please review, also there is a reason for all of the iffy things naruto will end up doing in my fic. Also, please help me with my errors if you see some.
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Naruto lay there, hours passed by in seconds as numbness washed over his cold body. Tears, flowing down his face, mixed with the blood surrounding him. A single word, trapped in a veil of silence, escaped his lips as he felt the light leave his eyes. "Why?"Naruto mouthed as the world drifted away and he fell into the darkness.
With a start, Naruto's senses sharpened and he somehow sat up. Looking around he saw an endless void of blinding darkness surrounding him. The only object in the vicinity was a humanoid with undistinguishable features that beckoned for him to approach it. "Are you prepared to die?" it asked him in a grave voice as he approached it.
"What do you mean!" Naruto demanded.
"Are you ready to give up on your friends and give into to death?" it repeated. It's crossed arms unfolded as he stood almost directly in front of it.
Looking into the… thing's eyes Naruto replied, "I can't! Dying is not an option yet. I still have to save Sasuke and become Hokage! I can't die until then. Believe it!" Naruto slipped into a stance, prepared to fight this thing if it meant returning to his friends.
"Well I guess you don't want to know that you were, in fact, currently milliseconds from being truly dead then had I not brought you here."
"But, I am perfectly fine." Naruto replied, while looking down at his chest and rubbing it. Although he saw no apparent wound, it still ached a little bit.
The figure placed a hand on his shoulder. "I brought you into a rip in space time. A place removed from the universe. Here there is no pain so you have no wounds. But as soon as you return to your world you will die."
"Who exactly are you?" Naruto asked, hanging around Ero-sensei had given him a high respect for the arts of space time like fuiinjutsu.
The closest thing that you would understand is basically. Well, you could say I am the Kage of all human works. I am the god of each one and you as well. But you may call me First.
"NANI! You're Kami-sama?!" Naruto exclaimed while backpedaling away from his touch.
"Yes, I am." First said with a grin. "Do you wish to live in your world once more? Do you wish to live once we stop talking?"
Naruto looked at First and started nodding his head. "I have to."
"The price is steep, can you really pay it."
"Name it."
"In exchange for your life, three conditions will be set. You will lose your humanity. You will conquer all the lands. And you will follow my orders while alive. Your soul will be bound and watched by Friend to provide future instructions...If you agree to these then your life will be returned and you will be allowed to accomplish your two life goals, becoming a Kage and saving Sasuke's soul."
Setting his mouth into a line, he thought over the price he would pay, and he gave his answer.
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Naruto awoke with a start. Sitting up abruptly, he screamed as phantom pain ripped through his mental body. Drawing a ragged breath and clenching his teeth he looked down at his chest. Seeing no hole, the pain began to subside.
He then noticed his surroundings and the familiarity off the dark corridor his was in.
'That fox-bastard! What does he want right now! I have to get Sasuke.' He thought to himself as he jumped up and shot down the sewers towards the Kyuubi's prison.
Along the way he contemplated how he was still alive. 'He stabbed me through my heart and my lungs, how am I still alive?' he thought, bewildered at his own survival. 'Wait! Was that deal with Kami real!? I thought it was just a dream!' getting slightly panicked now, he sprinted into high gear.
In about 15 seconds he arrived at the large room that should hold the Kyuubi, but the cage was gone. No bars, no seal, and, worst of all, no fox.
"Surprised are we" asked a deep rasping voice from behind.
Looking behind himself, Naruto gasped at what he saw. The fox's nine tails lay limp beside their owner. His fur was turning grey at a rapid pace; already, he had lost three tails and a leg to it. "W-What! How are you out of the seal!"
"How indeed." The fox replied, "We were dying, Naruto. You received two mortal wounds and a paralyzed body from the neck down due to that Uchiha's chidori." The fox growled menacingly. "Then that damn seal of the Yondaime's started to break down our chakras. It disintegrated a little after it began. Right now your body is dead, Naruto. Nothing is going to change that." He took a break to see what the child is thinking on the matter.
"I-I'm dead." stated Naruto. ' I can't be dead, kami said he would save me.' As the situation settled in, his fists clenched in anger he shouted. "I- I can't be dead. Not yet! There is so much I need to do! Sasuke, becoming Hokage, Sakura-chan. So many things, and you say I'm dead!?" 'He didn't lie did he?' Softer, almost like he was crying he added. "I made a promise, if this is true t-then I-I broke my promise. The only thing she ever asked of me." Eyes watering he sat down in the sewers and grasped his knees. "So what happens now furball. Do I just sit here and take it?" he asked with a listless voice and hollowed eyes.
The Kyuubi looked upon the boy who he had earned a grudging respect for. Reaching over with one of his good tails he hugged the boy and wiped his eyes. "I said your body is dead, kit. Not you." He spoke softly.
Naruto looked at the fox like he was an idiot, "are you serious? There is no way I am alive if my body isn't. That is not the way death works!"
"Kit, before I was sealed, was I living inside of a piece of flesh like you did?" He asked.
" No?"Naruto replied.
"I didn't think so." With a sad smile on his face, Kyuubi looked into Naruto's eyes. "We aren't going to die kit, I am."
"B-but you're immortal. The Bijuu can't be killed! If you could just die like that, I would never have had you sealed in me. The damn Villagers would have had no reason at all to have hurt me!" Naruto shouted while batting away the tip of Kyuubi's, now stone, tail. The shadow of his hair hid his eyes as he stood. "Kyuubi, tell me what is going on here. Right. NOW!"
At this moment, the Kyuubi's fur had changed to being almost all grey, only his head and right paws were untouched. "Please, don't call me by that title anymore; it doesn't apply to me now. My name is Kurama."
"What do you mean kyu-Kurama? You're not the nine-tails anymore?"
"That's right kit; the reward of my death is yours to reap. You're not a human anymore, but don't worry about it too much. You'll love being a demon." With that, Kyuubi's body had turned into stone. His statue then shattered as a bright explosion of red blew out from it, seeping through Naruto's pores and entering his chakra coils where it quickly corrupted every cell of his body on an atomic level. 'this is the pain of losing one's humanity huh' thought Naruto as a scream ripped through his body and he blacked out again.
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Naruto woke softly as his ninja senses kicked in and he felt an entity near him. Opening his eyes, he saw a figure that seemed to be a genjutsu. It kept changing, but one thing remained the same, his ruby red eyes.
Hmmn. Are you finally awake? You sure took long enough.
Naruto looked down at himself and noticed he looked very different. His body kept a humanoid shape, but the 9 tails of bone and his boney exoskeleton kind of ruined the look of normalcy. Not to mention of course the large hole in his chest. His sharp fangs and glowing eyes could also complicate things, regardless of the mask hiding them. "Who are you? Is this permanent, and why can't I see you clearly?" He said as he contemplated the price he recently had paid and wondering what losing his humanity meant for him, 'being a jinchuuriki is bad. Being a demon is worse. What will the villagers think of me?'
Wow! You worry about other's opinions waaaay too much man. But anyways, I am your FRIEND from First. I will be in charge of both your planning and training to make you strong as First needs you. I am so glad you're a demon now, you'll withstand all my training and experiments and anything I need you to do. This will be an interesting time for us, but while you can revert, when we train you won't get to. IT'S FOR SCIENCE! Friend then bowed over him to look in his eyes. And I won't have to hold back because you can't die anymore ^_^. And, the reason I look weird is because I am currently inside of you. You are seeing a shoddy representation of me as a hallucination; I am supposed to stay in here so no one thinks that the fox is missing.
'What did I sign up for?' Naruto groaned inwardly. "And if I refuse? Hypothetically of course."
I kill you. Sakura dies. The leaf burns. And, Sasuke burns in hell, unsaved for all eternity.
"Unacceptable! You can't do that!"
Then just don't make me. The first thing you need to do is get up and find the Kaguya. We need him NOW.
"Alright, sheez, but why do we need him? Isn't he dead? Also are all of our friends okay? I need to help them." Just as Naruto started to run, friend spoke up.
They are fine, also stop talking out loud. It will draw attention later. Just give me your thoughts when you need me. I'll be listening. And you will see what we need the body for when we get there.
Naruto nodded and leaped up from the shore, unaware of the red eyes watching him as he ran up the cliff-face of the valley of the end.
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Naruto arrived at the bone forest 4 minutes later ready to complete this task so he could check on his friends. Looking around, he spotted a body lying in a ring of dirt and leapt to it. After flipping it he confirmed who it was. 'Eh what do I do with him now Friend?'
Pfft that's simple. You eat him, you are literally using pure chakra to move your body right now. If you eat him, you will have the nutrients necessary to fix your body.
Naruto sat there for about three minutes trying to process what he just heard friend say. But strangely, he could feel it. Deep down he felt a tug, his body hunched itself over the kaguya, Kimimaro, his jaw unhinged as he leapt forward. He was repulsed by the taste at first when he bit into his body, but soon his now ravenous hunger squashed it down as the blood ran down the crevices in his "skin".
After three minutes all was gone, even his bones. 'what now. Where do we go from here?'
It is too late for you to save this Sasuke, but First doesn't break a promise. We are going back to your past Naruto, get ready.
In a flash of light, they disappeared as their world unraveled only to reconstruct itself on the day after the Kyuubi attack.
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