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"Death...is everywhere. Most of us try to avoid it, others can't get out of its way. Every day we fight a new war against GERMS, TOXINS, INJURY, ILLNESS, and CATASTROPHE."
"There's a lot of ways to wind up dead. The fact that we survive at all is a miracle, because every day we live, we face 1000 WAYS TO DIE."
-Thousand ways to Die Second Season opening
Chapter 1: What have we done?
Within a rectangular room that was white with a single rectangular table in the middle of the room. On the table was something small in humanoid shape that was covered with a white blanket. In the room were three figures, two were blond haired males although the one with short spiky hair with two bangs that covered the side of his face; was wearing a sleeveless haori with flames near the bottom while the other was longed straight hair that was tied into a ponytail was wearing a green jacket with multiple pockets into it. The only female was red haired wearing black clothing that one might see at a funeral.
"Are you should you want to do this Minato, Kushina? There's still time to back out now." the straight hair man asked the other two.
"Of course, Inochi, it's our fault and even if we couldn't be there for him then. The least we can do for him is to experience his last memories." Minato said with tears in his eyes.
"I-I have to, my baby boy was suffering and I left him to it. I have to know what my own action cause." Kushina stated with her head lowered and a handkerchief covering her nose and mouth.
"Okay then, now to remind you what's going to happen." Inochi then removed part of the blanket to allow the head of a four year old child with blonde hair and three faint whiskers marks. The child was sunken and the skin was barely covering the skull bone. Minato and Kushina could barely look at the child. Regret and remorse filed their bodies and Kushina felled to floor.
'I'm so sorry, baby, Mommy should have been there. She's so sorry." Kushina chanted in her mind over and over while Minato kneeled down and grabbed her by the shoulder.
"I know." Minato said the only thing he could to tried and calm his wife. This was their sin to bear together. Kushina nodded before both got back up onto their feet.
Inochi waited until it was over. While he couldn't understand the feeling that his friends were having. He knew that he would act the same way if his beloved daughter died. Once it was done, he continued, "As you know, many of the Yamanaka Clan have the lightning chakra nature. We can used it to light up the brain and while we can't bring back the dead, we can show the last memories the dead had before death. This is what you two want, isn't it? To experience the last memories of Naruto-kun?"
Minato and Kushina nodded, "Yes."
"Okay, then know that I won't be with you as you experience it as I have no deisres to see and possibly ruin my friendship with you." Inochi stated his intent and reason clearly.
"I know, this is Kushina and my sin to bear, all that I would asked you to do is to keep the connection up." Minato smiled as his long timed friend. But Inochi could see that the smile was merely a facade. In truth, Minato was afraid to feel and see what he had to done to his young son.
After performing the handsigns needed, he yelled in a more subdued manner,"Here we go then, Yamanaka Hijutsu: Saigo (Yamanaka Secret Techinque: Moment of death),"Inochi closed his eyes in concentration of his techinque. Kushina and Minato were holding each other as they braced for the last moments of their son's short life.
Memories two days before Death - Naruto's point of view
Naruto was not a happy child, nor was he angry. The small four year old was in his barren room save for a bed, drawer,desk and some clothes. The blonde haired child with faint whiskers marks on his cheeks was doodling on his desk, the picture being of a family of four with two males and females. The males were blond with the child having three whisker marks. The same thing with the females except they were redheads.
"This should get Kaa-chan and Tou-san to notice me,soon we play together." Naruto thought. He didn't know why his mother loved playing with his sister, Mito and his father giving her what she wanted,maybe she did something sooner than he did and that was reason why they played with her more.
"All done,"Naruto smiled as he finished his drawing. The drawing took him three days to finish as he wanted everything to be perfect for when he showed to his parents. The door to his room barged open and a four year old girl enter.
The girl had red hair and three whiskers marks on her cheeks same as him. Her face was slightly chubby making her look like a tomato. Naruto overheard his parents one day that they look like their parents when they were the same age.
"Naru-nii, what's that?" the girl asked.
"This, Mito-nee is my picture of all of us together," Naruto exclaimed in his excitement, "Kaa-chan and Tou-san will be so proud of me."
While he was smiling with his eyes closed, he didn't see the gleam in his sister's eyes as she was thinking of a plan. It was one of those, "You snooze,you lose" gleam. This was proving true when Mito grabbed the picture and push Naruto out of his chair. Mito then ran out of the room as Naruto was in shock at what happened but later gave chase.
Mito had already run down the stairs when Naruto exited from the room. By the time, Naruto made it down to the living room where his parents were having a meeting with others, Mito had already presented the picture as her doing. Both Kushina and Minato were giving praise that their daughter was a genius for making a drawing.
"Kaa-chan, Tou-san, that's my drawing. Mito-nee didn't make it." Naruto tried to explain to them.
Both Minato and Kushina didn't want to hear, "Be quiet, Naruto. Don't try to take take your sister's accomplishment as your own." Minato sternly told his son.
"But Mito-nee didn't make it, I did." Naruto continued to tell them.
"Be quiet, Naruto, you know I don't like lying in my home." Kushina scolded him.
"But I'm not lying."
"Enough! Kushina, please entertain our guests as I bring Naruto back to his room for his timeout." Minato told Kushina as he picked up Naruto and placed him over the shoulders and walked out the room. Naruto continued to plead his innocence all the way before father and son reached Naruto's room and Minato placed him into the room and locked the door on the outside.
"Don't even think of coming out until Tomorrow, think about your actions tonight." Minato yelled from the other side of the room.
Naruto ran up to his door and continued to pound into it, pleading his innocence. When that didn't work, he pleaded that he was sorry. Minato didn't wanted his guest to be disturbed, went to back to the door and used a sealing technique to soundproof the room and restore the room if Naruto even break it. Naruto continued to pound the door all night.
One Day Before Death
Naruto has been banging for as long as he could. At first, he went over to the far side of the room and used it as an impromptu bathroom until he could get out. However, some time late in the night, Naruto decided to not do this and continued to bang the door for every single moment. He did not stop to sleep, no longer did he stop to pee or go number two. Naruto had continue to bang late into the night until his body shut itself down. Leaving him in his own urine and feces.
Morning had come and Naruto had just woken up. Seeing his feces and urine on his skin, Naruto had spit and rubbed it all over his skin thinking it would get rid of it. 'I'm dirty and Kaa-chan doesn't like dirty boys,' Naruto thought however it wouldn't leave his skin, rather it settle in like it was a second suit. Naruto nodded at this thinking it would be better looking than before.
Seeing the sunlight, Naruto ran up onto his bed and over to the window that belonged to his room. Everyday, his parents would leave by the front door. It was one of those things he noticed about his parents. Running up to the window, he saw his mother and father just as they left the gate along with Mito. Banging the window until he couldn't see them anymore, he then felled to his knees as he couldn't believe what he just saw.
"They don't want me, do they? That's why," Naruto thought with a frown on his face. He then smacked his face, his eye aches as the waste from his body on his hand had touched his eye. "Bad Naruto, no thinking like that. Kaa-chan and Tou-san always loves you. Always."
Oct 10 Day of Death
Naruto was on the floor, to weak to even move. His throat was dried and his body was red with rashes from all the waste from his body that was due to his choice. As he was near the door. He weakly banged it with the near nonexistent hopes of getting out.
In his mind, he could just picture the monsters that was his parents, no, they were no longer his parents by any means of the word, laughing at him. With their fingers pointed at him with the rest of Konoha joining in. Oh, how he hated the leaf. What had he done to truly deserve this? "This is Mito's fault," the dark thoughts from Naruto began to take a life of their own, "I'll kill them all, yes, yes,yes!" Naruto began to chuckle darkly as loudly as his throat would allow him due to being parched and sore from all the yelling.
He saw bright lights coming to life and fading. Weakly he turned his head and saw fireworks in the night sky.Realizing it was his birthday due to the fireworks, he froped the dark thoughts and decided to weakly sing himself Happy Birthday;after all, if no one wanted to, he would do it himself."Ha-Happy Bi-Bir-Birth-day to-to you, Ha-Ha-py Bi-Bi-rth da-ay to yo-ou, Ha-py Bi-rth d-ay t-to y-ou, N-Nar-u-to." As he got to his name, Naruto stopped singing, his eyes were still wide open but the light that signifies life were gone. The body that used to belong to Naruto is now nothing more than an empty meat suit. He had used whatever time he had to left to comfort himself to the fact that he was alone.
Yamanaka Hijutsu: Saigo Kai (Yamanaka Secret Technique: Moment of Death End)
Minato and Kushina felled to their knees when the jutsu ended. Minato was comforting Kushina as she was sobbing uncontrollably. Inochi was panting due to the amount of chakra used to fuel the technique. There was a reason why it was consider a secret technique, while in truth, the jutsu cost nothing more than a C-rank upon activating, it was maintaining it that was a hard part. The farther along one wished to view of a person's death, the more chakra is needed to keep it up.
Kushina kept sobbing, she knew something had been wrong when he didn't come down on the first day. But,like a fool, she had brought into what Minato said about Naruto wanting to be alone. She had taken so many classes on child rearing because she wanted to raise her child with perfection. To keep them safe, in fact while she knew they would wanted to be shinobi, she couldn't help but want to deny it. Have them train to be shinobi yes, but only as a safety measure in case someone attacked the village.
As she was wailing, she couldn't help but think from her side of things, the other side of the wall so to speak.
One Day before Naruto's death and Two days before finding out.
Morning had come with Kushina and Minato having hangovers. As the parents made their way to the kitchen, Mito came through the door all shy with her head down. Kushina had never seen this with her daughter so she had to asked, "Mito-chan, what's wrong?"
"I-I lied when I said I drew it, I just wanted to you to be proud of me." Mito pressed her two index finger while not looking at her other's face.
Kushina had to sighed, "Mito," Mito flinched when she heard her name, "I'm disappointed at you, when Naruto comes down, you better apoligize to him. I supposed I should do the same."
Minato agree, "I supposed I should say sorry too. I should've believe him."
They waited for Naruto to come down, he never did. "Strange," Kushina remarked, "Do you think he's mad at us?"
"Let's give him the day off to cool, I'm sure he's still mad at us for what we did." Minato explained.
Kushina wanted to argue, she felt something was wrong, it was like an itch she had to scratch. Ignoring the feeling as best as she could, she responded,"Yeah, your right." With that out of the way, the three left to do whatever it is they do. They never did see Naruto as his eyes had bags, his skin tightening showing his skull, his bright blonde hair filled with feces and gold stains of pee as he spent all day banging on the door even when he had to go to the bathroom, banging on the window with no sounds coming from it.
Final Day of Naruto's Life and One Day before figuring it out.
Oct.10, Four Years after the retreat of the masked man and the sealing of the spilt Kyuubi into Mito and Kushina
Kushina and Minato were woken up by Mito jumping up and down on them when their were sleeping.
"Wake up, Kaa-chan, Tou-san it's my birthday." Mito shouted before running out the room and into her own to get changed, "I want to see Hinata and Ino-chan."
That day, due to Mito's energetic body, Kushina and Minato left the compound that was their home. Kushina's feeling had become even stronger, but she once again ignored it to celebrate her daughter's birthday. By all rights, she should have been dead the day that masked man attacked. However, thanks to Sarutobi and Danzo, who both gave their lives to bargain for the sealing of the Kyubi and her life.
Kushina had been shocked that Danzo had been willing to die, after all, he was a well-known warhawk who sent kids to die after taking away what made them human. But that the last words he said before the Shinigami took his soul was, "The old monkey's soul wouldn't be enough to do this since he's nearly out of time left in this world. But, with our lives together, it should make a difference. No one, not even the God of Death wouldn't take a two-for-one deal especially if we're the ones offering. If I'm not willing to die and suffer damnation for what I believe. Then, I wouldn't have created Root now, have I?"
Kushina smiled at the thought. While the old hawk wasn't one of her favorites by any means. He did bargain so the Shinigami wouldn't take her to his realm then. He gave his life so she could see her children as they grew up and for that she was willing to thank him.
That night as the fireworks were shot into the air. Kushina thought that maybe enough time has passed and he had cooled down. She nudged Minato, "After we get home, we should talked to Naruto. No child should be alone for their birthday."
Minato took her hand into his own and smiled at her, "Even if we wanted to talk. He's probably aslep right now. But your right, we'll talk first thing in the morning." Kushina couldn't help but feel like something had truly gone wrong. It was almost as if something inside her had just died.
Oct.11 One Day after Death and Day of Realization
Kushina and Minato along with Mito were in the kitchen waiting for Naruto. When he didn't come down, Kushina got worried, "Minato-koi, do you think Naruto is still mad at us? Do you think it's also we forgot to celebrate his birthday with him?"
"I-I don't know, let's go check up on him." Minato said, while he appeared calm, he was worried. It's impossible for a four year old child to hold such a grudge for a long time. Nothing bad happen right?
As the trio walked to Naruto's door, they saw the sealing matrix that Minato had put up four days ago. Minato had to smack his head, "No wonder we couldn't we couldn't hear anything, I put those up so Naruto couldn't make any noise during the party."
Kushina instantly got worried, if he was in there for over four days days without food or water then he would be in critical malnutrition. Motherly Instinct acted up and her hair spilt into nine parts and waving around, "Fix This Right Now!"
Minato, knowing when Kushina was acting like this, acted in a quick manner. He got rid of the matrix, unlocked the door, and gently opened it in case Naruto was sleeping in front of the door. When the door hit something, Minato slid in first and what he saw traumatized him to the point of him falling to his knees. Kushina pushed her husband so she could have space and did the exactly same thing when she spotted what happened. The feeling she had ignored was the same motherly instincts that told her that her son was dying and she just brushed it off.
Mito wanting to see, being the curious child she was, pushed the door so she could have space. The force of the push turned the object halfway. What Mito saw had traumitized her.
In front of her was her dead brother, the cold lifeless eyes stared into her own as if he blamed her for causing his death. Mito felled into her knees and sobbed, sending Kushina and Minato out of their shock. Minato ignored the smell of feces and pee and grabbed Naruto and hiraishined over to the hospital even through he knew it was too late. Kushina stayed behind to comfort Mito.
Out of her thoughts, she still continued to wail on the floor. Rocking back and forth slightly, she crossed her hands as her eyes were wide. Reliving the very moment where she saw his dead eyes. The ones where he blamed everything on her. Oh, she could hear it, the angry voice of her child as he belittle, and disowned her as his mother.
Minato was the more calmer of the two. While he was filled with grief at his action, his training to be the next Hokage had instilled into him a sense of outwards calmness. It was thanks to that he wasn't in the same condition as his wife,"Thank you, Inochi, I'm sure you would like to return to your wife and daughter."Minato said without even looking at Inochi. Inochi nodded and went for the door. He stopped and took a look at the couple before walking out.
"Kushina, I know it's difficult but we have to let go now. We can't do anything for Naruto." Minato tried to reason with his wife.
"No! I want to stay with Sochi! Like I should have done in the first place! He will stayed by my side forever!" Kushina screamed out trying to get out her husband's grasp.
"And what Musume, what about Mito?" Minato asked, Mito was the second reason why he would stayed calm. The girl woke up with nightmares ever since the birthday incident. While he couldn't do anything for Naruto now, he could do something to help his daughter. But, he wouldn't supress the memories, that would be a disater waiting to happen. He would lose all trust if the process was undone somehow.
Kushina stopped and look at Minato defeatly, "Okay, let's go."
Minato smiled at his victory in getting Kushina to stop her moping on the floor and grabbed her hand leading out of the room. He never did see the gleam on his wife's face, nor the smile. The smile of the insane and broken.
Oh,Boy. Kushina has gone Psycho. What shall she do? It's just eating you up isn't it.
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Edit: Thanks to ncp fan for providing more ways to describe Naruto's condition and mentaltlity during his three days of slow death.
