"Gaia?" Kuroka questioned not sure why the goddess in disguise looked like she wanted to cause Naruto bodily harm. On the other hand, when was she able to use magic circles?
"Gaia, what's wrong with you?" Naruto asked, taking cautious steps backwards.
The normal humans in the room stared on equally surprised to see a green circle levitating over Gaia's hand pointed at Naruto.
" .know it's you, Naruto." She said through gritted teeth.
Naruto staggered back. "Okay, okay. l-um, ask me a question only I would know the answer to!"
"What are you?!"
"A shinobi."
"A shinobi?/ What's a shinobi?" Kuroka &The pale blonde siblings thought.
"What rank were you?"
"Aw come on Gaia! It's me!" Naruto stomped his foot on the floor like a 5 year old.
"What rank were you!?"
"G-genin."
"What do you call the big threes?"
"Doves, Bats and Crows."
"OK. I believe you." The mother goddess's godly powers recedes as the magic circle disperses.
"What was that!" Naruto snapped, offended that she thought he was someone else.
"Naruto, this is much worse than we thought. Kuoh- No Japan, Hell, the whole world is in danger."
"I don't think I follow." Kuroka joined the conversation, interested after hearing the human world is in danger.
"The rise in crime rates… That's it! And the weird thing I've been sensing all this time…" Gaia trailed off. It all made sense to her now.
"What's a talking fog got to do with crime rates?"
"Well, the crime rates have been up there for the past three days. The precincts are already full of criminals as it is,." John remarked, finding it weird that the crime rates of the city suddenly skyrocketed, but after all he's seen today, he'd totally believe that a 'talking fog' was somehow linked to the bizarre sudden increase in crime.
"It's all because of it!" Gaia's face lit up. The whole thing made sense now. "How did it escape it's prison?" Gaia pondered.
"Hey, I've put an end to this thing. Problems solved," Naruto said, wondering why Gaia was getting all worked up over it.
"Naruto, I know you're strong but a fight between you and that demon… Everyone would have noticed."
Gaia knew Naruto was one strong bastard but she hadn't seen him go all out so gauging his full power was quite vague but she'd put him around the level of a Super devil.
"That thing was pretty weak, Gaia. Sure it was fast with crazy long limbs but still, It was pretty weak."
"You guys shouldn't talk about the supernatural with these two around." The resident feline told the human and goddess duo pointing at the normal humans in the house.
"Why?" John asked, standing in front of Martha in a defensive manner.
"You guys aren't supposed to know. It's for your own good," Kuroka answered.
"The supernatural?" John questioned.
"You will forget everything you heard tonight," Kuroka said, more like ordered, her aura taking a sudden change.
The siblings eyes glazed over for a second before they shook their heads a bit disoriented with a mean headache.
"What the hell was that, Lady?!" John yelled, rubbing his head.
"What the-" The nekomata's eyes widened a fraction.
"Ugh, I feel dizzy, Big bro.".
"Don't you ever do that again!" John hollered holding Martha. Kuroka was dumbfounded, they were able to resist her memory wipe.
"Ok, What are you guys?! Nothing makes sense at all! This guy can multiply and heal people. That woman was covered with a green aura and now you, you're trying to wipe my memory?! Are you some kind of government nut job? You guys are weirdos!" John's finally lost it seems.
"Hn, government nut job,," Naruto scoffed, turning around to face John. "But, there's something I noticed about you, Super cop-"
"It's John!"
"That thing, it wasn't after you." Naruto's aura turned cold in an instant and it was as if a war general took his place. The blonde waited to thicken the tension before he asked with cold piercing blue eyes, "Why?"
"I-i don't know, maybe it attacked you cause it sensed you were the stronger one?"
"How were you two able to resist the memory wipe?" Naruto took a step forward. He's seen the magic trick work on normal humans and other devils had tried it on him but... Let's just say, they were rendered wingless for the rest of their lives.
"L-let's not lose our h-head here, everyone," Martha stuttered.
"Are you doubting me right now?" John asked, a bit offended.
"Why are you exempted?"
"Brother-" Martha grabbed John's sleeve.
"Let go, Martha, this guy-"
"It happens all the time! Let it go!" Martha snapped on the verge of tears. Her sudden outburst knocked Naruto out of his serious mode.
"Hey, Martha, it's alright." John hugged Martha close. "Look, there's someone as weird as us right there," He said glaring at Naruto.
Kuroka had a confused look on her face, Gaia contemplated John's words and Naruto had an offended look on his face. "What, I'm not weird!" He defended.
"Define weird," Kuroka said to John.
"Ever since we were kids, we could see things normal people couldn't. From ghosts to those weird domes everyone gave a wide berth to subconsciously."
A sharp cold sensation shot through Naruto's spine at the mention of ghosts. He still hasn't overcome his fear of ghosts. One would think traveling to a new universe would cure him of his fear of ghosts but on the bright side, it cured his stupidity.
"Martha would cry all day because she was very young and the mean kids would call her names. They Ostracized her for being different and it only got worse when we lost our parents. They disappeared all of a sudden." John held onto Martha tightly, controlling his emotions before he continued. "I became a cop to protect my baby sister and so I could investigate our parent's bizarre disappearance. I haven't found a clue or anything about them and I know what the obvious answer is but I hope I'll find them one day and I'm going to keep on searching till I find them." John had a determined look on his face at the end.
"Yeah, good sob story but, that doesn't explain why you guys are immune." Naruto gave a jerky reply earning a glare from Kuroka and a punch from Gaia.
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