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Take me high and I'll sing,
oh you make everything ok.
We are one in the same,
oh you take all of the pain away.
Save me if I become,
my demons. (Starset – My Demons.)
Last time on Death Wish.
After talking to the Toads, and resealing his house. Naruto concentrated on a specific time for the world he was going to, channeling the power of the Tailed Beasts and the part of the Juubi that was sealed in his sword into his Rinnegan, he opened a portal between the worlds. It was his goal to go to Show up about a hundred years before the girl shot the arrow at it. He could show up, and make his death wish before anyone was the wiser. Sadly Naruto didn't count on two things!
One: A world that was so full of demonic energy, that it was bound to have a small effect on his power. And two: Sometimes Fate just loved to fuck with him! For he would not show up in the time he had wanted... but the time that he was needed!
Death Wish. The Fox Lord.
Naruto knew instantly that something wasn't right. The trip between worlds should have been smooth and instantaneous, but it wasn't. Instead it was turbulent and seemed to take a minute. The next thing he knew, he was being slung out of the portal with such force, that he took out three trees and blacked out.
"What the hell?" He groaned as he came too. Looking around himself to get his bearings, he saw that he was in a forest, that looked quite ancient. It was then that he felt it. Negative emotions, the likes of which he had not felt since the Forth War, threatened to overwhelm him!
It was as if this whole land was in a state of war and suffering. Clamping down on his ability to sense negative emotions, he took several deep calming breaths. Once he had a handle on things. He began to take better stock of his surroundings, he was in a forest, which was not where he was supposed to be. If things had gone right, he would have stepped out on the outskirts of the village that housed the Jewel.
So why didn't he? Why was he in a forest and why was he thrown out of the portal? Whatever the reason he needed to find a village, and see if he could locate the one he was looking for. If he wasn't near it, he would go to the nearest village with a whore house. If there was one thing he learned from Pervy Sage, it was that prostitutes were useful for information. As people tended to be at their most chatty, post coitus.
Opening his senses, Naruto breathed a sigh of relieve. There was a village not far from here, he could smell humans and crops, as well as hear the sound of children laughing and playing. Naruto headed in the direction of the smell, about ten minutes later, he came to a hill over looking the village.
Naruto observed the village and felt a sense of excitement. It was the village where the Shikon no Tama was kept! There was the shrine that housed it, but almost as soon as the excitement had come, he felt the bottom drop out of his stomach. When he saw a short old priestess wearing an eye patch, walk out of the shrine.
'WHAT?!' Thought Naruto, franticly. 'No she shouldn't even have been born yet! Much less an old lady. So why is she here? Why did I not arrive in the time I was supposed too?'
Naruto didn't understand any of this. If the old priestess was here, than it was either before the girl showed up, bringing the Jewel with her, in which case he was screwed. Or it was after the girl had come and the jewel was shattered, in which case he was screwed! Either way he looked at it, it wasn't good. Either he was going to have to wait for the girl to show up, or he was going to have to help put it back together.
But either way, he was going to have to find out just which one it was. Which meant making his presence known. Taking a deep calming breath, Naruto began his track to the village. As he entered the village, mothers and fathers would look at him and grab there children and hurry into their homes. He could hear the whispers.
"Look at his claws and his hair! Have you ever seen anyone with hair that red before?"
"It's Demon! It's got to be!"
'Demon? Like I haven't heard that one before!' Thought Naruto to himself. 'At least this time it's the truth.'
Still, this whole situation was eerily familiar. The stares, the whispers, parents pulling their kids away from him. Yep, Naruto was beginning to feel right at home. As Naruto neared the shrine, he suddenly found himself surrounded by a mob armed with spears and farming tools, with the old priestess in the middle aiming a bow at him.
At least this was somewhat new. Old man Hokage would have had heads rolling, if the villagers of Konoha had pulled a stunt like this.
"What do ye seek here, demon?" Asked the old Priestess.
Naruto raised an eyebrow at her odd form of speech. "They say that information is power. If that is true, than I seek power. But only the power of spoken word."
Naruto saw the looks of confusion on the faces of the mob, but not on the old lady. 'So she understood me... She's smarter than she looks.'
"So ye wish, only to talk? Fine. What is it ye wish to talk about?" Asked the priestess, who was still aiming an arrow at Naruto.
"I seek information about a girl. A girl not of this time. Have you seen her?" Naruto saw the looks of surprise on faces of the mob and priestess. "I see that you have. Where might I find her?"
"We would never sell out Lady Kagome, to the likes of you!" Yelled a man standing beside the old priestess, getting cheers of agreement from the surrounding mob.
'So her name is Kagome?' Thought Naruto.
"And what business do ye have with her, demon?" Asked the old lady.
"My own." Said Naruto, he was growing ever more impatient. "So please stop stalling."
"I'm sorry to tell ye, we know not where she has gone." Said the priestess. "So ye came here for not."
"Don't lie to me, grandma!" Snarled Naruto. "I can smell lies, like sake on a booze hound. Now which way did she go!"
Naruto knew he should have tried to be more polite. But that had never been his strong suit, plus he had the temper of a demon. Most the time he was able to control it, but most times he wasn't surrounded by an angry mob! Add that to the fact, that the negative emotions of this world were starting to try to overwhelm him again. Was it really any surprise that his eyes turned red and slitted?
But apparently, that had been the spark on the powder keg.
"DIE DEMON!" Yelled the man who had stood beside the priestess, as he leveled a spear at Naruto and charged.
"Rikichi!" Naruto heard the old woman exclaim. But it was to late, Rikichi's actions seemed to galvanize the rest of the mob who follow suit and charged.
Naruto grabbed the shaft of Rikichi spear and sent a palm strike to it, breaking it in half. At which point he used the edge of his hand to chop Rikichi in the neck, knocking him unconscious. He ducked an ax swing from behind, twisting around he spring up delivering a swift uppercut to the attacker.
Again and again he was attacked, and again and again he would knock them out, almost without effort. Till soon only he and the priestess were left standing. Naruto turned just in time to catch an arrow that was aimed at his head.
Kaede's one eye went wide at seeing the demon catch her arrow. Not because he was able to catch it however, but because even if her power was not what it once was, the Sacred Arrow should have still at least burned his hand. But it did not! In fact the demon didn't have a scratch on him. How powerful was this demon? "Just what type of demon are ye?"
Naruto sent her a blood chilling smirk, as he dropped the arrow. "The kind you don't fuck with!"
"As you can see, I could have killed everyone here." Said Naruto, gesturing to the unconscious bodies of the village males.
"Then why didn't ye?" Asked Kaede, who was despite knowing it was more than likely useless, aiming another arrow at him.
"Because it is not in me to harm the innocent." Replied Naruto, and this was true. As Naruto had long since stopped thinking of himself as innocent.
"Why do ye seek the girl, demon?" Asked Kaede, noting that there was something almost... sad about this demon.
"My name is not demon, grandma, it's Naruto." Getting tired of hearing that hated word. "And you know well, why I seek the girl."
"And my name not be grandma! I am the Priestess Kaede!" She was getting equally tired of hearing this Naruto keep referring to her advanced age. She didn't need him to remind her that she was old. "So it is the Jewel ye truly seek?"
Naruto nodded.
"Why seek ye the Shikon no Tama? Only sorrow has it ever brought anyone."
"I am no stranger to sorrow." Replied Naruto. "As to your question, I need it to help undo a mistake I made when I was young and foolish."
Kaede wondered just what type of mistake would require the Shikon no Tama to fix? Before she could voice her query, he continued to speak.
"I know you worry about the girl and her half demon friend." Said Naruto. "For what it's worth. You have my word, I only seek to aid them. And I am a Man- or rather demon of my word."
Kaede didn't know what it was, but there was something about this demon that made her want to trust him. Plus it was true that Kagome and Inyuasha could use all the help they could get. But still she was leery.
"If it helps you trust me, I have an ability that can force someone to tell me what I want. But I instead tried to come down here and talk peacefully. Though admittedly, it didn't go as I had hoped." Coaxed Naruto.
Kaede let out a breath as she finally lowered her bow, and unnocked the arrow. "If ye make me regret this I will hunt ye down, even if it kills me!"
Kaede pointed in the direction the group had left in. "They left in that direction, but that was several days ago. I no not their destination."
Naruto likewise let out a breath.
"Thank you Lady Kaede." Said Naruto, bowing to the priestess. Figuring that if she could bring herself to trust him, than he could bring himself to be polite. "If you perchance have something of one of theirs, it would really speed up my search."
Kaede nodded her head, as it turned out she did have something. Kaede left and came back pushing something he had never seen before. Whatever it was it had two wheels. "This belongs to the girl ye be looking for, Kagome be her name."
Naruto nodded his head and took a sniff of the two wheeled contraption, getting the girl Kagome's scent. He then took a sniff of the air, catching on to the girls trail. Naruto turned and headed off in their direction, but not before turning back and saying. "Thank you... Grandma Kaede!"
Kaede reached for her bow to nock an arrow. But it was to late, he was already gone leaving only the echo of his laughter behind.
'What a strange demon, he be.' She thought to herself, as she sat about trying to wake the villagers he knocked out.
Naruto ran for half a day, stopping only to reacquire the scent of the girl. It was while doing this that another scent hit his nose. It was a scent he had not smelled in centuries, but would never forget. The smell of fire, smoke, blood, fear, and human bile. In other words, the smell of battle! It was so pungent that it almost made him sick.
Naruto followed the smell, all to soon he started hear the sounds of fighting and dieing. As well as the sounds of women and children crying, this made Naruto put on a fresh burst of speed. Soon he topped a hill that over looked a village, what he saw there made his blood boil!
During his time as Hokage, Naruto was known as a just and fair ruler. He showed mercy where he could, and was never curl if it could be helped. But if there was one group of people that truly thought him a blood thirsty demon, than it would be bandits! Naruto hated and despised them, everything about them made him sick. He might have understood if they had all been forced into it by poverty. But no... most of them just got off on raping and pillaging, and causing all around destruction!
And if there was one act that he hated above any other it was rape! Which is why one of his first decrees as Hokage was to give the crimes of banditry and rape, an automatic death sentence! No trail, no loop holes, just death if you were caught. Yes, it wasn't long until Naruto had become known as the bane of bandits. As the ones attacking this village was about to find out!
For as he stood on the hill looking down on the village. He saw that it was being over run by a gang of bandits. Who were killing the men and the elderly, and rounding up the women and children. Naruto held no delusions about what they were planing to do with them. The male children would be sold into slavery, and the females would be sold as prostitutes, after the gang had, had their fun with them!
As Naruto was observing this, and getting madder by the second. He saw that one of the bandits didn't want to wait to get back to camp before he invaded and defiled a woman's body. She was screaming as the man was tearing at her clothes. Her wounded husband who was being held down by a few other bandits and being made to watch was likewise screaming, begging them to stop and spare his wife.
That was all it took, Naruto's eyes once again turned red and slitted. Naruto pulled Ku no Danketsu from it's scabbard, and with speed that would have made his father Jealous, charged into the village.
Kuzu was having a great time! Not only was he about to make this little bitch squeal, but his buddies were making her pathetic small dicked husband watch! He loved his life! He had just pulled his pants down and was forcing the woman's legs apart, when a long blade struck the back of his skull and forced it's way out of his mouth. He had just enough time to register the scream of the woman and the yells of his buddies, before his body convulsed and all was black.
Naruto kicked the scum's body off his sword, as the woman he had saved scrambled back in terror. Naruto turned to see the two bandits release the woman's husband and charged him. If they had been smarter they would have run, not that it would have helped them today.
As they got near him Ku no Danketsu was engulfed in the blue flames of Matatabi, The Two Tailed Cat. Naruto swung his sword and the flames lanced out consuming the two men. Their pain filled screams caught the attention of a group of near by bandits. As the woman's husband quickly limped over to his shaking wife, the group ran at Naruto with blades drawn. Naruto almost wanted to laugh at there stupidity... almost.
Canceling the flames on his sword, Naruto channeled the power of the Juubi into it, before stabbing it into the ground. Suddenly sharp tree roots shot out of the ground, impaling ten of the men. Naruto flew through hand signs as his eyes changed from slitted to the Sharingan, his hand became awash in Lighting Chakra, a late gift from Kakashi Sensei after Naruto had acquired Madara's eyes.
"Raikiri!" Exclaimed Naruto, as he cut down six more bandits. The characteristic noise of the Raikiri caught the attention of the remaining fifteen bandits. Who seemed to finally catch on to the fact that Naruto was not a human.
"DEMON!" One screamed, and they all took off running. But Naruto's blood lust was not to be denied! Naruto throw a Kunai in to the leg of one of the men wounding him and causing him to fall to the ground. His 'friends' just kept on running, despite his pleas for help. Little did he know that for today, he was the lucky one.
Once the group of bandits had made it outside the bounds of the village. Naruto held up his right hand in the classic gun style, on the tip of his index finger not even the size of a coin, was a black swirling mass of energy with four little blades swirling around it.
"Mini-Tailed Beast Ball Rasenshuriken!" Said Naruto as he pointed his finger at the back of the retreating group. At a speed that no mortal eyes could follow, the little ball of death, shot straight towards the group of bandits. With a resounding BOOM! The group of outlaws were blown to pieces.
The villagers of the small farming village watched in equal parts awe and terror. Their day had started out as normal as any other, they were working the fields and doing what they normally did. At least that was before the bandits came. Soon they were being killed and rounded up left and right. By the Kami what had they done to deserve such a fate?
Then out of nowhere came a tall man with blood red spiky hair, that hung a little past his eyes. His eyes! They were what was truly frighting, they were slitted and blood red. The eyes of a Demon! But then something truly odd happened, usually when a demon attacks it makes no difference whether you're a good person or a bad person, young or old, man or woman. You tend to be equally worthless in it's eyes.
But this demon was only attacking the ones who were attacking them. But it is what the demon said to the only bandit that it spared, that stuck out in the minds of the villagers.
"Listen to me you piece of shit!" Said Naruto in his most demonic voice, adding a bit of Killing Intent. As he picked up the wounded bandit by the neck, making sure to dig the tips of his claws into the mans flesh... just a little. "I'll let you live for today, but I want you to carry a message. Think you can do that for me?"
The bandit's eyes were wide in terror! He quickly nodded his head, as he released the contents of his bladder on himself.
"Good!" Said Naruto with a truly sinister smile. "I want you to spread the word. That from now on, until I say other wise. This land and it's people are under the protection of Naruto the Nine Tailed Fox DEMON! And if I see a bandit, I kill a bandit! Can you do that?"
The man once again nodded franticly.
"Good." Naruto dropped the man on his ass. "Than get out of here before I change my mind!"
The man scrambled back before making it to his feet and turning, limping as fast as he could in the direction of his horse. He wanted to get as far away from this monster as he could before it consumed his soul!
Naruto watched till the bandit rode out of sight, little did the pest know, that Naruto had marked him with a Hiraishin Seal. It would not be the last time they met! As he turned around, Naruto was surprised to find a elderly man who had survived the attack on his knees bowing to him.
"T-Think you my Lord, for saving us!" Said the old man. Naruto was about to pick the old guy up off his knees and explain that he was no Lord, at least not in this world. But before he could, the lady he had saved from being raped and her husband both joined the old man in bowing to him.
"Yes, thank you Lord!" They both said. Before he knew what had happened, the rest of the village joined them in bowing to him. Naruto wanted to face palm, this was just what he didn't need. A whole village thinking he was some type of deity! Still he supposed there was no real harm in it, in fact if people believed this village was under the protection of a wrathful deity. Then bandits might be less likely to try and attack it again. It wouldn't be that much different than what the First Sage of the Six Paths had done. From demon to deity, imagine that.
"You are welcome. Now lets tend too your wounded." Said Naruto, who then sat about healing all those he could. Thank Kami for Granny Tsunade's lessons. This sadly caused the villagers to become even deeper in awe of him. While he was doing that, he sent a group of Shadow clones to carry off the bodies of the bandit's to burn and bury.
When he was done healing the people he looked around at the village. Homes were burned down, people were kneeling and weeping at the bodies of their Husbands, Brothers, or Sons. Naruto hated to see any have to face such pain, but what could he do? Then an idea hit him so hard that he almost wanted to bang his head on something. Why not use that jutsu? They already thought him some kind of god and it's not like it would kill him. If it were that easy, he wouldn't be here.
If he was going to be their guarding deity, than he might as well go for broke. But first to fix the homes. Grabbing Ku no Danketsu, he once again summoned the power of the Juubi(The original Mokuton user.) and stabbed the sword in to the ground. Instantly several new houses sprang up to replace the ones that had burned. Along with a large tree in the center of the village. The people watched in complete awe as this great being walked to the tree he had created.
Naruto walked up to the tree and ran through a complicated series of hand signs, before slamming his palm on the tree. Instantly a Uzumaki Seal appeared on the tree, including the seal for Naruto's Hiraishin. This Seal would allow Naruto to store some of his Chakra into the tree, giving it a form of sentience.
Naruto turned from the tree, and faced the crowed of villagers that had gathered around it. "This tree will guard you, so don't ever cut it down! It can also summon me, if I am needed."
Later Naruto stood on the hill, where he had first observed the village. He was having some doubts about what he was about to do. It would be so easy to turn out like the Sage's mother Kaguya, who actually believed herself a goddess. After all, she had started out with the right intentions of stopping the wars. But over time had become curl in the treatment of her subjects.
He would need to be very careful least he become like her. But he would still go through with his plan, for this village at least. Activating his Rinnegan, Naruto put his hands into the Ram sign then the Snake."Gedo: Rinne Tensei no Jutsu!"
Invisible to the villagers below, the King of Hell burst out of the ground. It's mouth open wide, blueish light seemed to spill out of it, heading in the direction of the dead villagers.
A winded and tired Naruto smiled as he heard the villagers start rejoicing as mothers, were given back their sons. Wives, were given back their husbands, and children were given back their fathers. Unbeknownst to Naruto, the villagers knew who was the source of this miracle, and already there was talk about building a shrine.
Naruto turned and head back in the direction of Kagome's scent, it was time to get back to the mission at hand. Little did he know that this would not be the last village he would helped save, nor did he know the villagers would carry tales to other villages about their savior the Great Nine Tailed Fox Lord.
(A.N) First off let me just say...THANK YOU! I am completely blown away at the response Death Wish is getting! I honestly didn't expect it to get nearly this much attention off the first chapter alone... So again thank you.
Now for some news that might make some happy, and others angry. I at the moment, do not intend to give Naruto a pairing. The reason being is I already have the ending mapped out, and it would be curl to the love interest. That's not to say that it is or isn't a happy ending. It's just a twist ending.
Now I had someone else ask me 'if Naruto was going to get ears and a tail?' The answer to that is I'm sorry but not in human form. The reason for that is I would have a heard time taking a man with nine fluffy tails seriously as a fighter. I have a heard enough time taking Inyuasha seriously as a fighter, and he just has dog ears. But that is just me, and is not meant to knock anyone else's writing style or preference.
Another asked if Naruto was going to get a sword made out of his own fang. All I will say to that is... You'll see;)
Well, I guess that is all for now, I hope you liked it and I hope to hear from you. I will see you next time on Death Wish. Next Chapter Dog vs Fox!
Sincerely: Reddog24485.