AN: Man… how long I've been gone? 3 Months? Well doesn't matter I'm here to bring a new Chapter to O: TAoHS

Anyway this is the next chapter, I hope this will be doing well and to compensate my long absence from this story

And with that… LET THE STORY BEGINS!

"…" – speech

'…' – thought

[…] – Radio chatter

|…| - Sign language

Place/jutsu spoken in Japanese (i.e. Hi no Kuni/Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu) elemental Shinobi perspective

Place/jutsu spoken in English (i.e. Land of Fire/Fire style: Fireball jutsu) Ophis/Helghast Shinobi perspective

Disclaimer: I do not own HS DxD, Killzone, and Naruto. They belong to Ichiei Ishibumi, Guerilla Games, and Masashi Kishimoto

Intro: Skillet – Not Gonna Die

Fear

Fear is great motivator.

Many people use this kind emotion to force someone, groups, nation, even the whole world. But all of those method now rarely use in the modern world since many great leaders now found more merits by treating their follower like an equal rather than forcing them to submission.

There's countless thing that every sentient being would fear ranging for something such trivial like angry parents to something mind wrecking like the loss of the loved ones.

However, three things stood out from the rest:

God – He's the one who created our universe, He's the one who created us to roam the Earth and taken his place to lead humanity for better or worse. His words are law, break His law and do something straying from the path of light then you just made reservation in Hell but follow his words and obey his commands and you will be guaranteed to enter his home, Heaven

Dictator – He/she's the type of a leader who use fear to control the masses. Dictator force his/her vision to the masses and would do anything, "ANYTHING" to get everything he/she wants, ruling with iron fist and would not hesitate to eliminate opposing enemies from outside or inside his/her nation even protesting civilians

And lastly, Woman

…

No seriously Woman stood out from the most

Woman – Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Women in particular looks graceful, beautiful, sweet, and many more things you wanted to say, they have it. However, when they were angered for some reason as if mother nature gifted them with her wrath, woman can be a fearsome being that would bring every weapons in this world useless against her wrath

Now, what would happen if you combine these three factor and mixed them into one?

~Ouroboros~

Somewhere above New Helghan Western Sea

Helghast Cruiser Bridge, HSC Lucifer

"Do you realised what have you done, Captain?" Ophis can be describe as the visage of a monster right now, bloodshot red-eyes with black slit, her hair floating around as if they were alive, black miasma flowing out from her and her wings spread from her back

Back in the CIC room the communication officer explained that the Satellite failed to notice the arrival of the bandits because Chakra imaging system only works to detect those who had the ability to use chakra and that means Shinobi

That's still acceptable in her book, they were expecting Shinobi to come into her land and thus how Chakra Imaging System was born. However, after today event Ophis ordered her men to reinstate the thermal technology.

The bandits do not use chakra, rendering the Chakra Imaging System useless to them and it's been proven today

But what made her furious is, the Captain of the cruiser in charge of patrol in western sea of New Helghan were to lax on doing his duty, the importance of the patrol cruiser is to detect any trespassing intruders should the satellite failed to detect any intruders but the captain seems got bored and start dilly-dallying

Not to mention, he relied too much on technology (radar and sonar) for everyday routine to scan the surface of the ocean and leaving the usage of the sensory chakra unusable and when the devices broke down, he didn't even bother to order his sensor-nin stationed on the cruiser to take over the duty instead, he focused every manpower on the ship to fix the device

The Captain of the cruiser start to back away seeing the angered leader "M-m-my A-A-Autarch I-I-I'm sorry t-t-the equipment is-" his words were forcefully cut off as the black miasma started to filled the bridge and thicken giving a very dreadful aura and start choking every crew in the ship as well as scaring the entire bridge crew

"THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR EQUIPMENT FAILURE!" Ophis roared in demonic voice

"The best weapon in every sentient being is the thing between your ears! I gave you the ability to use chakra USE IT! because of your laziness, a group of bandits landed on our soil intending to turn our land for their criminal purpose!" the Captain look down in shame

"I… I'm sorry" was all he could say

"You should be, I should've kill you right here to justifiedyour action" The Captain stiffen the aura also getting heavier as some of the deck crew start to faint "but I won't, I'm not a ruthless leader" Ophis said as her voice back to normal at the same time her miasma receded back to her but leaving her eyes blood red and her wings extended before staring through the captain's eyes "I'll give you a chance, ONE. LAST. CHANCE to correct your mistake and attitude"

The captain is shock at her declaration but bow to her respectfully feeling grateful his leader decided not to kill him "Thank you, My Autarch"

"However, if I found out something like this happening again" Ophis walked closer to the Captain's face and stop one inch away from him "I'll have you dishonourably discharge, sent you to 'Re-Educating' centre, and ban you from every job available on New Helghan except Cleaning Service. Is that clear?"

The Captain's shiver in fear at the punishment she had for him but nod

"Good." Ophis then move her gaze to another person in the bridge "you, Lieutenant over there"

"Y-Yes, m-my Autarch?" said Lieutenant is female Kunoichi who looks in her twenties, she looks nervous as sweat started rolling down her cheeks

"I gave you full authority, to do what's necessary to control this lazy bum, you will report directly to me any… misconduct acts your captain has done, literally AND figuratively speaking"

"Y-yes My Autarch"

"And you Captain" she turns back to the Captain "remember: your men, your responsibility. In addition to your punishment, your crew will suffer the same fate as yours should you decide to be incompetent like this again. Do I make myself clear?"

"Yes, Crystal clear"

"Good, now that out of the way I have another matter to attend to" with that Ophis turn around and walk toward the exit before disappearing leaving a black trail behind

After Ophis leave the bridge many of the Helghast operative let a relief sigh happy that the darkest moment is over "Hell, that was scary" one of the crew said

"You tell me, she become like that just because of equipment failure and captain's attitude. I wonder what would happen when it comes to higher rule violation" another one replied

"Don't. for the sake of us all, do not give us that mental image… please"

~Ouroboros~

Appearing in the Western Coast, Ophis fly towards the location where the Dragonet squad gather the ex-slaves

She had order her servants to coordinate the food and clothing distribution and mobilized medic corps to treat the ex-slaves beforehand she's merely want to observe how her Shinobi working

She had faith that her men would do their job properly, but after recent event, she decided to visit the site

"I hope they're not screwing up"

Thankfully, as Ophis descend to the ground, she's greet by the sight of the Helghast-nin work tirelessly doing whatever assignment given before. Ophis could see the Helghast unloading the clothes and food and distribute it to the ex-slaves and medical tent established to give the ex-slaves medical attention

"Master" turning to her right she saw her Servant Regret appearing before her "Regret, report"

"Food and clothing is being distribute properly and medic have been treating the injured with good progress though we need to bring some of them to the hospital for intensive care and counselling" Regret report

"Where's Suffer and Dragonet squad?"

"Suffer is still in the medic tent co-ordinating the medic as well as taking the slaves' 'sufferings' away hehe… as for the dragonet squad the boys help distributing the food while the girls help in the tent"

"Okay first, bring those who need intensive care to the nearest hospital. Two, gather all the slaves to me when they were done and tell the Dragonet squad to go to my Sanctum, and three… that was terrible pun, Regret" Ophis groaned

"Roger, understood, you like it anyway" Regret answer chronologically as he went back coordinating the activities leaving the Dragon God alone watching her men working

"My Autarch," Ophis turn to her side to see her adopted son with his eyes visible from his mask he also carried a large scroll on his back

"Sergeant, is there anything you want to say" Ophis formally addressed her son.

"Yes, it's about the drugs" Naruto put the scroll from to the ground "my team finished sealing all of the drug"

"What kind of drugs they brought?"

"Cocaine, Heroin, Marijuana, LSD, and stuffs, they even have the seeds for certain plants" As Naruto explained to his mother/leader Ophis couldn't help but getting angrier as she figured out that the bandits not only they tried to create a slave farm but also a drug plantation on her land

"is every last of the drugs inside this scroll?"

"Yes. We sealed all the drugs along with the seeds inside this scroll. What do you want us to do with it?"

Ophis didn't reply instead, she picks up the scroll from the ground with both hand and black flames coming out from her hand and burn the scroll, said scroll immediately turn into nothing not even ashes remain "that's what I wanted to do with it" she gives the 'I don't want any of those shit in my empire' look to her son

"Sergeant, tell your team leader to meet me back in my Sanctum after your job is done, I will give your team a mission after I finished in here"

"Yes, My Autarch" and with that Naruto went back to his team

As her adopted son leaving, Ophis look toward her servant, Regret, along with several Shinobi rounding up the ex-slaves

"well, let's see if I can convince them"

5 minutes later

The ex-slaves were now gather on open terrain outside of what's left of Bandit's camp mixed feelings were visible on their faces some were confusion while the others were fear as the Helghast shinobi flanking them

The 'red eyes' on their helmet-gas mask hybrid were originally designed as simple tool to 'dehumanize' their appearance but as the time goes by it becomes their iconic features of the Helghan Empire until today

A perk that every Helghast realised that their helmet-gas mask hybrid also works as a tool to intimidate their enemies due to the lack of humane features on the mask

And fear what clench the Slaves' hearts

And that feelings multiplied when a figure of a woman with black regal attire suddenly materialised in front of them she had black draconic wings and red eyes with slits. They easily concluded that she's the leader of these… people

Ophis POV

I blinked toward the location were the ex-slaves situated.

I decided that I will be revealing myself with some of my draconic feature on. Not the best way to convince we're not demonic entity but I need them to see as what we are but who we are. And maybe to convinced them to join in our cause as non-human sentient beings

It's not like I hate humans, but these god-ultimate creation has been proven to be very troublesome and detestable creature

For me at least

I remember one human in particular stated that human's true nature is wage war at each other. And I agree. Because that's has been proven over and over during my visit to another world even before the destruction of my realm. Humans can be seen wage war at each other for various reasons. From a simple 'I want that land', superior race crap, ideologies, democracy crap, and more on the list

One life after another perished for a cause that never led to peace but more greed and hatred

What's worse, there are some groups or nations that reap fortunes from this wars and the fortune itself was to satisfy their own greed

Heh, I still found it amusing as I remember how they are still at each other throat even when Trihexa already destroyed two-third of earth population

But I digressed

As I look at the ex-slaves, I took a deep breath "forced labours of Gato Shipping Company" I started "for several years you have been forcefully separated from your family, for several years you have been abuse by your wretched of a master to do their dirty job, for several years you were forced

to become their sick entertainment… but that ends today" I deeply stare into their eyes each of them staring at me I can hear several whisperings about me being this demonic people

"Starting now… I, Ophis Hyoudou-Gremory, The Autarch of New Helghan Empire, Leader of the Helghast Shinobi, declared you has been freed from the slavery!" cheers were then heard, some of them crying in tears of happiness, some of them hug their friends, some of them still look lifeless but a small smile adorned their face

"HOWEVER!" I exclaimed raising my voice and in that instant the cheering dies down and their attention back on me again "our assistance is not without a price" as I finished saying that sentence many of them look dreadful

I know it's cruel to ask something like this to them but I was 'raised' by a perverted-reincarnated devil and a pure blood devil so of course I was bound to do something like this

"B-but A-Autarch-sama we don't have anything to pay your kindness" one of the ex-slaves mildly protested

I held out my hand gesturing them to hold that thought "I know what you're thinking people but I want you to hear me out first before you speculate anything" I calmly state and the ex-slaves

"There are your brethren out there suffering like you did, there are your brothers and sisters out there who enslaved to satisfy their sickly desires, there are those slaves who want to be free from their oppressive master. Join us! In the quest of ending tyrannical rule! we have the means necessary to mould you into a proper shinobi! Fight alongside my people! Free your brethren from their grasp! And I promise you education, wage, and a proper life. That's the price I want you pay!" many of them look stunted at my declaration

"but should you refuse…" the ex-slaves look stiffen again in fear down their spine. I can tell already that they were going to be enslaved again forced to serve my country

But I'm not ruthless leader

"you're free to go" I said casually gaining several shocked stare from ex-slaves and to certain extent, my Shinobi "I know some of you have family and I'm not cruel enough to separate you from them" I can see some of them smiling in relieve

"We may look like a hellish creature" as I said this, I retract my wings and deactivate my magic returning my eyes to normal again "but I give you my word, we aren't, although it's true we're not human I assure you we're not like your former employer. should you decide to go, I will prepare transportation to transport you to your villages but should you decided to join my army, I welcome you with open arms."

Words alone couldn't describe how happy the ex-slaves. They have the chance to go home to meet their loved ones again

I raised my hand again calming them down

"So, what's your choice?"

~Ouroboros~

An hour later

Autarch's Sanctum

"…one-third of total of the slaves decided to go to their home and two-third of them decided to join our army and settle in New Helghan" I sat back on my cushion back at the Sanctum as the Colonel finished his report

"Two-third of them? I thought after I said the price, they would choose to go home rather than fighting along our side what made them to join our causes?"

"Well it turns out this Gato is pretty much a bastard… all of the slaves who join us stated during psychological evaluation that they don't have family and home anymore because Gato had order his henchmen to kill them and destroy their village where they come from… all of the village"

That bastard

"I see, thank you Colonel Fitzgerald" The Colonel bow down to me

Suddenly my intercom rings [My Autarch, Dragonet squad is here for you]

I look toward the intercom and quickly reply "send them in"

A minute later, Dragonet squad enter the Sanctum

"Dragonet Squad reporting for duty, My Autarch" the bald squad leader salute and bow to me followed with my children mimicking his action

I nod accepting their greeting "okay let's get to business" I look to my side toward the colonel to which he understood and he deploy a 3D projector

The Projector projected a holographic map elemental nations "from the information extracted from the bandits along with the map, journal, and the letter Dragonet squadron collected, we managed to pinpoint Gato Shipping Company operation bases" the Colonel explained

several blips appear on the holographic map red blips and green blips appearing on almost every country in elemental continent "the 'Shipping Company' part is actually a front to cover up this Gato person illegal businesses. The red blips Indicating his Human trafficking/slavery business while the green one indicating his drug dealers"

The squad inspect the map carefully almost every elemental nation has this blips all of them with the Land of Water with the most blips while the Land of Wind with the least of it

"My Autarch, you want us to take down this businesses?" I noticed the Captain seems eager in this topic I can see his hand is clenching

"Tempting Suggestion but no, I'm not sending you to take them down one by one, I'm sending you to this place" I gestured to the colonel to which he responded by tapping his PDA several times.

The moment he finished, the blips on the holographic map suddenly draw many lines. Some of the lines connected with each other directed to one place to another, some of the line were connected straight to one spot. The squad watch curiously at the holo-map watching the lines connected with each other and ends up and place they also noticed that from every line on the map it ends on one destination

The animation stops as the Holo-map now revealing what seems to be a route map "thanks to the map, Journal, and the bandit captain's diary we were able to projected this. This, is the route of every drug dealings and human trafficking that occurred from the last year. They have this network spread from Land of Wind to Land of Water all of this route starts and ends in this location…"

I gestured to the Colonel again and now the map now zoom-in to a place called the Land of Waves "…the Land of Waves" I move my stare to all of the squad members "take down the leader and the rest should follow. Your main objective is, infiltrate Land of Waves, track this Gato, and kill the bastard by any means necessary and end whatever uncouth businesses he had in that place, is that clear?"

"""Yes, My Autarch!"""

"Good, now, I couldn't teleport you directly to that place because the last time I did that it caused unwanted attraction and some stirring inside the continent so your insertion method is via dropship" I explained. I never expected every nation to be alert on my energy signature however I should've known better that my energy is… unique of course it would attract attention from other nation

"and to avoid detection you will be drop to this location" the map moves toward southern part of the Land of Fire "make your way from the insertion point toward the Land of Waves. Any question?"

I looked to the squad and I see my son raise his hand "Yes?"

"What are the duration of the mission, My Autarch?" he said with emotionless voice

I frown a bit to his reaction, he actually like this when he didn't like over somethings

"This is a long-term mission so take your time on planning your assassination, anymore question?" none of them raise their hand

"very well, your mission will start at 9.00 hours tomorrow, all of you dismissed… except Dragonet 4,5, and 6 I need to talk to you three" The Colonel, the Captain, and the Lieutenants bow to me before leaving the Sanctum

When the last person exits the room, I press the button on my intercom notifying my secretary to not let anyone disturb me to which she complied

I move my eyes toward my adopted children "My Autarch?" Naruto started

"How are you feeling my drakes?" I softly spoke as I raise from my desk and make my way toward them

Noticing the change in my tone the three of them relax their position Naruto is the first one to speak whilst opening his helmet "a bit shocked, it's a first mission and encounter with the bandit must ended up like that but overall we're okay, mom" he sigh "but what I didn't expected you to send us to that place so soon" he looks away

"Yeah… not to be unprofessional but did you really have to send us to Land of Fire, Mother?" Yakumo said

"Well, if there's any consolation I'm not sending you to 'that' place. I choose your team because you knew the area the most and granting more probability to success I'm sorry if I caused some bad memories re-surfacing" Naruto, Hinata, and Yakumo nod understandingly

"No, you did what you have to do, mother, if anything we're the one at fault for letting our personal feeling to cloud our judgement" Hinata politely re-assured me

"Yes… anyway, gloomy things aside, how about we eat some Ramen, Curry rice, and cinnamon bun tonight to celebrate your first miss-" my word cut off as the three of them glomp on me

"Yes! Of course we loved to" Naruto said

"CURRY! Yes, mom I loved to" Yakumo followed

"thank you I love you, mom" Hinata Finished

I smiled to their reaction despite being train as a Shinobi they can be such a sweet child "okay now please let me go I have some work to do" and with that they release the grip on me and line up again fixing their posture "now you're dismissed Sergeant, Privates, you earned your rest" and with that they bow to me and exit the room

I watched them disappearing as I sit back

Ah, how fast they grow it feels like 7 years ago they still a little drake

…

Oh wait they were

"now I only need to make reservation and-"

[My Autarch, the forms for the ex-slaves' civilian and military registration is here for you to sign]

God. Damn. It

"you're such a killjoy you know?" I pushed the button on the intercom expressing annoyance. How she got this perfect timing? I was about to make a call when this secretary of mine contact me to give that… thing with black letter over white paper

[My Autarch? Did I do something wrong]

"No, no you didn't do anything wrong just… bring that thing to me" I sighed I don't want to cancel my promise so I will finish this quickly

By making a cross hand-sign to perform Naruto's favorite jutsu

***NYH***

Next Day

0920 hours

Third Person POV

If any citizen looks carefully above the sky and put their ears usage to maximum one could see a distortion in the sky AND a sound that sounds like a hum this, is the Overlord Dropship used by the New Helghan Empire to transport their Shinobi

It was outfitted with seal arrays that bend the light around the dropship making the Dropship invisible to the naked eyes and seal arrays to minimize the sound of the engine

Inside the dropship were none other than Dragonet Squad heading toward their insertion point

Inside the dropship

Every member of the Dragonet squad is busy, the superiors were checking their weapons and equipment while Naruto, Yakumo, and Hinata without their helmets on checking their PDAs

"Well this complicate some things in this continent" Naruto commented

The PDA issued by the New Helghan Military is outfitted with the latest intel on their original continent. The information it contains were encrypted and can only be opened by the user password or fingerprint.

As of right now, the younger member of the squad read the latest intel gathered by the GHOST ANBU regarding certain condition in Elemental continent

"Hidden Cloud and Hidden Stone villages is at odds and every nation is on alert? What happened? Weren't they like best bud since Second Shinobi War? Or is it because they picked up Autarch energy signature years ago?" Hinata asked clearly confused

"No, no keep scrolling guys, you'll see" as Yakumo said that she narrowed her eyes at the information

'Report indicate that several Stone-nins is killed inside Hidden Cloud Village by the Cloud ANBU for espionage purposes and to retrieve… the kyuubi Jinchuriki?... Wait what?... how is this possible? Fourth Hokage wouldn't do something stupid to leak our escape incident to opposing village especially the Stone Village who held grudge against him' it really confused Yakumo why the Stone ninja after them and from the intel they also learned that Stone-nin spotted the kyuubi Jinchurikki running away from Hidden Leaf running to the north toward Land of Lightning

'Now this is suspicious…' suspicious indeed, back then they were trying to escape to the sea and to avoid any suspicion, they decided to go to the Land of Waves where they are little to no presence of Leaf-nin where they can board a ship to reach New Helghan

But Wave located at the South of Land of Fire

That means whoever chasing them put a false identity to mask their true intention and blame certain village to cover their origin should their mission end in failure badly

'but who would plant bogus information to get Naruto to their side? The only people who know our escape back then was the Hokage and his family, selected ANBU and…" and that's when Yakumo's eyes widened in realization "the blank mask ANBU" she whispered

"You noticed it didn't you, Yakumo?" Naruto said to her

"Yes, about the false information and what caused this unnecessary tension"

"I figured as much, and I thought the same too. I mean I'm a 'valuable asset' to the village of course they would come after me"

"But that didn't explain why they went so far to capture us and who want Naruto so badly? And why Hidden Cloud?" Yakumo questioned

"I think I know why" Hinata said before handing her PDA to Yakumo the PDA shows a full-size image of a man with bandages covering his right eye and a cross-shaped scar on his chin and several ANBU with blank mask behind him "Danzo Shimura one of the Hidden Leaf Elder, the leader and founder of the Root ANBU -the one who tried to kill us-. Ambitious power-hungry man, 'for the best of the village' type of man, also known as Shinobi of Yami or Shinobi of Darkness because of his unsanctioned actions and questionable methods. He's the man who saw Shinobi are nothing but emotionless tools… my guess is because Naruto 'held' the Kyuubi he wants you to be trained to be his ultimate weapon and act as a deterrent 'to protect' our former village should the need arise" Hinata deduced while air quoting certain word

"Gee thanks but no, I rather keep my addiction to ramen intact rather than be an emotionless killing machine, dattebayou" Naruto said sarcastically "anyway, I think he somehow falsified his Shinobi identities and somehow altered their memories before ordering them to infiltrate Cloud. And why Hidden Cloud Village? That I do not know"

"Probably because of our jutsus" the bald Captain gruffly said earning a few looks from his subordinates "we have extensive use of Lightning Jutsus that's probably how he deduced we're from Hidden Cloud... though it would be foolish of him if he judged us from our techniques alone"

Somewhere in Hidden Leaf Danzo Sneeze

"I doubt that, for a man with such feats I found it hard to believe he would judge as like that" Hinata argued

That earned chuckle from her Squad leader "he may have such feats, he may be strong for his age, he may have the drive to do what's 'best' for his village, but you can't deny the fact that he's withering away as time slowly eating his age. I wouldn't be surprise if he thought we are Samurai from the Land of Iron"

Somewhere in Hidden Leaf Danzo sneeze... again

"Can't blame him for that though, we've been operating in the dark and our continent never recorded in their history, they were so busy with other nations and conflicts revolve inside elemental continent till the point they forgot or never bother to find our own continent. The best possible conclusion were Samurai from the land of iron since we have the same 'red eyes' on our mask or Hidden cloud for our Jutsus" Maya said

"…" the mute member of the squad nod at her opinion

Naruto scratch his chin contemplatively "But still… this could've cause a war… a fourth shinobi war… I'm surprised they didn't throw jutsus at each other right now knowing the Fourth Raikage temper"

"Beats me." the Captain shrugged "probably because the lack of manpower or maybe transportation, maybe the Raikage want to dissolve the issues calmly rather than hot headed into war, or maybe the Tsuchikage have a strong alibi to break Kumo's accusation, I don't know"

"if I knew that man, he probably said 'it's not worth it wasting my energy and chakra on the hidden stone' yet he armed his shinobis in case of war breaks-out and the Hidden stone did the same resulting cold war state and arms race in the process" Maya concluded

"what about other nations minor/major and other Villages response on this tension?" Yakumo inquired

"Hidden Mist do exactly the same. Some of them though, stay out of the trouble especially Hidden Leaf, the Fourth Hokage stated they do not wish to participate in a foolish war… though word on the street said that certain elder from Hidden Leaf want to do 'something' with this fiasco" he replied "but we do not know for certain what his intentions nor what he would do" he quickly added

As they were about to continue their conversation, the pilot of the dropship spoke up through his radio

[Dragonet Squad ETA T-Minus 60 to drop point]

"Copy that" Anton said through his radio "Okay enough chit chat put on your helmets we're nearing the drop zone"

Complying to his order, the honorary Helghast put away his PDAs and put on their helmets preparing themselves for their first mission in Elemental Continent

The bald Helghast Captain slam a fist to a button beside him opening the side door. The door slid up open revealing the beauty of Land of Fire in the form of lushes of green from the tree below them the Helghast Shinobi could also see the mountain that adorned the beauty of this panoramic view

[T-Minus 15 to drop point]

"Squad check your weapon and equipment" The squad members check their weapon one last time before deploying

The dropship then stops and hover ten meter above the ground indicating they arrive at the destination

[We arrive at the Drop point. Deploying Dragonet Squad]

As if on cue another door opens follow by the shinobi drop down and land on the ground safely.

When the last personnel out of the dropship the pilot close the door before flying away but not before wishing them good luck

[Good luck ladies and gentlemen!]

Despite the invisibility seal on the dropship, the squad can see clearly the dropship flying away from the drop point leaving the squad to finish their mission

***NYH***

It's been an hour from their drop point and the squad still jumping from tree to tree to reach their destination and the keep on going without the need to rest however their journey comes to a halt when a certain Hyuga warn her captain

"Captain Stop!" Hinata tell her Captain as she lands on a large branch with her eyes focus in front of her

Reacting on reflex the bald captain stop which the rest of the squad follow his example and move their attention toward Hinata

"Is something the matter, Dragonet 6?" the Captain asked

"I see… several people ahead… two Jonin, three Genin, and one civilian. One of the Jonin have a high chakra reserve and the other is… massive… while the genins have low, mid-high, and…" she widened her eyes after looking the peoples in front of her "…massive chakra reserve like the Jonin and it seems they are having argument with the civilian"

Dragonet 2 or Maya look contemplative at the information "we better take a detour" she suggested "we can't risk to run with other shinobi from other village especially with chakra reserve like that"

"…or we can sneak around them to gain information from them" Naruto suggested

"no we better take a detou-" Hinata turn toward him trying to say something but quickly got cut off courtesy of her Captain

"we better take a closer look" the Captain said now gaining everyone attention

"Captain, we have a mission to do!" Maya complained "it's not our problem besides, with two individuals with chakra reserves that big it could possess a threat to us"

"I know. But this is a perfect opportunity to analyze other village's Shinobi" the captain replied

"besides if you haven't notice their direction is the same like us. They probably heading toward the Land of Waves too and that means sooner or later we would meet with them I rather take this chance to study our opponents now than later, am I right Dragonet 6?"

Hinata nodded she had study the map of Land of Fire. Due to her photographic memory, she remembers all of the topography and the demography of the map. She remembers that there is no civilization in the route they took that means the Shinobis in front of them trying to reach the beach to get across

Which is where the Land of Waves located

"yes sir" Hinata replied though she's a bit begrudgingly

"if this about your hatred about Leaf ninja I suggest you put that feeling aside we can't have your feeling affect your performance in the field" the Captain remind her

"yes sir"

"good now let's go" and with that the squad move again to commence recon on their target with Hinata in the back of formation disappointed with her Captain decision

"6" Hinata look to her left and greet by Yakumo jumping around beside her "is there's something you need?"

"what happened? I can tell you were troubled is something happened?" Yakumo asked concern about her friend condition

Hinata is silence for a second before she decided to tell her long-time friend "…it's about the Leaf Shinobi ahead"

"what is it? Look I know I shouldn't pry if it's personal but I too have some grudge on Leaf Shinobi but like the Captain said don't let your hatred cloud your judgement and performance because-"

"I'm not having problem about this 5" Hinata cut off looking at Yakumo at her side "I was concern about Dragonet 4 reaction should he encounter –which is inevitable now- the Leaf ninja in front of us"

Yakumo blinked several times "wait what? Why? Why would you worry about Dragonet 4?"

"You'll see… we're familiar with them"

***NYH***

Hundreds of meters away from the Helghast Shinobi were none other than the Leaf Ninjas who right now questioning the civilian. Said civilian were none other than Tazuna, the bridge builder. Hailing from the Land of Wave, he came to Konoha in order to find some shinobi to escort him back to wave and protect him during his work to an extent

However, due to Gato exploitation on his land he's left with no choice but to lie about his situation due to the lack of money. Now it's coming back biting him back as the shinobis he hired now cornering him asking for explanation.

You see, he hired Leaf shinobi for a job that's can be classified as C-Rank mission however as their journey progressed the shinobi squad were attacked by two missing-nins known as the Demon Brother from mist. The demon brother assault however was repelled by the Jonins and the Genins from Konoha

Which lead to him to explain his condition

After giving explanation about the situation in wave, the old man trying to guilt trip the squad in order to keep them to escort him back to Wave

"But oh Well! That's not your concern! You won't be there to see my daughter and ten-year-old Grandson cry all day like their hearts are breaking!" Tazuna said with hearty laugh before continuing "Oh! And you won't mind if my daughter vows eternal hatred of all Shinobi of your village as she lives her lives alone!"

Kakashi who can only sigh incredulously at the poor attempt to guilt trip them "well… I suppose we'll continue-"

"No, we're going back" Kakashi turn toward the speaker. Said speaker is red-haired woman. She wore Konoha standard Jonin her hair tied in ponytail complete with Konoha hitai-ate tied on her forehead

"Kushina-San?" Kakashi said in surprise along with Tazuna

"I'm sorry Tazuna-San, your attempt on gilt tripping us maybe work on some of us but not me" Kushina shook her head

'Damn it' Tazuna cursed inwardly

"I can't let this operation continue since you lied about your condition and endangering the Genins for a B border-line A-Rank mission with actual ninja threat sure you may have your reasons but right now our village also suffered internal crisis regarding certain situation and therefore we must focus our attention there" Kushina said stoically "and we have the power to break the contract"

Dropping his attitude Tazuna plead the red-haired Jonins "please I told you already our country is poor due to Gato actions I-I can pay you after I finished the bridge… please I'm begging you" Tazuna said as he actually grovel on the ground pleading to the Konoha ninja

Kushina shook her head "I'm sorry I'm calling this mission off. Like I said before there's internal crisis regarding certain crisis… this maybe harsh but you must understand that we also have situations in our village that required our attention more than faked mission" Kushina said stressing certain word that make the bridge builder

"Kaa-San you can't be serious!" Kushina turn around to see her daugther

Narumi Namikaze the twin of Naruto looks at her mother in disbelief. She's a typical healthy Kunoichi standing around 5'6" tall, her hair is just like her mother albeit with shoulder-length long, adorning her face were none other than the whisker marks with a pair of blue eyes

She wore a dark purple Yukata down to her thigh with brown obi securing the dress as well accentuate her figure showing rather developed C-cup size breast and black pants along with standard issue shinobi sandals and her Hitai-ate tied around her forehead. She also had katana strapped to her waist and several kunai/shuriken pouch and scroll pouch on each side of her thigh

"we can't just cancel our mission like that. Think about the people in wave!" The younger red-haried firl complained

"Narumi, i know your concern but we're not continuing this mission and that's final! We have more pressing matter at the village!"

"Like what? Squabbling about Iwa and Kumo situation again? Kaa-san there's a man need our help we can't just turn around and walk away shattering his hope" Tazuna smile he's glad that the girl defending him

"Narumi listen-" Kushina tried to reason with her daughter but quickly cut off courtesy her daughter

"No you listen! People in wave is suffering under Gato's rules and some of them are suffer fate worse than death and you just turn your back on this? Just because of stupid rules?" Narumi retorted that got the older female to quiet down and thinking her decision

"Alright then if you want it that way let's do some vote, shall we?" The female Jonin suggest which the younger redhead agreed

"Those who agree to continue this mission please your hand" after saying that only two people raise their hand. The one who raised their hand were none other than other than Narumi herself and a boy with dark hair

"Sasuke?" Narumi look surprised as Sasuke agreed with her. The boy himself wear a high collar blue shirt with white shorts and shinobi sandals

"Don't get me wrong I'm doing this because i need to get stronger. How can i get stronger if I don't have any experience?" Sasuke said dismissively. He believed that he need to complete this mission to spread his word everywhere that uchiha still exist and spread fear to his enemy

'Jerk... but still thank you' Narumi thought

But still it's just two out of five voices and it's not enough for them "okay now, who want to discontinue the mission"

Needless to say three of them raise their hand. For Narumi and Sasuke, they knew exactly why they are adamant about discontinue the mission however they did not expect the pink-haired kunoichi in their team to raise their hand

"Sakura, why?" Narumi asked with betrayal look on her face

"I'm sorry Narumi but I... I'm not ready to face ninja like the Demon Brother or more like them" Sakura said meekly

"Tsk" Sasuke tsked in annoyance

"Okay three against two. I'm calling off the mission we're going back to Konoha" and with that two of the 5 squad team going back with disappointed looks and anger

One was disappointed with her mother decision and her partner cowardice

One was angered because he felt denied to get what he want

Before they leave however Narumi talk to Tazuna once again "I'm sorry Tazuna-san, I'm trying my best to convinced my stubborn mother but... I guess I can't"

"I understand, thank you for standing up for me though" Tazuna said sadly he knew it was to good to be true for them to helping him. "Now if you excuse me I must go back home"

"Wait you're not coming with us?"

"Why should I? I'm running out of money, I have bridge to build back home, and why should I stay in a village where the shinobi themselves unwilling to understand my problem?" That words alone enough to put imaginary arrow that strikethrough the Jonins hearts

Narumi hug the old man "you sure you're okay alone?"

"It's okay Narumi, I can get out of my country safely of course i can get back safely" the bridge builder return the hug 'I hope'

And with that the bridge builder and the shinobi squad going separate ways

With Tazuna

Sometimes later

"*sigh*… I know I shouldn't have lied… now it's biting me back" Tazuna said as he drops down to the nearby tree contemplating what just transpired

Pulling out a bottle of Sake he chugged it down to calm his mind "now how am I going to back to Nami if there's high rank shinobi aiming for my head with me who didn't have anything to defend myself?"

Sure how is he going to defend himself when the people who supposed to protect him decide it is best to cancel the mission rather than continuing the mission and Gato probably send more Shinobi to after him and now he's defenseless against his future assailant(s)

As Tazuna took another sip a flashes of image come into his mind. The images of his friends hoping for his safe return along with the images of his daughter and his grandson comes into play

"I'm sorry Tsunami… Inari…" Tazuna Sighed "looks like I won't make it back home"

"are you going to give up like that?" a gruff slightly distorted voice spoke up causing Tazuna to perk up

Tazuna look to his side and quickly crawl backward in fear as soon as he took a good look at the new figures

Dark theme armors

Glowing red 'eyes'

Aura of professionalism

If the Demon Brother he encountered before were scary with their claw gauntlet and their rebreather mask, and the aura of killing intent the 6 armed-to-teeth people in front of him were downright terrifying. Despite not using gruesome-looking weapons the image of a real demon imprinted in his mind

And combined with their sudden appearance with no trace whatsoever cause the bridge builder to get nervous around them

The bald one take a step forward toward the bridge builder only to make Tazuna crawl back further. Seeing this the bald Helghast act quickly "don't be afraid Tazuna-san. We're not here to assassinate you" as he said this the remaining of the team pulled out their weapons and put them on the ground in order to convince the scared old man

Seeing their act putting Tazuna at ease a bit, the Captain move toward the bridge builder while put his hands in the air "Sorry if we startled you but I give you my word we meant no harm to you"

"How can I believe you wouldn't kill me after this and how do you know my name" Tazuna asked skeptically

"Tazuna-san, I assured you despite our looks we meant no harm if we want you dead… well, let's just say we wouldn't have this conversation" Anton said as he loosened his mask revealing his face to the bridge builder

"as for your name…" he turned toward one of his subordinates, Hinata "one of my subordinate saw you arguing with the Konoha-nins and you happened to be in heated argument we couldn't help to eavesdropping your conversation"

"I see… you all aware of my problem then" a collective nod confirming his suspicion "Why?"

Naruto step beside his squad leader and kneel in front of Tazuna before touch a switch on his helmet opening eye part of the mask revealing his blue eyes toward the bridge builder "Because why not? We couldn't help to eavesdropping and felt your problem. Trust us Tazuna-San, we know how it feels like when you were oppressed for we also suffered the same thing like you"

"We also have... things to do in the Nami no Kuni and seeing you all alone like that, might as well escort you back to Nami"

"Thank you er…" Tazuna said as he gestured toward the bald captain

"sorry, but we aren't allowed to say our name but you can call me Dragonet Leader or just Leader for short and the young man beside me is Dragonet 4" Anton said as he gestured to Naruto next to him

Tazuna rose an eyebrow at that but dismiss it "Thank you Leader-san" Tazuna said "you too Shi(four)-san"

"Just doing our job Tazuna-san, can you move? We better get going before more of those shinobi pop out" and with that Tazuna getting up from the ground readying himself as well as the rest of the squad grab back their weapons

*Thud*

Tazuna noticed something fall of from his bag and pick it from the ground

"a kunai?" Naruto asked "of all things they can give to you for self-defense is a single kunai?"

"I don't even I know I had it with me" Tazuna said as he scratches his head in confusion

"Just throw away that thing we don't know what nasty surprise in it" the Captain said

Seeing no problem with the Idea, Tazuna proceed to throw the kunai

"WAIT DON'T! DON'T THROW IT!" Naruto shouted. Too late though, the Kunai already thrown

At first Naruto thought it was a simple Kunai but upon closer inspection, a grip with several Kanji letter written on the grip

Naruto quickly rush toward the thrown Kunai and quickly inspect it to confirmed his suspicion and he was right the kunai is not just an ordinary kunai but a three bladed one a type of kunai he really familiar with

Naruto quickly use body flicker technique to appear before their squad mates and warn the squad leader "Captain we need to move now!"

"Sergeant?"

"That's not ordinary kunai, it's the same kunai that Yondaime Hokage use to perform Hiraishin Jutsu! We need to move now!"

Before they can react however, a series of loud thuds and cracks can be heard nearby forcing the Black-clad shinobis to quickly rush toward their weapons and grab it follow by forming a defensive position

The Genins quickly circle around Tazuna while the Jonin and Chunins formed a defensive line ready to intercept and protect the civilian from the assailant

"Owww…" a feminine pained moan can be heard from the woods "Damn it… I still can't get the hang of it"

The six-man squad tighten their grip on their weapons ready to defend the bridge builder

The sound of rustling can be heard from the woods and getting louder and louder as the lone individual reveal herself as Narumi with several twigs stuck in her hair

"Don't worry Tazuna-san I'll escort you back to Nami, my mom-" whatever Narumi wanted to say died in her throat as she saw six armed black Shinobi with glowing red eyes surrounding the bridge builder

The girl appearance in front of the Empire Shinobis caused several reactions from them

For the Jonin and the Chunins they quickly analyze the girl. You can't simply judge your enemy by their looks no matter how young they are, harmless, even cute, they can be a force to be a reckon with and require a suitable action to deal with them

For the Genins of the Empire however, despite the training they have back in the academy and their mother's tutor, their emotion still gets the better of them

'Of course HE taught her that jutsu… she's his favorite after all' Naruto thought sarcastically as he slowly reaches the trigger on the scabbard ready to launch his sword should the twin of his do something stupid

'Naruto don't do anything rash here' Hinata thought concerned about her long-time friend. He'd told her about how his… sister 'killed' his clone in a fit of rage caused by the Kyuubi's chakra and the pain of being ignore by his parents.

Oh, the amount of dislikes muttered from his mouth is not something healthy for him

'How reckless can you be? Stepping into unknown territory without backup! I dare you to make a move' Yakumo inwardly taunt her. She had set several traps earlier before making contact and she ready to summon her Overkill arrows from her hands should she need to engage her in Close-Quarter-Combat or she could activate the traps

The best course of action for Narumi right now is either lower her sword and have a talk with the Helghast Shinobi for information or run back toward her team requesting for backup

However, being an Uzumaki descendant none of those thought occurred in her head

Instead she unsheathed her Katana and took a stance before charging toward the Helghast Squad with a mighty battle cry

-To be continue-

Outro: Evanescence – My Immortal

AN:

And I'm sorry for the lack of action scenes since I was stricken with my College tasks and It affected this story with lengthy explanation of how Ophis's shinobi works in New Helghan

And I hope I'm doing well with Ophis's speech

not much I can say this time as I still have a college stuffs to do and this is the only time I have to post this chapter and as usual I give an 'apology' sign in the form of Omake

Omake

Ophis Journal #90

To all 'Strong person' out there

Do you hate it when that moment happened?

What moment you may ask?

THAT moment when you into certain places, certain building, certain area, certain DIMENSION you got pranked by the God (or maybe someone/something with higher deity) just because they bored?

Just because I'm from different dimension or different realm or different world or different tapestry or WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT TO CALL IT!

DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN TREAT ME BY NERFING ALL MY POWER RENDERING ME USELESS LIKE LEVEL ONE RPG CHARACTER!

And they had the guts to trap me in my 11-year-old body and drop me in underground world

I'm going find who's responsible for this and stick Ex-Durandal up to his/her ass

And if he/she dare to use 'IT'S JUST A PRANK BRO/SIS!' words, I will make him/her running across town with nothing but pink-coloured fundoshi

I almost got killed by a talking flower

A FREAKIN. PSYCHOPATHIC. TALKING FLOWER

Goddamnit… I always find a way to end my life but died in the hand... er, vine? Of a flower and being weakened does not sound appealing to me

Lucky for me a kind monster come to save me

~Ouroboros~

"Oh my you awfully matured and responsible for an eleven years old" the monster in front of me pat my head while a smile adorned her face. Said monster is an anthropomorphic monster, she had a straight posture like a human and a goat of a head with droopy ears and short horns and she wears a long blue robe

It's been a week since that incident with that Flower and now I live with Miss Toriel until I figure how to get my power back

"Miss Toriel please, not to be rude but I already told you I'm not a kid" one thing I always forgot is that in my 11-years-old body I look cute

No, I AM cute in this body

If only I smile, more expressive, and wear something 'appropriate' back then, I'm as cute as I am now. I'm wearing black sweater with white stripe and black pants by the way with white apron on top of it by the way and I was sweeping the floor.

My action lead to the kind monster to praise me for being responsible and cooed me

I do not hate her for it in fact I like her. But the way she treats me it's like Rias-Kaasan motherly care… combine with possessiveness of the late Leviathan Satan

Not at that level at least but strong enough to convinced me not to go to the human world

"I know but I can't help it seeing you helping me around by doing chores"

"Well… I can't just free loading at your house, can I? consider this is how I pay your kindness"

"Why thank you, my child" she said with a smile "by the way, I made a Butterscotch-Cinnamon Pie for you, I'll bring a slice for you when you're done"

That got me perked up. Damn, did she knew I had a thing in sweets? Thinking about that pie made me fired up to finish my job quickly and efficiently

The mouth-watering Butterscotch-Cinnamon Pie had fill me with…

Determination

AN:

Do you know what realm/world where Ophis ended up?

I noticed some people want me to make a part where Ophis and her little drakes go back in time to correct her mistakes tempting and I have the scene in my mind however I want to focus on this story first before I make that story…

Or other stories revolving around Ophis's 'Journey'

Overall what do you think?

Please leave a review to help me developing this story that satisfy your need for x-overs fic.

Criticism is acceptable but please no flame

If I noticed there's a flame in the reviews I will delete it or I'm going to use it to make Yakitori