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Summary: What if when Naru was returning to the village after her confrontation with Nagato, Kakashi didn't come? What if she was killed and sent to Soul Society? What if she became a Shinigami? Read an epic journey of Uzumaki Naru as she adapts to life of a Shinigami and changes course of history!
Fem!Naru | Shinigami!Naru | Parings Undecided
So, this will actually be OOC Fem!Naru. Her abilities in life were drastically different than one's of cannon Naruto, and I will explain it in the story because it will influence Naru's Shinigami abilities.
Also, Naru will look exactly like one in the picture, without whisker marks. They don't fit a female. I mean, they remind me of Haruno Kizashi's beard for God's sake!
Now, without further ado, let's get on with the story!
Seireitei's Crimson Dragon
Ch. 1 - Mysterious Afterlife
'Rest in peace, Nagato...' thought a 15 year old redhead as she finished setting up a small grave for said man. Smiling sadly, she got up and started her slow walk towards the village, well, whatever was left of it, that is.
But it didn't matter. There were no casualties, no one died, everyone survived, even if most of them have been resurrected by Gedō - Rinne Tensei no Jutsu. Village could be rebuilt. That's what her father, 4th Hokage said, and she believed it as well. Village was just a shelter for large family of Konoha. Besides, she doubted that with help of her Shadow Clones and Yamato-taicho's Mokuton techniques that it would take much time to construct everything from blank.
Well, a blank deep crater with most of the village buildings and constructs pushed into and out of the wall of Konohagakure No Sato, that is.
She trudged back, slowly, injured and extremely exhausted, physically from the fight and mentally from all the emotions that had rapidly swirled inside her, starting from dread when seeing state of the village to unadulterated hate and fury she felt towards the man who killed her master, friends and destroyed the village.
But now, it was over. She could finally rest. Just few more miles until reaching the village. She could sit down and gather some natural energy, but Sage Mode wasn't something to use just because she was too lazy to walk to her home.
Suddenly, few dozen ANBU surrounded her. But these weren't ANBU she knew; their masks were different. And her suspicions were proven correct when an elder man stepped in front of her. He used cane for walking, had bandaged arm, cloth over his right eye and a cross scar on his jaw.
This man, from what she knew was Shimura Danzo. She had seen him few times, when her 'jiji' was talking to him. Old man Sarutobi had warned her to stay away from him, that he was dangerous and if he ever offered her anything, no matter how tempting, she must absolutely decline.
She narrowed her eyes at him, suspicious of what he was up to. 'Probably nothing good' she thought.
And her suspicions were once again proven correct when elder war hawk uttered three words that had greatly surprised her. She knew he was up to no good, but she never expected this.
Those three words were as followed: "Dispose of her".
And all these dozens of emotionless ANBU attacked. The one closest to her took out tanto and slashed at her throat, aiming to end it quickly and silently.
However, it was not to be as his tanto was blocked and soon enough sliced through by an elegant katana. Said katana also easily sliced through him as well. This katana belonged to crimson haired hero. It was nothing fancy looking, but blade was made of very high quality chakra conducting metal, and she channeled her wind chakra into it, just like Asuma did with his trench knives.
Another 3 came. Two from sides and one from behind. She scoffed inwardly; who did they think she was, some amateur? She was an S-class kunoichi who had just defeated a Rinnegan user, albeit with some help from huge furry fox, but still. Such simple pincer attack wouldn't work on her!
Using longer reach and sharper blade of her katana, she quickly turned around slashed at ANBU, while two wrist-thick yellow chinese dragons made of pure chakra shot out from her back, quickly restraining ANBU on her sides and crushing them.
Adamantine Sealing Construct was a technique that required very strong and dense chakra. It was used by select few Uzumaki that fit the requirements, but was very rare. Constructs varied, but most common ones were chains. She, however, got dragons. They were pretty cool, too. They reflected on user's personality, and chinese dragons indeed fit her. Just like them, she was smart, wise, noble, yet kind and beautiful.
It turns out that ANBU that she slashed at was smart enough to know that blocking wouldn't save him and jumped back few feet.
'Mistake' she thought triumphantly as another dragon shot out of her stomach, this time almost as thick as spiral on her seal and opened its mouth. Blue energy swirled in it, and soon enough rasengan was formed. Unable to dodge it due to its immense speed, ANBU only braced himself, but it didn't do much as it tore through his arms, and later on through his chest, continuing forwards and hitting couple more ANBU before it dissipated.
She had mastered rasengan to the point that she was able to choose to make either one that would deal huge amount of blunt internal damage and large damage on the skin and flesh where it hit, or just drill through a target and kill it, making it a lethal attack just like chidori or raikiri.
She jumped up, as high as she could, while dragon from her stomach returned to it's rightful place - back inside her. However, two dragons from her back still were out. They enlarged to the point where their size exceeded the one from her stomach and she aimed it down at ANBU.
While still in mid-air, she started to for two different one-handed seals with both of her hands.
"Fūton: Renkūdan/Katon: Dai Endan" she exclaimed and they shout of from mouths of her chakra dragons, fire from left and wind from right. Soon, they combined and became far larger and faster bullet of fire, heading down towards the group of ANBU. Hitting the ground, it quickly incinerated anyone in its path and exploded in brilliant show of white-hot flames, explosion having diameter of at least 30 meters(98 feet).
Those who were furthest away from it managed to dodge, but most couldn't, courtesy of amazing speed of the huge fire bullet thanks to it's velocity enhanced greatly by wind.
She landed, panting hard. She was already greatly exhausted from her previous battle with Pain and all this techniques were taking its toll.
"Fūton: Shinkūgyoku" she heard the voice, several meters behind her, but was unable to turn fast enough as cylindrical wind bullets pierced her multiple times all around her torso, mainly lungs and one even hit heart.
Coughing blood, she fell to her knees. Since her father had recently fixed and strengthened the seal, there was nothing Kyūbi could do. Right now, her only saving grace would be its chakra, as it would fill her reserves and quickly regenerate wounds.
"W-why?" she asked, still coughing up blood, using her trembling hands to keep herself from falling.
"Uzumaki Naru. You are an interesting person. Even in the state you are now, you were able to take down over two platoons of my highly trained ANBU, all of them at least borderline jōnin. However, you are a thorn to my side. A jinchuriki, yet you refuse to harness your tailed beasts power. Besides, with Tsunade in comma, you would be first candidate for Hokage - you're smart, mature and very strong, even more so than Godaime or me. And I cannot allow that. I will take the seat of Hokage and lead Konoha to greatness that it has potential to achieve. I will reseal Kyūbi into more suitable container and make sure that he/she will use its power. As for you, it won't be hard to make villagers believe that you have died from sever chakra exhaustion, or something similar. A pity, really - you had such a potential" with that said, Danzo slit Naru's jugular with a kunai, quickly killing her, as she fell onto the ground, gurgling with blood coming from her mouth and throat.
'If only Hiruzen gave her to me to train when she was a child... But now it is impossible, with her willpower, no amount of training and pain would erase her emotions and make her loyal to me' he thought as he ordered his ANBU to hide the body and remove any evidence of a fight.
Too bad, what he overlooked was small clone of Katsuyu hiding inside Naru's clothes. It had relayed everything that happened to red-haired hero to the village and as soon as Danzo returned, he was killed by angry villagers, mostly Naru's friends and jōnin.
In the end, they had found Naru's body and buried it, a funeral entire village attended and she was labeled a hero.
With Naru:
'Ugh, what's going on?' thought Naru as she opened her eyes, feeling strange. It was hard to move, as if she was undertwater.
'Am I alive?'
Standing up, she looked around and yelped as she saw chain sticking from her chest. She was pretty sure she had dragons, not chains...
Looking around, she saw it was severed at some point. Looking at it curiously, she tugged on it slightly and immediately let go as bone-shattering pain shot through her.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you" whirling around, Naru saw a white-haired boy standing there, clothed in strange robes with a large sword slung over his back. Reaching for sword on her back, she realized that it wasn't there. Neither did she have her Kuchiyose: Raikō Kenka braclets.
"Who are you?" she asked him cautsiosly. After all, she had never seen someone like this before, and she was currently weaponless, barely even able to walk.
"Hitsugaya Toshiro, captain of 10th division of Gotei 13" he replied coolly.
Naru frowned "Never heard of it".
Toshiro smirked slightly "Of course you have not. I'm a Shinigami, and that is military group of Soul Society, or Heaven, as you people call it".
Naru's eyes widened "So I'm dead, huh?"
"You don't seem all that surprised. New konpaku usually don't believe it at first"
"Yeah, I was surprised when I thought I was still alive, because my last memory was having my organs punctured and throat sliced" she replied with a chuckle, though it didn't hold much humor in it.
"So that's how you died, huh. Anyway, to the business. Usually someone else would be sent to send a soul to Soul Society but you had unnaturally large Reiatsu so I came to make sure you would pass over soon. Now, let's get you sent to afterlife before hollows start swarming this place".
"Reiatsu? Hollows?"
"You'll learn about them once you pass on. Since you have Reiryoku, your Reiatsu will harm normal souls, so I would advise you to head to Seireitei as soon as you can. Now, sending you to Soul Society requires for me to use konso, and in order to do that, I need to tap pommel of my sword on your forehead, so let's get this over quickly".
Naru nodded and seemed to relax, though on the inside she was tense and ready to spring into action should this Toshiro show any ill intent. Even if she was unarmed and movement was difficult, she was a kunoichi, so she could improvise.
True to his word, he merely pressed his katana's pommel to her forehead and then everything went black.
"See you on the other side" were last words she heard.
Rukongai
'I hate blacking out already...' though Naru as woke up yet again for 4th time this day. Looking around, she noticed that she was surrounded by many houses and people, though everything seemed relatively okay.
Standing up, she felt much better than before, nothing restricting her movements anymore.
First thing that came to her mind was that she was hungry. Oh well, it didn't come off as much surprise. She ate nothing today, and expanded a lot of energy on fighting, besides for last few days all she ate were those disgusting worms and insects that Ma had cooked on Mt. Myuboku.
Suddenly, she remembered.
'Kakashi-sensei, Sakura, Hinata, Kiba, Shino, Ino, Sai, Shikamaru, Choji, Yamato-taicho, Neji, Lee, Tenten, Gai-sensei, Kurenai-sensei, Tsunade-baa-chan, everyone...'.
She would never see them again. But, maybe, she would now see Jiraiya-sensei, her father, Old Man Hokage, Asuma-sensei, her mother, perhaps even Nagato?
'I can think about that later. Now, I gotta figure out what to do' she chided herself.
After bit of questioning others, Naru found out that she was in Rukongai #16, which was 16 Rukongai away from Seireitei, which was located at heart of Soul Society.
After finding something to eat, she left Rukongai to visit a small river, both for water to drink and to relax.
Sitting down in lotus position, she started to meditate. It helped her to focus and determine her next course of action.
Since you have Reiryoku, your Reiatsu will harm normal souls, so I would advise you to head to Seireitei as soon as you can Toshiro's advise came to her mind. Yes, that was what she would do next, but first, she had to find out what this Reiatsu and Reiryoku was.
'Hmm. Reiryouku - Spiritual Power. What is it though? Maybe it's same thing as spiritual energy?' redhead mused to herself. Chakra was made up of combination of physical energy present in every cell of the body and spiritual energy that came form the mind.
Perhaps, if she focused on molding some spiritual energy, she would mold some Reiryoku? She did so, and soon enough sapphire colored energy started swirling around her like flames, ground cracked and trees creaked. She quickly stopped it, because if it was anything like chakra she just flared a lot of it, and if these shinigami had senseory abilities, which was likely, they would be swarming this place if she continued.
Smiling in satisfaction, Naru got up, found a comfortable place and lied down, quickly falling asleep as all the day's actions finally took toll.
Next morning, she set out towards Seireitei. It wasn't all that long, and by evening, she had arrived. Surprisingly, it had no walls, something that Naru thought a large military organization headquarters must have, but that thought was quickly discarded as walls fell from the sky! And soon enough, a giant of a man did as well.
"Halt! I am Jidanbō, gatekeeper of White Road Gate. What is you business here?" he asked, holding humongous axe ready to crush her if she showed any hostility.
Raising a eyebrow, not in the least intimidated, redhead replied "I've been told by the shinigami that sent me here to come to this place to learn my Reiatsu, which he mentioned was abnormally large and would greatly harm normal konpaku around me, whoever they are".
"Who was the shinigami?"
"Hitsugaya Toshiro. He said he was captain of 10th division of Gotei 13".
Jidanbo's eyes widened and he quickly raised the gate for her to pass. She thanked him and entered.
'Maybe it's finally my lucky day?' she chuckled inwardly as she saw the white-haired boy walking, tick mark on his face, and a busty orange haired woman chasing behind him cheerfully.
As it looked, he was heading towards her.
"Hitsugaya-san" she greeted him with a nod. He greeted back in the same way.
"So you came". It wasn't much of a question, but a statement. Naru nodded.
"Oh? Who is this, Taicho? Are you perhaps, dating?" asked the carrot head teasingly. Toshiro's eyebrow twitched.
"Urusai [1]!" Woman just chuckled.
"This is my lieutenant, Matsumoto Rangiku". Said woman smiled and nodded towards her.
"Uzumaki Naru. How did you know I was coming?" asked Naru. She wasn't naive enough to think of it as a coincidence.
White haired captain chuckled "Your Reiatsu is like a sun amongst candles' flickering flames. You really do need to learn how to control it".
'Was I that easy to sense?' she thought, disappointed in herself and grimacing inwardly. She thought she suppressed it well enough, but by the looks of it, controlling this Reiatsu would be as hard it was to control her chakra.
"So, what exactly is this Reiatsu and Reiryoku? I've tried same method as I did when molding spiritual energy during my life, but this was different. We ninjas couldn't make spiritual energy alone visible like we could with chakra, but this Reiatsu was sapphire color, and flared similarly to chakra". It was interesting, really. She wondered if she had retained any of her techniques.
"Well, you do need a basic understanding of those things if you wish to enter academy, so I'll explain:
Reiryoku - Spiritual Power is a power aligned with the spiritual sensitivity and willpower of the user. It is used by Shinigami and other spiritual beings to provide power for their various abilities. Every spiritual being and every Human has a certain amount of Reiryoku. If this amount is higher than a certain degree, it grants the person superhuman abilities. Those with such an above-average level of Reiryoku are very rare among living Humans. Shinigami are essentially souls in Soul Society with very high levels of Reiryoku who receive special training to utilize their powers. Hollows and other spirits use their Reiryoku to catch their prey.
Reiatsu - Spiritual Pressure is the physical force/pressure that a person's Reiryoku creates when released. Most Shinigami can manipulate the release of their Reiatsu. he difference between spiritual pressure and spiritual energy is simple: Reiryoku is the amount of energy a being has stored within their body or soul, whereas Reiatsu is the pressure that a person's Reiryoku exerts. In other words, Reiryoku is potential while Reiatsu is energy in use and can be sensed by other spiritually aware beings. In general, those with high levels of Reiryoku will often have the highest levels of Reiatsu also. A skilled warrior can overcome a person possessing greater Reiryoku by possessing greater Reiatsu. This is achieved by having greater control over their own spirit energy".
"Oh, I see. That explains it- wait! Did you just say academy?!" she nearly screamed, losing her composure for first time in few days.
"Yes, Shin'o Academy. Is there some kind of problem?" Rangiku asked, confused.
Naru murmured a reply in a tragic and low tone "Yes. I hate academies...". Remembering those boring days listening to Iruka-sensei's endless lectures made her shudder.
Translations and Explanations:
[1] Urusai - Annoying/Shut up!
Gedō - Rinne Tensei no Jutsu - Outer Path — Saṃsāra of Heavenly Life Technique.
Adamantine Sealing Construct - It's actually Adamantine Sealing Chains used by Uzumaki Kushina. But I wanted to change chains to chinese dragons to give them ability to use jutsu so I modified the technique.
Fūton: Renkūdan - Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet.
Katon: Dai Endan - Fire Release: Big Flame Bullet.
Rasengan - Spiralling Ball
Chidori - One Thousand Birds
Raikiri - Lightning Cutter - S-rank version of Chidori.
Kuchiyose: Raikō Kenka - Summoning: Lightning Flash Blade Creation - Special braclets that Sasuke wore in cannon to quickly summon weapons such as kunai, shuriken, Fūma shuriken, etc...
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