Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Three years had gone by since Naruto had left his home with his new family and friends, and now he was going back albeit temporarily; in that time he had grown strong and well…had extremely long life. That's right; he had become a death knight, not only a death knight, but the 3rd strongest death knight next to his teammates, Matsumoto Akane and Gunma Jin, and was close to becoming a death lord (will be explained later). Seeing as he was the future lich king didn't hurt his chances at barging either, which he never actually did.

His black armor gleaming in the sun above, with the giant skull with glowing red eyes (kyuubi's eyes, will explain later in the next couple of chapters, or so…), centered in the chest area, and its teeth (with fangs) covering his stomach. His arms completely covered with black menacing gauntlets and arm covers (go to my bio to see pics…), all finished with a gold trim. He had become a death knight, and he was proud, so proud infact, that he had completely forgotten his childhood dream of becoming a Konoha ninja and make everybody in that damn village recognize him (and also because Death Knights were far superior in every way and form…).

He had become a death knight on his 10th birthday, 3 month's after he found out the truth about why he was hated by those damnable village-folk. His cat like red eyes burned a glowing red color (think Arthas), while his black-Angel-like wings spread, as he thought about how many times they had beaten and tortured him, but right now he didn't care as much as should have, for he was heading to Konoha for three reasons. The first reason was, his father want a political Alliance with Konoha, second was his father also needed to enter his village ninjas into the upcoming chunnin Exams, third reason was he needed to find his guardian and all the clues (in his dreams) pointed towards the leaf village.

He thought back to how he had become a death knight, and the news that would change not only his life, but the lives all the former death knights forever…

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Flash-Back

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"Happy birthday, Naruto" said his friend and weapons teacher Triad Blackhorse (Race: Elf, lvl:??, class: Soul Reaper -will explain in the flashback-), "I am proud of your progress, and I am sure you are going to become a fine death knight."

"And he will," said a voice that came up behind the blond, it was his adopted father, who looked at him with pride, "come child, it is time you joined our ranks."

"Really!" said an excited Naruto, all his life he wanted to become something, now he was going to get that chances and show everybody that he was the strongest, "Do you really think I'm ready, father!"

"Yes my son," said Arthas with a chuckle, then suddenly got serious "you have proven yourself worthy of this honor, but there is a problem."

"…and what would that be dear?" said a feminine voice coming from behind lich king, "I don't' see a problem."

Arthas turned around and looked at Karen with loving eyes, after they had adopted the small blond boy; they had begun to get closer to each other and eventually had gotten married.

"The problem is, we don't have a rune blade for him, and the only way to get one is if we enter his mind and split his soul, take some of his self-darkness and forging the weapon with that, but that will take days," Said the lich king.

"I am willing to try," said the blond, who felt he was being ignored by his parents. The looks of the faces of the two were of shock and surprise, which suddenly turned to worry. He felt uncomfortable under their gazes, and quickly asked them what was wrong.

"What's wrong is that, if we take your soul apart, than the damage to your brain could probable kill you," said the sad looking night elf, who looked at Naruto with love.

"I don't care," the blond replied, all his life he wanted to become someone, if it cost him his life, then he wasn't about to argue with fate about, if this was a stupid idea or not, "I want to do this." He said confidently, not showing even the slightest amount of fear in his eyes.

"If you're sure," said Arthas, who quickly silenced an arguing teacher and an angry mother, "this is his choice, he has earned my respect, and I believe he gets to decided what happens to his life."

"Fine, but if he dies…" said the elf mother, leaving the sentence unfinished, so the lich king would use his imagination to think up the worst possible scenario, of what his wife will do to him. The results were not good, which made him sweat a little.

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Time skip – inside Naruto's mind

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"Where are we, and why does it smell like fox in here," said a frightened Naruto, who knew the answer but didn't want to believe it.

"We are inside your mind," said Arthas as he walked forward towards a door with a rune on top of it, "As for the fox, remember when I told you about why everybody hated you, well this is it."

"…so we are going to visit the fox," asked Naruto, who received an affirming nod, "ARE YOU CRAZY, WHAT IF HE TRIES TO KILL US!! HE'S A FRIGGEN DEMON!"

"Ha ha ha, don't worry; I have killed many demons during my time with the scourge!" The lich king replied with an assuring tone. Naruto for one wasn't about to back talk the only man who treated him with love and respect, so he kept quiet even though he hated the idea.

As Arthas opened the door, he stepped inside and was met with a loud hungry growl, "Well well well, it has been along time since I had a taste of human flesh," Said the source of the growl, which seemed to originate from behind a large (and I mean large) cage.

"Hello fox, I have come to kill you and make my path to the door that is located behind that prison of yours," said Arthas, calmly.

"HAHAHA, and how do you suppose you kill me? I am the greatest demon that has ever lived, you are nothing but a mere human," Roared the demon fox.

"Oh? Me a mere human?" said the lich king mockingly, "I have lived for 2000 years, long before you were even born demon!"

"That's impossible!" replied the fox, "there are only 4 beings in existence that match the immortality of a demon, the har'uun, the vampires, the tempests, and the Death Knights, and two of those have long since been eradicated by those damnable paladins, and I really doubt your of a tempest or a…"

"Death Knight?" interrupted Arthas as he motioned for the frightened 10 year old to step in front of him, "of course I am, can't you see my rune blade on my waist?"

"Th-that's impossible! The Death Knights are supposed to be on the other side of the world?!" argued the demon, "So don't bullshit with me, human!"

"Judging by your growth, I would say you're only about 1200 years old, so I don't expect you to remember me," said Arthas, slowing pulling out his blade, "Anyway, I care not if you believe me, I will kill you either way and make my way to the chamber of the blahook (I made it up so don't bother searching it through Google of something…), so I may make my son into my true successor."

As Arthas grabbed Naruto by his left hand, he made his way towards the cage, where the angry demon looked at him with hatred, and…fear? Clutching his rune blade, he lifted his right hand and poured in his dark spiritual energy into the dark blade and slashed forwards as if trying to hit an invisible enemy. Suddenly a part of the cage broke enough for the father and son to walk inside of the cage, and as they entered, they were met by a bleed fox demon that lay on his side, and with tears running down his eyes.

"Damn you death knight, damn you Namikaze Minato, damn you Uchiha Madara!!" yelled the wounded fox.

That last name (Uchiha) stopped Arthas dead in his tracks, as he approached the fox to finish him. He knew that name, about 300 years ago, back when he entered the elemental territory, two poor and starving clans were at war with each other (Before the conflict between the Senju clan and the Uchiha clan). Their leaders bitter rivals, Hyuuga Jin, and Uchiha Roshi, struggled to survive, as they stole each others food, water, and clothing, so they wouldn't have to go find it in the black forest of death, but they were losing too many numbers, and could not afford to fight, and had asked for the lich king's services. Arthas being the lich king could only take one side, for if he took both he would have to fight against his own men. Suddenly he had found the perfect solution; he made a compromise, and gave them the power to hunt from the forest, which was filled with dark monstrous creatures. He had gifted one with the red Sharingan eye, thanks to his second in command Karin, and gifted the other with a white Byakugan eye, again thanks to her. The two clans soon forgot their rivalry, and soon prospered, as far as Arthas knew anyway

(Fun history fiction-fact!! The blood elves were once know as high Elves amongst the Elvish race and treated the others like slaves, that didn't sit too well with the Elvish people, so they went to war. The Sharingan was a tool that the blood elves taught the humans, who allied with them in the great elvish war, while the night elves taught the other the humans who allied with them, the Byakugan.)

"Demon, tell me what this Uchiha Madara did to you?" asked Arthas, with anger that such a creature would dare insult a clan that he helped to prosper.

"That bastard killed my family and used me, HE USED ME!!" yelled the demon-fox. "If it wasn't for this boy father, I would have succeeded in taking my revenge!"

"I see, so this Madara was from the leaf village," said Arthas.

"Was? You speak of him like he is dead?"

"Is he not?"

Suddenly the decimated prison was filled with laughter, followed soon by blood filled coughs. "Please, do not kill me just yet. I wish to be around to see his demise by the hands of the child who hides behind you."

Naruto, who was at this point was freaking out, peeked around his fathers side. How the hell the fox knew he was hiding there, thought Naruto.

"Hahaha, it is not hard to find you since you are my jailor, plus I could sense your fear a mile away," Said the fox weakly, freaking Naruto out more, "Yes child, I did read your thoughts."

'How the hell,' Thought Naruto, but before he could say anything, his father sighed in contempt.

"Demon, I will let you live for now, but only if a deal is arranged, so as no harm befalls my son," said Arthas firmly.

"Fair enough, your son, Minato's son, it does not matter as long as I get to see the demise of that wretched Uchiha, by this child's hand."

"Fine, we shall make the deal at another time, tell me if I leave you here, will you be able to heal yourself?" asked Arthas, not really interested in the dieing fox in front of him.

"I think I can manage," replied the fox, "so tell me, you seek the chamber of the bla'schok?"

"Yes, I intend to make him into a death knight," Said Arthas, as he looked down at Naruto with proud eyes.

"That will be no easy task, seeing as he might die in the process." Said the fox who sounded more at ease that before.

Suddenly, the chamber got cold and the cage soon started to ice up, and a bone chilling demonic voice came from the darkness that lead deeper into the cage, "Indeed, it shall be, if you intend to do it that way," Said the dark voice.

As the voice finished its sentence, Arthas griped his blade with both hands, and stood in front of the darkness, not showing a single bit of fear, "Come out, and show yourself!" he yelled in the darkness, At this point Naruto, no matter how brave he wanted to be, was still a child and held onto his fathers cape for his dear life.

"I have come to deliver a message from the lord of all life," declared the creature with a bored voice, "I shall only show myself, if you put your sword down."

"Very well," said the lich king, slightly amused with what he heard. A message from the creator of life, now this he had to hear. As he put his sword back into his sheath, he could hear the creature stepping into the light, and what he saw, threw a sort of fear into his heart that he had not experienced in his entire life.

The creature's aura was reeking of Death, It had a black robe with a hood on, but one could see it's face was that of a human skull -though only a little was showing- and in it's skeletal hands a long black Scythe gleamed menacingly at them.

"Y-you're the S-Soul Collector," Stuttered the lich king, whose face once again resembled its pale complexion.

"Indeed, I am," muttered the Dark Collector, "Like I was saying before you so rudely threatened me with your sword, I have come to deliver a message to you and the child."

"Why, may I ask, do you need to speak to Naruto?" asked the king as he started to regain his composure.

"You will know in time," he said, "I am only here to tell you that your sudden change of attitude has guaranteed your success to join the righteous in death."

"What may I ask are you talking about?" asked the Lich king, somewhat hopeful in his mind. "What change of attitude?"

"Your attitude towards the boy who you have claimed as a son," stated the reaper as a-matter-of-factly, "It seems that you, suddenly becoming a father, have somewhat lightened your dark-heart. The lord, or Kami as the boy here know as, has been somewhat impressed by your actions, as such the lord wants to amply award you."

"I-I see," said the King, who was deep in thought.

"You are not grateful of this news?" asked the reaper, somewhat annoyed.

"I-I am, but I can't help feel that I am to do something in return of this award," Replied the King.

The reaper just chuckled at his remark, "You are quite perceptive," he stated, "But it is not as bad as you think, in fact you should be down right grateful, he is allowing you to be the first in 4 millennia to gain the wings of the Kindred-tribe."

"The wings of the Kindred, but they are only a myth!"

"They are not, for I have seen them with my own two eyes!!" stated the reaper. Suddenly, he heard, what seemed like laughing coming from the boy who had come out of hiding from behind his father's back, "What do you find amusing child?"

Naruto, who was trying his hardest not to laugh at the reaper's poor choice of words, stopped moving as he found everyone's (even Kyuubi's) gaze upon him, "Um, when ya-you said you had 2 eye's I couldn't help but l-laugh at the fact you don't have eyes." He stuttered, trying his hardest not to run to the nearest hill, out of fear that the reaper would kill him.

To his and everyone's surprise, the soul collector laughed, "You're the first one to get my joke, without actually having to think about what I said!" he said, calming down a little, "It seems, Kami was correct about you, you are an interesting one."

"Th-Thanks!" beamed Naruto, now feeling a lot more confident in front of the fox demon and the Soul Reaper.

"…Anyways what my master wants from you is simple," said the reaper,"You must start your own village, near the village hidden in the leaf, and have at the very least 200 death Knights, 110 death lords and 70 Soul Reapers, as well as 90 shinobi."

"What, that doesn't make sense; I can get you the death knights, but death lords and Soul Reapers, there are no such warriors that exist in this mortal world," Yelled Arthas.

"Calm your self!" said the Soul collector firmly, and waited for the lich king to recompose himself. Once he had, the Soul collector continued, "The Death lords and Soul Reapers are just the next Levels that a Death knight can unlock. Once a being becomes a death knight, he or she can then move on to become death lords, and after Soul Reapers, which are the elite."

"You already have 28 men who are strong enough to skip the Death lord class and become full fledged Soul Reapers, with you leading them," Explained the Collector, "do you have any questions?"

Before Arthas even opened his mouth, his son spoke, "How will we know we are death lords or Soul Reapers?"

"Ah, an excellent question, and from one such as young as you, I am truly impressed." Said yet another voice that came from the darkness, but this one sounded a lot kinder, more angelic, though Arthas was not fool as he felt a similar aura that resemble the death like aura of the Soul Collector.

"Izran (Iz-ran), what took you so long to get here, I thought I would have to explain everything to these creatures," Said the soul Collector coldly.

As the Soul Reaper turned towards the shadow, the figure came out of the shadows with his hands up in the air as if he were surrendering. The figure looked as tall as Arthas, with quite a handsome face, and jet black hair and pure black wings. The 'Angel' wore a long dark robe, had a gold elegant crown on his head.

"Sorry I'm late, I had to do a little cleaning up; apparently some dumb punk thought it would be fun to run over a bunch of people with an SUV," Said Izran, "I ended up cleaning up the whole mess."

"What about Enron?" asked the Soul Collector.

"Blue face said he couldn't make it," replied Izran. "Some freak is apparently trying to summon him again. Damn, every since that blonde (guess who) summoned him to get rid of that weird fox thing, everybody wants to do it."

"Fine, we'll have to do this on our own," said the Soul Collector, turning back to the two blonde's in the prison chamber. "To answer your question, when one becomes a death lord, their blade will gain the ability to turn into a scythe, and when one becomes a Soul Reaper, they will gain the ability to sign the contract of the damned, which will appear before them."

"Wait, The what of the who," asked Arthas.

"The contract of the damned, since we cannot allow you to resurrect the dead, we thought we would give you a contract that will allow you to summon the undead -who have pure souls- inside the belly of Enron, or the Shinigami as the boy knows him," explained the Izran, (on a side note, Naruto was freaking out even more...) "Those souls inside Enron already know what they must do, and we have promised them freedom from Enron's belly once they have completed their end of the bargain. Also, when someone becomes a death knight, they will get a guardian spirit in the form of a lich, but they must go through a trial to get these guardians and when they do, their respective guardian will stay with them until one of them dies."

"You mentioned trials, what type are we talking here." Asked Arthas, as he walked towards the Kyuubi –who by know had healed and was just staying quiet and listening- and sat down leaning his back against the foxes fur.

"The trials will be different for everybody," said the soul collector. "The guardians will be picked depending on the death knights personality, preference, ability and finally potential, during the trial, The death knights will know where their Guardians will be, through dreams and visions."

"What about me will I get a guardian!?" asked Naruto enthusiastically.

"Yes child, you will!" said the Angel, smiling down at the blonde boy.

Arthas, who was still resting his head against the Kyuubi's fur, asked the question about the very first comment the soul collector made, "That's great and all but that still leaves me with one problem, I DON"T HAVE ANY IDEA HOW TO GET HIM A RUNEBLADE WITHOUT RIPPING MY SONS SOUL APART!!"

"There is quite a simple solution, actually," commented the Soul Collector.

"WELL, AREN'T YOU GOING TO TELL ME!" yelled Arthas, as his patience ran thinner than before.

"Alright alright, I'll tell you," said the collector, "damn kids and their bossy attitude (the comment made Arthas fume, and considering how old he was, the lich king was practically seething with hatred…), I can make it so that once you or a future lich king (queen), prince (princess) puts their own purified chakra into a potential candidate, that candidate will be pulled into their mind, where they will have to go through a test and if they pass, than they will get the blade –which will rip out of their back-. Don't worry, if a person fails the test, they may take it again once every month till they get it right."

"What about the wings of the kindred," Asked Kyuubi, who had had enough of being silent.

"…and why would you care," asked Izran, glaring at the beast, though in his mind he knew the fox had done nothing wrong and didn't not deserve to be trapped in a human child.

"…Because I want my vessel to grow strong and…" before Kyuubi could finish, Naruto cut in to finish his answer.

"…Kill the one who made my life a living hell. Not only that, I am sure we all can agree that someone that is trying to achieve immortality through the wrong ways does not deserve to exist," said Naruto, intelligently.

"True, but I must confess there is no such thing as immortality in this world," said the Soul Collector.

"He is right, a person can only achieve long life, but eventually death will catch up to him or her," added Izran, "A common example would be Arthas."

"Now that you mention it, I do seem to be growing some grey hair," said Arthas.

"Speaking of death, just so you're warned a person who becomes a part of your clan will be granted long life too," said Izran.

"How long, exactly are we taking about?"

"About, 6 to 7 thousand years," said Izran, casually, "if the don't get killed that is."

"Which means I only have four-thousand years of life left," said Arthas.

"Actually, you don't have as long to live as you think," Said the angel, "Now I won't go into details, but all I can say is, you will die honourably in battle."

"Izran!" yelled the collector, glaring at the Angel, "You do realize that I will have to report this…"

"Yeah yeah, I was well within my rights to say that," said Izran, as he glared back at the collector, "Besides, the rules say nothing about telling him how he's going to die, it just states that we may not tell when a person is going to die."

"Fine, but if I have to pay for your stupidity, then so help me, I'll rip off you head and use your skull as a ball!" yelled the collector, threateningly.

"Enough!" yelled the Fox, "I asked a question, and I damn well better get it!"

"Who do you think you're speaking to," Started the Collector.

"Wait, I agree with the fox," interrupted Naruto, surprising everybody, "I want to know too."

"Fine," said Izran, "The kindred wings will appear only if a person becomes a death knight, but if they betray the lich king without good cause, than the wings will disappear. Although getting the wings will be painful, as well as getting the rune blade."

"I see…," said Arthas.

"So do you agree to the terms?"

"Before I do, I want to make sure I don't screw my chance up," said Arthas, "What types of rules should I follow?"

"As you wish," said The Soul collector, "Do not kill an innocent, if you can save a soul from the darkness that inhabits it, than do it. Do not betray your clan or those who follow you, like you did with lordaeron (spl?), and finally kill those who deserve death."

"Than I agree to the terms, as well as the gifts that will be provided," agreed Arthas.

"Than from here on, you and your people shall be known as, the people of the Shadows!" declared the Soul Collector.

And with that, the beginning of Naruto's career as a death knight began.

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End flashback

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The terms were all fulfilled and Arthas ended up with a great and powerful village on the outskirts of Konoha, one filled with both Shinobi and death knights and lords, with 28 out 70 Soul reapers (the) acting as leaders, with Arthas being king. The rest of the Soul reapers acted as team Captains of 3 members, consisting of Death knights and death lords. Naruto's team just happened to be filled with knights, though their Captain (Triad Blackhorse) didn't seem to mind, infact he was down right enthusiastic about teaching kids who had almost no experience.

The village itself was filled with civilians, who wanted to make a new life, so they came to the village of Shadow when it was created, some even came while it was being built and helped build the village too. While the Ninja came to the shadow village to find shelter from their own villages, who branded them as missing ninjas and sent hunter-nins after them, although they had to prove to Arthas that they would stay loyal to him, in order for them to stay in the village.

When all was said and done, the village was prospering, and Arthas was proud with what he had accomplished. To create a new place for his people to live in peace and have so many loyal to his cause was unimaginable, some even went as far as to enter their children into the academies he had created, whether it was the healers academy for those who wanted to become medics, the Academy of Knighthood which was made for those who wanted to become Death knights, or the Ninja academy which was made to recruit more shinobi and kunoichi. The fact was, his village was undoubtedly one of the strongest villages in the kingdom of fire (fire Country).

"How much further is that village?" asked a girl no older than twelve, with blue hair and black eyes, wearing a slim armour that looked like it was made for agility, similar to Naruto's own armour. While it looked feminine, unlike Naruto's, it still held a menacing look, specially with the black skulls, with glowing blue eyes, that covered her breasts.

"Not much Further, Akane-chan," Replied Naruto, breaking his train of thought, "I think we should be there in about 15 minutes."

"Wouldn't it be better if we just fly their? I mean that's what our wings are for isn't it?" asked a boy, who also looked twelve, and wore similar armour to that of his kings but was a little more slimmer than the armour Arthas wore.

"No Jin, unless you wouldn't mind carrying the haku and Zabuza on your back," Replied Triad, "besides, we're here to guard our king, not to complain about how we should get to our destination."

"Zabuza and Haku," Thought Naruto, "Heh, I still can't believe the demon of the mist and the frost Master are apart of our village!"

The two had been an odd pair, when they walked into the village and became Ninja of the village of Shadows, earning them the Shadow Hiate-ate (with a picture of a 6 pronged shuriken, with a circle in the middle). Zabuza, although reluctant at first, became totally loyal to the Arthas, and did a lot of dangerous missions for him, one mission being protecting a Bridge builder, although they had some technical difficulty in the beginning of the mission, Haku had convinced him to continue the mission, and because of them the wave country was freed from the tyranny that was Gatou, Haku even had a bridge named after her (The great Haku bridge), and Zabuza, to his annoyance, had a fancy five star Restaurant named after him.

"I don't like to be touched," said Zabuza, in a dark voice, scaring the crap out of Jin.

"Shut the fk up!" yelled a rather irritated lich king, "can't I ever have a moment of fking peace and quiet!"

"Sorry, sir!" replied Akane along with Jin, hearing their role model, who was usually kind and generous, swear like that was pretty startling, and if a man like him was pissed off, you'd better pray you weren't the one to set him off.

The group had been traveling for 6 hours in a circular formation with their king in the middle, and none in the group were in a happy mood, mostly because of the hot weather, and the fact Jin and Akane kept complaining wasn't helping either.

"I hate this heat, why on earth does it have to be this hot in the middle of January!" Yelled Arthas, "It's supposed to be fking cold!"

"My lord, I would like to request that you not use profanity in front of the children," asked Triad, who was very passionate about preserving the innocence of the children that he had trained.

"Oh don't give me that type of bullsht," answered Arthas, "If they can kill, than they can hear me swear."

"You know he has a point," added Jin.

"Shut it, you," Yelled Zabuza, in Jins Direction. By now Zabuza was so loyal to the lich king he would give his life for his king, and if anybody was annoying his king, then he would make sure that would stop, "can't you see you're just pissing, not only him, but me off as well by talking!"

"Thank you, at least somebody here agrees with me," Said the lich king.

"Whatever, we're here anyway," Said Naruto, who was in the front of the formation, because of his superior eye-sight (compliments of the Kyuubi), standing in front of the main gates.

"Finally," said Jin, earning him a slap on the head By Zabuza.

"Haku, could you please get the passports. Oh and Naruto, Akane, Jin, don't bother trying to hide your wings, the villagers have already been informed by the Hokage, about us." said Arthas, as he lost all his temper and went to his poker face mode, making everyone sweat-drop, except for triad, who was used to his mood-swings, seeing as he had been one of the 30 guardians (name for the 30 death knights that were Arthas's 'originals', as he liked to call them).

"Hai!" said Haku, as she rummaged through her weapons pouch inside of her robes, and grabbed the 6 black books with the Shadow villages flag-insignia on it (a white horse, with white wings on it). As she got them out, she walked around the group, handing out their respective passports to them, all except Naruto.

"Hey, why don't I get a passport?" asked the Blonde, as if he were a five year old.

"Because you are from this village, my son, so you don't get squat, besides isn't being the lich prince enough for you?" asked Arthas.

"Like I even wanted to be born in this stupid village anyway…" grumbled Naruto, "Lets just get this over with, so we all can go home."

"Oh I'm afraid not, we are going to be staying here for the next 3 days," said the lich king, casually.

"WHAT?" yelled the three death knights (Akane, Jin and Naruto).

"Well didn't I tell you?" asked Triad, as he felt three pairs of glares coming towards his direction.

"Let's just head inside!" said a very pissed off Naruto.

As they Headed inside they were greeted by the oddest pair they had ever seen, one was a man with spiky hair and a strange cloth around covering the front of his nose (Izumo) and a funky 80's style gouty, and a man with a blue clothe that covered all his hair, except for some that was sticking out from the front, who also had a gouty. The spiky head looked like he was sleeping, while they other looked like he was bored out of his mind, to top it all off, they were sitting behind a small wooden desk, near the door.

Seeing them, Arthas made his way towards them, getting the pairs sudden attention. As he and his group approached them, they had a feeling that they were being watched.

"Can I help you?" asked the one with the spiky hair, who had suddenly waken up from his slumber.

"Actually yes you may," replied Arthas, "We are here to see the Hokage, could you please tell him the leader of the Shadow village has arrived."

"You got to be kidding me," laughed the one with the head wrap, "A chump like you could, the leader of a the Shadow village. No way, the village's leader, the so called lich king is supposed to be super strong, a weakling like you could never be him."

Suddenly a group of masked warriors came, and surrounded them. The group reached for their weapons, but were stopped by Arthas, "Stay you blades men, if my memory serves me correct, you are the once called the ANBU. Tell me, where is the woman in the wolf mask."

"That would be me," said a kunoichi, in a Wolf mask, "I see you have returned, and I know for a fact it isn't to see just me."

"Hahaha," laughed Arthas, "this seems so nostalgic, seeing as we met before the same way, but you are correct, I am only here to see the Hokage, but these fools don't believe that I am the lich king."

"The lich king?" asked the woman, innocently, "I'm hurt, you told me you were the leader of the black Knights of Northrend, and you never mentioned anything about being a lich king."

"I am sorry to have lied to you, my dear," said Arthas, appearing apologetic.

While the pair talked, one of the Anbu, who was near Naruto, spoke to him in a whisper, "Are they flirting with each other?"

"Well if they are, I hope to God, mom doesn't find out about this, because if she does than dad is so dead," Replied Naruto, the two totally forgetting the tension that was in the air.

"Very well, follow us to the Hokage tower," said the wolf masked Anbu.

As they were lead towards the red tower, Zabuza and Haku let of a large amount of Ki towards the pair that had insulted their King, who in turn decided to immediately sht themselves.

"I was wondering how it feels to lead a village," asked the wolf masked kunoichi.

"I would tell you, but it feels kind of awkward talking to someone who's name I don't even know," Replied the Lich king.

"I am afraid I cannot tell you, but you may call me Karas," replied the Kunoichi.

"The Raven? That name suits you, but it contradicts your mask," said Arthas.

"I know, the Karas mask was my first mask, but I had to trade it in for the wolf mask so I could become a Captain of an Anbu Pack," Said Karas.

"I see," said Arthas.

The rest of the walk was in a comfortable silence, at least for most of the group. Naruto could feel glares directed towards him from the villagers who recognized him, though most seemed to have their heads down as if they wanted to apologize for what they had done to the poor boy.

As they arrived, Karas had led the seven inside, outside of the Hokage's office, where they waited until karas had given them the go ahead.

"How nostalgic," thought Arthas, as he remembered his first time coming to Konoha.

He was broken out of his thoughts as Karas gave them the go ahead, and said her goodbye to Arthas. They stepped inside the office, where they saw the old Kage, staring out the window, looking towards the mountain, with 4 distinct faces of the previous leaders.

"Welcome back, my old friend," greeted Sarutobi, "Welcome back, Naruto."

"hm" was all that was heard from Naruto.

"Hello, Sarutobi," said Arthas, accepting the kage's greeting, "I must apologize for my son's behaviour. He did not even want to come back here, for the fear of living through what he in the past."

"It is no problem, believe me I understand," replied Sarutobi.

"Like hell," whispered Naruto, earning him a smack on the head from Arthas, "What the hell did you do that for old man!?"

"Show some respect," said Arthas.

"It is quite alright," said Sarutobi, in a sad voice, "I probable deserve it, but I assure you that what happened to you in the past will not be repeated."

"How can I trust you, after all you could have done but didn't do," yelled Naruto, getting some sympathetic looks from his team-mates, who knew of Naruto's past. Jin knew because he was Naruto's best friend, and Akane knew because she and Naruto used to date, but broke up after they realized they weren't meant for each other, though they still loved each other and couldn't help feel jealous, when one of them decided to go out on a date with another person.

"I have told them about your heritage," assured Sarutobi, "and I am assuming that your father has told you about your real father."

"Yes, which is why I am here," said Naruto, "and I am assuming, you already know about the Guardians."

"Yes, I do, I asked your father here, to send me letters on your progress, ever since you left this village," said Sarutobi, " andas much as I hate to do this, you may do as you wish with your real father's grave for the trials."

"I thank you," said Naruto, " but the bastard Minato does not deserve to be anybodies father, so I humble request that you cease calling me his son."

"I…understand," said Sarutobi.

"Now that that's over…" said Arthas, "you all may go into town, and do as you wish, as long as you obey the laws of this village. My friend and I have a lot to discuss."

"Hai!" the group replied, and no sooner than a blink of an eye they all disappeared, leaving the two village leaders to form an alliance between their two villages.

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I know this chapter is a little fast, and still doesn't explain everything, even after of that long ass flashback; I will try to explain whatever I have missed in the next chapter.

Dictionary

­The Guardians – The companions of the death knights-lord and Soul Reapers, who can only be acquired through a series of trials, Guardians can only be located if they want to be, and if they do want to be located than the death knight will have a series of visions in their dreams. A death knight will eventually acquire a Guardian, no matter how long it will take, whether it is early in their carrier, or late like Naruto, in this FF, during his or her career as a death knight (and before they turn into death lords…).

Death lord – The level after Death Knight, they gain the ability to transform their blades into scythes.

Soul Reaper – The level after Death Lord, they gain the ability to sigh the contract of the damned.

the contract of the Damned – Summoning Contract, it can call forth the pure souls that have been trapped inside of the Shinigami (Enron)

Enron (Shinigami)

Izran (Angel of Death)

Soul collector (real name ??)

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