Rei Tantei Naruto Uzumaki
General AU to the VotE fight where Naruto dies. I'm borrowing from the Naruto, and Yu Yu Hakusho verse definitely, maybe a few others later if I feel like it.
(A/N): I own nothing. Not even the computer I am writing this on. I claim to own nothing and you will not get anything from a lawsuit so just leave me alone please.
Also, I know NO Japanese so if I mistranslate, then calmly send me a review with corrections. If I leave it as the English spelling that means that I don't know how to spell it. Either send me an accurate spelling or get off my case. While I would love to learn Japanese, I am not very good with languages and I do not have time to learn since I am in college. Cry about it.
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Chapter 1 --Death of a Hero--
We start this story, just like any other, with the introduction of our hero. Naruto. But it seems like there is a problem with that. See our hero is dead.
This day, for Naruto at least, had gotten seriously bad as it had progressed. Naruto, the newly appointed chuunin Shikamaru, and a few other genin had been deployed by the Godiame Hokage Tsunade in an attempt to retrieve the run away or captured Sasuke Uchiha, whatever the case may be.
Each of the members of the Retrieval Team had broken off to fight members of Orochimaru's Oto Four. Naruto hoped that they were alright, but he had other problems.
Naruto was currently staring at his best friend across the way. Both were beat and breathing heavily.
Sasuke was paler than normal, heavily under the influence of Orochimaru's Heaven Seal with large wings coming out of his back and a 3 tomoe Sharingan instead of his normal 2 tomoes.
Naruto on the other hand was covered with red chakra, with extended claws and an all around more feral look to him. Around him was one tail made of chakra.
It had been a brutal battle, but both were locked on to the other. They knew, this last strike would be the end. Life and death or merely victory and defeat, this final blow would decide everything.
Naruto knew Sasuke was not all there. Sasuke had already tried to kill him numerous times and he had only survived through the Kyuubi's healing. But Naruto, despite that fact could not let go of the fact that he really wanted to fight Sasuke. The fight had gone far beyond what he had thought. With a Rasengan in his hand, and a Chidori in Sasuke's, Naruto came to the realization that the fight was going to end with one final blow, and he couldn't help but call out to his friend.
"Sasuke please, I just want you to come home; back to Konoha with us. I don't want to have to fight you anymore."
"Naruto….. if you do not fight me the I will kill you where you stand! I will get the power I need to kill my brother, and if it means killing my best friend to obtain Mangekyo or giving up my village and become a missing nin with Orochimaru, then that is what I will do!"
And with that both boys leapt off their statues, not noticing their sensei arrive too late to stop anything.
To all parties involved, the two combatants and their spectator, the moment seemed to last forever.
Within the confines of Naruto's youki clouded mind, the human part of Naruto's consciousness cleared it's mind enough to regain control to find itself on a intercept course to end his best friend's life. And in an incalculably small portion of a second, Naruto saw two possibilities of what could happen. He was already poised with the destructive ball of chakra to obliterate Sasuke's chest and midriff, much as he had done with Kabuto, and was going just fast enough to be within Sasuke's guard and Chidori before the Sharingan user could move his assassination technique into position to attack him. And unlike Kabuto, he knew Sasuke didn't have a healing bloodline. The only other option that he could see….. was to redirect the attack away, above his friend's head….. leaving him completely open for Sasuke to do any attack he pleased.
And in that moment, he decided he couldn't do it.
A fully developed Sharingan predicts the movement of it's opponent by reading the chakra that is produced and used within the body. And though he realized that he would have been too slow to counter Naruto's killing blow, Sasuke's eyes showed his target's arm raise and back straighten, presenting him with a perfectly set up target.
He didn't stop.
Naruto's body stopped it's forward path as it came in contact with Sasuke's left arm, which was supporting the attacking right arm that didn't stop.
Sasuke's eyes memorized and permanently recorded the sight of his right hand going through his best friend's heart and the life leave his eyes 3 seconds later. For another ten and a half seconds nothing happened. Sasuke was in the middle of wondering why his eyes had not evolved to the final phase when the adrenaline and poisoned chakra left his mind enough for him to obtain his first clear thought, "By Kami, what have I done?"
And as his mind finally returned to it's normal state, the implications of what happened set in. He had killed him. He had killed him. His best friend was dead. He had killed Naruto. NARUTO was DEAD, because of HIM!!
The first feeling he had was one of disbelief. Naruto couldn't be dead. Certainly not by his hand. Then as the realization came the horror of what he had done set in. He had murdered his own best friend. Destroyed the dearest bond in his lonely and pathetic existence. And finally came despair. The thought that his best friend, the one he had done missions with, competed with, and even had a friendly (and not so friendly) rivalry with was dead was too much as he began to unconsciously cry. And unbeknownst and unnoticed to him, the tomoe in his eyes melted together. He had unlocked the Mangekyo.
Kakashi could not help but to stare as his student killed the other. It wasn't until he saw Sasuke start to silently cry, or fall to his knees that he was startled out of his stare. He immediately ran to his fallen student, frantically looking for some sign that his student was ok. He was half expecting a pop and a plume of smoke that would indicate a Shadow Clone, but none came. There was not breathing and no heart beat; there was just a slow leak of blood coming from his student's back.
He brought his hands up.
"Kai." Nothing happened.
"KAI." He said again, a little more forcefully this time.
"KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI……………." But his efforts were all fruitless as nothing changed.
He had lost another teammate.
Sasuke saw his sensei's wild gestures toward his fallen teammate with a sense of detachment. The only thing on his mind was the sight of Naruto's life ending over and over again. He wasn't aware enough to notice anything about his surroundings and never even realized there was an attack coming until he felt his jaw break from his sensei's punch.
"YOU DESPICABLE BASTARD!" Kakashi roared with rage. "HOW DARE YOU…….."
"Kill my teammate," finished Sasuke in a voice that shook. "I don't—don't care about that…… I just killed my best friend……. Kami why did this happen………"
Kakashi fell short at this. He hadn't been expecting a tormented response. No, he was ready to have to fight his traitorous student to bring him to justice, not watch as he just stared at Naruto's body.
Sasuke looked up. "Can… can I carry him back? After that you can do as you want, but please, let me carry him back to be buried." Kakashi looked into his student's still active eyes and nodded. "However, should you do anything funny, I will kill you immediately. Do you understand?" Sasuke nodded, and bent down. He closed Naruto's eyes and gently picked him up.
Both men left with their terrible burden.
Unseen by both men Naruto watched, seemingly hovering 20 feet above them. Or his spirit did at least. He watched in silence until both men had gone until finally he came back to his senses.
"HEY!! Now what happens?!"
A bubbly female voice behind him said, "Why you come with me of course."
"GAH!!" Naruto yelled and whirled around to see a woman with light blue hair floating on an oar. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK THERE? WHO ARE YOU?"
The woman giggled and smiled, "Well it's my job as the pilot of the River Styx to escort dead souls to the other side. But you don't have to call me by any title, just call me Botan!"