This is my first fic in a while, but i hope you like it.
Konoha: seven years after the attack of the Kyuubi
A seven year old boy in an orange jumpsuit ran through the busy streets of the hidden leaf village. Ducking under a passing cart, he barely brushed his bright blonde hair on the underside. Sparing a glance back toward his pursuers, he saw the villagers were assisted by a few ninja without flack jackets. 'At least they aren't high level nin.' The boy thought, looking on the bright side as always. He turned back to watch where he's going just as another nin had arrived to cut him off. Naruto looks up to see his captor, just as the man finishes hand seals.
Naruto sees the Hokage holding him and smiles. "Jiji, you came to help!" the boy cheers. But Hiruzen merely sneers back at him. "I always hated that you call me that." The Hokage says with menace. Naruto's eyes widen with shock. "But Jij…" The boy starts but is silence by a hand grabbing him and taking him from the hokage's painful grip. The boy looks to see Teuchi holding him by his shirt collar with a kitchen knife in his other hand. Naruto pleaded to the man with his eyes, but the ramen stand owner simply slashed at him, slicing him across the face, crossing over the whisker like marks already on his face. Then the man threw the boy onto the ground, face up, to see Ayame, who the boy had always looked at as a sister figure, and saw her bring a rolling pin down on his head. Stars dance before his eyes as the three people he cared for most joined the normal beating he received every year. The blades, rocks, and jutsu hurt him, but the looks of hate on his precious people's face hurt him so much more, the knowledge that they no longer cared for him was enough to break his spirit.
The boy stopped struggling against the beating as the light left his face, his cerulean eyes dulled to a dim smoky gray/blue. "The Ninja broke his spirit! Now we break his body!" One of the villager's cheered. Loud enough for the nearby ANBU unit to hear.
The ANBU, lead by a man in a dog mask, leapt to the seen in time to see a chuunin plunge his Kunai into the blonde jinchuriki's back. The ANBU froze in shock, they knew if the boy died, the fox could possibly slip free, and in the middle of the village, this would be the end of the Leaf. The dog masked man with gravity defying grey hair froze for another reason. 'Sensei, i failed your son… but i can avenge him!' He thought with fire in his eyes, and ice in his heart. Inu appeared behind the chunin, driving a kunai into the back of his neck with enough force to splatter the villager's with gore. This action prompted the rest of his squad to leap into action. Two of them restrained the attackers with ninja wire, taking special care to tie the fingers of the ninja up spread and with the wire digging into their skin just enough to cut, but not draw blood. While the last of the group flickered to the boy Their hands glowing green as they tried to heal the only person keeping the village from becoming reacquainted with the Fox's wrath. "Why are you trying to save that thing!" Many of the now tied up attackers screamed, struggling in their bonds enough to draw blood from the sharp wire. "We are only finishing what the Fourth Hokage started!" Others spat. Inu set his gaze upon them, leaving no doubt that he was glaring, if looks could cut, the Kusanagi would not be lauded as the sharpest blade.
The ANBU trying to save the boy's life was terrified to see orange wisps of chakra leaking from the boy. "Captain!" They said, their fear leaking out in their voice. Inu turned from trying to bisect the fools with his eyes to see the boy leaking the Kyuubi's chakra into the air, and his subordinate's hands burned from brushing up against it while trying desperately to heal the boy. The villagers and nin followed his averted glare and saw, to their horror, the unmistakable chakra of the Nine Tailed Fox, beginning to coalesce above the boy, into the shape of a fox's head. Before anyone could react, either to scream or to give an order, the fox's attention was drawn to the sky, and the chakra stopped moving. All present followed the demon's eyes and saw a tear in the sky. The villagers were terrified that the fox may have called for more to wreak vengeance on them. The ninja were wary about whatever may come through the hole in the sky hands moving to ready seals to begin jutsu. Before their eye, a black robed figure with a white skull mask stood before the hole in the sky, reaching out a black cloaked hand and releasing a wisp of silver.
Every man woman and child in the village, be they civilian or Shinobi, froze at the sight above them, a glowing fox head staring at a black cloaked figure standing in the sky. The Fear at the sight made some quake in place, others grew tearful in terror, some thought about killing themselves, but found they could not move to do so. The ninja recognized this feeling as being the same as a being far above their league, but did not know what this being would do now that it was here. When the figure moved and let a small sliver of light trail down to the the fox's head, many of them had confusion mix with the Fear from before. The silver light grew in intensity as it neared the fox. The fox turned it's face away from the light which threatened to blind it before it felt something akin to rope loop around its form. The village watched as the silver light wound its way around the vulpine head before dragging it down to the ground.
The Hokage looked down from his tower to see the the procession, the Hyuuga activated their Kekkei genkai to watch from their position as they still found it impossible to move. The young Hinata could just make out a small blond boy beneath the spectacle above them. Those at the sight of the attack could only stare in awe as the silver ropes tied to the kyuubi stretched down to the boy bleeding on the ground. The ropes of light reached out and grabbed each and every speck of the orange chakra before latching onto the blond boy, and reeling themselves, and the the quickly deforming head of the beast into the boy's form. Before their eyes, the wounds on the boy sealed themselves, the blood once glazing the boy in red burned off and disappeared from sight. The ragged breathing of the boy evened out to as if he was asleep.
Far above the village, the black robed figure spoke quietly "And so the agreement is honored, your second chance provided, may you find this life more fulfilling." With that, the figure grabbed the side of the tear in the sky, drawing it back against itself before a grayish arm with scrawl across it grabbed the sky and held it open. The robed figure followed the arm back to the figure in a white shihakusho. The greyish being with wild hair, and sharp teeth clenched around a tanto glared with black and yellow eyes at the evader to its realm. "Hello brother." the black robed figure said calmly. "What are you doing here, this is my land." the Shinigami growled at his brother. "I'm sorry for arriving unannounced, but one under my care made a request of me, and i felt in the mood to honor his plea." Death answered. "You seldom take requests or strike bargains, what makes this one so special?" The Shinigami asked, his glare softening to his normal scowl. "I have no idea, but his request has been granted, and i must leave to tend to my world, and surely you have your own tasks, our burden is never over." The two incarnations of Cessation nodded at each other briefly before the sky closed between them separating worlds once more. The shinigami looked back at the village beneath him, remembering the last time he was near it, seven short years ago. "Fate has changed for this land, what new events will transpire now I wonder. The shinigami left the village, not seeing the black and white wisp flutter down and adhere itself beneath the right eye of the boy he helped seal the kyuubi into.
That's the first chapter poeple, please review any questions, comments or thoughts, and i will try to answer them in a further installment, not the next one, as i plan on writing that shortly hereafter.