~Second Chances~

A/N: Hey there my friends and welcome to another story of mine!

Now this story was inspired by 'The Uzumaki Phenex' written by ActualYagami. I have taken bits and pieces of the first chapter of The Uzumaki Phenex with the PERMISSION of ActualYagami and YagamiNguyen (which are one and the same Author).

Now while the first chapter may be similar, this is NOT an adoption of the original work of ActualYagami, the story will be vastly different and anyone who read The Uzumaki Phenex will be able to see the many differences, both large and small, already.

Next, this story is rated M for a reason. If I had the option, I would rate it MA, that means that there WILL be violence, gore and lemons in this fic. So, if you can't take that or simply don't wish to read lemons and gore, then please, don't.

I am an Adult and I wish to write Adult fiction, I will give warnings before Lemons or particularly violent and gory scenes, so that you can skip them.

With that out of the way, please enjoy and have a good time!

~Second Chances~

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Highschool DxD, all rights go to the original owners.

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Sacred Gear/Demon Talking"

"Sacred Gear/Demon Thinking"

Chapter 01: Why Always Me!?

He didn't know that death was this painful.

Some 'wise' old geezer had once told him that death was like a very long sleep, well, maybe he was stupid to believe a slightly insane geezer that was still very much alive back then, but he seemed legit and had that Guru vibe about him.

Anyways, the moment he closed his eyes, all he knew was immense pain. He almost died several times in the past, none of those experiences were pleasant at all, but they were nothing compared to what he felt now. Every cell of his body screamed in anguish, had he known that death sucked this bad, he would've gone with the Orochimaru approach and skipped the entire ordeal all together.

Naruto tried to scream, but even his throat was in too much pain for any sound to leave his lips.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity, the pain stopped; it disappeared like it had never been there in the first place and he finally felt relieve.

Naruto felt at ease.

However, even with his eyes closed, he knew something wasn't right.

A strong feeling of Natural Energy flooded his system, telling him that he was still very much alive.

He was still alive…

How?

Slowly Naruto's consciousness was returning to him and his mind kicked back into gear. His eyes twitched as he struggled to thick back on what had happened. He remembered being on his deathbed, surrounded by his children and grandchildren, telling them how proud he was and giving them his final goodbyes.

It was a beautiful moment, better than he could've ever imagined and he was dying with a smile on his face. He was ready to move on, ready to see the Great Beyond and to finally reunite with his friends and loved ones. He looked forward to finally meet his parents for real and to see his Hinata again after being separated for such a long time.

Hinata, Sasuke, Sakura and all his other friends and comrades…they all passed away years before, they all took the next step in their journey and he was eager to follow them.

To him death was nothing to be feared, it was simply a gate that all living things had to pass through. Whatever was beyond that gate, good or bad, Naruto was prepared to face it with a smile on his face.

What he did not expect on the other hand was to suddenly feel alive again.

Groaning, Naruto tried to move his fingers to test his theory. Even with his youthful strength returned to him, for some unknown reason, he still felt rather weak, sluggish even and had a hard time even flexing his muscles. He could feel that his body was placed onto something very soft, softer than the futon he had been laying on just a few minutes ago, perhaps it was a bed. Naruto slowly forced his eyelids to open, causing blurry images to appear in his vision.

It took his a few moments to blink away the sleep and clear the fogginess from his vision before everything became clear.

The first thing he saw was a ceiling with an odd, fancy design and some rather lewd paintings. Glancing around, Naruto came to the realization that he was in some very luxurious room, again with a rather strange design that he had never before seen. Even the furniture in the room, the tables, chairs and desks held odd designs, rounded corners, strangely cut lines and WAY too many golden engravings.

He was quick to realize that this wasn't his modest home in the Uzumaki compound.

Which meant that someone had taken him here.

What kind of sick people would take an old geezer from his deathbed? Better question why did his brats allow anyone to take him in the first place? Even the ever-gentle Himawari was at least at high Elite-Jonin level in skill.

Where were the ANBU that were on duty?

Oh, he would have a word with them once he figured out what the hell happened and what was going on here. But first of all he would ask his kidnappers where the heck they got the pills that made him feel young again, and right after he killed the kidnappers and bought the pills, he would push for a new law that forbade all descendants of Rock Lee and Might Guy from EVER getting their hands on those pills.

He really didn't want little Sarada to go through those kinds of headaches. By Kami, he himself barely managed to reign in Lee and his son.

Anyways, his kidnappers made the biggest and more importantly last mistake in their lives. Even as an old mummy Naruto was easily strong enough to show some whippersnappers the error of their ways!

"Riser-sama, are you awake?"

Say what now? Who's Riser? Must be a real charmer with a name like that. Pfft, Riser, even his own name was more original.

Naruto tensed as he suddenly felt a pair of dainty and soft hands touch his body, one on his chest and another on his head.

Slowly he opened his eyes and looked towards the person that spoke, who was standing beside the bed looking at him with worry clear in her eyes.

The woman was young and very beautiful, long wavy purple hair that fell all the way down her back and matching deep purple eyes. The right side of her fringe fell over her shoulder and covered her right eye behind a veil of silken tresses, while the left fell all the was down to the top of her skirt. Her attire was a dress consisting of a navy-blue tunica top with golden accents and a pale blue skirt that had an open cut at the sides, and black shoes over matching thig-high stockings that had garter belts strapped tightly around them. The top of her outfit revealed a generous amount of her cleavage, which honestly wasn't the most impressive he had ever seen, Tsunade and Hinata came to mind, but it was still a sight to behold. She had a golden choker with blue and red jewels around her neck and a black headband with a reddish-orange jewel in the center over her forehead to keep her long hair in place.

There was a second girl standing behind her. Another well-endowed young woman with shoulder-length black hair and bluish-green eyes. Her hair was in two buns, not unlike Tenten's, while the front had several messy strands combed into a slight V-shape across her forehead. Her outfit was a blue qipao with golden accents, a white sash around her stomach and black low-heeled shoes. The qipao was open around the chest area, giving view to her large breasts and cleavage, and she wore black arm guards over her forearms.

Naruto could only wonder who these girls were? Were they the ones that orchestrated all of this? No, that could not be, not with the look both girls had in their eyes. It was a look that Naruto remembered seeing in the eyes of Hinata whenever she was worried about him, the look of a woman being worried for her husband or lover.

Just who were these girls and why did they give him that look? He had never seen them before, he was sure that he would've remembered, neither of the two looked exactly ordinary.

Just what the hell was going on?

And what was up with their clothes?

"What…happened?" He couldn't help but ask that question.

"You had Phoenix Flu, Riser-sama. You collapsed in the middle of a ball and fainted." The purple haired girl said quietly, almost meekly, while taking back her hands. "But the doctors said that you would be fine."

'Again, who the heck is Riser?' "Phoenix Flu?" He asked while keeping his curiosity about the name in check.

"Yes," she nodded her head before turning back towards the second girl. "Xuelan, can you inform the doctor that he woke up?"

"Of course, Yubelluna." The girl-Xuelan-nodded, curtsied towards Naruto and hurriedly walked out of the room, leaving the two of them alone.

After the door was closed, the purple haired young woman-Yubelluna-turned back towards Naruto and saw him struggling to sit up. She immediately put a hand under his head and another onto his stomach to support his body before gently helping him up. She grabbed a large pillow and placed it behind his back in order for him to sit comfortably while resting his head on the backboard of the bed.

"There you go." She smiled gently before handing Naruto a cup of water, carefully placing it against his lips. "Here, drink Riser-sama." By now Naruto had realized that the girl addressed him as this 'Riser', for what reason though he had yet to find out. But for now, he ignored it, the glass of water was more important, besides, life as a Shinobi made a person ready to accept any name as long as said name fulfilled a purpose.

"T-thanks…." He rasped out, ignoring the surprised expression on Yubelluna's face and took a sip of water. After tasting the water and ensuring that it was clean, he began to drink in big gulps, even if there was poison in the liquid, the healing factor of Kurama would have it flushed out of his system in mere moments.

Still, this entire situation was getting weirder and freakier by the second.

After finishing the cup, Naruto gave the woman a gratitude filled smile, which she returned before she took the glass away from his and turned to place it on a bedside table.

However, as soon was she turned back to him, Naruto shot up and grabbed a hold of her, throwing his whole bodyweight at the busty woman before using his knee to push her down and keep her on the floor. It happened so quickly that it left the woman reeling, one second she was standing, the next she found herself on the floor, trapped and held in place, unable to move an inch.

"R-Riser-sama…what…!?" She tried to speak, to formulate words but found that she couldn't because Naruto ground his knee into her ribcage, pushing all air out of her lungs. She couldn't understand. She was the woman that he adored, the woman that he showered with praise, and now…

"Okay, enough with the bullshit!" Naruto snarled, raising his left arm while the right held her down. He could feel Kurama's presence inside his body even though the fox was abnormally quiet for some reason. "Who are you, where are we and how did I get here?" He questioned, balling his hand into a fist. He knew that he was unarmed, he had been at his home and the chances that his kidnappers had armed him was rather low, but he didn't need any weapon to kill this girl should she give him ample reason to do so.

"W-What…what are you talking about?" Yubelluna stuttered out, her eyes wide and fearful and Naruto knew that she was scared shitless. "It's me…Yubelluna…your s-servant…and you are at h-home, in your room, you have been here for the last three w-weeks…ever since you fell ill and went into c-coma…"

Naruto paused and looked at the girl, she wasn't lying. He was the Hokage for almost five decades, he had tortured people and watched them break, he had gotten the truth out of every enemy that was unlucky enough to end up in the care of the T&I division, he had become very good at discerning truth from lie.

"Where exactly am I?" His voice was hard and to make a point he called on Kurama's potent chakra, covering his left fist with a cloak of pure golden chakra. "Answer me and don't you dare lying, I will know it if you do."

"Y-Your family's estate…the Phenex Manor…" Naruto's eyes widened at her answer.

"What are you saying?" Naruto asked, "my home is the Uzu…" He cut himself off as his nose caught the distinctive sent of something burning.

…the sleeve of his shirt was on fire.

Actually, his entire right arm was on fire.

"What the hell!?" Naruto shot up and tried to put out the flames that ate away at his clothing, however, the more he tried the hotter the flames became. "What is going on!?" He shouted as he literally lost his cool.

"Riser-sama! Please calm down!" Yubelluna called out to him as she quickly scampered to her feet. "Those are the Phenex Flames, they react to emotional out- "

"NO! Say away! Don't come any closer!" He cried and, in a panic, stormed out of the room.

As he reached the outside of the room, he came to screeching halt, unable to process what he was seeing. Other than the fact that he stood in the most luxurious hallway that he ever saw in his life; Naruto couldn't believe what he saw as he stared out the window in front of him.

The sky was fucking purple!

Naruto looked down at his hands and finally realized that they were smaller than he remembered. He reached up to his face and moved his fingers over his cheeks, ignoring the flames that still flickered around his left arm. He found no wrinkles on his face, no blemishes, not even his whiskers or the stubbles of a beard, nothing but the smooth skin of a young man. His body, even though it was nowhere near how he remembered, was well-toned and muscular. From what he could tell, he must've been in his late teens…

He was young once again.

This information hit him like a ton of bricks. He was too shocked to speak.

His mind became woozy and the edge of his vision bled black.

He fainted on the spot.

"He seems to be fine." A black-haired man wearing a lab coat said while moving a small flashlight in front of Naruto's eyes, checking his pupils.

Naruto was lying in his bed, how he got here he didn't know-as if that was a new thing-only this time there were too many people around for him to try another escape attempt.

Yubelluna and Xuelan were standing side by side, looking at him with worry in their eyes.

They were standing behind a middle-aged looking man who had neatly cut blond hair, a trim goatee around his mouth, dressed in a finely crafted blue and white Victorian-Era suit and tie with matching silver-black shoes. He had a small reddish cloak/cape draped over his left shoulder, and in his right hand was a silver walking cane with a statue of a bird positioned at the pommel of it.

Next to the man was a beautiful and elegant looking woman, this woman honestly put any other he ever saw to shame. Hinata, Sakura, Tsunade and all other Kunoichi he ever met didn't even come close to the otherworldly beauty and grace that this woman excluded.

She had a face that looked to be crafted out of marble, mesmerizing electric blue eyes and golden-blonde hair that was tied into curls. She was dressed in an exquisite blue gown that was shaped to resemble a bell(?), Naruto never saw anything like it, that had a U-Shaped neckline that exposed a generous amount of her cleavage.

"I don't think that there are any problems with your son." The doctor spoke after he finished his assessment.

"Riser, how do you feel?" The blond woman spoke in a sweet motherly tone.

"Uh…fine…I guess." He answered, unsure of what to say. This woman was looking at him like a mother would look at her son. But he wasn't her son, he had no idea how he got into this situation. One second he was dying and halfway to the afterlife, the next second he was in unbelievable agony, and then he woke up here, in a strange and unfamiliar place, filled with people he had never met.

And to top it all off, everyone kept calling him RISER! Oh, and apparently, he was in hell…life just always had to find a way to really fuck him over.

Really, it was just another day in the life of Uzumaki Naruto.

"Phoenix Flu is a very rare disease nowadays, the last recorded case happened during the Great War. We still have no knowledge about to side-effects this particular flu can cause, but since Riser-sama was badly affected, I think some memory losses are certainly within the realm of possibility." The doctor explained. "For now, I think that Riser-sama should rest for a few days more, then he should be able to start with his daily activities again. I will leave you with some medications for him."

"I see, thank you, Dr. Sitri." The blonde woman-his apparent mother-smiled at the doctor.

"Anything for the Phenex Household, Lady Phenex." The doctor inclined his head before he left the room.

After the doctor was gone, everyone's attention returned to Naruto, who decided to act anxious, nervous and frightened.

Not really far from what he really felt like at the moment.

He had no idea about what he should do. Should he tell them the truth? Should he tell them that he was an old geezer that somehow took over the body of this Riser Phenex?

No, he doubted that they would believe him. He himself wouldn't have believed it if his own children told him something like that.

For now, the doctor's words turned this situation into his favor, he only needed to act like a clueless klutz, not all that hard. And all the while he could gather information and maybe, just maybe he could figure out what the hell he got himself into…this time.

But one thing was sure, until he figured out how to reverse whatever happened, he was no longer Naruto Uzumaki, son of Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki, the Hero of the Fourth Shinobi War and the Nanadaime Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato, no…

He was Riser Phenex.

'God damnit*ACK*Okay what in the name of God-FUCK! -what's going on!?"

The beautiful woman standing next to Naruto's bed seemed to take notice of his confusion and decided to speak up.

"Riser, tell me, do you remember us at all?" She asked gently, her tone loving and calm.

Naruto looked at her, seeing the downtrodden expression on her face made it almost unbearable to give an answer, still, reluctantly he shook his head. That simple act caused the faces of everyone in the room to fall.

"I see…" The woman sighed sadly before she perked up and willed a small, sad, smile to appear on her beautiful face. "Then perhaps proper introductions are in order. I am the Lady Rachel Phenex, matriarch of House Phenex, your mother." She said with a kind smile.

Somehow that smile made Naruto feel warm-No! -No, he couldn't think like that, he didn't belong here, he belonged in the afterlife, this was nothing permanent, he would find a way to make this situation right.

"Your mother is right." The blonde man spoke up, an easygoing smile playing on his lips. "Greetings, I am Lord Raphael Phenex, your father."

"I am Yubelluna, your [Queen]. You will come to know me under the moniker 'The Bomb Queen'." The busty woman with purple hair and matching eyes, spoke proudly while bowing towards him.

"My name is Xuelan, I am your [Rook], Riser-sama." The qipao wearing girl said with a beaming smile on her face. "You have other servants but most of them are absent due to some contracts."

"I don't…I don't understand...? Queen? Rook? Servants?" Naruto repeated the words perplexed.

"Ah yes, I can see why you would be confused, son." Raphael spoke up with a light chuckle. "Let's start from the beginning, shall we? First of all, your name is Riser Phenex, third son of our House, yes, that means that you have siblings, three in fact. Two elder brothers by the names of Ruval Phenex and Richard Vapula, and one younger sister named Ravel Phenex, who is also your [Bishop]."

Raphael gave his son some time to properly work through the information he had given him before he continued.

"Now as for the terms 'Queen', 'Rook', and 'Bishop' they are tied together with your heritage. You see, my son, we are Devils." Raphael stated ominously, secretly taking pleasure in playing with his helpless son for a bit.

Naruto's eyes widened and his body tensed. "Devils? As in…"

"The Biblical kind." Rachel stated with a small smirk of her full lips.

Not what Naruto wanted to ask but as a pair of golden bat-like wings emerged from his mother's back, and then from the back of her husband all thought kinda left his mind.

He gasped as he saw the wings. But then Yubelluna and Xuelan also revealed that they had bat-like wings, theirs being black in color.

"Then…does that mean…" Naruto stuttered, his mind trying and failing to process the overload of information he had been given.

"Yes." Rachel said as she approached Riser and placed a hand on his shoulder. A small surge of energy passed through him, causing his own wings to explode out of his back.

"WHAT?!" he gasped as he stared at the wings-his wings-in shock. "What the…I don't under… how…? This is crazy! But I'm… you really are…" he babbled, and he didn't even play this part, it had been one hell of a long time since he had been caught completely left-sided.

"Yes, we are. But we are probably not what you think." Rachel said calmly.

"You're-we're-not? But…but…we're devils, I thought devils were…"

"Embodiments of Evil? Vessels of Vice and Villainy? Incarnations of Cruelty?" Raphael cut his blabbering son off with a smirk.

"All of the above and then some, yes." Naruto/Riser stated.

"I can understand why you would think that, son. However, that is not entirely true. We are not so different from humans. We are greedy, cunning, prideful, we can get angry and wrathful, we do kill, we indulge in every sin and vice that exists and do so with pleasure. We desire power, wealth and control over others. Our morals and ethics are much looser than those of Humans, they are pretty much nonexistent. But there are some things that even we won't do." Raphael started simply, as if he gave a weather report.

"Such as?" Naruto groaned out while rubbing his face with his hands, why did he always find himself in situations like this?

"Well…" Naruto groaned loudly as he saw that his mother had to wrack her brain to find an answer. "We don't drink the blood of our enemies from their skulls, or goblets made of gold, if that's what you mean. Actually, we don't drink blood at all, it's far too unhygienic and yucky!" Naruto could only give her a 'are you kidding me' look that made her blush slightly before she hurriedly continued. "We don't eat babies! And we are not the nightmarish monsters that humans make us out to be. There are some who are like that, but not all of us are pure and unadulterated evil. We usually love our children, and we always keep our end of any deals that we make with humans."

"Deals?" Naruto asked.

"Yes. Humans desire much in their lives but lack the power to simply take what they want. Anything that they cannot achieve or get on their own means, they ask us for. And in exchange for any services rendered, they give us something of value in return." Raphael elaborated.

"I see…" Well it could have been worst. "Now what was that whole thing about me having servants?" He asked.

"To understand that Riser, you need to first understand how we Devils reincarnate humans and other beings into devils." Rachel began, secretly thankful for the change of topic, the finer details of Devildom could be explained to Riser at a later date. "When the Great War ended-do not worry Riser, you will be told all about the Great War and the following Civil War at a later date-our forces were severely depleted. Our original leaders, the original Four Great Satan's, were dead. We were leaderless and had to figure out a way to keep our society from being destroyed. One of the new leaders of the Underworld, Ajuka Beelzebub, created the Evil Piece System which enabled us to change the genetic code of beings of other races and gave us the opportunity to bolster our own forces." Rachel explained.

"Evil pieces…?" Naruto tried the name, letting it roll over his tongue. He kept attentive and tried to get as much information out of this as possible.

"Yes, Riser-kun, the Evil Piece System is based on the chess game." Seeing Riser's confusion, Rachel elaborated. "Chess is a popular strategy game in which two players face off against one another. Each player is given 16 Pieces, one side white the other black, the game is decided once one player managed to corner and beat the other's 'King'. A rather crude description but it should suffice for now, once again, if you want to know more, it will be explained to you at length at a later time."

Naruto nodded in understanding.

"The 15 Pieces: One Queen, two Knights, two Rooks, two Bishops, and eight Pawns make up the Evil Piece Set, and each Piece has their own unique powers and abilities." Rachel explained. "Each High-class or 'Noble Born' devil receives his or her own Evil Piece set on their twelve birthday, allowing them to create a group of servants known as a Peerage."

"The High-Class Devil or King rules over them all, the Queen protects the King as it's the most valuable piece, and the others serve the King to the best of their abilities." Naruto/Riser surmised.

"Bingo son." Raphael said while giving Naruto/Riser a thumps' up. "With this system, we can successfully rebuild our forces while bringing different beings into our race that will help us increase our societies overall strength."

"Beings that can be integrated into the different bloodlines that we probably already have; leading to either an enhanced bloodline or a completely new one." Naruto stated with practiced ease, who would've guessed that the gritty interclan politics of Konoha would ever be useful?

"Yes, that's right." Rachel said with a smile, she was happy that her son was making such conclusions himself without anyone else having to state the obvious. She even had that feeling that he seemed to be a tad bit smarter than he was before he fell into a coma.

Then again, before he fell into a coma, Riser's most prominent trait was his arrogance, so much so that he never really showed any other side of himself.

She suddenly clapped her hand together and smiled at Naruto/Riser, "well, I think that this discussion has been long enough, and you need your rest, Riser-kun. I know that you still have questions, and everything will be explained to you, but for now, just sleep some more, alright?"

Naruto nodded, and after saying their goodbyes, everyone left his room.

Allowing Naruto to think about the many revelations he just experienced. He was a Devil now, while he never heard of a Bible before, he supposed that it was some form of religion or possibly some religious parchment or writing.

The whole Evil Piece System too was something that he wasn't quite comfortable with, but he decided to withhold his final judgment until he learned everything that was to learn about it.

But sadly, this entire conversation he just had didn't really help him in finding out just how he ended up in control of the body of Riser Phenex. Could it have been Divine intervention? If there were devils in this world, surely there must've been Gods as well? But what would any God gain by orchestrating this?

Could it have been reincarnation? He knew that he, or rather Naruto Uzumaki, was the reincarnation of Ashura Ootsutsuki and Hashirama Senju, just as Sasuke Uchiha was the reincarnation of Indira Ootsutsuki and Madara Uchiha. Could this be something similar? Could the Phenex Flu that Riser experienced somehow have been the cause for him to tap into memories that he normally never should've been able to access? If that was the case, then was there anything that Naruto could do about this situation?

Or was this a similar case to the Infinite Tsukuyomi? Could this all be nothing more than a weird feverish dream? No, that was unlikely, even the Tsukuyomi had some relation to the Shinobi World, if this was the Infinite Tsukuyomi, he would still be in Konoha, living his dream in a perfect world…

Parallel Universes?

A rift in the Space/Time continuum?

Multiverse Theory? Was this nothing more than a different version of what he could've been had his life been fundamentally different?

'I need more information if I am to somehow find out the cause for me being here.' Naruto concluded.

With a sigh he laid back and sunk into the soft mattress of his bed, he would get to the bottom of this, and if he was here due to outward interference, he would make the culprit pay.

If not…if not, then he would endure, for he was a Shinobi, no matter what.

Believe it.

~Second Chances~

A/N: Welp, that was the first chapter of Second Chances, I hope you enjoyed it!

Now I am aware that this chapter was not really all that different from ActualYagami's work, still I hope that you bear with me.

The most notable changes that I've made is that I kept the name Riser, so yes in this fic Naruto took over Riser's body and the characters of DxD will address him as Riser.

At the core of it all, this is supposed to be a story in which Naruto takes over a DxD villains' body, and to then play with the ideas of how that would affect the plot.

And then there is the fact that I've kept Naruto absolutely oblivious as to how he ended up in Riser's body in the first place. This will be a little secret that I'm gonna keep to myself for a while, Naruto will guess and stumble in the dark for a bit, but it won't truly have any large ramifications to the overall plot.

Now with that out of the way, if you still fell interested in the story, then I welcome you, if not then I'm sorry that this wasn't for you.

Have a good time, I wish you all the best!

R&R

-Just4fun23000