Grim Reaper
Story by VolpyroHarry
Copyright ownership belongs to Kishimoto; the true creator of Naruto.
Reaper ideas and part of abilities belong to The-Eight-Sin's Blood Harvest (I do have his permission to use them)
"Talk"
'Thought'
"ATTACK!"
"Jimmy Talk"
1st Night- "So Long Dead-End Job!"
-Cover Art:
A 7-year old boy and a black-cloaked figure with their backs turned, walking onward, toward a dark road.
Above the skies of Konoha, a lone figure lay floating. Yes, he was floating in the air. He wore a black cloak that completely covered his body from head to toe. The only part that could be seen about him was his face, and you couldn't call it a face at all; after all, it was only bones. In fact, his whole body was a skeleton, no skin, no tissue, no ligaments, or any other body parts; just nothing. In his right hand, he held a giant scythe, it was all crooked and the blade of the malicious weapon was curved and twisted in weird angles, giving it a sinister appearance.
He sighed, why, he asked himself. Why, the hell was he doing this? He had been assigned by his-oh-so-high-and-fucking-mighty, Grim Reaper. Why, he chose him, who knows. He was here to clean up the mess that a certain blood reaper, Kyuubi, hadn't done.
What's a blood reaper you ask? Well, if you think about it, the Grim Reaper, or supreme reaper, or king reaper, or whatever you wish to call him couldn't just go around the world, taking away precious loved ones that needed to hit the damn road. So he had little agents who were sort of a co-reaper, or blood reapers as they were known, do part of his work. They were scattered all over the world, overseeing, that all those that need to die, die. And those that should die, yet somehow escape it? Well, they get a nice visit from them. That's why he was here. A monstrous demon fox by the name of Kitsumaru was supposed to come to Konoha and pretty much turn into a playing ground. End of story right? WRONG! You see, when people die, they just don't go to purgatory and then, go on to the "pearly" gates, more opal actually, or the deep burning pits of hell bitches! The bodies are gone, but the souls are just wandering along like retards. So a blood reaper assigned to that region takes care of the whole problem.
The blood reaper in charge of this region was a guy named Kyuubi. The blood reaper swore that Kyuubi was as lazy as the Grim Reaper himself. He had skived off on his mission and was currently missing. The point is Kitsumaru was to come, cause trouble, and die in a double-kill battle with Konoha's 4th Hokage. The 4th, or Kazama Arashi, was the ONLY one from Konoha supposed to die. In fact, the 4th was long overdue his expiration date.
This is where he, the blood reaper intern extraordinaire came in. He'd cause some havoc that would result in the 4th dying, and find that slacker, Kyuubi. He anime sweat-dropped, he had no idea how to do this.
Suddenly something, strange, and much unexpected happened. There heading for Konoha was Kitsumaru. He started to sweat, something definitely wasn't right. Kitsumaru wasn't supposed to be here. You see, Kitsumaru was scheduled to have headed for Konoha, 5 months ago, and this wasn't right. There were specific rules all reapers had to follow. One rule was that all planned events for killing have to happen at that time, the event can't happen, let's say months later. It said so in line 1 gazillion, of paragraph chin gan ho. The reaper didn't really care to bother with the details. What he saw was not good. Kitsumaru arrived at Konoha, and in seconds began his decimation of the entire Konoha village. He kept recounting all the souls. This many weren't supposed to be killed. Only the 4th was to die, not all these other people. The reaper gulped; this was definitely not good, not good at all.
7 Years Later
You could almost call it a job, to be this village's scapegoat and punching bag. It was a regular 365 days a year job. Today was no exception, just like yesterday, was another regular day for him. He would wake up, eat breakfast, and head to school. Eventually, once school was over, he'd notice that he was being stalked by some of the civilians in the village. Since, he was only 7; he had neither the strength nor the stamina to escape. They'd catch him as always, say some "demon" or "it's your fault my family died," then proceed to beat him to a pulp.
He'd always call the cops afterward, but they'd never believe him, and those who did; never found evidence, if you couldn't call a beat up and bloodied little boy evidence. This time, however, they went a little too far. He looked down at his limp body. If you're wondering about this, it's because, he's a ghost or spirit or whatever you wish to call it. Again, he looked at his body; it was bloody, beaten and most importantly dead. The sick villagers had sick and twisted smiles on their faces as they looked at their deeds. Some muttered some "he deserved it" and other crap. Naruto quickly memorized their faces, he'd make sure somehow that his death was avenged.
"That can be arranged."
Naruto's ghost jumped, and turned around. Behind him, was a guy, he assumed, in a dark black coat. His scythe held lazily in his right hand. The figure raised his head, only to reveal a skull. Naruto quickly realized who this was, the Shinigami himself, here to take his soul to the netherworld.
"You've got the wrong idea. I'm not a shinigami and I'm not here to take you anywhere," said the reaper.
Naruto stared at the man, how was answering his questions without him asking him?
"Well how should I answer that? Ah! I know, I've been haunting you since the day you were born," replied the skull, he quickly scowled, "It's kind of like my punishment."
"Punishment?" asked Naruto.
"Yes, you see I'm not the Grim Reaper, I'm a blood reaper, and an intern to be exact. I was scheduled to watch over this area after the appointed person, Kyuubi, simply disappeared," answered the reaper.
Naruto looked bewildered; he'd heard that name before. "Isn't Kyuubi the demon fox that attacked Konoha?"
Now it was the skull that had the look of bewilderment, "Kyuubi, a demon fox? Impossible, he isn't even a demon. I should know; I did work under him. He's what's called a blood reaper."
Before Naruto could ask what a blood reaper is, he answered, "A blood reaper is the assistants of the one almighty 'Grim' Reaper."
Naruto nodded his head dumbfounded, "So what does this have to do with me?"
The skull's facial features changed to show that he was smiling, "Revenge of course. Kyuubi is obviously responsible for all this stuff. If he hadn't slacked off, then just disappear, none of this would be happening. All you have to do is help me find the bastard."
"Why should I? I can just die right now and go on to the afterlife," said Naruto.
"Kid, you're 7, why would you want to die?" asked the reaper.
Naruto stared at him incredulously.
The reaper sweat-dropped, "Oh yes, your life was pretty shitty wasn't it? Well, how's about we make a deal. I'm haunting you, as I've always done from inside you. Even with my power, I can't use it but I can redirect it. It will be a source and will mix with your blood and chakra to become your own power. Of course you won't be as powerful as even a genin, so you'd have to train to get stronger. And all you have to do is to help me find Kyuubi, so that this big ass mess can get sorted out."
"But, I'm dead, so don't I have to go to the afterlife?" asked Naruto.
"Nope, you forget, I'm a reaper, I can put your soul back in your body, even though you'd already be and will always be checked in as dead, you probably won't have a beating heart and stuff, but things like a working brain are definite. If you're wondering, since I'm a reaper I can bend those rules. You'll even become immortal!" the reaper exclaimed.
Naruto's eyes bulged.
"Just kidding! You will live a very long life that's for sure, and well, as long as you have blood," said the reaper.
"What does blood have to do with it? Aren't all of you reapers dead, Mr. Reaper; you shouldn't have a single drop of blood in your bodies!" asked Naruto.
"There's a reason we're called blood reapers kid. We get our powers from our blood and utilize to accomplish our various tasks. For instance, that's why we don't die. As long as blood flows in our nonexistent veins, we'll keep living. For example, we can get our whole top body blown to shreds, but as long as we still have blood, our body just keeps regenerating (example from The-Eight-Sin). Same for you, if you accept, except if you lose all your blood or are too old to actually to stay a blood reaper which shouldn't be until you are about 150 years old. So kid, do we have a deal."
Naruto pondered this, what else was there to do, he had a crappy life, which would probably only get crappier. However, he was given a new chance at life, but with some serious bad ass powers.
Naruto nodded, "Yes, we have a deal, Mr. Reaper."
The reaper smiled and held out his left hand, he then swiped at it with his scythe to cut it so that a steady flow of blood would leak out. Once done, he held out his hand.
"Alright, all you have to do is take hold of my hand and shake it. By the way, my name's Jimmy, so stop calling me Mr. Reaper."
Naruto reached out his left hand, "My name's Naruto, so you can stop calling me kid." Jimmy swiped at Naruto's hand and blood started to ooze out, how this was possible since Naruto was a ghost was beyond him. Their hands connected and instantly Naruto realized something was happening. His body felt so much pain; it seemed like he was on fire. He felt his body begin to shrivel as all his blood began seeping out of his body. He tried to let go, but his hand felt like it was super glued to Jimmy's hand.
Soon all the blood was out of his body and he looked like a shriveled up prune, not to mention the pain was excruciating. Then he started feeling something weird. All the blood started coming back into his body, but it felt oddly different, but he couldn't place it. Soon it was all back, inside his body. The pain had magically disappeared as fast as it had come. Jimmy let go of Naruto's hand, who quickly grabbed it as he felt a burning sensation on his back hand. He looked down at it. Smack dab, right in the middle was the picture of a demonic-looking skull with blood red glowing eyes, and 2 scythes crossing each other while facing opposite directions. Dribbles of blood seemed to drip off the ends of the scythes.
The insignia began to glow a red color, but eventually receded back to normal.
Naruto tried to examine his body, he knew he felt definitely "weird" and the insignia was still on his back hand, but other than that, nothing.
Jimmy smiled, "Congratulations, you're now a blood reaper!"
To Be Continued...: Next Issue...True Beginning
Author's Note: Yo, this is my newest story (no worries I shall continue Ronin Naruto). I only plan on having Naruto as a blood reaper and having the blood properties (all of that idea belongs to The-Eight-Sin with whom I have the permission to use it.)
So what do you all think? You can answer by pressing that little "Send Review."
Oh ya, this fic needs pairing(s).
This time I'm allowing Hinata and Sakura (I've taken a liking to part 2 Sakura, better than part 1.:T). I'm more or less rooting for Tayuya (mostly) or fem. Haku in this, or a Harem, so that's the only time I'm voting; however, for my readers, I'll let them decide. Of course I'm voting for Tayuya but only this once, and she gets author votes.
Tayuya 10
Fem. Haku 5
Harem (with OC) 1
Harem (without OC) 1
Sakura
Hinata
Temari
Ino
OC
Ayame
Tsunami
Kin
Tayuya
You can vote for more than one person per chapter; however, you can only vote 1 for each of those people. So don't like in chap 1 vote for fem. Haku once; then in chap 2 vote give her 4 votes. So in chap 1 give 1 vote, chap 2, 1 vote, etc…The polls end after chapter 5, so hurry up and vote!
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