AN: Well, here I am with a new story even though I still have most of the chapter for my other story Crimson Reaper... to write. But this idea really gripped me and wouldn't let go until I had finished writing this. I don't know how far I can take this alongside my other fic considering my irregular update schedule but we'll see... And I guess High School DxD is getting pretty popular lately.
Hidden location, America, Local time: 9:35 pm
In a lightly lit room a single person, that was wearing a white coat, sat in front of various monitors observing them while drinking from a steaming cup of coffee. He was a close to middle aged but still a young man with pale skin, short black hair and stubbles on his face.
The many monitors showed a myriad of different things. Some showed the vitals of a single person, which indicated that the person in question was quite healthy if asleep, other showed a single spacious room with a large tank in the centre a control panel at the side.
Inside this tank was a naked teenager with golden blond hair that was kept down from being wet, his eyes closed, a mask hooked to his face so that his lungs did not fill with the blue greenish liquid that filled the tank.
Suddenly the door to the room opened with a whirr of the air, as a second white coated person entered the observation room.
"Is he still asleep, Victor?" the person that had entered the room asked, referring to the boy in the tank
"I'm afraid so, Marcus." Victor answered with sigh of disappointment
"But is he ready soon? The UN is getting impatient... they want to see the results of our research."
"I know, I know." Victor responded and with a few clicks called the 3-D model of a complex chemical compound on one of the monitors up"The tank is currently filled with formula Z-51810 codenamed Omega. Once his body has finished adapting to this compound he should be ready for a field test."
"So what's this supposed to do? You know I am not that good with your biochemistry stuff." Marcus reminded his co-worker
"Oh yeah... I keep forgetting you are the engineer and I am dealing with this alone." Victor remembered "Well, this compound in conjunction with the others we made his body come in contact with... he will rise beyond the limits of a normal human body. He will be capable of lifting many times the weight of the perfect weightlifter. Faster than the fastest runner. More durable, agile and with better reflexes than any human will ever have. He will be the prototype that will usher a new age of humanity."
"Hahaha, well said." Marcus chimed in with a smile on his lips "The newest anti-devil weaponry is already finished. Now we need to find out what those angels are vulnerable to to optimize the weapons even further. And then should the need ever arise humanity will be able to defend itself."
Victor nodded in agreement and spoke the slogan of their organization"For humanity!"
"For humanity!" Marcus intoned and as they said that the monitors indicated that the test subject was waking up. The two workers rushed from their seats and into the room that held the tank.
The blond stirred inside his tank opening his sapphire blue eyes, taking in his familiar environment having already been inside this contraption many times previously.
Victor entered the combination to drain the tank of the liquid and followed it by having the glass slide away. The blonde dropped to his knees weakened, as the scientists gave him a towel to dry himself.
"How are you feeling, Naruto?" Marcus asked the test subject
"As well as can be expected." the blonde, Naruto, responded with a slight rasp to his voice "No matter how often I am inside that thing I'll never get used to it."
"Don't worry then. This was the last time." Victor assured the young teenager and the three went into an examination room, having the blonde drink something against his raspy throat.
Suddenly the large screen inside of the room lit up a shadowed form in the centre of it.
"Is the test subject ready?" the form asked, its voice scrambled as to be unrecognisable
"Yes, he just underwent the final treatment. Tomorrow you can make certain of our success in the matter."
"Very good. We will be visiting the facility at 1500 tomorrow. Have him be ready until then."
Victor and Marcus were the heads of their respective departments in this operation and the only one who usually worked this late, in fact they even preferred to do so in (mostly) solitude.
Their organization used the slogan "For humanity" because they strived to protect humanity from devils, angels and any other beast of myth.
Almost twenty years ago the two friends, at that time avid party goers, went to a party of a mutual friend of theirs, however a grotesque creature had appeared towards the end of the night.
It was a large hunchbacked monster, muscles larger than any humanoid in fact it's arms were so muscled and big that they were dragging on the ground and its steps shook the ground of the building. Despite the things appearance however it didn't behave like a wild beast. It was capable of speech, forming coherent thoughts and sentences.
This beast indiscriminately slaughtered everyone present, some people that had knives and guns tried to fight it off but it was futile. The knives some people tried to stab it with or threw at it were completely ineffective. Creating little more than scratches that sealed up relatively fast.
Only the two had survived because they shook of their panic and made a run for it. Instead of being frozen in fear or trying to fight it.
That was an experience that shook the two man of rationality to the core. Such a beast should be unfathomable. There was nothing documented on earth that was anything like it.
Even deeming it to be something natural was preposterous so the only conclusion they came to was that it had to be something supernatural, as much as their own intellect struggled to accept that conclusion.
From then they had spent many years trying to prove the existence of these supernatural beings to receive the funds from the UN so that there may be a way for humanity to defend itself.
As was to be expected when they first put forth the notion of such beings existing they were laughed at by the scientific community.
So they first dug deeper into the matter. Surrounding themselves in books on the occult even going so far as to dig for the rarer texts and trying to get any information out of the church who were unusually tight lipped on the matter.
In the end they had managed to capture the fight between a winged creature and one with bat wings through Marcus ingenuity as he built a whole slew of tiny almost unnoticeable remote spy cameras.
After managing to prove that the footage had not been tampered with and that there were no CGI effects and what not. The UN had declared this to be a secret of the highest security level and made the funds available for them to spearhead a project into the research that would be able to defend humanity from these beings.
That had been sixteen years ago.
A year later they had someone infiltrate the catholic church as to steal the sensitive information they tried to hide.
The informant told them that the church had known about angels and devils for a long time already and had even been given the knowledge on creating appropriate weaponry to combat the devils by the angels.
They had managed to steal the blueprints on how to create light guns and swords.
After Marcus had created the first batch of the weaponry they had a team of trained soldiers equipped with these weapons hunt one of these beasts down. While the weapons were indeed effective, the soldiers proved to be less so. While the devil did die in the end it had cost the life's of more than a dozen men to even kill one of them and from the information they stole from the church that these so called "stray"-devils, which were devils that had killed or otherwise forsaken their master, were more often than not on the bottom end of the ladder in terms of power.
Of course there had been the possibility of recruiting humans in possession of a sacred gear, but these people were not only rare, but the chance of it being a combat orientated one was slim as well. The sacred gears had been created by the biblical god and granted at random to humans to be miracle workers.
So after this first failure they decided to create a super-soldier that could keep up with the enhanced physical abilities of the supernatural creatures.
They tested many orphans on their abilities in various fields and their personality and in the end a small five year old blond boy from Japan with the name Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto had been declared the perfect test subject and he consented to be part of the program, after having lost both his parents to these creatures.
Shaken from his thoughts Victor spoke to the blonde "Get some rest you'll be showcasing your abilities tomorrow to the higher-ups."
Naruto nodded and went to his room laying down on his bed.
For some reason he thought back to that fateful day on his fifth birthday twelve years ago.
-Flashback-
October 10th twelve years ago, Kyoto, Japan
The young Naruto had, in celebration of his birthday, been taken out for his favourite food, ramen. They had visited the small stand of the family Ichiraku with whom Naruto and his parents, Kushina and Minato, were good friends with.
Naruto liked talking to the young daughter of Teuchi, Ayame. She was twice as old as he was, but she was always very nice to him. That was why he called her Ayame-neechan.
As a present they had even made him a special ramen with all his favourite ingredients.
In Naruto's opinion this day couldn't get any better.
Soon the three arrived at their house only to see the door broken down.
"Do you think there might be burglars." Kushina asked her husband with concern in her voice
"I don't know... only one way to find out I guess." Minato muttered back focused on the devastated entrance"Keep Naruto close to you."
The small blond clung frightened to his mother whose embrace calmed him slightly.
As they walked further into the house they noticed that everything else was completely tidy, nothing to suggest a breaking and entering of any kind, however there was soft sobbing coming from further back in the house.
Thinking someone was hurt Minato quickened his pace intent on helping that person.
Once they entered the living room in the centre of it knelt a small girl, blood pouring from a wound on her stomach.
"What happened?" Minato asked full of concern as he rushed to the downed girl, who he noted was just a bit bigger than Naruto was"Quick Kushina, call an ambulance." he urged his wife as he tried to administer first aid. His eyes suddenly widened in shock, as his body was split in half.
A long slimy tongue had cut through the older blonds body like a knife through butter.
The young girl now giggled devilishly, making disgusting slurping noises as she licked the blood from the separated halves.
"Ahhhhh, delicious human blood." she stated in a voice that was far too deep for such a young girl or any girl for that matter"This will nourish me well to recover from the wounds that damn angel inflicted upon me." She then eyed the red haired mother and young Naruto grinning in anticipation" More delicacies..."
The young blond shook in his mothers arms as finally the shock left him"Nooooo, daddy!" he screamed in despair, tear streaming down his face as he stared in shock at his fathers lifeless halves lying, blood spilling, on the floor.
'I need to get Naruto to safety.' Kushina thought alarmed and ran out of the living room.
The long tongue suddenly shot towards her"Oh no you aren't getting away." the creature exclaimed and from her peripheral vision she could see that the offending body part would catch her if she continued straight ahead. Her only bet was heading upstairs and hiding Naruto in one of the closets and then sacrificing herself to lure that thing away.
The young mother made a quick turn and run the stairs up, the tongue unable to follow her there.
The stray devil scoffed" Tch now I actually have to move." the devil grunted in exertion as it stood up. The wounds were only slowly healing, having been inflicted by light.
Upstairs in Kushina pushed her son into one of the closets"Stay in there and only come out when you can't hear either me or that monster, okay?" she asked the shaking boy, who could only nod in response.
Kushina closed the closet behind her and walked away from it, as the devil came closer and closer, the slurping of the tongue only growing louder.
"Soon I will have caught you and your spawn and then I will feast on your flesh and bones." the monstrous girl declared
"Only over my dead body." the red headed woman declared and tensed her body to surprise the thing as it came around the corner, to rush past it and downstairs and away from the house
Just as the devil was about to stand at the entrance to the room a second masculine voice chimed in"I finally found you vile fiend." the voice sounding positively annoyed"Thought you could escape from me by hiding inside this human house? Well I'll show you how wrong you were..."
Suddenly the only thing Kushina could hear was the pained screams of the monster in addition to the sound of something, like a weapon penetrating flesh.
Suddenly the corpse keeled over in front of the door, bleeding on the floor.
'Is it over...?' Kushina wanted to know feeling exhausted both mentally and physically
In that moment the owner of the second voice entered the room. It was a young man, around Minato's age. He was wearing a black coat that was splattered with some of the monsters blood. He had some stubbles on his face and short black hair that was parted in the middle.
However what truly stood out about him was the black pair of wings on his back.
The man scanned the room and his gaze fell upon Kushina.
"What a beautiful woman you are." he commented and the red haired woman felt dirty being complimented by this man" How about I claim a little reward for rescuing you?" he asked with a lust filled grin" I'm sure your dead husband wont mind."
The fallen angel grabbed her arm and the young mother not wanting to be raped lashed out at the angel striking his face.
Kushina had felt like she struck something very solid and the man frowned at her, nursing his cheek despite having left no mark.
The fallen angel now growled in anger"You, ungrateful human wench, have the audacity to hit me, a being that is superior to you in every way?!" he spat out in rage and a white lance of something formed in his hand"Learn your place you worthless piece of garbage." he stabbed once, twice, thrice... until the corpse of the once beautiful woman looked like swiss cheese.
With his anger sated the fallen angel disappeared once again. Leaving the blonde all alone, having just witnessed the brutal murder of both his parents.
Naruto sobbed and cried until his voice was hoarse, his eyes empty of tears and bloodshot red.
In the following investigation his parents death had been chalked up to some sort of demented psychopath.
When Naruto had tried to tell the authorities what had really happened he had been declared traumatized by the events and been given pills to deal with that.
Nobody had believed him until Marcus and Victor had come along or rather a representative of his organization that invited in orphans, whose parents had died under mysterious circumstances, for the testing of his super-soldier program.
-Flashback end-
The day he had been told that he was chosen for this program, that day he remembered just as vividly as the day his parents had died.
-Flashback-
America, Organization Headquarters
Naruto had just been told to enter the next examination room. He sat down in front of the two men, both of whom had a few sheets of paper in front of them on which Naruto could read his name.
"So, Naruto-kun. That's how you would be called back in Japan right?" Victor said in a russian accented japanese, unused to the different honorifics the japanese liked to use
The small boy nodded his head.
"Alright then, Naruto-kun. Do you know why we invited you and all those other kids?"
The blonde shook his head, no he didn't.
"It has something to do with what you witnessed. You see in this world, contrary to popular belief there exists the world of the supernatural. Angels, Devils, Dragons and any creature of myth you can imagine. And your parents just like the ones of all the other kids have been killed by one or more creatures of that world."
Naruto could not believe it, this had to be a prank. Nobody had believed him before when he had said his mother had been killed by an angel or his father by some monster with a long tongue.
"Y-you really believe me?" he choked out in astonishment
"Yes, we do." Marcus answered the boy "Do you know why we do?"
In some paranoid part of the blond he thought they might reveal themselves to belong to that group as well and kill him now, but he discarded that irrational fear and just shook his head.
"Because we were victims of such an attack as well and we lost quite a few friends to that. And we don't like that we humans are so powerless when we come face to face with such beings." Marcus explained to the young boy
"So we founded this organization to elevate humanity to a new level where, should we come face to face with devils, angels or any other such creature, should we be drawn into a fight or even war with them, we aren't helpless and have to fear that all of humanity could be eradicated at a whim." Marcus continued with the explanation"So if we you were to help us you'd be the first human that could evenly confront these beings on a physical level. What would you do with that power?"
Naruto scrunched his face up in thought before looking at the two men"I-I guess I'd help other people. My daddy told me that helping others is better than just helping yourself."
Once the two men had heard that explanation they looked at each other and nodded.
"That's a good reason, Naruto-kun." Victor answered"You see we aren't looking for someone who'd just mindlessly seek revenge and kill all devils and angels. We humans are already too conflicted on our own. We just want to protect ourselves as best as we can, to be equal and as little as we know about these there may actually be decent devils and angels just as there are humans who are good there are those who are bad and amongst these beings that might not be any different. If in the end we could peacefully co-exist with these beings then that would be even better than eradicating them all."
"That is why you have just passed this final selection exam." Marcus stated smiling softly at the blond
-Flashback end-
From that day on he had been taught how to read, write and much more. Essentially he had been given a high quality education both on a knowledge basis as well as on a physical one, so that he knew how to fight, hand-to-hand combat, weapon handling both firearms as well as most close combat weapons, like staffs, swords, knives.
And every few weeks sometimes even a month in between he had to spent between a few days and a week inside that tank as it was filled with various body enhancing compounds.
Those days, weeks and years of his training breezed by very fast.
Naruto ended his trip down the memory lane and stared at the clock in his room which read 2:16 pm.
"I guess I've been thinking pretty hard then." the blonde mused in slight amusement and closed his eyes falling asleep.
One day later, local time: 3:00 pm
Naruto was dressed in a black pants and shoes. His upper body was clad in a white t-shirt with a crimson zip-up jacket which was left unzipped.
To his sides stood both Marcus and Victor in their lab coats and opposite of them stood the representatives of various nations of the UN.
Amongst them Japan, the United States of America, Germany and Russia just to name a few.
"So this is him?" the russian representative asked"The result of all our money and efforts?"
Victor nodded "Yes." he answered curtly"Now if you would follow us to the test range."
The man in the white coat lead the way and everyone followed him.
Soon they were in front of a large block of some sort of bluish white metal.
"This is a block of lead. Total weight estimated around fifteen tons." the russian biochemist elaborated"The most weight raised by a human being was a little over two point eight tons back in the nineteen fifties. Naruto will now demonstrate the ability to lift five times that amount."
The scientist gestured to the blond who gripped the block of lead and lifted it almost effortlessly, raising it above his head and holding it there fore quite some time before setting it down again, causing murmurs amongst the representatives.
"Next he will showcase the amount of force unleashed with a punch, using that same block as reference." Victor stated and motioned for the blond to punch the block
Naruto breathed in and threw a punch towards the block, with small sound that confirmed the hit the blonde had caused an indentation in the lead.
After these feats of strength the two founders led everyone to a small track field with a 400 meter race track.
"Next Naruto will demonstrate his speed and endurance to us. For reference the world record for the fastest speed a human has run was set by the jamaican Usain Bolt. He ran close to 45 km per hour."
Naruto received the signal and started sprinting around the field. He completed his first lap in a little more than five seconds. After Ten rounds he was given the signal to stop.
The blonde showed no signs of fatigue from the sprinting and could likely go at that pace for hours on end without visibly tiring.
Following that the blonde super humans endurance was tested. He was hit with thick wooden bats that broke on impact without the teenager even flinching.
His reflexes proved to be exceptional as well as he dodged multiple shots fired at him from close range.
The representatives conversed with one another after the display of the blonds abilities.
The american one cleared his throat getting their attention "That was indeed an impressive performance. You have shown us that our fund were very well invested in your research." the representative began and they could sense a but coming" But we need to see how young Naruto deals in a live combat situation against one of these...things."
"That is why as a true test to your abilities we have decided on a task for you to deal with." the german representative informed them"In Germany there have been reports of multiple people disappearing mysteriously all around the same area, we believe that a being of supernatural origin is involved. We want you to find and confront the beast and kill it before it kills more of innocent people. You will be travelling in one hour."
"Yes, sir." Naruto responded accepting his first test in dealing with a living preternatural being
Half an hour later
Naruto was currently equipping himself, although it wasn't much. While he first thought about taking a kevlar vest he doubted it would grant him any serious protection against claws and fangs, so all he did take in the end were weapons.
One was a small hilt for a combat knife with a light edge and a gun that shot light bullets.
All Marcus gave him though was a model based on a nine millimetre gun.
The blonde weighed the weapon in his hand and it felt pretty light to him at least compared to the usual nine millimetre guns he had handled during his training.
"Wouldn't a higher calibre gun be more effective?" the blonde inquired of the engineer
Marcus simply shook his head"I thought so too. The first guns I had created were based on M16 models, but since the power of these bullets isn't dependant on the model of the gun or the length of the bullet I went for something much handier." he explained
"How do these light-weapons work anyway?" the blonde wanted to know" You never explained that."
"Well the ones the church uses have a magic array sitting on the inside of the weapon that takes gather, mould and hold the photons in the shape of the weapon they are supposed to take. That array is activated by a short infusion of the users magic. In the case of the gun that small amount of magic is used for each shot, whereas for a close combat weapon the array takes the ambient energy to keep it fueled. Of course since so few people have the ability to use magic that method is unviable for our use. In our case I have, after someone down in the IT department wrote a decryption program, changed the array in such a way that it switched the power source from magic to electricity. That's why those two weapons run on an internal battery. However I still haven't worked out one kink. The array burns out after one full usage of the weapon. So there is no reloading. That means for you that you should use them sparingly as the amount of energy used is pretty significant. The gun should have about one standard magazine size of shots before stopping to work."
"So fifteen shots..." he looked at the gun as he contemplated that fact" What about the knife?"
"Well that's a bit more problematic. The continuous drain empties the battery pretty fast. So you can use it one minute at most, before it stops."
"Alright, fifteen shots and one minute." Naruto committed that information to his memory" I think I'm done in that case."
Hamburg, Germany, Local time 1:12 am
After travelling all the way to Germany he checked his weapons one last time, as he was dropped off close to where the victims had disappeared.
'Can you hear me, Naruto?' he heard over the headset he wore
"Loud and clear, Gonzalo." the blonde responded, Gonzalo was a ballistic weapons expert from Spain, he had taught him how to handle all kinds of different firearms and Gonzalo would be keeping track of Naruto for the duration of the Mission" I'm going to start sweeping the area now."
The area around him was largely abandoned, some abandoned factory halls littered the area, while a few stray cats scurried in the shadows of various buildings.
Far away he could hear isolated cars driving through the city, the scent of fumes and dirt filling his nostrils.
Eventually he saw a group of four boys in the distance standing in front of one of the halls, talking to each other.
While Naruto's german was very basic he could get the gist of what they were talking about.
Apparently they had heard how this hall was supposed to be haunted and to prove how manly and tough they were they wanted to explore it and then tell everyone about it the next day.
'Why did you stop, Naruto?' the spaniard asked him
"Four civilians are standing in front of what is likely the target location."
'Well just make them go away.' Gonzalo said as if it was the simplest thing in the world
"Roger." Naruto responded when he realized that they just went inside the building"Shit." the blonde cursed
'What happened?'
"They went inside the building.' Naruto rushed to the entrance when he already heard vivid screaming of the boys as they all, minus one, came scrambling out of the building
They stopped in front of the entrance for a short breather"Shit what kind of thing was that?" one of them asked
"I dunno but it got Michael." the second one responded when the third noticed him
"Hey, what are you doing here?" he shook his head as if noting how silly his question was" No I don't need to know... anyway we should all get away here."
Naruto could already hear the steps of something unnatural approaching and pulled out his light gun and the second guy gasped in shock.
"Holy fuck, that guy has a gun." he stated and backed away"Let's get out of here..." he urged his two remaining friends and they ran away in fright, one of them running into Naruto not that the blond really noticed which was a mistake because he might have seen that his headset got knocked loose and lay on the ground.
Naruto heard something dripping on the ground as the steps got closer 'Likely blood' he thought to himself
He aimed towards the darkness his enhanced sight picking up the outline of the otherworldly being, he took aim with his light gun and a white bullet streaked out of the weapon towards the devil. There was no bang, no recoil just the bullet flying.
However the outline moved fast and jumped out of the way.
"Hehehe, silly little exorcist did you forget that we have night vision?" the devil asked mockingly" I saw you long before you even took aim."
Naruto heard something sharp being readied as the shadowed form of the devil charged towards him"Now would you please die so I can feast on your delicious blood?" the crazed devil screamed and Naruto rolled out of the way placing two shots into the devils outstretched arm.
'Although' Naruto noted 'Scythe might be a better description.'
Now that the devil was in the moonlight Naruto could assess his features completely. The devil had a mostly human face with faded brown hair on his head, a sharp angular jaw and nose.
However what was different about him were his arms, they were long, green and ended in sharp round cutting edges, as if a humans arms had been replaced by a pair of scythes 'Or maybe like a praying mantis...'
"Fuck, that hurt you asshole." the praying mantis devil cursed in pain "You are certainly quick on your feet. Most humans would have been cleaved in half by that. But I wont give you the satisfaction of dropping that easily. I am not a simple low-class devil."
The air was filled with the slicing of wind as blades of wind shot towards the blonde who retaliated with three more shots from his weapon at the still standing devil. However the shots were deflected by the wind, which should have been impossible.
Naruto barely managed to dodge the blades of wind which were cut through his clothes and grazed his flesh, letting little droplets of blood run down his body.
"You certainly are resilient." the devil commented and shot more slices of wind at the blonde.
Naruto dodged to the side and behind a pillar, firing two more shots at the legs of the devil, of which only on hit causing the devil to bleed slightly on the floor.
The devil growled in rage "You can't hide stupid human." he commented and started destroying the pillar Naruto stood behind.
Knowing that he would be hurt should he not dodge the attack he jumped behind the next pillar and fired a four more quick shots at his adversary, who was prepared and and slashed his wind at the bullets.
'Three bullets left...' the young fighter realized 'Have to make those count, because going into close combat with that thing, even with my reflexes will have me getting cut to pieces.'
Naruto grabbed his knife and ignited the light edge of the weapon and "sloppily" threw the weapon at the devil, who simple dodged.
His gaze had lingered long enough on the weapon for Naruto to drop deeper into the building to set something up.
The mantis devil scoffed at the humans action and followed him deeper into the building" You are just delaying the inevitable. I will kill you this evening no matter what you do." the devil proclaimed rather arrogantly" Come out, come out wherever you are..."
He dragged his bladed arms on the ground carving into the concrete floor.
Naruto knew that the devil could see just as well in the dark as during the day, so he had to wait for an opportunity where that guy had his back turned to him.
He saw the mantis stalking to a nearby pillar eyeing it up and down "Maybe you are here!" he sliced through the pillar like a hot knife through butter.
The devil clicked his tongue in annoyance and stalked to the next pillar" What about here?" he sliced through that as well
The devil got closer and closer and if he continued at the pace he was going he would soon arrive at the pillar Naruto hid behind.
As he arrived at the second to last pillar he stopped however.
"I'm getting tired of this..." he turned his back and Naruto took aim at the head, pulling the trigger three times and he saw the bullets fly at his target when a sharp wind picked up.
The devil spun around like a spinning top, creating sharp cutting winds that flew through the large hall easily tearing the building up. Naruto's last bullets met a wall of wind that had surrounded the devil as he spun, blocking the shots completely. The young boys cover was soon destroyed.
He was left completely defenceless.
However Naruto wouldn't resign to his fate. As the devil stopped his dance he grinned, a grin filled with bloodthirst, at the blonde" Finally I got you." the devil moved closer and was surprised as the blonde now charged at him, something he didn't expect and pummelled him repeatedly in his human face.
As Naruto's opponent pulled back for a slice towards his midriff, the blonde jumped back but still got caught leaving a long bleeding gash over his stomach, which throbbed with hot red pain.
Naruto nursed his wound has he kneeled on the ground in pain.
'I don't want to die.' he thought was the devil got closer, satisfied to finally get his kill' I don't want to die! I DON'T WANT TO DIE!' that thought repeated in his head like a mantra
The devil smiled one last evil smile "Say your prayers boy." he poised his two scythe like arms ready to strike down at the blond.
Suddenly something in Naruto broke, like a dam of water bursting free, filling his body with raw unbridled power of... something. He didn't know what it was but maybe it was his only chance at surviving.
He stretched his hand out and willed the devil away, he wanted him out of his reach and the power literally exploded from Naruto crashing into the attacking devil and throwing him into a wall at the back.
As the devil grunted in pain at the unexpected attack if it could be called that.
"What did you just pull, filthy human?" the devil demanded to know and Naruto could only stare dumbfounded at his hand.
He didn't know what just happened but it saved him and he would use it to finish the jump.
"Die, devil scum." Naruto exclaimed and pulled his hand into a fist like he were to crush something.
Suddenly the shadows around the devil converged on him.
"N-no, w-what is this?" the mantis devil asked in fright as he was enveloped by the shadows as a black "cocoon" formed around him
Seconds later Naruto heard sickening crack and crunching noises.
The shadows disappeared and left was the crushed body of the devil, which looked like it might have gotten under a stampede.
'What was this power?' Naruto wanted to know and suddenly he felt exhausted not physically but mentally, like he wanted to sleep for a day straight and he could feel a slight headache forming.
He fought the fatigue away and picked the body of the devil up, as it could prove to be useful.
In that moment Naruto noticed that his headset had fallen off and cursed, luckily he found it at the entrance.
"Hello?" he called tentatively out
'God Naruto, are you alright?' Gonzalo asked concerned for his young student
"Yeah, a bit cut up but the devil is dead."
'When you stopped responding we thought the worst... and we couldn't send anyone after you cause ya'know anything that could deal with you would likely kill anyone just as easily.'
"Yes, I understand." the blonde responded. He didn't want to have the death of innocent men and women on his conscious in a useless effort to finish what he couldn't.
"Anyway can you send someone to pick me up?"
'Sure thing. Anything else?'
"Yeah tell Victor that I have loot and that I need to talk to him"
Gonzalo chuckled'Yeah will do. See you soon, Naruto.
With that said Gonzalo went quiet as he relaid the messages.
New York, Organization Headquarters, Local Time 10:49 pm
Naruto entered the laboratory, where Victor was waiting, carrying the devils corpse on his back.
"Good work back there, Naruto." Victor congratulated him for a job well done "The higher ups were really impressed with the results." the russian biochemist then noticed what the blonde was carrying" Is that?"
"Yeah, that is the devils corpse."
"That is incredible." Victor noticed amazed "An autopsy of the corpse even in the state it is in will likely yield great results in understanding them better. Gonzalo mentioned that you wanted to speak with me was it just about the corpse?"
Naruto shook his head and retold what he had felt towards the end of the fight.
"I fell this strange overwhelming power well up from inside of me. When I stretched out my hand to push the devil he was literally flung into a wall and when I killed him the shadows converged on him and crushed him into a bloody pulp."
" Do you know what happened back there?" the blonde asked
"Hmm..." Victor seemed in deep thought" Well, I have a theory but I would like to take a sample of your blood first and then do some tests, if that is alright."
"Yeah, I don't mind go ahead." the blonde gave his affirmative and had the man take some of his blood
"This will likely take a day or so, so get some rest and recover."
"Finally..." Naruto let out a big yawn" I think I could fall asleep on the spot."
The scientist chuckled mirthfully as Naruto left the laboratory.
One day later
Naruto was once again in the Victor's laboratory.
"So what did the test results tell you, Vic?" he asked the scientist dropping all the formality he had to keep up in these last few days
"Well, as expected your DNA, while largely similar to a human has been quite literally supercharged. But what really stood out was one strand of DNA that was heavily mutated. And I think this is what is responsible for your powers." Victor explained and placed his pen on the table besides him" To confirm my theory as to the nature of your powers I want you to pick up this pen."
The blonde chuckled at the easy task and moved towards the table when the russian scientist stopped him" No, no. I want you to pick it up but from where you are standing."
"How am I supposed to do that?" the blonde asked irritated
"Didn't you tell me that you willed the devil away from you? So just concentrate and will the pen to come to you."
The blonde frowned but did as asked. He concentrated on the pen and had his arm raised, palm outstretched and wanted the pen to come to him' Come...Come! COME!' Naruto practically shouted in his mind and the pen began to quiver and lifted from the table towards Naruto whose eyes widened in surprise and then grinned when he felt the cold pen grasped in his hand.
"Magnificent!" Victor exclaimed excitedly" This opens a whole avenue of new possibilities."
"So what is this?"
"Telekinesis, Naruto."
"What so I am an Esper now?" the blonde asked intrigued "Like lifting objects with my mind and stuff?"
"Well yes, theoretically even more than that."
"What more? I thought that was all there is to that."
"Tell me what does Telekinesis have to do with controlling shadows as you did?"
The blonde seemed stumped' Yes what does that have to do with each other?' he thought to himself and shook his head
"You see Telekinesis is just one part of such mental powers. The term to describe your powers would probably be Psychokinesis. The power to move things with your mind. However these two terms do not mean the same thing. Because Psychokinesis encompasses all, for example Umbrakinesis or moving shadows with your mind, just as you did to finish the devil off. In fact I believe that there is no limit to what you can manipulate with your mind." Victor explained to the blond" Close your eyes and hold up your right palm now."
Naruto did as instructed.
"Now visualize that power flowing towards your right palm and out of it. Think of it as the flame of a small candle, feel the heat growing."
Soon a small flickering flame hovered above the blonds hand" Haha! I was right. Even Pyrokinesis is possible."
The blonde grinned" That's awesome... I'm awesome." he allowed himself a small bit of self-praise even if it sounded arrogant
"I'll be dissecting the devil now and see what I can gather from his body. You go and keep practising your new skills."
Two weeks later
Naruto now sat in a kind of briefing room staring at Marcus who stood in front of a large screen which displayed a world mad with many large small dots glowing on it and even some larger ones.
"Alright, let me explain what you see on this map." Marcus said and cleared his throat" After Victor finished with his autopsy he did some other tests on the body one of which was an energy reading. The corpse still gave off a small residue of energy despite having long been dead. What kind of energy it exactly is we don't know but we tasked the IT guys to write an algorithm that would be able scan for this exact type of energy. Using the satellite network around the globe we did so. All the dots you can see are devil activity. Most are rather small and similar to each other, some are a bit bigger and we likely would have you deal with all of them one by one, if it weren't for one specific thing." He gestured to Japan where he could see a huge dot, compared to the other ones this dwarfed them all likely even if they were heaped together. This had to be a hot spot of some kind.
"After we presented the higher-ups with this they declared it to be of the highest priority for you to deal with it. Your task will be to infiltrate the location and determine if the devils are hostile in any way and if yes you are to eliminate them."
"So where am I going?" the blonde asked
"Well, you are going to be pretty lucky." Marcus chuckled quite amusedly "Or maybe not... because we pinpointed the signal to, and that is as close as we could get, Kuoh Gakuen. Congratulations you are going to be attending high school."
"WHAAAAAAAT?!" Naruto's shocked cry could be heard throughout the building as Marcus laughed out loud
Closing Notes: Well that was it for this time. I hope you liked it so far.
As for my inspirations... well the super-soldier thing I was kind of inspired by Captain America for that one. Only without the skin tight outfit, patriotism and yeah you know what I mean.
In fact this story might have been budding for a long time now when I read another Crossover of this Nature where Naruto was turned into that Tyrant thing I forgot it's name.
Anyways I had complained that the summary sounded like it was what I am trying to do now, but it wasn't. The author of that story even changed it back then to avoid confusion like that.
Well that's that... and for any further things you can leave a review and I will most likely answer any question that I couldn't so far answer or anything that I left unclear unless it was purposely done so by me.