My thoughts went from that lone 'Oh Crap' to a mantra of 'Oh Craps' while the crazy secretary, also known as Faith led me down a long deserted hallway to what I presume to be where the Devil is. I know I've done a lot of horrible things in life to be categorized as 'bad', but you would think that I would be forgiven. No, because apparently, I have an appointment with the Devil himself.

What made it worse was that Faith kept looking back at me with her creepy smile that never left her small face.

What was with this hallway anyway? We've been walking for at least ten minutes and I still haven't seen any kind of door, or even decorations, just endless blood red walls.

Suddenly, Faith broke the silence with her annoyingly happy voice, "You know my name is pretty ironic. Well my full name is anyway. Faith Kohtalo (1). If you translate Kohtalo, you get the word fate. Faith Fate." she looked back at me again, still wearing her smile on her face "You want to know why my name is so ironic?"

"Hn."

"I'll take that as a yes." her smile didn't falter. You would think, being in a place like this, you would go crazy, or not be as happy like this psycho.

"My job here is a very important one, here being the stop before you enter the afterlife of course!" I cringed at her high pitch voice. I may be dead, but my hearing was still the same.

"Mortals think that when a person dies, they either go to Heaven, or Hell where they will stay for the rest of eternity. That is mostly true. There is a large amount of people who do that, but there is always that little percent of people who need to be 'judged' by either God or Satan. God if they were god little mortals and Satan if they were naughty little morals. Now why they judge you is up to Satan to explain himself." She winked at me slyly and turned her head forward again and continued her 'story'.

"Now my actual job, I work as God and Satan's secretary of sorts. I'm the person that chooses whether you were naughty or nice. Hence the irony of my name, Faith Fate!" She ended her story with a loud laugh.

"So as you can tell, Mr. Uchiha," She stopped in her tracks, making me stop with her, turned around and started to walk up to me. When she was standing a foot away from me, and I was feeling very claustrophobic, she grabbed my cheek, squeezed it and continued her sentence "You were a naughty, naughty little boy."

I slapped her hand away, and I saw her pout before I started to walk in the opposite direction.

"This is insane. You're insane! I'm leaving."

"Oh, but Mr. Uchiha, you can't leave. You're dead, so there is nowhere else to go, unless you go see the Devil."

I stood there for a second, contemplating my next move. Stay here forever with that... thing, or go see the fucking Devil...

I turned to face her, "Well since I have no other choice ..."

"Super!" She clapped her hands and skipped in the direction we headed towards in the first place.

I reluctantly followed suit, keeping my face blank. She really was crazy, maybe it was to ease her mind off the fact that she is stuck here forever. I mentally cringed at the thought of being stuck in a place like this for who knows how long.

After another ten minutes of walking in this endless hallway, I broke rule number 290 of the Uchiha hand book; never start small talk, stay quiet at all time. I had no other choice; I was dying of boredom, no pun intended, so the only thing left to do was... talk, as hard as it may be for me.

"So, how long have you been here for?" That felt... weird.

"Well, time goes by so quickly here that it gets hard to count, but I'm pretty sure I've been here for... um... three hundred and twenty years, forty nine days, ten hours, five minutes and thirteen seconds! Now my life, I was born in a small town..."

Okay, so small talk isn't the smartest idea since her voice is getting annoying, so I'll just tune her out.

We continued down the never ending hallway, leading us to, God knows where, or should I say Satan? Faith Fate kept going on about her childhood and that crap, and I looked around noticing that there still wasn't anything to be seen, except for red walls and black tiled floor.

This place keeps getting stranger and stranger. The strangest part was those images in the nothing zone. They seemed so real, and Naruto looked so reachable. It hurt so much knowing that I was the cause of the tears that ran down his beautiful face. All those years of solitude, I was yearning for the company of my childhood friend, even though I never showed it or admitted it. But, I needed the power. I can admit that I was, and still am a betraying bastard. I hurt not only Naruto, but also Sakura. It was obvious that Sakura loved me; she even told me before I betrayed the village, I just never could return the feelings. Part of me -my brain- insisted that I should for the sake of reviving my clan, but deep down, my heart already knew that I loved Naruto. Now I sound like a love sick school girl, damn my hormones!

"And we are here!"

I looked up and blinked. I must have not been paying attention while I was thinking of Naruto, because I never noticed the giant double wooden doors, at what seems like the end of the hallway, in front of me and Faith Fate. It was a reddish brown color, with an elegant handle on both ends of the doors. There were little patterns carved in the wood that looked oddly like flames. Go figure.

Faith walked up to a little black box on the right of the massive doors and pressed the button that was on it, making a low buzzing noise and started to speak into it.

"Hello! Sasuke Uchiha is here now sir!"

She was this loud and cherry with the Devil too? She must me insane or something because last time I saw, the Devil wasn't someone to take lightly. He could destroy you in minutes, well that was the stereotypical Devil, and this one could be different.

"Send him in." A deep and gruff voice came out of the same box that Faith spoke into. There was another buzzing noise, but this one was more high pitch.

Faith walked away from the box and to the doors, opening them both slowly. What greeted us on the other side shocked me.

It was... beautiful. I tried to keep my face emotionless, but with much effort. The room in front of me was maybe the most stunning room I've ever seen. The room was very spacious, with walls painted a deep gold, making the room shine. On those walls were many paintings; some of forest, some of vast fields filled with lilacs and tulips, there were no portraits of people, just scenery. I noticed, later, a giant fire place, taking up most of the wall to my right. The fire within it was burning with such intensity that the flames were reaching up high. I glanced around me again; there was a mahogany table in the center of the room, sitting on a thin rug. There were four dark brown leather sofas placed around it. On the table was a vase with only a single red rose placed within it. I glanced in front of me, and saw a massive oak desk. It was empty of any papers or files, just a lamp on the top right corner, illuminating that only part of the desk, and another intercom.

A large leather chair was placed behind the oak desk, and it was turned so that whoever was sitting in it, no one could see. There was also another, smaller leather chair placed in front of the desk, where I'm guessing I'll be seated later on.

"Miss Kohtalo, thank you. You can leave now."

The voice came from the other side of the leather chair. It was the same voice from the intercom, the same gruff voice that sent chills down my body.

Faith bowed, and turned to me. She gave me her trademark smile and left the room, closing the massive doors behind her.

I was left in the silence, in a room with what seems to be the Devil. It was very awkward for me, no knowing what to do and standing dumbly in the entrance of the beautiful room.

"Sasuke Uchiha," My head snapped back to the oak desk, "You may sit down now."

I slowly walked towards the smaller chair in front of the desk. With my Uchiha grace, I sat down in the comfortable chair.

That was when I started to wonder what the Devil looked like. What? It's not everyday you get to met Satan himself in person. Did he have horns like what most people stated, with a long red tail and a trident?

There was a deep chuckle coming from the Devil, "Do not worry child, I do not look like that."

My eyes widened, did he just…

"Read your mind? Yes I did." Another low chuckle was heard. "I am Satan; I can do whatever I please. I can manipulate a person, the weather, anything."

The leather chair slowly turned around and I saw the lean figure of Satan. He looked nothing like what I would have expected; he had long black hair that was tied into a low pony tail. His face was thin, but muscular, giving him the air of superiority, his nose was long and his mouth was thin. Around his chin and on both sides of his jaw was a well kept beard, it was not short, yet it was not long. One thing popped out the most though, his irises, they were a deep red, resembling fresh blood. He was wearing a well kept black suit with a deep red tie around his neck and laying on a crisp coal gray collared undershirt. All in all, he looked powerful. I shivered slightly, just looking at him would make anyone scared shitless, but I needed to show that I was not afraid.

"Now Sasuke, I know you are wondering why you are here, right?"

I nodded slightly and Satan continued, "You are here because your soul has not let go."

I'm guessing he saw the slight look of confusion on my face because he sighed. "Not many people get it, but your soul is keeping you from leaving. It does not want you to go to the afterlife, as you are supposed to. It is practically telling you that your time on earth is not done, and that you were not meant to die yet, but in a slight twist of fate, you ended up here." He raised his arms, gesturing all around him.

"You see, the time you were in, as you called it, the Nothing zone, was just your soul hanging on for dear life to your humanity. After it succeeded, you might have noticed the images, right." I nodded, "Those images were what your soul is trying to keep you alive for, be it a place, or in your case, a person."

My soul wants me alive for Naruto?

"Yes, Sasuke. Naruto is the reason why your soul did not depart like it was supposed too. Most people's souls just leave, even if they had something to live for. But, your case is different, you were born to be beside Naruto, too protect him with your very life. That is your reason of living."

I was shocked; I was born because of Naruto? That made no sense; you can't be born because you were meant to be with someone else. It was impossible.

"Oh, but the contrary child, it is very possible, rare, but possible, and it happened to you. Only a handful of people every century are 'Chosen' like you were. It is a gift, in its own way."

"So what your saying is that I did die, but I wasn't supposed too," He nodded, "And that the only reason I was born was to be with Naruto?" He nodded again. "So what am I supposed to do now? I'm dead, I was never with Naruto, and I never protected him like I was supposed too."

"That is very true. A person like you only has one chance at being with that person, now that you are dead, it's too late."

"So what am I doing here? If I can never be with him like I was supposed too?"

Satan slowly got up, and walked towards the large library that I failed to notice earlier. He snapped his fingers, signaling me to follow him.

I got off my chair and followed closely behind me.

He scanned over the hundreds of books he had stacked up on the shelves.

"Now were oh were can you be?" He mused to himself. "There you are." He took out a fairly large book from one of the shelves. It had an old light brown leather jacket, and dust covered the parts of the book. Satan walked towards one of the sofas in the middle of the room and sat down, setting the book on the table, he pointed at the sofa facing him, and I sat down.

"This book has been here since the beginning, it explains all that a person would need to know. For you, you will need to know about rebirth." He opened the book and scanned through it. He landed on the page he wanted and pushed the book towards me.

"Read." He ordered me.

I lifted the book and began to read the words on the pages.

"Rebirth is the act of being born once again as a human being, a plant or a spirit. Most people are only able to live once, but there are exceptions for a small amount of people. Those people will be able to live again, but in a different time, place, or even universe. A human will only get one more chance at living, and only if he, or she did not fulfill their destiny. They will get a second chance at fulfilling their destiny, hoping that they will not fail once again." I stopped their and looked up at Satan.

"I just have to be reborn?"

"Yes, and hopefully, you will not fail." He kept his face stern, telling me with his expression that if I fail, I'll be in trouble.

"A lot of trouble."

"Get out of my head! It's getting annoying." He chuckled and took the book out of my hands. He walked to the library, put the book back and went to his desk. I followed him and sat down on the chair.

"So, what now? Are you going to 'Rebirth' me?"

"Child," I scowled at the word, "I can't just let you go. You need to pay me first."

"Pay you?" I looked at him with slight disbelief. He wanted me to pay him, so that I could be born again? That was kind of stupid, I'm dead, and he doesn't really expect me to have money on me.

Another chuckle left his throat, "I am not asking for money, it would be useless here. What I am asking for is a deal." He placed his elbows on the table, laced his fingers and put his head on them. "What I am asking you to pay me with is very specific."

"Then what is this deal?" I asked cautiously. I wasn't feeling good about this.

"My deal is Sasuke Uchiha; your soul for a second chance at living.

"My soul?" Wasn't he just telling me how my soul was keeping me from entering the afterlife? Now he wants me to give it to him.

"Not give; borrow. You will give me your soul, you will be reborn, fix what you screwed up in your first life, and when I think that you have completely fixed it, I will return your soul." He sent me a wicked grin, making my skin crawl.

"But, can't a person live without a soul." I said a-matter-of-factly.

"They can indeed live without a soul, although it will be as if you were a demon, so you will never be able to enter any Holy ground, as in a Church."

"Hn." On the outside I was cool and collected, but on the inside I was freaking out about my choices; go to hell and stay there forever, or be reborn and fix my mistake, but have no soul while doing so.

"What will you choose Mr. Uchiha?" Satan had an evil grin on his face that creeped me out; he knew I was suffering with which choice to choose. No life with Naruto, or a chance to have a life with him?

I sighed.

"Satan, my soul is all yours."

Satan grinned and pulled out a rolled up piece of paper out of his coat pocket. He unrolled it and placed it in front of me.

"Sign here." He pointed to the very bottom of the page. I didn't even bother reading what it said. I took the pen that the Devil handed to me and signed in proper writing; Sasuke Uchiha.

Satan rolled the paper and slid it back into the inside of his coat. He stood up and so did I. He walked around his desk and towards me with a slight grin on his face. My face stayed emotionless when he stopped a foot away from me. He reached his arm out and put it on my chest. He started to whisper words that I couldn't understand. I could see what he was pulling out of my chest, it was a blue orb, and it glistened brightly.

The last thing I heard was Satan's maniacal laugh before everything went black.

'I'm coming for you, Dobe.'

TBC

Kohtalo is the word fate in Finnish (Well it's what google translate told me ^^' )

My second chapter! I hope you like it, and sorry if it makes no sense, I practically bullshited everything. Next chapter will be of Sasuke reborn :o I'll try to update as fast as possible

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