Fortis

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, nor do I own High School D x D. I think it's obvious by now.

AN: Third week in a row! Mawhahaha I'm on a roll and no please don't jinx it. I mean it is like I only have an hour or two every day to type a small part of my fic until I spend one of my days offs to strap the snippets together and create a readable fic so yeah don't jinx don't small hours away I need them for m fics! I needed them ;w; Another transition chapter, read note in the end for more details. Yeah definitely important to read that note.

Tags: Strong Naruto, Smart Naruto, Human Naruto, Hero Descendant Naruto, AU, Violence, Gore, Character Deaths, Ecchi, Minor Xovers, and general OOCness.

Pairings: ?

Unbeta'd

-Fortis-

"Chaos follows me wherever I go, so in the end I learned to enjoy its company, it's been a close friend ever since."

Naruto Namikaze

-Fortis-

Arc I: The Strongest Self-Proclaiming Human

Chapter 2: The Tiny Ripples Across The World

Location Unknown

Inhale...

Naruto was standing in a large and wide room with a white marbled floor, there was no ceiling, only darkness that blanketed the heavens. This room was special, a secret place that only he knew of, and it contained but one of many blessings he received that day, a source of power that without a doubt would help him on his path to be the strongest.

It was also the hardest of all his abilities to master.

In the room there were several mirrors, nine of them in fact, all of which depicted the image of mythical beasts with tails going from one to nine. However among all nine beautiful and majestic mirrors only four were colored, a large brown one tailed racoon with bluish markings rampaging in the middle of a dessert, a two tailed cat surrounded by bluish black hellfire, a three tailed turtle surrounded by waves and a mighty carapace, and a large and regal four tailed monkey that breathed of ash and fire. These four represented the peak of his mastery of this ability. These four were the extent of his ultimate power. His current limit, that he which he wishes to surpass.

Exhale...

He sat down in a lotus position, his blue eyes were closed, yet he could still see it all. The vivid landscape which was and will forever be located in the inner most part of his mind and soul, this was a world unlike any other, and it was simply his world.

The world shifted, a kaleidoscope of light and colors surrounded his body until he found himself facing a large mirror, still colored gray as it depicted the picture of a large horse, five tails billowing on its back as it galloped across a field while surrounded by steam.

Inhale…

The shinobi let his mind drift towards the mural, he allowed his mind to linger in its presence until he felt the smallest signs of what could only be described as a pulse. It was weak at first just a few barely noticeable beats that came from the mirror but that did not last so long. The soft beats turned into a thunderous booms as the presence increased by a thousand fold. There from the mirror came sentience, a life belonging to another creäture that lingered within his very being.

Then it took shape.

Exhale…

There was a mass of energies that surged forth the mirror, coming forth like wild waves threatening to drown him in place. It was scalding, the very sensation that blanketed his body made him want to recoil or cry out in pain. Yet he did not move, this was his mind, this was his sanctuary, to concede to another being here would be a sign of weakness and he did not like being weak. It was a mixture of a complex to be the strongest and pure stubbornness, so even when a scorching blanket of steam enveloped his body he dared not move nor show discomfort.

This was his domain, and he would be damned if he showed weakness here.

Inhale…

He would not run away, not even when he felt the overwhelming presence that stood before him, he will stare at it in the eyes and face it down like the others before it.

And so stare at it he did.

It was a large figure that appeared in place of the mirror when the steam receded. There stood in front of him a large white horse with it's face shaped much like a dolphin, but unlike both mammals it had with five tails, each one waving about whilst producing an absurdly large amount of steam.

But that was not what caught the teen's attention, far from it in fact, but rather it was the essence of pure power that radiated from the beast. He held no doubt in his mind that despite it's appearance this five tailed creature was a being of power, and it was simple as that.

The two spent a few seconds just looking at the other, their meeting, never wavering nor flinching away. and for but a moment there was clear respect between the two beings. Though that was soon replaced by a somber expression that appeared on the white creature's face.

Its maw didn't move, neither did its body, but its words, so deep and powerful like the others reached the blond's ears.

"It is not time yet young one. You are still not ready to inherit my powers. Shikaku, Matatabi, Isobu, and Son may have given their powers to you but I feel, no I know that you are not yet ready." The large creature paused as it looked Naruto in the eyes. "…and the rest"

The other four mirrors appeared from beyond the scalding mist, each one of them glowed with eldritch powers, so much of it in fact that power flooded his mind that it threthened to shatter it into pieces, as the mirrors seemingly hummed, in compliance with the five tailed being's words.

"…agrees with me."

"Why is that?" Naruto asked as calmly as he could, betraying not a single emotion to the mighty beast.

"You do not acknowledge it, that which exists within you. Those thoughts that creep and linger from the side of your eyes. Either acknowledge its existence, let it go, or find the in between. My old friend went with the former, and he projected it unto the world. The cause and effect were the same, it could not be avoided. That which led to his down fall, and the down fall of many. and I wish it doesn't lead to yours."

A set of confused blue eyes stared at the large white being, his brain already working as hard as it could to decipher the meaning of the behemoth's words. "Is this about…" He blinked in realization as he placed his right hand upon his chest. "…but I already, I already regret it you know? That part of my life, my misspent youth. I've already moved on a never looked back."

The large horse shook his head. "And that is why you are not ready, you chose to ignore and delay the problem rather than deal with it. If you ignore it, it shall fester and grow, it will erode you very being and turn you into a creäture bereft of humanity." The beast finally opened its maw and from it a large amount of steam bellowed covering the teen's landscape with ease.

"You will come back when you are ready, until then young one."

And with that the beast returned to the mirror, and vanished along with the steam.

Naruto kept himself seated in the lotus position, his clothes were ruffled, his hair and body were matted with sweat yet he did was not shaken to sit in the presence of a being of power. He was aware that something like this could have happened upon making contact with one of the nine. The same happened when he first met Matatabi and Son. To gain their powers he needed to gain the answer to their questions or in the cases of Shikaku and Isobu beat the crap out of them. Truth be told the former was more difficult as their tasks often required him to look deep within himself and acknowledge his own short comings for the sake of getting stronger.

It was a rather taxing experience.

Matatabi wanted him to look at his grief, she wanted him to acknowledge that it existed and that it was a part of his very being. Just one of the many forces that fueled his dream of being the strongest. It was not that difficult but it was a frustrating event as he was forced to cry out his frustrations at the unfairness of what the world had done to him.

However Matatabi's task was nothing compared to his interactions with Son Goku, damned prideful ape had to make him acknowledge the changes that were happening with his body a few years back. Yes, the blasted four tail bijuu of all things made him acknowledge and accept his perverted side.

That was probably the fourth most traumatizing event he faced in his life, only being surpassed by the [Elemental Massacre], that time Zel showed him an alternate universe inhabited by kids who solved all of their world's problems by playing card games on motorcycles, and that one time he tried his childhood friend's cooking and ended up in the hospital for two months. On a side note it was his first brush in with death and he still couldn't look at tomatoes to date.

He shook his head, he had already spent too much time in here. It was time to return to reality, to the world that exists beyond his own, and so much like he did before, he opened his mouth and released the breath that he was now holding.

Exhale…

Naruto opened his eyes, and darkness immediately greeted his vision. Almost immediately his body complained to him as it was both compressed and sweaty. Why was it so cramped, and dark? Better yet where the hell was he? His mind quickly rebooted itself allowing him to recall the past few hours, and all the events the lead to him being stuck in this place that was devoid of both life and sunlight.

Oh yeah, he snuck on to the plane, got into the cargo hold and decided to hide there for the rest of the flight back to the Japan, but why was is so dark, and why did it suddenly get bumpy?

When he got nothing but a blank sheet of paper in his mind saying 'Fuck if I know', he decided to just shrug and go with his basic impulse of do something now and think about it later. After all, if he forgot about it then it probably wasn't that important.

With another shrug, he placed his feet against once of the surfaces of the cramped enclosure, and then he kicked up.

Light immediately greeted his eyes, soon followed by panicked shouts and hurried screams.

Why did he have a feeling that it was Tuesday again?

-Fortis-

Narita International Airport- Japan- Terminal 1 Baggage Claim

Xenovia and Irina were standing among a sea of civilians, their eyes were moving around flickering from face to face as they searched for the now missing in action, shinobi. Now that two had an ample amount of time to go over their actions the two thought that maybe, just maybe, it wasn't the best of ideas to leave him all alone in the midst of an airport crawling with police officers that were after his hide. After all they didn't even catch a glimpse of him during the flight, so there was a chance just a bit of a chance that they might have screwed up and left their ally in Italy.

"Where is that blondie?" Irina growled under her breath as she kept on her search to find the familiar mop of spiky blond hair. "He couldn't have missed the flight or got caught by the police, but if he did then that would mean he missed the flight!" She quickly made the sign of the cross and looked up to the sky. "God please have mercy on his soul, and if he is sent to jail please guide that unruly soul towards redemption! And have mercy on mine for the impure thoughts that seeks vengeance with that guy." Nope she was totally not bitter that the guy kicked beat the crap out of her without hesitation. Definitely not. She was just being a good catholic by praying for the blond meanie. It's not like she wanted him to get caught and jailed, nope, definitely not.

Xenovia chose to ignore Irina but the thought of Naruto missing the flight did not bode well for her. Not when the greatest key to their success and survival –as she knew he was stronger than the two of them- was stuck half way around the world, and most likely detained by the police, or the military, or whoever the hell the blond teen managed to piss off by just opening his mouth.

"Xenovia-chan, do you think he missed the flight?"

"That… would be problematic." She thought about how their chances plummeted without the abnormally strong human. "Really problematic. I pray to the almighty father that such is not the case."

"But why? I mean yes this mission is super dangerous but this isn't the first dangerous mission we've been to, and we've managed to pull through all of those other ones unharmed. Well mostly unharmed." Her gaze lingered at Xenovia's short blue hair. "I'm sorry about your hair again, if it wasn't for me then you'd still have your pretty long hair."

"It was inconsequential. My hair got in the way of a mission, I simply cut it off to remedy that. It was barely your fault. As to why I am concerned about are companion it is simply because he is strong, and is a definite asset to this mission. Nothing more, nothing less." She replied bluntly answering the question while simultaneously waving off Irina's concerns as her brown eyes were still searching for the blond, and after a few minutes of search without getting any results, she let out a sigh. "I guess we have to go through this mission on our ow-"

"Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"

The swordswoman's words were cut off when loud panicked noise came from nearby. Both Xenovia and Irina's head instantly snapped towards the noise's direction just in time for them to witness what the commotion was all about.

Their jaws dropped almost just as fast as their heads snapped. For there on top a conveyor belt, a large suit case lay, and from it a pair of legs struck out, the top part or rather the cover of the suitcase was detached from its main body and was already firmly embedded into a newly made indent on the ceiling.

There was a body lay inside a now broken suit case, a body that suddenly rose like a vampire. That is if vampires did a Chinese get up –or the less racist term for it kip-up- to stand up and get out of their coffins in an overtly dramatic fashion. "Damn that place was cramped." Naruto complained before he started dusting and stretching his body not even giving the slightest hint of a damn for all the people that were gawking at his presence, or the officers that were screaming at a walkie talkie and was rapidly converging towards his location.

"Damn that was really uncomfortable. It's like I spent an entire flight inside a suit case. Oh wait that's exactly what happened." Naruto looked over his phone and upon seeing that it still had juice in it decided to put on his headsets and play a song from his phone. "How the hell did I even get in there? I'm sure I would remember if I climbed inside and decided to meditate in a fucking suit case of all things." Naruto grumbled as he looked around the conveyor belt. "Hmm I wonder where those girls are."

Naruto easily found the two girls. I mean how couldn't he? They were standing in the middle of an airport wearing white cloaks with their hoods up. Talk about being subtle or stealthy. On a side note Naruto wondered why the police or security hadn't taken in either of them for questioning since he knew for a fact that there would definitely be places in the world that would detain them for going in an airport dressed like that standing around there looking all suspicious and shit. Like those air ports in the U.S. but that was a different story all together.

"You there! The guy on top of the conveyor belt! Get down from there and put your hands behind your head!" A disgruntled officer shouted, a he pointed a gun at Naruto.

Naruto blinked as he spotted the guard along with the others that were slowly running towards him as well. "I'm getting intense Déjà vu vibes over here. Honestly what's up with airport security these days and why does it seem that they always target innocent civilians like me? I mean what did I do to deserve this?"

It was at that exact moment that the nearby tv's and monitors of the airport flashed and showed a new headline that featured a in Naruto's opinion the picture of a dashingly handsome blond teen with blue eyes. The head line was simple and concise as it marked the handsome tean as some sort wanted criminal in Italy or some sort of international terrorist.

Naruto and the two exorcists two were standing on the side gawked at the news report. With the former's expression a bit paler than the later. "...Oh shit is this for real? Oh my god, everyone's going to lose their shit if they see this. Well except Ken cause he's nice and all, but the others wouldn't let me live this down!" His head snapped towards the officer that was pointing a gun at him."Oi I'm not a criminal! Not a terrorist! It's just all a misunderstanding!"

"He's being aggressive!"

"Put him down!"

"Open fire!"

A rain of bullets were the quick response to his denial.

Naruto's counter to that was near instantaneous, he jumped behind the conveyor belt flipping by several suit cases that served as sufficient shields from the first volley of bullets. "Goddamn it? Again what the hell is up with airport security and why are they so trigger happy around me?" He shouted as the sounds of gun fire slowly stopped.

He took a peek from behind the conveyor belt and found that the guards were quickly reloading their bullets. He also spotted Xenovia and Irina who were quickly making themselves scarce as they inches away from the scene.

A mischievous idea popped in Naruto's mind.

Naruto jumped back up in the conveyor belt –which was now letting out sparks and dent with some bullet holes. He then looked at the two exorcists in the eye and grinned as he waved at them. "Yoh Irina, Xenovia, whats up you two? Yeah you two with the white cloaks the ones that are slowly running away. Are you guys ready? Remember we have a mission from the boss that involves a rival faction that hid here in Japan, and we need to deal with that problem soon. Cut it from its roots. You know before a war breaks out and fills the streets with the blood of those from our groups and those caught in the crossfire. Remember all that stuff?" The blond gestured his hands wildly as he said those words in an obviously fake italian accent, but his choice of words made it sound that they were involve with the mob and were currently on their way to assassinate someone and prevent an up and coming turf war. It was so close to the truth, but the police didn't really know that.

The officers were quick to pick up on that as some of them turned towards the cloaked Xenovia and Irina. The girls started sweating bullets and were forced to raise their hands when guns were pointed at their directions.

"Detain them as well! Consider them as accomplices of the blond menace."

Irina gawked at him while Xenovia stared at him with wide eyes, both shocked that he actually dragged the two of them into this mess.

Then they spotted it, several clues really; one was a slow tugging on the side of his smile, the amused shine in his eyes before they curved up, and lastly his appearance was eerily reminiscent to that of a fox, an extremely mischievous one at that.

This was his pay back to them for abandoning him in the airport in Italy.

Xenovia grinned wryly as the police surrounded her and a now sniffling Irina who was whispering something about evils blonds and how god was going to punish him one day. "Well played." She said.

Well played indeed.

That was until Naruto got the sudden urge to do several exaggerated gestures to get the officer's attentions once more, which again led to another round of bullets getting thrown at Naruto like dollar bills to a really good hooker, before the blond finally decided to end it all as he threw several smoke bombs to the ground. After that all hell broke loose as civilians ducked for cover, shots were fired, shouts were screamed, and stuff were stuffed. Lucky for the three of them, it was just that thing they needed to get out of the airport and make their super awesome escape.

Chaos really had its uses at times.

-Fortis-

City of Kuoh -Japan- Outskirts of the City

Several Hours Later

Kuoh looked like a normal city.

Emphasis on the world look, as the city sat in not one but two extremely large and wide intersecting lay lines that bathed the entirety of the city, with a high density of spiritual, natural, and magical, energies making Kuoh a perfectly hospitable place for super natural beings of all kind. In this specific reality Kuoh was inhabited mostly by Devils, marking it as a very dangerous place to be in if one was working with or for the church. Though it was sometimes a mystery how a church or two even popped up in this city with all the devils within it. Then again it might have been a failed attempt to set up an outpost in the enemy's territory but again that is another story all together, one that Michael himself had to answer for.

It was still in the middle of the afternoon when the trio finally arrived in the outskirts of Kuoh, and much to the exorcists' relief they managed to get here without incurring the wrath of the police force or the military; having avoided the former and lost the latter before they were deployed thanks to the untimely intervention of a certain giant lizard kaiju called Godzilla attacking another city or at least that was Naruto's explanation about why the military were not after them.

Xenovia actually agreed with the blond much to Irina's ire. The bluenette's explanation was short but also made a lot of sense. "Japan is a really weird place, weird but also extremely dangerous, so it's best to expect the unexpected."

"That was not funny!" Irina shouted, the normally kind and cheerful girl was nearly in tears as she tried to slug Naruto who easily swatted the blow away and blew the girl a raspberry. "I haven't been back to Japan in years! I was even planning to meet an old friend of mine – a childhood friend and potential love interest at that, but how could I have done that if was suspected of being an accomplice or being an real terrorist! I'll get arrested and turned over to the police by Issei's parents!"

"Mah mah, calm down, it wasn't as if anyone spotted your faces and you weren't an accomplice to a terrorist just to a guy that's extremely misunderstood by the police, the media, and as of right now most of Italy and Europe who looked at the media."

"That's not the point! What you were doing! All the chaos and terror you were causing!? Would you really blame people for calling you a terrorist?" Irina cried out as she grabbed Naruto by the lapels of his jacket. "Would you?"

Naruto looked at the half angry, half crying, exorcist with a blank look on his face. "You're not a terrorist if you didn't blow shit up or better yet you're not a terrorist if you don't get caught." He scratched the back of his head as Irina kept shaking him up. "On aside note I really need to run interference with my picture circulating the world now. Might have Ika-chan hack into several agencies to clear that shit up, and if that's the case what are you even worrying about? None of us are terrorist, and even if we are after this mission we'd be all declared innocent."

"That's not the point!"

"It's a good point though." Xenovia nodded in agreement to the blond's words. It wasn't ethically right but it was pretty good in a pragmatic sense. Why stress about it if they weren't caught or there was a chance to clear their names even if they were.

Irina turned around and pointed an accusing finger at her fellow exorcist. "Don't agree with him! Why did you even agree with him? Did he give you thirty silver coins!? You traitor! Heathen!"

Xenovia merely shrugged in response to Irina before she turned her attention to a slightly amused Naruto. "We're about to enter enemy territory. Do you have a specific plan in mind or would you prefer we follow the usual protocol of the church?" That meant going to the owner of the lands -in this case the Devils- and declaring to them their intentions in this land. In which case there was a fifty-fifty chance of coming into blows with the devils and making this mission all the more difficult and complicated but in the end if the devils were sensible enough then a non-interference or a non-aggression pact can be set up so that the two groups would have a minimal interaction during the length of the mission.

"Don't just change the conversation!" Irina cried from the side as she glared at Xenovia.

Naruto shrugged. "Truth be told I was just planning on winging it, but then I learned I needed to work with you two." He scratched the back of his head as his eyes peered up towards the late afternoon sky while he spent a few seconds in silent contemplation. "You two can go head to the owners of the land, I'm going to go around the city to get a lay out of it, maybe even visit a contact or two who might have clues about where the heck those swords, and that Kokabiel prick, are."

"Hey! Don't pretend that I don't exist!"

Naruto sent Irina a pitying look. "There, there, Irina-chan, just stay silent for a bit longer okay? Can't you see the adults are talking?"

"I'm so close to stabbing you." She growled out as her armband glowed and changed into a full-fledged Japanese katana, which she waved threateningly at the infuriating blond.

He waved her off. "Yeah, yeah, mummy and daddy are talking. So you good with that planned." This time Naruto did duck to avoid a slash from [Excalibur Mimic].

It was either that Xenovia was too serious about this impromptu planning session or she purposely ignored the murder attempt on the part of her partner. "That sounds reasonable."

Naruto nodded as he danced around Irina's attacks none of which came close to actually hitting him but he was playing it off by dodging in an exaggerated way. "Okay so you guys go do your thing, talk with the devils in this land and what not. While you two are doing that I'll be going to meet an acquaintance of mine who lives in this city. I know for a fact that that guy knows whats going on, just need to talk to him to confirm some of my suspicions." He clarified his plans which was met with a nod from the blue haired swordswoman and a roar of frustration from the attacking brownette.

Xenovia arched one of her eyebrows as she went over the plans. "Are you sure that you don't want to come with us? Wouldn't it be better for all of us to introduce ourselves, so there wouldn't be any confusion with your presence? And if I do say so myself it's quite a chaotic presence that you bring with you." She stated her honest opinion about the blond, ever since she's met him her life suddenly had an increase with absurdly chaotic events much like the ones that happened on the airports.

"Hmm... no. It wouldn't be a big deal because I'm not really aligned with any of the factions so as far as they care they'd just treat me as a normal human being. Actually it's probably better if it's only the two of you who goes there and don't tell them anything about me. Keep me a secret, I'm your ace in the hole and you wouldn't want potential enemies knowing about your secret weapon, right?"

"That…" Xenovia bit the bottom of her lips as she went over his reasoning while he kept playing avoid getting stabbed and disemboweled with Irina. "Sounds like a good plan." She said hesitantly before her brown eyes bored into the blond. "But is there a reason for that? It sounds as if you want nothing to do with meeting the Devils."

He chuckled sheepishly, it seems that the blue haired swordswoman was sharper than he gave her credit for. "I really do try my best to keep my interactions with devils to a minimum and if possible no interaction at all."

"And why is that? And Irina stop playing around. It's unbecoming for an exorcist to attack a human." Xenovia chided her fellow Exorcist, who upon hearing her words stopped her attacks.

"…But." Irina stared at Xenovia with puppy dog eyes as she looked at her blond target, the urge to stab him still lingered in her mind.

Her voice was cold with authority as she leveled Irina with a neutral gaze. "Stop, and if you do I'll allow you to meet with your childhood friend before we go meet the Devils."

"Hai…" She deflated as [Excalibur Mimic] shifted back into an armband and promptly got attached to her shoulder. On a brighter note at least she'd get to see her old friend Issei.

"Heh whipped." Naruto couldn't help but snicker as Irina growled at the blond. "Let's say it's a mix between a legacy of misspent youth and the fact that I don't want anyone to get mixed up with my mess, cause knowing myself I'd probably do something stupid and next thing we know there would be two very pissed off Satans after my hide, and we wouldn't want that happening now would we?"

"Very well, then we shall meet later? Do you know a good place to meet up?"

"Hmm how about the square near all the restaurants in the shopping district, we can probably grab something to eat as well before we could start with our mission by tonight."

"That is acceptable."

"Yup, then see you two later." Naruto waved at them as Irina kept her glare pointed at him while Xenovia gave a curt nod back as the two groups went their separate ways.

Naruto walked for a few minutes before he stopped and looked up to the sky, it was a cloudy night, with the first hints of orange spreading around the horizon. He extended his right hand towards the sky, briefly glancing upon the circle in his palm as he used it to block out the sun. "Devils huh?"

It wasn't that he had anything against them, it was just that he didn't have the best track record when it came to interacting with devils.

And like he said that last thing he wanted was to have two Satans after his ass, perhaps one day when he was strong enough, and decided it was time to go toe to toe with the strongest of the devils but until then he'll play it safe.

He didn't really want to be the one to start the war he was trying to prevent in the first place.

-Fortis-

City of Kuoh -Japan- In Front Of A Wealthy Mansion

In Naruto's honestly brutal opinion to call this mansion - the one which he stood in front of and traversed -wealthy was a gross understatement. After all it was incredibly posh and classy, the gates to the mansion was made of honest to god gold of all things and there were even some beautiful statues and busts of women around the garden as he walked through it. Hell the plants in the garden itself were filled with all kinds of rare fauna from the corners of the world along with the ones above and below it.

Yep to those with keen eyes the plants were definitely the first sign that this house was inhabited by a person who dwelled and interacted constantly with the other world, [The World of the Night] as Naruto liked to call it.

The shinobi's strides brought him in front of a door, one which was just as lavish as any other thing he found on his short walk inside this residence. Though he found his eye twitching rather violently when he stared at the doorbell, one which was suspiciously shaped as a certain part of the women's anatomy, with the button being, you guessed it…

"…Is that a nipple?" Naruto's brow twitched once more as he spent a few seconds just staring at the damned thing. "Why is it that most of the older people I know are a little on the strange and the unstably insane side?"

Talk about the pot calling the fucking kettle black.

With a heavy sigh he pressed the doorbell.

Being the patient man that he was Naruto waited for one minute.

No response.

Naruto pushed the doorbell again, and this time waited for thirty seconds.

Still no response.

Naruto pushed the doorbell a third time, and waited for fifteen seconds.

When he still got nothing in response the blond decided to take a couple of steps back, before he broke off into a running start.

The door was still closed.

His run turned into a leap, his right leg extended into a kick, and aimed towards the door.

The door opened revealing a roguishly handsome man with black hair and golden bangs. The man was wearing a rather loose-fitting yukata, the type usually worn in the bed room just before or after having hot steamy sex, which showed off a bit of his muscular build that was hidden underneath his clothes.

"Yes, yes, I'm comi-"

The man was cut off when a boot landed at his face and sent him crashing back into the house, but through some kind of miracle the man was able to close the door as he flew back and unintentionally slammed it in front of the Naruto's body, not only denying the blond entrance to his domain but also sent him crashing towards the garden.

As a result, the two of them were hit and momentarily knocked out.

Yet again the door was closed, with the people on either side of it sprawled on the ground, having been felled by the door's might.

Just as planned.

On a side note there is no chance that the door, or doors of any other kinds will be a recurring villain in this story.

After a few seconds Naruto rose from the ground and with an irritated grunt, stalked towards the door, before pressing the damned nipple shaped buzzer with such force and intensity that he actually inverted it.

This time the door opened, revealing the same man Naruto kicked just a handful of seconds ago. "Yoh Azazel."

To Azazel's perspective it simply looked as if Naruto Namikaze stood there, his hands in his pockets, his head bobbing back and forth due to the music booming from his head sets. The very troublesome and chaotic Naruto Namikaze. Truth be told he'd rather not deal with the boy now, especially since he was in the middle of a rather delicate experiment

"Yoh Azazel." When those word's reached the governor of the [Fallen Angel]'s ears he simply smiled at the blond.

...and without any inkling of hesitation Azazel slammed and reinforced the door with dozens of spells at the familiar and extremely troublesome blond's face.

"I'm busy and it's too early to deal with your shit!" Azazel roared from behind the door. "Come back in a few hours and then we can talk! Actually scratch that come back tomorrow or better yet next week!" He shouted as he turned around and started making his way back to his room not really caring whether or not his visitor hear him.

"It's too early for this shit." The fallen angel grumbled as he jumped back on his bed, right next to a hot brunette model covered with a satin sheet that he was oh so busy working and experimenting with. "Now where were we?"

The hot model giggled. "I believe you said something about your tongue?"

"Oh I do believe I know what you're talking about." Azazel grinned perversely as he slowly slithered and snuck his way beneath the expensive sheets.

His passions may lay with Sacred Gears but that didn't mean he'd say no to the prospect of a romp or two.

The model having a sacred gear was just a bonus really, especially when she had huge oppai.

Meanwhile Naruto blinked several times as he started at the door that was slammed right at his face. "D-did that just happen?" He blinked another few times before he scratched the back of his head. "Huh? I guess it did." He took a deep breath, even going as far as lacing his voice with chakra just to make sure he was heard. "Oi Asshole open up it's like three in the afternoon, I need to talk to you about something! This shit's important so you better wake up!"

Naruto tried to kick the door but found his attack repelled by the damned door. He knew he could have brought it down but using a Rasengan (Spiralilng Sphere) or a Rasenshuriken (Spiralling Shuriken) to bust down a door would definitely look extremely petty, and a bit of an over kill.

"I'll even say the P-word if you let me in right now!" He shouted at one of the windows. "Come on! You Super Pervert open up! You owe me remember!"

"Aho." The chirping of a nearby bird was the closest to a response that Naruto got from the mansion.

"Tch." Naruto kicked the ground while he clicked his tongue acting much like a child as he turned away from the house. "I guess I'll come back later." He said as he slowly walked away but not before picking up a rock that he found nearby, and with the subtle application of chakra, he threw it straight through one of the mansion's windows, a estimate of where Azazel's room was, smashing the glass to bits. If it wasn't then he'd just hope he was lucky and break something with his throw.

"KYAAAAAAAAAA~!" A rather sensual voice tinged with pleasure and shock shouted out.

Naruto blinked. "I really did hit something."

"ARRGGGHHH I BIT MY TONGUE! WHO THE FUCK THREW THAT- NARUTO!"

Naruto snickered as he broke off on a mad dash away from the house. "Yeah I'll definitely be back later. I won't even bother climbing or sneaking in to a window. Yep definitely going be back later." He uttered not really wanting to deal with a ticked off Azazel.

Not when it was clear that he interrupted the sacred gear fanatic during his happy time with another girl. The guy maybe a bit insane, but no one truly deserved getting disturbed during that time.

Well except maybe that silver-haired okama who attacked Konoha, but in his opinion that guy deserved every levels of hell and suffering.

Like a Rasenshuriken (Spiralling Shuriken) to the junk.

That okama definitely deserved it more than that stupid door.

-Fortis-

City of Kuoh-Japan- A Random Park?

Naruto ended up in a random park, one which was just like many other in this city. It had a playground for the kids, a few benches, and even a small fountain in the middle of it. Though despite being near a highly populated area the park was strangely abandoned for some reason.

"Did someone get killed here or something? Yesuz why is a park like this abandoned? Did a guy like get killed by his psycho girlfriend after a bad date or something?" Naruto couldn't help but ask as he sat in one of the benches, his legs hunched together as he sat in a lotus position.

Over all the park was not only a good place to stay and pass time but also a good spot he could use to get a lay out of the city and detect the strong presences within it without actually spending all day walking around all the streets and alleys. After all why would he do that when he had the next best thing when it came to finding what he wanted to?

It was best to do this now while he had some free time.

Naruto took a deep breath, clasped his hands together, closed his eyes, and then he died.

He did not breath, he did not move, his body's functions were reduced to the bare minimum to a point that he was barely considered a living being. In all essence he was more of stone now than a human being…

"In essence Senjutsu (Sage Arts) is the ability to become one with nature, the power to control the flow of life goshujin-sama." The cheery voice of one of his closest friends and confidant passed by the blond's mind as memory flashed before him. "It has been a long time since humanity has lost the ability to tap into the power of nature but you are obviously an exemption Anata uuuuuuu~ I was so right that you were going to be so awesome and special since you're basically overflowing with chakra."

"Please go back to your explanation." His own deadpanned voice said.

"If that is your wish goshujin-sama. You see senjutsu allows its practitioner to be super strong, super sturdy. You would even be able to sense people from very far away! If you even master it you could control time and space, or in your case improve your techniques with the help of Shizen Enerugi (Natural Energy)"

"If it's that useful then why do only a few people know about it? Better yet why do only a handful of people even consider using it?"

"Well because only a few people have an affinity for this art, most of them being youkais and at some rare occurrences humans like yourself…"

"And…"

She gulped. "Well…"

…And as he sat on that park bench Naruto Namikaze became one with nature, one with the world, one with life, one with death. With that he took into himself the power of nature in all of its amazing and invigorating glory, and along it he took in all the malice and evils offered by this land.

"…When you perform senjutsu." Her words sounded worried and in his opinion it was so unlike her, so foreign, that he was actually a bit worried. "You don't only take in the power of nature." There was a short pause. "You also take in to yourself the malice and all the ill will present in the world… it is a rather unpleasant feeling."

To say it was extremely sickening would be an even more extreme understatement.

He wanted to kill, to look for the closest living being so that he may rip and tear them to shreds, to bathe in their blood while laughing madly.

He wanted to fuck, his body wanted to seek out the closest female, it demanded him to push them down, to show his dominance towards them as he repeatedly have his way with their helpless body.

He wanted to eat, his stomach craved sustenance and cared not for what it came from, a man could pass by him at that very moment and he wouldn't have even hesitated to sink his teeth on the man's flesh and devour him.

He wanted to find the nearest devil, he wanted beat them to the ground, to cause them as much pain as possible before he cut open their bodies and pull out their still beating hearts as he laughs at their weakness.

He wanted to bring about the end of days, he wanted to toss away his ambitions, and in place he wanted to destroy the world and laugh madly while doing so.

He wanted power, he wanted more of it, and he would not stop until he bathed in it.

He would destroy anything that stood in the way of him acquiring power.

"Anata… that is why I'm reluctant in teaching you this art. I don't want to see you lose yourself to that presence. You may become drunk with power and that will turn you into a monster… and if that happens then fear that I would have no choice but to… "

It was a surreal experience to have those foreign and malicious primal thoughts to be repeated a thousand times over in your mind. Such was the negative consequence by becoming one with nature, but he knew how to deal with it. He had been ready to deal with it the moment he sat on this bench and decided this was his next course of action.

"You don't need to kill me. I will deal with it the same way I've dealt with most of adversities life had thrown at me."

With an iron clad will one forged through the insane hardships that life had thrown on him, he took all of those feelings head on, before beating them repeatedly, pummeling them into submission, and reducing them to dust within his mind until not a thought of any depraved act lingered in his mind.

"…So don't worry." He told to his pink haired companion despite her demeanour she really was the most worry wart in the bunch. "Even if I bathe in all the evils of the world I will not succumb to it. The world shall need ten times more before they taint me, for I have a dream and I will not fall until I achieve it. You can call it foolish, you can call it stupid, but I just call it…"

"Being stubborn... or just being yourself." She smiled at him but her words sounded solemn, as he felt her hand rest upon his cheek.

"Heh, you do know me the best out of all the members of our group."

"I know after all I'm your second friend, anata."

With the last of the memories playing in his mind, Naruto Namikaze completely suppressed and sealed off all of the evils and malice that the world had thrown at him.

Naruto grinned. "As I said you bastards would need ten times more to screw me over."

Then he opened his eyes, they were no longer blue, and they took the color of dazzling gold, strange red tribal like markings appeared all over his face, primary surrounding his eyes which had two indents that fell down to his cheeks looking eerily similar to the sight of a person crying blood.

He felt powerful, he felt strong, and he felt complete.

"Senjutsu Success."

And with that he became one with Nature.

Naruto stood up from the bench as he separated his hands from one another. He then bent down to a knee as he gingerly tapped two fingers to the ground while he closed his eyes as he released two separate and subtle pulses of his chakra.

He felt almost all of it, the outline, shape, and lay out every being provided by his initial scan, then after that he could feel every single life present in this city, every plant and animal, then every single human being, they were small specks of light in his mind, just small beings in the greater span of things.

There after humans came the exorcists they were much like humans only bathed with the presence of light, he could spot a few of them, two belonging to Xenovia and Irina but the others were definitely not blessed by the same light, their light must have been tainted, most likely blessed by the fallen. That would make them exiled exorcists, and a lot of them were stationed among several hotels across the city.

What came next was the third most numerous aside from humans, a familiar dark and tainted feeling passed by his system, devils, and a whole lot of the, all varying in amounts of power, all residing in this city. Though among the devils there were a few that caught his attention, two- no three of them had the lingering presence of dragons around them, powerful dragons, two of them far away, but one that was familiar was close by but he chose to ignore it for now.

Naruto could spot Azazel's presence, he was like a small sun compared to other presences, so he expected that Kokabiel was just smaller than the governor, yet he did not feel the fallen's presence, perhaps he was not yet here? By chance did they arrive early?

Wait no- he could feel the holy presence of the excaliburs in this city, all of them radiating a holy power similar to that of the destruction that Xenovia wielded and thy came from one of the exorcists that was blessed by the fallen.

He noted that the possessor of the stolen blades was moving around the city, barely staying still as he extinguished one life after another. That settled it, he was going to take this guy down as soon as he tracked him down.

But aside from that, if the swords were here and at the hands of the guy who was currently on a killing spree, then where the hell was Kokabiel?

Where was the Fallen Angel of the Stars?

"How long are you going to ignore me?" A familiar voice reached his ears, this was the person he decided to ignore for the moment. The one with the presence of both a devil, and a dragon. A strong presence, the second most powerful in this city in fact, one which had powers that rivaled his own.

"I was hoping that you'd go away if I ignore you but apparently that didn't work out as I planned." Naruto opened his eyes, strong golden colored eyes landed on the familiar figure flying in the air, he spotted the ever present head of silver hair and two mechanical white wings that belonged only to one person as far as he knew, the [White Dragon Emperor].

This person was perhaps one of the few devils that he had the pleasure of interacting with in the past, and that was mainly because they had the same dream and that unintentionally created a sort of rivalry between the two of them. That shit sort of happens when two people tried to kill each other over and over again.

Naruto stood up as he shot the newcomer a glare with his golden colored eyes. "What do you want Vali?"

The silver-haired haired devil smirked at Naruto as he crossed his arms atop his chest. "And what makes you think I want something from you? That I didn't just come here to see if my enemy was still in god fighting condition?"

"Because every time we meet you ask for something stupid, or I say something stupid, then the two of us offend each other. We say a lot of hurtful things then we end up fighting, and you know how that goes."

The smirk never left Vali's face as he mockingly tilted his head to the side."You beaten black and blue while I stand above your crumpled form?"

"Maybe in your dreams if I was severely paralyzed an only had one hit point left when we fight you douche." Naruto snapped back as he glared at the devil. "I meant the two of us badly injured, exhausted, and unconscious and being assisted by our friends while everything around us in ruins."

"Hn."

"If you start that Hn-ing shit with me then you better just leave because I have neither time nor patience to deal with that attitude."

"Hmph still as blunt as ever." Vali shook his head as he slowly descended from the sky. "I'm just curious about what a person like you is doing in this city."

"I could ask you the very same thing."

"Azazel called me here for something, what it is I don't really know but he did promise that I'd get to fight someone strong." The silver-haired devil grinned at the blond who looked non perturbed by such a predatory smile. "Perhaps he finally got tired of your insolence and decided to call me in to get rid of you."

"That's highly unlikely me and Azazel go way back..." Naruto defended himself only for his mind to remind him that he interrupted the governor mid-coitus. "Okay you know what? I can actually see it happening, him asking you to off me but meh, if it happens it happens but if it does he better make sure that he personally tries to take my head. Other riff raff crows just wouldn't cut it. Now if you really want to know I'm here for a job so buzz off."

"A job huh? If I know you, you don't take jobs that don't lead to big fights, or massacres and definitely massive property damage." Vali grinned when he saw Naruto flinch. "So what is so important that the [Golden Chaos Maelstrom] is here in Kuoh of all places?"

"Kokabiel acting up, stolen excaliburs, you know same old same old, just another Tuesday in our lives."

"Kokabiel huh? So I guess you're going to end up fighting that guy, not really that much of a challenge with [Divine Dividing] but... if it means stealing a prey from you then I guess I'll take some time off my normal schedule to take care of this guy."

"Oh?" A golden brow slowly rose, as a set of golden coloured eyes stared blankly at the flying devil. "Do you want to get in my way again? Are you going to be a kill stealing Ass Loving Prick Again?"

"And if I am? What are you going to do about it you Ramen Guzzling Self-Proclaiming Human?" Vali looked rather smug as he said that last insult.

"Oi I'm one hundred percent human! A hundred and fifty bad ass! And two hundred percent awesome!" Naruto tapped his chest with each exclamation.

"Keep telling yourself that you're human, and maybe others will start believing you."

There were many in the world of the night that did not believe Naruto's claims of being a hundred percent human. Heck even some of the heroes of the [Hero Faction] of the brigade doubted his claims, stating that a guy that powerful without a sacred gear or a holy sword could not possibly be human. At least that's what the group's representative said; oddly enough Cao Cao leader of said faction did not give any comments with that regard.

"Grr... then I guess we have to deal with this the old-fashioned way. I know you wont back out, I know as hell that I wont either so whoever wins gets to fight Kokabiel! Don't even try to say no! I know if we don't settle this now then you'd try to kill steal me again like you did last time when I was fighting those monsters!"

"You were just too slow and I got tired of waiting for you to beat them before we could fight. As for your proposal Mhmm…" Vali looked intrigued before a shit eating, blood thirsty grin appeared on his face as he landed on the ground, his white wings still extended from his back. "Sure why not, if it means beating you and showing you your place then I accept."

As those words left Vali's mouth, the battle auras of the two suddenly flared.

The park shook, the air got heavier, as dust and rubble billowed upwards along with the rising of their respective power. High above them the clouds cracked and parted, quickly moving away as if to give the two titans the leeway they needed for their showdown. The wind then stilled, anyone who had an inkling of potential or the ability to sense power with the exception of a few felt a chill of fear run through their bodies as the foreboding thought to flee and get away from this city as far as possible popped within their minds. Animals showed less restraint as they distanced themselves from the area as soon as possible.

But it did not stop there, their powers soared to higher levels, a shroud of gold power surrounded Naruto's body, as the natural chakra coursing through his body synchronized itself with the power of the four beasts that allowed him to use their powers and were currenlty giving him a bit of the rent they owed him. All the while a suit of white armor slowly surrounded Vali until he appeared as nothing more than a fearsome white juggernaut surrounded from head to toe by pure white armor that radiated an intense amount of power.

"…Vali."

"…Naruto."

The combatants growled out as they made their respective moves.

Naruto cocked his right arm back, his hand balled tightly into a fist as a maddened grin appeared on his face as a flood of power exploded off his body like the winds of a fierce and utterly destructive hurricane.

Vali pulled his left arm back, his armored arm also in a fist like Naruto's own, it was only because he wore a helmet over his face that the same grin Naruto wore did not appear to the world.

Their fists flew, flying towards the other at unbelievable speeds, creating a billow of wind and dust that tore through the park.

The earth shook, the sky cried, and city of Kuoh was eerily silent.

And all of a sudden it stopped.

Their fists were still as it stopped mere inches from one another.

Naruto's fist was opened, his palm facing Vali, all the while the White Dragon Emperor's hand was still closed into a fist. Their auras receded as they resealed and stored the depths of their powers back into themselves.

Vali scowled as a smug smile appeared on Naruto's face.

And with that the epic battle between two juggernauts did not happen but rather a simple game of rock, paper, and scissors was concluded...

"Oh yeah! I win! I get to kick Fallen Angel ass! Hahahahaha! Take that Vail! In your face!" Do note that each exclamation point was accompanied by a pelvic thrust.

...with Naruto as the victor.

"Tch so I guess I'll let you deal with him, it's not like I wanted to fight against such a weak opponent." Vali grumbled as he looked away from his rival, the sting of his defeat still fresh and sore.

Naruto blinked several times as he processed Vali's words many times before he pointed a finger at Vali. "Holy shit man are you being tsundere right now?"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"..."

Vali grunted and then shook his head. "Yeah I've wasted enough time here. I need to go back to Azazel before the man starts complaining about some random thing again. He actually called me a few minutes ago telling me to kill some blond menace for interrupting his experiments but now that I think about it I'm not really in the mood for that so I'm just going to leave."

Naruto nodded his head several times towards the devil. "You do that and let's just imagine that the earlier part of our conversation never happened."

"What didn't happen?"

"The Tsun-thing."

"What soon Tsun-thing?"

"Exactly."

Vali gave Naruto a shrug. "I guess I'll see you later, try not to get yourself killed because I really do want to be the one to chop your head off your body and put it a top a bloody pike. I even promise to put your head on my future trophy room, right next to the red ones, it'll definitely be one of my most favorites."

"Oh fuck you." Naruto snapped back while Vali chose not to deign him with a response but opted to use [Divine Dividing] to lift him from the ground and slowly ascend himself towards the sky, in flight.

"Oh and Vali."

"Hm?" The silver-haired battle maniac turned towards the blond human, a single brow raised in curiosity. "What is it?"

"My group has a cool ancient robot war machine and your group still don't!" Naruto gave his rival a cheeky smile accompanied by the ever famous two finger salute, leave it to him to rub a sore spot on his rival's competitive nature. "Suck on that! Ass muncher!"

Naruto was gone in a yellow flash before Vali's could even react, and it was a rather violent reaction as reports from the police that came the next day said that there was a small crater on the spot Naruto was on but that was nothing compared to the reaction of the Devils towards the two sources of power...

Naruto reappeared in the middle of the main shopping district of Kuoh with a small smile of his face. He tucked his hands firmly on his pockets as he started walking about looking nothing more than another face in a sea of the many residents in the city. Not a single person was aware of the fact that he was planning on storming a nearby hotel and ridding it of it's exorcist inhabitants. "Yare yare I do hope that this mission wouldn't too troublesome." He uttered as he passed by a group of three people, -two girls and a guy, and all devils in fact- as they ran by him and headed straight towards the location of the park he was in mere moments ago. "Heh, guess that'll distract them while I wait for Xenovia-chan and Irina-chan to finish their little meet and greet. Til then I guess I have to wait..." The blond started tapping his foot to the beat of the new song that played on his head as he stretched his body.

...who investigated the spot not soon after Naruto and Vali left, and it was because of the simple game of rock, paper, and scissors between Vali and Naruto that Issei Hyoudou, Asia Argento, and Akeno Himejima were sent to investigate the occurrence by their King Rias Gremory before they even stepped into the club. Which in turn caused them to miss the initial meeting between the two exorcists of the church and the Occult Research Club which prevented the three from witnessing the violent confrontation between the group and the demonic sword using knight Yuuto Kiba.

"And hope that nothing bad happens..." Naruto finished as he randomly walked into the shopping district, still appearing as nothing more than another face in the crowd, while the sun was slowly faded away, falling in the horizon that would soon give way to the ever consuming darkness that was the moonlit sky heralding the arrival of the other world along with those that lived in it. He was completely unaware of the fact that he caused a small ripple through the large sea of events that lay ahead...

"...but honestly, where would be the fun in that?"

...Thus changing the fates of several people in this world.

-Fortis-

"And so the butterfly's wings flap once more, its actions ripple throughout the Kaleidescope creating and destroying numerous opportunities in a span of one act. I do wonder Mr. Butterfly, what kind of hurricane will you cause?"

The Magus of the Kaleidoscope and Treasurer to Team Naruto, Zel

-Fortis END-

EN: This chapter ran a bit too long so it was sliced in two parts- it had nothing to do with me running out of time or needing to polish up on the fight scenes nope not at all- this is the more light hearted and comedic portion of it, the latter part well it's not so much. Consider this as a somewhat transitional chapter with slight reveals on Naruto's powers so it wouldn't seem that he's just pulling random power ups off his ass during his future battles.

So to make it clear his current abilities from previous chapters up to this point are: Fuinjutsu, Rasengan, Hiraishin, Kage Bunshin (mentioned by Michael), Taijutsu Skills, Senjutsu, Yang Chakra Usage, Iiryojutsu, Sensing, The Powers of the Bijuu mainly Ichibi, Nibi, Sanbi, and Yonbi, including the respective elements that came with each beast.

This also focused on some of his relationships outside his comfort zone, he has a professional relationship with Xenovia, Irina is bitter and irritated at him, a friendly relationship with Azazel, and has somewhat of a friendemy rivalry with Vali who he had already fought numerous times in the past but the most important part of this chapter was the located at the end. Just how would things have changed if Issei and Asia weren't present during the initial meeting of Xenovia and Irina with the ORC. That is going to be a big whammy, another whammy is also there, and those are about the hints here and there about Naruto knowing about Khaos Brigade, now the million dollar question is why does he know about the group? aside this chapter also gives a slight teaser to a few more members of Naruto's group, Ika, Ken, and another major clue to his teacher in Senjutsu, one that will be familiar to a few people, and to those that aren't well I can say that she is a fox but she is not the Kurama or Yasaka. Take that as you will.

So I leave you guys with that next chapter is the awaited meeting with Issei, Interactions with Irina and Xenovia, a glimpse of Naruto's past, some more interaction with Azazel, Some shit with Freed, Issues with Yuuto, A battle royale, and the appearance of a certain ten winged crow.

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