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Reading – Naruto the Human Among Devils – Chapter 3

"Alright. Chapter 3: The Numb Hero." Azazel said before he began reading.

"The Numb Hero? I wonder if it refers to Naruto-san and his emotional state?" asked Arthur with a raised eyebrow. No one knew the answer to his question, but they thought that the title was related to Naruto.

"Father... Mother, what is going on!?" A young red-haired girl asked in shock when she and her entire group of friends, allies, her peerage... shook on their knees at the presence of a HUGE amount of energy inside of the castle she lived in. She was about 17-years-old, and she had a slim and slender hourglass figure with very large breasts and long blood red hair that fell down her fair-skinned back. She was wearing a dark red dress that she was instructed to wear for special occasions, such as meeting an important person that came.

"Look, it's you, Rias!" Issei said upon seeing the figure of his beautiful fiance. She looked very sexy in that dress.

"It is..." Rias muttered in shock upon seeing her counterpart.

In front of her were her mother and father, with her father being a man looking to be in his early thirties with alike hair that was of the same general style, wearing a white suit. He had red hair on his chin, and both he and his daughter had bright blue eyes. He seemed to be sweating more than a little as well, unlike her who was extremely nervous and almost on her knees and on the brink of vomiting from the largest amount of pure, raw energy that she was feeling crashing over her shoulders and pushing her to the ground. She was sweating enough for it to be noticeable, and the castle itself was forming thousands of cracks on the walls as well as cracks on the floor. Small bits of marble and stone were also floating in the air.

"Looks like everyone is having a hard time standing up against Naruto-san's power." Falbium commented lazily.

"Not only that, but his power alone is causing cracks to appear on both the floor and walls." Gabriel said with awe.

The amount of power she was feeling was staggering!

"Well, he IS the Strongest Existance now, so it's not that surprising." Kuroka said with a huff.

"Kuroka-san, please give them a break. They haven't even met Naruto-sama yet." Le Fay told the black-haired bombshell, who just huffed at the magician.

Her mother was the only one that seemed to be immune to this power, though she was frozen stiff like a statue. She looked exactly like her daughter, but her hair was a light brown color, with her eyes being purple. She wore a delicate white dress, but she wasn't moving much, stopping herself from wasting her energy from fighting against this power that was IN their castle.

"Even Lady Gremory knows that it's pointless to fight against the pressure." Ajuka commented upon seeing Venelana's frozen state.

These people were Rias Gremory, Lord Gremory, and Lady Gremory of the noble Gremory family.

"Hey, where's my counterpart!? I want to appear too!" whined Sirzechs childishly, causing most of the group to sigh at the red-haired man's behavior.

"This is one of the people that I want to fight?" Vali asked with a sweatdrop when he saw Grayfia pinched her husband's cheek to subdue his tantrum and keep him quiet. Ridiculous, is it not?

"Please read on, Azazel-sama." the silver-haired maid requested to the fallen angel, who complied.

Behind Rias were her peerage members, the servants that she had reincarnated into Devils. Directly behind her was the Queen of her peerage, Akeno Himejima, a young girl the same age as Rias... though was shorter than her, but with the same hourglass figure... and bigger breasts that looked to be at an almost unreal level.

"Humph!" Rias huffed indignantly at that, causing Akeno to smirk at her King's reaction.

"Ara, what's wrong, Rias? You look like you're jealous." teased the black-haired girl.

"Shut up!" snapped the red-haired girl with a pout.

She had long black hair done up with a ponytail, and she wore the traditional clothing of a shrine maiden at the moment. She had a blush on her face at the moment, this unrelenting power crashing over her like the rest, but also... turning her on. Her violet eyes burned holes through the walls as she tried to find the source of the power that was slowly crushing her to death.

"I hope that you're not planning on pursuing Naru-tan, Akeno." Serafall said darkly, shooting a venomous glare at the fallen angel/devil hybrid that caused the sadist to sweat in fear from the look.

"N-no, Serafall-sama." Akeno reassured fearfully. This was the first time that anyone saw Serafall act sinisterly..., and it was scary! It was more frightening than Grayfia!

"Good, if you did, I would have to freeze you until you're nothing but a giant popsicle." the mahou shoujo said cheerfully with a dark smile that sent chills down Akeno's spine, who nodded frantically.

"O-okay, moving on." Azazel continued on reading the book.

Behind her were two others, the first being a young male that looked to be 16-years-old with bright platinum blond hair and striking blue eyes. He wore the white robes of a prince and had the looks to pull off the look as well. His hair was lightly spiked, but right now it was pulled back and gelled to keep it in a formal state. He also had a mole under his left eye. This was the Knight of Rias Gremory, Yuuto Kiba... and he was NOT looking forward to meeting the... thing that was causing this huge amount of power to push him to his knees.

"You don't want to fight Naruto-san... EVER." Bikou commented upon seeing Yuuto's counterpart's haggard state. Everyone agreed with Sun Wukong's descendent, knowing that fighting Naruto was akin to suicide. You would always lose to the blonde, no questions asked.

"You look handsome, Yuuto-kun." Tsubaki, Sona's Queen, commented with a blush on her face when she saw the boy's counterpart's appearance. She had a crush on the blond-haired pretty boy ever since he defeated her during their masters' Rating Game.

"Thank you, Tsubaki-san." Yuuto thanked the bespectacled girl with a smile, causing her to blush brightly at the compliment.

The last person was a young girl of 15, that looked shorter than normal. She had neck length white hair with the sides of her bangs going down to her shoulders, with a black cat clip on her hair. She had bright yellow eyes, and she wore a yellow dress that went down her petite body and

fell down to her knees. She was the least endowed, only being maybe a b cup... and her skin was the fairest of the females in the room. She was sweating and gasping like the others, but she was on her hands and knees with her blue and white stripped panties showing lightly. She was the most affected by the extremely heavy aura of power that was in the area. This was Koneko Toujou, the Rook of Rias Gremory.

"So, Koneko-san is the most affected by Naruto-san's aura." Le Fay commented, pitying the white-haired Nekoshou.

"It would seem so, since she's on her hands and knees." her brother commented.

"We have... a guest here today. He is a very powerful human, and from what we have learned... he doesn't seem to know that he releases so much power. He is eating right now, but when he is done, I had requested to meet with him." Lord Gremory said with a grimace, while the others looked completely SHOCKED that a human was releasing this much power without meaning to. Not only that, but there was a human in a castle filled to the brim with devils. That enough was a cause for concern that a human was in the Underworld with this much power, and hadn't been taken out by something attracted to this power.

"Again, it's impossible to kill Naruto-san since he's stronger than anyone in this room." Michael commented.

"How... how?" Rias asked with wide eyes as the power seemed to get a little more dense and they started to sense it more clearly.

"It would seem... that a God-Slayer has descended to the Underworld by mistake. So please, do not do anything to offend him, my daughter." Venelana Gremory, also known as Lady Gremory, told her daughter with a slightly strict look on her face. She was extremely nervous, not having

met this mysterious presence in their home yet. She would consider it rude of this man to not show himself to them first, but the fact that they couldn't risk offending him and forcing him to do so was even more apparent.

"It's stupid to force someone that is much stronger than you to do something. That will only get you killed." Azazel said seriously before he continued reading.

"A... God-Slayer... does he have a Longinus?" Rias asked when she regained some of her composure.

"He isn't from our universe, so of course he doesn't have a Longinus." Yasaka commented.

"No... Grayfia sent back a message, this boy... Naruto Uzumaki... has zero Sacred Gear presence inside of him. The boy is purely human, but unlike anything she has ever seen. So please do nothing that might offend him. This is a great chance for our family... if all goes well, I will cancel the engagement between you and Riser and move it to this Naruto Uzumaki. The child of a God-Slayer will be worth more for our race than the union between the Gremory and the Phenex." Lord Gremory told her with a thoughtful expression, and Rias was both shocked and pissed off at the same time. She was already stuck in ONE loveless engagement that she had been arguing against for years, and for one second, she had the hope to be free of a loveless marriage.

"Wait a minute. This takes place while Rias was still engaged with Riser!" Issei said with wide eyes. Everyone was speechless at this. Things would change if Rias was engaged with Naruto. Serafall, however, narrowed her eyes at this, but kept silent.

"You expect me to... URG!? You expect me to get married to some old man?" Rias asked, before she fell to her knees when the power got even closer to them.

"On the contrary, Naruto Uzumaki is the same age as you, 17-years-old. Grayfia's exact message is this ''Lord Gremory, upon my discovery of the cause of the power pulse, I have discovered a boy of 17-years-old that has conquered a God. He is powerful, but stupid with a quick temper. He

will no doubt be curious about meeting you.'' and then she commented on how he was stupid again." Lord Gremory said with a slightly amused look to his face at this little bit of information about the powerful boy's idiocy. He had to admit, he was both fearful and excited to meet this boy.

"Naruto-san is kind of stupid, that much is certain from the last chapter." Arthur commented.

The doors to the room opened quickly and slammed into the walls, and soon they all looked towards the source of the power... and were surprised when they saw the form of this Naruto Uzumaki, in his battle-torn clothes as he walked through the room while patting his stomach. Grayfia was right next to him as he walked, and he had a huge grin on his face.

"Okay, that was good ramen... I give it like 3 stars... it wasn't much when compared to the old man's ramen, but it was sure filling... Yo." Naruto said as he looked at all of the fancy people in the room kneeling on the ground in front of him, panting and looking like they were going to pass out at any moment now.

"He looks happy, now that he's got his fill." Kunou commented shyly.

"Yes, although he seems to be oblivious to the fact that he's still releasing his energy, which is causing Rias-sama and the group to look like they're about to lose conscientiousness." Rossweisse said.

"Lord Naruto... can you please hold back your energy? Ever since you entered the castle, you have been releasing large amounts of power. A civilized conversation can not take place like this." Grayfia told him with a neutral tone to her voice, getting a blink from Naruto.

"He seems to realize it now." Vali said with a sweatdrop at the blonde's obliviousness.

"I've been doing... OH! Sorry, I was using my chakra to feel around the castle. Whoops, sorry about that." Naruto said as the immense pressure in the room vanished completely as it was sucked back inside of Naruto. The others took their first breaths since he had entered the room,

showing just how strange Grayfia was for being able to stand next to him with only a light amount of sweat on her forehead. Even she was affected by the powerful energy that came from Naruto, just not to the same extent as everyone else that felt that energy pushing them down to the ground.

"It seems that anyone that is near Naruto-kun must have at least Maou-level power to not be affected by his power." Kuroka commented, seeing that Grayfia was the least affected from being in Naruto's presence while he was releasing his power.

"That is alright young man... I am-" Lord Gremory started, before he noticed that Naruto was looking at him.

"Sorry, but you look a lot like my mom. She had red hair like that too, and she had really soft and girly features like you. Are you some kind of pretty boy or something?" Naruto asked, and Lady Gremory sent her husband an amused look when he actually spluttered in shock at the bold

statement. Rias covered her mouth to hide her giggles at the statement, while the others in the room were just shocked that a God-Slayer was acting so... not cool or wise, like a disrespectful teenager... which he was.

Most of the people in the room chuckled at Naruto's statement to Lord Gremory. It was amusing to see the Gremory Head splutter in shock from the blonde's frankness.

"He called him a pretty boy. Hah!" Bikou snorted in laughter.

"Lord Naruto, that is Lord and Lady Gremory, the masters of this estate. The young red-haired lady is Lady Rias. Please show them respect." Grayfia requested of him politely, but Naruto waved a hand at her.

"That's impossible. We all know that Naruto-san will speak his mind bluntly and that he doesn't give a crap about rank and status." Sirzechs explained.

"Naw, I'm good. I don't show people respect if they don't earn it. Rank doesn't mean crap to me... that is why you are Gramps Tomato, and you are Granny Coco... and you are... Cherry Girl." Naruto said as he dubbed the Gremorys in the room with insulting nicknames, shocking them all at just how... well he used their hair colors against them, from red and brown to tomato and cherry to coco brown. It was strange that somebody so disrespectful was appearing before them.

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"Bwahahahahaha!" Bikou, Kuroka, and Azazel laughed uncontrollably when they heard the nicknames that he gave to the Gremorys. Hell, even Serafall was laughing with them! It was very funny to hear Naruto giving them insulting nicknames without a care in the world. Cherry Girl... hah!

"Heh..." Vali and Arthur chuckled at the nickname that Rias got, which made sense due to her hair color.

"Cherry Girl... hah." Ophis said with an amused smile on her face while pointing at Rias, whose face was red with embarrassment.

"Stop laughing at me!" Rias cried with anime tears coming from her eyes. This got sweatdrops from everyone else that wasn't laughing at the nicknames that Naruto gave to Rias and her parents.

"Sorry, sorry. We'll calm down now." Azazel said after calming down from his laughing episode. Everyone settled down for a few minutes before they continued on with the story.

"As I said before, Naruto-san doesn't care that he's being disrespectful. He will speak his mind." Sirzechs reminded after chuckling from the insulting nicknames.

"Granny... I assure you, I am not old enough to be called as such." Venelana stated as she placed her hand over her large chest, where her heart would be, and testified to how she was not old.

"She may not look old, but she's still older than she looks." Arthur commented.

"Cherry girl?" Rias asked as she looked at her hair, before she remembered the stem of hair that she affectionately called her ahoge. It did sort of look like the long stem to a cherry, and with her face and hair making the resemblance more uncanny... she could understand where the name was coming from.

"Your counterpart seems to handle her nickname better than you, Switch Princess." Bikou mocked the Gremory heiress, who could only glare at the monkey Yokai childishly.

"Yeah, I mean... you look delicious like a cherry, and I hate tomatoes. I like cherries when they are on top of ice cream even more. I mean, you are really cute, but I don't want to... I mean I would because you are REALLY pretty but...your sexy and all, like a cherry... wait, cherries aren't sexy... well I guess they would be... what was I talking about?" Naruto asked after ranting to himself, after getting nervous when talking to a really cute girl. Everyone was looking at him like he was stupid, but Rias was the first person that recovered from it.

"It seems that Naruto-san is trying to compliment you, Rias-san." Gabriel commented, who blushed at the Seraph's praise.

"He's rambling, though." Kuroka said with a snicker.

"How I look delicious... like a cherry." Rias told him, kind of dumbstruck by this entire thing.

"Right! You also kind of remind me of my mom, she has really red hair and was a total babe... not that I want to do my mom or anything, I mean she is dead anyway like my dad so... sorry, I've never met anyone as pretty as you that wasn't a hooker or a slut... are you a-" Naruto started to ask, before he stopped himself from finishing that sentence. Rias actually giggled into her hand again at how awkward he was being around her, and Naruto laughed at himself moments later.

"You know, it's kind of cute to see Naruto-san ramble on while talking to others." Yasaka commented, which everyone agreed with.

"Well... thank you for the compliment... can I just call you Naruto?" Rias asked with a smile on her face, and her parents looked at her with wide eyes. How could she ruin things with a powerful man like this by showing such disrespect in front of him like so!?

"I don't think that Naruto-san cares about using honorifics." Akeno commented.

"Huh? Sure, everyone calls me that anyway... or Dead-Last... or Idiot... but yeah, you can call me Naruto. I guess I have to call you Rias now... who are those weird and sweaty people behind you... are they your peerage thingy or something that Granny Grayfia tried to explain to me?" Naruto asked, getting a twitch from Grayfia... apparently she hadn't heard this one yet, or she was annoyed that she was being called a Granny. She was able to regain her composure after a few seconds, though. The peerage behind Rias was shocked at what they were hearing, and they were also shocked at the blatant disrespect that the Strongest Queen of the Underworld was getting.

"Granny... Hah." Ophis snorted with dry amusement at the nickname that Grayfia got, who twitched. Most of the people in the room had amused smiles on their faces from hearing Grayfia being called a granny. The woman herself regained her composure after a few seconds with a sigh.

"As much as this is amusing, I was wondering something... where do you hail from?" Lord Gremory asked, placing the attention onto himself. Naruto pointed to himself, getting a nod from Lord Gremory, before Naruto grinned.

"You know... around. I don't really know how to explain it, Pa was good at-" Naruto said, before HE was interrupted by the pretty boy.

"Naruto-san called you a pretty boy, Kiba." Issei said with an amused smirk, causing Yuuto to blush from embarrassment.

"Pa, didn't you say your dad was dead when you were rambling?" Yuuto asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Huh? Did I? Yeah, my Dad's dead. Pa is the toad that taught me Senjutsu and helped me master it at Mount Myoboku. Well, Ma did too... but she mostly made me eat bugs to adjust to the life of a toad sage." Naruto explained, and the white haired girl behind Yuuto was visibly shaking at the mention of Senjutsu. Naruto shrugged it off as nothing, before he thought about something for a second, and with a wide grin on his face he looked at Lord Gremory. "Hey, if it isn't too much to ask... do you mind if I stay here for awhile? I kind of want to sleep in a real bed right now." Naruto pleaded lightly with his hands clapped together, one eye closed as he gave one of his trade marked grins.

"So, he knows how to use Senjutsu, specifically his version." Kuroka commented seriously. Everyone had serious faces upon hearing that Naruto had mastered his dimension's version of Senjutsu. It was interesting to learn about different variations of Senjutsu from other universes.

"Yes, and it seems that he's asking Father if he could stay at the Gremory Mansion for a while." Sirzechs said with a raised eyebrow. The Lucifer wondered what his family's response to Naruto's request would be.

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"What?" Every single person, besides the trembling white-haired girl, asked at the same time at the bold request.

"Wow, what a lame reaction." Vali commented dryly.

"Yeah, I mean, I don't have anywhere else to go, and I promise that I will return the favor. Anything you want, if I can do it, just let me stay for awhile." Naruto continued, and Lord Gremory actually smiled at this. He got up and walked over towards Naruto and stood in front of the shorter male, before he extended his hand at Naruto. Naruto took the hand and started to shake it, taking that as a sign that he was being accepted into their home for now.

"I wonder what kind of favor Lord Gremory will ask of Naruto-san?" Le Fay asked curiously. Sirzechs and Rias also wondered about the kind of favor that their father would request of Naruto.

"You are welcome here from now on... It would be wrong of me to kick my daughter's new fiance out of my home." Lord Gremory said with a charming smile, but Naruto froze at this and started to sweat. Rias palmed her forehead at this and looked very annoyed, while Venelana looked towards Rias with a nod of approval, telling her not to make a scene about this.

"What!?" Some of the members of the group shouted in shock upon hearing about Lord Gremory's request. Serafall, however, had a frown on her face upon hearing this information.

"That would mean that Lady Rias will be engaged with Lord Naruto instead with Lord Riser." Grayfia commented with wide eyes. Rias was shocked; that would mean that she didn't need to fight Riser in a Rating Game. However, would her counterpart still meet Issei?

Naruto DID say that he would do anything if he could do it.

"... HUH!?" Naruto shouted in shock.

"Even Naruto-kun is shocked too." Kuroka commented.

"It is simple, in our agreement, you said you would do anything in your power to return the favor in exchange for me allowing you to stay at our home. Well, I wish for you to marry my daughter, Rias Gremory. I can see nothing but a bright future ahead of you, and you seem like a good-hearted young lad." Lord Gremory said with a smile on his face, and Naruto's jaw dropped at how... casual this entire thing was going at this point. Naruto looked at the hand that he used to shake and agree to this entire thing, before he looked up at the ceiling.

"Well, he did say that he would return the favor, but it's still surprising to see that Rias-sama will be engaged with him." Rossweisse commented with wide eyes.

"Fuck you Sasuke... Pervy Sage... Mom... I know this is somehow all your fault! Damn, I need to read the fine print before agreeing to this crap." Naruto said with a grimace, but he made no motion against this either. He always kept his promises, and never went back on an agreement.

"He never goes back on his promises." Ajuka commented on the boy's determination to keep the promises that he made to others. It was a trait that was rarely found in anyone that the Maou knew.

"You are accepting this quite easily, Lord Naruto." Grayfia commented, and Naruto nodded before he rubbed his shoulder.

"In the last week, I turned 17... met my zombified Dad, fought and cut a God tree in half, met a ninja god... fought a guy that had freaky powers, had tons of my friends die... lost my best friend, teacher, and past love interest, and sealed away another god. I have had a busy week... honestly, I think I am still numb right now." Naruto said, referring to how he felt on the inside. Right now he felt numb to the world, he had lost everything... but he didn't really FEEL it. He was pretty sure that when all of this truly hit him, then he would feel it... but right now, he was just numb to everything, setting his default personality to adjust to it.

"Naru-tan..." Serafall said sadly when she heard that Naruto had lost everything after his battle with Kaguya, from his family to his friends. He couldn't even return to his home dimension either! Most of the people in the group felt pity for the blonde. To lose everything dear to you, was a fate that he did not deserved.

"That's so sad..." Kunou said with teary eyes. Even Le Fay was crying with her.

"Oh... I didn't know." Lord Gremory said with a frown on his face, honestly not sure if he could go through with this now... while the others felt pity for the boy. Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, before he yawned.

"It's no big deal Gramps, though when it all hits me... I guess being numb is a good thing." Naruto said with an awkward smile, and he got sad looks from everyone in the room that could somewhat understand what he was going through to some degree, some more than others. Naruto yawned again, before he turned around and started to walk away.

'Naru-tan. When you come to our dimension, I'll take good care of you. You deserve more than this.' Serafall thought with determination in her eyes. She was developing genuine romantic feelings for Naruto as they continued to read the story. The Leviathan wondered if her counterpart would develop the same feelings as her; she hoped so.

He was going to find a room to sleep in so that he could enjoy a week of uninterrupted sleep that he should be enjoying.

He REALLY deserved it!

"And that's the end of the chapter." Azazel said.

"It's sad that Naruto-san has lost the people he cared for." Gabriel commented with a sad smile.

"That's true. I wonder what will happen now that Naruto-san is engaged with Rias?" Azazel questioned, which caused Serafall to shoot a discreet glare at Rias, who felt a chill down her spine for some reason.

"We might find out in the next chapter. So, who's going to read next?" the fallen angel asked, before he saw Gabriel raise her hand.

"I'll read, Azazel." the buxom angel said, who took the book from the mad scientist's hands.

"Chapter 4..." the Seraph then proceeded to read.

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