Two Hearts, New Soul: Rebirth of a Hero
Finally Naruto was actually getting a good night rest. It had been four years since the death of Neji, Lee, Kimiko, Shikamaru, and Hinata. And how could the blonde sleep when every night he was reminded how he wasn't strong enough to save them. He rolled over at the sound of a girl whispering to him. Naruto tried to figure out what she was saying to him as he opened up his eyes. For some reason she sounded like Kimiko, but younger. Naruto sat up in his bed as she whispered to him again.
'Shoot now I've gone crazy. I'm hearing voices in my head and I can't even hear what they are saying.' Naruto thought as he caught a glimpse of a familiar shadowy figure. 'Sasuke?'
Naruto stood up as the figure turned his head towards Naruto. Naruto looked straight at the figure, who just opened up one eye revealing the Sharingan.
"Sasuke." Naruto gritted his teeth, as he quickly got dressed.
Naruto ran through the streets trying to catch Sasuke as he jumped from roof to roof. Naruto ran passed Sakura, Sai, Kiba, and Akamaru as he raced after Sasuke.
"Hey slow down Naruto! What's up with him?" Sakura looked at the boys as Akamaru started to whine.
Kiba looked down at his partner, "What do you mean he's back?"
"Who is Akamaru talking about?" Sai asked.
"I don't know, unless he means…" Kiba stopped looking off in the direction that Naruto ran off in.
"No it couldn't be Sasuke." Sakura whispered as she started running off toward Naruto.
"Wait Sakura!" Sai ran after her with Kiba and Akamaru following.
Naruto followed Sasuke to the valley of the end, where Sasuke stood waiting for him. Naruto stopped in front of Sasuke and just waited for him to say something. Sasuke looked up at Naruto with his Sharingan as he took off his hat.
"What a place to meet at, wouldn't you say Naruto?" Sasuke finally said something to Naruto.
"Why don't you cut the small talk out of this, Sasuke?" Naruto said to him as he got into his fighting pose. "You and me have some unfinished business here."
Sasuke laughed as he unbuttoned his Akatsuki cloak in the style Itachi did. "So you really have thoughts of vengeance in your mind right now as you stand before me?"
"Hate to say it, but yes I do. So I guess they were telling the truth when they say that best friends become each other." Naruto answered him pushing the tears down.
"I see, so your only thoughts are on killing me right now?"
"You don't think I can kill you, but just as before I will." Naruto smirked coldly at Sasuke thinking about how he put three slashes into Sasuke's headband.
"We shall see if you have enough hatred for me to actually kill me off." Sasuke said as he took off his Akatsuki cloak.
(I'm skipping this battle cause it's just like their first battle here well without the fox cloak and curse mark. And I don't feel like writing it out)
"This ends now Sasuke!" Naruto yelled as the Rasengan formed in his hand.
"Why don't you pour all your hate into your last jutsu, Naruto and finish me!" Sasuke taunted Naruto as he charged his chidori up.
A few miles away Sakura found her heart racing as they got closer to Naruto and Sasuke. 'Please don't let me be too late!'
Sasuke's chidori cut right into Naruto's chest as Naruto plunged his Rasengan into Sasuke's chest. The two pushed there attacks to the max and ultimately drove their hands right through each other. Sasuke clinched his left hand into a fist as if to snuffle out his chidori as blood seeped out of the corner of his mouth. Naruto tried to pull away from Sasuke as his own blood seeped out of his mouth as well. Sasuke then tried to free himself, but realized that Naruto had done the same thing with his hand as Sasuke did with his.
"I promise Hinata that I would stop you even if I had to give up on being Hokage and drag you down to Hell myself." Naruto told Sasuke as he started coughing up blood.
"Damn so you really did want to kill me as badly as I did with Itachi. I guess the Akatsuki can kiss their dream good-bye since you are going to die with me." Sasuke looked Naruto in the eyes as his Sharingan faded.
"Yeah everyone will be safe now." Naruto said in between coughs.
"Naruto nether one of us has much time left. I just want you to know I'm sorry about everything." Sasuke told Naruto as he fell closer to the blonde ninja. "Can you forgive me friend so I can die with my heart at peace."
Naruto held not the Sasuke who was his enemy, but the Sasuke he knew from squad seven. He held the lifeless Sasuke as he felt his time coming soon.
"Of course, after all you're my brother and best friend." Naruto said as he fell to the ground.
Sakura finally made it to the valley of the end to find Naruto and Sasuke laying on the ground in a puddle of blood. She gasped at the sight of the two.
"No Naruto! Sasuke!" Sakura stumbled closer to the boys as tears flowed from her eyes.
"Sakura are they still alive?" Sai asked the pink haired Kunoichi.
"I don't know but I think they maybe." She stammered.
"Damn this is bad." Kiba turned his head away from Sasuke and Naruto.
"Sai, Kiba please go back to Konoha and report this to Lady Tsunade!" Sakura ordered them to return to the village.
"We're on it Sakura!" Kiba said as he and Sai left.
Sakura knelt down next to Naruto and Sasuke and started to try and heal them. Little did she know that it was already to late for the two ninja. A few inches away from their bodies stood Sasuke who was looking down at Naruto. Naruto stood up picking up the chain that hung from his chest. He then looked over at Sasuke then he spotted Sakura trying to heal him.
"Save your breath Naruto. Sakura can't hear us or see us. Oh and I wouldn't pull on the chain it hurts like hell if you do." Sasuke told him.
"Yeah so now what we just sit around here for our god of death to take us to the after life?" Naruto scoffed as he shoved his hands into his pockets.
He then pulled out a leaf headband. Naruto smiled sadly at it as he held it out towards Sasuke. "Here you should have this back since I forgave you for everything."
Sasuke smirked as he took his headband from Naruto. "I never thought I would be wearing this thing again, and thank you for forgiving me Naruto."
"Don't mention it." Naruto shrugged it off as if to be acting cool.
Suddenly a sharp pain shot through Naruto starting at his stomach. He clutched his stomach as he doubled over in pain.
"Naruto!" Sasuke ran towards him.
Naruto found himself on his back unable to move as a familiar nose pushed out of his stomach. Naruto screamed out in pain as more of the nine-tailed fox appeared out of Naruto. The fox laughed as he climbed out of his seal prison of Naruto.
Sakura sat crying over Naruto and Sasuke's bodies. She seemed to have sensed that something bad was happening in the area. She looked up at Sasuke and Naruto as if she heard Naruto screaming. Through her watery eyes, Sakura thought she saw Naruto laying on the ground and Sasuke standing by him. She wiped the tears from her eyes as she focused on the spot where Sasuke and Naruto were. She gasped as she clearly saw Sasuke watching as the nine-tailed fox pulled out his back legs out of Naruto's stomach. She couldn't bear to see Naruto's face in so much pain.
Naruto's face was pale and covered in sweat as he tried to push the pain away. Had his hatred been the cause of this? Naruto didn't know nor cared at this point. He weakly opened up one of his eyes to find that the fox only had his tails left to pull out of him.
"Naruto!" Sakura yelled as she ran towards them.
"Sak-ura? I thought you couldn't see us." Naruto tried to say as the fox was finally fully freed.
"Sakura get out of here!" Sasuke yelled at her as the nine-tailed fox roared.
Naruto started to get up even though he was woozy. The fox laughed as he watched Naruto get up.
"Allow me to help brat!" the nine-tailed fox said as he grabbed Naruto's chain of fate in his mouth and tugged on it.
Neither Sasuke nor Sakura were about to let the fox help or find out what happened if the chain was pulled out of Naruto's chest. Sasuke focused all of the charka he could summon within his soul to his left hand starting his chidori. Sakura also focused her charka to her fist as she charged for the fox demon's mouth. She slammed into his left jaw as Sasuke jabbed him in the right. The nine-tailed fox roared in pain as he dropped Naruto, who grabbed the base of his chain of fate.
"Alright so you want to watch your friends suffer first?" the nine-tailed fox swiftly wrapped one of his tails around Sasuke.
"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled wincing in pain.
"No, Sasuke!" Sakura also yelled as she charged at the fox.
The nine-tailed fox laughed as he chomped down on Sasuke's chain of fate disconnecting Sasuke's soul from his body. The fox released Sasuke as he snapped at Sakura. Naruto ran to Sasuke as Sakura kept the nine-tailed fox busy.
"Damn, you dobe don't worry about me just save Sakura!" Sasuke yelled at Naruto as he got up.
Naruto stopped and looked back towards Sakura and the fox only to watch as one of the fox's tails stab Sakura in the back. The nine-tailed fox laughed coldly as he lifted Sakura in the air causing her soul to fall towards the ground. There was no time for Naruto or Sasuke to react to Sakura's sudden death as they watched Sakura's chain of fate give and tug at its base at Sakura's chest.
Naruto and Sasuke watched as a black blur flashed towards Sakura cutting her chain of fate and laid her down at their feet. The black blur stopped in front of squad seven. Little did they know that the man in front of them was the soul reaper captain of squad ten, Isshin Kurosaki. The man shook his head at the fox.
"Man, Fate really messed up here." He muttered. "I'll give him three more minutes before sending this demon back to where he belongs."
Just then the nine-tailed fox disappeared leaving Naruto and Sasuke speechless. Isshin looked at the two boys, "What's a matter with you two?"
"What just happened?" Naruto asked.
"Well Kyubi's spirit there went to his new home in the new Naruto who doesn't have any memories of this latest battle between you and Sasuke." Isshin explained.
"What do you mean new Naruto?!" Naruto asked shocked at Isshin's explanation.
"Well if things go totally wrong in a world Fate as he calls himself creates new players to go down the right path after the originals die. That's where my people come in." Isshin smiled as he pulled out his Zanpakuto. "I'm your soul reaper and I'm here to take you to the soul society. And we might want to start with you Sasuke Uchiha, if we wait any longer you might just end up as a Hollow."
Sasuke just nodded his head as Isshin preformed the konso on him. Naruto watched as Sasuke became a hell butterfly and flew off.
"Um Mr. Soul Reaper? Could you send me to where Sasuke is?" Naruto asked.
"Sure no problem. By the way the name's Isshin Kurosaki." Isshin said as he preformed another konso on Sakura. Finally he sent Naruto on his way to the soul society.
Soul Society: East Rukon 33rd district
A teenaged Shuhei Hisagi was practicing his swordsmanship when he spotted Sakura falling from the sky. He quickly tossed his sword aside as he rushed to catch her. Sakura opened up her emerald green eyes to look up at the face of her savior. She noticed his tattoo on his cheek of a black 69.
"Um thank you." Sakura thanked him as he sat her down on her feet.
"No problem. I'm Shuhei Hisagi and you are?" Shuhei introduced himself to Sakura.
"I'm Sakura Haruno." Sakura said as he found herself blushing at Shuhei.
Shuhei's eyes widen at Sakura's name, "Haruno? You wouldn't be related to a Kimiko Haruno would you?"
"Well actually I am, but how do you know Kimiko?" Sakura asked.
"She's the fourth seat member of squad 12, well actually she just moved squads. So now Kimiko is the fifth seat member of squad 13." Shuhei answered.
"Um your outfit is different than everyone else's why is that?"
"Oh, that's because I'm a student in the soul reaper academy!" Shuhei laughed, "About 46 years ago I was attacked by a hollow when I was a kid living here. Two soul reapers saved me from that Hollow, and told me that I had a strong name and to be happy for each day that I'm alive. I don't remember much about that night but I do remember that one of the soul reapers had gray hair while the other one had white eyes, and both of them had a tattoo of 69 on their bodies."
"Really is that what inspired your tattoo of 69 and you to become a soul reaper?" Sakura asked as they walked through the streets.
"Yeah, I wanted to become a soul reaper ever since that night just so I could serve under them and prove that I'm strong." Shuhei told Sakura. "You know your spiritual pressure is pretty high. You should come back to the soul reaper academy with me and become a Soul Reaper, Sakura."
"Really?" Sakura looked over at him.
"It beats trying to make a living for yourself out here in Rukongai. Its ruff out here and a beautiful girl like you will have many problems out here." Shuhei informed her.
Sakura shrugged, "Why not."
West Rukon 78th District
Sasuke fell behind two people who were looking at three graves. He started to get up as Naruto fell right on top of him.
"Get off me you baka!" Sasuke muttered as he tried to get up.
"Shut up teme! I'll get off of you in a minute!" Naruto yelled at him as he pushed himself up.
Naruto stopped, as he looked at a red headed male and a black haired female. "Um, this is might look really weird, but its nothing like that!"
"I said get off of me! Naruto!" Sasuke growled as he kicked Naruto off of him. "Sorry about that. I'm Sasuke Uchiha and that dobe over there is…"
"I'm not a dobe or a baka. I'm Naruto Uzumaki!" Naruto said as he bushed himself off.
"I'm Renji Abarai." The red head introduced himself. "And this is Rukia."
"Nice to meet you Renji and Rukia." Sasuke and Naruto said.
"So do you mind if we follow you around for awhile?" Naruto asked.
"Actually Naruto, Renji and I were on our way to the soul reaper academy." Rukia informed Naruto and Sasuke.
"Wait a minute there's a school here where you can become a soul reaper?" Naruto questioned her.
"Of course you dobe! How else did the soul reapers get trained?" Renji barked at him.
"Cool! I'm going to enter this soul reaper academy and become the lead Soul Reaper whatever they call that!" Naruto gave his goofy grin causing Rukia to laugh as Renji and Sasuke wacked Naruto on the head.
"Geez you really are a dobe. There's no way a shrimp like you could be come the Head Captain of the soul society." Renji told Naruto.
"Wanna bet on it, Renji?" Naruto smirked. "Anybody can beat a genius by hard work."
"You're alright Naruto Uzumaki." Renji punched Naruto in the arm as the four headed for the soul reaper academy