Naruto the reaper fox.
Chapter 3 Welcome Home.
{Recap on the language.= "human", 'human thought', "Demon", 'Demon thought', "Angel", 'Angel thought', 'Shinigami's thought', "Shinigami"}
[Previously.]
Naruto, now, wore a Burt orange muscle shirt and black cargos. With a thick metal chain belt with a skull on the buckle. A velvet black cloak with a hood and its long sleeves hid his hands. On his feet was a pair of steel toed combat boots. At his waist was a Blood red katana with a fox head on the handle and the guard was the 9 tails.
[Now on with the story.]
The goggles that Obito had given him was around his neck, hidden by his cloak, along with a mask like Kakashi's. His three tails wrapped around his waist and his fox ears twitched to each sound. The Shinigami walked over to him, laying his hand on the boy's head.
"Good job, my boy. I'll be sending you back to earth now, and I must say you have done a great job with your training. You will able to pass your parents in no time at all and to show you how proud I am that you pass. I'll give you this. A Dragon's egg and the Hellhound Contract." The dragon's egg was an oddly shaped dark blue stone that had a scaly feel to it, being held in a dragon skin bag. The Hellhound contract was an old scroll with heat radiating off of it in waves. "Remember theses hand-seals." he said showing Naruto the hand signs. "Now you know the seals. All you have to do is sign them in blood and pass the bosses test." He smiled at the boy before pushing him thru a portal.
"Huh? My head" Naruto moaned as he looked around and saw a little apartment.
"Welcome back, master Naruto." The room shook with the voice. "I am one of the many forest guardians. I was told by the Shinigami to watch over you while you were away, and so I made you this place in my bark.."
"Doesn't it hurt" Naruto asked.
"Not at all little one. Now sleep for it is dark out and you must be starving. I had some of the animals bring some food in, from rabbits to carrots," the tree spook calmly. "My name it Lillian." The guardian's voice faded into the back ground, always there, like a whisper in the wind as it called and talked to the other guardians. Naruto fixed some rabbit stew and eat it like it was going out of style.
'In 2 years I'll be a gennin.'
'Hey kit. The Shinigami has planned for your father to take you on a training trip.'
'Okay. Thanks Kyuubi.'
'No problem kit, goodnight.'
Naruto walked to the bed and fell asleep. Only to wake in the forest of his mind. Kyuubi stood there in his 6'5" glory. His hair was spiked as it meet his shoulder blades and in battle armor. Naruto groaned dropping into a fighting stance.
"Let's spar." He slashed at Naruto with his claws. Naruto barley dodged by dropping lower and did a leg swipe. To which Kyuubi jumped over and kicked Naruto in the head. Making hit a tree. Naruto grunted as he stood up. "Come on kit you can do better."
"Fire release: Great fireball-no-jutsu, wind release: great breakthrough-no-jutsu" with that the two mixed into a huge white hot fireball and flew right at Kyuubi. Kyuubi just smirked.
"Water release: water wall-no-jutsu." Kyuubi basically spit out a water shield that was blasted into steam. When it cleared he was no longer standing there. Naruto looked around. His nerves were on edge and his body was tense. When his sensitive ears heard a low rumble, causing him to jump up. Just as Kyuubi busted from the earth below.
"Hey Kyuubi didn't eat enough." Naruto busted out laughing. Kyuubi had a light blush spread across his face.
"Sh-shut up, you brat." He stuttered. He plopped into Indian style and grumbled. "The brat has no respect for his elders."
"Come on fluffy. You don't have to be so upset." Naruto said sitting in the air.
"Stupid, show off of a brat!"
"Oh! Go eat a rabbit." Kyuubi growled as he shifted into his fox form and stomped off in a huff. "Do NOT burn down the trees again. Last time you did that, it gave me a headache."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah whatever," with that, Naruto began going everything he learned and practicing on his jutsus.
Mean while in the Hokage's office. Hiruzen Sarutobi was seating at his desk surrounded by 4 of his top Anbu and working on the dreaded paperwork. The bane of his existence. He was toying with the idea of whether or not to 'accidentally' burn it to ashes. All the while puffing his pipe. He failed to notice the color of the room was draining and everything inside was frozen in place until he saw the smoke from his pipe freeze. He jumped and got ready for an attack which got a chuckle from his visitor.
"Well, well. Hokage-san it looks like you are at the disadvantage in this situation." A voice came from a black puddle on the floor. He was confused until a shadowy figure rose from the goop. Nearly chocking on his pipe, when he realized the figure was in a black cloak and carried a large scythe on his back.
"You're a reaper." The Hokage stated the face.
"That I am, but I'm not here to take you mortal soul to the after world. No that is for another time." He saw the bony figure smile underneath the hood. "The master has sent me to inform you that a soul will be coming home, thou I don't see why. This place is a bummer to me, and don't get me started on the help. I ask for simple directions to your office and nearly got attacked. Anyway. Any questions?"
"Yeah who is coming back?"
"Huh? Oh yeah. Naruto 'Uzumaki' thou that isn't his name. He was killed before his time and upon seeing the great tragedy the kid endured while he was alive. My master decided to grant him what many have begged for, a second chance."
"Really." Hope colored his voice as he dropped his pipe.
"Yeah, yeah. Really just don't drop dead old man. I would hate to have to explain that one to the boss. I'm sure he would just throw me to those mutts." The reaper sighed.
"Is there anything else?"
"Yes there is. Aren't you a smart one." He reached into his right sleeve. The Hokage flinched as he pulled out 2 scrolls, one black and the other white. "The black one is a mission from my master for an Anbu named Itachi Uchiha and the other is a mission from Kami-sama herself for a medic ninja that goes by the name of Tsunade. While the mission pay is at the bottom of the scrolls and every last penny goes to the completion of the missions. Got it?" Hiruzen nodded. "Good. Now listen. I got one more thing to say to you. I helped train that boy. He is a great kid so I'll tell you a little secret. The kid's birthday is tomorrow so you better throw him a party got it." The Hokage just nodded. "Since the time is just about 7:00 pm. You got plenty of time so just burn the paper work by dropping your pipe on it and going to the bathroom or somewhere else." The reaper smiled that chilling smile again. "Thou I hate you mortal flesh bags, I like that kid and a few people and you keep me employed. So if you need to talk to my master, Shinigami-sama, I'll be the liaison. I'll bring you mission, you give me completion reports and the locations on some of our most wanted."
"Okay."
"Great, here is a list. If any information arises on them call my name like this. 'I summon the reaper Shi.' Give me a scroll with said information and I'll pay you if it checks out. Now I must be going." With that the reaper slowly sunk back into the floor creating a the black goop. The Hokage watched in fascination as the puddle slowly spread out returning the color back to the room and time unfroze.
He saw him pipe burning on the papers and left. 2 of the Anbu had followed. He went to the ramen shop and told them and Itachi, who was eating there at the time, about the good news. While the other two Anbu tried to stop the fire that was crawling on the Hokage's desk.
The next day Naruto woke up stretching. He took a shower and got dressed. He seat down to eat breakfast. When he was done he bowed saying "Lillian thanks for everything. I'll be going now."
"Okay deary. Just let me know whenever you need a place to hide." The tree shook as a split opened up in the bark. He put on his cloak and climbed out of the huge tree. When he was out in the bright sunlight, he was blinded. He had his eyes closed, then slowly opened them. He staring at his murder sight. The blade that had pierced his heart was now lay shattered in the center of a circle, where he was killed. Not a single green blade of grass grew there now, no animal dare touch the ground and the leaves crumbled to dust when they touched it. The logs he had once was tied to were now charred black and would be forever in the center of a dead zone. Naruto stepped into the circle and he could see the 4 faces that belonged to the ninjas that killed him.
"Naruto?" A voice called from behind him. He spun and saw the Hokage and his favorite Anbu. Inu, Weasel, Snake, Neko, and Bear. In a blink of an eye he had tackled Weasel and started to cry as his joy crashed hard onto him.
"I missed you so much guys." Weasel picked him up effortlessly.
"Same here. We all have. Let's talk at my house, okay?" They nodded, and with that they were off, Naruto hide his face in Weasel's back. They arrived at the Hokage's house not long after. Taking off their mask it was revealed Kakashi Hatake was Inu, Weasel was Itachi Uchiha, snake is Anko Mitarashi, Neko was Utah Hyuuga, and Bear was Kai Akimichi, he was all muscle.
"Dad" Naruto sobbed.
"How?" Itachi was shocked as was the rest.
"I did die, so the Shinigami told me." Naruto said. The Hokage cleared his throat.
"Itachi I know this is very touching and everything, but we got a mission to discuss remember." Getting a nod. "The only ones who will know the truth is in this room right now. Itachi you have to kill the Uchiha clan. They're planning a rebellion and to enslave the other clans. I-I'm so sorry. Itachi but your the only one who can do this, that I trust."
"I'm helping too," at the stern look from the Hokage Naruto added "trust me. So who to save." They chuckled at that.
"Here is a list of those are not involved, but doesn't worry I'll have them doing something." the Hokage Said. "The plan goes down in two days." They nodded. "You will take a trip afterwards and Itachi take this to the Daimyou and join the Akatsuki to help keep the Jinchuuriki out of their hands. Naruto will go with him and then return after two years, ok?" Getting a nod from Itachi and Naruto, but Kyuubi was laughing his tail off in Naruto's mind. "Learn as much as you can. Everyone else this is a SS-rank secret."
"Yes Hokage-sama/sir." Everyone said.
"Naruto, do you know what today is?"
"No" he shook his head. He may be an 8 year old genius but he lost track of dates in the afterlife, because it was like twice as long and the Shinigami loved messing with his head. 'Old Shini-chan fucked up my head really bad.'
Itachi smirked at his son's confusion "well, son, it's..."
[Cliff hanger!]