Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Highschool DxD, wish that I did, but I don't.

~Carry on My Wayward Son~

~DxD~

"I'm normal!" People talking

'I enjoy being normal!' People thinking

"It's hard to be normal!" Monsters/Demons talking

'Am I normal?' Monsters/Demons thinking

[I cannot be normal…] Sacred Gears talking/Techniques

[I can never be normal] Sacred Gear thinking/Sneaky Techniques

~DxD~

Chapter Six: The Silence

-Outskirts of Kuoh Town-

-Dusk-

Naruto strode onward with heavy and powerful steps; he could see it there in the distance. The old decrepit church that was-according to his clones-the home of the beings that killed Issei.

Naruto's body was tense, ready, and eager for the battle that was to come. And he didn't fool himself, not this time, there would be a battle, he could feel it in his bones.

He would try to talk to those bastards, but only to find out why they killed the pervert. That was all that he wanted to talk about with those Dark Angel wannabes.

According to the scouts he sent on ahead, three beings had a similar energy to that Yuma-chick, and several other men and women seemed to work for those three.

But strangely enough, the girl that attacked Issei and him a few days ago was nowhere to be seen. A part of Naruto wondered what happened to the girl. If those people-beings-Dark Angels-whatever they were, worked like a squad of Shinobi would…then could it be that they killed Yuma for her failure?

After all, Shinobi tended to be cruel. Only the mission mattered, and failure to complete the mission was met with harsh punishment and great shame.

Sometimes death was better than living after failing an important mission.

But Naruto told himself that it wasn't his problem.

Actions carried consequences, so if that girl ended up dying, then it was her own goddamn fault. Just as the punishment he was about to bring down on the others hidden in that church was the result of their own actions.

The closer the blonde came to the church the more he let go of his restraints. His chakra became a visible flame that surrounded his body, his hair blew in the strong gust that followed in the release of his power. His school uniform fluttered and wrinkled, but he kept on walking with that same steady gait.

The blonde Shinobi wasn't careful. He wasn't trying to go unnoticed.

No.

He wanted everyone in that church to know that he was coming. He wanted everyone to know that he had a bone to pick with them.

And he wanted them to be afraid.

Their judgment was neigh…

Because those bastards garnered the anger of a kind man…and today would be a night with no moon.

~DxD~

-Inside the decrepit Church-

"Okay what the shit is happening!?" The Loli Angel known as Mittelt cried out as the church and everyone inside of it was hit by an oppressive force that was slowly, steadily coming closer towards them. "Whatever the fuck that is, I want to have no part of it!"

"Oh no you don- "

Kalawarner couldn't even finish her sentence before Mittelt activated a [Reverse Summoning Circle] and vanished in a bright pink flash of light. "That bitch!"

The blue-haired Fallen Angel could only stare at the spot her comrade had occupied only moments before.

What the actual fuck!?

Kalawarner couldn't believe this! The first sign of danger and that bitch just hightailed it out of here! Oh, she knew that she couldn't trust any of her comrades, but she thought that Mittelt, Dohnaseek, and Raynare had at least some honor and courage!

"That…that fucking coward!"

Kalawarner heard one of their subordinates cry out in shock, which was followed by many more shouts and curses and promises of retaliation that followed in the wake of Mittelt's cowardice.

"Damnit…damnit…damnit…fucking damnit I don't want to die!" Kalawarner could only look on in muted shock as one of the excommunicated exorcists in their service fumbled with his robes before pulling out a familiar device that most exorcists carried with them.

She watched as the coward threw it onto the ground and then he too promptly vanished in a bright flash of light.

The busty Fallen Angel felt her throat run dry as several more flashes of light lit up the inside of the church.

Cowards!

She was surrounded by fucking backstabbers and cowards!

As the Fallen Angel looked around the church, she was struck with a growing sense of horror. Their once formidable force of nearly fifty trained exorcists had been whittled down to barely half of that. Only the most sadistic and bloodthirsty of their host remained and even they looked close to wetting themselves.

She saw Dohnaseek standing in a corner of to the side, leaning against a wall with the rim of his hat shadowing much of his face.

He was the only real ally that she had left!

Fuck…shit…DAMNIT!

'What have I done…?' Kalawarner gulped, 'Have I given up everything for this…?'

That realization hit the girl like a truck.

She left behind a life, not a good one, but it was her own life.

She may have been nothing more than a cheap whore in the eyes of her superiors, and she may have been sick of spreading her legs for every Fallen Angel that had more than one set of wings and wanted to get off, but it was still better than this!

She believed Raynare when she said that they could make something out of themselves, and she believed Kokabiel when he claimed that she could rise beyond her station as a bedwarmer, but what good were those words when they were surrounded by nothing but common thugs and cowards.

Again, Kalawarner gulped.

The source of that oppressive feeling in the air had arrived. She could feel it, it was standing right outside of their door.

*BANG*

Kalawarner bodily flinched as the being outside pounded against the large, partially rotten church doors.

*BANG*

She released a shuddering breath before steeling her nerves. Regret weighed heavily on her mind, but that didn't mean that she would cower away in fear. Her life was always a shitshow. From the very beginning to the bitter end, nothing good ever happened to her.

*BANG*

She lived through abuse and humiliation, through pain and suffering, and she faced it all head-on. When she was made a whore, she carried the moniker as proudly as she could, with her head held high.

*BANG*

As the church doors were finally blown off their hinges and the busty Fallen Angel got a look at their attacker, and she steeled herself.

Kalawarner was born with no one there to care for her, and if she had to leave this word in the same way, she would.

She wouldn't cower, and she wouldn't flee. She would fight this abomination coated in white-blue flames.

And if she died, well no one would mourn her…

…so, no loss, right?

~DxD~

-Catacombs below the Church-

"It's him!" Raynare's head snapped up from between her knees, eyes wide and frantic.

Days spent in darkness with no food and hardly any water have not been kind to the girl. She was a shell of a woman, hardly recognizable and a far cry from the vicious femme fatale she had been only days ago.

"I…" She rasped through a dry throat, "I need to get out of here!"

Gingerly the girl crawled up from the ground, wincing as her muscles screamed in pain from days od disuse. She managed to get to her feet and promptly stumbled and fell back to the ground before she could catch herself.

The girl groaned and tried again, and again, and finally, at the third attempt, she managed to keep herself standing.

Raynare felt weak, more so than she ever had before, but fear was a powerful driving force and through it, she managed to stumble to a wall which she then used as a crutch to keep moving.

She didn't care that she was as naked as the day she was born, all that mattered to her was to get the hell away from this place!

"He's not going to catch me!" She muttered a frantic whisper, "he won't, no he won't…"

Raynare just needed to make it up the stairs and then she would be able to fly away!

'C'mon body move it! We need to get out of here before it's too late!'

Fuck the nun.

Fuck Kokabiel.

Fuck her comrades!

Everyone and everything could go and fuck itself, but Raynare would not stay here with that monster!

~DxD~

-Occult Research Club-

"Is everyone ready?" Rias Gremory asked from her position at the window overlooking the woods behind her club building.

"Yes Buchou, we are ready." Her precious [Knight] was quick and concise with his answer, just as he always was.

She turned around and faced her family, smiling at the resolute faces her [Knight] and [Rook] sported. This wasn't the first time her little family faced combat but that didn't mean that the beautiful senior wasn't worried.

But Rias reminded herself that this was something that needed to be done. Those Fallen Angels needed to be punished for their actions.

She walked up to Koneko and Kiba and grabbed both by their shoulders. She let her magnificent turquoise eyes wander over their faces and gave both of her servants a gentle smile.

"I know that I don't need to say this, but please be careful, the both of you." She combed her hand through Kiba's blonde hair and softly stroked Koneko's cheek with her thumb.

"We will Buchou." Both of her family members answered simultaneously.

"Alright then," Rias smirked as the ground beneath the three of them was enveloped in a bright crimson glow. "Let's go my cute little servants…we have some fallen to deal with."

~DxD~

-Somewhere in Kuoh Town-

"Oh my gosh!" Akeno Himejima cried while kicking away a plushy in frustration. "I hate him! I hate him so much!"

"Akeno-chan, please make sure that nothing bad happens to Uzumaki-Kun while the others and I deal with the Fallen Angels," Akeno muttered mockingly, mimicking Rias's voice as she did. "Yeah Rias, I would do that if I could find the boy!"

The busty Yamato Nadeshiko looked around the blonde boys' apartment, but there was no sign of Uzumaki-kun. Akeno scowled in frustration, a vein throbbing away on her temple…

Oh, when she found that boy…and she would find him!

…sooner or later.

And when she did, she would make him pay.

She would make him her toy and she would make him suffer in the most delicious of ways! She would make him suffer for every second that he forced her to be on this senseless goose chase.

"Just you wait Uzumaki-kun, I'm coming for you…Ufufufu~"

And Naruto would soon enough learn that it wasn't a good idea to get Akeno so worked up over something…

~DxD~

-Back with Rias-

The first thing that she noticed after stepping out of her magic circle was the oppressive air that surrounded the church on the hilltop.

It set Rias and her peerage on edge.

The church a small distance away made for a foreboding image and the oppressive air about it made it even worse. But Rias was nothing if not determined, and she would see this through to the end, as such the girl turned to Kiba and Koneko.

"Okay, remember that we are here to end those Fallen Angels. They are the enemy, and they are a threat to our way of life, they killed innocents and will do so again if given the chance. When you attack, you will do so to kill. Don't hesitate and show them no mercy, for they wouldn't give us any either."

Rias took one more look at her precious family before she nodded to herself and began to walk towards the church, with Koneko and Kiba following right behind her. The closer the three Devils came to the church the worst the oppressive feeling in the air got. It was as if the entire church was surrounded by a thick veil of something dangerous, and at first, Rias had chalked it up to the church being on holy ground.

But that thought was thrown out the window when she heard a soft whimper. She spun around faced her [Rook] who looked as if she had seen a ghost.

"Koneko-chan, what's wrong?" She asked before exchanging a glance with her [Knight] who nodded and conjured a sword before taking a defensive position around Rias and Koneko.

The smaller, white-haired first-year gulped before seemingly steeling her nerves. "That oppressive energy that we all feel, it's not holy energy." The girl muttered quietly, looking past Rias at the church with trepidation shining in her golden-yellow eyes. "That energy is chakra, and there's a lot of it."

The crimson-haired beauty frowned and glanced at the church. Chakra? Why would there be a chakra user in a Christian Church?

She turned back to the smaller girl, "are you sure?"

"I am Buchou." The girl said, "it's chakra and more than I've ever felt before coming from one being."

"Can you tell what kind of Yokai we might be dealing with?" The busty [King] asked with a contemplative frown on her face.

Koneko shook her head, "no, I can't, I'm sorry Buchou."

Rias sighed and patted the top of Koneko's head, lightly scratching her scalp and giving the girl a gentle smile. "There's nothing you need to apologize for Koneko-chan, you did well."

"But why would there be a chakra user in the church?" Kiba asked the question that was on everyone's mind.

"I have no idea." Rias answered honestly, "maybe it's an ally of the Fallen Angels?"

"It's angry," Koneko said quietly, still enjoying her [King's] gentle ministrations, lightly purring at the feeling of soft fingers tenderly stroking her scalp.

"Well, whatever it is, we'll find out once we get there," Rias said before pulling back her hand from Koneko's head, smiling at the small pout that was on her little [Rook's] face. "You're still with me, right?"

"Always/Of course Buchou." Kiba and Koneko said at the same time before smiling at each other.

Rias nodded with a proud glint in her eyes, "then let's keep moving. And remember, stay alert you two."

The two teens nodded and proceeded to follow their senpai as she resumed walking towards the church.

Rias frowned as they came closer and closer to the church. This entire situation was weird. Shouldn't they have met some resistance by now? Were the Fallen Angels so cocky that they wouldn't even post sentries?

Everything was just so quiet and devoid of life. They were close enough now that they should be able to hear the voices of anyone that was inside the old church, but there was nothing. Just a dead silence that would not have been out of place on a graveyard.

By the time the three Highschool Students reached the large, broken double doors of the church their nerves were rubbed raw, and their anxiousness was at an all-time high. Truly, the three devils wished that someone would finally attack them just to break this maddening spell of silence that surrounded them.

"Alright," Rias spoke quietly, garnering the attention of her two peerage members, "on the count of three we will storm the church. Koneko-chan, you'll be the first to go in, and Kiba will be right behind you. Attack anything that moves, and don't hesitate to put them down permanently, I'll be covering you from afar with my [Power of Destruction]. Be careful and cover each other's weaknesses, alright? Alright."

The three Devils got into position and Rias began her countdown.

"Three."

Koneko channeled her [Demonic Energy] into her limbs, amplifying her strength and durability far beyond human capabilities.

"Two."

Kiba Yuuto called on his [Sacred Gear] and created twin shortswords, one in each of his hands. He pushed his [Demonic Energy] into his legs and prepared himself to quickly rush at his enemies.

"One."

Rias' turquoise eyes bled into a deep crimson color and her entire body was enveloped by a crimson on black aura of energy that clung to her subtle frame like so many flames.

"Attack!"

The three Devils moved as one unit and entered the church exactly like planned. Koneko was the first to rush in, her fist pulled back in order to deliver some earth-shattering punishment on the first shmuck that was unfortunate enough to step into her line of sight.

Right behind the white-haired girl was Kiba, moving with such speed that he became no more than a blur to the normal human eye. Each of the swords in his hands was glowing with energy, ready and willing to slice apart any opposition the [Knight] may face inside.

And finally, Rias stepped into the church, and in her wake followed power that made the earth beneath her feet tremble and the walls of the church crack. Her [Power of Destruction] was only waiting for her call, waiting impatiently to annihilate the enemies of its mistress.

But as the three Devils finally saw the inside of the church, they stopped cold in their tracks.

"By the Mao, what happened here…?" Rias muttered as she looked around with wide, disbelieving eyes.

"Who could've done this?" Kiba was the next to ask his question, even as he too was taking in the sight they stumbled upon.

"…unreal." Was the only comment of the smallest member of the group.

The inside of the church was in shambles. It looked like the center of an explosion or earthquake. There was broken and shattered furniture everywhere, broken benches, shattered candleholders, and destroyed altars and mementos.

But that wasn't what surprised the three Devils.

No.

The surprising and quite frankly frightening thing was the fact that the inside of the church was littered with at least a dozen bodies. Going by their garb and weaponry, those people had to be exorcists and priests, most probably excommunicated and shunned from the church.

As far as Rias could tell, those priests weren't dead, or not all of them at least. Many of them were still groaning in pain and writhing on the ground, clutching at their wounds and ailments.

Kiba walked up to one of the still-living priests, a man that was on his side and crying as he clutched his arm. The [Knight] kicked him onto his back and promptly held his sword to the whimpering man's throat.

"What happened here?" Kiba asked, never taking his eyes from the man even as Rias and Koneko came to stand on each side of him.

"He...he-" The man coughed and groaned in pain, "he w-was just a k-kid. C-Came barging in here and started asking q-questions. B-B-Brat gave off so much energy…m-most of our guys hightailed it even before the k-kid made it to the doors." The man rasped out a chuckle before he fell into a coughing fit, spitting blood all the while.

Kiba pressed his sword into the man's throat, drawing blood as he did. "Keep talking."

The middle-aged priest gave the Devils a crooked smile, reaching up to wipe away the blood from his broken nose. An open wound that had some of the man's nasal bone poking through and open to view.

"Even one of our leaders, the stupid cunt, fled long before the kid made it inside the church." The man laughed, a sadistic and joyless sound. "Just left us all to the wolves."

"Stop beating around the bush." Rias snarled, pointing her glowing palm at the man's head. "We are not interested in the cowardice of your allies, tell us about this boy that did this to you."

"He's no older than any of you lot. Looked like a brat, kinda like this blondie here, a bit taller maybe. Looked unassuming enough so none of us took him seriously, even though we all knew that we should have. Kept asking questions about some boy that our leader supposedly killed, don't know much 'bout t-that. One of the Fallen Angels then started to antagonize the kid-don't ask-we all know that the dude is seriously stupid. A battle maniac, and too dumb to know better. We were then ordered to attack the brat, and he just cut through us all. He was just so fast and strong, none of us stood a chance, none of us could hit him either. Was like the k-kid had eyes on the back of his skull, just saw through every single attack we tried to throw at him…"

"Where is he now?" Rias asked.

"You daft-gluck," the priest chocked when Kiba pressed his sword further into the man's throat before a hand stopped him from cutting it open. He looked aside and saw Rias shake her head in the negative, so he stepped back, albite reluctantly.

"Continue," Rias commanded.

"Alright, alright…" the priest rubbed his throat with his good hand, glaring at the three devils all the while. "Below us in catacombs most likely. But I'm not sure, as you already know, I've spent the last half an hour or so with my head planted firmly to the floor. Last I saw the k-kid he was taking apart the two Fallen Angels that stayed with us."

Rias frowned before turning away from the broken priest. She looked at all the other bodies that littered the floor. This situation was getting out of hand, and as if the Fallen Angels weren't already pesky enough, this new player on the board had her worried.

Going by the devastation that was before her, this young man had to be powerful, maybe even as powerful as Rias herself. Or perhaps even stronger than her. But he also attacked the Fallen, which meant that he wasn't necessarily their enemy.

The enemy of the enemy and all that.

With that in mind, Rias settled on the new course that she would take, but before that, they had some cleaning up to do. She turned back to the defeated priest that had supplied them with information, her face was devoid of emotions, and she once more raised her palm.

"Thank you for your cooperation." She said before a crimson red [Magic Circle] appeared in front of her outstretched palm.

"NO! P-Please wai-"

The man was obliterated before he could finish his sentence, his entire body swallowed by a black and red wave of energy.

No survivors, and no mercy.

~DxD~

-Several Moments Earlier-

-With Naruto-

The blonde Shinobi overlooked the gaggle of people that stood before him. His face was a mask of quiet anger, and his body was brimming with energy.

He had dispelled the clone that was gathering natural energy as such he was now in his strongest form, [Sage Mode]. Eyes of a yellowish orange with black bars for pupils and reddish orange pigmentation around the eyelids stared at everyone that stood before him.

And they all stared back in trepidation and fear.

"Why." Naruto snarled out through grit teeth. "Why did you kill him?"

His otherworldly toad-like eyes snapped to a man leaning against the far wall of the church. He watched as the man pushed himself off the wall and turned to face Naruto.

"Why did we kill whom?"

"Issei Hyoudou." Naruto's voice was sharp enough to cut steel. "Why did you kill Issei Hyoudou?"

"Issei Hyoudou…" Naruto's anger rose to even further heights when the man started to tap his chin in thought, acting as if he had no idea about what the Shinobi was talking about. "Issei Hyoudou…hmm…Issei…I think I've heard that name before."

"Dohnaseek…!" Naruto looked at the woman that hissed out the name in a whisper. She was quite beautiful, with long blue hair and a seductive, busty frame which was covered by a tantalizingly short purple minidress. "Cut out the crap!"

"Shut your mouth cunt," the man, Dohnaseek, snarled back at the blue-haired woman before he directed his attention back at the blonde. "Anyways, I apologize for the interruption but yes, Issei Hyoudou, that name rings a bell. I think that was the name of the brat I killed not all that long ago, wasn't it?"

A small shockwave of displaced air travelled through the inside of the church as Naruto's power spiked, "so you did it. Why?"

"Oh, is this why you are here?" Dohnaseek seemed to look surprised for a moment before he began to chuckle, "hohoho…are you really here because of that little perv-"

There was a sonic boom and then Dohnaseek was gone, and in his place stood Naruto, fist raised and blood dripping off his knuckles.

Everyone within the church gulped simultaneously, and as one they took a step back from the furious teen.

Kalawarner took another step back, and then another one as she raised her arm up to the sky. She brought it down at the blonde and screamed in a loud voice…

"ATTACK!"

And all hell broke loose.

~DxD~

A/N: And another chapter down! I'm on a roll!

Pieces are falling into place and things all happen according to my plan, and I hope that you guys and gals are enjoying the ride so far.

The next chapter should be the end of the first arc of this story, and then I can finally move things forward to derail the canon plot a bit more.

As things stand, I'm trying to give the characters I'm working with some colour and depth, be it Naruto, Rias, and co, or even the Fallen Angels. I'm trying to make them all unique in their own way, be it Naruto who is in bad way mentally, or Kalawarner, who had a shitty life and made bad choices.

Dohnaseek I picture as this arrogant and cocky individual, who loves to fight and is downright cruel and apathetic. But he's dumb, as a rock. C'mon, we all know the type, they aren't rare in manga or anime, and most of the time, those types of characters are MC's.

You know, stupid as a rock, always willing to fight and never giving a shit about the consequences of their actions.

As for Mittelt…well, I imagined her as the typical coward. She's cruel and arrogant if she holds all the cards, if not, she is as quiet as a mouse and just as quick to scurry off. I also kind of needed her to life for my plot to move on from here.

And yes, to everyone that shouted that I nerfed Naruto in some way…I think not.

This Naruto is powerful, he just isn*t a planet destroying God-like warrior, at least not yet.

The way Naruto is right now, with just his Sage Mode and without any access to either the Boosted Gear or Kurama*s chakra, I'd place NAruto firmly into the lower end of the Ultimate Class. Around the level of Sairaorg without Regulus Nemea.

With the Boosted Gear, Naruto would be in the high end of the Ultimate Class power wise, but please be mindful of the fact that power is not everything. In terms of techniques, Naruto doesn*t have much to his name, but the techniques that he does have, are monstrous. I don't think think that I need to tell anyone just how broken the Shadow Clones can be with a bit of imagination.

But yes, without the Boosted Gear or Kurama's chakra, Naruto is low to mid Ultimate Class, with the Boosted Gear Naruto can contest the stronger beings of the Ultimate Class, and with Boosted Gears Balance Breaker, Naruto is powerful enough to contest some Gods. But yea, talking about things like the Boosted Gears Balance Breaker already, might be just a tad bit early, after all Naruto doesn't even know that he has the Boosted Gear yet.

So it might be a while before something like Sage Mode Scale Mail will be a thing.

And just so that I have said it, yes, Juggernaut Drive-Sage Mode Naruto might be just a bit broken. Just a bit tho, and lets not talk about Diabulos Dragon God, nah lets not talk about that.

But yes. I will be having fun making this Naruto something unique power wise,

Anyways, have good one!

R/R

See ya!