Chapter 1. The fated meeting

Naruto P.o.V

I hate it… I hate it… What did I do to deserve this? I've always listen to my parent's words, I always back down when my siblings is being unfair, I never bother my family's act of neglect, I never whine and always be good. What did I do to deserve this? To be lying on my pool of blood, waiting for death to take me. My clothes all tattered apart dirtied by my fresh bloods, bloody cuts is visible along with red and purple bruise which slowly turning black, burns causing my bloody flesh to be visible as I could feel my broken bones on each move I create. My head is spinning to how much blood I've lost as I started to see black dots 'Ah, so this is where everything ends…' I thought to myself as I fought for my last chance of getting a glimpse of the bright yellow full moon 'I wonder if they realize I'm gone… Will they notice my absent? Will they miss me?' I chuckled thought a bit raspy at the last thought 'Yeah, as if. At least I will not suffer any more.' I'm ready to close my eyes and continue to the after life.

"Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena

Ave, ave dominus
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in muli eribus
Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tuae, Jesus
Ave Maria

Ave Maria
Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Ora pro nobis
Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus

Nunc et in hora mortis
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria"

My pains slowly disperse as I slowly fell into deep unconsciousness lead by the angel's warm and comforting voice.

No One P.o.V

"Is he alright now? Ada – Noona." The bright haired boy with light orange bear jacket completed with brown ears scanned the tattered clothed young boy with yellow – golden locks soaked in his own pool of blood with his impassive droopy crimson eyes. All of his injuries are healed but the scars stays as a remembrance. A pair of Purple – Violet eyes scanned over the boy before the figure release a sigh "He is now…" The silence is coating the 2 as they scanned the area "Why did the do this to him?" The bright haired boy tilts his head "I don't know Samuel. Sometimes human are more cruel than half of the creatures that is after us." Ada sighed, running fingers through her rainbow dyed locks "Well… We should bring him in as it seems no one is looking for him based on the hours." She looks at her younger cousin with her purple – violet eyes as he nod his head and rolled the sleeves of his jacket to not stain it with the blonde's blood. After Samuel manage to handle the blonde's weight, Ada put a hand on Samuel's right shoulder before they disappear leaving only masses of golden butterflies, flying away.

They arrived in a more seclude area infront of an ice castle on top of a cliff. It's glassy stairs spiraling down to the lower ground (A/N: The castle is Elsa's castle from frozen) "Can we just drag him up? I don't really like teleporting here and there, honestly." Samuel impassively chirped as he stared at the glassy stairs "You can do that for another day as we have to let him rest immediately if you want him to be okay." Samuel frowns a little but nodded as Ada chuckles at his response "I'll make you your favorite green tea cake later as my gratitude." Ada ruffle the bright locks of the boy as they teleported leaving only the mass of golden butterflies once more.

This time they arrived in a beautiful glass room full with expansive furniture "Tell Virgo to gave him a bath, Sam." Ada commanded as she walks toward huge wardrobe that's stretch from the far right of the wall to the far left of the wall. Ada touches its cool icy knob as she pull it open revealing empty closet. Ada stretches her hand out as she swiftly waves it. Not 5 seconds later, clothes starts appearing, starting from underwear to shoes. Ada the took a thick warm red sweater, a pair of boxer and long loose white yoga pants all the young blonde's size before heading to the attached bathroom of the room.

As Ada open the door, a female with average height wearing a short maid uniform with short pink haired rubbing the blonde's hair with vanilla scented shampoo came in view. "Hey, Virgo. Sorry we make you come this late." Ada set the clothes on the clean clothesbasket "That is okay miss Ada, as my duty here is to serve you and master Samuel." The pinkette gave Ada a small smile as Ada replied it with her own "Thank you, Virgo. I know we can always count on you." Ada smiled fondly at the green-eyed pinkette as she took the shower to rinse the shampoo away. As the pinkette about to fetch the clean clothesbasket, Ada stood up and fetch it for the pinkette who smiled at her in gratitude "Thank you miss Ada." The pinkette gave her a bow "Nah, I'm the one who should be grateful to you Virgo. Small task is the least I could do to help you." Ada rubs her nape as she get out of the bathroom, letting Virgo continue her task to dress the blonde boy.

Ada get out of Naruto's room to the living room finding Samuel sprawled on the pale soft L – shaped sofa with a bowl of curry popcorn, watching an animated series 'Adventure Time' in which a human named Fin is saving the population of the series with his rightful companion, a yellow dog with black spots and huge round dilated pupils named Jake. "Really, Sam? And you say that you're not a kid." Ada chuckles fondly at the younger boy as he sneered at her "Says the one who collect plush toys" He retort with impassive tone, grabbing a handful of popcorn and shove it to his mouth "I'm making dinner. What do you want?" Ada changed to a more serious subject "Um, Salmon steak with mash potato and mushroom sauce as a side dish. I want my green tea cake too." A hint of slight happiness portrayed in his voice as Ada only give him a 'humm' as a reply.

"When do you think he'll wake up?" Both of the cousins are now in the little blonde's room. Ada walk toward the king sized bed where the little blonde's lay, peacefully resting and settle her self next to him. Brushing her hair with her long and perfectly manicured fingers, she release a sigh "I don't know, but we hope it would be soon enough" Ada's palm starts to glows as the it was absorbed into Naruto's head "Is that our next step?" Samuel raised an eyebrow; his tone make Ada turned toward him "What do you mean?" Ada copy Samuel as she raised her perfectly arched eyebrow "You use your creation Alice, giving him an ability or abilities, like what you've done to me. You're thinking of adopting him didn't you?" Samuel approach his older cousin who fondly smiled at the impassive bright haired boy "You know Samuel, we should help people while we can and the boy need someone who'll take care of him. Just like us in the past…" Samuel only look at the other way impassively, not wanting to see the look of pain and longing on his maternal cousin. He keeps quiet until he finally nodded "Sure, we'll take him in." He look up to see his older cousin smiling up at him "Thank you for being understanding." With that both of the cousins go to their room, resting for the rest of the day.

Naruto P.o.V

It was warm… Something warm wrap me up like a cocoon made out of blankets, something cool brush my golden locks as I keep drowning to internal abyss. 'Where am I now?' I keep my eyes closed, not wanting to open it 'Did the angel took me away?' I want to shift my body, but stopped by the cringing memories of the pain from my broken bones "No, child. You are not dead yet." A calm and mature voice of a man was heard inside my mind 'Who are you?' Panicking will not help anything "I am the Shinigami, Izanagi, the god of death. And you child, is not dead yet. You're still needed in this world." The anonymous person calmly stated. 'What is this person blabbing about? They don't need me! They basically abandoned me' I raged inside my mind "Yes, that is true. They did abandon you, but you've given another fate, child." I started trying to open my eyes, trying to make the voice disappear. My eyes don't open, as all I've seen is depth of raven black abyss. I chuckled mentally 'Heh? Fate, eh? I didn't believe in fate.' I laughed sarcastically "Child, listen to your self. Fate does exist." The voice insisted as I sneer 'So that means fate do this to me? Getting me abandoned by my family? Making me the punching bag of the whole village?' I sardonically said "Child, the fate wanted to apologize for all its doing. Giving you a new fate that will help you throughout this world. All you have to do is to calm your self and wake up." His voice disperses slowly as I once again slowly plunged deeper to the eternal depth of the abyss.

"Oh! He's waking up! I'll go out." A boyish voice said in monotone as I tried to twitch "Right, I'll open the curtains." Light strained my closed eyes as I groaned in raspy voice, my throat feel like burning at the sensation. I squinted my closed eyes before I tried opening it resulting blinks. "Oh… My… G – Go… Od" I rasped out before falling to fit of coughs "Here" A firm feminine voice said from besides me as I blinked at her, trying to control my coughs. Water starts pooling on my eyes as she shoved a cool cylinder object, probably a glass of water on my hand as I quickly gulp it down.

Cooling down a little, I rubbed my teary eyes as I look at her 'What kind od hair color is that?' I stared at her wavy rainbow locks, her purple eyes that is framed by thick raven lashes watching me ever so slightly "How are you?" She suddenly asked "I – I'm fine" I stuttered when suddenly someone knocked on the glassy – Wait… Glass…y? I looked around to find that the wall, the floor and the door it self created from ice "Wh – What?" I stuttered looking around "Ah, yes. I create this castle based on the most beautiful element I've mastered. Might be a little chilly, but its worth the cold." She stood up and walks toward the ice wardrobe, opening it before crouching infront of the cabinet. She open the cabinet and grab a fluffy white bunny slippers "We only have this for now, but please use it first" She set the slippers below me as I put it on "You must be hungry, lets go grab you some meal." She walks a head as I follow her out of the door into icy hallway and down the spiraling icy stairs "Ah, he's out already?" The same boyish voice said from the connecting hallways. He's looks older than my by much with crimson eyes that held nothingness match with his impassive expression, half of his unruly bright hair is covered by his orange bear hood thought the brightness of his hair match with his healthy pale skin. "Food." He stared at the female impassively as she sighed, "Join us. I'm taking him to have some meal." The bright haired male nodded and follows us to what it seemed to be a huge, well-furnished, icy kitchen. "Sit down." She ordered both the bright haired male and I as we took a seat in the cushion covered icy chair. "Is chocolate pancakes okay?" The female voiced over the kitchen island, hovering the ingredients "Make it extra chocolate then we're good." The impassive male took out a small, white rectangular object and focus on it "Sam, put your gadgets down and socialize with… Uh…" The female said to the impassive male in foreign language as I looked at them oddly "I'm sorry, boy, what's your name?" The female asked nicely as I'm in the middle of mental wars 'should – I – or – should – I – not – tell – my – name' after a while I decided to tell them "Naruto." The bright haired male looked at me oddly "Fishcake?" Something snapped inside of me as I feel rage bubbling up "IT'S MAELSTROM! GET IT RIGHT!" I shouted at him who's still looked impassive "Sorry, my name is Samuel Noah Stark." I can't catch up with his foreign name as I gave him a deadpanned look "Just call me Jun." A glint of amusement sparked in his eyes "The female who's with you is my older cousin, Ada Lycoris Wayne. Just call her Amaya or Aya for short, though I call her Ada." I nodded in understanding as smell of chocolate and milk interrupted my nostrils "The pancakes is done." Aya – san start placing the plates of this 'Pancakes' it is 3 stacks of flat circular fried batter covered with lots of chocolate then she set down the cups of milk "Thank you, Aya – san." I sincerely said "You're welcome, Naruto." She gave me a little smile as we all start eating.

"Naruto, you go to your room. I'll take care of the dishes and meet you at your room later. I still need to look at your wounds." Aya – san took my dirty plates from my hand as I nodded and go to my room. I sat on the king sized bed as I inspected the room, I think about what has been happening just now before knocks on the giant icy double door break my thought "Naruto, May I come in?" Jun – san said from the other side of the door "Yes. Come in." The door was open revealing Jun – san with his hood off only wearing a loose grey T – shirt and camouflage pants tucked inside a black ankle length leather shoes tied with silver laces. In his hand, he brought a jar metal jar and in his other hand thick books are hovered. He walked toward the icy bedside table before sitting next to me on the bed. It was silent for a while until he decided to break it. "How are you?" He opens a thick book with blue hardcover. I looked at him oddly "What?" He took off his glance from the book to look at me with his watchful, yet emotionless crimson eyes "I'm asking you how do you feel" He explained as if I don't know already, I just give him a deadpanned look as he replied it with his impassive one. It was like that for a few minutes until I back down and sighed "Um… I don't know." I answered honestly as he sighed at my response "Ok. I'll change my question," He looked back at the book, flipping through pages until he stop at a page with a large 3 headed winged reptile. He scanned the foreign text as his other hand grab the metal jar, opening the top and grab 2 lollipops out of the jar and give one to me who took it gratefully. Samuel ripped open the wrapper and popped the lollipop inside his mouth continuing the tense silence. His fingers skimmed over the foreign words of the book as I fidget a bit. "Why were you beaten up that day?" I tense up at the straight – forward question "I… U – Uh…" My eyes tear up at the answers I have. It starts pooling at every possibility of my answers, without me realizing the tears already quivered down my cheeks "Jun – san, what did you do?" Aya – san's voice startles both of us as I look at her, tears dripping down my cheeks "I only asked him what needed to be asked." He shrugged his shoulder as Aya – san narrows her eyes at him. "Doesn't mean you can't be more gentler," She growled at him "True, but it's better to be 'to – the – point' and finding it out from the person himself rather than be all detectives who search from clues." Jun – san skimmed the pages of the thick book once more, stopping at the picture of nude women only from head to hips but hips – below, it was snake. I could feel rage radiating from Aya – san, so I quickly stop it "I – It's not Jun – san's fault" I chocked on my sobs "I – I s – should've been more… O – open to you guys who saved me… I – It's just h – hard after all of the treatment I – I've received… I – I cant take I – it anymore…" I confessed with a chocked as sobs grows louder. Aya – san looked at me worried as she walks toward me. She stretches a hand and place it on my face, brushing my tears away "Do you want to talk about it?" She asked softly running her tears soaked hand on my hair comfortingly. Despite all the alarmed I felt, I know I can trust them. I nodded at her offer. I start telling her everything starting from how I've been neglected for my younger siblings, how I've been trying to gain my parent's attention, how I'm hated by the villagers for something I never done before. I tell them how they always forgot about my birthday, how they never believe in me when I tell them about the treatments of the villagers, how they never care about me when I'm sick until what happen during my unconscious state with the so called 'Shinigami'… Everything I could remember I tell them honestly with withering chocked and sobs. Jun – san is rubbing my back while Aya – san is caressing my head, both of them feverishly trying to calm down my breathing.

"Fate huh… Probably us…" Jun – san commented as I finished my story, I look at him with tears still dripping down my cheeks "True, but Naruto," Aya – san turned my head to look at her with both of her palms on my cheeks "Do want to reverse this?" She caress my hair once more before tilting my heads up to look at her not being able to replied her question as I'm mesmerized by her sparkling purple eyes, slowly drown in the depthless sea of color "To change your life? To have someone who'll be there for you? To be strong? To prove you're not worthless like what they've thought you to be?" My mind went spiral "I – I can change that?" Doubt was clear in my voice "Of course you can. You can be the weapon, but never be a pawn. It might be hard to change, but we'll start slow. Do you want to stay, treated like nothing? Or do you want to move and become something more?" This time Jun – san show some emotion, as I believe smirk were placed on his impassive face "I want to change!" I replied enthusiastically as if my future is decided by this moment "I want to prove that I worth more. I want to have a family! To have someone who'll take care of me! To have someone who'll believe in me and put faith in me!" The routines repeated as my tears sprang once more and Aya – san rubbing it away "Welcome to the family." Aya – san said softly continued by Jun – san "We'll teach you everything important" He rubs my back as I felt my energy draining and my eyes starts to closed slowly.