Okay, I have fixed this first chapter. I don't know when I will fix the second, but I will. Please enjoy.
WARNING: even if you aren't a fan of Shaman King, give this fic a chance. A reviewer said that they didn't like Shaman king much, but they really liked the story, just thought you should know.
Cooro is a character from a not very well known manga called +anima. If you want to see a picture of him, there is a link in my profile.
Last thing, shamans can see and touch Seirei-class spirits and up. Even if normal people can't. Just remember that.
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Chapter 1
Naruto despised the world right now. He was sooo tired. Groaning, the blond sat down and leaned against the wall, being rewarded with a sliver of shade. He was wearing his black t-shirt, a choice he regretted, with the Uzumaki swirl on the back, and some red colored ninja pants. To anyone else, they would have appeared as capris, but a ninja knew they were made of an unnaturally strong but flexible material. Naruto hadn't bothered to learn the name of it. He was carrying a pack filled with storage scrolls for weapons, food, his oracle bell, and other necessities. In case he was ever in a real emergency. Otherwise, his headband was on a red cloth instead of a blue one and he wore plain black ninja sandals. Any adults looking at him would assume the stranger clothes of him and his friend were the most recent styles, well, if they could see his friend. Children just thought they were weird. Speaking of his friend…
A youth with wild black hair knelt down next to him. His amber eyes watching Naruto worriedly, but curiously at the same time. The black haired child was wearing an old fashioned flying cap, goggles included, and a sleeveless red sweatshirt. Or so it seemed. The sweatshirt had sleeves that barely hung past the youths hands, but they were not attached to the sweatshirt in any way, shape, or form. So his shoulders were visible, exposing two spiral shaped tattoos donned the child's shoulders with lines coming away from them like half a sun pointing towards his back. You could also barely see a single braid under that mass of hair that went down his back. He had some decorative feathers in his hair, but also some normal black ones. The child wore something similar to a cross between an orange poncho and an orange vest over the sweatshirt, light blue pants that seemed a little out of place, and orange boots with a red stripe.
"Are you alright?" Cooro asked.
"Yeah, yeah, I'm fine" Naruto replied, a little jealous that Cooro was immune to the heat. Cooro sighed and sat down next to Naruto, leaning against the wall. Naruto glanced at him; he seemed to understand Naruto really well, he always had.
FLASHBACK
Naruto stood in the Konoha graveyard, sighing. Ninja accept death, he had found out. So as soon as a ninja died and became a ghost, they accepted it and moved on to heaven or hell. Kushina had told Naruto that she didn't go to heaven so that she could inform him of his heritage, and warn him of the upcoming Shaman Tournament. Naruto had to look for a main spirit, someone he could live with the rest of his life and bond with.
He had found a few Uchihas waiting to see Itachi's demise, but they were all stuck up and rude. Naruto didn't think he could live with any of them for the rest of his life. He had met and spoken with the 1st and 2nd Hokages, but neither of them really wanted to become a shaman's spirit, saying that they were retired now. But they did say that they would help train Naruto until he found a main spirit and might help him in times of need.
So, all the spirits left were civilians. They were not fighters and not very good at sheer spiritual strength. So that cut them out. Sighing again, Naruto started walking towards the older part of the graveyard. He hadn't bothered to come here before, since he figured the spirits here were more likely to have left the world, but he might find the one he was looking for.
"You're a shaman?" Naruto spun around, and saw a kid sitting on top of a gravestone. Naruto glared at him for surprising him before answering.
"If I am?"
"I was watching you since you entered this side of the graveyard" The boy said, leaping off his gravestone and walking over to Naruto. That slightly freaked him out; he knew that spirits were not supposed to be able to go much farther than 5 feet from their body unless they had bonded with a shaman.
"Are you dead or alive?" Naruto asked, trying to figure out what was going on. The boy seemed to sweat drop for a moment before replying.
"I'm dead. My name is Cooro, what's yours?" Naruto sputtered for a moment.
"Naruto Uzumaki, but if you're dead, how can you go so far from your body?!" Cooro looked puzzled for a moment before he seemed to have an epiphany and laughed.
"I just said my name was Cooro. I was just passing through this area. Look on the gravestone I was sitting on" Naruto ignored the now laughing child and read the grave.
"Elli Karamus. Died in childbirth. The years are scratched off though, is she your mom?" Naruto asked, now even more confused. Cooro just shook his head.
"If she was my mom, the grave would be so old that you'd be lucky to find a pebble left of it. No, I don't know who she was"
"What do you mean?"
"I'm a Kami-class spirit. That's the older term though, the newer one is a Sacred Soul or God Spirit" Naruto gaped open mouthed, he had come across Sacred Souls in the scrolls that his mom had shown him. They were supposed to be among the most powerful spirits in the world, and it was assumed that there were no human Sacred Souls. They were very rare. Elemental spirits made up more of the Kami-class spirits, but even those were extremely rare. Kami-class spirits were not gods, but they were the strongest beings on earth and a Kami-class spirit could manifest itself temporarily as a human or animal.
"But, you're a human spirit! That's impossible!" Cooro left eyebrow twitched.
"I am one of the oldest fully human spirits in the world, I died several thousand years ago, before the Age of Empires, before the Age of Technology, and before the Age of Radiation. I lived when people were just starting to fully separate themselves from nature, and animals and humans lived together. I am a +anima, which were the origin of shamans. I died in a major accident. As I grew older, I became one of the Seirei-class somewhere around 1,000 to 1,500 years old. Most human spirits leave earth by then. When I became Seirei-class, I found I could sometimes pass for human, but I had no control over it and was still bound by the most basic spiritual laws. I became Kami-class around 4,000 years old, and gained enough control as to become solid for short periods of time whenever I wished. I also became free of some of the spiritual laws, but others still hold me."
"Whoa" Naruto said, thinking back on his history lessens. The Age of Empires was also known as the Medieval Ages. The Age of Technology had a lot of different names, but all Naruto could remember was that everyone was always fighting and that a lot of things were invented at this time. The Elemental Countries only knew of the Age of Radiation because it only affected them. They were a tribe of people, multiple Japanese families who had cut themselves off from the rest of the world long ago. A plane, transporting high quantities of radiation had crashed. The radiation killed and killed and the people could not be rid of it. Until a child was born with a genetic mutation, allowing it to be immune to the radiation and to actually channel it into power. Naruto had only paid attention to that lessen because it was the origin of Chakra.
"Can I be your main spirit now?" Cooro said, giving Naruto big puppy eyes.
"Uh, can you fight very well?" Naruto said, a little nervous. The dreaded puppy eyes technique was working it's magic.
"Since I could pass for human, I learned Samurai style, Ancient Ninja style, Current Ninja style, Tai Kwon Do, Military Combat, and am at least average with just about any weapon" Cooro said, bragging about his skills. He forgot to mention that he didn't have body memory since he was dead though, so his reaction time would depend on Narutos.
"Whoa! Cool! Can you be my main spirit?!" Naruto asked excitedly.
"Yes. Yes I can be. But you know what else I can be?" Cooro asked, folding his hands behind his back and giving Naruto an inquisitive look.
"Uhhhh…" Naruto replied, unsure of what to do.
"I can be your friend!" Cooro said excitedly, before throwing his arms around Naruto. Naruto stiffened from the touch, before calming down and smiling. He felt happy tears in his eyes and hugged Cooro back.
END FLASHBACK
Naruto sighed and glared ruefully up at the sun, recalling the events after he had met Cooro.
FLASHBACK
Naruto focused on pulling Cooro into his body as he called out,
"Hyoi Gattai!"(Integration) Naruto felt all fuzzy, and had a weird tingling feeling in between his shoulder blades but ignored it. His brain felt really abnormal, thoughts flashed across it that weren't his, feelings that weren't his. He tried to control his body, but it was weird also. His right arm would twitch, but it wouldn't move. He figured out that the only way to move was if Cooro and him both tried to move their right arm at the same time. It was hard, but he thought he might finally be getting the hang of it.
END FLASHBACK
Then there was that day, when he was fighting against Mizuki.
FLASHBACK
After hearing Iruka's speech, Naruto was in tears. Cooro was next to him, trying to comfort him. But Naruto wasn't so depressed as to miss the shuriken headed for the very teacher who had just defended him. Running out, he caught the Shuriken, thanks to the training from the first and second Hokages.
"If you dare lay a hand on my sensei, I'LL KILL YOU!" Naruto formed his hands into a hand seal, but an idea flashed across his mind. Disregarding Kage Bunshin for another second, he reached toward Cooro and thought to himself,
'Hyoi Gattai!' But instead of having Cooro posses him, Naruto pushed Cooro into the shuriken. It seemed to glow with a dark, blackish light. Before he formed the hand seal again.
"Talk while you can fox, I'll finish off a weakling like you in a flash!" Naruto glared at the despicable piece of trash in front of him.
"Give me your best shot punk, I'll return it a thousand fold! Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!" Thousands of shadow clones appeared, taunting Mizuki, who was staring around him in surprise and fear. Each shadow clone held a glowing black shuriken, and each one threw it.
END FLASHBACK
That was the first time he had used what he found out later was called Oversoul. Oversoul was integrating a spirit into a nonliving object; his first time using Giant Oversoul was when Ero-Sennin pushed him off the side of that cliff.
FLASHBACK
"Oi! Cooro, can you do anything to help me?!" Naruto shouted, as he tried to grab a rock with chakra, only to continue his fall. Cooro was really worried about Naruto, but shook his head.
"You left the feathers at your house and you don't have anything else on you that I could Oversoul with!" He called back, panicking. Naruto heard a faint shout from up above.
"The rocks are to slippery to grab with chakra, your only choice is to use the Kyuubi's chakra to summon!" Naruto groaned and cursed Jiraiya with anything he could think of. He looked down and looked over at Cooro, who had stopped floating down with Naruto, and was instead crying.
'I'm really going to die' Suddenly, Naruto's vision went red.
Drip, drip, drip
Naruto opened his eyes, and saw the tunnel of a sewer. Hearing a growling, he ran down the hallway to sate his curiosity. Naruto turned, and saw a pool in front of a giant cage.
"Come here boy"
Stepping into the water, Naruto walked towards the cage, feeling hypnotized by the voice. He stepped up to the cage, but a flash of killer intent warned him as he jumped backwards to avoid the claw that came out of the cage.
"You're lucky this cage keeps me at bay, or I would devour you where you stood"
Naruto seemed to remember his predicament and the reason he had come in the first place. Glaring, he yelled at the fox.
"Alright, since this is my body, you owe me rent! So I'll take your chakra as payment!" Naruto glared up at the bars as the Kyuubi seemed to stare back for an awkward moment of silence. Before the giant fox started laughing.
"Alright brat, you got guts. You can use my chakra, but instead of summoning a measly overgrown toad, I've got a better idea" Before Naruto could retaliate, the water he was standing in turned red and his eyes snapped open. Naruto felt his stomach burning, and screamed in pain. Before he hit something soft, furry, and, when Naruto opened his eyes, red.
Looking down, trying to ignore his burning stomach, Naruto saw that he was sitting on the head of a giant fox. Looking behind him, he saw that this fox had nine tails. His eyes widening, Naruto lifted his shirt to check on the seal. It was still there and, as far as he could tell, perfectly intact. The only difference was that the swirl was glowing red, but the other symbols were glowing blue. The blue glow looked almost like a circle caging the red glow, making Naruto feel safer. Until he noticed a red, slitted eye was staring at him. Naruto froze where he was, shirt partially up and a dumbfounded look on his face. The big fox mouth opened, and laughed.
Next thing Naruto knew, he was out of the canyon and above ground. But still on the Kyuubi's head. Naruto saw Cooro a little ways off, he looked excited and flew over to Naruto, tackling him.
"oh,IthoughtforsureyouhaddiedandIwasgoingtokillJiraiyaandI'msogladyouralive!" Naruto had no idea what Cooro had just said, but wasn't going to ask him to repeat it. A giant fox tail wrapped around Naruto and brought him face to face with the Kyuubi. Naruto thought he was going to die.
"If I could eat you right now, I would. But that would kill me since I am bound to you. I also cannot kill anyone without your permission, much as I regret it. But, I'll take what comes, if you let me out using Giant Oversoul once in a while, I'll let you use my chakra whenever you want. Deal?" Naruto nodded dumbly. Giant Oversoul? The Kyuubi just vanished in a flash of red light. Naruto felt his stomach burning really badly for a moment, before it died down.
END FLASHBACK
Naruto had also found he could use Koubaku Oversoul, but it was technique he'd rather avoid. The Koubaku Oversoul combined Kyuubi and Cooro into one Giant Oversoul. More powerful that a normal one, but much harder to control with all their conflicting interests.
Naruto was still trying to master the Furyoku Nullification technique. Furyoku was the spiritual half of chakra, and what shamans used to channel spirits. Naruto had figured that he could put some of his Furyoku in an attack being done by an enemy, and might be able to take control of it. Problem was, he couldn't test his theory since he was the only shaman in all of Konoha. That stunk; especially when he saw the star his mother had spoken of and had to leave to go to Tokyo. He got special permission from Tsunade, the current Hokage, before he left. He fingered the necklace she had given him, he used it to help channel the Kyuubi. The necklace made it so that Naruto could use the Kyuubi without suffering pain and such, definitely made his life easier.
Sighing, Naruto was tempted to take off his shirt for sheer heat. Cooro sat beside him, looking around. Standing up, Naruto started to crawl forward a few feet before collapsing.
"Eh? Naruto? Naruto!" Cooro grabbed Naruto's shoulder and began to try and shake him awake. When that didn't work, Cooro looked around frantically. Seeing a store, Cooro pulled the pouch tied to his leg off and dumped the spiritual weapons he had been carrying. Concentrating on becoming solid for a minute or so, he ran into the store and filled the pouch with water from the sink in the bathroom.
"H-hey!" The storeowner called, as Cooro ran out of the store again and over to Naruto. Dumping the water on Naruto, Cooro fell back on his butt and let out a breath he didn't know he was holding when Naruto woke up.
"Uh, Cooro?"
"Yeah?"
"I don't feel so well" Naruto placed a hand over his mouth like he was going to puke. Cooro's eyes widened and he was about to say something, but he was cut off.
"Are you guys alright?" Looking up into the glare of the sun, Cooro saw a teenage boy with really dark brown hair, almost black. The kid was wearing headphones and was jogging in place. He wore normal blue jeans that were rolled up at the bottom and a button up shirt with the buttons undone so you could see his skin. He wore an Indian style necklace, all together; he gave off an aura of being laid back, old blood, and old-fashioned. If it wasn't for the headphones disrupting the image.
Cooro instantly knew this guy was a shaman or could at least see spirits. But he was aiming for shaman, that would explain why the kid was running in place, training. But he answered anyway.
"I can't wake Naruto up! He just collapsed and won't move, will you help?" The kid nodded, stopped his jogging for a moment, and lifted Naruto onto his back. Before he continued jogging. Cooro just stood up and jogged alongside of him.
"What's your name anyway?"
"My name's Yoh"
"Oh, my name's Cooro and his name is Naruto"
"Ah."
"Where are we going?"
"My house, but I should warn you" Yoh's face seemed to take on a darker shade, like he was talking of a dark secret or in extreme fear.
"Hm?" Cooro asked, completely oblivious.
"My fiancée, Anna, hates guests. If you don't do exactly as she says, she'll kick you out" Cooro was stuck on the word 'fiancée'
"Whoa, wait, how old are you?"
"I just turned 14 a few weeks ago, why?"
"B-but, how can you have a fiancée?!" Cooro sputtered out, utterly confused for the life of him. Yoh just laughed.
"A lot of people ask that when they first find out, it's an arranged marriage"
"Oh" Now Cooro felt a little embarrassed; of course it was an arranged marriage! They used to do that all the time, but it's not commonplace nowadays.
"Are you visiting family here in Tokyo?"
"Hm?" Cooro asked, it was around this time that Naruto decided to wake up.
"Huh? What the-! AH!" Naruto promptly fell off of Yoh and onto the sidewalk. Yoh just shrugged his shoulders and jogged in place.
"Ma, could you hurry up? I've got another quarter mile until we get home and my legs are hurting" Yoh said, lazily but annoyed at the same time.
"Huh?" Naruto looked up and saw Cooro.
"Get up Naruto, if you can run a quarter mile, there's food!" Happiness dawned on Naruto's face.
"FOOD!" He jumped up and grabbed Yoh and Cooro before running. Cooro seemed to be used to being dragged like this, and Yoh just didn't care. Naruto slowed down when he realized he had no idea where to go.
"Uhhh…"
sigh "Follow me" Yoh stood up and started jogging again. Naruto looked angry by the slow pace, but followed any way.
"So what's your name?" Naruto asked. Cooro sighed and answered him.
"His name is Yoh, he invited us over to his house for a while at least"
"Oh" The rest of the trip was spent in awkward silence. Yoh was just listening to his music, and, if Naruto concentrated real hard, he thought he might be able to hear some of the music. When they finally walked up to an old looking Japanese manor, Naruto gaped open mouthed.
"This is where you live?!"
"Yeah, Anna plans on turning it into a hot spring/hotel" Naruto was looking around, the place was at least the size of the Uchiha Compounds, but he didn't see very many people there. He managed to catch a glimpse of a boy with spiky blue hair held up by a design covered band, a white jacket with weird designs on it in red, and blue shorts being dragged out of the compound by whom he suspected was the boys sister. She had long blue hair and was dressed in dark pink shirt and light pink skirt. Her clothes had similar designs as the boy she was dragging by the ear.
"Yoh! Help me!" The boy yelled, struggling in pain with tears coming from his eyes. Yoh looked on with pity.
"You're on your own, Horohoro. Sorry, but I'm not going against your sister"
"NOOOoooooo…" Cooro barely contained his laughter, but Naruto did no such thing. He fell to the ground laughing, until another female walked out of the main building.
"Yoh! What do you think you're doing, slacking off like that!" Yoh froze up and looked at the girl in fear. Naruto stood up and looked at her in curiosity, she wore wooden sandals and a black dress that stopped far from the knees. It looked more like an overgrown shirt, but was skintight above her waist, loosening so it flared out at the bottom. Her hair ended just above her shoulders and was a shade of dirty blond. She wore a red scarf around her head pirate style with the ends hanging down her back, going past the bottom of the dress. To top it off, she wore a necklace of blue beads that went around her neck twice with one red feather. Cooro, remembering what Yoh had said, tried to hide behind Naruto.
"Also, who are these people?!"
"Ma, Anna, I found the blond one starving and thought they might be able to stay the night?" Anna looked over to them.
"They can stay one night, but they'll have to pull they're weight" Naruto nodded vigorously, Cooro was thinking to himself.
'She can see me too then, so it's safe to assume that everyone else in this household can see me and Yoh isn't just a one time thing' Cooro missed when he was alive, he had been so blissfully ignorant.
"Good, you can start by washing the floors of this entire compound, after that, you'll do all the laundry, Manta will help you. After that, come and see me again" Naruto nodded, set down his stuff, and grabbed the sponge from where Anna held one out. She looked at Cooro oddly, before telling him to help Naruto. She held out another sponge, Cooro focused on becoming solid for a moment, grabbed the sponge, and went over to help Naruto.
"As for you…" Anna grabbed Yoh's shirt and started pulling him over towards a pile of small weights. Yoh had tears coming from his eyes.
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Naruto looked longingly at the food in front of him. As soon as Anna nodded and he saw the others starting to eat, Naruto picked up his chopsticks and dug into the food. He had met the only other person who hung out here, Manta. Manta was a shorty who looked like a walking, talking baby. He had blond hair and Naruto had found out that Manta was the same age as Yoh and Anna. As they were eating, the door slid open and the panting blue haired guy from before walked in.
"Hey"
"Hey Horohoro, you managed to get away?" Yoh said. Naruto snorted and dropped his food. Horohoro's eyebrow twitched as Naruto started laughing. Cooro wondered what he was laughing about, before he thought for a moment. He was soon on the ground laughing also.
"It's not that funny!" Horohoro yelled, knowing exactly what they were laughing about. Everyone else at the table sighed, they had reacted the same way, except for Anna.
"Horohoro! Haha! Boroboro! Your name literally means crap!" Horohoro just sat down huffing, before he grabbed a plate and began to eat, earning himself a glare from Anna. After Naruto and Cooro had stopped laughing and making fools of themselves, a conversation struck up.
"So, who're you guys anyway?" Horohoro managed to say through a mouth full of food.
"I'm Cooro, he's Naruto" Cooro said, pointing at the living garbage disposal.
"Why aren't you eating?" Anna asked, watching him with a calculative look in her eye.
"I'm not hungry" Cooro said, trying to keep up the image he had of being a real person.
"Is that so?" She went back to eating her rice, seemingly appeased.
Beep, beep, beep
Naruto's eyes widened momentarily as he looked around at the others. Horohoro pulled back his sleeve and Naruto saw that he had a dark blue oracle bell attached to his arm. An oracle bell was like a mini computer, held in place by two colored straps. Naruto had attached his to his leg, so he could wear a t-shirt in public without fearing attack from other shamans. Horohoro shook his head.
"Not me man" Yoh nodded and walked over to where an orange oracle bell was attached to an old looking samurai sward. Picking it up, he looked at it and read aloud.
"Asakura Yoh versus Uzumaki Naruto"
"WHAT?!" Everyone else looked at Naruto as he sat back on his butt and pulled his legs out from under him. Pulling up one pant leg, the others saw a glowing oracle bell strapped to his leg. Naruto stared at it, looked up at Yoh, and stared at it again.
"Well, shit"