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Tsuyosa dove as a giant fist crashed into the place he was just standing. He grabbed his scythe and began attacking it, but it seemed to have no effect. He then jumped on top of the hand and ran up the arm. When he reached the shoulder, he jumped again to strike the head, but a fist slammed into him and crushed him into the ground. He felt all his ribs break, a couple organs rupture, and agonizing pain. The pain soon dulled as the fist lifted up and he began healing.

He got up as best as he could, but stumbled from the amount of zeher it took to heal all the injuries. 'Damn it. I can't drag this out much longer. If I do, I'll die.

Naruto grinned the entire time. Truthfully, this technique was a work in progress. He only created this in theory and had half expected it to fail. He gave a mental command to the titan to smash the rock Tsuyosa had summoned and flung his way.

The rock was twice as big as he was, but the titan easily smashed through the stone. It then stomped where the older man was, but missed. Naruto gave another mental command to step on him, because it seemed funny, but it was a mistake.

The titan stepped, but missed again. But this time Tsuyosa was prepared. He shifted the ground under the foot of the titan and made it lose its balance. As the titan tried to not trip, Tsuyosa faced his palms toward the forest and swung them to the titan. A moment later, a huge branch that could rival the branches of the trees in the Forest of Death hit the titan on its head. The titan tittered on its toes with his other foot, but soon lost the grip on the ground and fell.

Naruto kept smiling. Even though Kronos fell, it was a good experiment. But his smile soon fell as he heard a scream. He looked at the direction and saw someone under the falling titan.

It was Kotomi!

Naruto began to try to make some kind of shadow blocks to prevent the titan from crushing the girl, but as he did, he lost his concentration when he heard, "NO!"

A mountain shot out of the ground and smashed into the titan, holding him up. Then a huge stream of water rose out of the lake nearby and pierced the titan through the head. Then a huge blade of wind the size of the titan appeared out of nowhere as if it appeared out of thin air. (Get it? Hehe.) The blade sliced the titan in half. The shadow figure soon dissipated as all the shadow tendrils that formed it shot back to their original place.

Naruto looked at Tsuyosa surprised. That was a powerful combination. However, Tsuyosa looked pissed. "You!", he yelled, pointing an accusing finger at Naruto, "You tried to kill my daughter!"

Naruto raised his hands up defensively. "Hey, that was your fault.", he blamed. But Tsuyosa didn't hear or ignored him because he started to shout, "I'm going to kill you for bringing my family into this! You have dishonored yourself as a reaper for attacking a human being during a Kovo de Morte. Now, I'm going to put you 20 feet under!"

The next thing Naruto knew was that a ton of zeher flew out of the man. At the same time, a seal appeared behind him. It was a very simple seal: a circle with "Earth" in kanji. Then the dust of the ground flew up and blocked Tsuyosa from all view. When the dust settled, it revealed Tsuyosa. He wore all the same clothes as before, but he now wore a mask that Naruto found very similar to Zemen's mask. His hair had grown out to his waist and turned white.

"Now,", Tsuyosa said, "I'll kill you for attacking my daughter." He looked at the said person, "Kotomi, run now. It's going to be dangerous."

Kotomi was stunned at the transformation her father just took, but when he spoke, she shook herself out of the shock and said, "But Dad, Uzumaki-san didn't attack me. That thing just fell on-"

"Silence!", Tsuyosa shouted. "I don't know why you know his name, but don't say it again. He's a monster!"

"Hey, wait a minute,", said Naruto, "This is just a huge misunderstanding. Now why don't we calm down and discuss this calmly."

The next Naruto knew was he was on the ground with many bruises and a few fractured ribs. He tried to remember what just happened. When he remembered, he cursed. Tsuyosa was much stronger. He moved the elements too quickly. Stone pillars had smashed into every side before Naruto blinked.

Naruto decided it was time to pay a visit. He would need all the help he can get.

In Naruto's mind…

"Yo, ! Knock knock!", Naruto shouted. The two gates opened and Zemen and Shadow walked out.

"What did Tsuyosa just do?", Naruto asked. The Shadow groaned and facepalmed himself. "You didn't learn this?", he asked. Naruto shook his head.

"The next time we can talk, we need to have a nice, long chat about what your teacher didn't teach you.", said Shadow. "Now, I'll explain why he's kicking your ass."

"Did you know that every reaper has one of these gates in them?", asked Shadow. Naruto shook his head again with a surprised look on his face.

"Well, that's how that man got so much stronger. These gates right now are closed, correct? That's how it's supposed to be; however, a reaper can open these gates for a short amount of time, giving them a huge burst of zeher."

Naruto grinned. "So I can open these gates too, right? Let's open them!"

"No!,", the Shadow shouted, "You cannot. Learning how to open them can take weeks of training!" Upon hearing this, Naruto sagged forward as he moaned disappointedly.

"How about this?", said the Shinigami or Zemen as Naruto now calls him, "You just open the gate and control the zemen from the inside. That way he doesn't need training right now."

The Shadow thought for a moment. "That could work, but the time that the gates are opened is greatly shortened. You think you can beat him with that time?", he asked Naruto.

"Depends. How much time do I get?"

"30 minutes." Naruto looked determined. "Yeah, I can do it. Don't worry, he'll find out who's ass is being kicked real soon."

"Really?", the Shadow said, "That's the best you got?" He sighed. "fine, just beat him."

"And,", Zemen said, "I'll open my gate and control the zeher as well."

"Two gates at the same time?", the shadow asked, with a surprised tone in his voice, although since Naruto couldn't see his face, he wasn't really sure.

Zemen shrugged. "Why not? Now Naruto, go smash him into the ground."

Out in the real world…

Tsuyosa stepped back. He saw a seal that made the gate open, but the seal that appeared was odd. It had the word Earth inscribed in the borders of the seal and the word Shadow inside the seal. Suddenly, all the shadows nearby sped toward Naruto, and began swirling around him, much like the dust that swirled around Tsuyosa a moment ago.

When the shadows cleared, it revealed Naruto with his head down. But he was covered in shadow. Every form, angle, and projection his clothes and his body made were replicated by this shadow. It basically looked like he and his clothes were made of shadow completely.

Naruto's head lifted and revealed his face. The eyes were replaced with glowing eyes and the mouth was twisted in an open smile where the shark-like teeth could be seen.

Then he started laughing.

"He… hehe…. Hehehehe… hahahaha… HAHAHAHAHAHA!", Naruto laughed, his laughter becoming more and more maniacal, his voice seeming to come from all directions. Tsuyosa wouldn't lie. He thought he killed the boy and made him become a ghost.

He turned to his daughter. "Kotomi, get out of here, now."

Kotomi's surprise passed when her father spoke and was replaced with determination. "No. Uzumaki-san is just defending himself. Why can't you see that? If you just stop this, he'll stop too."

"Kotomi!", Tsuyosa shouted, "There is no time for arguing. Go now or I'll make you go."

Kotomi's eyes narrowed. She knew that she was right. As long as her father didn't attack, Uzumaki-san wouldn't attack either. She opened her mouth to convince her father.

And blood splattered on her face.

Was it her blood, she wondered. No, she didn't feel any pain.

Was it Uzumaki-san's blood? No, he is still standing where he was.

She froze at the realization at who's blood it was. She saw her father's face contorted with pain. She looked down, and screamed.

A large, black claw was protruding out of her father's abdomen.

Her father was suddenly pulled backwards toward Uzumaki-san. As her father got closer, she could see Uzumaki-san's arm stretched out and connected to the claw that had pierced her father's stomach.

Then Naruto ripped his claw out, spilling intestines all over his feet, and threw Tsuyosa over his head and back kicked him in the chest, sending him flying until he landed and bled all over the grass.

Kotomi felt tears spill over as she slowly understood what had happened. She fell to her knees, crying out loud, not only because her father had died, but also because it was her fault for distracting him.

Her sadness turned to anger as she realized that Naruto had not stopped laughing. She looked at him at rage, and without thinking, charged at him. She tripped after a few steps. After her rage had gotten bigger as it seemed like Naruto was laughing at her, she looked back and saw what she had tripped on.

Her father's scythe!

To what she could tell, he must had dropped it when he was pulled back. She got up, picked up the scythe, and charged again, this time with the scythe over her head, ready to cut down.

Naruto had still been laughing this entire time. He didn't know why, but he couldn't stop. He saw Kotomi running toward her with the Harvester and knew that he had to stop her so she wouldn't hurt herself. He pointed his palm toward her, his hand in a claw form. He felt a tiny fraction of zeher leave and enter Kotomi's shadow, which rose out of the ground and coiled themselves around her legs.

She yelped as she fell toward the ground. She instinctively let go of the scythe as she raised her hands up to protect herself. When she landed, she gave a scream of frustration as she realized her only weapon was flying over Naruto's head.

Then it was like déjà vu all over again. But this time, it was Naruto with something piercing his stomach while it was her father that dealt the strike.

"I'll show you what happens to people who make my daughter cry, motherfucker.", he said, before pulling up the scythe, cutting Naruto in half.

Normally, this is where he would claim victory and walk over to a bar for a good day's job. But there was one thing that bothered him.

The laughing hadn't stop.

The laughter still came from all directions. He fervently looked around everywhere to see where the laughing person was. But after he looked everywhere, he looked back at Naruto's body, and fear gripped his heart.

The two halves of Naruto were standing, each on one foot. Then he felt a spike of zeher that was too familiar to him.

'No. That … can't be. That zeher, it feels like Zemen-sama's zeher!, he thought as he held his weapon tighter.

Then both of the bodies started to grow more shadow where he had cut. The shadow kept coming out and forming until two Narutos had formed!

They both looked back at him and gave a smile with the sharp teeth. They looked like nightmares.

"Well, Tsuyosa-san,", both Naruto's said in unison, "What now?"

They both disappeared and reappeared, one in front and one behind.

Tsuyosa growled. "I will not be defeated by your kind! Every one of you Shadow reapers will die!", he declared before swinging his scythe overhead and cutting both Naruto's in half; this time, however, they were split horizontally. But, to his fear and frustration, the four halves grew again until four Naruto's were there.

Each one smiled. Then, simultaneously, they all punched Tsuyosa's midsection.

He felt his stomach and intestines rupture from the attack and fell to his knees screaming as the acid inside corroded away his insides. As he tried to deal with the pain as he healed, the four Naruto's lifted their hands up and brought them down to his head.

He felt every bone from his skull to his femur shatter.

He couldn't scream anymore. He went into shock and looked at the four Naruto's who looked like they were ready to finish him. He tried to get up, but unconsciousness soon had him. He closed his eyes as he knew certain death was here.

He shot up from the ground and breathed heavily. He was covered in sweat, he knew as he felt for the broken bones. The good thing was all his bones were healed. The bad thing was he had lost and he didn't know where that Shadow reaper had gone, or so he thought before he heard talking behind him.

He noticed as he turned around that it was dark, meaning he was unconscious for a few hours. He was able to make a fire behind him and two people talking. When his eyes focused, he nearly yelled in surprise.

Kotomi and that reaper were talking. They noticed he was up after a few seconds. Kotomi waved while the reaper yawned.

Tsuyosa marched over and was about to attack, when Naruto pointed his finger toward Kotomi. "Ah, ah, ah. Don't even try it, or my new servant will die."

'New servant?, he thought as he realized who he was talking about. "You bastard! Remove the seal from her."

Naruto smiled. "I'll think about it, but go to your daughter for now. She has been worried for some time." When Tsuyosa went to his daughter to check up on her for injures, Naruto remembered how his new servant came to be.

Flashback

The four Naruto's merged back into each other until one was left. He was about to close the gate of Shadow and Zemen, when Kotomi ran in between her father and Naruto and put her hands up protectively. "Please, stop! He's beaten. You don't have to kill him."

Naruto was about to open his mouth to say that wasn't on his agenda when he felt his lips move against his will. "Well, I can give you two options. You can stay there and be killed along with your father, or you can become my servant.", he felt himself say.

'what the?, he thought. He knew there were only three beings that could control him so he went back into his mind. He felt that the Kyuubi was pretty calm ever since the battle so there was two beings left.

"What is going on?", he shouted as he got closer to the two open gates. Zemen and Shadow turned around. They had been controlling the zeher flowing out of the gate by weaving it so that Naruto could use it properly.

Zemen looked at him with confusion, or so he thought. With the mask, it was hard to tell. "I have no idea what you're talking about."

Naruto looked to Shadow who gave an odd smile. He was just bone, remember, so making a smile was weird. "I'm just taking advantage of the situation, that's all."

Zemen looked at Shadow. "What did you do?", he demanded. Shadow's freaky smile grew bigger. "I'm just getting him a servant, that's all."

Zemen laughed. "That's it? Haha, you should have told me."

"Would someone tell me what the hell is going on?", Naruto yelled, getting the two 's attention.

"Well, you see,", Zemen started, "every reaper gets infamous for their killings sometime. By the way, you still have the ten killings for the month to do. But, when a reaper gets too infamous, he needs a servant to basically do things he can't do, like walking into town to get things, meeting with certain people, and even…hehe." Zemen had a perverted tone to his voice. Naruto grew red as he understood what he meant.

"No.", Naruto said.

"Why not?", whined Zemen.

"I'm not going to take advantage of a girl like that, especially not to satisfy your perverted desires."

"Aww.", Zemen said, as he visibly deflated. Shadow just laughed at the spectacle.

"Now, give me back control over my body.", said Naruto.

Shadow shrugged. "Why not? The contract has been forged already and she has been sealed with your mark."

"What?", Naruto yelled as he left his mindscape.

He came back to the sight where Kotomi was wincing at her new mark on her arm. It was an Uzumaki swirl insignia that if one were to look closely they would see at the center in small words "Grim Reaper".

He spent the next half hour on explain to Kotomi what being his servant meant. He felt Zemen amused as the girl was blushing when Naruto started to explain her duties. "See!", Zemen shouted inside Naruto's mind, "She had the same thought as I did!"

Flashback End

Tsuyosa walked over and started to demand that he should remove the seal. Naruto shook his head. "No. First, listen to me, then we'll talk."

Tsuyosa huffed, obviously not happy, but sat down in front of Naruto.

"First off,", Naruto started, "I'm not a reaper aligned with Shadow."

Tsuyosa's eyes narrowed. "Don't play dumb with me. I felt his zeher coming off you many times in that Kovo de Morte.", he said.

Naruto nodded. "You're right. You did feel his zeher. But, what I said was true."

Tsuyosa laughed. "So even though you have his zeher, you're not a reaper of Shadow. Don't make me laugh."

"But I just did.", said Naruto. When seeing that Tsuyosa wasn't laughing, he said,

"I'm a reaper aligned with the Grim Reaper himself."

Tsuyosa's eyes widened in surprise, but looked at him in disbelief. But as he thought, he remembered that he did indeed feel Zemen's zeher coming off him.

"So…", Tsuyosa started.

"Like I said before, this was a huge misunderstanding.", Naruto said.

With that, Tsuyosa sighed. "I almost blew it again, didn't I?"

Naruto nodded. "Yeah, but the truth is that you didn't. So don't worry. What I'm still curious about, however, is why you hate Shadow reapers so much?"

Tsuyosa looked up and Naruto saw hate and pain in his eyes.

"Because Shadow reapers killed my family when I was young.", Tsuyosa said.

END

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