Guardian Angel

"Speech"

'Thought'

"Summon/Bijuu/Inner Speech"

'Summon/Bijuu/inner thought'

A/N: Time to get this second chapter started! Danasca writing style: Second chapter!

"Wait what exactly do you mean guardian angel?" interrupted the hokage.

Fredrick sighed, "It is rude to interrupt someone when they're talking young man," Fredrick reprimanded the old man.

"I am not a young man," Sarutobi protested.

The skeleton just glared at the old man, "I am over one THOUSAND years old while you are a mere sixty years of age, maybe a little older so be silent and I will explain everything," Fredrick barked. Sarutobi shut up at that while Naruto chuckled at the fact his grandfather got called a child and his guardian was grumbling about impatient youths.

"Anyway, as I have said, I was sent here by the gods Kami and Shinigami to defend this child for several reasons," Fredrick started.

"First, they are disgusted with the way you are treating this boy, especially his father," here Hiruzen gulped slightly at that while Naruto got a wide eyed look, "We realize that shunning and some assassination attempts coupled with a few mobs are a regular occurrence with jinchuuriki, but this village has gone above and beyond in their hatred for his tenant, do you even know how many times his life has been in jeopardy?" asked the reaper. Before Sarutobi could respond the skeleton yelled angrily, "718! Over seven hundred attempts have been made on his life in the past 8 years and he isn't even a shinobi yet! There have been more attempts on his life than any political figure or legendary warrior to date! It's surprising he's still alive due to the fact each and every attempt has put him near death! If it were not for the Kyuubi inside him, Naruto Uzumaki would have died in the first month of his life!" shouted Huxley, shocking everyone in the room, even the hidden ANBU.

"second, the Kitsune are fed up with the treatment of their leader's vessel!" here an uneasy look crossed Sarutobi's face while Naruto once again became confused.

"What does that mean exactly?" Naruto piped up. Fredrick turned to him confused.

"It's nothing Naruto," Hiruzen stated.

"No!" Naruto shouted, "Fredrick keeps saying I'm a vessel for something, and now you're saying its nothing! I want to know whats going on NOW!" demanded the blonde, 8 years of fury now ready to burst from his tiny body.

"You didn't even tell him?" asked Huxley now completely shocked. "Why would you not tell someone they have the strongest of the Bijuu in them? I understand not telling the public at large, but not telling the person who holds the demon?

Are you insane?" screamed a frantic Fredrick.

"It was to protect him!" Sarutobi shot at the undead human.

"From what?" demanded the reaper.

"From going insane!" stated Hiruzen.

"And the constant torture from this village coupled with him not knowing why wouldn't? If the boy had known at least he would have been able to understand why!"

"WOULD SOMEBODY JUST TELL ME WHATS GOING ON?" roared Naruto, releasing enough killing intent to cause several citizens in the tower to nearly have a heart attack and surprise everyone in the room.

Fredrick and Sarutobi shared a quick glance before Hiruzen started to speak, "Naruto, have you been told the story of when the Kyuubi attacked eight years ago?" asked the old man.

"Um, I think so…" started the blonde before realization lit up in his eyes. "Oh yeah! The Kyuubi came and went on a rampage that destroyed a good portion of Konoha before it was defeated by the fourth hokage Minato Namikaze!" Naruto said with admiration on his voice. The admiration made Sarutobi cringe slightly.

"Correct Naruto, but do you know HOW the hokage beat the Kyuubi?" asked the old man. Naruto took up a thinking pose, one hand on his chin and his eyes shut with his brows furrowed. After a time Naruto shook his head no in an imitation of a dog shaking itself dry. "Naruto, you can't kill a bijuu, they are essentially nothing more than living chakra that can manifest itself into physical forms, so the only true way to beat the Kyuubi was for the Yondaime to seal it,"

Naruto blinked at this new information. "So what did he seal it-"

"Her," Fredrick interrupted, "Kyuubi is a female,"

Blinking again, the boy just shrugged. What was it to him if the Kyuubi was male or female? Its not like it would affect him in any way right? "Anyway, so what was she sealed into?" asked the boy.

"Not what, who," Sarutobi responded crypticly. "No mere object can hold the Kyuubi, not for long anyway. So to make sure the fox stayed in its jail, Minato sealed the child into a newborn child, it's umbilical cord freshly cut," here he paused before leveling a stare at the boy, "The Kyuubi attacked on October 10th eight years ago, and you, Naruto Uzumaki, were born mere seconds before its attack," Sarutobi let the information sink in while Naruto's eyes widened in horrid understanding.

"The fox was sealed into me," the blonde whispered as the weight of the information fully hit him. The names, they made sense. The glares, they were understandable and the beatings… were they justifiable? Looking up, Naruto saw sadness, regret and worry mirrored in the eyes of Sarutobi while worry and curiosity was mirrored in Fredrick's single blue eye. Slowly, Naruto asked his question, "So are, t-the villagers a-are they right?" asked the boy, his voice shaky and stuttering, "Were those beatings…" here he trailed off and tried to hold in his tears.

"Naruto, look at us," Fredrick commanded the boy gently while drifting over to stand by Sarutobi. Naruto complied and looked up at the two older beings, "The villagers are blinded by a hatred that is justifiable but in no way are they right to treat you the way they do. You are innocent of the fox's crimes and they should know that if you continue to beat away at the damn that holds back the flood, it will burst sooner or later,"

"You mean if they keep attacking him the seal will break?" asked Sarutobi quickly, a slight panic in his voice.

"Only if he dies, but considering his clan's regenerative skills and with Kyuubi-sama inside him, Naruto will prove to be quite tough to kill and if he masters what I intend to teach him, he'll never die in battle," commented Fredrick. "Besides, if those villagers keep attacking him, the other Kitsune will put a permanent stop to it and take him away, to insure their master's wish is held,"

"Wish?" queried the hokage.

"Yes, Kyuubi wishes to repent for her sins during her forced attack o- ," he started only to be interrupted by the sputtering of nearly everyone in the room.

"The Kyuubi was forced to attack Konoha?" asked a disbelieving ANBU as he revealed himself to be one with a weasel mask.

"Hai, Uchiha-san," replied the skeleton, causing the ANBU to freeze up before Huxley waved his hand dismissively, "Please son, I'm a reaper, do you really think you can hide from me?" he asked with his one eye boring into the masked ninja's face. Needless to say, the weasel masked ninja backed off. "Now as I was saying, the Kyuubi attack was a forced incident and the culprit is unknown. We do know that he has a doujutsu capable of controlling demons as well as the contract for summoning foxes and Kitsune, which is how he was able to summon the Kyuubi many years prior,"

This struck a chord in Sarutobi. He remembered a long time ago that the first hokage had fought a man named Madara Uchiha who summoned the Kyuubi and was somehow able to control her. Though that was almost a hundred years ago, so what were the chances that he would be able to do it again? Besides, the Kyuubi was in Kushina at the team and there was no way he could have known about the seal being weak during childbirth even if he was alive! Something wasn't right here. 'Fredrick mentioned a doujutsu, could it be the sharingan?' thought the old man. If that were true, then the Uchihas were up to something and it was dangerous to let this information to just be let go. Another thought then occurred to the hokage.

"How exactly do the Kitsune know about their leader being sealed, and why didn't they try to free her before?" asked Sarutobi. This gained a confused look from Naruto before the hokage explained, "There have been other Kyuubi jinchuuriki, Naruto-kun, you aren't the first to house the great fox demon,"

"A good question my friend and the answer is simple," Fredrick stated before doing some hand seals. Finishing, a scroll the size of the forbidden scroll poofed into existence. "This scroll contains all the laws, cultures and rituals of demons, that includes Bijuu code of conduct," here he unrolled the scroll until he stopped on a certain section written in strange runes that people could only guess were demonic in origin. "Here, Bijuu vow number fifty-six states and I quote," here Fredrick put a monocle on his one eye and held the scroll in front of him, "Should any demon with the title of bijuu find him or her self sealed inside of a vessel, human or otherwise, can not be given assistance by their subordinates or family so long as said demon was defeated by the sealer, this rule is void, should said bijuu be sealed A) outside of combat or B) under the influence of another being," finished the reaper.

"But what about when the demon is just transferred from vessel to vessel? Surely that voids the rule due to circumstance A," asked a curious Hiruzen.

"That is where you are wrong, when a demon is being transferred the sealers have to battle the will of the tailed beast and they also have to successfully transfer not just the chakra but the mind, a bijuu is living chakra, meaning if even one iota of their chakra escapes, they'll be able to fight out of their vessel," he said with a snap of his bony fingers as the scroll vanished.

Sarutobi contemplated this information, "So the only thing keeping us from the wrath of the Kitsune is Kyuubi's wish?" he asked finally.

"Correct,"

Sighing, the old man took his hat off and began massaging his scalp, the council was going to be in an uproar about this. "So what are you going to be doing?" he asked finally.

"Simple, I'm going to watch over Naruto and teach him until it is shown that he can defend himself from the threats against him," Fredrick replied.

"I don't think that will be necessary, Naruto has entered the academy and should be fine," he supplied.

"See now there's another thing," Fredrick responded with a bit of a sarcastic tone, "An academy student can't fight ANBU," he stated. At this Sarutobi's eyes nearly popped out of his head while the other hidden ANBU nearly fell over in surprise. ANBU were attacking Naruto?

"An ANBU attacked you Naruto-kun?" Hiruzen asked in shock. Naruto nodded while eyeing his grandfather warily.

"He said it was by order of the hokage," Naruto said quietly. At this the hokage's jaw literally hit in the floor in shock before he closed his mouth and scowled. Somebody was using his name to attack his grandson?

'This has gone too far, it ends' the Kami no Shinobi vowed silently, "Naruto what did this ANBU look like? His mask specifically," Hiruzen ordered.

Naruto thought for a bit before the blank white mask appeared in front of his mental eye. "His mask was just a blank white one, there weren't any markings on it," Naruto replied a bit confused. Didn't all ANBU have animal masks? Or at least the village mark?

Sarutobi however got extremely pissed. "Danzo…" he growled, killing intent starting to come off of him in waves. "That's it!" the old man roared, "ANBU! Call the council, NOW! That old war hawk has gone too far this time," barked the hokage as he strode out from behind his. The ninja nodded at their leader and leapt to do their task while Sarutobi strode for the door, "Huxley, Naruto, come with me," he commanded flatly. Naruto gulped nervously, he was scared of this angry version of his grandpa. Feeling a weight on his shoulder, Naruto looked up to see Fredrick with a reassuring look directed at him and a comforting hand on the blonde's shoulder while his other one was holding his scythe like a staff.

"Don't worry, if anything happens I'll be right here to defend you," promised the skeleton. Naruto smiled at that and took the skeleton's hand in his own and walked towards the council chambers.

'Heh, of all the times I've wished for death to come it finally does and turns into my salvation, just not in the way anyone would have expected' thought the blonde with amusement as they entered the council chambers. "Fredrick, could you hide yourself until I call you?" asked the hokage. The reaper nodded before seeming to dissipate into smoke, leaving behind his prayer beads that floated in the air before settling over a surprised Naruto's neck outside of his tattered orange jumpsuit.

Some time later

About an hour later the council members started to trickle in and take their seats. The seats were set in a semi circle in three tiers with the hokage's desk at the center. The bottom tier held some wealthy merchants and those who regulated the civilians. The second tier held the shinobi section, which included the medics, and ANBU and the final level held the three elders, Homura and Koharu, former teammates of Hiruzen and Danzo, a seemingly crippled man with bandages covering one eye, an x shaped scar on his chin and his right arm in a sling. The man seemingly limped into the room with the aid of a cane, stopped to cast a glance at Naruto and then sat down. Soon the entire council was there and a good portion of them were grumbling about being taken away from their home when they were getting ready for bed.

"Hokage-sama now that everyone is here can you please explain why we're here and why that is here?" asked a pink haired woman with a disdainful look towards Naruto. The rest of the council also started muttering, sending hated glares towards Naruto. The blonde started to back up nd made ready to bolt till the hokage spoke.

"Enough! Naruto-kun is here because it concerns him and recent revelations. And all of you," here the old man glared at them, "will listen before you do anything. If I am interrupted, the interrupter dies, no exceptions, so you will be SILENT!" barked the old man, releasing a spike of KI at the council, who immediately nodded in response, now terrified of the Professor.

"Earlier this evening, Naruto was attacked again by a mob," seeing some the council members smirk the hokage frowned, he made a mental note of the people he saw smiling and was quite surprised to see that Fugaku Uchiha looked angry, not at the boy but at the other council members though no one seemed to notice. Hiashi on the other hand, was glaring at the boy with a burning intensity of hatred.

"However, the mob was stopped by a lone ANBU with a blank white mask, no discerning features at all on it," here Sarutobi glanced at Danzo and saw no real reaction on the surface, but he could see that the old war hawk had tightened his grip on his cane in obvious agitation. "The ANBU then said that by my orders, he was to kill Naruto Uzumaki, leaving a light gash across the boy's chest," some of the council member's smiles widened at this.

"However, when the ANBU went to remove Naruto's head, he was stopped by a scythe," at this surprise and curiosity came over the civilian's faces. "The scythe belonged to one Fredrick Huxley the Third, a reaper," at this the council became confused. A reaper? Who were the reapers? Does the hokage mean an actual reaper? Those were some of the thoughts going through the members' heads.

"Fredrick the proceeded to bring Naruto here and told me that he had been sent by Kami-sama and Lord Shinigami them selves to protect Naruto and stop the Kitsune from attacking us due to Naruto's treatment in this village," here the hokage paused to see everyone staring at him as if he ha gone mad. "Now you may ask questions,"

At first, no one did anything till a very well built man wearing a brown shirt and black pants with a bald head and black goatee stood up. "Do you have any valid evidence to support this hokage-same? I don't wish to be disrespectful, but I can safely say for all of us that this is quite confusing," stated the man.

"Of course, council I would like you all to meet Fredrick Huxley the Third," the hokage then gestured towards Naruto. Everyone's attention then shifted towards Naruto and watched in fascination as the prayer beads around his neck began to lift into the air. There was a small burst of black smoke before there floated the one eyed skeleton himself, scythe in hand and resting on his shoulder.

"Hello everyone, a pleasure to make your acquaintance," stated the reaper before bowing slightly. The council just stared at him with flabbergasted looks, even Danzo and the ever stoic Hiashi had open jaws at the sight in front of them. Silence, thenthere was an explosion of questions, complaints and screams.

"How the hell did this happen?" "WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!" "This is obviously a trick! The demon is toying with us!" these and many other shouts were going around the room. Sarutobi tried to silence them but, itproved useless.

Gritting his teeth in annoyance, Fredrick tossed earplugs to Sarutobi and Naruto before he made the tiger hand seal. Gathering his energy, the skeleton inhaled deeply. The two who had received ear plugs barely put them on in time as the reaper let forth a scream unlike any ever heard by mortal man. It was a high pitched screech that caused Tsume, the Inuzuka matriarch to howl in pain as some blood seeped out of her ears. Some council member's glasses shattered from the wail and some even passed out from it. When it finally died down everybody just stared at the causer of the horrible sound.

Sarutobi and Naruto took out the ear plugs just in time to here Fredrick speak, "Now would you all please keep quiet? I swear you young people and your need to be loud! As if it wasn't bad enough when you invented that 'rock and roll' and your 'heavy metal' then you made that 'rap' music! I mean seriously I have never seen such vulgar behavior then at those clubs of yours," ranted the ancient being, everyone just sweatdropped at the skeleton as he went on about the modern youth having no decency.

"Um, reaper-san, we apologize for earlier now could you tell us what the hell that was and why you're here?" asked Homura.

Fredrick sighed before answering, "First off, that was an undead technique known primarily as the Banshee's Scream which will, as you have experienced first hand, cause massive damage to one's hearing, it's a perfect tool for disorienting a target then taking their soul," here a small shiver passed through the crowd. "As for why I'm here, I am Naruto's new protector and sensei and shall be defending the boy until I deem him able to defend himself," stated the skeleton.

"Are you insane! If you teach the demon any of your techniques he'll kill us all!" shouted a civilian member. There were shouts of agreement before a very potent feeling of doom silenced them. The council turned to see Fredrick slowly levitating towards the person who had spoken, all light and warmth seeming to be sucked into his midnight black cloak, to be replaced with despair and cold that chilled the bone. The unfortunate man who had spoken could only watch in horror as the reaper approached him, his single icy blue eye alight with an unholy glow and the council man could swear he saw the souls of the damned swirling within that single eye, all of them screaming in agony, begging for death or some kind of release from their torture.

"You are a fool," he whispered, the posh and polite voice replaced with the sound of steel dragging across ice. "This boy is innocent, the creature inside of him repents, you on the other hand, are filled with sin, your soul stained black with foul deeds," he spoke.

"W-what are y-you talking ab-about?" stuttered the man in fear.

"You conspired with fellow councilors pay assassins to murder Naruto, you are unfaithful to your wife and have been laying with many woman at a brothel, which you visit frequently," stated the reaper, "you have been stealing from your own employees and stores, claiming that all the money has been taken by thieves and the drop in their paychecks is due to renovations when in reality, that money is being used to satiate your own lusts and debts that you have run up with your uncontrollable gambling,"

The council man could only gape in fear as every word spoken by the soul harvester was true. "Yoshi Tao, you have been found guilty of the sins of adultery, avarice, fraud, thievery and attempted murder with no hint at repenting for your sins, your life is forfeit," here the skeleton raised his hand and latched onto the man's head, "your soul is mine, and eternal damnation awaits you," with that the man screamed as he felt his body start to burn and tear at the same time. His mind felt like it was being shattered while his blood was being both frozen and boiled at the same time.

On the outside, the council could only watch in morbid fascination as Yoshi screamed and his body began to pale while the light from his eyes dimmed. Finally, in a swift ripping motion, Fredrick tore his hand from the man's hand, a white orb with a black center now held in his bony hands. The now hollow shell of Yoshi Tao fell over, his face set into a scream with his eyes rolled back into his head.

"Naruto take note," Fredrick stated in his posh and polite tone as he drifted until he was floating at the center of the room, the orb still in his hand, "There are three ways to reap a soul, one is to use a weapon forged in the bowels of the underworld from a metal known as Aes Damnatis, use reaper techniques or," here he took the soul and ate it, chewing thoughtfully, "devour it, I find that they are quite delicious when chased down with a red wine and seasoned with a dash of pepper," everyone just blinked in surprise and some cringed in horror at his words. "Now, I am prepared to reap the soul of almost everyone in here unless you shut up and listen," spoke the reaper.

"With all due respect reaper-san," Hiashi stated, "this has nothing to do with you, Uzumaki is still alive and sense you are not here to reap his soul, I do not believe you should be here attempting to teach a mere human the arts of a reaper," stated the Hyuuga coldly.

"On the contrary, people like YOU have made it not just my problem, but you have also endangered thousands of innocent lives! My job may be to reap souls, but Kami nor Shinigami-sama will allow another war between mortals and demons! The last time that happened, the entire planet had to be recreated along with every single organism on it! When your species fight each other you literally destroy the world!" spat the skeleton, "Last time you two fought, seven gods die, five were enslaved and over a dozen divine weapons were used! Do you know how many people, both human and demon died? Last time the gods refused to be apart of it and their hands were forced to destroy everything they had created! This time, the divine will not sit back and let something like this happen again," roared the skeleton.

There was silence until Fugaku spoke up, "Why would there be another war between humans and demons?" asked the man.

"The Kyuubi is the leader of the Kitsune race, which is demon in nature. They have threatened to invade Konoha and take Naruto away should the blonde continue to be attacked and treated the way he is being treated. They have also promised that they will deliver demonic justice when they come for the blonde, and that involves slaughter of everyone involved in the attacks," here everyone paled.

"Now if you'll excuse me, It is late and tomorrow is a big day for young Uzumaki, so I bid you all, or some of you, a fond farewell," with that, Fredrick grabbed Naruto and led him out of the building. Sarutobi wtched them go before turning back to the council.

"Now, on to the business of remaking the council," Sarutobi said as surprise rippled through the room.

"What exactly do you mean Hiruzen?" asked Homura. At the hokage's malicious grin, the council shuddered in fear.

Naruto's home

When the reaper and child finally made it back to Naruto's home, the skeleton was surprised to find the boy's home was very clean. Granted, the entire place was run down and the furniture was pretty much ruined, but given who Naruto was it wasn't surprising.

"Right then, Naruto go to bed, after you return from the academy tomorrow we will begin your training," Huxley told his young charge. Naruto nodded before going to bed, too tired to chat both mentally and physically. Fredrick watched as the boy went to bed, not even bothering to change out of his jumpsuit due to the fact it was one of his only outfits. As the boy slept, Fredrick got into a meditative stance, his eye closed and his prayer beads clutched to his forehead while his scythe stood upright in his right hand. Tomorrow promised to a very interesting day, as did the years to come, thought the undead being before succumbing to the tranquility of his forced relaxation.

A/N: Done! Thanks for reading and be sure to review! Next chapter we go to the academy for a day and start Naruto's unholy training. Be sure to check out my other stores and for those wondering, Aes Damnatis is Latin for ore of the damned.