Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or even the idea of Jigoku Shoujo.
Story: At midnight, there is a site that can only be accessed then and only if there is hatred and a need for revenge. Type in the name of your enemy and Jigoku Shoujo will send them to Hell. And Naruto will do so.
Set as an AU.
Spoilers: Hai, for both Jigoku Shoujo and Naruto.
Warnings: Violence, language, etc.
Pairings: I don't know. I don't really think it'll be the main part anyway.
A/n: I combined parts from Jigoku Shoujo and JS: Futakomori, so that I have both wordings and etc. from both seasons.
Jigoku Shoujo: Eikyuu no Sonzai
Chapter One: Jigoku no Kawa Nagare
"Jigoku Shoujo?"
"Hai. I know someone who's met her."
"Honto ni?! She really exi–"
"Stop. No more."
The two exchanged worried glances, and then turned to look at the boss.
"So, taicho…have you heard of Enma Ai? She runs the number one whore house in the red light district."
"Aa, the beautiful woman that is incomparable they say."
The two chattered on, leaving their boss to his thoughts. Jigoku Shoujo? Enma Ai? He was the only one who knew that the two were the same.
He ran a hand over the black flame-crest mark on his chest. A mark of ruin. A mark determining his fate at death. A mark of no return.
A twisted smile crossed his face, worrying his two companions even more.
He didn't regret it at all.
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"Ai? Are you going to pass the Genin Exam this time?" Sarutobi asked, puffing out smoke from his pipe.
"Hai. But I must be on Uchiha Sasuke's team."
"Doushite?"
"…"
Sarutobi sighed, "Alright. Is there anything else you want me to do? Any more strings I should pull?"
"Iie. I will pass on my own. That is it for now."
Enma Ai left, her flowing hair swaying behind her mesmerizingly.
The aged Hokage took out the lists of teams he had written and re-wrote one.
"Uchiha Sasuke…Haruno Sakura…" he muttered under his breath. And then he added the last one.
"And Uzumaki Naruto."
The next day, Naruto surprised everyone by passing the exam with the highest score. Iruka and Mizuki began passing out the hitai-ate, which everyone wore proudly except for Naruto who put it on her waist, taking it off the bandanna and slipping it onto her sash.
Mizuki's sad eyes acknowledged hers, and she nodded back at him.
Naruto focused back in on Iruka's congratulations speech.
"Take this. If you truly wish to eliminate your antagonist, you must pull the red string. He will be ferried immediately to Hell." She handed him a black straw doll with a red string tied around it.
He took it and his hand trembled as it reached towards it.
"However."
His hand stopped, just barely touching the string.
"Once I have delivered the revenge, I must have you make restitution to me. When one person is cursed, two graves are dug. Your soul will also fall into Hell, forever wandering in pain and suffering. Well, that's after you die."
Mizuki swallowed nervously, before his hand gripped the string firmly.
"I don't care. Even if I do go to Hell, I will never forgive him."
He pulled the string and a strong gust of wind blew at him, taking the straw doll and flying into the air for it to disappear. And then he heard the words,
"I hear and deliver this revenge."
Mizuki and Iruka walked passed her, and she saw Mizuki whisper something through the corner of his mouth.
"Thank you, Enma Ai."
Another nod answered him, and both chuunin passed on without another word.
"Naruto seems different. Wasn't she loud and obnoxious? Do you think it was an act before?" Ino whispered to Sakura.
"I don't know," Sakura whispered back uncertainly.
Naruto glanced at them and the two girls hurried away. The blonde went back to gazing at the sky, not having moved once since they passed out the hitai-ate. She stayed there even as everyone else left, alone and still staring at the sky.
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"Doushite? Why both of them on my team? Wouldn't that cause problems?"
Sarutobi sighed, "I don't know. It will probably cause problems, but there's nothing that can be done about that."
Kakashi grunted, taking his team assignment and scanning it once more.
"However, do not interfere with any of Naruto's business."
Kakashi narrowed his one shown eye, "Doushite?"
"Because I say so."
Kakashi twitched annoyed, folding his assignment and placing it in his pocket. He disappeared without another word.
There were horrified and happy yells at the placement of teams, specifically where Uchiha Sasuke was concerned. As all the teams were picked up, the only ones soon left in the classroom was Team 7.
Naruto didn't move her gaze from outside the window, though she was aware of Sasuke staring intensely into the back of her head and Sakura glancing uncertainly at her. She still gazed outside, uncaring.
Three hours later left two angry genin and an uncaring blonde. The door slid open finally and revealed their sensei.
He glanced at all of them with a bored look on his face, "Hm…I hate you all already. Rooftop, fifteen minutes."
Sasuke and Sakura angrily made their way to the top, while Naruto still hadn't moved. She gazed at the red sun, her entire body seemingly frozen. She hadn't even closed her eyes once.
In a blink, she had disappeared.
She surprised Kakashi with her arrival, her face unchanged from its stoic manner. She stood, staring into the cloudless sky.
Kakashi studied her with his gaze scrutinizing. All reports had said that Uzumaki Naruto was an annoying, loud-mouth brat, and yet he didn't see anything like that now.
The others finally made it to the roof and Kakashi had them introduce themselves. Sakura's was what was expected and so was Sasuke's. They all waited for Naruto, but she stayed silent.
"You. Next."
"Uzumaki. Naruto." She answered in the same fashion as Kakashi had voiced towards her.
"Whatever. Tomorrow, meet at Training Ground 13. Don't eat breakfast or you'll puke," in a puff of smoke, he disappeared.
The other two left grumbling, but Naruto stayed awhile, unchanging from her gaze and stance. Then she disappeared like before.
She reappeared in her apartment. Walking to her closet, she stepped inside and was in another place with red skies all around. In front of her was a cottage. There was a creek behind her and a large tree to her side in between the creek and the cottage. There were fields of higanbana surrounding her.
Stepping inside the cottage, she laid down on her side on the tatami mat.
"Ai? I left some cherries for you in the corner."
"Hai, Obaa-san."
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Once again, Sasuke and Sakura were irritated. Naruto indifferently played with marbles, waiting for Kakashi to arrive. When he did, it was time to start.
Kakashi was a little surprised, though more disappointed, with Sasuke in lesson taijutsu. He was exasperated and incredulous at the fight with Sakura in lesson genjutsu. And now he was about to enter into lesson ninjutsu with Naruto, only she stood in front of him with a blasé attitude, unmoving.
"You know, doing nothing is bad form for a ninja."
"I'm waiting for help."
"What was that?" Kakashi narrowed his eye.
"I said I'm waiting for help."
The two of them stared each other down, both silent and unmoving this time. And then miraculously, Sasuke began firing fireballs at Kakashi at the same time as Sakura began throwing shuriken.
Sloppy, but it was still teamwork.
He held up a hand and immediately everything stopped.
"Congratulations, you all pass."
Sakura cheered, Sasuke grunted, and Naruto moved her gaze back upward to the skies.
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Two weeks passed by without incident, though they were getting tired of all the D-ranks.
Finally they complained to the Hokage.
"I'm sorry, but that is how the system is," Sarutobi puffed on his pipe.
"Hokage-sama," Naruto spoke up for once, flashing her eyes red and showing that even she was a little annoyed.
Her team was surprised, she hadn't interacted with them ever since that little nudge towards teamwork during Kakashi's test.
Sarutobi paled, "Well, there is one C-rank that you should be able to do. Protect Tazuna of the Waves."
Kakashi sighed in relief and grabbed the mission scroll. The door opened, a man swaying as he stepped inside. He sneered and was about to say something snide when he caught sight of Naruto.
He paled and bowed, muttering, "Please take care of me."
Confused at the change of behavior, everyone hesitantly went back to work.
The team was wary as they watched Tazuna trail behind Naruto closely. Suddenly, Naruto stopped and raised an arm, pointing up ahead. Kakashi looked over to where she was pointing and understood. It hadn't been raining for awhile and it was sunny that day, how obvious were they trying to be?
"Foreign shinobi," Kakashi clarified.
"Oh, that's right. There shouldn't be a puddle there on a day like this, and it hasn't rained," Sakura said understandingly.
"Ai-chan, Ai-chan. Can't you just send them to Hell?" Tazuna pulled on Naruto's sleeve, trying not to bring any notice to what he was saying or what he was doing. Naruto stayed silent, still pointing in that direction. Tazuna sighed.
"Go ahead and take them out. I know who they are after," Naruto said softly.
Kakashi nodded and in a blur, disappeared from their sights to reappear just above the puddle. In lightning movements, Kakashi had reached down and pulled the two ninja from the puddle and taken them out simultaneously. Tying them up, he laid them haphazardly to the side.
"We'll leave the Anbu to pick them up," Kakashi said.
"Tazuna."
Tazuna flinched and step forward nervously, "You see, I –"
"Don't explain. We will continue the mission," Naruto said, already moving forward.
Tazuna followed after her, and they followed after him.
"We would still like it if you would explain," Kakashi said, staring reprovingly into Naruto's back, and hoping she got the message. She didn't make any movements indicating she did.
Tazuna hesitated, but Naruto gave him a slight nod. He began explaining the situation and why he had lied.
"So we have to make sure Gato doesn't try anything while you're still building your bridge, right?" Sakura asked the bridge builder.
"Hai."
"Hey, Naruto," Sakura called to the girl still leading them. Furrowing her eyebrows at the lack of response, Sakura walked a little faster and was about to place a hand on the girl's shoulder.
Naruto flipped around suddenly, grasping her arm and pulling her closer to twist and then disappear in a shower of sakura petals.
The rest of them only barely dodged the banryuu that almost cut right through them.
Naruto and Sakura reappeared right next to the group, staring up at the bandaged-covered man. Naruto stared at him, remembering when she'd last seen him. A hunter-nin appeared next to Zabuza, trembling.
"Haku, what are you doing?! You're not supposed to be out here," Zabuza turned furiously towards his accomplice.
Kakashi was about to sneak in an attack, but Naruto held up a hand and stopped him. The Copy-nin sighed angrily, but stopped, waiting.
"Zabuza-sama, please. Let's leave them alone. Trust me, everything will be alright," Haku said, his entire body still trembling.
Zabuza was reluctant, but the two of them left in the end.
"What was that about?" Sasuke growled, still staring at where the two foreign ninja had been.
No one answered him because they didn't know. Naruto just kept quiet and Tazuna followed her example.
That night, Naruto approached Tazuna as everyone went to bed. He was drinking sake and staring into the waters outside his home. Putting the bottle back on the table, he turned to look at Naruto.
"Ai-chan, what is it?" he mumbled, the black straw doll she had given him only days before in his hand.
"Give it back."
Tazuna glared at the table, "No. Why should I? Gato deserves to go to Hell!"
"There is another who will contact me tonight. Give it back."
Tazuna stared at her, "That boy. Earlier with that strange man. He's going to use it…on Gato."
"Perhaps…"
Tazuna stared at the straw doll, his hand clenching around it. Then he handed it to Naruto.
"As long as that man is sent to Hell," he muttered.
Naruto nodded and sat with him, waiting for midnight to come. When it did, by then Tazuna was knocked out and snoring on the table. She disappeared and was once again in her home in the place of eternal twilight.
"Ai? You have a request."
"Hai, Obaa-san."
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She went to the computer and clicked, reading the contents before disappearing again. She reappeared behind the trembling Haku, who sat in front of the laptop.
"You called me. I am Enma Ai."
"J-Jigoku Shoujo."
"…"
"For Zabuza-sama's dream, I wanted to put down the Mizukage's name."
"But it is not he who you hold hatred for."
"And only hatred can access this site, can bring you to me. I hate that man. That man who has no regards for Zabuza-sama's dream, who looks down on us. Everything he does and says, I hate. He's lying to Zabuza-sama, I know it. He won't give us the money. He's planning to betray us. I want to get rid of him before that happens."
"Take this."
Haku turned around hurriedly, staring wide-eyed at Naruto who held a black straw doll in her hand. He grabbed a hold of it nervously and waited to know what to do with it.
"If you truly wish to eliminate your antagonist, you must pull the red string. He will be ferried immediately to Hell."
"Hell…" Haku murmured, moving his hand over the doll, slightly touching it.
"However."
Haku's hand stopped moving towards the string.
"Once I have delivered the revenge, I must have you make restitution to me. When one person is cursed, two graves are dug. Your soul will also fall into Hell, forever wandering in pain and suffering. Well, that's after you die."
"I-I will also go to Hell?" Haku asked, afraid. He closed his eyes. "For Zabuza-sama, to bring that man to Hell…I would allow my soul to go there as well."
The straw doll blew away from him and he heard the words,
"I hear and deliver this revenge."
"Gomen, Zabuza-sama. But I had to send Gato to Hell before he could betray us."
Haku looked up, but Naruto had already gone.
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"Ai, I put out your naganbata."
"Thank you, Obaa-san."
She stepped out from the creek, going inside the cottage. Putting on the floral kimono over the naganbata, she tied it together and flipped her long hair over her shoulder. She let her eyes bleed red and began her walk to her destination. It was times like these that she missed Wanyuudou and the others.
Gato laughed heartily, swigging his saucer full of sake towards his mouth. It poured into his mouth, but it didn't taste the same. He choked on it and spit it out. His eyes widened in horror and he screamed. Scrambling back, he knocked over all the money he had been counting.
The blood from the saucer spilled onto the pavement and started dripping towards him, growing and overflowing.
The pavement?
He looked around him and saw he was on Tazuna's bridge. He growled.
"That old bastard! This is all his doing!"
He ran towards the direction of the exit closest, where he didn't have to cross the growing pool of blood, but he appeared on the other side of the bridge.
"What the hell?!"
He scrambled over to the side of the bridge, leaning over the railing and screamed again. The waters were all blood. It crashed against the bridge, making the bridge shake threateningly. Terrified, he scrambled back over to his scattered money that was close to the pool of blood that was becoming a lake.
The wires holding the bridge began snapping.
Panicking, Gato began picking up his money. His breathing became heavy, and then his heart stopped, looking at one of the yen in his hands.
It was some girl, one that didn't belong on his money! The distinguishing feature that made it more apparent she didn't belong there were the red eyes, color not belonging on the yen, while the rest of her held the yen's color.
"Do you confess your sins?" she spoke from the paper money.
He threw it to the ground, "What sins? I haven't done anything!"
He frantically looked around for an exit, and then the money around him burst into flames. The lake of blood had reached his feet, splashing and staining his expensive shoes. The fire built up and began racing towards him, the lake of blood already at his knees and encompassing the entire bridge, forcing him back towards the railings of the bridge.
He glanced back and forth from behind him to in front of him. Face the bloody waters below or face the burning flames and lake of blood in front of him. Jump to his death or burn and drown to his death?
"I won't die!" he screamed to the skies.
The bridge cracked everywhere, blood seeping underneath to the sea of blood below. Gato clenched his eyes and then turned, ready to jump.
He stopped short, the girl from the paper yen, floating in front of him. Her long blonde hair swayed behind her, her eyes glaring into him accusingly through its stoic surface.
"O pitiful shadow of darkness, thy actions cause men pain and suffering. Thy soul is drowning in sinful karma."
"No," Gato whispered, stepping back, the blood reaching mid-back even as it spilled below. He felt the closing in of the flames licking behind him.
"How would you like to try dying this once?"
He was in darkness, only seeing her figure. She spread her arms outwards and the bracelet on her right wrist rang a bell, the floral design on her kimono flowing forth towards him. He passed out.
He awoke on a boat, the same girl from before pedaling it towards somewhere. Paper lanterns all lit up floated onto the dark waters towards the same direction they were heading. It was dark everywhere, though not like darkness that he had seen before. It was a little misty around them…
"Hey, hey girl. Where are we going?" Gato asked her.
She didn't answer, staring ahead and still pushing the boat forward.
"I'll pay you a lot of money if you turn this boat around," Gato said with a grin. It faltered when there was another lack of response.
Gato sat up and started to stand up to come closer to her, when skeletal arms burst from the boat and held him down.
"W-what?! No, no, no! Please, turn this boat around!"
Even as his pleas echoed through the air, Enma Ai uttered the same words she always does.
"I shall carry this revenge to Hell."
Started 11/19/07 –Completed 11/19/07
Client: Mizuki
Target: Unknown
Status: Fulfilled
Client: Tazuna
Target: Gato
Status: Cancelled
Client: Haku
Target: Gato
Status: Fulfilled