Game
Thoughts
"Talking"
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"Naruto-chan! This is the kid I was telling you about," Azazel greeted lazily, waving his hand toward the 'kid' standing next to him.
The kid in question was less of a kid and more of a young adult, looking to be at least twenty years old. He was decently tall, had a more pretty than handsome face, and had a plop of smooth silver hair on his head.
"Yo," Naruto said simply, holding up a peace sign.
"I'm glad I finally got to meet you, Youkai God!" The silver-haired man shouted, jutting his finger forward at Naruto with a grin, "The name's Vali, the White Dragon Emperor!"
The bar became quiet, everyone turning to look at Vali as he stared dramatically at Naruto.
…
"...Cool?" Naruto responded blandly.
Why's he looking at me like that? Was that supposed to mean something to me?
"You're a very hard man to get a hold of, Youkai God!" Vali continued dramatically, reaching up and swiping his hair out of his eyes in an exaggerated manner, "Every time I tried to fight you, that youkai woman got in the way! But not anymore - now there is nothing stopping us from having our battle!"
"Youkai woman?" Naruto blinked, tilting his head at Vali before he nodded as understanding dawned on him, "Oh, Yasaka. Yeah, she's a bit overprotective. I have a lot of fans show up at my house, so she usually sends them away. Do you want an autograph or somethin'?"
"Oh, yes, actually," Vali nodded rapidly, his dramatic demeanor dropping as he reached into his shirt and pulled out a manga with a shirtless Naruto on the cover, "Could you sign it on the front? Right next to your massive biceps would be grea- wait! You're quite the foe, Youkai God! Starting the battle with psychological combat, huh?"
"No," Naruto deadpanned, "I don't even know how to spell psychological, much less use it in a fight."
"You won't fool me, Youkai God! This is all a part of your ploy!" Vali stiffened, tensing his body as he shifted into a fighting stance, "I'll take you down here and now, Youkai God! I'll get revenge on you for ruining my lfie"
Naruto stared at him blankly. Then, he ignored the boy as he turned to Azazel.
"What's his problem?" Naruto asked bluntly.
"He loves fighting, and his whole purpose in life as the White Dragon Emperor is to defeat the Red Dragon Emperor," Azazel started to explain. In response, Naruto looked at him blankly.
"White and red what now?" He asked dumbly.
"Ah, the White Dragon Emperor is the wielder of the Divine Dividing," Azazel explained further, "And he's the sworn enemy of the Red Dragon Emperor, who is the wielder of the Boosted Gear."
…
Naruto stared at him blankly.
"T-They're two of the Longinus! They hold the souls of The Welsh Dragon Ddraig, and the Vanishing Dragon Albion!" Azazel finished, looking at Naruto as if he had explained everything.
…
"This isn't Wales, it's Japan," Naruto answered blankly.
"N-No! That's just his name! Look, Ddraig and Albion were these two ultra-powerful dragons who went on a rampage during the Great War," Azazel tried to explain again, "We had to stop fighting and team up to stop them. They were sealed in the Boosted Gear and Divine Dividing, so now the users of those sacred gears inherited their grudge and continue fighting!"
Naruto stared at him blankly.
"So… why is he trying to fight me?" Naruto pointed at Vali, who was still dramatically standing in a fighting pose, looking like a character select screen from a fighting game, "Shouldn't he go find this Welsh guy?"
"No, Welsh is just Ddraigs nickname! He's not actually Welsh." Azazel shook his head.
"I mean, if that's his nickname, then he's gotta be Welsh, right? Why doesn't he go look in Wales?" Naruto asked, actually making a good point.
"He's not Welsh! That's just his nickname!"
"Well, it seems like a pretty stupid nickname to me. What if I just started calling myself the 'American God?' Then you'd think I was the god of cheeseburgers, not of the Youkai."
"W-Well… I guess it isn't a very good nickname now that you mention it. It just… it was like a theme, y'know? We had to have Ddraig and Albion's names go together!" Azazel tried to justify himself, as he was one of the few living creatures to be old enough to have been around when Ddraig got his nickname.
"How do they even go together? One is named after a country, and the other is 'vanishing,'" Naruto deadpanned.
Azazel went quiet, glancing down as he wouldn't meet Naruto's eyes.
"You suck at coming up with nicknames, don't you?" Naruto asked with a raised eyebrow.
"N-No! I'm great at nicknames! That's my thing - I'm the nickname guy!" Azazel defended himself.
"Oh, yeah? What are some other nicknames you came up with?" Naruto asked doubtfully.
"I gave Grayfia her nickname!" Azazel huffed.
"Eh? Grayfia has a nickname?" Naruto blinked.
"Yeah, and a good one too! She's The Strongest Queen!" Azazel declared dramatically, smiling smugly.
"Yeah, she probably is, so I guess it makes sense she would have a nickname," Naruto nodded sagely, "So, what is it?"
"N-No, I mean, that was it! The Strongest Queen!" Azazel said again, his smile dipping slightly.
"...Her nickname is 'The Strongest Queen?'" Naruto asked blandly.
"...Yeah?" Azazel's smug smile dropped, seemingly starting to doubt himself.
"Yeah, real great nickname. How'd you come up with it? You must be real good at this to give 'Strongest Queen' to the strongest queen," Naruto deadpanned.
"T-That was a bad example, but I came up with tons of good nicknames! I even gave Sirzechs his!" Azazel tried to defend himself again.
"...and what is his?" Naruto asked dryly, actually knowing the answer to this one. Azazel blinked as he thought about it, his shoulders slumping as he spoke.
"...The Crimson Satan…"
"Right, you named the satan with red hair the Crimson Satan. That must've taken a lot of brainstorming," Naruto sighed.
"N-Nicknames aside, please just fight Vali!" Azazel shook his head, shaking off his embarrassment as he gestured to Vali, who was still just standing there in a fighting stance as he watched Naruto and Azazel bicker.
"Why? Shouldn't he go fight the Welsh guy?" Naruto shrugged.
"He can't. The Red Dragon Emperor died," Azazel replied bluntly, glossing over how Naruto called him 'the Welsh guy' again, "That's why you ruined Vali's life."
"Eh? Did I kill him?" Naruto blinked, confused by Azazel's words, "I don't kill people. I might kick their ass, but I won't kill them. Though… some people are kind of fragile in this world, so maybe I did it on accident…"
"N-No, you didn't directly kill him," Azazel shook his head, "You remember that meeting you mediated between me and Rias Gremory a while ago?"
"Nope," Naruto replied bluntly.
"T-The one about the four fallen angels in her territory?" Azazel tried again.
"Doesn't ring a bell."
"I made you take them in, and now they're all walking around your house in skimpy maid outfits? Raynare, Mittelt, and Kalawarna?" Azazel deadpanned.
"Oh, that meeting!" Naruto nodded, "You gotta be more specific. Do you know how many meetings Yasaka makes me go to? Way too many."
Naruto had never been a big fan of stuffy things like meetings, but as the Youkai God he had found himself attending a lot of meetings. Far more than he would've liked to be.
"You're even worse with important stuff than I am," Azazel sighed, slumping in his chair.
"Yeah, I'm more of a kick-ass and eat-ramen type of guy," Naruto hummed.
"Well, those fallen were in trouble with Rias for killing a human in her territory," Azazel explained, "Which was why we had that meeting. The human they killed was the Red Dragon Emperor."
Naruto stared at him blankly.
"The Welsh guy!"
"Oh," Naruto nodded sagely. Then, he glanced over at Vali, who was still silently towering over the bar stools Naruto and Azazel were sitting on, his body shifting back and forth in his fighting stance.
"I don't see how that's my fault. If anything, it's your fault," Naruto shot him down, deadpanning at Azazel, "It was your subordinates that killed him. I never even met the Welsh guy."
"Please stop calling him the Welsh guy. He's the Red Dragon Emperor," Azazel sighed, slumping even deeper in his chair.
"Eh? But if you nicknamed him the Welsh guy, then he's gotta be Welsh, so it's fine to call him that!" Naruto shot back, using logic against Azazel's logicless nickname.
Persuasion Check
[Rolling…]
[God's Luck] has added +20 to your roll!
20!
Check success!
Azazel blinked, then nodded sagely, "Yeah, you're right, he is Welsh. This is what I mean - he's a Welsh dragon, so calling him the Welsh Dragon is a good nickname!"
Naruto stared at him blankly.
Damn it, system! You made his terrible nickname a good one!
"Anyway, they killed him, but Rias was going to resurrect him as a member of her peerage," Azazel continued to explain, "From what Sirzechs told me, she was going to bring him in to help her defeat Riser in a rating game and nullify her marriage contract. But, since you told her you'd deal with Riser, she didn't because he was an annoying pervert."
Naruto stared at him blankly, for what felt like the tenth time that day.
"This is still not my fault," He replied bluntly, "I feel like it's anyone's but mine. It's your fault for letting your subordinates kill him, it's Rias's fault for not resurrecting him - hell, it's the Welsh guy's fault for being an annoying pervert. This is in no way my problem."
Persuasion Check
[Rolling…]
[God's Luck] has added +20 to your roll!
20!
Check success!
Naruto stared in slight shock as the system was actually on his side.
Wait, a situation going my way?! This never happens!
"Yup, it's not your fault at all," Azazel nodded wisely, doing a complete 180, "But, I told him it's your fault."
Azazel gestured at Vali, who finally broke his fighting-screen idle animation to shout an NPC dialogue at Naruto, "You ruined my life, Youkai God! My purpose for living is gone!"
"Why'd you tell him that?" Naruto deadpanned.
"Because his whole purpose is to fight the Welsh guy! I've been training him since he was a kid to defeat him, and then the Welsh guy just dies before they get to even meet!" Azazel justified himself, referring to Issei as the 'Welsh guy' now that it actually made sense, "He has no goal in life! He's becoming insane - look at how long he's been standing there like that! It's not normal!"
Naruto glanced at Vali, who was still standing there, staring at Naruto dramatically with his fists held up. The rest of the customers at the bar around them had become bored of his antics at this point, and they were no longer watching the silver-haired boy.
"...yeah, you're right about that," Naruto nodded, "I bet his legs are tired from shifting back and forth like that. He's even letting us talk about him like he's not here."
"Exactly! He got fucked up in the head!" Azazel explained bluntly, "So, he needs a new goal! That goal is you - so please fight him!"
Naruto glanced over at Azazel, who was looking at him with pleading eyes, then to Vali, who was pointing at him dramatically as he readied himself to fight.
"Eh, fine," Naruto sighed, standing up from the bar stool, "I kind of feel bad for him. We can have one fight."
"Yay! Thank you, Naruto-chan!" Azazel cheered.
"I will defeat you, Youkai God!" Vali shouted again dramatically, his face becoming steeled with determination.
"Yeah, yeah. Let's go somewhere away from civilians," Naruto hummed, snapping his fingers. A magic circle appeared under them, and an instant later they were standing in a large open field. The grass around them was freshly cut, looking like it was taken care of constantly.
"Where's this?" Azazel mused, looking at Naruto curiously.
"Training grounds in the Gremory territory," Naruto replied easily. He shifted into his own fighting stance as Vali did the same.
"Get ready, Youkai God! Divine Dividing!" Vali shouted, and a pair of large white wings shot out from his back. He tensed his feet, launching forward as he lunged with his hand out, his palm positioned at Naruto's chest.
In response, Naruto merely dodged to the side, avoiding the boy's attack. But, Vali didn't let up, repeatedly lunging at Naruto with an outstretched hand.
"What kind of attack is this?" Naruto muttered, watching as Vali didn't try to punch him, instead looking like he was just trying to touch him with his fingertips.
"Stop running and find out!" Vali screamed in response, the boy's eyes alight with excitement.
…Usually, I wouldn't fall for that, but for some reason I feel like it'll be alright anyway.
Naruto stopped abruptly, causing Vali's eyes to widen as his palm made contact with Naruto's chest.
"Divide!" A deep voice came from Vali's large wings. As it did, Naruto's eyes widened in shock. Suddenly, he felt as if his chakra reserves had been cut in half - his body felt sluggish, his muscles weak, and like chains were holding down his feet.
I feel… weak? There was something that could do this?
Despite the feeling, a grin slowly crept onto Naruto's face.
I haven't had to fight seriously in a long time!
Since coming to this world, Naruto had never had a serious fight. Even his two strongest opponents so far - Zekram and Kokobiel - had both been easily defeated by a joke technique in the Thousand Years of Death.
But, now… Naruto felt alive. His power was drained, his body feeling weak - as if he'd already been in a treacherous fight. Victory wasn't guaranteed - no, if anything, the odds were stacked against him.
He wouldn't be able to stomp over his opponent - he wouldn't be able to use just his fists and pure power. He'd have to use his own techniques - he'd have to utilize genuine jutsu's beyond shadow clones. He'd have to fight intelligently, utilizing his battle instincts that were honed from a lifetime of battle.
This'll be fun!
"Alright, Vali! Let's go at i-" Naruto stopped abruptly, his excitement stopping in an instant as he pulled himself out of his thoughts and looked at Vali. The White Dragon Emperor was lying flat on his back, his eyes glazed shut as foam dripped out of his mouth.
"The hell?" Naruto muttered, staring blankly at the boy.
"Wow, I've never seen that before," Azazel chuckled, walking forward and stepping next to Naruto as they stared down at Vali, "The Divine Dividing expels any power the wielder can't handle out of its wings, but it looks like just having that power in the air near him was too much. He's totally knocked out."
Naruto stared down at him blankly.
…Why'd he have to get my hopes up? Are you punishing me, Kakashi?! I'm sorry, okay? I wasn't a bad enough student to deserve all this!
"Well, thanks for giving him a fight, Naruto-chan," Azazel grinned, leaning down to pick up his fallen pupil, "I'm sure this will motivate him to get out of this 'insane person' rut he's in. He'll train his butt off to challenge you again!"
"...yeah, you're welcome," Naruto sighed dejectedly, dragging his feet through the grass as he turned around and walked away from Azazel, "...if you were depressed, what would you do?"
"Depressed?" Azazel hummed, tilting his head in thought for a moment, "...Probably drink booze and have sex."
"Yeah, that's what I was also thinking," Naruto nodded, snapping his finger as a magic circle appeared under him, "Don't contact me for at least a week."
And so, to get over his depression from having an exciting battle ripped away from him, Naruto spent that night drowning away his sorrow in the bodies of his harem. However, it wasn't just that night - it would extend into the day, the next night, and then for days to come.
It also marked the first time since his sex drive managed to outlast his harems - yes, all of his harem. For the first time, it was not Naruto feeling like a wrung-out rag after a night of sex with his gorgeous wives and harem, but the women who felt like they wouldn't be able to walk for months to come.
Silently, Rias felt slightly guilty as she thanked her past self for not resurrecting Issei Hyoudou - as it allowed this situation to occur, and for her to have the best sex of her life.
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Naruto Uzumaki:
[Youkai God]
Lvl: 505
STR: 762
DEX: 725
CON: 540
INT: 215
WIS: 750
CHA: 999
LUK: 0
Skills: [Chess Mastery]
Perks: [Martial Arts], [You're a Wizard, Naruto], [Ladies Man], [God's Luck]
Debuffs: [Confusion], [Bad Timing]
Naruto Uzumaki is a Hero from another world, who has been reborn with the power of the Gamer system!
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AN: Thank you for reading! Sorry for only one chapter this week, I will try to post 2 or maybe 3 next week!
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