Disclaimer I do not own Bleach or Naruto

This FanFic was done at the inspiration of my favorite FanFics of all time "A Mother's Love: Beyond Life and Death"

There will be a differing story line but for the most part will follow the one it is inspired by.

I am assuming these are the rules for a fanfiction

"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Kyuubi Talking"

'Kyuubi Thinking'

Italics flashbacks

Hope you enjoy!

Konoha 8 years after the Kyuubi attack

The village hidden in the leaves was a very peaceful place after eight years it had finally bolstered its strength enough to relax and not fear being invaded or attacked. That did not mean everyone within its walls was safe, and this could not be more obvious than in one blond who was running for his life.

A child no older than eight ran through the streets desperately trying to find a place to hide as his pursuers came closer and closer to enacting their 'vengeance' on the child.

'Why...Why do they hate me?' Naruto thought as he rounded the corner.

'What did I ever do to them...They don't even listen to me…I would apologize for whatever it was if they would listen'

Naruto had the same thoughts pounding in his head as he forced himself to move. Today had been one of the more brutal days. He had woken up that morning strapped to his bed where they peeled his skin on and watched it regrow, just barely keeping him alive. After Naruto got used to the pain and their boredom grew from not having any reaction from the 'demon fox' they moved onto crueler form of 'revenge'. They untied him and drove stakes through his hands… and feet… and arms… and legs.

It has during this that he managed to escape from his captors, as they had been so busy getting even with the fox when he lashed out he managed to injure the youngest assailant. They stopped the torture to see if he was okay as Naruto ran out the door they left wide open.

As he ran he felt the pain as the stakes dug into his flesh. He ripped them out as he ran down the street not even bothering to ask for help as he knew he would receive none.

He knew he had to be careful otherwise he would run into a dead end and they would do worse to him, but even knowing it the pain overrode his senses and he turn to head down the alley.

Only there was no alley.

He had taken the street before the alley that led from the main road to the 2nd Hokage's memorial road. A dead end.

Just as Naruto thought things could not get any worse the three civilians that had been torturing him finally caught up with him.

"Aww… What's the matter demon? Are you finally giving up?" He pushed past his other two companions walking slowly towards Naruto. "It's finally time for you to die. I don't have anything left thanks to you my mom, sister, wife, and son were all at home when you destroyed it. The only reason I am here is because I worked the late shift, or I guess Kami is just looking out for me."

He rushed forward with the intent to kill with a dull kunai in his hand. 'Is this how it ends. I won't ever be Hokage. I won't ever have a family. Who cares I never even had a family to begin with.'

What seemed like an eternity passed for the young blond but it was only two seconds before the kunai buried itself in his heart.

"Serves you right. NOW FINALLY THE BEAST IS DEAD! He screamed to the heavens just before five figures appeared as if by materializing out of nowhere.

The first was an old man with a short beard with the signs of age setting in as liver spots on his face. He wore a white robe and hat both with the Kanji for fire painted on them.

The other four wore black stealth gear with forearm and leg protectors. Along with that they each had a mask that hid their face in the shape of a Dog, Mouse, Cat, and Weasel.

He shouted to the others. "Dog, Weasel get Naruto to the Hospital immediately. Cat Mouse please escort these 'people' to the T and I facility and tell them that Ibiki and Anko have my full authority to do whatever is necessary to get as much information as possible. I will decide what to do with them after that."

The four masked men nodded before silently and efficiently getting to their jobs.

Dog and Weseal headed to the hospital Dog already fearing the worst. 'Please don't die on me Naruto what would sensei say to me if I let you die on me.'

They arrived at the hospital only to be denied access for the demon brat. The receptionist saying he was doing the village a great service. With Dog not being in the mood and already rushed for time killed the receptionist and demanded a doctor. It only took a few seconds for them to comply.

The doctor took a look at Naruto with his heart ruptured beyond all repair and was already experienced enough to know that the boy was not going to make it. He still took the boy to the first emergency room, as no one else was even in that side of the hospital. He tried very little only giving the child the bare minimum as he knew the child would die.

Two hours later the Doctor came out of the ER to see the two masked men guarding the door. "I am afraid he didn't make it The wounds were too much and his heart had already been pierced and torn open there is nothing in my field that can heal an injury that major to the heart."

Weasel looked on impassively giving no indication of emotion it was only under the mask that you would see a single tear roll down his face, as he came to terms with his favorite blond boy. Having over the years watched him for some time he grew attached to the elusive prankster and was sad to see him treated the way he was.

Dog on the other hand had a very open expression of his dissatisfaction with the doctor's words.

"Dead! There is no way the fox should have healed him!" He grabbed the doctor by his coat and slammed him into the wall. "Why?! DID YOU LET HIM DIE ANSWER ME!"

The doctor could only gasp out a response to the masked man with an iron grip "I…Tried… (Gasp)…his…heart…to… (Gasp)…damaged."

The man slackened his hold on the man letting him slide to the floor coughing and clutching his heart as if it was about to burst.

Both masked men took a moment to come to terms with what happened 'why did you have to die Naruto?'

Meanwhile inside the mind of our favorite young blond and his systems and brain began shutting down.

'Where am I?' Naruto thought to himself as he looked around. It appeared to be a sewer with a lot of small pipes decorating the sides, with one huge one on the ceiling. 'That must be the main one shouldn't that one lead me to the exit.'

Whit that thought he slowly crept down the sewer. He noticed all of it looked the same with a few inches of water soaking his shoes. 'What is this place? Can it be the sewers below Konoha I'm pretty sure I mapped all of them and none of them looked like this?'

As he was following the pipe one of the small ones burst open up ahead releasing a small blue haze up ahead. The entire place shook as cracks and fissures appeared on the walls and ceiling. Terrified now he ran as fast as he could.

He ran until he came to the end. It looked like a prison gate with the kanji for seal written in the middle of the gate. The place continued to crack more and more pieces of the ceiling falling as all the supporting structure gave way.

"Why? Why do I have to die like this? All I wanted was a little respect! All I wanted to have was a normal life! All I Wanted was a family. Guess I am going to die it this sewer should have followed the pipe the other way."

"Foolish mortal even if you had gone the other way the result would have been the same."

Naruto jumped from the surprise that another person was down here with him.

"Show yourself. Otherwise I might have to hurt you." Then he remembered where he was and how he was going to die anyway. "Aww forget about it, I am going to die and you are to so why fight."

"HAHAHAHA. Well that is very interesting well I guess you are right. There is no use getting angry over nothing as we are both going to die even I cannot stop it."

"By the way do you know where we are I have been looking around and I do not recognize where we are. Are we even in Konoha anymore?"

"No foolish boy. We are in your mind, more specifically your mindscape or inner world. This place represents your state of mind, and I had hoped it might be a little more than a pathetic sewer. Also based on how much rain has poured down into the sewer you must be having a pretty shitty life."

"Ha that's the understatement of the century. Since the moment I was born my life has been one beating to the next."

"Well this is surprising your parents when I fought them looked like they were hotshots in that shithole of a village. I haven't been able to see any of your life because of this seal come here boy so I can read your memories."

A claw extended out of the cage only a few feet.

"What the. Are you the one in the prison? What are you?!"

"Foolish boy do you even know what is sealed within you. Even if I hate my prison I am willing to acknowledge that I was not defeated and I was sealed within you. Now feast your eyes boy on the strongest of all my brethren I am the almighty Kyuubi no Kitsune!"

"What! I thought the Fourth killed you!"

"Boy no mortal can hope to match my strength your Fourth if that was the man I fought was no match for my strength and he knew it so he sealed me into you. But I am confused why… never mind we only have about an hour before both of us are dead come here so I may view your memories."

"Why should I trust you? You were the one who destroyed my village. You were probably the one who killed my parents."

"HAHA I just realized something you have no idea who your parents are. How about a deal before you die show me your memories and I will tell you who your parents were. It's not like we have anything else to do we are going to die anyway."

"Well when you put it that way why not" He started walking towards the claw that stood menacingly out of the cage. "What do I do now?"

"Place your forehead against my claw."

Naruto did as his companion instructed. Placing his head against the dangerous looking claw. In that moment the Kyuubi saw everything. He saw the beatings, he saw the raids on his house, and he saw the hunting parties formed to hunt the 'demon brat' down. He saw everything.

"HOW DARE THEY! NOT EVEN DEMONS DO THAT TO THEIR OWN EVEN IF THEY ARE PART HUMAN. THOSE VILE DISGUSTING HUMANS! HOW DARE THEY..."

The fox ranted for a few minutes of the injustice especially since Naruto was his container and should have been treated like royalty. Naruto sat in silence thinking completely different thoughts. 'I thought the fox was supposed to be evil. Why would it be trying to defend me? Wait maybe the fox is actually a good guy! I mean the village hurts and tortures me every day so maybe they are evil and the fox was trying to stop them from doing evil things.'

Breaking the kyuubi's ranting Naruto got his thoughts out. "Hey Kyuubi-sama were you trying to kill those people in the village because they were evil?"

The fox took a moment to calm down and think about what his container had just said. "I do not know about every person in that Kami forsaken village; however, I did come to kill a man who attacked me and fled to your village. He was an old man covered with bandages and tried to use his pathetic eye's power to get me in a genjutsu. He found me in my cave sleeping and after his pathetic attempt to control me he fled to your village where I confronted him. He was welcomed and defended by your village so I decided to take on your whole village."

Kyuubi let Naruto think on this before he continued.

"Now I believed that I would tell you about your parents before you die."

Naruto's eyes went wide before giving the fox his undivided attention. Chunks of the ceiling were starting to fall down as each one slashed into the water below were ignored.

"Naruto While I may not know their names know that your father wore the robes that are currently worn by your current Hokage."

"Wait my dad was the Forth! Why would the village hate me if he was my father?"

"While I may not know the specifics you were probably hated enough having me in you they could not see it. Now your mother had just given birth to you and died shortly after that. I only saw a glimpse of her. If you were still alive you could probably just look up who was married to the fourth to find out. I did not think you would recognize her but I will anyway, as you have a right to know and we are dead anyway…"

Naruto's mind was spinning. 'Why If my dad was the fourth why was I hated and why is my name different. Wait Hokage-jiji should have known who my parents were, so even he lied to me.'

"…Your mother had black or dark blue hair I could not tell which it was. She had it put into two braids that went down to two rings at the bottom. She had a serious look in her eyes. She was defiantly not from the elemental nations she had another worldly feel to her. I am getting off topic, she had brown eyes. She was tough looking from years of combat, but her build was small and compact. Here I will try to make a visual here just let your mind relax and I will be able to create an image in your mind of what she looked like"

"Sure" Naruto then cleared his mind and an image of a serious lady just as escribed came into view. 'Kaa-san'.

They sat there for a few minutes before the big pipe the only one left ruptured and instead of a blue mist a red liquid poured out.

"Well you only have about ten seconds till you die good luck in the afterlife."

"Thank you. If it wasn't for you I wouldn't know my parents so thank you, you were the only friend I have ever had"

The fox was taken back by this he never expected his container to tolerate him much less like him, and even less be his probably first and only friend.

"Well then goodbye."

Those were the last words they spoke to each other before Naruto's vision went black and died.

Naruto woke up a few moments later. 'Where am I it looks like I am in the hospital only I have never been here before?'

He started to move when he collapsed as an unimaginable amount of pain hit his body. He was unable to even form a complete thought as the pain seemed to split him in half. He felt himself changing as the pain intensified. His face softened, his once short spiky hair grew to where it touched the lower potion of his back. As he screamed he could tell his voice was changing as it became higher and more feminine. He felt part of himself was taken and then the pain subsided. He stood up noticing as he did so that his center of gravity was off leading 'him' to stumble around a bit before finally getting some sense of balance back.

"Ow…what was that?" a feminine voice called out. He knew it was him who had spoken the words but he did not recognize the voice. He stood up and went to one of the mirrors on the opposite side of the room. He could not believe what he saw.

He saw the image the fox had made of his mother with a few differences. Instead of having a blue kimono on as her mother had, He I guess now a she had on a black shihakusho. He also still had his blond hair.

'Well I guess this is how I would have looked as a girl if that was my mother, but I thought I was supposed to be dead and go on to the afterlife…'

His thoughts were interrupted when three men walked into the room. Two he recognized the Hokage and the other masked man who had helped defend him before and wore a dog mask. The last one was a man wearing an apron with small amounts of blood covering it. The unknown man spoke.

"I just got done looking over his body even after his heart stopped his body kept him going for over an hour before he died that is one tough kid."

Naruto stood thinking it over 'well the knife wound and that fox said I would die maybe this is like purgatory before the Shinigami comes to take my soul.' He decided to follow them to a table where a body bag was zipped up. The unknown man unzipped the body saying "This is just for formalities, but do you recognize this boy and if so who is he?"

The Hokage looking older than he ever looked before stated "Yes I do recognize who this is he is Naruto Uzumaki."

Naruto While knowing he had died still was shocked. He looked at his corpse laying there knowing that he was dead and there was nothing more he could do. It did not take long for him to realize that he could not be seen by anyone. He could however interact with stuff. For the most part he hung out in the Hokage's tower listening to him give out missions and do paper work imagining himself being the Hokage.

He would have gone to Ichiraku's Ramen, but three things stopped him. First was that He would not be able to talk to the old man or ayame. Secondly he would not be able to pay for the ramen even if he could eat it. Lastly he didn't feel hunger as he was dead.

He sat on the couch in the Hokage's office wondering when the Shinigami would come for him. A man covered in bandages covering his left side and his eye entered the room. A man who Naruto knew.

"Danzo what do you want?"

"Now that the boy has died his inheritance and will must be read and given to the proper authorities."

The Hokage smiled. Obviously Danzo wanted his hands on the Namikaze fortune and jutsu collection, but he didn't realize something and even Naruto there invisible gave a small smirk. Then the Hokage pulled out a piece of paper.

"Do you know what this is Danzo?"

"No Sarutobi what is it?" asked Danzo a little confused and apprehensive.

"This my dear friend is Naruto's will."

Genuinely surprised Danzo responded "That is irrelevant it was not witnessed by anyone and he was not of age to write it."

"Actually Danzo I wrote this for him at his request. And was witness for when he signed it. Also I got his guardians approval so it holds up. It leaves everything he owned to the only one who treated him with any compassion Ayame Ichiraku."

Danzo was fuming on the inside. How dare his old teammate keep those jutsu and money from being of use to the village! Just the cash in the Namikaze vault would be enough to fund the village for ten years.

"Well then I will talk with her about letting some of her new found belongings."

"No you will not Danzo and I know you signaled those ROOT members to go get her. No she is at my estate where we will discuss how her 'new found belongings' will be used. If that is all you may leave."

"You may have stopped me from getting my hands on some, but you know that the jutsu library of the Namikaze should be used by the village."

"That may be the case…" Danzo gave a little smirk at this "…but now that Naruto is dead no one can enter the Namikaze mansion."

"What do you mean?"

"The Fourth was probably the greatest seal expert on the planet and one of his best friends before the Kumo incident was probably the second best Kushina Uzumaki. Their combine knowledge and seal can keep anyone out. I have seen you try to get onto the premises and have half your forces knocked out; however, the mansion and library itself is ten times harder to get into and kills instead of just making them unconscious."

Danzo paled remembering all those soldiers he sent to get the flying thunder god technique and came back after being found unconscious. Luckily the Fourth had attuned Sarubobi's DNA to the front so the Third could get in and get them.

"Very well but we still need to discuss the child's status as a jinchuuriki." Danzo said as he left the room.

Naruto stared trying to digest what he had just heard. Not only was he the son of the Fourth but also rich and an heir to a powerful clan. First be was stuck in this Limbo state waiting for the Shinigami then they tried to steal his stuff.

He sat there as the Hokage called for the ANBU to alert all the other clan heads for the council meeting.

Council Room 2 hours later

Naruto sat in the one open spot that belonged to the now deceased Namikaze clan. They sat there trying to take all his stuff Lusting after the prestige and power of the Namikaze clan.

"Hah well at least I never sold to that demon even if he was the son of the Fourth. He should be proud to die for the village." A man sat there gorging on a small feast he brought with him. Gluttony.

"Well I believe that we should give the Namikaze fortune to the civilian council so that they may use it to rebuild from the attack caused by the child. I am not trying to be Greedy but it would also help reimburse families for their losses."

The Hokage choose this time to speak up. "Let us not make any decisions after all everything has already given to its new owner. Naruto left everything to one of the few people how gave him compassion. She is the one you will have to talk to. On to the next…"

"Why should we he owes us. We deserve compensation! I am calling into question your leadership Hokage-san. We are Angry that you even allowed that…"

An unreal amount of killer intent (KI) flooded the room bringing the civilian side to its knees and the shinobi side to get a little anxious.

"Enough please escort Haruna-san to TI as I believe we may have a traitor in our mites if she can call into question my leadership." Two ANBU appeared and took her away. "I will not accept any more of your Heresy. This 'boy' you refer to suffered more than any of you and even in death protected us from the Kyuubi. If anything we should be bowing to his grave for all of us are unworthy of such sacrifice. Instead you lashed out in Violence. We the own people who he protected hurt him."

"We only did what was best for the village with the boy dead we now have peace."

Danzo on the other hand only frowned the boy was exactly what they needed to become even more powerful in the Elemental Nations and thought how much wasted potential there was.

"Yes we only did what was necessary for the village to survive." This however only let to the Hokage becoming even angrier and unleashed even more KI on the room."

"Oh and tell me how. I know what you have done, how you convinced the banks to give you a part of the Namikaze fortune by splitting it with the bank. With no one in the family to dispute it you were left to siphon funds off. It was only when I checked on Ayame's new found wealth that I found the discrepancies. You are a Fraud you used your influence to steal."

Shikaku Nara on the other hand had enough. He had analyze everything and come to the conclusion that not only was the child completely innocent but deserved their undying thanks. "Well I don't think we have to worry anymore. Now that he is dead I can only say one thing…all of us here including me live as long as you can and enjoy it to the fullest as when we die we are all going to Hell. We hurt him stomping on the Fourth's wish for us to see his son as a hero. For our Treachery we are all going to hell."

Naruto stood up after this not wanting to listen to the arguing over how he was a monster and not human. He wandered all the way to the academy. He had only been going there for three weeks, and sat down on the swing. He in his agony started to cry.

He cried for maybe a minute, maybe an hour, maybe longer before a woman approached him. "I am here to collect you."

The woman had red robes with the symbol for zero on the back Naruto asked "Are you the shinigami?"

"I am a Shinigami, but not in the sense you believe. You do not belong here. I was sent after both deities of this world and my own came to the conclusion that you were an anomaly when you died. They separated your spirit as a human and your Shinigami half. You are the Shinigami half."

"What? And what happens to me now and by the way my name is Nar… I guess it's not Naruto since now I am a girl I guess Naruko for now?"

"I am going to take you to the home of my master and then from there you will be handed over to seireitei where you will live."

She turned around and made a door out of thin air. It was a Japanese style paper sliding door opened it and she gestured for the blond girl behind her to follow.