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Time for the surprise…
'thoughts'
'flashbacks'
"dialog"
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Chapter 2: Trail and error
Weightless, dark... that was what death was like for some. For most people, light and warmth usually was what awaited them. For sinner and the damned, it was usually fear and horror…. But never this…
'…where… am… I?' wondered Sasuke. To his surprise, he didn't move his mouth but his thoughts sounded like his voice, almost like he had actually said those words.
'Ahh… I remember now…… I died.' He tried to look around, tried to find something that wasn't dark but he could find nothing. 'I guess… I shouldn't have… expected better…' he thought. This was not Heaven... being all alone again, was not unknown to him, but he realized that soon it would become his Hell.
Sasuke let himself go, he tried to move his arms or legs and though the sensation was there, he didn't feel anything. He tried to do some handsigns but he felt no chakra at all. There was no mistaking it, nothing could be done…
A cold silence filled his being and ears, there was no sound, not even the ringing in ears when one focuses all his might. He couldn't even hear his own heartbeat.
………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………."Moving, will only make it harder!!"
The voice of a woman sounded all through his being, it felt calm yet somewhat happy. It was like a cheerful woman, yet it demanded respect.
"W-WHO ARE YOU!?" screamed Sasuke feeling the voice so far away.
"I'm sure you can guess that by yourself… Sasuke Uchiha."
'K-kami-sama!!?' Sasuke responded with a quivering voice that felt out of place coming from him.
"That's right… Do you know what is happening to you, Sasuke?"
'… I died. So this must be Hell.'
"Heh, not yet, but you're getting there…" boomed another voice for the two, this one was more masculine but at the same time it felt like a mixture of other sounds like quirks since his voice kept going from high pitch, to low.
'… Who are you?!' for the second time Sasuke felt distress in his voice, though he tried to hide it.
"You'll know me as Shinigami, hehehe." Resonded the god with a chuckle.
'Sh-Shinigami!?' returned the teen with surprise.
"Alright, enough with the introductions. Let's get this trial started…" said Kami, and in a flash, a soft while light appeared with a woman being the center with white long hair in a kimono, in another second, another more transparent being appeared. This person had white spiky hair that went everywhere, with purplish skin, as tall as 4 meters, with claws and sharp teeth and red horns on either side of his head.
'Trial?'
"Yes, you see we have a dilemma…" responded the Shinigami as a matter of fact tone.
'Dilemma? What do you mean?'
"Yes, you see when a person dies, usually we already know where that person goes, it's like accumulating enough points to reach that place." Kami responded.
"…Yet you are a very different case, your points were… inconclusive… and our judgment has yet to be made. " finished the Shinigami.
Sasuke absorbed all the information and the next question was espected…' why?'
"… You see a person is in control of his destiny and while they can't change the past, they can change the future and how they perceive the past. You, Sasuke, have been through a rough past…"
Sasuke lowered his face, remembering all that ended with him brought here to this Purgatory. '…'
"As a child, your clan wanted a war, and for the sake of most, they were killed off leaving you alone, and confused. In your teen years, you were controlled by two manipulative people that used your own confusion and uncertainties against you. But you ended up betraying both and injuring a lot of people…" Kami decided to stop here.
"…"
"So here comes the dilemma, what to do with you? Most of your life, you have been through worse hardships than most and your actions are controversial. Though they hold the stain of selfishness about them, they hold a certain righteous act to them…"finished the Shinigami.
'…' Sasuke listened intently, it truly felt awkward to be put in such a situation.
Kami decided to finish "So you see what the problem is. We brought you here to listen to your opinion and deny or admit your actions. I should warn you, Shinigami has his eyes on you, for some reason, he has a liking to Uchiha…"
"Hehehe…" responded the Shinigami with a chuckle.
Sasuke now really felt a shiver go down his spine; it felt like he was fucked.
"Sasuke, I look in your life right now, and I find something that I find strange… or more like something, I don't find altogether…" said Kami catching the man's attention.
"…What is it?"
"What I don't find, is…love. I find a lot of things, but not love…"
It was confusing, why should love matter?
"Love is a powerful element; it can save people or destroy them… for you I don't know… what do you think?" asked Kami for the first time.
"… " Sasuke was really at a loss of words, he really didn't know how to answer that question. "… how should I know?"
"Exactly… Sasuke, I am going to offer you one last chance at saving your soul…" finished the deity.
"One more chance?" he repeated. "How is that?"
"I am going to return you to the world of the living. You have 1 year to find true love, someone that will love you for what you truly are, then you will be saved…" returned Kami.
Sasuke, felt shocked and uneasy, there was no way it was going to be this simple.
"However, I present you with a choice… do you want to go or not? If you don't, then you can wait here and maybe one day, we can reach a decision, it could take a long time… If you do accept and fail or die before you find love, then you will be devoured by Shinigami and face an even worse hell…"
'…' Sasuke was left speechless for the third time in a row. This was impossible to choose from, trade on hell for another? And 'love'? Even the word seamed out of character of Sasuke even thinking about it…
"Huh, you should just give in… I see how this will go a thousand times. You will fail…" responded the Shinigami looking at the confused look on the teen.
"… I accept, I will find one woman that will love me…" returned Sasuke confidently.
'Heh, sucker…'
"Very well, I will contact you later with the details. Now go…"
As soon as those words left her mouth, Sasuke started feeling a pull of his body, and soon a sense of itchiness and shudder went through his body.
After the feeling was gone, Sasuke tried to open his eyes, it was hard to open them but he did and was almost blinded by the light… it felt so new to him that he had to cover his eyes. "Aghh…" he felt a stiffness in his body. Sounds started to be heard like bird songs and water splashing.
Finally after his eyes adjusted he opened his eyes and was astonished. He was back on Earth, he was in a forest, near a waterfall and it was close to sunset. "…where… am I?" he wondered. Then the memories of the talk and Purgatory overwhelmed him. It felt so different, like a dream but the fact that he woke up here, in this forest without even knowing how he got here was proof that something like that had happened.
He tried to straighten himself up, flexing his arms and legs, until they could move freely. He was dressed in a pair of sandals, black pants and blue shirt. Finally able to move he approached the water to see himself.
"Still there…" he said looking at the same face… a sense of relief overwhelmed him.
He stripped of his clothes and bathed in the water, he let his thoughts thinking about what he should do now. 'I wonder, where am I? and what could have changed?'
Making his decision, he opted to return to Konoha the next day. Getting out of the water, he dried himself and found a comfortable cave behind the water that could assure his safety and it was pretty warm.
It didn't take long before he feel in sleep, everything was already overwhelming so now he decided to just accept blissful sleep.
Meanwhile, in Purgatory, two certain deities were watching him since the moment he awoke.
"Heh, I don't like it. I wish to lodge a complaint…" said the Shinigami.
"You don't like my offer? I thought it would please you…" answered Kami.
"It's not the consequences that I don't like… it's the circumstances…"
"Please specify."
"I walk to world everyday, seen everything. I know how this turns out… He's going to go back, he's not going to care much about it and when he does, he'll find an easy, naïve girl, and act cool and catch her eye. It happens all the time. He's got a face of an idol, the body to kill for. You screwed up…" said the Shinigami in disappointment.
"You have a point, but I already that into account… hehehe" laughed the voice of Kami, making the Shinigami smirk and laugh, he knew that something good was coming.
"Ugh!" Sasuke stirred in bed, it felt like his body was on fire. He tossed back and fourth blaming the water.
Soon it became mourning, and he felt slightly better. Getting up he felt a sense of nausea as he got up.
"Ugh…" his voice sounded different but he blamed it on the wake up. His chest felt a little stiffening. Even the hair felt a little different, but he blamed it on the water and humidity. Getting up he went for the waterfall to wash his face but what stared him back, he definitely didn't expect.
"W-Wha? HUH!!" even his voice felt different again. He started to feel dizzy and held his head up only to feel flat long hair on his head.
He ran to the water again to check it out and nothing changed. In fact his face looked slightly like his mother's when she was a teen. He looked at the chest and saw it had expended. He put his hands in a flash on them and felt too soft, round, mounds at were a little to big for his hands to fit.
Now he was getting redder on the face, and more confused by the second. "D-don't tell me…" he managed to blurt out before placing his hands in his pants searching for something pretty personal to a male. "I…I-I-It's… gone. WHAT THE HELL!?!!"
"Oh... classic… never saw that coming. HEhehe HAHAHAHA" laughed the Shinigami for over 5 minutes with Kami smirking happily and laughing softly with him.
Sasuke Uchiha was going to have interesting year…
Well here it is, SURPRISE!! Sasuke has became a girl, a hot girl, slender with C-cup breasts, long hair over her shoulders… Hope you liked it… I'll update soon but if I get more reviews, I'll update sooner…