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Chapter 11: Those that death cannot take…
Hidan and Naruto stood and watched each other, a glare contest some would say. Kakuzo was looking at the blond curiously; he thought that the jinchuuriki of Kyuubi died three years ago or so. The same thoughts passed through the Konoha Nin's heads, Asuma was more furious than curious, he knew the blond was dead and he didn't like people impersonating the dead.
"So…are you going to do something?" the blond asked casually annoying Hidan.
"You fucking brat, I will cut you fucking apart!" roared the Akatsuki member as he charged with his scythe.
The blond grinned and charged as well. The two collided in full force, there was a small explosion and dust covered their bodies. As the dust receded the spectators were amazed to see the blond holding the scythe which was above his head away with his strange sword, and Hidan blocking a second sword near his neck with a kunai.
"Your good." admitted the blond
"You know nothing." grinned sadistically Hidan
Suddenly the blond spun around and moved his right sword to cut; the scythe dropped down and blocked the attack. Then the blond forced the scythe down with his sword, he jumped up and did a pirouette in the air and moved his left sword above Hidan's head. Once again the sword was parried by the kunai. The blond grumbled and landed on his feet next to the Akatsuki, he spun around and tried to deliver a roundhouse kick, it was blocked by the man's hand, or more likely grabbed. Hidan grinned and twisted the leg trying to break it; unfortunately for him Naruto saw this and managed to break free before he got his leg broken.
Naruto stared at the Akatsuki member, he was good, and he had to admit that. It wasn't every day he met something like this, heck the Hollows were easier than this. He saw the man attacking again only this time he flung the scythe towards him. Surprisingly the scythe started moving towards the blond, or at least the sharp part of it. Naruto jumped away, the scythe hit the ground making a rather big crater. The blond stared at it for a second; he then regained his composure and attacked. He was getting closer and closer when suddenly he felt the scythe behind him; he ducked down, the scythe passed above his head almost scratching him.
Naruto stood up once again and narrowed his eyes as the scythe started moving towards him again, he raised his defensive zanpakuto and blocked the attack, but then the chain of the scythe rolled around his zanpakuto and the Akatsuki started pulling the blond towards him by the sword. Naruto was holding his ground as good as he could, but it seemed like it wasn't good enough. He was slowly being pulled towards Hidan who was smirking in success.
The blond had no choice, he had to let go of his zanpakuto, he did just that and the blade was pulled towards Hidan. The man took it in his arms and studied it; he then threw it away implanting it in a trees truck.
"You won't need that." he said to Naruto smirking
The blond narrowed his eyes and charged with his offensive zanpakuto, the Akatsuki threw his scythe, the blond tilted his head to the side and avoided the attack. He reached Hidan and stabbed him in the left shoulder. The man dropped on his knees and Naruto smirked. He was expecting to hear Hidan howl in pain, but instead of that he was laughing, laughing…the blond looked at him and saw Hidan getting back on his feet. He passed his finger over the wound and tasted his own blood, he grinned evilly at Naruto.
"Such a wonderful feeling pain is." he said as he moved his hand to his pouch and took out a kunai and threw it at the blond stabbing him his right arm. The blond gritted his teeth and jumped away. He grabbed the kunai and forcefully pulled it out. He then looked at Hidan and glared.
"What's this, you afraid?" laughed the Akatsuki. Naruto attacked again and raised his offensive zanpakuto to strike. All of a sudden he heard something behind him, something was approaching fast and Hidan was grinning insanely. The blond glanced behind and saw the scythe moving towards him with great speed. Naruto dropped on the ground and the scythe flew above his head.
The blond then jumped back on his feet and looked at the Akatsuki who was now holding the scythe in his hand. Hidan charged this time spinning his scythe in his hand dangerously. Naruto started dodging left and right to avoid the attacks, he raised his zanpakuto and parried the massive scythe. He jumped away and landed a few steps away from the Akatsuki. He was panting now, this was harder than he expected.
Suddenly Hidan charged again, Naruto got back on his feet and raised his zanpakuto above his head blocking the scythe. Suddenly Hidan spun around and appeared behind the blond, he was about to do a vertical slash on him when the scythe was blocked by a zanpakuto, but it wasn't the blond's.
Everyone looked to see a strange child with snow white hair and a white robe near Naruto holding the scythe away from the blond.
"You idiot!" yelled the boy at Naruto "I told you to wait for me!"
"What and let him escape?" asked Naruto pointing towards Hidan
"We would have found him baka!" roared the new kid
"Taichou, no offense but this guy had to go down by my hand for what he did."
"You charged into battle unfocused!" yelled the kid again
A thick marked appeared on the blond's forehead. "This is my fight, and I had to do this!"
"Bullshit!" the kid retorted "You are under my orders and you will follow them or else Yamamoto-sama will hear of this!"
Naruto sighed and nodded. The kid looked towards Hidan. "So who are you?" he asked
Hidan jumped away and slung his scythe over his shoulder. "They call me Hidan." the Akatsuki responded
"Hitsugaya Toushirou." the kid introduced himself.
"So I get to fight a brat and a shrimp." laughed Hidan
"I'm not a brat/shrimp!" both Naruto and Hitsugaya shouted.
Suddenly Kakuzo jumped down near Hidan. "Hidan, you take the blond, I have the short kid."
"That's it." said Hitsugaya cracking his knuckles. "You have a death wish." he concluded as he charged the Akatsuki.
Hidan smirked and attacked Naruto, in the meantime the captain of the tenth division started chasing Kakuzo towards the forest. Naruto was now left to face the Akatsuki alone. Suddenly Hidan started drawing a strange pentagram on the ground, the blond let his guard down just for a second to study the pentagram and he saw the scythe approaching him too late, he managed to jump away but the scythe scratched him on the shoulder.
Naruto gritted his teeth and grabbed his wounded shoulder. Hidan smirked and took out a kunai, he stabbed himself in the leg and Naruto wondered why he was doing that, his response was a sharp pain in his leg, he dropped on his knees shouting in pain. Hidan smirked more and took out a sword and stabbed himself in the stomach. Again Naruto howled in pain as he clutched his stomach.
Hidan started laughing. "Seems like you cannot take the pain!" he shouted as about ten or more weapons, kodachi, katana, kunai and such appeared above Hidan and started descending upon him. They all hit the Akatsuki in various places but he didn't even flinch. Naruto however howled in pain and dropped on the ground face first. Hidan smirked and canceled his jutsu, the pentagram disappeared. He started taking out the weapons out of him.
While all this was happening Naruto found himself facing Kyuubi. Said fox had transformed into his human form, he had short red hair, slitted red eyes, and whiskers on each cheek. On his back was a long red cape, he wore a black jacket and black pants.
"Do you want to defeat him?" Kyuubi asked
"Yes…" responded the blond
"Do you want to kill him?" asked the fox
"Yes I want." the blond responded glaring
"Are you ready to hear my name?" Kyuubi asked grinning, his response was a nod."Good…" the fox said with a feral grin
Suddenly, in the real world, Naruto started twitching. Hidan who was approaching him to see if he was dead stopped dead in his tracks as he saw the blond child moving his hand. Said blond grabbed his sword and stood up. He was panting heavily and he looked tired, he was glaring at the Akatsuki.
"How can you fucking be alive?" demanded the Akatsuki
The blond smirked and raised his offensive zanpakuto and pointed it towards Hidan. "Flay, Kouen!" he shouted and the blade of the zanpakuto shattered, the hilt remained in the blond's hand. Suddenly flames erupted from the hilt, the flames were longer than a katana and were radiating a powerful heat.
Hidan backed away as he saw that, he had never seen something like this before. Before he could even react the blond raised the hilt and flung it over towards Hidan, the flame started moving towards Hidan. The Akatsuki jumped away and the flames hit the ground leaving a mark were it hit, the ground was burned beyond imagination.
Naruto called the flames back and then flung them again like a whip towards Hidan. The flames started moving towards the Akatsuki. They seemed to become longer and longer but not thinner, they kept their density. It also seemed like the flames were eternal, it seemed like nothing would be able to extinguish its fires.
The Akatsuki jumped away and avoided the flames that started moving back towards the blond. Naruto put his hand over the flames that started changing shape. All of a sudden the flame chanted its shape in an axe. The blond raised the flaming axe and charged Hidan. The Akatsuki charged as well. He moved his scythe to cut to the side, the blond blocked the attack with his axe, the flames started taking shape again and the axe changed into a double pointed one.
Naruto started swinging the axe left and right while doing pirouettes. Hidan was ducking, dodging insanely, it also seemed like the blond became faster. Suddenly said blond disappeared, Hidan looked around and the blond reappeared behind him, the flames had changed into a sickle. Naruto lowered the flaming sickle and cut the Akatsuki on the back, Hidan yelled in pain and surprise, he yelled in pain because those flames seemed to burn deeper than any other weapon can cut.
Once again the flames changed and they formed a long whip, Naruto grinned and slung the whip towards the Akatsuki scratching him on the chest and burning his cloak. Naruto then slung the whip towards his defensive zanpakuto, he grabbed the hilt with the flaming whip and dragged the sword back to him. He took the zanpakuto by the hilt and looked back at the Akatsuki.
Suddenly the blond vanished leaving particles of yellow flashes behind him and reappeared in front of Hidan, or more likely above him with both zanpakuto's raised. His offensive zanpakuto took the shape of a katana now. He lowered the two swords and cut Hidan on both shoulders, he would have cut his arms of if the Akatsuki didn't move out of the way. Suddenly the blond spun on one leg and managed to cut the Akatsuki members head off.
As the blond watched the head fall down and then the body he grinned. He started walking away, but as he was walking he felt movement behind him. Looking back his eyes narrowed as he saw Hidan's body standing up and holding the head. The skeleton was visible. The body placed the head back in its spot and Hidan laughed at Naruto.
"I'm immortal, I cannot die!" he shouted as he charged again with his scythe.
The blond jumped away and sheathed his defensive zanpakuto, if this guy wasn't going to die then he would have to do something else. It seemed like Shikamaru also realized what was needed to be done and looked at the blond boy. Naruto looked at Shikamaru and the Nara started moving his mouth, but no words coming out. The blond nodded and looked back at Hidan.
Naruto put his hand over the flames that changed into a massive hammer. Naruto charged forward and jumped up with the hammer above his head. Hidan jumped away just in time as the hammer hit the ground making a large crater. The blond then changed the flames again into a whip and looked around, he saw Hidan charging again and let him come inside the crater.
As Hidan entered the crater Shikamaru grinned and explained to Asuma his plan. The jounin nodded and started passing through a long serie of hand signs. When he was done he slammed his hand on the ground and the ground started to shake. Seeing his queue Naruto tripped Hidan and jumped away. The Akatsuki wondered what was happening. All of a sudden the ground around him started to compresses and in a few second the Akatsuki found himself under the ground trapped and unable to get out.
Naruto stood watching as the ground compressed and grinned when he saw that the plan worked. The flames receded in the hilt and the blade reappeared. Naruto sheathed his offensive zanpakuto and turned towards the group and grinned at Shikamaru.
A few seconds later Hitsugaya came out of the forest carrying Kakuzo's head over his shoulder. He looked at Naruto and raised an eyebrow not seeing Hidan's corpse anywhere.
"Hey…where is that dude?" the white haired captain asked
Naruto pointed to the ground. "Underground." he responded grinning
"Why?" the kid asked
Naruto looked at the captain. "He was immortal, I couldn't kill him, so I had to resort to the next best thing."
Hitsugaya nodded and Yondaime appeared with Sandaime. "Hey, sorry were late, we got lost." said Minato as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly
The Konoha ninja stood gaping at the sight of the two Hokage's. Asuma was trembling as he was seeing his dead father.
"Tou-san?" asked Asuma uncertain.
Sarutobi turned to looked and see who was calling him, his eyes narrowed as he saw Asuma there. "Asuma…?" he asked
"W-what…h-how…?" Asuma stuttered.
Sarutobi sighed and shook his head. "Sit down and let me explain." he said as the Konoha ninja sat down and waited.
After an hour of explaining everything the Konoha ninja understood what was going on and why the dead were alive. Asuma invited the shinigami to come to Konoha and meet everyone again and rest, Naruto needed to get patched up after all.
They agreed without a second thought and started walking away towards Konoha. On the way to Konoha Naruto started talking to his father.
"So…how did Yugito take it?" he asked
"Well when we got there I invited her to stay at our place." he responded
"Our place?" the blond asked "Why?"
"Well there was nowhere to let her stay and it just seemed fair." his father responded with a sly grin
"What did Haku-chan say?" the blond asked
"Well you will be surprised to find out that she was quite alright with it and befriended the girl in a matter of seconds." his father responded
"You know…" said Toushirou "I don't get it what's with women and them getting along with each other so fast."
Yondaime sneered. "They get along at first, but when they find a common thing they like and get into a fight over it …well…"
"Common thing?" asked Naruto "Like what?"
"Well you will be surprised." responded Minato "Clothing, jewelry…boys…"
Hitsugaya shivered. "Man I hate to be the guy that has two girls fighting over him…"
"But at the same time you would love to be in his place…" grinned Minato
"True, true…" nodded the captain
It didn't take long for the group to reach Konoha. As they passed the gates everyone was looking at the deceased Hokage's strangely. They were all looking with wide eyes and gaping.
But when everyone looked at Naruto and saw the whisker marks they glared wondering why the demon was still alive. Naruto was not obvious to this, no one from the group was. Hitsugaya wanted to cut the villagers in many pieces, but then he would be attacked by ninja and he couldn't take all of them down with this suppression seal. He was limited only to his shikai, same going for Naruto and the two Kage.
It didn't take long for the group to reach the Hokage tower. Asuma knocked at the door and they heard someone telling them to come in. As they entered they saw a busty blond woman behind the desk working on papers. She looked up at Asuma.
"So mission successful?" she asked not seeing the four new people.
"Yes." responded the jounin "And we have visitors." he said looking at the shinigami
Tsunade looked to see where he was looking and her eyes widen at what she saw. Her mouth opened wide and started gaping at the sight.
"Sandaime?" she asked "Yondaime?"
Sarutobi smiled and nodded at her while Minato grinned and laughed when he saw her face, he was soon joined in laugher by Naruto.
"See son?" asked Minato "I told you baa-chan makes funny faces." suddenly a fist connected with his face sending him through the wall
"Not even in death you have no respect!" she yelled at the blond Hokage
"Wow…" Naruto whispered to Hitsugaya "For an old hag she surely hits." the captain nodded amazed
Tsunade glared at both boys that started to shrink under her gaze. They backed away and hugged each other in fear, they were trembling all of a sudden. No way in hell would they want to be punched like that.
"Could someone tell me what the hell is going on here?" yelled Tsunade
Minato came back from the hole and smiled at her. "If you ask…" he responded and started to tell the story Sarutobi told the Konoha ninja a few hours ago.
When he was done explaining the fifth looked at them strangely. "So let me get this straight…you are here to kill Orochimaru and the Akatsuki?" she asked
Minato nodded. "Seems simple doesn't it?" he asked grinning
Tsunade sighed. "And who is this?" she asked pointing to Naruto and Hitsugaya
"Toushirou Hitsugaya." responded the white haired kid "Captain of the tenth division." he finished with a bow
Tsunade blinked at him and looked at Minato. "See this is how someone should behave." she told him as she pointed to the white haired boy who started blushing at the compliment.
Minato started scratching the back of his head. "I guess." "Oh please don't let Naruto act like me." he prayed. If Naruto would act like him he would get beaten for sure, he just knew it.
"And you are?" Tsunade asked looking at Naruto
"Uzumaki Namikaze Naruto, believe it!" shouted the blond
Tsunade blinked and looked at Minato who was grinning sheepishly, she looked at the miniature Minato and them back at the original and so on.
"Baa-chan you alright?" asked Naruto waving his hand towards her
A vein appeared on the Hokage's head as she turned and glared dangerously at Minato."Shit…I'm screwed." the blond man thought
"Even your son if like you!" shouted Tsunade "And on top of it all you never left me a message that you had a son!" she shouted as she tried to punch Minato, the blond man jumped away avoiding the punch
"Now I know why Kakashi never comes out of his house on the tenth of October." she said under her breath
"What was that?" asked Sarutobi
"Ugh…nothing." responded Tsunade, she looked at Izumo and Kotetsu, then at Shikamaru. "You three are free for today." the three nodded and left. Shikamaru stopped near Naruto and patted him on the shoulder
"Good to see you again Naruto." he said as he walked out of the room. Naruto smiled at him.
"So what should we do?" asked Minato
"Hello!" shouted Naruto "Injured person here!" he told them as he pointed at them
"Oops…forgot all about you." replied Minato scratching the back of his head
Tsunade shook her head and walked over to Naruto. "Let me heal you." she said
"Umm…you can't." Sarutobi said
Tsunade looked at him and blinked. "Why?" she asked
"He is dead, he needs to be healed by someone with reiatsu, chakra healing won't work on him, I thought we already explained this."
"Oh…" said Tsunade blushing in embarrassment.
"No worries, I called for the fourth squad, they will arrive in an hour or so." said Toushirou as he pocketed his soul phone.
"Wake me up when they get here." said Naruto as he closed his eyes.
"No wait don't fall asleep!" shouted Minato but the blond already collapsed on the floor.
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Naruto woke up in his mind space. He looked around and saw Kouen and Seiryou smiling at him. Or at least he thought that Seiryou was smiling at him because his helmet was still on his face.
"You did good kid." Seiryou praised
"Indeed, I can't believe you could use my shikai that good." laughed Kyuubi
"Well…I guess it wasn't that hard." replied the blond
"Right, right…now we need to get down to business." replied Kouen
Naruto looked at the fox. "And that is?"
"Remember when I you that you weren't suppose to die?" asked Kyuubi and the blond nodded. "Well, what I didn't tell you is that you were supposed to do something…"
"And that is?" asked Naruto
"You were supposed to kill the Akatsuki and bring peace to the elemental countries."
"Say what?" shouted Naruto as he stood up and looked at the fox shocked.
"It is true, the reason I am still here is because Shinigami-sama made me, I was suppose to help you bring this peace by keeping you alive." replied the fox with a sigh
"Oh man…can't things get any stranger?" asked Naruto
"I'm afraid they can." answered the fox "You see, you need to kill the leader of the Akatsuki…"
"Of course when you do that we will help you." Seiryou said as he sat under a tree looking at the sky
"Yes we will…but the main idea is that this world is destroying itself."
"How come?" asked the blond
"The Akatsuki want to use the power of the bijuu for who knows what, but if they combine the powers, at least five of them they will open a portal to hell and…well things won't look too good."
"Let me guess…hell is where Hollow's are as well." replied Naruto
"In a way yes, but no…" said Kyuubi
"huh?"
"Its like this Naruto." Seiryou said "Hell is were the demons are and were bad spirits so to call them go. The Hollow world is close to Hell but they are not connected."
"Then how would the hollows come out?" asked Naruto
"When hell opens the demons will kill people, the amount of reiatsu that would explode from all that will attract hollows…many of them."
"Now I get it." replied Naruto "When the hollows will come they will devour every soul and create more hollows and then it is possible for them to come to Seireitei."
"Exactly…" said Seiryou
"So what are we suppose to do?" asked Naruto
"We will have to destroy the Akatsuki while we are here." replied Kyuubi
A/N: This chapter is short…I know…but it happens sometime…anyway…please look on my profile for the polls…I have some polls up there, please vote there and don't reply with answers here.
Also my deepest apologies for grammar mistakes and so on, but it can't be helped, I am human and I make mistakes, I am not perfect.