21 Chapter 21

"Good Ravel, now, heat up!" Naruto, with his feature coated in golden like energy and a long cloak in the same colour with black lines on his body, shouted to his fiancés as the both of them was training very seriously.

"Hai! Naruto-sama!"

Rias Gremory, Naruto's beloved girlfriend and her whole peerage paled at the intense training while trying to get use to the powerful forces of demonic energy created by Ravel Phenex.

"Interesting" Sirzechs Lucifer, Rias' brother and the Crimson Maou of the Underworld mused as he watched Ravel created a powerful wave of flame toward Naruto "it looks like that cloak not only increase Ravel's demonic energy but also gain her stamina, speed as well as protection."

True enough, Ravel was having the same cloak at Naruto on her smaller frame, with the same black lines and radiant energy. Despite of sparing with Naruto for nearly an hour now, Ravel didn't look tire in the slightest.

"The control over her magic is getting better as well, it seems that Ravel is a wizard-type and I think that Naruto has realized that as well" Azazel nodded his head, using his hand to scratch his beard when Naruto blown away the wave of flame with his hands "keep this one and also with Naruto keep on bumping her endless energy like this, she will be as strong as her eldest brother in no time"

"And we supposed to fight with monsters like that!" Issei shouted, clearly voiced out everyone's thought "you got to be kidding me!"

"Oh you have no idea" the leader of Fallen Angel smirked evilly "this is just the tip of the gigantic iceberg, the real problem is the rest of his peerage. Those girls has grown from lovers of a certain Phenex to well-trained warrior by using Naruto's training methods"

"A strong King, a loyal Queen, a Bishop who is very understanding to the King himself and not to mention very intelligent in tactists and the rest of the Peerage syns with each other in a way no one had ever seen before" Sirzechs sighed with a smile before standing straight up "Their skills balance each other. I don't think I can see such peerage like this ever since Belial became the King of Rating Game"

Again, Rias couldn't believe that she would have to face him if she was able to push through to the final.

Naruto grinned when Ravel attacked him again with a dozen of fireballs heading toward him with such heat that even with one of his strongest state Naruto could clearly feel it on his skin.

But still, it was ten years too soon for Ravel to think that she got him with this.

In a flash, Naruto's body disappeared as he moved with extreme speed toward Ravel without getting hit by any fireballs, moving in a zigzag formation and used his hand to swap away any fireballs that got too close.

Ravel took several steps aback when she saw the yellow flash of lightning slowly getting close to her, losing her balance and fell down to the ground if not for Naruto immediately appeared and caught her in his hands.

"Careful" He grinned and helped Ravel get on her feet before returning to his normal state, at the same time making the cloak Ravel was wearing disappeared as well.

"Thank you Naruto-sama" Ravel smiled at him "so…how did I do, Naruto-sama?" she asked hopefully.

"Your fire, no doubt stronger than Raiser-teme now even without my cloak" Naruto commented "your control is better and the heat is much higher than before, I could feel it even with one of my strongest form" he then patted her head "You will be as strong as Ruval-san soon"

"Don't joke like that Naruto-sama" Ravel slapped his hand away making the older blond chuckled "but still…you're so strong Naruto-sama, I can feel that your power continuous transferred into me for as long as the spar lasted. Just how much energy do you have?"

"Well…" Naruto scratched the back of his head, he always wondering that. That golden state was more or less came from Kurama "…I really don't know" Naruto could fight for days without getting tired, proving that his stamina was way too high even for an Ultimate Class power devil.

Ravel shrugged her shoulders, grabbing a bottle of water and drink from it.

Currently, Naruto was deep in thought.

"Speaking of which…" the boyfriend of Rias Gremory scratched his chin "maybe it time to…"

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"Grayfia, do you know where Naruto-kun is?"

Rias asked Grayfia about their boyfriend, for the later he was also her master. This morning after finishing the training with Ravel and the other girls of his peerage, Rias planned to ask Naruto to go shopping with her but the next moment she took his eyes away from her, he disappeared without a trace.

She was expecting him to be here with Grayfia but Rias was very surprise to find the maid alone and ironing Naruto's clothes.

"I thought he's with you Ojou-sama" Grayfia replied before returning back to what she was doing "guess I was wrong" she then picked up his shirt before folding it neatly and put i

"Hm? Then where could he be?" Rias asked herself while looking around with hands on her hip. Naruto could hide his present quite well so she couldn't be able to sense him anywhere, even after channeling her magic into her bracelet, he didn't response at all, which was a really surprise.

"Have you asked Ravel-sama?" Grayfia advised, she too, was wondering wherever about Naruto is "maybe he is with her"

"Uhm, maybe...I guess" Rias nodded, lately Naruto had spent a lot of time around his peerage especially Ravel for both training purpose and strengthen their relationships. Rias even saw the two walking with each other in the garden, talking as if they were already husband and wife and been in love for years.

At first, Rias thought it was normal for Naruto to spend more time with Ravel than the other members of his peerage even Yubelluna who had grown a lot closer to Naruto as well. The two shared a very sacred bond with each other, making Ravel the only one able to use a part of his power to add him in battlefield.

It was still a mystery for them of just excatly how powerful was Ravel when the bond acts on itself and wrapped Ravel in the coat of Naruto's energy, but the level of her magical energy alone was enough to rival Rias herself and even some of the higher high-class devils. Naruto was probably teaching Ravel how to use his cloak in the most effective way.

"Let's go Ojou-sama, I got something to tell Naruto-sama as well" Grayfia said as she stood beside the youngest child of the Gremory Household, who then nodded and led the way outside the caslte to get to Naruto's training ground.

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"Naruto-sama? I thought he was with you Rias-sama, I haven't seen him since morning"

"Me neither Rias-sama"

Ravel and Yubelluna both shook their head, making Rias frown. If Naruto wasn't with Ravel then maybe he was with the other girls of his peerage, but if Yubelluna said she haven't seen him as well, then trying to search for him would be very hard.

"Where is that idiot?" Rias scolded, if she didn't know any better, she would say Naruto was ignoring everyone and minding his own business without letting his friends knew about it.

"We could ask Ikaros, she could find Naruto even if he try to hide from us" Rias couldn't help but nodded her head at Ravel's advice, for some reason the robot-Angel's sensor could always be able to find Naruto even if he tried to hide his magical signature. The angels and Ajuka had designed Ikaros to always be able to get to Naruto's side and help him whenever she wanted to or Naruto…captured and no one could find him.

A moment later, Rias and Grayfia with Ravel and Yubelluna walking behind them found Ikaros playing with Millicas inside of his room. The Fallen Angel was sitting on the ground while slowly running her hand on the watermelon's surface, her face as usual void of any emotion.

"Ikaros" after being able to shake Millicas off the friendly Angel and sent him to Dining hall for breakfast, Rias turned to the angeloid who was looking at her with the same emotionless eyes "can you find Naruto-kun?"

There's a moment of silence before the pink hair angel opened her lips to speak.

"Master is in his room" she said shortly.

"Huh, but I was…" Rias stopped and had a feeling of slapping herself for being such an idiot "Oh yeah, I nearly forgot that"

Rias had her own room, which was now shared by both her and her boyfriend but it didn't mean Naruto never had his own room. There was a room at the second floor which the walls were panted orange and lot of orange stuffs inside that could easily burn anyone's eyes because of the color, so Rias sealed that room off and forced Naruto to sleep with her in her room from that day.

Naruto's old room was the last place she would want to think about, so of course she couldn't think of wherever about Naruto was.

"Let's go, let's see what he is up to" Rias said and pulled everyone with her, with Ikaros followed behind them out of curiosity.

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Along the way, the group got the company of the rest of Rias' peerage along with a worn out Issei Hyoudou, who just got a day off thank to his hard work by Tannin the dragon. They were all wondering where was their favorite blond, who was always the first one to raise and shine in the morning. All head to Naruto's old room and Rias was the one who knocked on the floor.

"Naruto-kun, are you in there?" There was no reply.

"My sensor tell me that he's in the room" Ikaros said, looking at the door

"Naruto-kun, if you don't open the door I will kick it off!" she always wanted to destroy this room when she was young, but Naruto didn't allow her to do so.

Before Rias could do what she intend to, Ikaros raised her hands and punched the door with such force that it sent the wooden door flying across and landed on the other side of the room, breaking into piece much to everyone's amaze.

"Gah!" they all heard his shouted, looking inside everyone saw that Naruto was sitting with his legs crossing on the bed "I'm trying to concentrate here" he shouted loudly.

"Naruto-kun so this is where you are?" Rias smirked victoriously while walking into the orange room, with her peerage following shortly behind "what are you thinking?" she asked while giving a light punch on his arm "you got everyone worry for disappearing like that"

"Sorry Rias-chan" He chuckled.

"What are you doing Naruto-sama?" Akeno asked, trying to snug closer to him but Rias was way faster than her and held her black haired Queen back with the most 'innocent' smile.

"Well, remember what I told you about me have figured it out a way to find memories back?" everyone froze and widened their eyes "well I think it is about time I get them back, to find out the truth"

"All these past months I live with the thought that my only purpose in life was to kill Rias-chan" The crimson haired heiress looked away a little "without knowing anything about my real family or where the powers I was using to fight for everyone coming from. I think it time you know"

Everyone was silent because they didn't know what to say. Everyone, especially those who had spent their childhood life with him knew about his past more than everyone else.

"Now come to think of it…" Naruto then crossed his arms across his chest "How about you all come to see it with me?" they were stunned at his declaration "My memories"

"Naruto-kun…it is your privacy, I don't think we should…"

"Nah nah don't worry Rias-chan" he smiled at his girlfriend "you're all a part of my family right? Sharing my memories with you guys is the least I can do to repay the debt of taking care of me when I was young" he then scratched the back of his head "plus, I don't think I will be able to handle it alone so maybe I will need some other people to help me with this"

"What do you mean?" Grayfia asked with a calm tone, but she already saw the reason behind it.

"You see, I found a way to regain my memories however…" he then pointed to his head "because everything was erased from my mind, to be able to regain all those memories again I have to somehow force my brain to go through everything I have experienced again. Everything I saw, everything I felt, the pain, the hot, the happiness and even the sadness… I have to make my brain to go through it again"

"It takes a lot of time to have all of it back, so I have to force all of my lost memories into my brain all at once to speed up and more or less the overwhelm information will damage my brain, at least that what I think."

"Oh, like the Internet" Issei said loudly and Naruto couldn't help but nod his head, that explanation was simple, but gathered what he mean.

"So in order to reduce the pain you're saying that we should all share the same mind with you" Grayfia spoke up "link our conscious and brain together right, we will see what you see and feel what you feel?"

"No, I think it will be just see what I see" Naruto shook his head "the magic I am able to use is only capable of transferring the information that my brain processed from my eyes only, so you won't have to feel what I feel don't worry"

"I plan to lend the help through my clones but since everyone is here, why not ask your help as well" He smiled at them, knowing full well that these people would provide him the help he wanted, even if Naruto didn't really want to bother them.

Kurama was the one who came up with this idea after all, even though Naruto opposed it at first, saying that he could handle the memories alone and didn't want to trouble Rias-chan and everyone with his problem.

Rias looked around and saw the determination in everyone eyes, even Issei who had the usual perversely expression disappeared on his face.

She wanted to help Naruto just like everyone around her.

It was never enough to repay him of what he had done for them, but helping him would be the least they could do right now.

"We will help you Naruto-kun" Rias smiled at him "Just tell us what we should do"

"Thank you Rias-chan" He smiled brightly at them.

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The next thing Rias Gremory knew after Naruto casted that spell on her and everyone was darkness.

Slowly opening her eyes, Rias glanced down slightly and saw she was lying on her front, on a water surface and yet she felt herself completely dry.

Standing up slowly, supporting her body with all four, the crimson haired heiress then suddenly felt a tingle of pain from the deep of her mind but it disappeared as fast as it appeared.

Everything around them was dark and she couldn't see anything other than the wide area of water.

"Rias?" Rias looked up and saw Akeno slowly walking toward her, slowly making herself known.

"Akeno" the King smiled before taking her Queen's hand, letting the Akeno pulled her up to her feet "Where is everyone?"

"I don't know Rias" Akeno shook her head "I saw Yuuto-kun a moment ago but he went somewhere else to find the other" she then looked around "Where are we anyway?"

"I don't know Akeno, but I have the feeling that this is Naruto-kun's mind" their conscious was linked to each other through Naruto, so it wouldn't be a surprise if this was Naruto's brain "well I hope it is not because it is empty" the both chuckled at that before starting to search for everyone else.

It didn't take them long to find the others. About a minute or so they reunited with Grayfia, Ravel and Naruto's Queen Yubelluna before Kiba and the rest of her peerage made their present to Rias. Ikaros stayed outside to watch over their sleeping body and since her mind wasn't like them, Naruto couldn't risk using the magic on her incase he accidentally damage her brain.

"So is anyone knows where we are?"

"Naruto's mindscape"

Rias' question was answered because the next moment that booming voice was heard, everything around them suddenly lighted up.

"DEAR MAOU!" Issei shouted when he finally saw what standing behind him and clearly the one who just spoke up

Behind them was a creature reminded them greatly of Yasaka's full Youkai form, a kitsune with red-orange fur and red eyes, it possessed the upper-body structure of a human, complete with opposable thumbs on its clawed hands.

The fox was big, bigger than any creature they had ever seen in their life. Issei could clearly see that this Nine-tails fox was even bigger than Tannin himself, standing roughly the same height as the entire mountain and the combination size of its tails were even greater than its own body.

Everyone immediately took caution when the fox suddenly bared it fangs to them before roaring out powerfully, knocking a few of them to their back but the stronger ones were all ready to fight. Issei even screamed out like a girl when the fox teeth was inches from him, being the one who was nearest to Kurama

"HAHAHAH!" the fox suddenly laughed with a booming voice "I have always wanted to do that"

"In the name of Maou, who are you?!" Grayfia asked loudly with a calm and cold voice, her hands were radiating with ice magic. She didn't know if she could use her magic in here or not, but clearly she was the strongest person here and if she must, she would protect the other with her life against this creature.

"The name Kurama" he brought out his hand and flicked Grayfia with his index finger, making the white haired maid fell on her butt "and as you can see, I'm a Kyuubi just like that blonde vixen" it was clear that he was referencing to Yasaka

"You…you look just like Naruto's Youkai form" Akeno could see the resembles between Kurama and the formed Naruto used to battle along side with Yasaka at the end of the battle at Kyoto "You're his power"

"Wrong! I lend him my power" Kurama said.

"Wait a minute" Rias then looked at Kurama with wide eyes, remembering the voice she heard the night many years ago from Naruto "You're that voice…you were the one who stopped Naruto eight years ago, weren't you?"

"You're welcome" the fox gave a foxy grin.

"Thank you…Kurama-san" Rias smiled at him and this made everyone lowered their guard down a bit. It seemed that this nine-tail fox was friendly.

"Kurama-san, can I ask where is Naruto-sama?" Ravel took a step forward nervously.

"The brat is going through his memories I am transferring to him" Kurama crossed his arms across his chest "I'm with Naruto from the day he was born, so I know everything about his past. The guy who captured Naruto clearly knew what to do. He wiped all of Naruto's memories from his head so the only option for him is me giving him my own memories"

"W-What about us?" Issei asked nervously

"Well I can tear you apart and see if the Dragon Ddraig is a worthy opponent or not" the fox smirked making Issei shouted in terror, Gasper already passed in fear out and strangely, his usual box was here with him as well "just kidding…Naruto tell me to show you guys his memories"

"And?"

"Why should I?" everyone face-palmed "I will still give you some access to his memories, to show you his memories just like you ask, but I won't show you all of it, just some important moments of his life. The rest you will have to ask him"

"Well I guess that is fine enough for us" Xenovia put her sword away, ready to cut down this fox if he ever dared to refuse. It seem that their power could work fine in here.

"Good" the nine-tails fox nodded his head before smiling "Let's go then"

Then, in a blur the surrounding around them changed