AN: This chapter has character death, Rate M.
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Chapter 14: Things Change.
Satanchia Mansion...
In Naruto's parents' bedroom, the blonde sat on the floor as he summoned his wife and two maids, telling them to enter quietly.
They saw the sleeping Lady Satanchia in her bed and wondered where the Lord of the house was; but before they could ask, Naruto told them what Lord Lucifuge had told him the day before.
The three were shocked, but Naruto ordered them to keep his mother's survival a secret and to go get some food for her when she woke up; he also told them to prepare a bath for her.
Naruto couldn't sleep that night; his mind was racing with various theories about what had happened, and he wondered where his father was.
The blonde decided to wait until his mother woke up and get the answers from her; about an hour later she started to stir with Naruto by her side helping her sit up while Mio brought her some water to drink.
"Mom are you okay," Naruto asked as he held her in his arms.
"I will be fine sweetheart," Lady Isha replied, then her face fell as she recalled the circumstances that had brought her here.
Naruto looked at Lady Isha, who was now staring off into space, seemingly lost in thought. "Where is Dad?" he asked.
"Your father is dead; he was slain at the hands of the archangel Michael," Lady Satanchia responded in a sad voice as she began to retell everything that had transpired.
Flashback...
After the Satans forsook their troops to the merciless hands of the heavenly army, the conflict turned into a slaughter; Lord Satanchia had devised a strategy for his wife to escape.
They were back-to-back fighting off angels."I have a plan," Lord Damian said, "but I don't believe you're going to like it."
"What is it?" Lady Isha asked as she shot a magic bullet at an angel who had tried to get a sneak attack on them when he noticed they were talking.
"We are in a tight spot right now, and our troops won't be able to prevail," Lord Satanchia said grimly. "But one of us can make it out of this alive, and it has to be you."
"What do you mean by 'don't be ridiculous,'" Lady Isha said. "If I leave here, you will be as good as dead."
"But if you don't, we are both going to die," Lord Satan said. "There is no need for the both of us to perish; Naruto will need one of us to guide him."
Lady Isha remained silent for a few moments, but Lord Damian knew he had won when he mentioned Naruto; the couple hadn't married each other out of love, but due to political reasons, they both respected each other greatly and adored their son above all else.
"You're being unfair bringing up Naruto right now," Lady Isha declared as she watched her spouse cut an angel in half.
"I know, but I must do what is required to ensure you survive," Lord Satanchia replied with a sad smile. "Now, summon all of your puppets and get ready to withdraw."
Lady Isha didn't respond, but Lord Satanchia knew she would do what must be done. She summoned her puppets and they created disarray on the battlefield. Lord Satanchia utilized the chance to strike Michael with a loud battle cry to attract the attention of everyone around.
The two adversaries fought until Uriel entered the conflict and Lord Damian was overpowered; the last thing Lady Isha saw before she fled the battlefield was her husband laughing in defiance as his head was sliced off by Archangel Michael.
The scene brought tears to her eyes, but once she was far enough from the battleground, she concealed herself in a forest. What most don't know is that the heavenly faction can obstruct teleportation in a certain region; this is one of the reasons her husband and the remainder of the troops couldn't teleport away.
The fact that the Satans were able to teleport out of the battleground indicated that they had come up with a way to circumvent the angels' power to thwart teleportation, but didn't feel it was crucial to train their army to do so as well.
The other reason was that if the troops returned, the Satans would more than likely have them executed for leaving the battlefield and keeping the knowledge of their defeat by the biblical God a secret.
Lady Satanchia stayed hidden until she was sure the heavenly faction had left the area; then she teleported back to the underworld, her home. She entered her bedroom where Naruto was waiting for her.
Flashback End...
Naruto, Grayfia, Mio, and Maria all had varying emotions running through them at this moment; outrage and sorrow were the strongest among them.
Naruto declared in an enraged voice as he paced the room, "I'm going to kill them! The Satans and Archangel Michael!"
"You will do no such thing, "Lady Isha said"Calm down and stop pacing the room"
"Calm down, how can I calm down when I just heard, Father is dead because of some family problems those Satan's had with their father." Naruto screamed feeling frustrated.
"And what are you going to do? Storm into the Lucifer Mansion and kill Lord Lucifer, then do the same to the other Satans?" Lady Isha asked.
"That is exactly what I am going to do," Naruto stated and was about to leave, but he was stopped by Grayfia, who had frozen his feet, and Maria and Mio, who had bound his movements with gravity magic.
"What the hell are you doing?" the blonde cried out at the actions they took against him.
"I should be asking you that," Grayfia responded."What you're planning will get us all slaughtered; now, calm down and let us all talk about this."
Lady Satanchia nodded at Grayfia and was glad that her daughter-in-law could keep her son in line somewhat anyway.
"You can't kill that Satan," Lady Satanchia remarked. "At least not yet."
"I disagree, I think I am more than capable of destroying all four Satans at once if need be" Naruto replied as he thought about the intense training he put himself through and the results.
"That may be, but they are Satans for a reason other than raw power. They are cruel and would do anything to win, even using someone's loved ones against them." Lady Isha declared. "You might be stronger than them, but we are not. If you attack them, they will come for us."
"There is also the fact that we are in a war with two factions, and their deaths would destabilize our own. For now, they need to be kept alive." Lady Isha explained further.
Hearing that froze Naruto in place as he was about to put his family in danger; the blonde let out a sigh and nodded, indicating that he had calmed down and would not just attack the leader of the underworld.
Naruto was released from the magic restraints, but he looked at his mother's battle-wounded body and instructed Mio and Maria to help her take a bath; they would continue their conversation afterwards and everyone got something to eat.
Lady Isha wanted to protest but Naruto wouldn't hear of it; with the three gone, it was only Naruto and Grayfia in the bedroom while the others were in the bathroom assisting Lady Satanchia in getting clean.
"What do you think I should do from here?" Naruto asked his wife, unsure of what to do next. His father had just died, and the war seemed to have no end.
"I don't know, but we will figure it out together," the silver-haired woman said as she laced her fingers with his.
It didn't take long for Lady Isha to finish her bath, and Mio came back with some food and drinks, making sure nobody got wind of Lady Satanchia's survival.
Lady Isha looked at her son and solemnly informed him of the next step in their plan."Son, I will not be able to stay here; I must go into hiding," she said. "If the Satans discover my survival, they will stop at nothing to have us all eradicated to keep their humiliating defeat a secret."
"Yet another reason we have to destroy them completely," the blonde said, but did not move to leave and kill the Satans as they had expected him to do.
"We will get our revenge one day, but not today. You are now Lord Satanchia," Lady Isha said to her son before turning to Grayfia. "And you, my dear, are now Lady Satanchia."
Grayfia was surprised by the declaration but quickly recovered and nodded to her mother-in-law; of course, she knew she would be Lady Satanchia in the future, but this was way sooner than she had anticipated.
"So what do we do from now on when you are in hiding"Naruto asked his mother feeling lost.
"We will do what we always do," Lady Isha said. "Stay in the shadows and wait for the chance to strike."
"I will leave here tomorrow, but I will be watching from the shadows and sending back reports on anything that might help us," Lady Isha said, making Naruto sad that he would have to lose her too.
The former Lady Satanchia saw her son's sorrow; she patted the bed beside her and signalled for him to get on. It was around noon, and she had spent most of her day discussing Satan's treachery.
They spent the rest of the day inside the master bedroom just talking about happier times, and soon night came as they all slept in the same bed; it was big enough for at least twenty people to sleep on it comfortably.
Next day...
The next day, Naruto woke up to find his mother was gone and some of her things were missing. She must have slipped out while he was asleep; it was also strange because he had not planned on sleeping at all that night, as he was trying to come up with a plan so his mother wouldn't have to leave.
It took the blonde a second to figure out what had happened; his mother must have used some sort of magic to put him to sleep, Something like that wouldn't usually work, but he was so sad and distracted that he didn't notice her doing it.
Mio and the others must have known what she was doing by the guilty expressions they had, but they either agreed with Lady Isha's plan or were unable to convince her otherwise; Naruto couldn't find it in himself to be angry at them, instead, his rage was focused on the Satans and Micheal.
The blonde vowed that he would have his revenge on them all and he would drown them all in eternal darkness.
Chapter End...
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