viable option to get back home.
The last time he tried it, it required a huge chunk of chakra that even someone like Naruto felt. But he had to keep trying, at least until he found a better option to transport himself back to his world. So he bit his thumb to let loose a little blood for the contract to work properly and then...
"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" Naruto cried as he slammed his hand into the ground.
A POP later and the smoke appeared that signified that something has indeed been summoned. Naruto made sure to use a similiar amount of chakra as last time in order to check if anything has changed. He peered into the smoke to see what he summoned...then he widened his eyes at his discovery.
What was in front of him was a small toad!
Naruto quickly fist-pumped himself at this small but noticeable achievement. He then leaned down towards the toad in order give him a message.
"Hey! You know who I am right? I'm Uzumaki Naruto; a toad summoner! Listen, I need you to give out a message to sennin-jiichan!" Naruto explained quickly, wanting to give the little toad as much info as possible. Maybe sennin-jiichan would know how to get him back!
The toad just stared at him unblinkingly without saying a word.
Naruto stared at the toad with hope, but as seconds moved on to minutes with still no sound Naruto began to suspect something else.
"...You don't know how to talk do you little guy...?" Naruto stated with twitching eyes, it would make sense that a very young toad wouldn't be able to speak with humans yet. After all this little guy was a lot smaller than even Gamakichi was during the chuunin exams!
The toad just blinked much to the shinobi's chagrin. So he just silently sent to little toad back to Mount Myoboku. Damn, well at the very least he learned that for some reason, the chakra requirements for the kuchiyose was lessening over time. He had no idea why though, he just hoped that in time he can actually summon toads allies to back him up if push comes to shove again.
Naruto got up and stretched. Ok! It was time to go training! He put his hands together to make a familiar cross.
"Kage bunshin no jutsu!" Naruto cried out as several clones appeared near the original.
"Alright! We gotta freshen ourselves up for future battles! It's time that we get back into training!" Naruto cried out in exuberance, all the other clones cried out in agreement and began to spar with one another to freshen up reflexes.
Yeah, this would work.
AN: Heya! I'm back from Florida and it was a blast! So a more beefy chapter as thanks for waiting so long patiently, you people are awesome!
Now...I bet none of you expected that now did ya!? So many people were convinced that Naruto would follow Rias' words to the letter for no reason as if he was a part of her Peerage. Well you were wrong :P
Now some of you must be confused since I left that last-minute edit at the last chapter. Well that was in response to the charge that if Naruto did agree to Rias' favor to the letter, that it would be thoroughly immoral. I never said anything about Naruto actually doing it :)
Although one person managed to get seriously close, at least about what Naruto would do but not his logic for the loophole. Also I added in a new character to the mix of my own volition, she was necessary so that I could add more flavor to the fallen angel faction since they're sorely underrepresented in High School DxD.
Like I said before...I'm pretty sure I have a pretty good idea of what I'm doing. Patience my friends, is good for the heart...and stories too. lol
Now a question, there were some jutsu names that are not well known to many people that were used here. Should I keep them in japanese or use english? Or is it ok as it is now? Plz tell me so that I can stick with one style throughout the rest of the fic.
Well I think that's it! Cya next time!
-RekkingPride