So this is it, huh? Naruto thought to himself as he lay on the ground, his blood pooling beneath him. The kunie knife in his throat causing him to choke and gurgle on his own blood. This is how i die? He had been attacked by an unknown man on his way home from his first day at the academy. Taken out into the forest, brutally beaten and finally stabbed in the throat and left to die. He was fading fast and he knew it. He felt so weak in this final moments.

The darkness was closing in fast, consuming him whole and yet… he couldn't find it in himself to care. The sweet embrace of death was nothing compared to the hell of his day to day life. He felt cold yet a strangely warm and then… nothing.

It was dark. He couldn't see anything then suddenly naruto saw a strange light above him. He turned to it. It was bright, so bright that it drove the darkness around him away. Two figures stood in that light. A strange feeling of joy flowed through him. He did not know them and yet he could tell… they were his parents. He began to float up toward the figures. The woman on the left, a beautiful redheaded woman, was smiling at him. A warm gentle smile. Tears welled in his eyes. She reached for him. He reached for her. Their fingers almost touching. Finally he thought. Finally he would know peace and love.

"NOOO!" a roar erupted from below him. Naruto turned and looked back. Starring up at him was the great fox demon himself. Black chains were wrapped around his hulking body as he was being dragged down toward what looked like fire and smoke. "If I shall know no peace neither shall you boy!" a massive tail shot out toward naruto and wrapped around the buy. Naruto heard a shriek, looking back up the two figures were desperately trying to reach him. Buti it was too late. He was falling.

Naruto fell the great tail still wrapped around him. He turned to see the great fox's body hit a lake of molten rock and fire. And naruto was being dragged down along with him. He threw his hands in front of his face, waiting to hit the lake of fire as well… but it never came. In fact it was rather odd naruto thought. He expected to hit the flames and be burned but instead he felt a cushion beneath his rear.

Naruto peaked from behind his arms, And stared around the room he found himself in. it looked like an office room of some kind. The walls were black and large mahogany desk sat in front of him. A dozen large windows surrounded the office on all sides. A bar stocked with liquor bottles sat off in a corner and a large framed picture of a black haired man hung on the wall behind it. Where am i?

Someone coughed in front of him. "Mr Uzumaki, i presume?" naruto looked at the man who had coughed. He had short black hair and wore what looked like a business suit, though not one naruto had ever seen before. What struck naruto though was the man's eyes. They were completely black, void of any iris or whites.

"Uh" naruto stammered for a second. "Yeah, thats me… where am i?" the man wrote down something in the book laid out in front of me. The man got up and walked around the desk and leaned on the front.

"That's the simple, my boy. You're in hell." a horrid feeling of dread fell into the bottom of naruto's stomach. "On the bright side." the man walked from the desk to one of the windows along the wall. "You are a mistake. You're not supposed to be here."

"I'm not?" naruto was becoming a bit agitated at this. "Than why the hell am i here?"

"You are here." the man motioned naruto toward the window "because of him" he gestured out the window. Way below him in a courtyard outside the building was the raging form of none other than the kyuubi no kitsune. The great demon fox that raved konoha all those years ago. Naruto was stunned. He was dragged here because of that? How? "You're probably wondering how he dragged you down here. Somewhere where you're not supposed to be." so the man started to talk. He explained everything to naruto. If it weren't for the fact that naruto was dead, everything this man had told him would have been a bit… overwelming

"So my parents?"

"Yes"

"And the kyubi?"

"Yup"

"... damn" naruto ran his hand through his hair and sat back in his chair.

"Sucks kid. But these things happen. "

Naruto just realised something. For the all the time he had been here he never asked the man's name. "So. uh, who are you, by the way?"

The man cocked an immaculately trimmed eyebrow at naruto. "I would have thought that was obvious. I'm the devil." he paused to let that sink in a bit. Naruto looked dumbfounded for a few moments. The devil? Really? This whole time he had been having a rather striking conversation with the ruler of hell. "Lucifer morningstar, at your service." Lucifer did a little bow to accentuate his name. "now mister uzumaki, what to do with you?"

"What do you mean?" naruto was confused

"Well, as i have said. You're not supposed to be here. You're Not actually supposed to be dead." wait, what? Lucifer started awkwardly scratching the back of his head. "Actually, to be honest. That's kinda my bad…"

Naruto jumped out of his seat. "What do you mean your bad?!" naruto yelled at the devil. A pretty ballsy move if i do say so myself.

Gotta love those cliff hangers. Anyway, lemme know what you think.