Story: Half-Dead Walking
Summary: When three people play god with their own children, the results can differ. Especially when one of the three is not a demon or human, but is actually like a living corpse...
Rating: M (language, viloence, a little sexual theme)
"text" - Talking
'text' - Thought
"text" - Demon talk / Shinigami talk
text - pre-chapter sayings / written text
Flashback text End Flashback - Flashback
Prologue: The Letter
The dead have a voice that ordinary people can't hear. Those people refuse to believe that ghosts haunt them to protect them. The more ghost appear in one spot, the greater the danger…
"We have to protect the village until Yondaime Hokage gets here!"
They were Konoha-nin, beaten and bruised, fighting Kyuubi no Youko that was about to attack the village. How in the hell it got there in the first place was about on every shinobi's mind. Suddenly a man with blond hair appeared on the top of a giant orange frog.
Flashback
Yondaime was in Amegakure no Sato. One of his friends died earlier that month.
"Itoko, I am sorry that I wasn't there for you, my friend," he said sadly.
Later that day, Yondaime met Itoko's wife and children. He was talking to Yamaka Nakia in Itoko's house. There were pictures on the walls. Some of them were of Itoko and Nakia, while others were with his kids. Her eldest child and only son, Hokai, transformed himself into one of his younger sisters.
"Nakia-san, how did Hokai learn Henge no Jutsu?" Yondaime said to her puzzled, "He's only five years-old, and he doesn't have to go to the acameady yet."
"I have been wondering the same thing as well," she replied.
There were a couple of disruptions during the conservation. Ire ran through the area shouting that she made her first paper crane. Several minutes after that, Hokai transformed himself into a book. It wasn't a little later when Yondaime felt something tugging his jacket. He turned around and seen a little girl, about a year in age with blue-grey hair and crystal blue eyes. There was a letter beside her.
"What is this?" he asked Nakia. He was puzzled because it was addressed to him. "It's something he wanted to give to you, Arashi" She replied.
He opened the letter and read it. Several moments later, he finished the letter and he got up. Something in that letter made him scared.
"He knew the village was going to be attacked," Yondaime said, "That's why he left and became a missing-nin."
He gave Hokai a pat on the back. 'You're a kid that doesn't have much similarity to you dad,' Yondaime thought. Hokai gave him a blank stare. Ire gave Yondaime her paper crane. "You can have it mister," Ire said happily. Then he was at the door and seen Kiki. She was playing with a blue rag doll. "Thanks for getting this letter for me," Yondaime said, "He would be proud of you, Kiki." He walked out the door, did several hand signs, and disappeared.
End of Flashback
The frog skidded back from taking a hit. 'Damn, that thing is quick even if it's several stories high and about a ton,' Gamabunta thought when one of the tails hit him. 'Dammit, it can't be killed," Yondaime thought, 'the only way to stop it is to seal it.'
His wife, a woman named Renami, died from bleeding due to serious injuries an hour ago, from childbirth. His only child, a boy, was born a couple of minutes before she died. The woman was deciding name for the blond boy. She used her grandfather's first name, Naruto. She held him once and gave him a kiss on the forehead. She died when she finished the kiss. Arashi wanted to cry, but unfortunately, he also had to save a village from certain destruction.
Then, he remembered a forbidden sealing method he read about in a scroll. He shrugged at the thought because the youngest person in the village was his son.
'I am sorry, my son, I won't be there for you,' he thought sadly.
He did several hand signs and a flash appeared. That was the last time that most mortal men ever seen Arashi: Yondaime Hokage, Konoha's Kiiro Senkou, and a loving father.
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