Devil May Cry : The Swords of Sparda

Mission One - A Devil Hunter Is Born

Konoha, October 10th

Every year on this date the hidden village of Konoha celebrated, every year a huge festival was held to commemorate the village's victory over the Nine-Tailed Fox demon Kyuubi. Six years ago to the day the fox had attacked Konoha, all attempts to stop the demon's rampage resulted in the deaths of those who tried and failed to stop it, that is until 'He' arrived on the scene. Riding atop a large toad stood a man with yellow spiky hair wearing a white duster with flames decorating the bottom, most knew this man well as both Konoha's Yellow Flash and Konoha's Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze. Minato had managed to defeat the demon but gave his life in the process and now the festival of the Kyuubi was held each year to celebrate the Kyuubi's defeat and to remember those who had lost their lives in the battle.

However, there was one person in the village who wasn't celebrating, this person was a six year old boy named Naruto Uzumaki. For the past six years of his life he had stayed in his home on October 10th, every year he would look out the one window in his small apartment and watch the celebrations. He honestly longed to join in, but every year on the morning of October 10th he would receive a visit from the one person who had taken care of him, the third Hokage.

Every year he would visit and every year he would give Naruto the same warning,

'Don't go outside today, it's not safe'

Naruto sat at the window watching as fireworks shot into the air before exploding, one of the many perks of the festival.

'This is so unfair!' Naruto thought to himself. 'Everyone else gets to go so why can't I?'

It was true that everyone in the village was attending the festival, except him. Naruto had few friends but even they were at the festival, earlier that day they had asked Naruto if he was going with them. Naruto had made a few friends since entering the ninja academy a week ago, Shikamaru Nara, Choji Akimichi and Hinata Hyuga, although he didn't think Hinata liked him very much, every time he tried to speak to her she would turn away quickly.

Naruto continued to look out the window when suddenly he noticed something, he wasn't alone. Naruto quickly spun around when he felt someone behind him, there standing in the doorway was a woman, she had long black hair falling behind an olive green Chunin vest, the most notable thing about her was her ruby red eyes which were at this moment stained and wet, it looked like she had been crying recently. This woman was Genjutsu prodigy Kurenai Yuhi.

"Y-You!!" Kurenai growled through clenched teeth as several tears fell from her eyes.

"It's all your fault!"

Naruto was confused at the woman's words, to his knowledge he had never met her before.

"W-Who are you?" Naruto asked wearily.

Kurenai reached behind her back and pulled a Kunai from her hip pouch.

"Me? I'm the daughter of someone you killed!" Kurenai screamed as she tossed the Kunai forward.

Her aim was true, the Kunai struck Naruto's right shoulder.

"Arrgghh!" Naruto screamed in pain as he fell to his knees gripping his bleeding shoulder.

Naruto quickly turned around and started to crawl away attempting to escape before this woman hurt him more.

Before he could make it very far he felt a weight on his back push him to the ground, Kurenai was leaning down and had her knee against Naruto's back holding him down, before Naruto could say anything Kurenai reached down and grabbed his injured arm, she pulled it back so it was pointing up into the air next to her.

"I saw you at the academy… did you really think you could become a ninja? Let's see you do it with only one arm"

Naruto's eyes widened when he realized what she meant.

"No, please don't!" Naruto pleaded.

Naruto's plea fell on deaf ears as Kurenai placed her free hand against Naruto's right elbow and with her other hand pulled his lower arm backwards sharply, a loud crack filled the air as Naruto's arm was pulled in the wrong direction.

"AHHHH!" Naruto screamed loudly in pain.

Kurenai wasn't done yet, his arm was broken but it could still heal with time. She stood up and lifted her foot up above Naruto and with a satisfied grin she stamped down onto Naruto's already broken arm, Naruto continued screaming as Kurenai continued to slam her heel into his arm time after time.

With every strike, Kurenai could hear another crack come from his arm.

After a few moments Kurenai stopped and stepped back, Naruto's right arm was a mangled mess, it was twisted in an awkward position, every bone in his right arm was broken, it would never heal properly.

"Now, I'm going to make you feel what my parents felt when you killed them you devil!" Kurenai said as she started performing several hand seals.

Tiger-Boar-Rabbit-Dog-Ram.

Suddenly Naruto found himself in the streets of Konoha, the sky was a blood red color, as he raised his head to look for any kind of help he was met with a horrifying sight, all of Konoha was on fire, and walking the streets were horrible apparitions, humanoid creatures with blood red eyes and skinless flesh and clawed hands. All these creatures were walking towards Naruto.

Naruto tried to get away, but before he could make it very far the creatures were upon him, the piled on tops of him and started biting and clawing at him to rip him to pieces.

Kurenai watched as Naruto thrashed around on the ground screaming in both pain and fear. She was using her most powerful Genjutsu on him, to Naruto's perception he was being torn to pieces time and time again by hundreds of demons. There was also a time difference in the Genjutsu, a minute in the real world was a week in the Genjutsu.

Kurenai continued to keep the technique active, she had trapped Naruto in it nearly five minutes ago, so to Naruto he had been trapped in the Genjutsu for over a month being constantly tortured and ripped apart by the demons.

After the first few minutes Naruto had stopped thrashing around and was silent, he was breathing heavily but never made a sound as he laid face down on the ground. Kurenai knew what was happening, Naruto was losing his mind.

Kurenai smiled as she stepped forward and leaned down to him, it would just be a few more seconds before it was finished.

"Look at me you devil… I want to look into your eyes as all that you are slips away…" Kurenai said as she grabbed his shoulder and turned him around to lie on his back. As she did her eyes widened at what she saw, tears were cascading down his face from eyes which were completely stoic and empty of any emotion.

Kurenai slowly stood up and started stepping back as she remembered something she had learned years ago.

"… D-Devils… Devils never cry…" Kurenai muttered to herself as she felt tears welling up in her eyes as the horrible truth of what she had done dawned on her.

"Oh god… what have I done?"

Kurenai quickly placed her hands in the Ram seal and muttered,

"Kai!" (Release) the Genjutsu was dispelled but Naruto remained still.

Kurenai rushed to Naruto and lifted his head into her arms.

"Naruto! Naruto say something, please!!" Kurenai said as tears fell from her eyes. Naruto still made no sign of recognition, the damage her Genjutsu was meant to do had been done.

Kurenai sat there for several minutes hugging Naruto's head to her chest while rocking back and forth, she thought back to everything she had done to Naruto in the past 15 minutes and cried harder… she had wanted to see all that Naruto was slip away, and now she had, she had destroyed the mind of a six year old child.

Kurenai thought hard about what she could possibly do to help him, but if there was anybody who could help Naruto it was the Hokage.

She carefully slipped backwards and laid Naruto's head down carefully.

"I promise Naruto, I'll be back and I WILL bring you back" Kurenai whispered in Naruto's ear hoping that in some way he could hear her, she then placed a light kiss on his forehead before standing up and running from the apartment building, but not before locking his door to stop anyone else finding him in this state as they may decide to take advantage of it.

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Within Naruto's mind something was happening, within the halls of his mind stood a large metal gate with a kanji for 'Seal' placed over it, within the gate a presence stirred.

"Grr, troublesome child… couldn't even defend himself against a single human female…"

Outside the gate sat Naruto, he sat with his knees pulled up to his chest with his arms wrapped around them. This 'Naruto' was all that was left of Naruto's sanity. Kyuubi knew that if Naruto remained like this he would be easy pickings for the villagers.

"I guess I have no choice… I'll help you kid, but you had better not screw up!" The Kyuubi growled from the other side of the gate. Slowly red chakra started to pour from the gate and started to wrap around Naruto's prone form. Slowly Naruto raised his head to look at Kyuubi.

"Ok, listen to me kid because I don't think we have much time… what I'm doing is going to help you, in the meantime you have to leave this place, you have to leave Konoha, got it?" Kyuubi asked with a rough voice.

Naruto slowly stood up and nodded.

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On the top floor of the Hokage toward sat the third Hokage himself, he was straining to finish his paperwork so he could join the festivities outside. He honestly pitied the next ninja to take the position of Hokage.

Just as the third Hokage paced his pen down and stood up, his office doors suddenly burst open and in ran a woman he recognized as Kurenai.

"H-Hokage-sama!" Kurenai yelled as she entered the room.

The Hokage took a look at Kurenai and noticed the state she was in, her eyes were glistening with fresh tears.

"Kurenai, what's the matter?" the Hokage asked with a worried tone.

Kurenai slowly lifted her head to look at the Hokage, her eyes still glistening with tears as she bit her bottom lip hard enough to draw blood.

"H-Hokage-sama… I've… I've done something terrible"

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A few minutes later both the third Hokage and Kurenai were racing through the village, dodging around celebrating citizens on their way to Naruto's apartment.

The Hokage was horrified by what Kurenai had told him, if it was true that Naruto's mind had been destroyed then there was a chance that the Kyuubi within Naruto could take advantage of it and take over his body.

Kurenai was the first to reach the apartment, not stopping to unlock it she slammed the door off it's hinges.

"Hokage-sama, he's in h…" Kurenai trailed off as she noticed that the room was empty, on the ground where she had left Naruto was a small puddle of blood. The window that Naruto had been looking out of when she arrived was wide open.

Kurenai was in shock, she slowly walked towards the open window.

"N… Naruto…" Kurenai slowly whispered to herself, as if saying his name would bring him back.

The Hokage spotted a bloody kunai stabbed in a small table next to the window, he walked over to it and pulled it loose, that's when he spotted something carved into the wood of the table itself with the kunai.

"Kurenai…" the Hokage said to get her attention.

Kurenai turned and saw what the Hokage was looking at, on the table next to the window three words had been carved crudely into the wood.

'Devils never cry'

Kurenai read the words and slowly stepped backwards, when she reached the wall she fell down and clutched her knees to her chest as she started to cry.

The Hokage meanwhile was in conflict, the punishment for mentioning the fox in Naruto or attacking Naruto was death, but he knew these were unusual circumstances. None the less, he needed to punish Kurenai.

"Kurenai…" the Hokage said to gain her attention.

Kurenai slowly lifted her head to look at him, she knew what he was about to say, she knew the law.

"Kurenai… you are hereby forbidden from telling anybody what happened tonight… you are also banned from participating in the Jounin exams for five years" with that said the Hokage turned and walked from the apartment, he needed to instruct the Konoha ANBU to start searching for Naruto.

Kurenai was surprised by the Hokage's leniency, but somewhere in her heart she knew that living with the knowledge that she destroyed a child's mind was worse than death.

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Six Years Later

It was less than an hour from dawn in the temple town of Kuraichi, all was peaceful, at least from the outside. Over the past few days people had been found grizzly murdered in the streets, their body's torn apart.

At this moment two people were running through the back alleys, the first was a brunette woman with tanned skin named Bonnie wearing a red kimono, the second was a bulky man with short blond hair named Brick.

They scrambled to run through the back alleys as fast as they could, but no matter how fast or how far they run the thing chasing them always seemed to be right behind them.

"Brick, it's gonna kill us! What do we do?!" Bonnie asked in a frantic voice.

"Jut keep running!" Brick shouted to her.

They quickened their pace but they could still hear it's footsteps getting louder and louder as it gained on them.

They ran top speed but were horrified when they came to a dead end at the end of the alley.

"Quick, back the other way!" Brick shouted.

They both turned to run back but it was too late, standing at the entrance of the alley they had just ran down stood a dark figure hidden by the shadows. As the dark figure started walking towards them Bonnie fell to her knees with her face in her hands as she started to weep.

"P-Please… don't hurt me…" Bonnie pleaded as she wept into her hands.

The footsteps got closer and closer until eventually the figure was standing directly over Bonnie.

"Nice try…" the dark figure said, "… but Devils never cry"

Suddenly Bonnie's head snapped up from her hands with changed features, her eyes shone blood red and her teeth had become fangs, absolutely no tears were on her face, she suddenly jumped from he kneeling position and lunged at the dark figure.

"Rrraagghh!!" Bonnie roared in demonic rage.

BOOM!!

Something in the dark figures left hand flashed as the booming sound filled the area, Bonnie's head snapped back almost immediately, she fell to the ground with a gun shot wound to her forehead, after a few seconds of silence her body turned to dust and was blown away in the breeze.

Brick saw his girlfriend killed and stepped back against the wall, his eyes glowing red just as hers had. The dark figure stepped forward into the moonlight revealing his features for the first time since he had been chasing the two.

He had spiky blond hair and light blue eyes, he had three whisker markings on each cheek. He wore black boots, red pants and a black turtleneck covered with a crimson red vest which was buckled shut with four metal clasps, finally he wore a red duster the same color as his vest but the bottom of the coat was decorated with orange and yellow flames. His left hand held a large silver revolver gun that was aimed right at him. His right arm however was in a sling and a metal cast completely covered his arm below the elbow.

"Who… Who are you!?" Brick asked in a demonic voice.

The figure stepped towards Brick and lowered his gun.

"Naruto Uzumaki, demon hunter" Naruto introduced himself just as he backhanded Brick hard across the face causing him to fall backwards into a pile of trash bags.

Naruto stood over Brick and pointed his gun directly at his face.

"Now… where is it?" Naruto asked, as if Brick knew what Naruto was talking about.

Brick's eyes widened when he realized what Naruto was after.

"No… I can't tell you… even if I do tell you, you'd kill me!" Brick stuttered.

Naruto grinned as he holstered his gun and grabbed Brick by the collar and pulled him to his feet.

"Take me to it… and I'll consider you a loose end" Naruto said with a smile as he tossed Brick towards the alley entrance.

Brick thought about it for a moment, by the looks of it, this 'Naruto' kid could only use one arm, if he took him to 'It' then the other demon guards could overpower him.

"… F-Fine" Brick stuttered.

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Ten Minutes Later

In a small building on the edge of Kuraichi town sat three people all sat around a small table in the center of a large empty room, six pillars in the room held the building up and there were only two other doors, the door leading out of the building and the heavy metal door leading to what they were guarding, the only light in the room came from the moonlight over shining through a skylight window above them. These three had been instructed to guard this building with their lives.

"Hah, full house!" one of the men shouted as he slammed his cards down for all to see and quickly leaned forward to grab his money.

"Hold it pal…" the second one said as he revealed his cards, "… Straight flush" the man said with a smile on his face as he pulled the money towards him.

"Damnit!" the first man said as he punched the table. "What do you have?" he asked the one who hadn't spoken yet

"Well I…" the third man trailed off as he strained to look at his cards, a sudden darkness had filled the room and it shadowed his cards. Realizing something was wrong he looked up just in time to see the skylight window above them shatter.

Somebody dressed in red flipped backwards through the window and fell at least 15 meters before landing crouched on their table.

"WHAT THE F…" the first man shouted just the boy in red reached behind his back with his left hand and quickly whipped out a bulky silver gun and aimed it in his face.

"It's called the Royal Flush…" Naruto said, indicating his gun "… I win" Naruto smirked as he pulled the trigger.

BOOM!!

The man fell backwards on his chair as the bullet ripped right through his skull, he quickly turned to dust soon after.

The other two men quickly got up from their chairs and backed off from the kid in red.

Naruto slowly turned his head to look at the other two, they noticed a small amount of blood from their slain leader splattered across the boy's face.

Slowly the features on the two remaining guards faces started to change, their eyes turned red, their teeth turned to fangs and their skin grew pail.

Naruto hopped off the table and turned to face them, as he did he noticed smiles appear on their faces. This was normal, demons often underestimated him once they saw his right arm.

Naruto held his revolver the Royal Flush in the left hand. Naruto smirked as he started to twirl the gun on one finger.

"Well this hardly seems fair… here, let me make it even" Naruto said as he quickly flicked his left and Royal Flush left his hand and flew towards the demon to his left.

The demon wasn't ready for it and the gun sailed right past his right shoulder, he turned his head to watch the gun as if flew past him, that's when he realized his mistake, he had taken his eyes off his enemy. The demon quickly snapped his head back towards Naruto but it was too late, he was gone. The demon was about to look around to see where Naruto had gone but froze as he heared the clicking sound of the hammer of a gun being cocked back behind him.

The other demon was shocked at what he had seen, the kid had thrown his gun, moved behind his accomplice, caught the gun in midair and was now pointing the gun at the back of his head.

BOOM!

The demons head was blown off and turned to dust, the rest of his body turned to dust before it even hit the ground.

With two of the demons dead, Naruto turned to face the last one.

"Y-You… you're not human!" the last demon yelled.

Naruto smirked at the comment.

"Well, you're half right…" Naruto said as he lifted his gun and aimed it at the final demon.

"It pisses me off to no end when Demons masquerade as human…" Naruto started to say.

The demon wasn't about to wait around to join his friends, he quickly turned around to run for the exit, but as soon as he turned away from the boy in red he found himself looking down the same gun barrel as he had less than a second ago.

In the time it had taken for the demon to turn around, Naruto had already moved ahead of him.

"How?" the demon asked. "No demon or human is that fast"

BOOM!

The final demon fell to the ground missing half of his head before turning to dust.

With the demons finished, Naruto holstered his gun and turned around and faced the heavy metal doors.

After reaching the door he placed his palm against the door and pushed… it didn't budge.

"Hmm" Naruto pondered the best way to open it. that's when Naruto noticed a small control panel to the right of the door.

Naruto walked up to it and it seemed to recognize his presence because it suddenly sparked to life.

'Please state your name' an electronic voice sounded from the control panel.

"Yeah umm, I'll take a large pepperoni pizza with fries and a strawberry shake, and for desert I think I'll take a 2000 year old demonic sword… and don't forget the ketchup" Naruto said as he leaned against the wall next to the controls.

'… name unrecognized, alarm has been sounded, please await personnel's arrival'

"Ok, but don't expect a tip" Naruto said with a sight.

Naruto pushed away from the wall and quickly spun around to face the control panel with his gun drawn.

BOOM!

The control panel shattered as the bullet ripped through it. With a hiss of air the metal door slowly opened. Naruto holstered his gun and walked inside, as soon as he did he spotted what he had been looking for. Displayed on a pedestal in the center of the room was a sheathed Katana in a blue scabbard.

"Yamato…" Naruto whispered as he reached out and lifted the sword from it's resting place.

Naruto was stunned when he picked it up, even within the scabbard it was extremely light, weighting little more than a couple of Kunai.

Not knowing how long the door would stay open, Naruto quickly slipped the sword into his belt under his coat on his right side. "… that's one down" Naruto muttered to himself.

With that done he turned around and stepped back through the door. When he stepped back into the main hall way he smirked at what he saw, ten more demons had arrived, no doubt the 'personnel' that the control panel had promised.

"Well then… let's see if this thing has lost it's touch after 2000 years" Naruto said as he reached into his coat with his left and grasped the handle of the Katana Yamato. He slowly slipped the sword from it scabbard which was left hooked in his belt. Naruto swung the sword to his left, as the sword moved through the air it seemed to make a slicing sound.

As soon as he had fully drawn the sword, all of the demons rushed at him at the same time, Naruto smirked and ran forward, he dodged past the demons one by one while lashing out with Yamato. Eventually Naruto had passed by each one of the demons and arrived at the exit door. Naruto slowly took a few more steps forward and opened the door leading outside. After he was outside he turned and looked back in, each of the demons had checked themselves and found that they were completely unharmed. Naruto smirked as he twirled the sword around for a moment before slowly slipping it back into it's scabbard, he stopped when only an inch of the sword remained exposed.

"… Jackpot" Naruto said, and with a final 'Click', the sword was fully returned to it's scabbard.

The effect was instant, inside the room the six pillars suddenly fell apart as cleanly sliced at an angle, the building started to shake, several of the demons were crushed by the pillars, finally the entire building collapsed right on top of the remaining demons.

By the time the building had finished collapsing Naruto was already walking away. After walking for a few minutes he came to a large tree with a blond haired demon tied to it.

"Well 'Brick', it panned out…" Naruto said as he quickly untied the rope. "… a deal is a deal, now get out of here before I change my mind" Naruto said to the demon as he started to walk away with his back to Brick.

Brick couldn't believe it, Naruto had managed to defeat the guards and stole the sword. He wasn't about to give Naruto a reason to kill him now. He quickly turned around and started to run away.

"Oh and Brick?" Naruto called back to the demon.

Brick stopped for a moment fearing that Naruto had changed his mind.

"… sooner or later I always tie up my loose ends" Naruto said with a sadistic smirk.

Brick gulped and continued to run away.

With Brick gone, Naruto turned and watched as the sun started to rise in the distance, he closed his eyes and enjoyed the feeling of the first morning sun on his face. Naruto opened his eyes after a minute and whispered to himself.

"It's time"

Naruto checked his equipment before he turned around and started to walk east with a destination in mind... it was time to go back home.

'I wonder if they'll recognize me' Naruto wondered as he started the walk to Konoha. According to his calculations, the Genin exams for his generation of ninja was to be held tomorrow. Kuraichi town was only a four hour walk to and from Konoha.

To Be Continued…

Well, this is my first ever Naruto based fic. Please send plenty of reviews, tell me what you think of the storyline, reviews do help me get my chapters up faster, seriousley they're like inspiration in a can, if i was a smoker i would print out my reviews, roll 'em up and smoke 'em.