Disclaimer: This is a fan work based on Masashi Kishimoto's Naruto. There will also be some elements from JK Rowling's Harry Potter. There is no money being made from this, it is merely a work meant for the entertainment of myself and the other fans of the original work. This is merely for fun, and not profit. I repeat: I am not making any money out of writing this.

Warning: OCs OOCs Sues, and some crack. You have been warned.

Note 1: AU (of an AU...sort of).

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Complicated Reincarnation

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chapter three

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Hiding the zombies was easy, Naruto simply ordered them to get back into their graves and wait for him to summon them. So they waited, and had been waiting for a full year, and would probably have waited for more years had someone not decided to raid their graves. Naruto sensing the slight distress of his creations, he didn't know how he felt it and neither did his past life's self, as no flow of knowledge made itself known. That's how he learned to harness his necromantic powers, lessons came with a need.

So he simply called for them to come, he knew that no matter where he was, and no matter where they were, they would come to him. Distance didn't matter, as they were connected with a bond of master and servant or slave. It was a case to case basis thing.

It scared the hell out of the grave robbers who vowed never to rob another grave again. They did more than simply wet their pants, they crapped in them, and went so far as to run non-stop to the Fire Temple to confess their sins to the monks there. Which earned them a sound beating.

It was Naruto's birthday again, and this time, the Sandaime brought him some good news. He had been given a piece of land directly beside the cemetery. No one wanted the land, and the Sandaime didn't mention who was to live there. There wasn't even a house, just a piece of land. He offered to help Naruto have someone build a house, but the child refused. He claimed to have found something that would be able to do the job for him, at no cost. The Sandaime did not bother to ask who or what Naruto had found, since it would most likely cause him to not sleep for an entire week, just as he had after Naruto's last birthday.

He was eight years old on the day, and he decided to quickly move out, while he may have been given an entire apartment building for his fourth birthday, a lot of people knew that he lived there, and since it was in the village proper, he couldn't really rig the place to explode or something when there were unwanted guests visiting in the wee hours of the night.

The zombies made quick work of transferring all of his stuff to the land he now owned. When he got there, the Sandaime having given him a map and a set of keys, he found that the place actually had a high fence surrounding it, and a single locked gate. He was also given a note which detailed why exactly it was locked, and why there was a high fence around the property. It was a rather large property.

The note detailed that the reason why it was fenced and locked, during the founding of the village the single piece of land had seen the most bloodshed in all of Konoha. It was the reason why the cemetery was placed beside it. No one really wanted to be on that particular piece of land, and the reason why it was fenced was because people had an irrational fear of zombies or spirits of the dead coming back to haunt the living. It also was in place to keep uninformed civilians, and children from getting hurt in the one place in Konoha that even Anbu had a hard time walking through.

A village's worth of belief had shaped the place into the haunted forest that Naruto found himself staring at. None of the stories really mattered to him, since he had three zombies at his beck and call. So he pushed on, unlocking the lock, and walked into the great unknown.

An hour or two later, he found a clearing within the haunted forest, one where he decided to have his house built. He set his zombies to work, while he practiced with a new ability, this one from the first door.

He had found out that he had the ability which he was practicing when he was watering his plants six months ago. He was practicing something at the time, and was not really paying attention. Dealing with death had the effect of killing his plants. In a bout of frustration he sent chakra through the plants, along with something else. The first door, sensing the distress of the plants had opened and released something from within. The added energy and the chakra caused the pants that were near death to come back to life. It didn't stop there either, it continued to grow, up until Naruto remembered to stop channeling the new energy and his chakra.

What he was doing while his zombies were cutting down trees and trying to form a home from him, he was growing a tree. He picked it up just the other day, it had fallen from a branch within the forest of death, and so he took it with him, intent on practicing some more gardening with it.

As he watched the progress of the zombies, he couldn't help but think that refusing the Sandaime's aid was probably a bad idea, since the zombies were just standing there, looking stupid.

"You might want to resurrect them, or bring them closer to life..." the Shinigami decided to pay Naruto a visit.

"Hey, you're that guy from my mindscape," Naruto said, "What do you mean exactly?"

"I like you, so I'll help you," the Shinigami said, "I have three pearls, each one is part of the soul of each of those men when they were alive. Each one once fused with their bodies will cause them to live again, they will retain their basic knowledge, how to talk, think, whatever, as well as their jutsu kowledge. But they will not be the same as they were in life. They will not know what position in the military they had held, who their family was, that sort of thing. They will continue to be bound to you, until you have no more use of them, or they are destroyed. You will be their only family, their master. Do you understand?"

"Hai," Naruto replied, "Is this a one time thing, or can I call on you when I want to make more like them?"

"I guess you can call on me, my profession gets rather dreary every now and then," the Shinigami said, he then handed over the pearls, "These are the pearls I was talking about. You already know how to fuse them. Its the same as imbuing an object with a spirit...or like raising skeletons or something similar, I've seen it done before, and will again long after you pass on."

When the Shinigami left him again, he walked over to his zombies and added their partial souls into the mix, as well as some additional things to make them look more human, and less monster. It worked, and it was his first real try too when it came to such a project. He had high hopes for the future, should he ever need more of these special dead things.

With some brains in them finally, the zombies went to work, though zombies were no longer the proper term for them, so Naruto opted to simply refer to them as servants until he found a better term.

Apparently his undead servants somehow had chakra, he had thought that only living things had such, but it looked like he was wrong, since Hashi, since the full name would draw too much attention should it be used in public, had managed to form the house by using a jutsu, a rather traditional house, but a house none the less.

Tobi had also used a jutsu, he had treated a small river to flow through the property, as well as somehow called up a hotspring which Hashi erected a wall around for privacy.

Izuna appeared to be the only one that did not have some sort of useful jutsu when it came to house or home making. So he stuck to painting the walls using ink that Naruto had, as well as some paints that Naruto sometimes used for pranks.

It took the whole of his birthday for everything to be finished, while the house and baths was done, there was still all the furniture, decorating, as well as defenses for the property. When one was a prankster that could literally booby trap Anbu HQ without getting caught, one was a trap master. But he really didn't need to do any trap making of any sort since his three servants decided to take turns fortifying the already impressive fence, as well as adding some stuff here and there.

It was just after midnight when everything was finished, the servants had a little bit more free will in them, and so without waiting for any further instructions, Izuna walked up to Naruto, and informed him of the completion of the task.

It was only at that moment that Naruto noticed what time it was. He had been concentrating his whole being in his personal task that he had failed to notice as the sun set and the day turned to night. When he looked up, what he saw was not the night sky, but the tree which he himself had grown.

"Hashi," Naruto said, "Get to the top, I want to know how big the tree is."

Hashi simply nodded and jumped up, leaping from branch to branch until he could no longer be seen. A few minutes later he dropped down back to the ground, landing in a crouch.

"The tree covers the whole of the land, and is taller than the village wall by a several feet," Hashi informed him, "I also noticed that the plant life have all merged with it, making most of the trees and plants in the property part of the big tree."

"That was unexpected," Naruto said, he truly had not planned it, "Well, its been a long day, so...mind leading me to my bedroom?"

"Right this way, Naruto-sama," Izuna said.

"I have a question though," Naruto said.

"Hai?" they responded.

"Are any of you even tired?"

"We...don't know," Tobi said.

"Well, take shifts or something," Naruto said, "I wouldn't want to find out that you actually do need rest in the middle of a battle or something like that."

"Hai, Naruto-sama," the three said, before Izuna led Naruto to his new room.

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Six months after Naruto got his new place to live, he found himself wondering whether or not he should resurrect anyone else, or summon up more servants for that matter, the kind that simply followed orders. He's mastered the instilling a personality, basic knowledge, and some form of free will, the skills part...that was something else entirely.

Due to his inability to come to a decision at that point in time, Naruto decided to consult with a few beings older, wiser, and deader, than he was. He had in the past six months finally been able to communicate with the restless spirits that had chosen not to move on, those dearly departed souls which had escaped the stomach of the death god. They gave pretty good advice, and were really helpful in spying and when it came to planning and setting up pranks.

Since his next door neighbor was the cemetery, he could commune with the dead everyday, instead of those rare times that he actually managed to walk to the place without being molested in some way in the past. They were pretty nice folk, most of whom were rarely visited by their descendants. After a few months of a new body being laid to rest, his or her family members stopped visiting, but that was to be expected, and they had their own reasons.

"Hey guys!" Naruto greeted the ghosts as he jumped down from one of the lower branches of his tree.

"Naruto!" most of them cried, happy that their friend in death had come to visit, even though he looked troubled, they were happy with the fact that he simply came to them and not to one of the living, not that they would have minded.

"I have a bit of a problem," he said, "Could you help me?"

"If you don't tell us what the problem is, we won't be able to help, you know," the spirit of an old lady said, a little teasingly.

"I've been thinking about creating more servants...but I'm not sure whether or not I really should," he said, "Also if I do create more servants, how many, and what kind."

"More would be for the best, those three Kage-level ones you have would be able to help you better if they had subordinates of their own," one elderly spirit gave his opinion, "You could also use the additional hands on your land, its quite a huge place to maintain for four people...even though three of them are of the undead."

"So, green light for new help," Naruto said, he would have said hired hands, but technically he wasn't paying them, he was bringing them to unlife, "How about the type? The three I've got are at most the closest to being fully resurrected, I know there's a lot of other things I could make or summon, from shades from the after life, well you guys, skeleton warriors, demons, devils, angels, nature spirits, and a host of other things."

"What about skeleton warriors, they should come in handy, they're like regular skeletons from what I hear, and they can fight," a shinobi that had encountered some weird shit on a mission in Kiri said.

"Ok...any other suggestions?" Naruto asked the conference of spirits that were gathered around him.

"Well your present servants are revenants, you'll be creating some skeleton warriors, I think perhaps thirty would suffice, ten per revenant," a dead and still blind Hyuuga said, "You know what, stick to the skeletons for now..."

"I'd suggest the addition of one female to your group," a former kunoichi that had died in childbirth said, "I was thinking an asrai or a selkie would do the trick, you do have that hotspring, and that river running through your land after all."

"I had forgotten about those..." Naruto admitted, he was too focused on the masculine side of things, "Good thing I have Tobi, else getting one of those would be a pain in ass."

"Visitors approach, a new body is to be added to our number, the spirit chose the next great adventure," a spirit that acted as a look out spat out rapidly, "Naruto, it would be best if you left, this family does not see you as anything close to human, I should know, they blame you for my death after all."

"Hai," Naruto said, then jumped up to the branch, which lowered itself for him, then rushed on over back to his home, where he could perform his necromantic rituals.

When he got back to the clearing, which apparently was right smack dab in the middle of his property, he channeled some of of his necromantic chakra, or death chakra, and sent it into the earth, with the intent of causing the thirty skeletons to form from the dead bodies that were sure to be somewhere down there. Sure enough thirty of them did form, each one with everything he needed in loyal, faithful, and none complaining servants, not that his three elites complained.

Once he was done with that task, and handing out his orders to the skeletons, as well as informing his elites of their duties now that they had subordinates to look after, Naruto motioned for Tobi to follow him to the onsen.

"Fill the water with water natured chakra, until there is enough to force a tidal wave to drown a relatively small island," Naruto instructed, then began channeling his death chakra while performing the necessary handseals to control the flow, then adding his intent into the mix.

It took a while, Naruto wasn't really paying attention to the time, but eventually he had Tobi stop, right before he let loose the technique. He resurrected an asrai, with a few modifications.

Normally an asrai would be a small and delicate female fairy, not the kind that has wings, a water spirit would be closer to what one was. When captured or exposed to sunlight they would turn into a puddle of water, kind of like a Mizu Bushin.

Naruto's modifications to this particular one, which he decided to call Kasumi, were that she would not turn into a pool of water when exposed to sunlight or when captured, instead she was given the ability to turn into either water or mist or steam even, which was the reason why he had resurrected her, as the world no longer had such things or there were extremely few in number, in an onsen. He also kind of partnered her up with Tobi, just because he could.

A bonus of having a female servant was that he wouldn't need to walk in disguise as he bought some groceries, and seeds, and stuff from the shops in Konoha, he could simply have her do it for him. No one would recognize her, unlike the elites.

Funds for his expenditures was easily acquired as he had an allowance, and only really needed to feed himself, cloth himself, etc.. Aside from the Hokage, another source of funds were the things that he found whenever he went on his prank sprees or exploring in the village. The things people will leave behind or unattended were amazing finds. Finders keepers after all.

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A month later, Naruto decided that he needed another source of income, so he applied his special illusions on his skeletons, giving them a more human like look and feel, and he somehow managed to get them into the bounty hunting business. One team would leave every week to go out hunting for heads, and cashing in on the bounties.

Each team as composed of a revenant, and his ten skeletons. They were tasked with leaving and coming back by the end of the week with several claimed bounties. Due to this practice a rumor began to spread in the world about a zombie apocalypse, since the skeletons, when blown to bits, due to the illusion retaining their looks, they would simply put themselves back together again, then resume what they were doing. Those victims that somehow managed to escape were the ones responsible for spreading the tales of the zombie bounty hunting teams or squads.

Due to the rumors and stories about his property, none of which had anything to do with the tree since many believed talking about it might make it grow to consume the village for some unknown reason, all manner of murder victim usually ended up at the gates of the property, the body of the victim being some kind of offering. Naruto not wanting to disappoint would send out Kasumi, and before her one of his three elites, to fetch the body.

On some occasions, Naruto himself would fetch the body, reaching out an arm from the ground, and pulling the body beneath the soil, without even breaking the surface. This was thanks to the third door.

The Hokage had freaked out that one time that he had witnessed it. He had ordered some Anbu to leave the body of one of the prisoners that died in jail in front of the gate wanting to know what Naruto would do. He personally found it creepy that two arms shot out of the ground as soon as the body was dropped there and the Anbu, having heard the rumors spoke the rumored code phrase or prayer. The two arms seemed to embrace the body before the body slowly sank beneth the soil, leaving naught a trace.

On his next visit he found the dead man sitting by Naruto's skeletal koi pond, feeding the zombie fish that swam in it. It was then that he learned about part of Naruto's secret powers. He would have scolded Naruto about playing with something unknown without supervision, but what stopped him was being surrounded the three revenants, a host of skeletons, and that one asrai who stood in front of Naruto, shielding him from harm.

Needless to say he trusted Naruto with his secrets, and did not bother to ask him again or even try to ask him about the undead army he had at his disposal, or about any other abilities he was keeping secret.