Oh My Jashin-Sama! Chapter Two
A/N: Yes, I know I said I'd try to get two uploaded a month, then I didn't post another one during the rest of August, nor during September. There is a reason, and that is because the workload at school is larger than I thought it would be and this is my first relaxing weekend so far. So I decided to start working on the second chapter before rl got too hectic again, and at least get half of it done.
PLEASE READ: I love, love, love all the comments I got last chapter! It was barely up an hour before I was getting email after email about reviews and favorites and follows, thank you all so much! However, one lovely reviewer left me a comment that was very thought provoking and long, so I decided to address it without naming them by name, unless you want to check the reviews. Here goes:
I love your comment, I really do. It made me think and want to go back and redo the entire chapter. However, it would also require me to go back into my notes that I've spent quite a lot of time on and change the good majority of them. I want Naruto to have questionable morals, I want Naruto to be a little evil, and Harry and Naruto have such a similar history, it's hard to imagine that they would ever go against each other (at least in this story). Also, this is supposed to be a little messy and humorous, because that's my writing style and it's hot off the press (very minimal editing other than to proof read it and possibly change a few lines). That is not to say, however, that I will never go back and write the story over again to be more dramatic and elegant and adult, but it will be a different story altogether, this story's more serious elder sibling or cousin. If- if – I rewrite 'Oh My Jashin-Sama' , it'll be in a few years, when this story is done and my writing has become tighter and more professional. Seriously, though, I love your comment 3
Last little bit, but more for everybody as I saw several people wanting Hidan to stay as Harry's servant/follower, and not have them as a pairing: THIS WILL MOST DEFINITELY HAVE HARRY/HIDAN. But Harry just may be hit on/ hit on others as the story progresses and he gains more of his positive emotions back. Also, you'll just have to find out what happens with the Akatsuki~ It'll be hilarious and lovely, I swear.
WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I PRESENT THE SECOND CHAPTER OF OH MY JASHIN-SAMA
XxXxXx Oh My Jashin-Sama xXxXxX
Harry pursed his lips and raised an eyebrow.
Well then.
This just might complicate matters.
As Harry stared down the enormous fox, merely a few feet away on the other side of the bars, Naruto was looking around his dank mindscape in wonder.
"Ne, ne, Harry-san? Where are we?" he asked, tugging on the immortals' hand.
Finally breaking eye contact with the fox, Harry looks down at Naruto with a slight up-turn of the lips.
"We're in your mindscape, Naruto-kun."
"What's a scindmape?" Naruto aks, crinkling his nose when he couldn't get 'mindscape' out correctly.
"Mindscape, Naruto-kun. A mindscape is the representation of your mind, normally somewhere you would feel safe." 'And it's concerning that yours is a sewer, Naruto-kun.'
"Oh…" Naruto grows quiet and shifts nervously, tugging at the hem of his shirt, glancing away from Harry for a brief moment.
"We can talk about it later, Naruto-kun," Harry says, looking back at the fox, which had been growing impatient with the two people in front of him. "I think the more pressing problem is why, exactly, you have a nine-tailed fox in your head."
"Well, that has an easy answer," the fox rumbles, shifting into a more comfortable position in his small cage. "I was sealed in here by the Fourth Hokage."
Harry conjures up a pair of plushy arm chairs and a table with a tea set on it. Sitting down and pouring both he and Naruto some hot chocolate from the tea pot, Harry leans back with an expectant look on his face, delicately holding his tea cup and saucer. Naruto, himself, plops down crisscross into his chair and grabs his own tea cup of hot chocolate, looking at the steaming liquid in wonder.
What? Hot chocolate is better than tea sometimes.
"Why, exactly, were you sealed into Naruto-kun?" Harry asks, sipping from his cup.
"Because of who his mother is, and what that BLASTED Uchiha made me do," the fox scowls and bears his teeth, making Naruto jump ever so slightly.
Scowling himself, Harry glares at the fox. "Do try to keep yourself contained, Mr. Fox." Harry smiles mockingly at the demon, who glared at his word choice. "Can you tell us any more details? I would imagine that the seal that's keeping you inside Naruto-kun would also have something from revealing too much."
"That would be correct. I can't reveal his mother, his father, or the Fourth Hokage's identity; I can't even give the gaki hints." The fox nods in acquiescence. "However, I can reveal that the current hokage knows that I am here. He witnessed the birth." The fox gave a smirk, sounding smug.
"WHAT?!" Naruto yells, standing up from his chair, where he had been absently listening to the conversation between the two older beings in the mindscape with him. His eyes were wide and his mouth agape before his shock turned to ange and he started to gesture wildly with his tea cup, hot chocolate sloshing out the sides. "Why would jiji not tell me something like this? Isn't having a giant fuzzball in my head important?"
As Naruto ranted on , Harry sipped his hot chocolate and narrowed his eyes.
'Sounds like Dumbledore… Purposely keeping important information from the person it pertains to, and leaving them to be neglected and abused.'
The fox looked indignant at being called a fuzzball. "I have a name, you know," he mumbles.
"Telling us would be nice," Harry replies blithely as Naruto finally calms down enough to sit back down in his chair, still grumbling, arms crossed and pouting.
Basically, it was adorable.
His lips twitching, Harry turns back to the giant fox. "So, Mr. Fox, what is your name?"
"My title is Kyuubi no Yoko, or Kyuubi no Kitsune. Just call me Kyuubi."
"So you're name isn't Kyuubi?"
"Hell no! What kind of name is Kyuubi, anyways?!" Kyuubi says, incredulous.
"Language, Kyuubi. Naruto-kun is still a child." Harry admonishes, frowning.
"I'm not a kid! I'm eight!" Naruto exclaims, waving his arms wildly.
"Naruto-kun is still a child," Harry repeats, as if not hearing Naruto, who pouts.
Grumbling, the fox shifts again.
"Well, then, little godling, what about you? What's your story?"
Harry sighs as Naruto and Kyuubi focus on him intently. Putting down his empty cup, Harry leans forward and steeples his fingers. 'How to go about this… I suppose I'll just be blunt.'
"I died." He starts, as Naruto reacts wildly.
"Y-you're a ghost?!" he exclaims, paling drastically.
"Not really," Harry says blithely. "I died, but I came back to life."
"How? Why?" Kyuubi asks, intrigued.
"When I was alive, there was a war going on. During this war, as I was the 'leader' of my side, I went on the run with my two best friends to find the keys to defeat the leader of our enemies." Harry was going with the watered-down version of events, as they would be easier than going fully into detail. "During this time, I found three objects that were created by Death themselves, or so the legend goes. If one became the owner of all three artifacts, then they would become the 'master' of Death."
"So you're the Master of Death?" Naruto shouts, excited. "So you'll never die again, and can totally kill anyone you want?"
"Yes," Harry says ",I am immortal, and could command Death to kill whomever I want. But," here, Deaths Master looks at Naruto very seriously, "It is an empty existence. As an immortal, I cannot form connections as I'll outlive any lovers, any friends I may make in the mortal realm." Naruto's excited expression melts off his face, and he looks at Harry with sadness and trepidation.
"So… so you don't care about me?"
"Naruto-kun," Harry rushes to say, "Of course I care about you."
"But I'll die and you'll outlive me, Harry-san!"
Thinking for a moment, Harry calms the blonde child down with just a few words. "You're different, Naruto-kun. I have a feeling you'll turn this world on its head."
Naruto settles back once more, happy that his new friend thought so highly of him.
Entering back into his story, Harry resumes talking.
"After defeating the other side, I died of a heart attack. Death came to take me away, and for a year I lived with them, which is so strange to hear out loud. During this year, I lost emotion, which is easy enough to realize and admit, as before I was a very expressive young man. However, during the last few months, bursts of foreign feelings have come to me. Death sent me here to find out why."
"Is that all?" Kyuubi asks, head tilted to the side slightly.
"Yes."
"So, when're we going on our adventure, Harry-san?" Naruto asks excitedly, bouncing up and down in his seat, blue eyes alight.
Harry sighs, almost sadly. "I can't take you with me, Naruto-kun."
"Wh…what? But, but-"
"I know I promised, Naruto-kun, but that was before I learned of Kyuubi. If I took you now, my search would become that much harder, and I don't know how dangerous the source is. I don't want you to get hurt."
"I'm strong!" Naruto says, determined to go with Harry.
"Naruto-kun, you're not strong enough, not yet. I'll come back to visit on your birthday, and any time I can spare, but I refuse to take you with me now. Me promising you something I couldn't stay true to was foolish of me."
"Harry-san, I…"
"Naruto-kun-"
"Listen, gaki," the Kyuubi interrupts, scowling slightly. "Harry-kun said yet, so you might be able to join him in the future. You'll need to train to get stronger, and I'll gladly take up the task if it'll shut the two of you up."
"Really?" Harry and Naruto ask at the same time.
"Yes."
"Okay, then." Harry says, standing up. "I'll be taking my leave then. But first," he turns to Naruto and conjures up a pendant in the shape of the Deathly Hallows and hands it to the small child. "If you ever need help, whether the villagers are chasing you or Kyuubi doesn't know something or you just want to talk or can't sleep because of nightmares, whispers to this and either I or Death will come to you as soon as we can, but only call if you or Kyuubi can't handle it yourselves, alright?"
Nodding with teary eyes, Naruto launches himself at Harry for a hug and buries his face in the elder man's stomach.
"Thank you, Harry-san! I-I promise! I'll take good care of it, and no one will take it from me!"
"Naruto-kun," Harry says gently, kneeling down and, after hesitating for a second, hugs the other back. "Become strong for me, okay? And no one will be able to see the pendant unless you want them to, okay?"
Nodding again, Naruto lets Harry go and rubs at his eyes.
"You'll have to lie to the shinobi who come to find you, Death will tell you the story you need to use." Harry smiles at Naruto gently and nods to the Kyuubi before departing.
Naruto gives a watery smile as the sewers of his mindscape fade to black and he wakes up to the watery light of a cold cave.
XxXxXx A few days later xXxXxX
Naruto sat in the Hokage's office as Sarutobi Hiruzen stared at him, concerned.
"Are you sure you're okay, Naruto-kun? That the rogue nin didn't hurt you?" the Third asks, eyes moving from Naruto to the medical file the ANBU had given him from after Naruto's recent kidnapping.
"Yes, Jiji, I'm sure," Naruto chirps happily, swinging his legs. "Can I go now, jiji? I've missed a lot of school, and I need to catch up if I want to be Hokage!"
Chuckling, Sarutobi nods "Of course, Naruto-kun."
With that, Naruto skips out of the office and the old Hokage sighs, slumping slightly in his seat. Looking out the window as he takes a slow drag from his pipe, he frowns, considering.
'I know that the ANBU reported a cell of rogue nin taking Naruto-kun away, but…'
Standing up and pacing, the Third takes another couple drags from his pipe as he continues to think about the morning a few days ago.
XxXxXx Flashback xXxXxX
"Hokage-sama, we've found Uzumaki-kun in a cave approximately fifteen miles west and six miles north of the West Gate. He is currently en route with Duck and Sparrow."
"Thank you, Hawk. Is there anything else?"
"Yes, Hokage-sama. When we arrived at the cave, there was evidence of three other people there, yet they were all gone. There was no resistance, nor any traps to hinder us in our retrieval."
"Are you sure it is Naruto-kun."
"Yes, Hokage-sama, I checked; there was a second chakra being released into his chakra coils."
"Thank you, Hawk. Dismissed."
XxXxXx Flashback End xXxXxX
'Why would they just leave Naruto-kun behind, and with hardly a scratch on him? Not that I'm unhappy that Naruto-kun is okay, but it is suspicious that they gave up so easily.'
As Hiruzen walked around his office, he accidentally stepped on the cloth border of the tatami mat he kept there in case he needed a quick nap, or stayed in his office overnight. Freezing, Hiruzen stared at the omen and sighed.
'I don't normally believe in omens, but…' Once again, he makes his way to the window and stares out at the village, bustling with life in the late morning sun. 'Considering what's happened…'
Four black cats crossed in front of the window. He grimaces.
'… I fear for my village.'
XxXxXx End Chapter Two xXxXxX
A/N: That's it! I'm sorry you guys had to wait two months for an update, but here it is! This is also kinda a boring chapter, but you guys deserved an update, so here you go! Please point out any mistakes you see so that I can fix them. It's two am here and I've been typing for five or six hours, this chapter basically wrote itself. Sorry that there was no Hidan in this chapter, but he will most definitely be in the next chapter!~ Ja ne.
-Toto
Chapter Word Count: 1,936
Story Word Count: 3,531