Salut tout le monde ! It's my first crack at writing fan fiction and also simply writing in fact so I hope you'll be tolerant with the style.
I am French so English is obviously not my first language and I'll make mistakes but I think I am good enough to be understood and if you never try you never make it.
All helpful and constructs criticisms are welcome be it style or grammar.
Summary : Meet with a man who never have the right to choose. All his life have never been anything but necessities and constraints even in death. When a second chance present itself to him will he be able to lead his new life? No lies it don't start well. But now with a powerful bloodline he will make everything he can to do only one thing: Being able to choose.
"Propos normal" : Normal Speech
'Pensée normale' : Normal Thoughts
"Propos bizarre" : Summons/God/etc. Speech
'Pensée bizarre' : Summons/God/etc. Thoughts
"Expelliarmus !" : Jutsu Name (What ? Wrong fiction ? Oups my bad.)
Disclaimer : I don't own Naruto or Naruto:Shippuden. It's owned by Masashi Kishimoto. I only own my OC Sora and his clan.. and myself or maybe it's my parents who own me? Whatever… Bonne lecture !
Sky of the Pure Forest : Chapter 1 : Choice ? No.
God is an asshole. Don't get me wrong he is impressive, kind and all but when you meet him you ask yourself why we don't have three head or one leg… on our head. If you want to imagine for yourself, he is like a mix of Doc from Back to the Future, doctor Frankenstein and your grandfather. Ok maybe not your grandfather but he look like mine : average height, jovial and chubby with a long beard. And now I start to think that my grandfather might be Santa Claus. Back to the subject God is crazy and for you to understand I need to go back a little while before I meet him (Yes I am dead It's why I said that I meet him).
Flashback – I don't know how many time because I am dead (follow a little please)
I am in an ambulance.. I think.. I don't really know. Everything is fuzzy around me. I hear a siren.. a bip.. a motor. I think…I had an accident. I arrive at the hospital. I move inside the hospital. I see an other stretcher. It's me on it. It's strange. I hear voices. Something like "car accident.. twin.. too stricken.. can't save both". And then the situation in its entirety hit me. It's not I think, I am in a hospital because I just have a accident. It wasn't me in the other stretcher it's my twin brother. And one of us will die because the doctors think they can't save both of us and I can't tell them that I want my brother to be saved I can't choose once more.
All my life I never choose anything. I was born twenty-six minutes before my little twin brother in a poor family. My mother was single because my father died before we were born. I dress with what we were gift, eat what my mother could bring home, playwith what we found. My mother died when we were 26 at the age of 44 from overload. With my brother we lived from little job. At the age of 29 I get sick, Brain Cancer. We could never procure the right medication for me with the little money we make so I make one of very few choice of my entire life I choose to don't tell my brother. Two years later we have this accident We were walking home with my brother when a truck drifted from the road and striked us.
So here we are in the hospital I think they will try to save me I can think stray correctly it may be because I am the less injured. I hope not, with my cancer I will not survive the operation but they can use my organs to save my brother. I have seen my doctor a week earlier my cancer has start to produce metastases but its localized in my brain solely. They can save him… please save him.
I drift in an endless univers like a infinite ocean of black and white shades, I think I'm dead, I hope that mean they save my brother. I don't know how long I floated in this infinity but an undetermined amount of time i see something far ahead of me. As I drift toward it I perceive what it is, It's a door, who seems to be lay onto a ray of light. I finally reach it, I open it and go through it. I find myself inside a grand office with a floor of dark wood interweave with tread of gold, what appear to be romans style columns but made of cristal who lost themselves in a ceiling who seems to be the univers itself and on the walls paintings of all ages and regions so real that they seems to move and when I finally approach them I saw why it seems to move, it's because it really move, they aren't painting, they are windows. It's gorgeous but what attract my attention is the man who sit at the desk, he appear so normal in all this fantasy that he what stand out the most.
He don't look at me maybe he hasn't see me yet, I approach him the most naturally that I can but it's at this moment it hit me, I am not walking toward him, I don't seems to have legs or any other part of body for what it's worth. So I have the most stupid reaction I could have, I panic. You will tell me, it's normal to panic you just understood that you don't have a body so it's not stupid. Yes it's right but if you follow and I am pretty sure that I told you to at the beginning of the flasback, I already think that I am dead so the panic reaction is stupid but at least that has the merit of attracting his attention.
"What are you doing here kid ?" he said, his voice strange yet comfortable and with the immediate effect of calming me and as I look at him I saw that he is genuinely surprise.
"Um… I don't know where I am actually" I said impressing myself with my cool.
"Ah you look dead anyways" he said.
"Eeh thanks ?" I respond.
"No I mean you're not alive anymore" he said jaded. It make more sens in fact that just telling me that he don't like my face. Because you know I don't have face anymore.
"Yes, I mean I realized that when I was floating in the endless space" I tell him.
"Ok cool" he said before go back to his paperwork, paper who seems to be made of cloud, not paying attention to me anymore.
"If I am dead what do I do ?" I ask.
"Go back to the entrance and asks again the way to the one in guard, follow it and don't loose yourself this time" he answer without looking up from his desk made by marble, jade and wood.
"Um… I would like but I don't see any entrance nor any people before arriving in your office" I said uncomfortable. When I said that he look up right into my eyes, if I still had eyes of course, with a look of great interest.
"You came from the void right in my office ?" he ask.
"Um… yeah" I said still uncomfortable.
"Unusual, strange even… Right I don't do it myself habitually I prefere to deleguate" he said searching something in his desk.
"Here" he add posing a batch of paper/cloud in his desk.
"Sit down.. sit down.. I just search…" he add again showing up a chair of cloud for me to seat. The chair is really comfy but I have a unceasing question since the beginning.
"Are you God ?" I ask. He sit up straight with triumph a fountain pen in his hand. The pen is beautiful, make all in pure diamond with the ink strolling freely inside like in water and the light of the ceiling's stars who hangs in it with every movements.
"Yes, Yes I am… Beautiful isn't it ?" he agree admiring the pen too.
"Absolutely but what do we do ?" I said.
"We have to register your death" he explain snapping out of his observation of the pen and looking at me.
"Oh joy" I reply sarcastically.
"So what's your name kid ?" he ask curiously.
"Sora… Sora Shiayashi, Sora as the sky and Shiayashi as in pure and forest and I ain't no kid I'm 31" I reply plainly.
"Everyone is kid to me Sora" he said with a chuckle.
"Right God and all" I said jaded.
"Yes. So Shiayashi.. Shi.. Shi.. Ah found ya ! Well… it's strange" he said matter-of-factly.
"What ? What is strange ?" I ask nervously.
"Well you're not dead" he said flatly.
"I'm pretty sure I am I don't have a body" I respond just as flatly.
"I mean yes you're dead but you're not suppose to" he announce looking at me curiously.
"Eeh I'm pretty sure that I was dying, I has a accident where a truck hit me, I have a brain cancer and I think they used my organs to save my brother" I said looking back at him.
"Well yes, yes, yes and no you were dying, a truck hit you, you have brain cancer but they doesn't use your organs, they choose to save you because you just your kidneys punctured but your brother lose his hearth. But this is what is strange you shoud've survive then you would have a remission from your cancer and you would live 43 years 7 months 23 days 3 hours 46 seconds more" he said interrogatively almost for himself.
"Wait what ? My brother is dead ? Can I see him ?" I ask nervously almost rudely.
"I fear it's not possible my child, you're technically still alive, alive and dead can't interact and you can't be dying yet, I can lengthen lifetime not shorten it so I will have to make you live again but I can pass a message if you want" he said half of it a statement for himself.
"What ? You're God you can whenever you want !" I said angrily.
"I am sorry my child that I can't access your request but there are rules than even I can't transgress" he said and I saw that he was genuinely sad for me.
"Shit" I said and then I cried, ok i don't really cried because I don't have eyes but I was so sad almost as sad as when my mother died. I write my brother a message where I explain the situation, I said that I love him that we will meet again when it is time for me to really die and to say hello to our mother if he see her. I take some time to myself to digest all of this and when I felt myself a little better I go back to speak with God.
"Ok back to business, where do you want to be reincarned ?" he said with a glimmer in his eyes that I really don't understand but that I'm sure I don't like.
"Why don't you send me back to my body ?" I said expectantly.
"What ? No it won't be fun !" he reply.
"But I want to live my life !" I affirm back.
"Come on you don't know anyone anymore ! Do something else live your dreams ! Tell me what were your dream before you come here ?" he ask.
"I wanted to travel the world" I reply half willingly.
"Yeah that's a good dream so now tell me you prefere past or future ?" hesaid continuing his interrogation.
"I don't know I just want to go back to my old life" I affirme him but it's like he don't want to listen.
"Yes you're right past future same thing don't really care" he said and I'm now pretty sure that he don't listen to me. "Oh ! Oh ! I know we're gonna reincarned you into a different world, a whole new world !" he said excitingly.
"I don't want to ! » I almost yell.
"Yes right you're right it has to be a world with rules that you know otherwise you will die rapidly. Not funny" he said still to himself.
"A world that is a fiction that you know oh my me I'm such a genius sometimes. So what do you read ?" he ask finally looking at me.
"Manga but tha-" I start to say.
"Of course manga it's really a lot more exciting than your old world. So a manga and travel… Naruto do you know it ?" he ask.
"Yes bu-" I try again to say.
"Perfect Naruto world it is !" he exclaimed at his own 'genius'.
'I feel that I help him too much I'm really stupid sometimes. But you know what ? Naruto world ! Maybe he is right it will be more exciting that my old life I'll be able to travel that's sure and I really don't have anyone that I really know in my old life. I suppose I'll go with it' I think smiling a little.
"So now that it's set what are we doing ?" he said.
"What ?" I reply startled.
"What what ? I won't send you here totally disarmed. Where is the fun in it ?" he said.
"Yeah that make sense in fact" I admit.
"So what should we do ? There are basic thing at first context, character" he said.
"I dunno maybe the character first ?" I tried.
"Yeah you're right character first context after" he said.
'What the fuck ?! He listen to me this time ?' I think shocked.
"So character… First the name and the face. Maybe we should make you ugly it'll be funny" he said to himself.
"What ? No !" I exclaimed directly.
"Um… No you're right not so funny everyone is at least average in this world, funny for me not for you at least you need to have some fun otherwise you'll just kill yourself at the end of the day" he said again to himself.
'The beginning of the answer make me doubt a little but no he really don't listen to me' I think blase.
"So average face… maybe slighty better… yeah good looking it'll be fun to see how you interact with girl" he said with a fire in his eyes.
'Ok he is crazy I don't know why I don't see it before' I think a bit afraid.
"For the name your's not bad so that will do, we could have make it funny but you'll complain like for the face" he tell me.
"What you listen when i spoke to you ?!" I said incredulous.
"Of course I am God !" he explain like it make any sense.
"So you just don't care !" I state angrily.
"Now for your background… a clan i twill be fine. We will create one. Oh Shiayahsi it will do wonder for a Konoha clan" he point out.
"Listen to me !" I yell angrily.
'Well he is right for the name but if he really listen to me but simply don't care he is an asshole !' I assess furiously.
"Clan Shiayashi, one of the founding clan of Konoha who have today disappear but there was a main branch of the clan who subsist in the elemental nation and you are the direct descendant of it, you're an orphan, your parents have leave you at the gate of Konoha because they know they were tracked and they died little time after leaving you the last of your clan" he declare.
"Arrrrgh ‼ He do it on purpose !" I said more for myself and relieve my anger that for him. He don't care want I say anyway.
'He don't even ask my help to decide my life. I mean right I don't decide my life the previous time either but now I'm litteraly in front of him !' I say to myself.
"Oh my me this is so good I'm such a genius ! Wait didn't I say that before ? No I say sometimes, I'm really just a genius. Oh it make me think I'll make you a genius too that will be so fun !"
"What ? No don't mess up with my brain !" I exclaime rapidely.
"Yeah that will be good and now the kekkei genkai of the clan…" he start to ponder.
'He don't listen to me, I'm so screw up' I admit to myself depressingly.
"We will make something original for once all those dojutsu this is boring" he state.
'They're pretty cool to me' I reflect.
"Something original… Genjutsu ! They never use it !" he said pensively.
"It's because it's the less pratical please don't make my bloodline with it ! » I beg him.
"Yes genjutsu it is ! And why not just that ?" he decide then ponder.
'Nonononononononono ok for the genjutsu if you want but not just that. I need to convince him but he don't listen when I object. I need to do something !' I think rapidely.
"Yes do that it will be cool !" I exclaimed trying desperately to make him disagree.
"I was sceptic but you're right always for the fun !" he acquiesce.
'Oh my god what did I do, he always disagree normally' I think crying internally, 'And me who think it's smart to play reverse psychology with God'
"But you'll have no way to defend yourself like this…" he said then.
'What ? Am I dreaming he will not do it, it's too good to be real' I think.
"Nah it's good !" he exclaimed.
'I was right it was too good' I think downcast.
"Now into the specific –" he said and he continued to talk and talk.
I was so down that I don't listen to him anymore, he don't care about my opinion anyway and I probably kill my future new life with this rooten try of reverse psychology to save my life of the craziness of God. I heard part of his speech in my depression, things like "techniques of the clan.. passed in the brain of newborn with a genjutsu" I think I heard something about senjutsu at a point and an thing about alteration of the reality. I don't really understand, I don't really tried either.
"Sora ? Sora ?" said God as I snapped out of my trance-like depression.
"Um yes ?" I ask still half in my trance.
"Did you understood all I say and do you agree with it ?" he enquire.
"Um yeah but I have a question" I said
"What is your question ?" he ask.
"Will I live the 40 and more years that you tell me before and then just die ?" I enquire to him.
"No I'll use the remaining energy of your old life to send you to another life with its own energy in your next life you can die at 60 years like at 2" he respond kindly.
"Ok" I answer flatly.
"Do you anymore question ?" he
"No" I said still depressive.
"Right so I will send you right away. Have fun in your new life" he wish me.
'Yeah fun, don't matter anyway now that I know I don't have the 40 and some years with me I probably gonna die soon' I tell myself just before darkness engulfed me.
AN: And that's it end of chapter 1. Don't hesitate to review it'll be greatly appreciate. Tell me if you see big fault I'll force myself to do better but for that explanation of the mistakes are needed
I will do a small harem for Sora like around 3 or 4 people but I don't know exactly who so don't hesitate to give idea. I kind of see Sora as a part of me and I'm heterosexual so only girls, sorry for the ones who like yaoi but it will be ankward for me to write.
I will surely post the next chapter tomorrow or Saturday. So until then, à la prochaine !