DxD: The Fox and Demons

His hands were tied, metaphorically and literally in a way.

...That sucked.

"Shit!" Naruto couldn't help but curse as his entire body began to get swallowed up whole, enveloping him as his sight began to darken at the edges of his vision.

One of the last things that he would hear from the Elemental Nations in a long time was Kakashi-sensei's surprised shout.

Naruto was falling.

He was falling very, very fast. The air that was rushing past him could attest to that much.

The blond tried to slow down his descent by flailing his arms, but instead all he did was force his body to twirl around more erratically.

So he was obviously way too disoriented to make even think about using a jutsu to get out of this, and he couldn't even tell what was happening either, since the world was spinning around him so fast that he felt like he would vomit.

He almost wished that he threw up instead of feeling the pain of crashing into the-

*Splash*

...water.

The body of liquid he landed in was sent splashing everywhere, going sky-high from his impact and crashing against the area around it. Overflowing a little bit thanks to the tiny tidal wave he created.

Needless to say, the shinobi finally reached the end of his free-fall, and he was overwhelmingly thankful that he had his Sage Mode on.

Otherwise the fall could have ended up being a whole lot worse, and by that, he meant he would have ended up as a pancake.

Not pretty.

It took a few seconds for Naruto to poke his head up from the water, blinking rapidly in order to re-calibrate himself to being upright again. Before quickly taking a quick look around him to find out where he was.

Trees.

Pavement.

Shell-shocked human beings.

...Was he still in Konoha? Or at least near the Land of Fire?

Toad-like eyes shut themselves from the world as the blond cursed under his breath, annoyed that he was sent on a ride into some weird area. Why couldn't he get a break?

"There's no way that I'm missing my hero's welcome dattebayo..." Naruto stated with resolve, his focus on his surroundings as he tried to find out where he was.

...

"That can't be right."

Naruto snapped his eyes open and forced himself up, refusing to believe what his incredible senses were telling him.

There was just no way.

It was impossible.

Yet his senjutsu abilities couldn't just be wrong...right?

The simple fact was that, outside of the still blubbering people he terrified, Naruto sensed a lot of people close by.

So much so that he felt like they could have made their own village, really.

But that wasn't the issue, the problem was something else entirely.

He couldn't sense their chakra.

Correction; he couldn't sense anything's chakra.

All humans had chakra, even if they weren't shinobi, they had it. Yet...for some reason...these people didn't.

He should know! Ero-Sennin made extra sure to jam that information down his throat.

Bless his pervy soul.

Anyways, Naruto couldn't sense a drop of chakra in anyone, which should be impossible because humans needed it to stay alive! It was tied to their life force, right!?

So the blond quickly moved towards the shore, forgetting all about the pain of falling from who-knows-where and-

Wait.

"Shit!" the young man cried out, snapping his head towards the sky as he tried to find out if that...aberration was still there.

Wherever he was in the Elemental Nations, as strange as it was, that 'thing' could at least be used to return back to Konoha, right?

Except he couldn't. Not anymore.

To his dismay he couldn't sense that 'thing' at all anymore, it was quite simply; gone. Like it never existed in the first place.

Well...there went that idea.

How the hell was he supposed to get home then!?

Ok...he had to relax here, and he had to think; what could have happened to make that rift in the first place? Maybe he could try and make one himself?

Basically; what happened today that didn't happen on every other day?

...

"Oh...!" the shinobi realized in a 'eureka' moment, slamming his fist into the palm of his hand.

People who were dead were brought back to life! That didn't usually happen, right?

So all he had to do to re-open that rift was re-do that jutsu!

And to do that, all he needed was a pair of Rinnegan eyes!

Naruto nodded with a confident smile, those were very easy to obtain after all! And since that was the case, he would get back home without much trouble-

"As if!" Naruto roared out, slamming his head into the ground with so much strength that it created little spider cracks.

He completely ignored the ordinary folks that he horrified by his actions, far too distracted with his own problems to care at that moment.

"...Damn it Nagato..." Naruto groaned out from his spot on the ground, with faux tears flowing down his cheeks at his predicament.

His sempai under Ero-sennin pretty much screwed him without realizing it, though it was also probably his fault as well.

...Probably.

Did a jutsu that brought people back to life have such weird side effects? Or was it something else that he just wasn't seeing?

He had no clue, and unfortunately for him, he didn't have any jutsu that could do something as ridiculously impressive as bringing people back to life.

Ok then, plan B.

He would get back home...by foot.

The old-fashioned way it was then.

Naruto finally forced himself up from the ground and immediately moved to resume his search, intent on finding out where he was so that he could have some idea of what he had to do to get home.

The people that he accidentally terrified just watched the young man go, their collective eyes wide as he began to grumble to himself.

No one would believe them when they told anyone else their story, so instead; a new folklore began on the very spot that the orange-loving boy landed on based on what the people there saw.

The lake of the human falling star.

It was a stupid legend, and everyone soon forgot about it.

When Naruto finally saw the end of the tree lines, which itself signified the end of the park, -though he had no idea it was a park- he grinned.

Finally, he could see what he was dealing with.

So he the blond did just that and walked out of the park, eyes scanning to check the area.