Here is a story that I had made up one day a few months ago, so I decided to make it jibe with the Naruto-verse. It could be a two/three-shot or it could be a story based on the reactions I get. This story takes place after the failed Sasuke retrieval mission and a new burden that is placed on Narutos shoulders. Definitely OOC Naruto, due to story no pairings will occur unless adopted or something pops in my head.

SYNOPSIS: Naruto has returned from the Sasuke retrieval mission bloody and hanging on for dear life while his team is in similar states in different recovery rooms. Naruto manages to pull through like the rest of his team but he keeps seeing a dark presence just out of sight. With his destiny close at hand how will Naruto cope with the new struggles as well as some old pains he will face directly.

Naruto: Generation of Death

Chapter one: The Will of Fire Burns Out?

Naruto lay in his hospital bed battered and bruised. both in body and spirit, he couldn't even keep one of his promises to his childhood sweetheart. His best friend actually killed him if what Baa-Chan's report could be believed. After that little revelation Naruto slipped into a comatose state almost as if his body needed to recharge more while the healing process took place.

This is where Naruto found himself in a familiar setting with rust covered walls, leaky pipes hanging from the ceiling, and ankle deep water. The fourteen year old blonde Jinchuriki wandered around the maze finding nothing better to do in his mind since the Kyuubi told him to 'buzz off'. So when the blond found the hall of memories he decided to take a stroll. It was almost like he was in a glass tunnel with memories playing from a third perspective. Few happy many sad memories filled the hallway Naruto was in. he was reminded of the day the Hokage came to visit him in the 'new' apartment Naruto had at the age of six. While the Hokage was there Naruto managed to swipe the old man's hat and put it on his head declaring to the world he was the new Gondaime Hokage. Naruto laughed when he saw the old man again and the amused glare he sent the boy as he took his hat back declaring himself as the Rokudaime Hokage. But the next memory brought him down again he saw the Saindame's funeral in which many villagers looked at him with disgust some even saying it was his fault that the old man died.

Naruto started to fade from his mind when he saw a dark shape in the corner of his eye. When Naruto turned to get a better look at what it was the figure was gone and Naruto began to wake up.

'well that was odd' Naruto woke up to a rhythmic beeping and knew he was in the hospital. Most other civilians and shinobi didn't like the hospital but didn't hate it either Naruto however loathed the hospital for strange occurrences happening when he was younger like food poisoning and waking up in the OR when surgery wasn't needed.

Naruto was about to get up and leave when he heard feet approaching his door. 'ah shit' the door opened to reveal Sakura with an exited look on her face. Knowing what she was expecting Naruto put his head down that's when he saw the odd shape that was in his mind again. It looked like it was sitting in the corner waiting for something. Naruto looked up to see what it was but was caught by surprise by a punch that nearly dislocated the boys jaw.

"How could you?" Sakura whispered "You lied to me… you promised to bring him back." Sakura was in tears and pulled her arm back to hit Naruto again when a hand grabbed her arm. "SAKURA WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"

The voice belonged to her best friend and fellow fan girl Ino Yamanaka "Naruto is still in intensive care! Tsunade-sama said he's still touch and go." Ino looked at her friend with shock at her actions. The Hokage told Ino about how exactly Naruto wound up in the ICU taking two chidori's and surviving is a great feat.

Naruto was a bit shocked that Sakura punched him he couldn't really blame her he went back on his nindo; he wanted to punch himself in the head.

"Because the Dobe broke his promise to me he told me not to worry that he'd bring Sasuke back."

Ino looked at Sakura with disappointment. "Sakura Naruto is suffering with severe burns to his torso and Kakashi confirmed the wound patterns were from a… a ch-chidori"

Sakura's eyes widened and Ino thought the forehead girl finally got it. "don't make up lies for him. He's a failure, Naruto probably got caught in one of the traps laying around. He's too stupid to know how to avoid one properly and must have gotten caught in the blast." Sakura was dripping with venom as she spoke. While Ino just didn't argue 'there's no use talking to like this. *sigh Sakura's so troub-… damn I've been hanging around Shikamaru too much.'

Wincing Naruto got up from the hospital bed attracting attention from the two Kunoichi when a small parade made its way into the room. The group consisted of the Hokage and her assistant, Shikamaru, Kiba, and The Sand Siblings.

"Good your up. Well it's still a bit early but I want you to come to the mission debriefing in a few hours ok? Get home, get some clothes, and get something to eat we should be ready by then."

Naruto still out of sorts due to fatigue and Sakura punching him merely nodded with one of his fake smiles in place "Hai Hokage-Sama."

Later at the debriefing session

Naruto limped into the meeting room with the rookie eleven, the Hokage, and her two advisors. Chouji was currently speaking from a wheelchair Naruto hardly recognized the boy who looked anorexic. It's hard to believe the boy who looked like he weighed about ninety pounds was around one hundred fifty pounds a few days ago. He detailed his fight with the sound ninja known as Jirōbō and that was when he passed out on the field after the battle. Neji explained his battle in the same way with no inflection in his voice. He was also in a chair because his arm was nearly torn off during the mission. Kiba took his turn explaining that he managed to separate two of the ninjas and face them in combat also explaining the arrival of the sand team. Shikamaru was next as he saw it, he explained that it was a drag but he had to fight a girl and almost lost if Temari didn't show up. Rock Lee was next interrupting his own explanation with shouts of "youth!" and good guy poses. The sand shinobi were next explaining that they split up after hitting the battle zone to assist.

"Uzumaki Naruto please step forward and provide your account of what happened out on the mission." Naruto gulped as he was the main reason the mission failed. Naruto explained the story trying to be as precise as possible. Hearing the sound ninja's names so many times throughout the debriefing session he had them down and gave his version of the weird spider guy and the hungry hippo. He went on to explain that rock lee gave assistance against the guy who could use his bones like swords. After rock lee arrived Naruto ran in Sasukes direction meeting up at the Valley of the End.

Naruto took a calming breath and requested a chair before he continued "I caught up with him as he stood on one of the founders head while I stood on the Shodai's head. I tried to convince him that leaving was a bad idea and told him what I knew of Orochimarus plans to take over his body. He told me he didn't care about any of that and he would gladly give his body so he could get his reve-"

THAT'S A LIE SASUKE-KUN WOULD NEVER LET HIM DO THAT" Sakura shouted causing most of the people in the room to cringe and cover their ears in pain.

"Sakura SHUT UP! Naruto IS BEING MONITERED RIGHT NOW AND THIS IS AN OFFICIAL MEETING YOU WILL NOT SPEAK UNLESS CALLED UPON IS THAT CLEAR?!" Tsunade was using the same demon head jutsu that made Iruka famous. *ahem "Please continue Naruto."

Naruto took an apologetic look at Sakura and continued. "Sasuke told me he didn't care if Orochimaru took over his body, just so long as his clan was avenged. He turned to walk away and I jumped to the other statue and sucker punched him to hopefully knock him out of a genjutsu if it was placed on him. He wasn't in a genjutsu as I thought and we proceeded to fight. When he saw that I wouldn't back down he used more advanced techniques and managed to put a chidori through my left shoulder. I'm sure he was aiming at my heart because my right arm hit his hand at the last second, deflecting the blast. That's when I pulled on my uh… secondary chakra and my shoulder healed partially. When the fight turned in my favor I confronted him again, trying to convince him to come back with me, I saw his sharingan eyes change and it looked like he had three tome in each eye and the fight turned back in his favor. Sasuke took his headband out, he said he wanted me to fight at my fullest, he put it on his head and we kept on fighting. He used the dragon flame jutsu on me when I used my shadow clones to whip myself and him onto the cliff side. While in shock from receiving second degree burns on my back, he grabbed me and tossed me off the cliff locking his ankles around my head and slammed me head first into the ground of the valley if I hadn't been drawing on my secondary chakra the impact would have killed me. I blacked out and subconsciously pulled out more of my secondary chakra and it became visible turning into a form of barrier and the fight resumed." Naruto was sweating if he revealed too much information his friends would realize he was the container for the Kyuubi.

Naruto cleared his throat and shifted in his seat. "we fought some more and Sasuke revealed his curse mark, I tackled him into the cofounders statues feet and he revealed something he called a level two. As you have heard when a level two occurs the body goes under intense changes. He sprouted two hands out of his back and hit me with one; the impact alone sent me into the Shodai's feet. Running low on chakra and energy we prepared our final attack. I'm assuming Kakashi told you of the extent of the damage to the waterfall? That was cause by a level two curse mark influenced chidori meeting with my rasengan. We jumped at each other and our attacks caused the damage I managed to make a scratch on his headband while his hand was still charged with a chidori his hand went straight through my chest missing my heart and I blacked out next thing I know I'm in the Konoha hospital. That is all."

"Ok thank you Naruto your all dismissed please return to the hospital to recover." The Hokage waved her hand in dismissal as the gennin made their way out of the room.

Narutos HOSPITAL ROOM THE NEXT DAY.

Naruto woke up with a start; he had just had a nightmare where Sasuke came back to the village to finish him off. At that moment he felt that he wasn't alone in the room and he saw the figure in the room with him again. Naruto whipped his head to the corner of the room and the shadow stayed a few seconds longer than previously. The movement of the shadow made it look like it was laughing before it disappeared again. later that day the hospitalized gennin we relocated to a shared room because the hospital staff needed the ICU rooms. Naruto saw the figure again and he turned to look at it slower this time. Seeing the shadow take shape into a human form Naruto spoke aloud to Neji and Chouji, "hey um guys is there anything in the corner of the room over there cause if you don't I think I need new medication."

Neji and Chouji said they didn't see anything. That's when Ino Sakura and Tenten cam in the room with Tsunade, "ready for a checkup?"

"uh sure" Narutos heart monitor was going up, indicating the concern for a shadow no one saw except him. The figure looked decidedly human by now and it was dressed in all black with a large cloak with a hood. Narutos heart monitor started to beep slightly, indicating he was reaching a danger zone.

"Now Naruto it's just a checkup stop being such a baby." Tsunade checked the young blonde over and found him ok for surviving a battle like he did. She went to check on the other two and Naruto saw the figure vanish before his eyes.

"Baa-chan I think I need a different medication I think I'm haluc-halicin-seeing things." Naruto said nervously laying back down in his bed. "Well that's odd you just on a minor painkiller it isn't known to have hallucinogenic properties." Tsunade mused.

"Yeah kid what make you think there's something you see that isn't there." Naruto eyes widened hearing the gravely whisper to his right. Naruto slowly turned his head and his eyes widened to see a man in a tattered cloak black as midnight with a dusty tome in his gloved hands. The figure waved in a jovial manner "sup?"

Naruto opened his mouth to scream but the figure waved his hand and Naruto became mute before he could do anything. The figure put his hand back on his book and opened it up starting to flip through the pages "Ok let's see here Uzumaki Naruto… ok hmmm Uzumaki Namato… No that's not it Hm… no uh… no hm… nuh-uh, ah here you are Uzumaki Naruto.*ahem let's see here Blonde spikey hair check, whisker marks on cheeks check, blue eyes check, height 4. ft 5 in check, weight 41 kg check, age thirteen years old check, ok looks like I've got the right kid." The figure looked up at Naruto.

Naruto couldn't see anything past the shadow on its hood but something told him the figure was smiling. "uh yeah that's me what do you want?" the occupants were concerned when Naruto had a look of fear while his heart monitor started beeping louder and louder. Tsunade was about to ask if he was ok when Naruto asked what someone wanted she looked at Neji giving him a nod. Nejis eyes narrowed and he activated his byakugan. When he looked around the room his eyes widened "Tsunade-sama there's someone standing next to Naruto!" The gennin tensed and Tsunade went to move to the blonde's bed to protect him but she found that she couldn't move, and neither could the rest of the occupants of the room.

"Well kid I've got good news and I've got either better news or horrible news depending on how you look at it. The good news is your immortal now." Narutos eyes threatened to fall out at the news. 'im immortal?' "ho-" the figure continued "the better/horrible news is that youre the new death congradulations!" the figure finished in a childish tone like a parent would tell a four year old they would get to go to the zoo. As confetti appeared out of nowhere Naruto adopted a blank look on his face.

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"IM WHAT?!"

I hope you peeps enjoyed the first chapter. again this is a one shot but considering how it ended it probably will be a two shot or three shot not too long. my other stories are planned to be somewhere 10 to 30 chapters at least that's the plan. Well I hope you enjoy I may put it up for adoption after the third shot. IM PUTTING EVERYONE ON NOTICE THIS IS NOT AN X-OVER. There I said it there's a ton of bleach x-overs and I wanted a classic death story. This is not the Shinigami were talking about here this is the western style death like the ghost of Christmas future with a scythe type ok? Well this is Kooloo signing off Have a happy thanksgiving and please check out my page I have a challenge fic up there so check it out and let me know if your interested thanks!