章 1481: 5
Chapter 5: Past Due=
"Cough Cough!"
He walked endlessly through the everlasting darkness with no since of purpose. It felt like he had been walking for hours but for some reason he felt the need to keep going straight. After some time he eventually came upon a giant black gate. It had a giant padlock attached to it by large chains wrapping around the bars of the gate. Naruto walked up to the cage in curiousity, looking closely at the cracks along the lock.
"What is this." He saw two giant white eyes open up in the darkness that stared right at him. Next moment the cage was broken and forced open as Naruto was knocked flying away.
As he was hurtling threw the sky he was suddenly grabbed by a larger hand.
"Gah!" He coughed up a glob of blood as he felt the hand squeeze down and break something. He was then dropped and fell a short ways to the ground.
Bring himself up to his feet he tried to walk again but found it increasingly difficult to do so. Looking down he saw a black sludge grabbing at him, pulling him down. He tried to push on and escape but its hold got stronger and stronger as it climbed up his legs and latched onto his waist. He struggled to get free as it climbed higher and higher until he heard large thumps of footsteps in front him.
As it slowly came into view he could make out its vague features. It was some kind of giant creature with a vaguely humanoid build. It was all black with pointed hands and feet. Its face consisted of a large glowing sharp smile and glowing white eyes. The sight of it got Naruto's attention causing him to stop struggling as the sludge had completely incased him up to his chest and was still rising. It made a low hum as it brought its head down to look at him critically. It sniffed him a few times as the sludge came up around his neck and the edges of his face.
"WRRRRRRYYYYYYYYY!" It let lose an earth shattering roar right on Naruto before moving back. As the sludge covered him completely the monster brought its hands in from the slide to clap in on him, with a smash
*BAM!*
"*Gasp* Hah..."
Naruto opened his eyes and was startled by the sudden light. He felt weak and helpless as his body had taken the form of a wolf pup. He felt himself held and pressed into something soft and warm. The feeling was comforting and gave him a sense of security and peace. He nuzzled further into the warmth enjoying the feeling.
"Naru-chan you must have had an interesting dream didn't you?"
At the voice he looked up to be greeted by the sight of an extremely beautiful redheaded woman smiling down at him as she held him in her chest. The smile was so warm it was placating. "Don't worry Naru-chan, your Kaa-chan will always be here for you watching over you."
She held him in one arm and brought the other hand up to eye level as a pitch black aura halfway covered her index and middle finger. In appearance it resembled a flame as well as a thick paint.
"You will no doubt have an interesting life filled with many hardships but with much joy as well."
She began to move her fingers swirling a spiral of the black aura in the air in front of him. "Don't let yourself be at the mercy of others. Live your life how you wish to live it and make your future dreams come true. Don't let anyone tell you what you can and can't do-."
She touched Naruto's forehead and the spiral traveled harmlessly into his skull as he slowly feel asleep.
"-you can be whatever you want to be."
-House-
Naruto woke up and put a hand to his head with a groan.
"Yare yare. I hate when my dreams and memories decide to do a mashup. Why do I feel so sore?" Slowly but surely he started to remember parts of what happened the previous night.
"I was out roaming last night... got into a fight... with a bird lady... and got stabbed threw the chest? I must have snapped again to still be alive." He sighed as he laid silent for a few seconds thinking.
"Hmm, and Im pretty sure I wasn't drunk. So going by how that chick looked and what she stabbed me with I'd say it would be pretty accurate to say she was a fallen angel? *Sigh* I knew i should have read up more on them... Well once again I'm still alive so no point in worrying about it right now. Might as well get up." He hopped out of bed and yelped when he hit the ceiling. 'The hell!?' As he feel back down he tried to right himself back up but was stopped when he felt two things emerge from his back and hold him in the air and stab into the wall.
He blinked and looked behind himself to see long black wing like apendages. Seeing them he deadpanned for a moment then sighed. "I guess its just one of those days...!" He fell face first to the ground when the wings retreated into him again. He laid there thinking for a while.
'Okay Naruto. Don't freak out. There has to be a reason for this. Something else must have happened last night. Something...something...something...Right Rias was also there at the end. And she did something?'
"Be reborn as my servant and as a devil of the Gremory household."
"...Well fuck that. Devil eh? I feel so light"
He walked towards the mirror and his eyes widened.
'Whoa!'
The surprise was from the fact that the black spikes of hair he always had on top of his head had turn into canine like ears and behind him he had a long wolflike tail waving about casually His canines were sharper and his whisker marks had gotten slightly darker. He looked at the rest of his body and saw it looked mostly the same but his muscles and body felt harder than before and he felt stronger than ever. His hair was slightly longer and messier but that was fine. The interesting thing was that his hair was naturally spiked in a way so that it only showed one eye without him trying. The blues of his eyes had turned white, even with his sclera and only separated by the black outline of his irises. It was like the eyes of the moon and with his slitted pupils gave him a very intimidating gaze.
"This is fucking badass. But I can't go out looking like this. Let's see if Obaa-san lesson were right then if i relax and shift my energy I should be able too..."
His tail receded and his appearance turned back to normal. His hair also dropped to cover his eyes again. He lifted his hair up out of the way of his eyes and smirked when he saw they were blue again.
"Haha that was easier than expected!" He brought his hands together and flexed and the wolf features showed again. He released and they receded again.
"Flex, release, flex, release, flex, release, flex, release, flex." As long as he was consciously trying to shift thats all he needed to do to change. He got an excited grin on his face as he shifted faster and faster enjoying this new change to his life. He didn't notice that black paint flames started emerging from his hands the fast he shifted until it exploded on him.
*Boom* He was knocked back onto the ground with a yelp as he landed on his tail. Naruto rubbed the soarness as he got up but paused as he looked at his hand. He stared at how it was consumed in blackness just like the other. He waved it back and forth in curiousity and it started to form trails in the air. He played with it and started to draw things in the air.
"What is this?! Its like flaming magic ink!"
He brought his other hand up and rubbed them together as it started to feel sticky. He pulled them apart and it formed tendrils of the slime inbetween the hands that stretched to connect both. Getting an idea he stopped and went to his closet, the blackness on his hands disappearing on instinct. He came back with some drumsticks in hand. He grabbed one and held it up to eye level as he coated his other hand in the black aura again. He then grabbed the drumstick with his coated hand and smiled in satisfaction when the aura formed a shell around the wooden object and shaped into a black sharp object that was twice as long. He looked it over before throwing it at his mirror.
*Vrrom* It stabbed right into the mirror cracking it and embedding itself into the wall.
"Hahahahah ha...ha..ha...*sigh*...why the hell did I just do that to my mirror..."
Rias fidgeted in her seat as she felt animalistic eyes glaring at her. She glanced over at Miso who had a hard scowl on here face as her. She was sitting over in an armchair as she glared at her with her slitted eyes shadowed. Shio was sitting to the side in a couch with her arms crossed and her eyes closed, thinking. The one who had gathered them there was sitting next to Shio in the couch. Yasaka took a sip of her tea and sighed.
*Whap* "Itta!" Miso clutched the back of her head in pain as Yasaka smacked it with one of her tails.
"That's enough with the latent aggression Miso-chan. While admirable you made you more than made your point hours ago and your nails are starting to dig into the chair." Miso grumbled but otherwise obeyed.
"Now about what you did to my nephew. I personally have no problems with your actions." Rias was surprised by how easily the kitsune said that.
"What?!"
"Miso use your inside voice. I'm sure the to of you know what would have happened had Rias not tried to revive him. He would have bleed out on the ground and died and if anything it would have been worse if she just ignored him." Miso flinched and Shio's face twitched at the idea of what could have happened. It was their fault for not being their to protect him like they had trained to be able to do so for years.
"Of course thats what you think would happen," Yasaka added offhandedly at the end gaining everyones eyes. Shio finally opened her eyes and looked at her.
"What do you mean by that."
"Fufufu come on girls you should have long since noticed that there was something off about your brother. All that talent and nothing to show for it. Surely you girls have remembered the bear incident by now?" It was like a shock went through their system as the girls eyes widenned.
Miso shook in her seat. "Y-you mean that was real."
"Of course it was. Even when Naruto snapped a similar thing has happened several more times throughout the years but i guess you don't know about the others. Anyway it got worse each time as he got older. I thought it was abnormal so I ran tests on his body and blood. Apparently that was like a personal failsafe of some kind. It would activate through a combination of him being in danger and his mindstate. When I did some digging into his data I found out the thing causing it wasn't of human origin at all."
"Then w-what is it?"
"That I'm not completely sure. But look on the bright side. Now that Naruto has changed you girls don't have to hide who you are anymore." The girls looked down nervous at this missing Yasaka's smirk as Rias looked on curious.
"Now before we continue the rest of the conversation I think it would be wise to have Naruto with us. So lets go get the boy. He should be awake by now." She stood up and walked up the stairs towards Naruto's room.
*Knock Knock* "Naruto are you awake yet we wanted to talk with you..."
Yasaka opened the door and she saw was a broken mirror, a messed up bed, what looked to be cracks in the ceiling, stab marks in the walls and a bunch of cards embedded in the walls and floors. Naruto was sitting there only in his shorts with his back towards them. He tilted his head back and grinned as his eyes glowed ominously at her.
"...get dressed and come downstairs." She closed the and passed the girls in the hallway as her face twitched which Shio noticed."
"What happened?"
"Don't worry about it."
-Back downstairs-
"So girls is there anything you would like to say to your brother?" Leaning against the wall with his arms crossed Naruto rose an eyebrow at his sisters as they shuffled nervously. Shio being the older of the two decided to speak for them.
"O-oniisama... W-we'll always be family no matter what right?"
"Of course we will always be family."
"Even if we were keeping a secret from you all this time?"
"You know I hate secrets." It was short and quick and made them flinch.
"But I wouldn't be much of a brother if I let that get to me now would I?" He smiled at them reassuringly giving them courage. Shio continueed her confession.
"Well you see oniisama by mortal standards we Miso and I aren't exactly human..."
"...what?" Naruto tilted his head at this.
"I g-guess we'll just show you." At that they slowly let their fox features show. The both looked down and Shio held her arm bashfully wondering what his reaction would be as she spoke.
"You see oniisama we are actually youkai. More specifically kitsune. More specifically the warbeast branch. We were half human at birth, now not so much."
"..." The girls grew nervous at his silence and spoke out in unison.
"Oniisama?"
"So all these years I protected you to and you weren't even human?" The froze at the emotionless tone he spoke with.
"We're you even ever going to tell me or are you only telling me now that I'm some demon." He pushed off the wall and walked towards them making them stumble back. Rias seeing this stepped forward.
"Hey hold on-." She stopped when Yasaka put a hand on her shoulder and shook her head.
"You think you can suddenly tell me something like this because its convenient for you to know and think I will trust you to that easily." Now they had pressed themselves against the wall on the other side of the room and were shaking as Naruto stood intimidatingly over them. Shio's voice came out small as she spoke.
"O-onii-s-sama we're sorry. W-we'll do whatever y-you want if y-you please forgive us!" They shut their eye's in fear as Naruto brought his hands up expecting the worse. They flinched when they felt his hands touch there heads and froze as they went from side to side in a slow, soft motion. They subconciously leaned into his hands as he did so. He was petting them.
He pulled both of them into a hug surprising them. "Whatever I want eh? That sounds nice so could I keep protecting you two if thats not too much?"
"O-oniisama?!" Naruto let go of them and smiled.
"What did you really think I would hate you two or abandon you to over something as trival as that? Apparently you did for you to hide that so long. The older brother looks out for his sisters no matter what happens and no matter what they do. That's his job." The girls started to sniff and their eyes watered as they looked up at him. Naruto sighed at this.
"*Sigh* Sorry I guess I messed with you two a little too much just then-!" He stopped when the twins jumped at him and wrapped their arms around him burying their faces into his neck. He stumbled a bit but then held them their.
"N-no it's okay we deserved a-atleast that much. We are just so happy right now!" Naruto smilled to himself as they cried into him.
"Well I'm glad you two got that out of your system...and now I'm getting wet." After a few minutes they calmed down and let go of him. At that Yasaka clap to get attention.
"Now that thats over lets get back to our discussion shall we. I'm sure you have something else you wanted to say didn't you Naruto?" At this Naruto's whole demeanor changed as he walked to sit in the arm chair. He looked back at the twins and smirked evilly.
"Oh and my cute little imoutos. Hehehe I already knew you were Kitsune."
The girls stood there for a few seconds before it finally clicked what they just heard.
"What, you knew!?"
"Come on now I'm far from stupid even if I act like it at times. You should have known you wouldn't have been able to hide something like that from me forever. All of the jokes and fox related moments? Come on watching you girls squirm was so much fun." Naruto laughed to himself as the girls felt like they were getting a headache.
"How long have you known?!" Yasaka spoke up while sipping tea in her seat.
"His known since he was 10 years old."
"I've known since you were born."
"...What!?" All 3 kitsune shouted not expecting that. Yasaka spoke up for them.
"Naruto I first told you about the girls nature when you were 10 because of the incident where you needed to be sealed. Why am I just now hearing about this?"
"Well truth is my oldest memories were of Kaa-san and when the twins were born."
"You mean..."
"Yes since they were born with their features I was one of the first to see them."
"But how is that possible you should have not been cognitive enough at that age? And why did you never say anything? This could have changed a lot."
"Well I don't know. One of the things about me is that I don't forget. Thats all I can say. I have no idea why I can remember things that far back but it would explain why learning is so easy. As for not telling anyone that I knew...Well I always assumed you all had your reasons for not telling me. I was basically human, and no doubt the weakest link. You no doubt would feel safer knowing that I was oblivious to the supernatural world rather than me knowing about it and fear me getting involved and hurt because of it."
Miso decided to speak out at this. "B-but if we had known... if you had told us that you already knew about our kitsune nature we could have protect you better. We could have used our abilities to better help you without fear of you knowing about it. We could have-."
"Who said I wanted to be protected?" The girls flinched at the tone and kept silent.
"I never wanted to be protected. I never wanted to have my hand held throughout life because I was the most vulnerable. I never wanted to be pitied for being weaker. I never wanted you to feel obligated to want to protect me to that extent. Doting over me just because you want to is fine and you girls have done that. But you also doted over me because you were trying to shelter me. It is the older sibling that shelters the younger ones not the other way around!" With each one they felt like bricks were hitting there heads like they were being scolded.
"B-b-but-."
"Yeah I could have told you all but then my role would have been take from me even more than it already was because of your cautiousness. So I kept silent as long as I need to to hold on to that while making myself better, stronger, and smarter whenever I could. So when Obaa-san gave me the opportunity to see the world and learn more I jumped at the chance because I needed the new freedom."
Picking up what he was indirectly saying the twins ears fell and Shio spoke with a sad tone.
"So we ended up driving you off and you left those years ago just to get away from us?"
"Yes and no. Of course you know that it was to better protect me because I would always be on the move. What you don't know is that I wasn't doing it to be protected but to be able to protect myself. Thats why I learned whatever I could and perfected what I could and trained to become as strong as I could. Because while I would be inferior to you two I at least wanted to be someone you two could look up to or admire in someway."
"But we do look up to you!" Miso shouted out trying to assure them."
"Don't bullshit me. Since when does a supernatural being ever look up to a human?"
"I-I-I..."
"Thats right. In terms of ability almost never. The only thing humans have going for themselves sometimes is social status. Me being #1 at school? That was my goal with that in mind. It's only thanks to all my natural talent that I was born with that I have more going for me than that and even then it took some work. Of course there is a little more to it but I think Obaa-san wanted to tell you that herself." Naruto leaned into his first as he sat in the armchair with a sigh. He really didn't like talking so hard to them but it needed to be done.
Yasaka signed as she took another sip of her tea. "I still can't believe you kept silent all this time for the sake of your pride but I guess I really shouldn't be surprised at this point. Girls you might as well come site down for this story." The twins walked over and sat down in the couch and waited. Naruto glanced under his hair to the side and saw Rias was still standing off to the side feeling unsure about what to do.
"Rias-chan you might as well come sit down as well and hear this." She nodded sat in the couch as well. Yasaka started speaking now that they were all sitting.
"Now I'm sure you kids remember the bear incident and don't worry about it if you don't know what it is Gremory as its not as important. Well anyway what happened at the end happened several more times throughout the years. The most notable would be when he was 10 years old."
-Flashback-
A younger Naruto could be seen walking home alone in the city of Kyoto. His sisters had been out sick that day for whatever reason. He had mad it through the city and was already in the more suburban area. He took a shortcut through an alley but stopped when he saw a group of kids walk up in front of him. He looked behind and saw that there were kids behind him too. Most of them from what he could tell were around his age or in his class, though a few were a few years older.
One of the nondescript boys stepped forward with a cocky look.
"Well if it isn't mustard head!"
'M-mustard head? Wow that insult wasn't half bad this time.' He sighed at them not wanting to deal with this.
"What do you guys want? I just want to go home..."
"Who cares! We can't mess with your sisters because everyone likes them but you're alone right now. You look like a punk with that yellow hair and yet you don't ever do anything wrong like a nerd and you're good in sports. You take too much attention from the rest of us!"
"I didn't know being better than you was a crime..." Naruto replied uninterested making the boys fume. The boy threw a solid punch at Naruto's face for the smart comment.
"And your crime was being alive! Thats probably why your mom is dead. She couldn't take seeing your face!" The punch made him fall back but at that comment he caught himself and froze leaning back. Naruto's pupils changed to slits for the first time and he leaned forward and carried a heavy punch into the kids face making him scream in pain as he clutched his face on the ground shocking the other kids. He was usually a passive person who would take whatever was thrown at him with a smile but now its like he had been triggered.
"Leave my mother out of this! I'm so tired of this. I do nothing wrong. I go to school, do my work, follow the rules, get good grades, and for what!? To still have to deal with all this crap!? To be looked down on by everyone and be looked on as a pest by others?! Well I'm tired of this crap. You want to fight? Come at me!"
At this one of the kids regained his nerves and shouted.
"Get him!"
Yasaka could be seen lounging on a couch flipping through the channels wondering what was on TV.
"Where is Naruto-chan. He sure is taking a while to come home...!"
She sat up all of a sudden a strange look on her face as she turned into a fox and left the house. "Somethings not right."
Naruto was on the ground beaten, bruised, and bloody as a group of kids kicked him on the ground. He put up a much better fight than could be expected. He beat down several of the kids out of the 20 that were there and landed blows on many of them. He could take a hit better than any boy his age and he was agile which helped. What messed him up was that a few of them had poles and bats and one scored a good hit on his head making him stumble enough to be brought down by the rest of the boys. There was no point getting up at this time since struggling would just make them go long as blood dripped don his hair and head. One of the kids holding a bat who was kicking him laughed. He had a bloody nose from when Naruto had scored a good knee strike in at his face.
"Hahaha where is that spark now mustard kid. All that talk and you're down already. You must not have cared much about your mom. Maybe we should go after your sisters next!" His eyes shot open from his place on the ground. It was like something snapped inside of him as the words echoed in his head over and over.
He lost it as his hair spiked up on its own despite being covered in blood. Even with all the kids kicking he shot up off the ground and grabbed the boys face making him freeze. He grabbed the bat out of his hand spun showing a testament of the little strength he had and swung both the bat and the boy around. The bat forced the other boys to move out of the way scared and those that didn't got hit in the face, some having teeth knocked out. At the end of his swing he swung the boy into the wall and held him up by his face there with one arm. The boy started to shake and sweat like crazy in fear as Naruto brought his face in close. His face and body was shadowed ominously and all he could see was two pupil-less violet eyes staring at him in the darkness of the shadow.
"Give the weak some power and all of a sudden they feel powerful. Group the weak in a crowd and they feel like they actually have real power. Push someone who is actually strong to their breaking point and they will find out just how weak they are. May you regret your short lives and what little life you have left."
Yasaka could be seen sniffing around the area searching for his scent. Just as soon as she picked it up she felt an odd energy spike and something about it felt dangerous. She took off in her disguised fox form quickly in that direction and luckily it didn't take her long to get there. It was in an out of the way part of a nearby neighborhood and she walked into the alley wear she felt the energy. As soon as she entered she was on guard. There was traces of blood all over the place and scatterings of crumpled bodies.
*Crrrrrrrrrr*
That was the sounds that could be heard accompanied with random giggling as she saw a figure approach her. As it stood in front of her she saw it was Naruto covered in blood and dragging a bloodied bat behind him.
"Cool a yellow fox. Thats not something you see everyday." At the end of that statement he passed out and fell forward. Before he could hit the ground completely Yasaka had returned to her human form and caught him. She sighed to herself at the scene before her. 'Looks like its time to move again.'
She stood over Naruto's bed as he told her what happened. He was laying there bandaged from his injuries. Some caused by the kids who fought but most of the ones on his arms were self inflicted from him hitting the kids or walls too hard with his bare hands.
"*Sigh* Forgive me Naruto-chan I should have given you a guard to watch over you. Its my fault this happened, I will get one for you from now on."
"If you do that I promise you I will run away." This caught her off guard with how blunt he was.
"W-what? Naruto-chan I know you're having a hard time but this is a big deal."
"And whose fault is that? I try to get better on my own but I get no help. I do everything I'm supposed to but I'm still a target. But then I guess it makes sense now. I may be human but I haven't felt normal in a long time. I mean how are you going to get me out of this Obaasan? You and I both know that I killed at least some of those kids back there. Maybe most of they, heck maybe all of them are dead. And you know what of the scary thing is?!"
She felt uneasy about where this might be going but shook her head no.
"The scary thing is I'm not scared at all! I don't care that I killed them. It was like I was the top predator stepping on a bunch of insects! Squishing them between my feet! Its just that these insects were life-sized. The power I felt. I want to feel strong like that again and again. But you already know what I'm talking about. I mean you saw it didn't you fox." She sweated all thought that both from concern and from being started at the end.
"Na-Naruto dear what-."
"Don't try to hide it I saw you change from a fox in that alley. You aren't even human are you! That explains why you're acting like this issue of me killing them can be brushed off so easily, because their lives were insignificant to you too! You probably already had something planned to deal with this and were going to have us move so that we wouldn't be aware of the end result." He smirked when she stayed silent.
"I take that as a yes. Assuming you really are my aunt by blood what does that make me."
She looked at him with a serious gaze that didn't deter him at all.
"What is it you're really asking?"
He looked at her equally serious but there was a faint lost look behind his eyes.
"I want to know exactly who I am and what you're hiding from me.
-Flashback end- Back in the living room-
"After that I told him pretty much everything he needed to know about me, your mother, you two, who he was, and even some knowledge on the supernatural world...but I still gave him a body guard fufufu. He said he would run away if I gave him a guard. He wanted to get stronger. He wanted freedom. And we needed to relocate anyway. So while we moved down here I sent Naruto off to the world with a few Anbu guards to train him and give him the strength and freedom he needed. It wasn't an easy life but it was what he wanted and what he needed to grow."
The girls looked at Naruto who nodded in agreement that it was all true. They tried to apologize as they felt it was their fault but he stopped them before they could continue. He then turned to Rias who had been absorbed by the story.
"Now onto the situation with you Rias-chan. You tried to turn me into a devil even though I told you I wouldn't be your servant and that I would heal." He grinned mentally when the twins glared at her like he predicted they were but then heard Yasaka speak up.
"Naruto-kun how the hell was she supposed to know someone she presumed to be human would heal, let alone heal fast enough to recover from an instantly fatal injury?" Her eyes looked with Naruto giving a look that said. 'I know what you were trying to do and I'm stopping it.'
"You couldn't let me have my fun could you?"
"You can't always have your way Naruto-kun and you already messed with the twins earlier. Think of this as getting back at you for not telling me of your kitsune knowledge all these years."
"Fair enough."
Shio was confused and asked her question.
"Wait what are you talking about and what do you mean Naruto would heal?" Yasaka set down her tea having finished it and spoke her piece.
"Well first I will tell you this." Her eye's slitted as she stared at Naruto making him look the other way and whistle. "If Naruto was completely opposed to being a devil Rias chess piece wouldn't have even affected him. What we learned over the years from experience and testing his blood is that while we don't know what will happen if he is actually killed he will recover after a certain amount of time from a fatal injury. We also learned that his body is evolving. While he was human at birth he was probably only 75% human after the bear incident. By the neighborhood incident he was 30% human. In fact right before last night he was probably 10% human and the only reason he seemed completely human was because his body was denying the supernatural blood. I got the Anbu to do some tests and we found out that Naruto would have awakened his powers anyway come his 18th birthday. What Rias did if anything accelerated the time he still had left so there is no problem there. Being fatally injured seems to be one of the things that accelerated his evolution anyway so even if Rias had not been there he would have changed soon anyway. Its just the Gremory's interference may have mutated things some."
"So then Oniisama did have kitsune blood all along?"
"Not... exactly. Naruto-kun could you show us your new features?"
"Hai." He got up out of his seat and took his shirt off making the girls blush and Yasaka blinked.
"Well I don't see how that was necessary but at least you've kept in shape."
He turned around and flexed making his canine parts emerge and the wings sprout. His hair spiked up to show one eye automatically as well. He looked back at her as he pointed at the large black X on his back. "I figured you would want to talk about this too."
The girls all while still blushing all ran off questions at this.
"Yeah obaa-san why is there a seal on him."
"Well during the neighborhood incident I noticed that his body was emitting some kind of aura or energy constantly and at a high amount and his humanish body couldn't handle it at the time. It was the equivalent of him burning out like a light and was going to make him a beacon of other supernatural beings whether they were devils or fallen angels or whatever. It was causing him to become lethargic, exhausted, and was even damaging his life force. Since he couldn't control it the best thing I could do was seal the energy output. It will be a good thing now because it can help you control your power. Of course the seal could be bypassed completely sometimes if he snapped or forced it open now.
Now about your new appearance Naruto-kun I'm sure you girls are all wondering about it as well?"
The twins suddenly felt weaker around him for reasons they couldn't explain. "H-hai obaa-san why does he resemble a wolf more than a fox?"
Rias spoke up from her seat as well. "Also his wing don't look like that of the traditional devil."
"Well the for the wolf part that would likely be because of your heritage. As you all know now you three are probably among the last few descendants of the War Beast branch. Extremely powerful potential and heavily sought after. From what I know from history the kitsune of warbeasts were pretty much always female. When they gave birth to a male they generally resembled wolves more than foxes. Why this is we don't know but its not really much of a physical difference. If anything its just more masculine which I'm sure you have no problem with Naruto-kun?" His chuckle was all the confirmation she needed that he was fine with it.
"Now as for the wings... I am not sure. We studied his DNA and while there was human and youkai DNA of wolves and foxes in there there were other things we can't quite explain. We even found DNA similar to devils yet something about it seemed different. We aren't sure what it was, we are just waiting to see what develops at this time. We even found DNA that was similar to that of di-."
"I don't think they need to know that just yet Obaa-san." The girls looked back at him confused but Yasaka nodded.
"Very well then. Anyway the wings on his back do indeed not resemble that of regular devils. They are lower on his back than normal and resemble curved blades almost and yet are still flexible. I'm really interested how you will even fly with those." They sat there in silence for a bit and Naruto had yet to put his shirt back on. After a while Rias coughed into her hand and spoke.
"Well what is going to be done about the peerage issue." Yasaka spoke up at this. Well knowing how skilled Naruto is if he had actually been trying to win seriously I really do doubt that fallen angel would have been even able to her him as much as she did. In fact if he had a weapon her death would have almost been guaranteed. That being said and the fact that this didn't happen, given what you have just learned I'm sure you can guess why Naruto didn't try. So what happens will be up to you Naruto.
He flexed his fingers in thought as his wings receded then looked at her.
"Tell you what I did become a devil... or something... I don't know. Anyway can you feel a connection to your piece in me? If you can I want you to force me to kneel. If you can succeed in giving me an order I will join your peerage without argument and do whatever you want." The twins spoke up at this, "Hey hold on-!" Naruto held his hand up to get them to stop talking.
"However if you fail I will do whatever you want and will only be apart of your peerage on paper, and help you out when I feel like it. Only keeping the connection with you through the piece so that I won't be labeled as a stray. But other than that I will do whatever I want. Agreed?" She nodded at this.
"That sounds reasonable."
"Alright whenever you're ready." She stood up from her seat and walked in front of him. He wings emerged and she held her hand out at him searching for the piece. She couldn't find it so she focused her mind and power and searched deeper and deep inside of him. She went so deep she felt like she would be drowned until she finally saw the faint red light of the mutated chess piece. It looked giant but that was overwhelmed by the darkness. Now knowing where the piece was her hand glowed red with the magic circle of the house of Gremory.
"In the name of the house of Gremory, I Rias Gremory, Heiress to the family order you to kneel!"
Naruto put his hands in his pocket as he felt pressure but otherwise didn't move.
"Nope"
She tried harder as the magic circle glowered brighter
"Kneel!"
His legs shook but he stayed up. "Have to try harder."
"KNEEL!" His legs buckled and his knees bent but after a second he stood up straight again with an excited look on his face.
"Come on you're almost there!" She held up both hands and the magic circle grew even bigger as she tried her hardest.
"In the name of the house of Gremory I order you lowly pawn to sit like the dog you are!"
His eyes widened as he fell forward making the girls gasp. 'Holy shit I wasn't expecting that!'
Suddenly Rias so a giant black monster come out of nowhere in the darkness and snatched the giant pawn piece up in its mouth before biting down and cracks appeared all thoughout the pawn piece barely being held together. She felt like she had just been mentally knocked out of the way. As she came to she realized she was kneeling on the ground. She looked up and saw Naruto standing over hear with a predatorish grin.
"That was an excellent try and I would be lying if I said I didn't find that a little hot but I think this is my win." After a few moments Yasaka started laughing out loud at the twin's and Rias confusion.
"Whats going on! What happened." Yasaka calmed down before laughing.
"That... I have no idea. But I do know that if Naruto doesn't want to do something even a god would probably be hard pressed to force him. He is just that stubborn."
Rias got up off the ground and looked at him.
"R-really?" He gave he a thumbs up and smiled.
"Believe it!" He shivered right afterwards and looked at Yasaka who was glaring at him. "What did I say about using that catchphrase?"
"Hahahah sorry, sorry. It I couldn't help it I just love your reaction."
"*Sigh* Well anyway I believe that clears up all problems. So now we can call it a day." Rias took that as her cue to leave.
"Very well. Its unfortunate that you aren't my servant but I hope you will atleast be my friend and maybe even join my club?" He smirked at her but only nodded.
"We will see." She nodded as well with a smile and teleported away with her magic circle. He stretched and walked off.
"Now if you excuse me I feel stronger than ever but now that this seal has been lowered I'm feeling tired so I'm gonna go sleep. Ja ne."
The twins were going to follow after them having felt emotionally drained from the whole ordeal but were stopped by Yasaka.
"Hold on you two there is a few other things I have to tell you about your brother before you go and rest." Naruto who was still in earshot gained a sly grin as he kept walking to his room. He had a feeling he knew what she was gonna tell them but he wasn't going to stop her.
-END-
AN: And thats a wrap! Pretty sure this came out exactly how I wanted. Its even longer than I thought it would be. Hope this cleared things up. Yasaka and Naruto kind eased up the tension between the sisters and Rias. It was basically a "Just as planned situation." Without it actually being a clearly defined plan. Yasaka didn't actually want Naruto to throw himself in danger to get stronger... Naruto doesnt care. Either way Naruto will have more than one advantage over Rias because of it. He will be training and getting stronger fast as well. He is only losely connected to the peerage so as not to be labeled a stray. I'm still thinking about whether that will be the only connection or if Naruto will actually participate in rating games... in fact I will make a poll for that. With the outcome of the current poll its a little over 50% want Issei to have no part in the story but the rest want him to and this keeps flip flopping so i will think about it on my own some. Because I do want Naruto fight both Issei and Vali but I dont want Issei to steal any of Naruto's thunder.
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