What if Naruto discovered he could see things that others can't? Finding a mentor in a spirit that finds the last of the special blood in Naruto, he passes the power that allows him to use his special abilities to protect himself...

The Power of the Devil Summoner...

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Future Stamp: 02/01/2012

Author's Note/Revision: I've taken it upon myself to rewrite the beginning and replace any missing or out of touch words, see if you can spot them.

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Chapter One: Devil Summoner Naruto

There was once a village, a village of Ninja and civilians that worked together to prosper. For Civilization, it was a free ticket to protection. For the Ninja, it was a central base of operations, to raise and nurture a select few to take on their mantle when they fade away.

Eventually, their reasons in forming the village was blurred and enough time has passed where no one can really recollect why they settled down, other than some outlandish reasons.

The story begins in this very village. A village called Konoha, and the story of the young man named Naruto Uzumaki.

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It was winter season, and in the middle of January in Konoha village. The local weather Ninja predicted that this particular day was to be recorded to be the worst winter day in the history of the usually warm climate village. Granted, they have their share of snow days, but there have been reports that the average temperature had been steadily declining in the last decade. Some have been saying something completely erratic like a lack of faith to a sort of sun deity, despite having no actual evidence that a deity even existed.

Like any civilization, there are many diverse opinions. Some believed in something A, and some believed in something B. When ideologies clashed, there were many incidents, forcing Konoha's Ninja forces to step in and act as a police force.

Despite their differences, there was one target that they unified against. It was incredible to believe that the one they united against was a small boy.

Naruto Uzumaki can easily say that the village did not like him, but he couldn't for the life of him find out why. He wasn't sure, but he would swear that everyone seemed to notice him the moment he stepped out of his apartment and into the merchant district, where most civilians would go for the local markets and equipment shops. One minute everyone was acting normal and happy, and the moment he stepped foot into the edge of the district, everyone would just stare angrily at him.

He was used to these stares now, but it was a completely different case when he was younger. When he was four, around the same time he spent the last year huddled with a bunch of orphan children from the Kyuubi attack, he was treated to a particularly rougher confrontation with some half-wit drunk men.

He wasn't hurt since their swipes were so clumsy, that he could have spat in their face before moving backwards in the time they tried to hit him. Naturally, he wasn't so low that he did that, but the report that summoned him to the Hokage's office told a very different story.

He tried to tell his story to the Old Man, but he was constantly interrupted by the "distraught" civilian, who was sporting gashes that both the Hokage, and the ninja mediating the dispute saw that those injuries could not have been done by a child's nails. Since the victim didn't accuse him of carrying weapons, instead hysterically claiming that he grew big red claws to tear apart his defenseless self, he was sure of his case against the boy would succeed. Only his imagination could contain the fantasies of what the brat would get as punishment. He didn't notice three things. The stares that the older Hokage and the Ninja around him gave, the obvious flaws in his claims, and the fact that he didn't know how to present a believable case to the highest power in their village.

Regardless, he was told that it would get handled properly and that was somehow enough for him to leave.

Afterward, the Hokage asked for his version of what happened and Naruto told them what he could remember of the night, which involved taking a shortcut that really wasn't back to the orphanage. To the Hokage's recollection however, Naruto wasn't this calm.

In fact, he remembered that the usually proud boy was close to crying in fear to the "Old Man" when he arrived in his office that day. Rather than reprimanding the boy, he had to find another way to limit these headache inducing meetings...if he could call them that. It also occurred to him that the more vengeful civilians could have followed him to the orphanage and posed a threat to the either the children or the matron taking care of the blonde boy.

So the idea came to him...why not let him live on his own? A place where he would be looked after by both the people living there and the secrecy of his location known only to Hokage?

Since then, Naruto was relocated to the Ninja Residential District.

When Naruto asked why he was being moved there (although he wasn't really complaining, since the kids were real jerks), the Old Man changed the subject rather quickly and turned the direction of the conversation to a rather friendly Ramen stand that opened up near his new home a few years ago. Naruto, whose mind wasn't as refined (although he would claim differently) as a seasoned shinobi, instantly fell for it and started asking the Hokage about the new restaurant.

A sudden gust of wind broke Naruto's path of memory lane, although he wasn't as affected as the people around him, shivering even worse than him at some points.

Naruto always wondered why these people were wearing so much clothes, but shivering as if they were wearing nothing more than a flimsy shirt? He wasn't particularly dressed for the occasion, but he wasn't as affected as them and he was wearing a simple sweater! Although...it might have helped him that he had a knitted scarf that Ayame, the daughter of the owner of the best shop in the universe, Ichiraku's Ramen, gave him with a kiss to the cheek one birthday afternoon a year back.

According to Ayame, he has never blushed as brightly since then. Naruto still denied that he even turned a hint of red!

He even joked about it sometimes, saying loudly that he had a secret fire inside his belly that kept him warm all the time!

He would get weird and sometimes horrified looks whenever he said that out in the open.

He was enjoying the scarcity of the civilian populace in the main market square today. Not too many glares from the civilians today since it was so cold. He could see the astonishment of some people here and there, as if wondering what god damned them and blessed him to dress so lightly in the harshest winter of Konoha history.

Today, he was off to play in the park, since he considered this day to be his special day with no jerks like the local bullies to bother him while playing alone. Yep, it was going to be terrific!

Although, Naruto wondered silently. It was going to be pretty lonely... no one was there to talk to him, bully him, or even be far away from him! He didn't like the coldness of the people around him, but it was still nice to have human contact, even if they were nowhere near him. He found that he liked the presence of human life around his young being.

As he arrived in the park, he saw that the park was indeed empty like he thought. The swings were barren and the sand was mixed in with the snow, making it some sort of grainy slush. He also spied another makeshift swing on a tree a little ways away from the main equipment. Naruto grinned and swung the lone wooden swing like he always wanted: Standing on it.

After a few long swings, he wanted to try something he always wanted to do and begun twisting his body and watched how the swing twisted like a tightly wound piece of rope. It was a bit exhilarating how he could act on impulse, without anyone like a bully bothering him or even that overbearing teacher he was forced to call sensei to at the academy telling him to stop.

Naruto frowned, his mind thinking back to a few weeks back. His teacher was pretty vindictive that day, and on his birthday of all days!

Now that he thought about it, what was wrong with using paint as a distraction to a problem anyways? Even he knew he could use pellets to hold paint and his opponent would be distracted when he threw them. However, his sensei just chewed him out in front of the class and explained that paint wasn't the norm and was less effective than a smoke bomb, which another of the students present helpfully supplied.

Naruto frowned at the memory, what did that guy know? He was Naruto Uzumaki, and if he wanted to use paint for a technique, then no one would stop him! He was the future Hokage after all!

His mental rant cost him his concentration however. He didn't pay attention how the twisting wasn't in his control and he began unraveling at uncontrolled speeds, making him panic as he tried to steer it back into his control and was failing at it.

Sure enough, the force of the unraveling swing promptly threw him off the swing a couple of feet and he landed on his head before his body crumbled from gravity and landed awkwardly onto the floor.

As he was clearing his sore head from snow and dirt, he could have sworn that he was seeing things.

He saw something strange. A young girl was playing around in the snow a few feet from where he fell. The girl didn't seem to notice him and was having fun just touching the snow, not noticing her surroundings. Naruto sometimes wished he was so enthralled by the little things in life like the girl was doing. He wondered if she wasn't able to get out often or slipped away from her parents.

As he was observing her, something about her confused him. He might have been over thinking it, but he couldn't be sure what the girl looked like. It was as if her looks were not registering in his memories somehow, but he was able to remember people just fine, like Ayame or the Old Man!

Then he remembered how some of the children told the other children (with him listening in) that this area was haunted by spirits of the dead. One of which was a little girl who always played in snow...wait...

He turned to the girl, who was now alert of her surroundings and watching the skies with a mixture of intensity and alarm. Could that girl possibly be?

Naruto paled in fear, having never told anyone that he was afraid of those ghost stories. Was this the girl from one of the stories? A ghost girl?

Almost on cue, the girl turned to him and was astonished. Naruto was equally surprised, and it didn't take long for his paranoia of the supernatural to take effect. He suddenly scrambled out of the area, trying very hard not to admit that he both feared the girl and that his bladder had decided to give up and it took his will to hold it in.

If he looked back however, the girl had her arm raised toward him and was looking sad that he ran away. She then faded away, feeling rejected at the boy's departure.

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It was a somewhat slow day in the Hokage Tower, and the Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, wished that the mechanics of the Tower followed suit. Alas, it wasn't to be...the paperwork kept coming and he sometimes didn't even know who kept making the infernal things!

For example, he was staring at one form that somehow needed his signature on...he peered closer in disbelief. He expected to sign off on mandatory Icha-Icha volumes included as standard gear for Jounins!

He paused, maybe that wasn't such a bad idea...No! No!

Rejecting it, he moved on to the next form.

A request to include Pocky bars as standard rations? Confused, he looked at the date and wondered how long was that thing in the process stage and was startled...three years ago?

He sighed in frustration and in resignation. He really shouldn't have gotten this job back.

Day in and day out he had to sign this, initial that, it never ended!

It did have a bright side to it though.

Sometimes when Naruto came in on official business(read: being caught), he was granted a brief respite from signing those damnable forms and he had a chance to talk to Naruto and question his well being sometimes. When Naruto just came in for the hell of it, he was also given a well deserved break (read: abandoned paperwork) and had time to talk to the energetic lad.

Something felt off though, and Hiruzen had an inkling why.

He had a full fire roaring in the fireplace, and he found it odd that it was cold somehow. Maybe it was in his mind, but he felt that without Naruto, it felt colder somehow.

Speaking of Naruto, where was the boy? Usually, his locator crystal on his bookshelf would tell him where he was at all times, but he didn't like to use it for preserving the chakra stored in the artifact. It was originally the first Hokage's prized possession and he liked to think it was a privilege to care for and to keep it functional as a duty to the first leader of this village.

Still, that didn't mean he wouldn't use it to keep track of his favorite hellion, would it?

Grabbing the the crystal from the middle shelf, Hiruzen settled it in front of him and closed his eyes for a moment as he gathered up his chakra to power the artifact. He then thought about Naruto in order to locate him through the crystal.

Of all emotions he expected Naruto to have when he peered into the crystal, it certainly wasn't distress.

He was surprised to see Naruto in the forested area of the Hokage Monument. He usually was in the park around this time of the day, but he understood that it was so lonely today because of the fierce storm outside.

He frowned however, at the panicked look that the boy sported suddenly before he started dashing toward the monument. He looked toward the area where the boy was supposed to be and nothing strange was happening in terms of chakra...however, he didn't rule out that some idiot villager was out to get him in some romanticized quest of revenge and honor. Of course, it could be nothing and the boy was playacting but...

To be sure, he called his on-site intelligence officer within the Anbu ranks. After a few words with him, the officer concluded that no foreign chakra was detected by the agents in the field. Confounded, he dismissed the officer and continued to watch the fleeing boy before he lost the image on his chakra orb. He tried increasing the chakra input on the crystal but the image of the boy he grew to think of his grandson wouldn't appear again.

He called for the Anbu squad in the area and ordered them to watch over the boy through the on-site Anbu officer. He could only pray that his successor's legacy was safe and sound.

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Naruto was officially freaked out. He was so sure that he was seeing things, at least that was what he told himself that repeatedly. There was no way that a blob of green...whatever was chasing him all over the forest while spewing drawn out sounds that seemed to be words at him! There was no damn way!

He looked back and grimaced at the thought that the thing was awfully quick for having no bone structure...and how was that thing still talking to him?

The gelatinous thing was still chasing him. He was also saying phrases like "SSSTTTOOOP! I WANNNTTTED TOOO TALKKK!" and "COOOME HEREEE! I WANNT TOOO SEE WHAT YOOU TASTED LIIIKE!"

Naruto scoffed, he wasn't stopping for anyone, especially not that thing!

Naruto groaned as the thing still chased him and he cursed the teacher for being lax in teaching them how to use weapons. He really could have used some kunai training right about now!

After dashing through numerous trees and going in zig-zagging patterns through them, Naruto was sure that he eluded that 'whatever the hell that thingy' was. Pausing, he took a breath of fresh air into his lungs. It was sure sweet to inhale that wonderful chemical in the air...not that he knew what a chemical was, but he was tired, so he didn't care. He was about to take another gulp when something sounded above him and it didn't feel natural.

Another rustle from the treeline above put him on instant alert when he heard another rustle that was eerily close. A growl and a line of drool landing on his shoulder was all it took to give him a pale complexion.

Dreading the outcome and mentally kicking himself for such a reflex move, Naruto looked up and groaned.

A humanoid looking thing was looking at him hungrily, licking his lips in anticipation. He seemed monster-like, with pointed ears and red eyes that were shifting from normal round irises to slit like irises. Suddenly, the monster roared and lunged at Naruto.

"Oh, you have got to be kidding me!" Naruto said loudly and bolted from his resting spot. Once again, he took off running into the woods, the demonic monster behind him.

Not noticing that he was climbing higher and higher, Naruto briefly wondered whether or not he should work out more when he started to get winded from the lack of air. He wasn't like this whenever he climbed the Monument, and that was pretty high.

Wherever this was, he wasn't on Konoha territory anymore. He had no time to think on it though, that crazy monster was still after him!

Dashing through the rocky path in the unfamiliar area, Naruto was suddenly pulled up by the collar of his shirt by a surprisingly strong slender arm onto a higher path. Confused, but relieved at the same time, Naruto saw the monster like thing look for him before rounding the corner of the path he was on. He turned to see his savior only to stare in confusion as he saw a young teenage woman with black hair and a bikini that didn't seem to leave any part of her body it was covering with a hint of breathing room. He could tell that the girl was a teenager due to the developing breasts on her chest. A kimono was covering her back and her hair was wet so Naruto concluded that she must have been taking a bath or something when she saw him.

"Are you alright?" The girl asked, her eyes looking playful. If Naruto didn't know any better, he would say that she was ogling him.

Naruto nodded, it was only polite to respond to his savior. The girl giggled and helped him stand, and Naruto could only nod dumbly as she did so.

Her words at this point should have been a warning sign, but his thought process was muddled somehow. Naruto didn't seem to mind that too much though.

"Mmm...I haven't had it in a long, long time...I like em young." The girl giggled and started to lure him to a secluded area. Naruto's instincts were dulled as he followed her. It was almost as if she had him under a spell. A spell that he wouldn't mind being under forever though, although he couldn't reason why that was though.

Soon after, he lazily noticed where he was being lead to. At first, he thought it was some sort of house, but the girl was leading him to a cavern of all places! It was weird, Naruto thought but it didn't matter to him at all.

The girl smiled as she led him to bed of sorts within the cavern. It really did seem that this was her home, Naruto thought as his glazed over eyes were roaming over the girl's body. Something that delighted the girl to no end.

"Mmm...I just love being appreciated! Now hold still...I am going to make you a man soon enough..." The girl removed her kimono and that almost sounded the red alert alarms in his head if his brain wasn't somewhere else at the moment. When the girl removed the robe, two wings sprouted almost magically from her back! Naruto was sure that those wings weren't supposed to be there and somehow, he noticed, the black hair on the girl's head seemed to gloss over, making it even darker if that was possible.

The girl had a thoughtful frown while all of this was going on, as if she was perplexed about something.

"Its strange though, I didn't even make an effort to be visible...I don't think I ever had to snag something this easy before...heehee..." the girl giggled and straddled the boy. With a sultry smile, she began to remove her top so agonizingly slow for Naruto...even though he didn't know why.

Just before she was to remove the cloth before her budding breasts, she kicked off from Naruto roughly, all the while snarling in an unladylike manner. During the process, Naruto's senses woke up from the spell she put him under and his mind was racing to comprehend what the hell had just happened. He was trying to find out why he found himself in a strange place far from the cliff he entered this strange world from Konoha. The last he could remember was that something pulled him out of the way and that was it. When he looked around his new surroundings, he gazed upon the debacle that was making so much noise.

Suffice to say, it wasn't what you saw everyday.

A tiny girl in a blue bodysuit with wings that were much smaller than the larger, more imposing winged girl was facing off against the bigger girl in the fiercest glare match he hadn't seen since Ino and Sakura's fight a few weeks back. The fight which broke their friendship was all about the pettiest thing if he could recall correctly...ah, that was it! He recalled it was about that one boy...Sasuke Uchiha. A noise much like an unsheathing of a sword caused him to turn away from that stray thought. Naruto watched on with interest as the larger girl swiped at the tiny girl with enlarged nails, something that he didn't notice before.

"Arrgh! How dare you ruin my plaything! You pixies always do this!" The winged girl growled out. The tiny girl, a Pixie, smiled mischievously. To Naruto, he believed that he was seeing Ino and Sakura all over again. Only in different sizes and voices.

"Heeheehee! Now now, we can't have our sacrifice be defiled by your schemes!" The Pixie laughed haughtily at the fuming girl, while Naruto got a feeling of depression. For a minute there, he thought he was saved.

But of course, he was slated to be a sacrifice...

During his thoughts, the two...women, he supposed they were that, started to speak in weird chants and gathered some intense light in their hands before calling out some sort of weird jutsu. The resulting power of these jutsu was something he had never seen that before, at least not anything ninja were willing to use in front of him. The intensity of these "jutsu" made his eyes water and also widen comically as the tiny girl was going head to head in raw power against the bigger girl. With each cast or throw, each "jutsu" was either being deflected, canceled with a "jutsu" of equal power, or just being dodged.

After a display of pure power from this fight, an unknown sense alerted him to another presence. His eyes traveled to the exit of the cave that winged girl led him to and he saw a most peculiar figure...

A cat.

What got Naruto unnerved that the cat had this subtle aura of confidence that the cat kept showing off while he strutted around the battlefield, looking at the battle between the two demons much like an opponent views a weaker opponent; like an annoyance. Well, that and the fact that the cat was talking to him.

"Come on, lets leave these demons alone." The cat ordered, as if used to commanding people. Naruto wasn't going to argue with a talking cat who can obviously shrug off the light show the girls were showing off.

Picking himself up, Naruto started to follow the cat out of the cave before a shout of indignation came from behind him. Both the cat and Naruto turned to see the girls glaring at both him and the cat. By the looks on their faces and lack of hostility between them, Naruto figured that they formed a truce in order to capture their target lover/sacrifice.

"OOOH! That cat is interfering again! I won't let them get away! Get them, Lilim!" The Pixie shouted to the winged girl demon, Lilim.

Lilim glared at the impudence of the trash that would dare order her around.

"You do not order me around! I'll catch him and have my way with him, you lowly Pixie!" Lilim growled back as she started to charge a yellow light in her hands before holding it in one hand outstretched toward the duo.

Naruto noticed that the cat was tensing up and he felt wary about how to dodge such a display of power from the girl's hands.

"Zio!" Lilim cried before throwing the technique at them like a ball. It missed a few feet in front of them but the shout of warning from the cat to dodge the ball's direction proved useful as the ball of yellow energy expanded like lightning jutsu in a straight line for them. Naruto barely missed the energy from zapping him like a lightning rod by falling on his butt trying to dodge it.

After the ball of lightning, Zio, dissipated, the cat spoke to Naruto.

"You, boy, can you fight?" The cat said to the bewildered boy. He knew something about fighting, but it was mostly improvised brawling.

"A little...I don't know anything professional thou-" he was cut off by the cat telling him to dodge a green ball of energy thrown near them that expanded into a mini tornado of sorts. He was furthered confounded that the talking cat threw a weapon at him somehow.

"Use that! It isn't a sword, but It'll help you against these two!" Naruto was confused at the cat's words. He was no weapons expert or nothing, but this thing that was thrown at his feet really did look like a sword...

Not wanting to explain, the cat shouted at the boy, feeling a familiar migraine sport on his temple.

"You'll see what I mean! Now start swinging!" The cat ordered as the two demons became fiercer with the sight of the weapon.

As soon as Naruto gripped the sword that isn't a sword, he felt something light up within his mind. It was almost as if he unlocked a memory of himself using a weapon such as this, but there was no possible way, was there?

The Cat that was with him stood silently to the side, it was as he thought...

'That boy...I thought I would never see another one in my time as a dweller in this world...'

Acting on his new instincts, Naruto rushed toward the startled Pixie who didn't expect such a performance with the way the boy was acting earlier. She screamed in pain as the sword turned into an Axe made of blue energy and cut her cleanly in two from the mid waist down. She was shaking as if her very soul was self destructing, but didn't part without any words.

"No...Way! There wasn't supposed to be another one of them here! AARRGH!" the tiny girl screamed out as she exploded in a white light and what looked like blood covered her fading corpse.

The Lilim girl, didn't look phased by her battle partner's grizzly death and instead started to charge up another Zio ball to throw at Naruto, who was deemed too dangerous to seduce by her standards. She wanted it sure, but only from some unsuspecting, and defenseless sap.

The Cat spoke up again, this time in warning.

"Watch out boy, shes going to mutate that Zio spell into its area counterpart, Mazio! End this quickly, or you're finished!" The cat shouted orders to Naruto, who began running toward the Lilim.

"You're through boy! Mazio!" Lilim shouted as she threw the pulsing yellow sphere at Naruto, who caught it fully in the chest. The cat looked away, shaking its head in shame that the boy didn't react in time to dodge the harmful spell.

The Cat saw how the spell worked out dozens of times. The boy would stand still in shock as the spell fried all of his nerves throughout the body, making for a paralyzed target. The sudden lack of nerve functions would eventually lead to a total body shutdown, making the victim a motionless vegetable.

The boy screamed in agony as the spell was taking effect. He was bathed in a yellow light from the spell as it worked its intentions throughout his body until he landed in a heap, his sword dropped by his side. Something felt off to the cat though...then his eyes widened in realization.

What happened next wasn't to anyone's expectation, especially not to the Lilim. Naruto suddenly vanished in a puff of smoke!

"What? What happened to boy?" Lilim shouted as she scanned the area for the corpse of the boy she was sure she fried. The cat didn't say anything but its eyes darted above as he saw something glinting in the dark.

"Up here, Hag!" Naruto's voice sounded from above as he brought the sword down on the unsuspecting demon while holding it like an Axe. The sword once again glowed with a blue energy in the form of an Axe blade as he swung it downwards toward the stunned demon girl.

A large gash tore through her mid upper body and blood sprayed on contact with the magical sword. The girl screamed in agonizing pain as she tried to fly away from the demon swordsman masquerading as a boy in front of her. But it was not to be as the Cat shouted something at Naruto, who nodded and stabbed the fleeing demon through the stomach and into the wall behind her. A loud gasp and a crunching sound of bones being stabbed through to the wall was heard.

Lilim stared at the sword going through her stomach and the widened eyes of her slayer before laughing weakly at the scene.

"...I guess this is it for me..." Lilim paused to cough up blood that was sure to drown her before long. Naruto could only stare wide eyed at the scene and tried to pull the sword out of her but the Cat ordered him not to.

"Why?" The boy shouted at the cat. The cat could only stare at the dying demon as an answer.

"I was right about you...you were going to be such a fine man for my offspring if I succeeded..." Lilim took a few desperate gasps of air. Her vision was growing darker with each breath.

"It looks like this world isn't going to hell after all, if a Devil Summoner has arisen now...shame though, I would've loved to be your demon...after all...I honestly thought I could...love...you..." Lilim gasped one last time before exploding in a darker light than her fairy partner, signaling her end on her life.

Naruto could only stare in disbelief at her confession and the weight that he had just taken two lives, and he wasn't even a graduate from the academy yet...the pressure made his knees weak and he fell on them, but made no sign that he even knew he did it.

The Cat stared at the boy with complete neutrality. On one hand, this was probably the state the world has come to, since he could see that taking lives for the first time was hard on some people. On the other hand, the last time he checked, this world was currently using children to carry out assassinations... When he finished thinking about it, the cat could only do one thing it could do. It worked on his last pupil/partner, so it should work on him.

He pounced on the boy's arm, raised his paw against it and scratched the boy's arm in one fell swoop with a sharp claw, drawing blood and a pained hiss from the boy.

Now that he had his attention, the cat spoke harshly to the boy.

"Listen up boy! You must never feel pity for your enemies, ever! They were there to get you, to kill you! If you hadn't done what you had to, you would be raped by that Lilim or offered as a sacrifice to that insane Pixie's god. Now, wake up, baka!" The Cat stated to a flinching Naruto. No matter how sorry he felt for those demon like creatures, he knew that the Cat was right. It was them or him and today he chose himself.

That made the pain and shock of killing go away a little, actually.

The Cat straightened up and climbed aboard Naruto's shoulder and spoke softly into the boy's ear.

"I haven't seen so much talent with an Axe type sword in a very long while. In fact, the only one who showed this much talent was another apprentice I had back when I was alive." The Cat stated and Naruto was startled, this cat was a ghost cat?

"You-you're a ghost?" Naruto started to freak out badly. He hated ghosts...

The Cat rolled his eyes and spoke bluntly.

"Yes, yes, I am a ghost, but the only ghost in this area that saved your life." The Cat put pressure on its legs as it prepared to jump off the boy's shoulder.

"My name is Gouto, and I am one of the famous overseers to every swordsman who took up the name "Raidou Kuzunoha". I was one of the few members of the Yatagarasu who survived the great destruction nearly a millennium ago, and instead lived my natural, and supernatural life training other potentially gifted people the way of the sword."

The Cat, Gouto, paused before continuing.

"Very few ever had the privilege of doing combat the way you did against those demons. Most of my apprentices couldn't even see the outline of any demon at all. However, you have a talent that wasn't seen since the 14th took the mantle of "Raidou". I am here to train that talent before it disappears completely from this world."

Gouto paced around the empty cave and started to look around the perimeter of the cave before nodding his head.

"This will do nicely...ok, listen up boy. I have decided for you to train that talent of yours and become the world's newest Devil Summoner. You will sleep here, eat here, and train here as I cram nearly one thousand years of Yatagarasu knowledge into your head to prepare you into becoming this world's defender!"

Naruto sputtered as he was trying to get a word in the cat's declaration of his life.

"Wa-waitaminute! I'm training to become a ninja, so that I can become the Hokage!" He finally shouted out to the planning Gouto.

The cat looked at him weirdly. A ninja?

"A ninja? A Hokage? Has civilization turned back so greatly that it became a folklore fairy tale world? There is no such thing as a real ninja, not anymore. The closest to being ninja assassins are the Tsukigata, and they died off centuries ago! These people are fallacies of ninja, with their flashy "jutsu" and large explosions of the Mag that they call Chakra!"

"I will teach you the proper way to use the power that the gods haven given you, even though you use chakra than Mag. Since its so familiar, we can use the standard lesson plans of the Nameless Shrine's training grounds to train you in your swordplay."

"How am I gonna get home?" Naruto interrupted Gouto's planning. Gouto only stared at the boy, he really wanted this "Hokage" title...

"What good will going back do you, boy? You don't seem to be well liked, given those injuries that have healed over your body." Gouto said as he was looking over Naruto's body, where his eyes could see various healed wounds and gashes through his clothing. Naruto's eyes widened and looked over his clothing and wondered how could this cat see that?

"How can you do that?" Naruto asked, freaked out by Gouto's analysis of his physical history. Gouto scoffed.

"This is basic stuff I've been doing for decades. I don't even need to use anything advanced to see that a few more hits in certain areas will leave you disabled forever. If you go back now...you may never reach your dream of Hokage." Gouto said seriously at Naruto, whose eyes widened at the declaration.

"I...you..." Naruto sputtered as his wild hair covered his eyes. He looked downward as he weighed his options. Gouto turned and continued his plans for the newest recruit.

"Good. Now, in order to train eff-" He was cut off by a fuming Naruto.

"Screw you, you alley cat!" He shouted and effectively shut the cat up. Gouto was shocked at his rebellious charge and looked over his words before getting ticked off.

"Hey! Stop calling me that! I am no alley cat!" Gouto glared at his charge and he glared back just the same.

"I don't care for anyone telling what I can't do! If I want to be Hokage, then I'll damn try my hardest! Even if I lose both my arms and legs!" Naruto shouted, his dream threatened by Gouto's sharp words.

Gouto glared harder at the boy, great! He had another idiot for an apprentice...its becoming a fad lately too.

"I have idiots for apprentices...listen up, you baka! I'm not telling you that you can't be Hokage someday, I'm telling you that if you go back now, you are at risk of being passed over of being a Hokage! I am here to teach your hard headed brain the skills, the techniques and the social skills that come with being a devil summoner! Use those skills and you'll become your Hokage dream, if not better!"

Gouto was about to continue when he felt several presences behind the boy...it looked like his improvised training ground wasn't completely empty after all...

"Boy, how big is your home?" Gouto asked of Naruto, who felt his instincts flare up.

"Its kinda big...why?" He asked, looking around and gripping his magical sword.

"We are going to your home and practicing your skills there, for now we have to retreat. We aren't alone and we are nowhere near skilled enough to beat these demons alone." Gouto answered as he could see the demons more clearly. They weren't anything stronger than your usual demons here, but they were too tough for his charge for now.

"Lets go boy, its too dangerous to fight now." Gouto said as he went toward the exit. Naruto followed soon afterwards and a few moments later, several demons were looking confusedly at their retreat. One of the demons, a blue cap wearing thing made of snow looked at its brother, a pumpkin faced demon and said only one thing.

"Hee-ho?"

X-X

Somehow, it was the work of magic. Naruto concluded as he was instantly lead back to the forests where the Hokage Monument was at. The only thing that was different was that he held a magical sword that acted like an Axe and a cat that seemed to fade through somehow.

"So this is Konoha, its sure looking a lot like Tsukigata village." the see through cat commented before perching on Naruto's shoulder. Naruto was surprised that the cat could feel just as heavy as a real live cat even though he was a ghost.

"I am in this form because there is little Mag energy in this village. No doubt because of this "chakra" dominance that is over this region. It will be a little tough, but you'll manage to be a decent fighter with time if we train here." Gouto paused as he looked in the immediate area for any demon signatures.

"Boy, you have to make sure that you practice everything I tell you with precision every day. You may go to this "Ninja Academy", but know that my teachings will make you more a ninja than any teacher there will teach you to. You will be sneaky, a professional ninja, like the days of old."

"We will rest for today. Your combat crash course today should fulfill your day's training. Rest up, for we have a full day tomorrow." Gouto said as he switched from shoulder to the top of the boy's head.

"Lead me to your home, boy. We will talk about your new path in life there." Gouto said from the top of Naruto's head.

"My name is Naruto, you alley cat! OW!" Naruto growled out as the cat scratched his head sharply.

"Don't call me ALLEY CAT!"

The hidden Anbu agent could only sweatdrop as the boy was somehow injuring himself in a cat fashion. It was almost as if he had an actual cat scratching him...

Hey there, I'm back! I've been trying to get the roadblock that is Rockman Naruto Chapter five out of the way and I'm building a new road instead. I am pleased to say that this is the first "Devil Summoner and Naruto" crossover that I've seen posted lately. I am sure this will go far, as I have the game to reference to and the multitude of demon lore that I can track down easily for story ideas.

I hope to see many reviews for the story, as there has been scant reviews for any new story these days...I swear, the only reviews I see these days are for self-inserts and OC pairings with character stories.

Well, heres hoping that I get more reviews than that OcxNaruto/Sasuke/Akatsuki/whatever pairing over there in that corner of the list.

Stamp From The FUTURE (2/01/2012): Well, here is the revised version, let me know what you think of it.

Terra Ace