Naruto the lord of souls

Chapter One: Death

"Normal Speech"

'Normal thinking'

Jutsu Name

"Supernatural Speech"

'Supernatural Thinking'

Disclaimer: I own nothing and the idea for this story comes from Sage of Fanfiction and Naruto is owned by Masashi Kishimoto

It was a dark and cloudy night tonight in the hidden leaf village. Many citizens were celebrating the graduation of their children that took place earlier that day from the ninja academy. Out of a class of thirty, twenty nine passed the academy. The one child that failed is a child named Naruto Uzumaki. Naruto is a twelve year old child that is smaller than the rest of his class only at a height of 4.7ft. Right now we find naruto sneaking out of the Hokage tower with a giant scroll strapped to his back.

'Wow, getting this scroll was easier than I thought. The only problem I had was jiji walking in on me getting the scroll but a quick Sexy Jutsu got him out of my way.' thought Naruto as he fled from the village to the meeting point that Mizuki (one of Naruto's academy instructor along with Iruka being the other) told him to wait for him there with the scroll.

When Naruto gets to the meeting point he is to take the scroll known as the scroll of seals, and learn a jutsu from it before Mizuki gets to the meeting point an hour later. If Naruto learns a jutsu from the scroll in an hour, Mizuki promised Naruto he would be passed and become a Genin.

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Naruto jumped down from the trees that he was jumping across into a small clearing with a single shack that Mizuki said was the meeting place.

"Good I don't think I was followed. I should have plenty of time to learn a jutsu and not have to deal with stupid interruptions." said Naruto to no one in particular.

Opening the scroll of seals, Naruto found many jutsu that would be useful. Skimming the first jutsu to catch his eye Naruto grew more excited the more he read about this particular jutsu. The jutsu was called the shadow clone jutsu and from what Naruto read so far he would be able to do this jutsu easy.

"This jutsu sound perfect for me. Solid clones that dispel after a single blow and you learn what the clone learned when it dies is awesome. The only thing need to do the jutsu is a single hand sign and a lot of chakra. This should be easy, its simple and I have more chakra than jiji and he is the strongest person I know." exclaimed Naruto as he is getting more pumped up the more he reads about the jutsu.

Naruto sits down and practiced the steps for the shadow clone jutsu, getting it battle ready on the third try. Once done practicing the jutsu Naruto takes a second look at the scroll for anything else. Skimming through some more, a certain jutsu catches Naruto's eye. This one being a summoning jutsu.

"Whoa, the scroll also has summoning jutsu too? Awesome, only the best shinobi has summons like jiji and the Sannin. I got to learn this jutsu and get an awesome summon like a dragon or a wolf!" shouted Naruto.

Reading over the jutsu Naruto learns its called Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei. He learns that the jutsu is used to bring back the dead by sacrificing a living person to bound the soul to the world. The victim is then reformed into the person that is wanted to be brought back to life.

'This could be useful, especially if I can summon someone strong like one of the past hokage's. But I'm not to keen on the having to sacrifice someone to summon it though but I might be able to work around that some how.' he thought.

Naruto starts to memorize the hand signs while having his clones try to memorize the instructions for the tag used to control the dead and any info that looks important enough.

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The hour passes and Naruto finishes learning Kuchiyose: Edo Tensei as much as he can with the help of Shadow clones. Also without someone to bring back there wasn't much he could do except to memorize what is required to do the jutsu and the sealing tag needed to control the dead.

Soon after Naruto is done practicing, Iruka finds Naruto resting near the shack with the scroll of seals next to him.

"NARUTO YOU IDIOT, WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO BREAK INTO THE HOKAGE MANSION AND STEAL THE SCROLL OF SEALS! YOU ARE IN BIG TROUBLE WHEN WE GET BACK TO THE VILLAGE!" yelled Iruka.

"But Iruka-sensei, I learned the jutsu needed for the make-up exam." Naruto tried to explain.

"Naruto, there is no make-up exam. Who told you to do this?" asked Iruka, calming down a little bit after Naruto tried to explain he didn't try to betray the village intentionally.

"Mizuki-sensei told me I can take another test to graduate the academy since the only thing holding me back from graduating is the clone jutsu."

"I understand Naruto, come on lets go get this straightened ou-Look out!" said Iruka as he pushes naruto down away from the shack.

As Iruka pushes naruto out of the way, a barrage of shurikens is launched to where Naruto and Iruka was standing. Jumping from the tree that the shurikens were thrown from is none other than Mizuki himself.

"Ah Iruka, always so noble to sacrifice yourself for others. Why you would want to save the demon child I can't figure out." stated Mizuki looking down on Iruka.

"He's not a demon, he's just a child that has had a hard life with a heavy burden." Iruka shot back.

"Hey Mizuki, why the hell do you and the rest of the villagers always look down on me and call me a demon in one way or another? It's getting old and I'm tired of being out of the loop." questioned Naruto.

"So the demon wants to know why he is so hated by just about everyone eh? Well I'll tell you." said Mizuki with a dark, twisted look on his face.

"No Mizuki you can't it's against the law." yelled Iruka.

" I don't give a damn about the law or this so called village anymore. The truth is when everyone that was told that the Kyuubi was killed twelve years ago was a lie to to the younger generation so they wouldn't know the awful secret, that the Kyuubi didn't die that day but was sealed into a baby." explained Mizuki with his grin getting more twisted the more he told.

"That baby was you Naruto, you are the Kyuubi in the flesh!" yelled Mizuki sounding almost insane.

"N-n-no that c-c-can't be t-t-true. I-I-I'm human." stammered Naruto.

"No you are just a beast that needs to be put down, and I'll be the one to do it." said Mizuki while drawing a Kunai.

All Iruka could do is watch from where he is as Mizuki rushes Naruto who is more than likely having a mental breakdown about now. With so much blood being lost making him to weak to do anything but lift his head from the cold hard ground and watches as Mizuki plunges the Kunai deep into Naruto's chest. Shedding a few tears as his student dies in front of him from the deadly attack, Mizuki slowly stalks closer to Iruka.

"Now to tie up some loose ends before I take the scroll with me back to my master. said Mizuki to himself as he gets closer to Iruka with a kunai in his hand.

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