Disclaimer: First Chapter
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"Thank you for the personal invite Rias my dear, Riser always enjoys seeing his future wife!"
'Who is this douche?' Naruto wondered as he walked in to... some kind of mess. There were 17 people who he did not know in the club room, and the loudest of them was some kind of 'pretty boy' man who spoke in the third person. He seemed excited to see Rias for sure, while Rias on the other hand seemed to be putting up with him. "... Who is this?" Naruto whispered to Yuuto.
"Riser Phenex, he and Rias as engaged... but she wants out."
"Ah... arranged marriage by greedy parents, got it." Naruto muttered, since that explained a few things. Riser sat down right next to Rias and put his hand on her thigh, and for her part she put up with it, seeming only slightly annoyed. "... and that?" Naruto gestured to the silver haired maid.
"Her brother's wife, the family maid... Grayfia Lucifage, known as the strongest queen. She is here so things don't get... violent." Yuuto responded to that.
"Ah."
"Well, Rias, if this is all you called me for, I'm going to go work on a new technique. If you need me, you have my number." Naruto didn't have much reason to stick around.
"Well, it seems my dear has an unruly servant... don't worry Rias, when you and Riser marry, he will be well trained." Riser spoke as he leaned in closer to Rias. Akeno laughed under her breath, while even Rias popped the slightest of smirks at what Riser said.
They waited.
Naruto shrugged his shoulders, didn't respond with much of any emotion, and just started to walk out of the room. He didn't get angry at the comment, because it was just not worth getting angry over at the moment.
"Whatever you say buddy, at least I'm not fucking my sister."
"I am NOT having sex with my brother!" The girl who looked like a younger, female Riser, called out with her cheeks furiously red. She saw that Naruto didn't even turn around to glance in her direction when he spoke. He just kept walking out of the room, and she started to walk after him, following closely behind him. "I am just a member of his peerage, and I am in NO way a part of his harem."
"Okay, whatever you say."
-20 Minutes Later-
"-and I only joined him because he asked me to. I'm still a High-class Devil, worthy of being treated with respect just like my brothers and parents."
"Okay." Naruto responded to her lectures with just one word at this point. Apparently, her name was Ravel Phenex and like him, she was also a Bishop. She turned bright red when he dismissed her, and he could tell she was not used to that sort of treatment.
"I'm a member of the Phenex, we're got regeneration, control of wind and flames, and our tears are worth fortunes... you are lucky to be able to bask in my glow."
"Okay."
"STOP dismissing me!" Ravel pushed Naruto from behind, knocking him to the ground for a moment. He had dismissed everything she had said for 20 minutes now, and she was sick and tired of such treatment. She looked at him getting off the ground, and he just dusted himself off without even much anger on his face from being pushed down. "... you're just nervous... I get it... you're putting on an indifferent air, because you are just THAT nervous about meeting a high-class devil who isn't your Master."
"Oh, sure... nailed it."
"... I would be nervous too if I were in the shows of a Low-class Devil like you... now I get it, your nervousness is understandable." Ravel spoke more to herself than she did him. Naruto glanced at her, and he actually made eye contact. Ravel's eyes widened when she saw no nervousness in his body language, and his eyes just spoke of how bored he was with her. "... that look... don't look at me like that." Ravel whispered at him.
She was dangerously close to genuine anger.
Naruto just sighed.
"Are you about done-?"
*BOOM*
"... Oh no... what have I done... I killed him." Ravel paled fast when she realized her temper had gotten the better of her. Her hand was still extended, and smoking from a fireball she just shot out. She was so used to blasting her brother's head off when he pissed her off, that when she reached her critical levels of anger, she did it again without remembering that nobody else was immortal like her family.
So she ended up blasting his entire upper body off.
She killed another devil's peerage member.
"Ow... don't do THAT again." Naruto stated as shadows collected around where his upper body had been, and he healed from the damage, his entire upper body regenerating in no time. Ravel was left slightly stunned when she saw him alive again in moments, while Naruto dusted himself off. "... that hurt, don't do it again... good thing I saw that coming." Naruto went back to training as Ravel was just standing there.
Dumbfounded.
"You're... how did you heal from that?"
"Uh... hard to explain... lets just say that I can't be killed through the most traditional of means. Still doesn't mean it doesn't hurt though... are you just going to watch me train, because if you don't want to spar, you can go away." Naruto would rather a future enemy not watch him. Ravel, still dumbfounded, looked for any explanation in the area for how he had survived her attack, and she was finding nothing that could really explain it.
How had he not died?
"So... you... you heal from even fatal wounds?"
"More of less... you calmed down now?" Naruto asked her, because her temper had been dimmed by her worrying. Now it had been dimmed further by how she was confused, which made her much more willing to listen. "... you want to train?"
Ravel smirked.
"I'm an immortal Phenex, I don't need to train... no matter how you wound me, I will always heal."
"How much you want to bet?" Naruto asked her with a deadpan expression. Ravel looked at him with a raised eyebrow, confused by how quickly he was willing to bet on it.
"Oh... you say you know some method to defeat my immortality?"
"You heal from wounds, right?"
"Right..." Ravel confirmed, her eyes narrowing at how casually he said that, as if her healing ability didn't concern him at all. "Your physical and magical attacks won't do anything to me, because I can heal from all of them... so I would take that bet." Ravel smirked at him as her confidence slowly built up.
He shrugged.
"Okay then... you're a powerful, full-blooded devil, and you're physically stronger than me, combined with the fact you can heal from all my attacks... lets say... lets have 5 sparring matches, and if I knock you out 5 times in different ways, I win... and you will do ANYTHING I say." Naruto told her as he limbered himself up.
Ravel was interested.
"So... you have to win all 5 rounds... you have to do it different ways to win... and what do I get for winning?" Ravel asked Naruto.
He shrugged.
"If you can knock me down and pin me, I'll do whatever you say for each round you win." Naruto really gave her a good deal.
She smirked.
"Fine, I accept that."
-Round 1-
"Just letting you know... you won't win." Ravel raised her hands up, because even she had some basic training. There was no way some runt smaller than her would be able to beat her and knock her out.
He wasn't even getting into a fighting stance.
"Go whenever you want."
"Fine then!" Ravel pulled out her wings and flew at him, going for a knock down and pin instantly. She blinked when he ducked under her arms, and she felt his arm hook around her neck, before his legs wrapped around her stomach.
Then blackness.
-Round 2-
"What... what did you do?"
"I put you in a choke hold, and cut off all circulation to your brain. I didn't wound you at all, so your body didn't heal. You regenerate, but you still need air and blood to reach your brain." Naruto saw he touching her neck as he spoke. Something inside of Ravel seemed to spark as a frown came over her face.
"Fine... that makes sense... but you still need to knock me out 4 more times, in 4 different ways."
"Yep, so come at me whenever you-" Naruto dodged a fireball, and he glanced at Ravel as she flew at him, several fireballs in front of her. She got close enough that if she threw a fireball, he wouldn't be able to dodge.
Ravel collapsed to her knees when he punched her in the chest.
She saw there were sparks of electricity around his fist, and she kept grabbing her chest in agony, before everything went black.
-Round 3-
"That time, I stopped your heart with an electical pulse... but I didn't damage you at all when I did it, so you didn't need." Naruto looked at Ravel, explaining it to her as she took many calming breaths after being woken up. She looked at Naruto, and he could see her eyes.
In her mind, she just did the math.
"... Now you can't choke me out, or stop my heart... I will concede that those methods work around my bloodline power..." Ravel burst into action and stepped backwards, summoning gales of wind to knock Naruto over. She sent them right at him, only to blink when he wasn't even there anything. "-where did-"
He was behind her.
She was wet in an instant.
She was covered in water from head to toe as a large bubble of pure water surrounded her body. Her open mouth breathed in water, and she struggled to swim out of the bubble, but the water was so heavy and dense, that she couldn't escape the bubble even as she tried. She tried to summon her fire power, but nothing happened.
Darkness overtook her.
-Round 4-
"That time, I drowned you... no damage to heal from, and you were restricted from using your flames. I think this makes 3 times in a row that I defeated your family ability, and in different ways." Naruto told her.
He tried to recreate the Water Prison with magic, and he was HAPPY to find out that he could kind of get it to work. Ravel was completely soaked, but she was looking at Naruto with something worrisome.
'... How is he doing this... he is making my families ability seem like a joke.' Ravel thought as a seed, the smallest of seeds, of doubt wormed it's way in to her mind. She looked at how confident he was.
He just revealed 3 ways to kill a member of her clan right to her, and she couldn't even refute that they would work, since he knocked her out 3 times using those basic techniques.
'I'll let her win the last one... this should have humbled her a bit.' Naruto waited for Ravel to start the match whenever she wanted. She clapped her hands together, put them above her head, and focused a large amount of demonic power into a fireball.
Ravel didn't get to throw the flames, because a shadow wrapped around her leg and jerked her off of her feet. She lost her concentration, and the flames just vanished into nothing, before she saw Naruto standing right in front of her. Ravel's arms were tied to her chest, and she felt an immense pressure.
All the air escaped her body, and when she tried to breath in, she found herself physically unable to catch her breath.
Soon, she passed out.
-Round 5-
"You need oxygen like everyone else, so taking that away from you leaves you helpless... you okay?" Naruto asked Ravel.
She had yet to stand up, her skin was pale after having faced possible death 4 times in a row in less than 30 minutes. She was visibly shaking, the bet in the back of her mind, eyes wide in a stunned silence.
'... We can be killed this easily... how many more things can kill us like this?' Ravel felt the urge to vomit, and covered her mouth with her hand. She fought down the feeling, and managed to keep her stomach contents inside itself. Regeneration only activated when you were taking some sort of damage, and she hadn't taken ANY damage during all 4 rounds she had been knocked out, but she could have still died during all of them.
It was startling and humiliating.
"You okay?"
"Uh... I'm... fine." Ravel slowly brought herself back to her feet, staring at the burnt grass. She could sense that each of his magic based techiques took barely any magic to use, which was more shocking.
She knew that her families regeneration could be beaten with pure, overwhelming power, that they couldn't regenerate from, but it was horrifying to know that a child had enough magic power to pull off some of this ways to kill. A devil child had the power reserves to pull off the electrical technique he used, and a pre-teen could pull off the water thing so easily. She didn't even really sense him use magic for the shadow thing.
Her heart was beating hard enough to burst from her chest.
"You can give up if you want, I'll call it a draw and we can cancel the bet."
"... You think that I would give up... I am still a proud member of the Phenex family." Ravel felt a huge throbbing of pride and anger when he implied she would ever give up. She ran at him.
Naruto paused for a moment.
'... Gotta make this convincing enough that she doesn't realize that I'm losing on purpose.' Naruto saw the attack coming. Ravel saw his arm moving, and she grabbed onto it out of a moment of panic. She didn't know what he was going to do, but she wasn't going to allow it to happen. 'Good, now put my arm behind my back and push me to the ground.' Naruto put up a struggle in her grasp.
She pushed him down and sat on his waist, pushing both of his arms above his head.
"Hah... you can't escape, can you... I don't know what you were trying to do, but this time I've got my hands on you." Ravel felt pure bliss when she felt him unable to overpower her and escape. She pushed her butt harder against his waist, planting her feet firmly on the ground.
'... 7/10 for sure, putting me on my knees with my arm behind my back would put me in a harder position to escape... as it stands, even if I can't overpower her, I could kick her in the back of the head.' Naruto tried his 'best' to escape her hold using nothing but physical strength. He could see that the more he tried to escape, the happier she seemed to be about the outcome. '... she dropped her guard too, she is distracting herself with the idea she can't lose.' Naruto was resisting every impulse to humiliate her and humble her more.
"Give up."
"I don't need to give up, you knocked me down and pinned me. You win." Naruto relented, with her getting off of him.
"I won, I knew I was better than you!"
"Good for you, and to think... that time I was going to trap you in a prison, where you would suffocate yourself with your own powers." Naruto mentioned.
Ravel STOPPED celebrating as THAT idea came to her, and after her first 4 defeats, she found herself believing that if she had not reacted first, she would have lost again. She crossed her arms tightly, not looking at Naruto.
'Right... I shouldn't gloat right now, he just beat me 4 times and make it seem like child's play... if I gloat and make him angry, who knows what he will...' Ravel stopped when she looked at Naruto, and she saw that he didn't seem even slightly upset by his loss. He didn't even seem to be upset that she called herself better than him. "... I... I apologize, my conduct was... inappropriate." Ravel sucked up her pride.
She apologized.
Naruto smiled at her.
"As long as you learn from this, then I don't mind you gloating a bit."
"... You let me win... didn't you." Ravel read his body, and he seemed so relaxed for somebody who was going to have to do what she said. He looked like a guy who had just achieved exactly what he wanted to achieve.
"What, no way... you won fair and square, you didn't cheat, and I used all my physical strength to escape your grasp before you could pin me."
"... your physical strength... fine... I beat you, and since I only beat you once, you have to do what thing I want... and I will tell you what I want after I've given it some thought." Ravel turned on her heel and walked off.
Naruto watched her go.
He grinned, lifting his hand up to show a pink hair of panties with black ribbons on them, spinning it around hsi finger. She wore a dress, so it would be awhile before she noticed that she was missing something important. He started to walk the other way though.
...
"Ah shit... I just flipped her world view of her family upside down, humbled her, and then I was kind to her instead of mocking... I hope this doesn't turn into another Akeno situation." Naruto REALLY hoped that this didn't turn out like others.
Like Koyuki.
Or Priestess Shion.
Or Amaru.
Or Shizuka.
"... Shit... Did I just fuck myself in the ass on this one?" Naruto turned and looked at Ravel's back as she left. The question was, if she was the type of girl who just needed to have her arrogance in her family proven wrong to develop some kind of feelings for somebody, and then be shown kindness. If THAT was the condition for her interest, then he was sure that he was going to be screwed in the future by his desire to humble the princess. "... fuck... I think I'm in danger." Naruto started to run.
He needed to up his training to survive the utter shit show that would be going down in the future.
Chapter End!
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