Hello. It's me, DarkNut Destroyer! I'm starting a new story, you know, to freshen up my writing skills. I'll still be updating my other story "333 Ways to Get Kicked Out of Konoha" but it'll be slower. This fanfic was created in my mind after I finished reading the manga "Soul Eater". I think Excalibur's powers were extremely badass and could've been better exploited. So let's quickly end this introduction and start this new story !

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Soul Eater or any references presented in this story.

Do Not Gentle Into That Good Night

In Eibon's book, in the chapter of pride

"And don't come back!" Patty screamed after throwing the all-powerful Excalibur through the dimensional rift.

Excalibur POV

My name is Excalibur.

I think an apology is needed in this situation. It is not common for mortal beings to see an all-powerful sword of light such as I get thrown into a distortion of the tissue of reality but I guess I cannot expect anything else from my awesomeness. I could have easily returned to my original realm, but then I realized it has been too long since I had a vacation. The struggles this world is currently facing has bored me for a long time. So I decided to start fresh, you know, to see new places and people, not just that smiling moon or that cartoonish mask of the God of Death. It isn't uncommon for immortal beings like me to travel across dimensions. The last time I went to the hall of the multiverse was three billions of years ago. So, back to the topic, I was currently travelling across the "portal" as you pitiful mortals name it and, while I was travelling through the hall at the speed of light, a detail caught my attention.

"Huh? Kami-chan and Shinigami-chan's dimension? I haven't see them for a long time! I'll go visit them! They'll be so happy to admire me again!" I decided while correcting my trajectory towards the ebony door.

Kami's POV

"Shit, he came back" I muttered under my breath.

"Who are you talking about?" Shinigami asked me. "Excalibur", I replied. If the situation wasn't so serious, I would have probably found the face she made comical, but our time was quickly running out.

"What are we going to do?! If we don't figure something, he'll bother us until our spiritual forms are dissolved into Samsara!" she said, clearly panicking. I couldn't really blame her.

"I know! Let's throw him in the human world! Then we wouldn't have to worry about him for a while!" It was at this moment that I should've realized the horrible and unforeseen consequences this action would've made, but sacrifices must be made to preserve my sanity! I activated the opening to the mortal world just in time. The door at the wall was suddenly opened by the exuberant sword entity. Fortunately, Excalibur didn't notice the rift at his feet until it was too late and fell in the portal to the ninja world.

Shinigami and I cheered and hugged each other, tears flowing like a fountain from our eyes. "That was close! You were so cool, Kami-chan! We are lucky that this idiotic buffoon didn't notice the trap!" Shinigami said while praising me. I blushed a storm under her compliments.

Then, a horrible and terrible feeling washed over, completely ruining the happy moment. I turned behind and noticed something that made my eyes widen.

"The Kishin Eggs!"

Indeed, multiple spherical scarlet spheres were entering the hole. Excalibur must have brought with him the evil spirits of Madness from his original world with him!

"Quickly! Close the gate!" screamed Shinigami at me. I did as she said, closing the gate with a flick of my hand. The remaining kishins eggs, noticing the disappearance of the gate, turned and charged at us.

Big mistake.

The evil souls were quickly obliterated by our divine powers, but it was too late for the others that entered the world below.

"Well shit."

"Indeed my dear sister" Shinigami replied. The only thing we could do was to wait… and watch.

Meanwhile, in the mortal realm…

Excalibur quickly reverted back to his sword form, currently falling at high velocity towards the hard unforgiving ground. He was distracted at the moment by the fact that the moon didn't grin and looked perfectly normal. He then realized that he was falling towards the ground at a speed high enough to actually put a miniscule mark on him.

"Wait a second, I forgot I could fly!" he though. Beautiful and majestic wings of light sprouted from his hilt and slowed his fall. Unfortunately, in a cruel trick of fate, the Kishin Eggs that followed him crashed unto him and made him unceremoniously crash into a dark alley, the Kishin Eggs, as for them, dispersed with the wind and flew all around the entire Elemental Nations, bringing the world into an era of chaos…and madness.

Naruto(9 years old) POV

My day started terribly.

First, I woke up, did my usual morning routine and went to the Hokage Tower. As usual, in the street, even though the village was still waking up and few people were in the streets, the glares and whispers were as terrible as every day. Seriously, some days, I regret the days during which people would openly scream at me. At least I'd know what they think, but with their whispers, the pain was tenfold. The ignorance of their thoughts, the conniving gazes between them and the glares! The glares! Those looks filled with hate simply made me want to hide in a hole and never get out! What did I do to attract such hatred? Sure, I played pranks on them, but nothing I did justified the beatings and the stares.

Anyway, I continued my way towards the Hokage Tower, cowering from the villagers and the ninjas. Like every other day, I was refused to see my grandfather figure, the secretary justified it by saying that the Hokage was extremely busy. I clearly saw that she was lying, but I couldn't do anything so I turned around and spent the rest of the day on my swing. Finally, I went back home.

On my way back, I was suddenly pulled into an obscured alley and someone hit me on the head.

Great. Just great. Another beating. I was kind of expecting it. It has been too quiet during the week. It was only a matter a time before the villagers decided to strike.

Another blow on the head. The pain was clouding my vision. When it came back, I saw a dozen of middle-aged men carrying in their hands various crude weapons such as clubs, steel pipes and knives. As usual, I curled myself into a fetal position and prepared myself for the beating…

…but it never came.

Instead, I heard a crashing sound and looked up. It seemed like something fell frrom the sky and crashed on the ground. After the cloud of dust dissipated, I saw something that made my eyes widen. In front of me, proudly standing and shinning beautifully in the moon light, a magnificent sword was planted in the stone ground.

Normal POV

Naruto suddenly felt the urge to grab it; an unseen force pushed him to put his hand on the sword's handle; he marveled at how smooth it felt. It was truly beautiful; the flawless blade, the deadly sharpness, the runes engraved into the golden handle and the slightly glowing ruby of the pommel made him amazed of such perfection. The very air seemed to be cut by the weapon!

Then, slowly creeping out from his chest, extreme pain that Naruto had never felt before started to tear him apart.

The cause of the pain was that when Excalibur went to synchronize their souls, the suppressive seals that had been applied on his mind destined to stun his mental development were dissolved by the purifying energy emitted by the sword. Fortunately, since he was young, his mind wasn't developed enough for the disappearance of the seals to significantly harm him. He did have a massive headache though. But the biggest change in Naruto was the disappearance of the Kyuubi. Since the fox was a being made out of malevolent energy and pure rage and hatred, he was also dissolved by the sword's light power.

The Kyuubi didn't completely disappear though. Like if it had a conscience, the sword's energy had acquired the powerful entity's chakra, which was enormous. Even an immortal being such as Excalibur needed time to recycle the fox's foreign energy. This was the cause of the imaginable pain; his chakra coils were being completely rewritten to be able to contain so much energy. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. This process felt like if he was burning from the inside.

Finally, after what felt like an eternity for the young boy, the transformation abruptly disappeared. Panting erratically, he looked around, noticing a puddle of water and saw his reflection.

He gasped.

His hair, it wasn't blonde like before… it was white. He also noticed that he wasn't as scrawny as before. In no such way was he muscular or strong-looking, but all traces of his malnourishment had disappeared. His clothes have also changed. No longer did he wear the same monstrosity of a jumpsuit, he now wore a black T-shirt, dark blue jeans, white sneakers, a white trench coat decorated with black lines and a white military beret on which was sewn a ghost-like pin.(1) His also wore fingerless gloves covered with metal plates. But the biggest change of all was his eyes. Instead of the cerulean sapphire eyes, his eyes were red as blood and silted by dark irises. In one word, he looked badass.

Naruto widened his eyes as he felt an unimaginable surge of power coursing through his veins. It seemed that he wasn't the only one that had changed.

Indeed, the sword had changed into a blade made out of pure white energy and the guard extended to form wings. The now white-haired child had never felt such energy and power! He felt incredible! He felt he could destroy the world without breaking a single sweat!

"Monster!"

The cry completely shattered the silence, startling him and made him turn his attention back to his assailants.

Naruto looked up at the cowering men, noticing how intimidating he looked with his sword and his face overshadowed by his hair in which his red eyes glowed lightly.

He then smelt an unpleasant smell; he turned to the source of the odor and saw that the men had urinated in their pants. Wrinkling his nose in disgust, he scowled and waved the sword in a dismissive manner, releasing a gigantic wave of purifying power. The men were quickly dispatched…as well as half the district.

Fortunately, the men attacked him while he was passing through a disaffected neighborhood that has been abandoned due to the lingering corrosive chakra left after the Kyuubi Attack so nobody noticed his powerful attack.

Naruto sheathed his sword on his back, noticing that it reverted back to its original form, and then walked without a word towards his house, leaving behind the charred corpses of his victims.

At Naruto's apartment

Naruto gracefully glided through the empty streets, his hair shinning under the moonlight. His face has a bored look and his hands were in his pockets. When he entered the abandoned apartment building that was his home, he absently minded disabled the traps, the exploding tags and a few senbon-shooters hidden in the walls that had been installed by the villagers during his absence. He pocketed every one of them. Since the shop keepers wouldn't sell him anything, he kept everything he could. He never threw away anything unless they were permanently damaged or seriously dangerous like a crudely made exploding tag that could explode at any moment.

The building was a fortress. Every trap he caught was used by Naruto to fortify his house. There was enough firepower in this building to supply a platoon of soldiers. Anyone foolish enough to try to reach him was instantly "disposed of". The building reached a level of protection close to the ANBU headquarters and even Orochimaru's hidden labs. Some might think it was overkill, but after years of abuse and attempts to his life, it was normal for him to be paranoid.

The only room unprotected was the entry hall, but he only did that so he could collect every day some new gear. Naruto walked up the stairs in a precise order to avoid all traps and went to sleep in his room. He removed all clothes, but kept the sheathed sword with him in bed, the stress of the evening caught up on him and he drifted up quickly into a dreamless sleep.

In Naruto's mindscape

Naruto woke up in water. Groaning, he lifted himself up and looked around him. It looks like he was in a massive room and the water reached to his ankles. There, in the middle of the room, planted in a pedestal of stone, was the sword. Curious of where he was, he explored a little bit and after a few minutes, approached the sword. Intrigued of what it was doing here, he took the handle and lifted it up. The sword began to glow, but this time, it wasn't as blinding as before. The sword then left his hand and transformed into… an imp?

He could not describe the humanoid creature, but it was clearly something that he had never heard of.

"Good morning my Meister! I see you noticed the changes with your body?" happily chirped the strange creature.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Excalibur, the Holy Sword."

"So it was you who did this to me!" said Naruto while pointing him with his finger.

"Indeed, but now is not the time of questioning. You are in terrible danger. You cannot stay any longer in this village. A powerful entity wants to capture you and take me from you." said the little person. He then pointed his cane behind him. The darkness that prevented Naruto from seeing the back of the room dissipated and revealing a gigantic purple fireball.

"What is this?" Naruto screamed, clearly panicking about the events happening before his eyes.

"This, young man, is your soul. As you can see, it is purple. Usually, your soul should be blue, but it seems like the energy that I took from the demon in your body…"

"What! I have a demon inside of me?!" Naruto shrieked, interrupting him.

"You didn't know?"

"Of course I didn't know! What does the demon looked like?"

"I think it looked like a fox with nine tails."

"Kyuubi." muttered Naruto.

"Pardon me, but what is Kyuubi?"

"It's a powerful demon that destroyed the village I which I live in. I though they said it got killed…"said Naruto. Suddenly, it all made sense. The glares, the hatred… He finally understood. He was truly a monster, a pitiful error of Mother Nature. He shouldn't even be alive. He then turned to the strange creature. "Actually, where is he?"

"He's gone. My power made you absorb him." said the white imp. "I am sorry to announce you that you are a Kishin."

"What?" Naruto said, while trying to hide his shock. The Kyuubi, one of the most powerful beasts of the world was defeated by this imp? It looked too good to be true, but something about the being in front of him made him believe him. He felt immediately relieved to know that the demon kicked the bucket.

"Yes, his conscience faded away, but his power is now yours. Unfortunately, I've got to announce you something. You are now a Kishin, a tainted human soul that got so corrupted that it became an actual demon. Do not worry; you are not a full-blooded demon. My light power prevents the demon's energy from corrupting your soul. Ironically, the demon's dark energy is the only reason you are still sane. You see, in the place I come from, people couldn't stand in my presence, because since my light power is so pure, it completely destroyed the natural balance of light and darkness of their soul. This imbalance caused the soul to reject me by making the person see me as extremely annoying. While it is true that I can be quite irritating, if the soul didn't reject me, anyone willing enough could have accessed to my immense power without difficulty." said Excalibur. (2)

"Also, since your soul has such an enormous quantity of energy, you can now use Soul Energy, making you able to manipulate me in my weapon transformation. It also looks like you have demonic weapon characteristics so can turn some parts of your body as weapons." Excalibur continued.(3)

"A weapon? How so?"

"In the place I come from, some people can turn themselves into weapons. They then work together with a "meister", a person able of using their soul to manipulate the weapon. The weapon and the meister use together their soul to create a high frequency called "Soul Resonance" which they use for combat. I am personally a weapon and one of the Great Old Ones, God-like entities that rule over Madness. Usually, a weapon can eat the soul of the Kishins and use them to become stronger, but I am an exception. Also, it seems like we cannot separate, because the only thing that prevents you from becoming insane is the influence of my light power. (4)" briefly explained the sword entity; letting is words sink in his new meister's mind.

"So… why did you say that I must leave the village?" he asked him.

"When I came into this world, I brought with me some madness, which attracted Kishins. They are now roaming on this world, slowly turning the world around them into madness. Fortunately, it will take quite some time before they can gather enough strength to actually be a dangerous so you have enough time to leave this village so I can train you to make you stronger. You cannot stay here because it is indeed true that they are weak enough to not be able to turn the people around here insane, they can still harm you physically."

"Nice! I can finally become stronger!" shouted an excited Naruto. "When are we going to go?"

"Now is the best time to get away. You should start packing your things; it is going to be a long trip."

Chapter end!

Authors note

And that wraps it up! This is my new fanfiction and I am fairly excited for it! As you see, Excalibur decided not to come back and went to the universe of Naruto as a vacation. Here are some explanations about some of the aspects of my story.

(1) Soul's drawing on his headband.

(2) In the manga, the powers that Excalibur gives to its possessor are extremely badass. During the short episode about Hero, we saw him completely trash Black Star like it was nothing. I was a little unnerved to know that anyone can wield him, but his annoying personality seems to be the limiter of its users. I developed a theory that Excalibur's soul is so holy that it unbalanced the natural balance of light and dark of the user's soul, forcing it to reject the sword by making the person feel like Excalibur is extremely annoying. Excalibur will still be annoying, but he will not turn Naruto insane like with everyone else.

(3) Naruto will be able to sprout blades from his body like Maka's weapon form.

(4) Excalibur is now Naruto's partner. The demonic power of the Kyuubi balanced with Excalibur's light power, making Naruto the only person to be able use Excalibur to its full potential. The problem is that if one of the two powers disappears, Naruto will turn insane and lose all common sense. In his training, Naruto will learn how to use the two powers equally so his soul stays balanced. I am an big fan about balance and I consider that the only true order of the world is equilibrium.

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