A/N: Okey doke new story!...so this came to me suddenly and well I just HAD to write about it! SOooooo...I did XD! And..uh..yeah my other stories...I HAVEN'T GIVEN UP ON THEM! It's just I can promise you I'll update faster all I want but to be honest updating all depends on if I'm hit with some serious inspiration! It's only when I feel a chapter is perfect do I update and trust me that takes me awhile!
Oh and yes there is a mention of god and heaven and all that but please don't be mean, I understand everyone has different beliefs and I'm not saying ANYONE is wrong and I'm not saying I'm right because I'm probably not...this is a story guys so enjoy it for that reason. It's a story.
ALRIGHT! Enough of my rambling! ON WITH THE STORY!!!!!!
I Only Made It To Heaven's Gate
…I'm…dead? Damn…
There comes a time where we go through the last stage of life. Death. Unfortunately for me mine came a little too soon for my liking.
As I looked around me I couldn't help but cringe at the awful, boring, white…nothingness that surrounded me. I looked down but it was useless, there was nothing. If I wasn't totally freaked out and well…not dead, I probably would have thought it was cool that I was practically flying in the air or was I floating? Bah, what's the difference!? Anyways, I took a step forward, or at least tried to, and headed to where I felt an unusual pull. It was weird; everywhere I looked there was nothing but I felt as if I went just a little farther I would finally be free of this isolated world.
I squinted as I noticed a brilliant change of color in the distance but as I got closer fear welled up inside me. The blood red hair had caught my attention at first but it was the soft face yet fierce expression of the male, who I now stood in front of, which held my attention completely.
His eyes were lined with black as if he hadn't slept in years and he had a red tattoo on his forehead written in kanji. Just looking at his cold green eyes sent shivers down my body.
"A-Am I in Hell...!?" I said loudly. I feared for my soul, so I racked my brain, searching through my short life to see what I could have possibly done to have myself thrown in such a horrible place.
The red head rolled his eyes and I almost started to hyperventilate when he took a small step towards me.
"AH! Please forgive me God! Look if this is about that one night in-" my sentence was cut short when a pale finger was pressed against my lips.
In a soft yet demanding voice the red head said "Calm yourself Naruto, you're not in Hell."
I gave a shaky sigh "Thank God." The red head chuckled, I was suprised that someone like him could have such a pleasant laugh.
"I know all this must be suprising to you but first let me introduce myself, my name is Gaara and I was your guardian angel."
"Was?" I asked.
"You're dead now Naruto, you don't need my protection anymore now that you're in God's Kingdom." He stated simply.
I frowned "Well you sure did a crappy job at protecting me." I said briskly.
"Tsk, when He chooses when your time is up, your time is up." I flinched a little at his harsh tone but I knew he was right.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it…" Gaara's eyes softened at this and then he turned around. I watched in amazement as he reached out in front of him and seemingly opened a drawer of some sort out of thin air.
"How di-"
"Here." He held a small stack of papers in his hands as he turned back to me. I looked at him questioningly and hesitantly took the papers from him.
"What is this?"
"Normally, when people die they are given a record of all the evils they committed while living. Of course if you committed too many or they are to severe to be forgivable you wouldn't even be here, but anyway your case is very rare."
"Rare?" I asked innocently.
Gaara smiled and glanced down at my small stack of papers. "Look for yourself."
I looked down and was surprised to see that the papers were…blank.
"Huh…there's nothing on them though?"
"Exactly, you're one of the few people to have never committed an evil."
"Everyone does something wrong in there life, I can name a bunch of thing I've done through the years!"
Gaara shook his head and leaned back on some sort of wall that I just couldn't see.
"Sure you can like…let's see…that night in Vegas when you got drunk, that time you cheated on your chemistry test, and that time-"
"Alright, alright! But then why isn't it written on these papers?" I demanded as I poked the papers roughly.
"What kind of time do you think I have? I have to much crap to do during the day to be worrying about such small insignificant acts. When I say evils, I mean sins or to be more exact the seven deadly sins."
Gaara paused for a moment, he looked as if he was listening to something or someone but before I could ask he looked at me again.
"I have important news to tell you but first let me finish what I was saying before…you Uzumaki, Naruto are not greedy, you do not lust for things like a pervert would, you're not a glutton, lazy or envious. You're not revengeful and you're not filled with vanity. You're a very innocent person Naruto…"
I felt my face heat up, I don't know why but it embarrassed me to be described as innocent, it made me feel small and naïve.
"Okay…I get it, so what is it that you needed to tell me a little while ago."
"I was getting to that." Gaara looked me straight in the eyes, his stare made me nervous but I couldn't look away. "Naruto, do you remember how you died?" There was that demanding voice again.
"Yeah...uh…I…" It was then that I realized that I didn't remember. The image was there in my mind but it seemed the harder I tried to remember the fuzzier and less clear the image got. But it wasn't just my death that I had forgotten but slowly people, names, places, and all sorts of old and new memories were beginning to fade.
"You don't remember. That's what happens when you die so do not be alarmed."
I grabbed at my head, I didn't want to forget. I barely got a glimpse at a memory that was of me and some other people; I don't know who they were because their faces had already disappeared, before suddenly it was gone.
"You don't have any memories of when you were alive Gaara?"
"No. Trust me when you enter heaven memories will seem meaningless."
"Oh…this isn't heaven?" I waved my hand to our white surroundings, Gaara laughed.
"Oh no, this is…well I guess you can call it the entrance. Anyways you won't be experiencing the wonders of heaven just yet."
"W-What, why!? Did I do something wrong?"
"No,no, no! You've been given a task Naruto, one that you can only do."
"What is it?" I asked. What could I possibly have to do? I mentally prayed that it wasn't some sort of test because I'll tell you now I only made C's in high school and then there was that rare B I got only once every blue moon.
"Naruto, you did a courageous act before the time of your death. You risked your life for another, someone you didn't even know. This person still needs help Naruto, help only you can give."
"Who is-?" I suddenly felt the invisible floor under me give way. "A-Ah!" I reached out for Gaara but he moved away from my grasping hands.
"You're going to be given your life again Naruto for the sake of the person you had given your life to in the first place. You will know him immediately when you see him, do not be afraid and tru………" I was too far away to hear him now and it aggravated me because I still had so many questions to ask.
As I fell the white air around me got darker until I was engulfed in darkness. I was freighted; the once white space that had annoyed me to no end seemed so much more welcoming now then the cold black hole I seemed to be falling through.
It was quiet not the quiet you would experience in a library or something no it was much quieter then that, this…this was complete silence. I got the urge to scream out, to break the unbearable silence but I found that I had no voice, not a single sound could escape me. If I was scared before I was terrified now. I tried to straighten myself out as I fell but I felt a growing weight in my chest, it spread quickly through my body. I finally gasped out when a sharp beating resounded from somewhere in me. Before I could take in my first breath I finally hit the end. The pain was astounding, I crashed to the hard, unforgiving, black floor and warm blood oozed from various cuts and gashes I didn't have before. I lay limp on the ground; I could hear the cracking of my bones as if I was being hit by some invisible force. The pain was paralyzing. My head pounded violently as waves and waves of forgotten memories rushed back to me.
Tears fell from my face and I wondered why this was happening to me when I was abruptly attacked by a new memory. It was hazy but it brought light to what I was experiencing now, what I was feeling, all the pain and suffering, was all my body had gone through at the time of my death. I flinched as the memory played and replayed in my head. I could barely make out the figure of a young man; he looked about my age, crossing a street. Something, I couldn't see it but something was coming right at him! I-It was...
"I don't believe this…" I laid still and listened. Was I going crazy? I looked around but still there was nothing to see.
"Call the doctor in here now!" Who is that? I tried to get up but instead a scream ripped itself out of my throat. I gripped at the fabric that now was underneath me and grinded my teeth as the pain from before returned full force. Since when was I in a bed?
"Hold him down!" I heard a new voice yell. I continued to yell but gradually all my pain slipped away and my body slumped back onto the bed. A new darkness surrounded me but this was a comfortable darkness, one I fully embraced. I managed to open my eyes wide enough to see people all around me, I didn't bother to try and recognize anyone because I knew that in the state I was in I wouldn't have gotten very far.
"You've been give a second chance young man, you're very lucky."
My head began to spin so I closed my eyes and let myself fall into a numbing sleep.
A/N: Thats the end of chapter one! YAY! First off, YES I will explain better HOW Naruto died WHO he saved and all that stuff just be patient...and uh well if you have any questions do not hesitate to ask I would be happy to anwser them!
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