Prologue : Out of Body Experience

His body was numb. Nothing, not even pain registered in the blonde's mind. Why? he wondered blankly, as though to ask for the sake of asking. Why did they hate him so much?

"Don't die!" a loud animal voice growled at him. "Brat! Don't you die on me!" Naruto was past caring now, however. He could careless, as he closed his eyes. But he saw a black figure shadow him, before he was fully taken in the darkness.

The usually stoic Second Division Captain frowned as she watched the whole ordeal. The woman frowned deeply. The child couldn't be more than five years of age, and here he was beaten an inch from his life, and that coming from the said woman was not an exaggeration. Sui Feng had seen and done countless of murders. She has overseen and done countless of tortures. She has been a ruthless kunoichi, that she could not deny... but there was no honor in the senseless beating of a child. It wasn't even entertaining at the very least. She could see the boy's pain and misery, and if she hadn't the patience of more than a lifetime, she would have intervened already.

But it wasn't for a death god to involve herself in whatever the humans got themselves into, she thought. However the glum look on her face betrayed her emotions to her companion, Omaeda Machiryo. "Is there any problem taicho?"

Sui didn't mind him, as she noticed the boy's soul slowly exiting the body. This world was rather peculiar in the fact that they had no soul chains. They souls would just exit the body and that was all. There are those though that dare linger, or are forced back from the Afterlife. The woman sighed, as she opened a senkaimon. She grabbed the boy's soul, unknowing that there was another trapped within.

The Hokage frowned as he watched the boy on the pristine white mattress. If it hadn't been for a timely rescue from an ANBU, the boy would have probably died. The old man had been shocked with the damage that was done on the boy's body. It was as if he had fought an entire army on his own.

But there was something that frightened the old man more than anything, something that made his blood run cold. The kyuubi's chakra... it's regeneration was gone.


A.N. I'm trying my hand at writing something quite long :D