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This is chapter 9 and I hope you enjoy it because it might be the last for quite a while folks.

-Rin-Chan


Chapter 9

Sasuke's Regret

The halls of the ninth circle lay in silence. Ever since the newest captive arrived a sense of unease had taken hold so that not even the tortured spirits cried out for mercy, the spirits that are not alive but yet are unable to die.

The shadowy figure that had arrived with two of the shadow wardens had been cast, alone, into the ninth circle's central captivity vault; all who travelled through the ninth circle knew that that vault had been created for one man and one man only, the man responsible for the creation of the new lord.

Hatred, from other prisoners or the shadow wardens, minion or enemy of the lord it didn't matter, all hated the man who occupied that cell, hated him and blamed him for the brutality of his creation.

Sasuke sat alone. The large complex that served as his jail cell was alien to the raven haired ninja as he sat contemplating his situation.

He had been running constantly since the day he died but he hadn't thought it had been from Naruto.

Shortly before his death Sasuke had read a script in Konoha library about demons and the nine circles of hell, the birth place of all evil. It spoke of many creatures that inhabited the nine circles, the overlords of each and each circles function and purpose.

All the circles were ruled by biju

The first circle was the dominion of the ichibi, a one tailed racoon demon who had a reputation of cruelty and madness, the function of his kingdom was to hold the spirits and drive them to near insanity as only the ichibi could.

The second circle was the home of the Nibi, a two tailed cat demon whose dominion tortured the damned spirits for the rest of their very long afterlives, it received spirits from the ichibi and held them, it imprisoned souls for a wide variety of minor crimes and all souls were lucky if their journey stopped in the realm of the Nibi.

The at that time ageing, ninja had remained unconcerned with the function of the first eight circles but as he read about the ninth a cold chill of fear had begun to coil around is heart.

The ninth circle was the kingdom of the Kyuubi, a nine tailed demon fox. The circle itself was a prison for all who had committed the worst crimes in life, some of which were not even considered crimes in the land of the living. The worst of these and the one that demanded the worst reprimand was betrayal.

The Kyuubi itself was said to be a ruthless beast and the strongest of the nine biju, he answered directly to the shinigami and no other, the king of the biju was one of his many titles as all of the other tailed beasts answered directly to him and only him, the shinigami being the only being who could over rule this demon lords authority.

It was in that moment that Sasuke knew his fate. To be thrown into the ninth circle to pay for what he had done to his best friend, it was in that moment that he remembered what his old sensei had told him those who don't follow the rules are trash but those who abandon their friends are worse then trash, it was then he knew what he had to do and he decided to run.

Never in a million years had he expected Naruto to be the demon he ran from, the thing that from the time of his death onwards he grew to fear.