Guardian Angel

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Summon/Bijuu/Inner Speech"

'Summon/Bijuu/inner thought'

A/N: I really shouldn't do this but, well, I've got the itch to rite a new one! Sigh, one of my stories is gonna fall behind at some point but at least I'm entertaining. Anyway, Everyone has a guardian angel, but did you ever wonder what KIND of angel it was? Naruto never did, but he does know it wealds a scythe and has no skin.

He watched on with fearful eyes as they descended upon him. His cerulean eyes filled with fear as they attacked him mercilessly with bottles, knives and anything that could cut, bruise or break. He screamed, hoping they'd leave him alone, but they hadn't left him alone for what was it? 8 years? No, they just kept coming to beat him to death until his adoptive grandfather or those ninja in the white masks came to stop them.

"Die Demon!"

"This is for my family!" another shouted. He felt a bottle shatter against his head and he knew he'd be trying to get the smell of liquor and fragments of glass out of his spiky blonde hair for weeks to come. What else was new?

Suddenly a shinobi with a white porcelain mask appeared in the crowd, making the villagers immediately back off. "This has gone on long enough!" roared the ninja, causing the mob to shake in fear.

The blonde boy just sighed in relief. He got off easy this year, last time they'd put him in the hospital with amputated limbs. He still didn't understand how he lived through that, but just chalked it up to Kami enjoying watching him suffer. Oh how wrong he was!

"By order of the hokage, you are sentenced to death!" stated the ANBU as he drew his blade. Once the blade was fully revealed, the ninja whirled around and put deep gash in the small boy's chest, much to the surprise of both the mob and Naruto. Only difference is one side was cheering while the other had hard time breathing.

Gasping for air, Naruto saw the blade come towards him gain, only this time to cleave his head off. At first Naruto was afraid but then, an eerie sense of calm came over him. Oddly enough, the blonde's thoughts went to something he had heard a long time ago, about how everyone has an angel that watches over and protects them.

'Heh, like anyone would bother to help the demon child, guess this is it' thought the blonde with a dark sense of humor. Imagine his surprise when a six-foot tall scythe with a mahogany pole and a four foot long black blade appeared and caught the sword in the curve where the pole met the inner blade.

"Terribly sorry sir, but I can't have you killing my young charge here," said a posh and polite voice. Surprised the boy looked up to see a figure with a black tattered robe holding the scythe in a bony white hand. Upon closer inspection, the blonde realized that it was an actual skeleton hand!

The figure looked down and stared at the child with its one blue eye gazing out of it's left eye socket, a necklace of purple prayer beads hanging from its neck. The boy couldn't believe that a skeleton with one blue eye, a scythe and black tattered robe, was in fact saving him.

"Hello there Naruto-kun, sorry I'm late but the gods can only work so fast," stated the skeleton that Naruto guessed was male.

"Who are you?" demanded the ANBU.

The skeleton looked up at him at that, "Hm? Oh! Right, well my name is Sir Fredrick Huxley the Third, a Reaper for Lords Shinigami and Kami-sama," stated the revealed Soul Harvester with a modest bow.

"Are you here to take away the demon?" asked a villager hopefully. This was met with roars of approval while Fredrick looked confused.

"If you mean the Kyuubi inside this boy then no," answered the skeleton, shocking the crap out of Naruto. "I am merely here to lend a hand as both a trainer and guardian to Naruto Uzumaki here," finished the Reaper as he happily patted the boy on the head. Now Naruto was confused about two things, one being why would a reaper defend him and be happy about it, and what the hell did he mean when he said the Kyuubi was INSIDE him?

At this the entire mob and ANBU just gawked before rage flooded them again. "Kill them both!" roared a villager. With that the group charged forward, weapons brandished and howling for blood.

Fredrick frowned at them, his one eye scrunching up in annoyance. "Fools," he muttered, raising his scythe in hi left hand, the Reaper held it in a cross slash position with the left hand while the other did some one handed seals. "Death's Art Dark Harvest," he announced. The blade on the scythe glowed with a whitish blue flame in response. The villagers and one ANBU stopped in surprise of the blade, and that hesitation cost them their lives.

The scythe came down in a cross slash, and those who were in range of the blade, got a quick death, their very souls being sucked into the blade while the fire turned their bodies to ash, the rest burned to death in the white flames, for as the blade cam down, the flames had spread out in a wave towards them.

Naruto watched in awe as the flames consumed his would be attackers. Once it was over, leaving behind only scorch marks and ashes, the young blonde could only look up at the skeleton that towered over him. Shifting his gaze to the scythe, the boy noticed that at first glance, it seemed rather plain but when you actually looked at it, you could see some sort of movement inside the blade and how the staff seemed to pulse ever so slightly.

Snapping his gaze away, Naruto noticed that the reaper had said something to him and was waiting patiently for a response "Um, sorry what was that?" asked Naruto sheepishly. Fredrick just chuckled in response.

"I said, Perhaps it would be best to go speak with your hokage. Besides, I was ordered to go straight to him as soon as I came here and made sure you were safe for the time being," stated the decayed corpse politely. "Now as it stands, the best method to get their would not be by foot, correct?" getting a sad nod and sigh from Naruto the Huxley corpse made a humming sound while tapping his chin. Sapping his fingers the skeleton gave a satisfied nod.

"Tell me Naruto, have you ever flown before?" at Naruto's wide-eyed expression, Fredrick just chuckled. "Then take my hand and hold on my boy!" exclaimed Fredrick as he grabbed the boy's hand. Naruto was surprised when he felt the bone and didn't feel the icy chill of death but rather, the warmth of a normal human. He was more surprised however when skeleton wings burst from Fredrick's back, an inky black membrane connecting the lengths of bone to allow for flight. Before Naruto could comment on the wings, Fredrick leapt into the air already taking flight.

At first, Naruto panicked and started to scream but after the first few seconds he began to enjoy it. He specially enjoyed it when Fredrick started to do barrel rolls and loops just to entertain him, however that all came to an end when Naruto pointed out the tower.

"There's Oji-san's tower Fredrick-san!" Naruto shouted to his new guardian.

"Right then, now do you see any open windows?" asked the skeleton.

The blonde squinted and shouted out, "Yeah! That one is open! And I think it's oji-san's office too!"

"Ok Naruto-kun, now, um, you may want to brace yourself, its been awhile since I've flown and even longer since I've landed," stated the skeleton as it dived towards the window.

Naruto just nodded excitedly before he actually registered what the third Fredrick Huxley just said. He blinked once, then screamed, "WE'RE GONNA DIE!"

Hokage's office

Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Sandaime hokage of Konoha, village hidden in the leaves. He had survived not one ninja war, but two and had earned the nickname the Professor and Kami no Shinobi, god of ninja due to his mastery of techniques. He was old now, but that didn't mean he couldn't kick a person's ass six ways from Sunday! There was only one enemy no man, nor god, could defeat though, not utterly and completely anyway. That one enemy is paperwork.

Yes my friends, paperwork is

Fortunately though, Hiruzen had somehow completed the paperwork for today and was quietly relaxing by reading a certain little orange book, small perverted giggles escaping him every few minutes and a small trickle of blood coming from his nose. He was perfectly content with his day, no paperwork, his surrogate grandson wasn't reported to have been attacked and there was nothing strange happening.

'Ah, nothing could ruin this day' thought the hokage as he blushed profusely when he read a particularly naughty paragraph. "Oh, Akiko you are such a naughty girl," giggled the old man. He stopped though, when he started to hear very familiar screaming.

Putting away his book the hokage stood up and added some chakra to his ear to improve his sense of sound. Hiruzen definitely knew who's scream that was now, it was definitely Naruto's. While normally he would have panicked and immediately rushed to help him, he stopped because the scream was getting steadily louder and coming from not the ground, but from above!

Moving to the window, the hokage saw a fast approaching orange and black blob. Squinting, Sarutobi could just make out and orange jumpsuit with blonde hair. He could also swear he could see a screaming one-eyed skeleton in a black robe also hurtling towards him. "Naruto?" he questioned to himself. Then seeing the actual landing point of the two figures, Hiruzen leaped out of the way to avoid becoming the landing target of the two creatures that came through the window with a mighty crash.

Groaning Naruto got up rubbing his head before he glared angrily at his skeletal protector. "That freaking hurt!" he yelled.

"Sorry, but I take full blame for our landing," Huxley stated sheepishly.

"The landing? What about the freaking window! I think some glass shards got caught in my throat!" Naruto accused.

"I refuse to take the blame for the window! You were the one that said it was open!" Fredrick shot back.

"Then why didn't you pull up when you saw it was closed!" shouted the blonde

"I'm over a thousand years old and I only have one eye boy! ONE! My vision isn't exactly perfect!" the skeleton shot back angrily.

"Then why did you suggest we fly baka-gaikotsu!" Naruto accused.

"Excuse me for wanting to be nice you ungrateful cur! I remember a time when people would give an arm and a leg to experience what you did!"

"What? Near death?"

""Why you little-!"

"I'm not little!"

"Could have fooled me you canary bottom color haired gnome!"

"What the heck is a gnome? If you're going to insult me do it with words I understand you one eyed klutz!"

"ENOUGH!" barked out Sarutobi, flaring his impressive chakra, which immediately make both bickerers cry out in fear before sitting on the floor and clutching each other, both eyeing the now intimidating hokage with shaking bodies and chattering teeth. The hokage sweatdropped at this before sighing and putting his chakra back to normal levels, "Now could someone please tell me what is going on?" he asked.

Fredrick chuckled a bit before standing up. "I believe I can do that," he stated, "My name is Fredrick Huxley the Third and I have been sent here by both Shinigami-sama and Kami-sama to watch over and train Naruto Uzumaki, due to the simple fact that if he doesn't learn to defend himself and some proper training in self defense, the Kyuubi is going to act as will every Kitsune under her command," stated the skeleton seriously.

Silence. Then, "NANI!"" from both Sarutobi and Naruto.

"What exactly are you talking about?" Hiruzen asked the reaper. Fredrick sighed before he seemed to sit in the air, his scythe set over his lap. He gestured for the others to sit as well.

"You may wish to take a seat for this is going to be a bit hard to comprehend and it really is quite the tale," stated the angel of death. After the other two male had taken a seat Fredrick began, "First off, I guess you could say I'm Naruto's guardian angel…"

A/N: Read and Review, and I may or not continue this, so eh… Ja ne!