Sup people, hope you all are having fun holidays with friends and family. Me? Just started a new job over the summer that's going well. Nothing much to bring up on my end. This fic idea came to me as I found it interesting when it comes to collateral in DxD (ie Freed's victims before the ORC goes after him) are never touched upon besides being cleaned up. So, here we are.

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The alarm clock was slapped into silence with the hand grasping the device. The covers shifted as a young man peeked out to see the time on the digital clock face.

"Fuck…" He muttered before throwing the blankets off and rushing into the bathroom, the reason? He had about half an hour before his shift started. Munching on a few breakfast bars and cleaned up, he locked the door to his house and got in his car as it roared to life, speeding off to work. Hopefully traffic wasn't too bad.

"Excuse me, I'm looking for something specific." The young man looked up from his work repairing a broken guitar to see an older gentleman in a coat and hat.

"What can I help you with?" he asked and set aside his work.

"I was hoping if you carried any copies of records from the band Queen?" The man asked as Naruto nodded and went into storage. Coming back moments later with a copy of their work labeled 'Greatest Hits'. "You're in luck, we just got this last week in our shipment overseas. Got good tastes if you collect their work." He commented and handed it over.

"Thanks, been a fan of theirs since they started." He commented and noticed the tattoo peeking from under the employee's sleeve.

"Nice tattoo you got there, Church of Satan?" he asked motioning to it as the other pulled his sleeve to reveal the star within a circle on his left bicep.

"Actually no, they can get confused, but this is a pentacle, the point are the 5 elements while the circle is for balance, its more associated with Pagans. But it's easy to mistake it for the common inverted pentagram of Satanism." He shrugged as his customer just nodded with an 'I see'. The man ordered a few more records and as thanks, gave a nice tip of a few hundred extra as he took his leave and the young man returned to his repair.

It'd be hours later when he was closing the store as it got dark out, humming a small tune as he left through the back and locked it behind him. Walking to his car, he noticed a small figure resting next to the dumpster. He walked over and got a better view of the sleeping person, homeless from the looks over it and quite young. If he took a guess, she seemed to be in her mid to late teens but kept her youthful appearance. As if reacting to his presence, her eyes shot open, and she glanced around before fixing on him. A few other things he picked out were her green eyes, blue almost black hair done in twin tails and the fact she wore clothes a few sizes too big, most likely scavenged from trash.

"Are you ok, miss?" He asked, but in her attempt to speak, she seemingly couldn't but instead made a gesture that she wanted some food. Her hand motioning to her mouth and belly as he got the message. He went back into the store and came back with the box of supreme pizza he had ordered as he only ate half during his lunch along with a few cans of cream soda.

"Its not fine dining, but hope it helps." He commented as he watched her light up at the food and help herself to a slice. Thinking quickly, he ran to his car and peeked in the trunk as he closed it and came back with a wool blanket for her. "Here you go, young lady." He offered and tucked it around her as she was too busy indulging in Italy's finest pie. He cracked a smile at his good deed and decided to take his leave seeing as she was in her own world. What he didn't notice as he drove off was that she stopped eating and stared as his car lights disappeared into the night.

"Found you." She'd mutter with a smile as her ears became pointy and a spiral horn emerged from her forehead before returning to her meal.

-a few hours later-

He awoke with a grunt as he heard the front door being banged on along with the doorbell going off over and over, oh good, annoying kids. Grumbling at the teenage lack of decency, he got out of bed and made his way downstairs. Not even bothering to check the peephole to see who is rude enough to wake someone up in the middle of the night as he was annoyed and half asleep.

"The hell do you want!" He greeted as he yanked the door open, only to be greeted by the muzzle flash of a gun going off.

BANG

His vision blinded in pain as he barely had time to look down, and at the person before they were upon him, bringing out a blade made of light and just going to town, repeatedly stabbing and cutting into the homeowner's body as he was pushed back and collapsed under the murderous assault. Going into shock from the initial gunshot, he was rapidly bleeding out as the crazed man happily continued.

"Freed's my name, killing is my game~" He snickered out as he pushed the dude's hands away as they weakly tried to stop. As soon as he felt the man's pulse grind to a halt and his blood pooled under his fresh corpse, he stopped and smiled at his work. Freed wiped his blade free on the now bloody shirt and turned to leave, not even bothering to close the door as the house was a bit further away from the other residents of town. The young man succumbed to his wounds moments later, his mind fading into the abyss as he could only get out a gurgle from bloodstained lips before his life ended.

"Here is good." It was past midnight as Issei helped Kiba and Saji dispose of the young man's corpse, opting to bury him in the park near his house as from what Sona gathered looking through public records, he had no relatives or any contacts. Course this saved them from the issue of seeking out said relatives or peers to alter their memories and wipe their existence. Was it a bit callous?

Yes.

But to the big picture, the supernatural world had kept its secrecy from the mortals since its inception, and it wasn't about to let the gates open because a madman of an ex-priest got his rocks off with a killing spree while the ones that held his leash were busy with other things, or just didn't care so long as he helped when called.

"I know it's for the greater good and all, but you guys think we should at least be respectful?" Issei asked, still relatively new to the life as a Devil, Kiba and Saji just shrugged before all three went to burying the hours old dead body of the blonde-haired man. His white shirt stained by his own blood and ruined by a gunshot wound to the heart and multiple stabs into the torso. The man was just another meager victim caught up with the small skirmishes of the Three Factions as the ORC club had dealt with a flock of Fallen and their plans while recruiting a new friend along the way. The trio finished as they walked out of the park as it started to rain, Issei quickly ran over to the house to put up a 'For Sale' sign on the door as Sona went ahead and had things set to cover up this mess as all of Freed's other victims were already cleaned up, this young man being the last one they found.

Had the boys stuck around a bit longer, they might have noticed the lights of an unassuming classic black convertible flick on as the vehicle pulled up to the sidewalk. The door opened as an umbrella was popped open with a woman stepping out. Dressed in a snazzy pantsuit she managed to find and fit in to the new 'changes', she made her way over to the park and stopped before the tree looming over the new gravesite. The Devils didn't even have the decency to erect a tombstone of any sort for the departed human. Just as she was about to disturb the shoddy grave, she felt the presence of a Shinto Reaper, a Shinigami to the locals, to the untrained eye, it'd be as if a sudden chill. But she could see the gaunt specter clearly, eager to take what was not his. His purple skinned and white robed figure looming over the grave with drool seeping from his fanged mouth

"Return to Yomi, spirit, this boy is not yours." She spoke up with an English accent grabbing its attention as its sunken yellow and black eyes glared at her.

"Oh, and who are you to disrupt a harvest, I had already marked this one as mine to claim fresh out of his mother's womb." The spirit sneered, to be clear, the man in the ground was meant for some dumb mortal prophecy, but that was all thrown out the window when he ended up here and so far away from his true home. But the affairs of mortals in that world were always of the self-destructive kind. He just ate up whatever was on offer, and his current prey was just ripe~. The woman gave her umbrella a small twirl as her eyes seemed to shimmer, the night making them glow brighter as wine red eyes bloomed to blazing red.

"Thats too bad, he's mine now, I suggest you leave." Her voice took a small dip in tone at the last word as her presence shifted, alerting the Shinigami that this was no mere exorcist or lowly Devil come to pluck a meal away from him. No, it felt much more sinister as the very air around her screamed danger and before he knew it, he was cast away back into the land of the dead. She smiled as her presence relaxed. With a hand wave over the grave, the dirt shifted, and the man's body emerged, dirty, but not even beginning to spoil. The body floated off the ground as she turned and made her way to the house. Plucking the sign off as she set it alight with a glance and a toss. Entering the premise, she set her umbrella in the rack and had the body move into the kitchen and set on the island counter. Making sure the door was locked, she took a moment to look around the house.

"Not to shabby, for a mortal." She remarked and took her jacket off. Rolling her sleeves up, she simply began tearing off his ruined clothes until he was completely nude. Ignoring the messy attacks that marred his now pale flesh, he had good physique, not overbulking or overweight. Not to mention there was something…. Off about him the more she examined him. Her musings were interrupted as she felt the house shake a bit with the arrival of others, her friends to be precise.

"You're late." The woman called out as more figures entered the scene through shadows. Sure, it used magic and might have alerted the Gremory Heiress that owned Kuoh town. But they were not going to walk any longer with an invisibility spell on as they all scoured the world following their resurrections', searching for this young man, the unknown savior to their damned souls.

"Is this him?" One of the ladies asked, her silvery-blueish hair done in a ponytail and red and yellow heterochromatic eyes. Her pointed ears stood out along with her asymmetric horns growing out of her head. Like the others, she wore clothes she managed to procure, but not everyone had the same luck as the blonde-haired woman that dug up the body they were all staring at.

"Beelzebub, you reek. Did you fish in a landfill for clothes?" She commented as the small woman, the very one that the young man had given food and a blanket earlier, pouted.

"Well excuse me, cow tits. Least I'm not bursting at the seams." Beelzebub snapped back as indeed, the white-haired woman's outfits looked ready to just bust open at the chest, small pockets of boob meat peeking through the button up shirt straining to be free.

"Lucifer, are you sure this is him, I thought he was more…. Alive." The redheaded woman gestured to the corpse's visible damage as all the ladies could taste the repugnant odor of holy weaponry on the wounds. The now named Lucifer casually swiped a finger over the gunshot wound on his chest and brought the blood to her lips. Sampling it as she grimaced a bit at the holy residue,

"Yep, this is our lucky human. Beelzebub, didn't you confirm he was alive and well hours ago?" She glanced to the young woman.

"Yeah, he was, I guess someone got to him before we did. From the looks of it, someone linked with your old man's followers." She had come through the kitchen and was munching on a bag of pork rinds, offering some to her friends as they all were understandably famished coming here. Lucifer took the moment to gaze around the first floor of the house and noticed this young man had an interest in the occult and pagan things. A home tour would be needed as she could sense other items around the house, giving off various levels of magic energy.

Just then a devious idea popped into her head as a smirk graced her lips. The others picked up on it,

"Uh-Oh, Luci's got a plan brewing~" One of the pink haired demon ladies commented with a giggle. The others had different reactions as not all were on the same page, given what happened the last time Lucifer had a great plan.

"My friends, we all stand once more, given another chance at life. Those that have slain us in the past are probably all busy with maintaining order. How about we stick around and shake things up a bit, the old man isn't around anymore, any doubts?" she offered. The others thought, glancing at Lucifer, then the corpse as if she had something in mind for him.

"Eh, why the hell not, not like we got anything better to do." The other white-haired woman commented, only wearing one of the shirts she got from the man's closet, her limbed-tail playing with a rubix cube she found. "I Belphegor the Lord of Sloth, join your cause." Her form lit up with her demon power. Thankfully when they all arrived, they made sure to put up Enochian runes to hide their energy from the outside.

"Sure, I'm game, and I would love to tease such a well-endowed man like him~" The pinkette grinned as she gazed over his body, eyes gleaming as they gazed at his package. "I Asmodeus the Lord of Lust, join your cause~" she lit up to as did the others when they announced their pledge and their horns and wings emerged. Only wearing black panties and her hair to cover her breasts.

"Hmmm… fuck it, he brought us back, lets see what's in store for this new era?" The red head shrugged with a small grin. "I Satan, the Lord of Wrath, join your cause." She just had on a red duster coat tied at the waist.

"The food he gave me was pretty good, so I'm game." The small one finished her bag and tossed it in the trash before she lit up too. "I Beelzebub the Lord of Gluttony, join your cause." Still wearing loose clothes.

"For such a young man, he appears to harbor fine tastes. Let's see where this goes, shall we?" The motherly looking woman smiled as she could tell there was hidden potential in this man, like a diamond among lesser gems. "I Mammon the Lord of Greed, join your cause." She wore a black bathrobe and slippers.

"If Luci sees something in him, then I gotta step up my game, there can only be one!" the purplette punched her fist into her hand as she only had on a bikini. "I Leviathan the Lord of Envy, join your cause."

"Well, no use on saying otherwise, hope he likes music like I do." The other pinkette with blue bangs commented with a smile. "I Astaroth, the Lord of Heresy, join your cause." She wore a red button up shirt and panties.

"This is no mere human, which means we struck gold~" The tall silverette commented as she ran a hand over the man's torso, feeling something unique and not of this world. It just piqued her interests even more~. "I Belial the Lord of Treachery, join your cause." She was in too small office clothes.

Lucifer grinned like a wolf as she leaned down and gazed at his pale face, the combined power making the house shake a bit and light up from the inside. "Count yourself lucky, you saved us from an eternity of nothingness, so why don't we return the favor?" She stood up and announced her command.

"I Lucifer the Lord of Pride, with the combined might of my fellow Sins, recall this young soul from the abyss as our new champion!" She smiled as all their powers merged and poured into the man's body. Her eyes glancing to some framed photos on a a bookshelf showing the man with a few ladies in his life, already knowing his name as she read it on his ID. The Lords of Sin noticed as their magic worked on his body, another magic spell on his face melted away, revealing a set of whisker like markings on his cheeks.

"Time to wake up to a new world, Naruto Uzumaki."

And that's a wrap! Hope this idea catches your interest and we'll see where this goes. It's a threeway with Naruto, Highschool DxD and Seven Mortal Sins. Hope you all are enjoying yourselves!

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