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 four
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It was his ninth birthday, the end and beginning of every new year of his life seemed to bring about the mastery of an aspect of his being and the start of mastery of another. It was a cycle which started when he was five years old, and he first saw the Shinigami drag out the rabbit eared one from within his mindscape, as well as activating the dormant memories and powers that he had gained when he was conceived, as well as reincarnated.
He still had his elites, his revenants, his servants that were the closest things to human and being alive, as well as possessing almost all they had in life, save for memories of family and friends, and most of their personality. He still had that one asrai, who could be likened to one of the Hoozuki clan members of Mizu no Kuni, except she didn't look all that much like water in her solid form.
He had added sixty more skeleton warriors as the previous year passed by, since he realized that every time a team left for missions he was left with fewer hands to work around the property, from maintenance to security, as well as picking up the bodies that were left by his main gate.
The wall that surrounded the property and the gate, had been reconstructed, from one made out of simple metal, to one made out of rock, solid rock. Naruto had had to purchase the necessary materials for its construction, it was a good thing that he stumbled upon the rest of the powers of the third door, luck or karmic manipulation. From then on he used it when he needed a bit more luck in a situation, it didn't really require any chakra for some reason, and so he used it when gambling in the many gambling dens in Konoha, in his Hyuuga form of course, complete with what he wore when he rescued Hinata, which caused a few Hyuuga to investigate, but they were unable to speak to him outside of games. He called himself Yuurei, or Rei for short.
The Hyuuga finally knew where he hung out, but not where he lived. Hiashi didn't mind that the savior of his daughter was running around without directly serving the clan, but the elders of the clan were not, they wanted him either controlled or killed. They had control issues, since the clan head didn't want anything to be done to the boy, and he actually still wanted to thank him. He wondered still who the boy was, as well as his parents, since no one knew of him. Viewed from a certain angle his facial structure kind of reminded some of the Yondaime Hokage.
His ninth birthday came with quite the surprise from the Sandaime, he had actually been given more land, the reason was that many that owned land near his had suffered some misfortunes, nothing life threatening although there was that one guy who ended up half dead from peeping on Kasumi in one of the village onsens. Those that suffered from the misfortunes had sold the land to the Sandaime for cheap, who decided to simply purchase the land for Naruto using his money, Naruto had opened up a bank account, luckily he was with the Sandaime at the time, and therefore his money was safe from thieves. The other reason was just to get rid of land that no one would have wanted to purchase.
Most of the new land was flat and barren land where some local farmers had grown their crops, but after a year of disasters making the harvest bad, they had sold the land and purchased new land somewhere else. One part of the land had this very deep ravine in it, one which was said to have come from a battle a long time ago where the earth swallowed up an army thanks to the technique that formed it.
With the new lands, Naruto had Izuna purchase new raw materials for a fence to be made around the property extension, viewing his original piece of land as his personal compound, and the rest as his kind of garden. He also needed to make sure that the ravine was cordoned off, he didn't want to see any recent corpses in there of stupid people falling in. He also commissioned his skeletons to build a bridge over the thing so that crossing was easier.
But that was only one of his birthday surprises, the second one came at night, when the day was about to end, actually it was closer to midnight already when it happened. While looking up at the sky from the top of his tree he saw a great many spirits rise up into the sky before vanishing into nothingness. Looking out over the village, he noticed that they all seemed to be coming from the same place, the Uchiha district.
Thinking quickly he jumped off the tree, free falling knowing that before he hit the ground one of his servants was bound to catch him, out of all their responsibilities was ensuring his safety, unless he directly ordered them not to. Which is what happened when Hashi suddenly leapt off from a branch he was resting on to catch his master, and bring him down to the ground. Naruto's couch was still right beside the base of the great tree.
"Izuna," Naruto spoke, "I need to know what's happening in the Uchiha district, I fear something despicable is afoot."
Izuna nodded, and left the compound, using shunshin, he headed for the Uchiha district as fast as his undead legs could carry him. What he saw were some fifty individuals massacring the clan. The bodies of men, women, and children littered the streets, the homes. There was blood and there were bodies everywhere.
His eyes locked on to whom he believed were the ringleaders of the operation, and found himself looking at a pair of Uchiha. Traitors to their own clan, or so Izuna believed, he himself knew that back when he was alive he was an Uchiha, he knew not of his family, or friends, or even enemies, but he had a feeling that he was supposed to know the older of the two traitors.
He sensed that there were still a few among the living in the area, none of which held any killing intent, but rather were more intent on hiding, running, protecting, and generally fighting for their very lives. He made a split second decision to engage the two ringleaders, knowing that his master would feel or know what he was doing, somewhat.
He remembered to cover his face, it wouldn't do for anyone that didn't know of his existence to see his face. He quickly engaged both men, drawing his two ninjatos that he had picked up on one of his missions, that was mostly how his fellow servants had gotten their gear, clothes were magically given to them by their master.
The two murderers were surprised when they were suddenly attacked from out of nowhere by a person that they had failed to sense. It was a dance of death which they weaved in and out of each other's blows. Even with their Sharingans active they were unable to really track his movements as he had a pair of his own as well, not that they knew that.
The other operatives of the battle soon found that they could progress no further, they were stopped from proceeding by the arrival of Izuna's reinforcements, which consisted of the rest of his platoon along with the other two. They tore into these false Anbu, Tobi soon figured it out after seeing a certain tattoo.
The murderers of the Uchiha clan did not know what to make of their situation, no where in the mission briefing was it mentioned that they would fight something else beside the Uchiha. They soon found out that their opponents were far from human, they did not stop when stabbed, and kept moving forward even after their heads had been severed, their comrades simply picked up the head and reattached it to the body.
While his forces were engaged with the murderers, Naruto himself darted in and out of houses and homes in search of any potential survivors. He had located a few, children mostly that had been missed by the people that killed their parents. They had been knocked out by their parents, Naruto theorized, so that they would not make any noise.
He carted off their unconscious forms, and brought them to Kasumi that was not participating in the battle, for her to look after in case any of them awoke. It was also safer they they stay with her as she would ensure their safety until someone else arrived. Naruto was actually wondering where the Hokage was, wasn't he supposed to protect the village, even from itself.
He had managed to locate a total of ten children, none of which he personally knew, they were far too young to have been considered as proper Uchiha, or that was what he thought Izuna would have informed him of. He did find one adult alive, though barely, she was found in the head's house, which more or less either made her Sasuke's mother or older sister, not that Naruto really knew much about that matter, but he had a feeling she was the mother.
He checked her over, only to find out that she had been dealt a killing blow, she was losing far too much blood that it would be impossible to save her life even if he was well versed in healing, which he really wasn't. The only healing he knew how to do was the kind that had to do with his undead troops and with himself.
"I'm sorry, I can't save you," he told her, as she lay dying in a growing pool of her own blood, "But I'll stay with you, until the end."
She tried to smile at him, but the pain coupled with the blood loss seemed to be too much for her, but at the end she smiled, a rather strained smile.
He saw her spirit rise out of her body, but instead of floating away, it remained there hovering over her form.
"Why aren't you moving on?" he asked her since he could see her.
"I'm dead?" she asked.
"Pretty much," he replied, "I know I said I'd stay until the end, but I got people out there that might need my help. By the way, who did this to you?"
"M-My husband...he said...I was a needed s-sacrifice for him to be stronger..." she said.
"I saw his body," Naruto said, "He's dead, even saw his spirit go bye bye."
"Since you can see me...is there anything you can do for me now?" she asked him, "I really don't want to be dead..."
"Well...there is something," Naruto said, "But you'll lose some of your memories if I do it."
"That's alright," she said, "Not many of them are happy ones anyway."
"Then its settled," he then snapped his fingers and two skeletons entered the room he was in, "Take her body home, clean it up, and also gather up the bodies of the dead children, I have some use for them as well, if there are spirits lingering with the body tell them to follow."
The skeletons nodded and one of them lifted the body, while the other went off in search for some help with the carcass collection.
No one was really sure how long the battle had taken place, but it had to end when another more noticeable chakra signature approached. Naruto gave the order to retreat, as well as to collect the bodies of their fallen foes, they would make great additions to his zombie force, shinobi zombies were a lot faster than the run of the mill civilian kind after all, he intended for their bodies to retain all wounds, save for loss of limb or head.
Izuna was the last one to leave, he was able to force Itachi and Madara to retreat, both of whom Naruto recognized when he catch a glimpse of their retreating forms. It just so happened that Sasuke had witnessed the tail end of the battle, and tried to follow Izuna back to base.
Sasuke managed to follow Izuna back to the edge of Naruto's lands, he was faced with an imposing structure, the only gate into the main compound of the lands. The only compound for that matter. He looked at the gate and tried to find a way to open the gate, finding none, he decided to wait for the man to exit the gate, so he could ask him his questions, like why he had attacked the clan, and why was he fighting Itachi, and who was that other guy.
Inside the compound, Naruto had Kasumi deal with the ten kids he had found all of them were tired and scared due to the experience, so Naruto provided them with some futons to sleep on, some food and drink as well.
Before going to bed himself, he felt a presence by the gate, so he went there to investigate, what he found was Uchiha Sasuke sitting on the ground staring at the gate.
"What are you doing here?" Naruto asked, opening the small door of the gate to ask his question.
"You! So you were the one who hired an assassin to kill my clan!" Sasuke accussed, and prepared to attack, but stopped when the gate parted to reveal a literal army of skeletons, their illusions weren't applied to them.
"If you harm our master," Izuna warned, moving to stand protectively in front of Naruto, "We will finish the job your brother started."
"You! You were the one!" Sasuke said, preparing to do something rather reckless, he was forced to stop this time, by none other than the Hokage, who arrived with a squad of Anbu.
"Enough," the Hokage said.
"Why?" Sasuke demanded, "He killed my clan!"
"Naruto," the Hokage said, "Kindly explain."
The Anbu felt weary in the presence of walking skeletons, they had been briefed by the Kage about what they could possibly be faced with. But that still didn't help them when they came face to face with the skeletons surrounding them.
"I was watching the stars from atop my tree, when I saw a lot of spirits," Naruto explained, "I looked out over the village and saw that they were coming from the Uchiha district, so I sent Izuna to investigate. He decided that it would be a good idea to fight the attackers, and since I can tell no matter the distance what my servants are doing, I brought reinforcements. I got fifty additional servants from the battle, while the two that attacked the clan escaped."
"Did you get a good look at the attackers?" the Hokage asked.
"Yeah..." Naruto said, "I still can't believe that he would kill his family like that, I know his dad was a teme, but still to do that far...the other guy was something else too though."
"Who attacked the Uchiha? And who is this other man?" the Hokage asked.
"Itachi and I've never seen the other guy in my life, he kinda looked like an Uchiha too," Naruto refrained from mentioning that he knew the guy's name, since he'd have to explain how he knew, and he didn't really want to share that secret with so many ears around.
"Thank you for trying to save them," the Hokage said, "Is there anything else?"
"Yeah...some of the dead bodies were not killed by Itachi and friends," Naruto said, "They were killed by some of the Uchiha themselves...Sasuke's mom told me that his dad killed her for power or something like that before she died."
"Why didn't you help her!" Sasuke said, after hearing the part about his mom talking and dying.
"Moving her would have made her pass away faster, and I'm no healer, also by the time any medic would have arrived, she'd have been dead already from blood loss," Naruto said, "Hokage-jiji, I was also able to rescue ten children, they're at home resting, I have Kasumi watching them."
"Very well," the Hokage said, "Anbu, follow Naruto-kun..."
"I think maybe you should do that in the morning," Naruto said, "They've just gone through a traumatic experience, and need some rest...Sasuke should too, but I don't think it would be a good idea for him to be alone right now...or for him to stay with me."
"He does have a point, Hokage-sama," one of the Anbu voiced his opinion.
"Very well," the Hokage said, "We'll come pick them up tomorrow, Sasuke come with me."
"Hai..." Sasuke said, knowing that he stood no chance against any of the people present, or those things that called the dobe 'master'.
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In the morning Hiruzen was greeted by the most unusual and even more creepy sight when he knocked on the gate of Naruto's compound. He would have jumped in, but since he had already experienced nearly dying due to the security measures of the place, he chose the safer route and knocked.
The gate parted, it did not swing, it was more like a sliding door than a swinging one after all, and there standing before him were all of the young members of the Uchiha clan. From the assumed to be dead and incinerated, to the ten that had lived.
"What is the meaning of this?" he demanded, then noticed Uchiha Mikoto as well, though she didn't look right for some reason, it was as if she was a new person. It was then and there that he was glad that he didn't bring Sasuke with him.
"Apparently...the most recent generations of Uchiha were not so kind to their children," Naruto spoke appearing from within the group, "Many of them were conditioned into becoming emotionless killer, traumatized, and whole host of other negative things. When they died, their spirits were restless, and did not want to move on, fearing what they would see in the after life. So I gave them a choice. They could either become my servants, or I would force them to pass on."
"Then they all are..." the Hokage said.
"The ten that I spoke of are still human, and alive," Naruto said, "I had to modify their memories a little so they would forget what had happened last night. The zombies have very few memories of their lives...this should allow them to have an extended childhood, as only I and another exactly like me would be able to make them age."
"What of Mikoto? I thought she died as well, though I do admit we never did recover her body," Hiruzen said.
"She didn't want to die, and convinced me into taking the other route," Naruto explained, "She is like my three elites, in that she retains much of herself, but with a number of her memories in life no longer being a part of her."
"I see," the Hokage said, then ushered the children over to him, reassuring them that he would find homes for them, Naruto told them it was okay, and that the Hokage would indeed help them, "What is her purpose?" he asked after some med-nin arrived to take the children away, the living ones, they paid Naruto no mind.
"She is to take care of these zombie children," Naruto said, "Even zombies need a mother sometimes."
"Very well," the Hokage said, "I admit they look different from when they were alive...but just to keep them and you safe, I require a compiled list of all your servants, for record keeping and such, you understand of course."
"Hai," Naruto said, "Oh yeah, I just remembered something."
"What is it?"
"Tobi said, that the fifty other attackers were from Ne, whatever that is, though I do have an idea," Naruto said, "Since I did turn them into zombies too, there wasn't much of a personality to salvage, so I left them as they were, more or less."
"Thank you for that information," the Hokage said, "But without a testimony from a living person, I won't be able to do anything about it."
"I figured as much," Naruto said, "Just wanted to give you a heads up, before I go change for school."
"You're going to the academy today? Why? You rarely go," the Kage asked.
"I don't think being absent today would be a good idea, considering the circumstances, and what Sasuke might spread," Naruto said.
"Alright," the Hokage said, then bid him farewell as he needed to return to the bane of his existence.
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Sometime during his tenth year of existence, Naruto found himself distracting the villagers so that they wouldn't hurt a relatively innocent individual from their hate for all things demonic in nature. Someone had let slip of Yugito's identity as a jinchuuriki, and since the people just couldn't stand the thought of there being two of them, well, Naruto had to intervene.
He made sure that all the mobs that had formed had to deal with the Corpse Brigade, which was the nickname given to Naruto's undead army, while no one could tell the difference at first, they began to run screaming for the Hokage to save them from undead assassins after one of the skeletons got blown to pieces only for it to reform itself.
It was jinchuuriki hunting day, and Yugito not knowing why things were happening was forced to flee from the mobs since she was not allowed to fight back due to the seal she still sported. Naruto planned on fixing that real soon, or as soon as he could get his hands on her.
His elites were busy scouring the village for her, the chakra detecting barrier around the village would alert the Anbu if Yugito decided to try and leave the village for whatever reason, which meant that she was still in the village.
"Don't bother coming for a visit today," Naruto told the old man, "We're in a bit of a crisis, since the villagers think that there are now two demons in Konoha, and good luck coming up with an excuse for my Corpse Brigade being in the village. They're her as distractions and protection, not assassination."
"Uh...ok...?" the Hokage unsure of himself at that moment, "Are you planning on doing something to Yugito?"
"Er...not really," Naruto admitted, "Just gonna make sure she's safe from the wrath of the village, I'm sure there are some shinobi that would want to have their way with her to appease the villagers or something."
"Where will you be taking her once you do find her?" the Hokage asked.
"Into the ravine," Naruto replied, "Ja ne!"
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She was cornered and the seal placed on her prevented her from harming any civilians, even for self defense. She believed that her life was finally over, until three shinobi descended on the mob, while not tearing them to pieces, they made quick work of them, knocking each and every one of them out, before shifting their attention to her.
"Follow us," Hashi ordered, his tone allowing no room for argument, he then leapt up to the roof tops, followed by Yugito and the other two elites.
She followed them in the direction of the cemetery and the Haunted District, while not necessarily a district, the citizens of Konoha treated the place as such and only visited on a dare, a mission, or was on death's door, or was already dead. She didn't know what the three shinobi had planned, but since she couldn't attack them either, she did as she was told.
Naruto had done some redecorating when it came to the gate of his compound. He had as it look not only formidable, but by the light of a full moon, it would give off an unnatural aura, helped by the mists that his security systems produced. All sorts of illusions were also put in place within the outer most part of the compound, the trees were covered in illusions that made them look alive, alive in the sense that they looked like horrific anthropomorphic haunted forest type trees, that occasionally would grab onto any that passed them by. A few Anbu had tried to get to Naruto's home, as they considered the place even more dangerous than the Forest of Death, which was the Anbu training ground.
Yugito didn't know what to think as she was led into the compoud, as soon as the gates parted, revealing the Haunted forest that had that huge tree looming overhead. She kept her body close to the man in the lead, she swore that she had seen his face from somewhere, but she couldn't quite figure out where she had seen him, or who he looked like, or even where she had seen his likeness, or one of the other two for that matter.
As the gate audibly shut behind the group, after a few minutes of walking they were met with children of all things, some of which, she noticed, sported scars, and the like, some others also had stitches in some places.
Then the group met up with what appeared to be the children's caretaker, she called to the children to stop bothering the guest, and led them away to play somewhere else.
Yugito didn't know what to think of the Haunted District now, seeing its inhabitants for the first time. By the time they had reached their destination, she had met with or witnessed some of the other inhabitants. They moved silently within the forest. Not making a single sound.
Their destination was one she had not been expecting at all. It was a traditional looking house house, complete with a garden surrounding it, and a koi pond, she was given a tour of the place as her saviors were apparently waiting for their master to arrive. She had been shown the onsen, then finally the base of the great tree.
A woman provided her with a chair to sit on as the couch was off limits to all but their master as they waited for him. She asked them about him, as well as why she had been brought there. They did not reply to that question, but they answered anything else she asked them, like what their names were, or if the moving skeletons were real or genjutsu.
A few minutes later a body dropped from the treetops, landing expertly onto the couch.
"Nice to finally meet you,Yugito-san," Naruto said, "I am known as Uzumaki Naruto, and I am the master of all that lives in the Haunted District, as well as its owner. Do you have any questions for me?"
"You are the master of this place, and these people?" she asked him, she looked at him incredulously, "While I find that hard to believe, no one seems to be disproving you, so I am forced to believe you."
"Do you have any questions?" Naruto repeated.
"Ah..yes...I do," she said, "Why was I brought here?"
"Because this is the safest place for you while Hokage-jiji fixes the situation," Naruto explained, "The revelation of what you are came at the worst time of the year, as you should know today is the day the Kyuubi was defeated, and Konoha lost a lot of lives during that battle, a lot of lives. The villagers know how to hold a grudge."
"You speak as if you have experienced what was going to happen to me today," she noted.
"I used to get beat up a lot on this day," he admitted, "For at one point in time, I was like you."
"Then you are a jinchuuriki too?" she said, "Then why are you free to do as you please?"
"Because Hokage-jiji was kind to me," Naruto said, "That and the Kyuubi is dead."
"What? How?" she said, "No one can kill a bijuu."
"Tch, well mine's dead," Naruto said, "Although I could be considered as the new Kyuubi...sort of...Hokage-jiji doesn't know that much though."
"Why not? You haven't told him?" she said.
"It is better this way," he said, "It is better than the real explanation for why I have an undead army at my disposal, or the other things I can do."
"Why are you telling me this?" she asked, "I could inform him next time I see him, since I doubt I'm here for you to kill."
"Of course I wouldn't kill you," Naruto said, "I watched as your seal was applied to you, I've been waiting for the perfect chance to nullify it."
"You can do that? Wait...why would you do that? You don't even know me," she said.
"I don't like the fact that a seal is being used to control you," Naruto said, "I don't like seals being used to control people in general, if the seal applied to someone helps protect them or others, then I'm fine with that."
"Oh," she said, "So...when are you going to do it?"
"As soon as my assistant gets here," Naruto said.
"You have an assistant?" she asked, "Are you sure that they're trustworthy?"
"Oh, very," Naruto assured her, "He'd never tell, and he's only doing this cause he likes me...or something like that."
"I'll stick with the something like that, if I were you," the Shinigami said appearing sitting beside Naruto on the couch which could fit three Akimichis, "I'm here to make sure you don't die...and if you do die, I'll make sure you don't stay dead."
"What are you?" she asked, unsure of the ominous presence that she felt as soon as he made himself known.
"Follow me inside," Naruto said, standing, then issued some orders, "Strip her, an bring her to the sealing room."
"What?!" she said, as she was grabbed by the three elites, and they proceeded to strip her then and there.
"You can call me Shinigami-sama," the Shinigami said as he followed Naruto into the house, and into the sealing room.
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The unsealing and resealing was a success, though Yugito had tried to castrate the ten year old once it was done. A feat which was difficult to do when she was suddenly teleported out of the room to the grounds where she was surrounded by Naruto's undead servants.
After calming her down, stating that all that had been done was required for the unsealing and sealing, he brought her to the ravine, where he had Hashi drop her into. Free falling was one of the scariest things to ever happen to her in her life. The experience was made even more frightening when Naruto and his elites caught up to her, followed by Mikoto and the children. She thought that she was going to die, as she watched three of the elites playing Go Fish with Naruto as they fell.
She couldn't understand how they could all be so calm about falling, Naruto who she was sure was alive, and not a ghost since the Shinigami told her that he wasn't dead, didn't seem to care at all that there was no chance of survival. She had forgotten to scream, but when she was about to she was silenced by Mikoto, changed to Miko, since she was trying to put one of the children to sleep.
"You won't die," Naruto said, "Don't worry about it, we're just dropping in on my servant factory."
When they reached the bottom of the ravine they did not go splat, since each and every one of them were caught by a hand that suddenly burst from the walls, and set them down on the floor of the ravine.
Yugito didn't know what she was supposed to expect, so she was sufficiently surprised when she found something like a coal mine near where they landed. The only light there was torchlight. There were zombies, and skeletons, walking around the place.
"Welcome to my bone mine," Naruto said, "We'll stay here until Hokage-jiji decides to come fetch you."
"So you're just going to hand me over to the Hokage, after changing my seal?" she asked him.
"Pretty much," Naruto said, "Just don't tell him about the seal change, while he didn't approve of it, he doesn't need to know about it."
"Ok," she said, "So...what are we going to be doing in here?"
"Well, you can explore a bit," Naruto said, "I'll be in the factory."
The factory he spoke of really did look like a factory or some sort of processing plant. What ever was carted out of the mines were brought to the building.
"Where did you get so many undead? I mean the bodies and the bones," she said.
"Eh...you wouldn't believe how many people are left on my front door," Naruto said, "I got some of 'em from there, the others were found underground, or by accident. I only need some genetic material or body part to create or recreate a whole body. Its only the energy requirement that decides what they'll look like in the end."
"Your..uh...servants aren't going to randomly attack me are they?" she asked, having never really had to deal with authentic undead.
"They won't unless you either provoke them, or attack me," Naruto said, then walked off to bring more servants to unlife, from humans to whatever else had bones in his bone mine. He already had added some undead animals to his compound, he was still debating with the spirits at the cemetery whether or not he should unleash some to the rest of his property.
Yugito decided to walk around the mine a little bit, she was quite interested in knowing what exactly could be found within, as well as what dangers the place could hold for an invading army. While she was grateful to Naruto for eliminating the control that the village had over her, she still believed that deep down she was still a Kumo-nin, and therefore would one day get the chance to betray the leaf and show where her loyalties truly lay.
She observed the undead, most of them were slow moving, and so she concluded that they were only of use if they attacked en masse, or could be used as meat shields. But they had one big advantage over any invading force. They were already dead, and therefore would not be affected by facing such a thing on the battlefield. She also remembered that Naruto was liked by the Shinigami, and therefore would have to take that into consideration.
Inside the factory, Naruto was able to use something he had stumbled upon in his training. The first door had let loose another power, this one was the manipulation of time. While he couldn't turn back time, he could make it slow down or speed up, or stop. But there was a time limit when it came to stopping time. Inside the factory time was moving differently, it was different from the outside, in that if Naruto were to be doing what he was doing in regular time, it would take him the whole year, but within the factory at the moment it would take him just until he knew the Sandaime would arrive to pick up the jinchuuriki.
"Naruto-sama," Izuna entered the space, seeminly unaffected by the sudden change of the flow of time, "Hokage-sama, is by the bridge, I informed him that I would inform you of his presence."
"Find Yugito, and we shall rise up, with the rest, prank him a bit," Naruto said, "After all, he doesn't know just how many of you there are."
"Very well," Izuna said, and left the building to search for Yugito, only to find her as he exited the building, she looked to be about to enter the building.
"Would it be alright for me to explore the inside?" she asked him.
"Not at this time," he said, "Hokage-sama, is waiting for us."
Naruto exited the building a moment later, followed by a lot more than just human zombies or skeletons.
"Break time!" he shouted, "We'll be scaring the Hokage! So climb up those walls, and exit the mine, head for home, and I'll see you there!"
The undead army began to scale the walls of the ravine, they did so faster than Yugito thought that they could move. The ones that were scaling the walls without any tools were the skeleton warriors or shinobi zombies. The ones that actually did move slowly, were the regular skeletons and civilian zombies, these ones launched hooks, and pulled themselves up.
"No popping out of the ground!" Naruto shouted before some of the undead could reenter the mines, they could freely move through the earth without really displacing any.
There was more than human undead that were running, climbing, pulling themselves up the walls. There were also a reserve worth of undead animals, from simple animal skeletons to emaciated animal corpses to almost alive looking animal zombies. From rats to animals that Yugito had never seen, even in a book, before.
Some of them were flying, actually flying, even the skeletal ones, and Yugito didn't think asking how it was possible would make her feel any better. It really was like a zombie apocalypse.
Some of the remaining living skeletons remained with them on the ground. Then they began dog pilling one another, Yugito watched as they formed some kind of bone throne and platform. Upon which Naruto took a seat.
"You coming or what?" he asked her as the zombie children climbed onto the platform along with the elites, Miko, and Kasumi.
"Coming," Yugito said, and made her way to the platform.
"Ground floor!" Naruto said, and the platform began to rise, slowly at first, then began to pick up speed.
"*"
The Sandaime was waiting along with his Anbu protective detail, on the bridge which connected the two sides of the ravine in Naruto's property. He had been expecting Naruto to jump out or climb out with a small contingent of skeletons and his elite. What he did not expect was for his Anbu to run screaming about a zombie apocalypse as soon as zombies, and skeletons began crawling from out of the ravine. It was the first time he had ever seen skeletal birds that were actually flying.
His thoughts went to the worst case scenario when it came to Naruto and his necromantic powers. He thought that Naruto may have gone over the deep end and lost control of his powers resulting in the zombie apocalypse. Being the Hokage he decided to stay and try and either get Naruto to regain control of himself, or get rid of the source of the monsters.
He was rooted to the spot when bigger things started crawling or climbing out of the ravine. He didn't know what some of them were, but he did recognize a few from a museum he had decided to check out in his youth in the capital of the country.
Before Naruto's bone throne and platform rose out of the ravine, he had sent up an illusion of ghosts and spirits, for added effect. Which had the effect of making Hiruzen's mind go past worst case scenario to something even worse, the underworld had been breached. The old man couldn't move due to fear.
"Hi!" Naruto shouted once he was level with the bridge, which caused the Sandaime to go through something close to cardiac arrest, for a split second the old man had actually left his body, before he was pushed or pulled back into it.
The next thing the Hokage knew was that he was laying in a bed in one of Naruto's guest rooms in his house, in his compound, in the Haunted District, and no longer on the bridge above the ravine. As soon as he collected his thoughts, he decided to look out the window to be sure that what he saw had not really happened. He fainted dead away upon seeing all the monster outside the window.
Minutes later he woke to find himself with Naruto on a platform with a view somewhere in the great tree.
"Naruto," Hiruzen said.
"Hai, Hokage-jiji," Naruto said.
"Am I dead?" he asked.
"No," Naruto said, "If you were, we wouldn't be having this conversation."
"Alright," he said, "Now please tell me what just happened."
"You were the victim of a prank," Naruto stated, "Though now that I think about it, it wasn't that great of a prank, seeing as you kind of had a heart attack at the start, and fainted when you were in my house."
"Are you telling me that you have a literal undead army at your command?" the Hokage asked.
"Yeah, pretty much," Naruto said, "I decided to fill up the Haunted District with life...well...unlife...hehe..."
"You are going to be the death of me one day," the Hokage said.
"Uh..." Naruto said, not knowing how to proceed with the conversation.
"In any case," the Hokage said, "How long was I out?"
"Three hours give or take a few minutes, why?" Naruto asked while looking at the view.
"Well, I best be going now," the Hokage said, "The villagers might start to get worried, and I need to return Yugito to Anbu HQ, I've assured the village that she is of no threat to us, as well as passed a new law concerning her. Similar to yours, but not exactly the same, since a majority know her secret."
"I have a way of making the younger generation forget her secret," Naruto said.
"Oh? What is it?"
"Its like a genjutsu, but only I can do it," Naruto said, "I could do it from here, but I'd need at least pictures of the people I will be forcing to forget the secret."
"I'll get you those pictures," the Hokage said, a little desperate to get the village back to normal, "Do you need their names as well?"
"That would help," Naruto said, then asked, "What do you think about the view?"
"Its a great view," the Hokage said, "Your district doesn't look so foreboding from way up here."
"It will soon," Naruto said, "I'm thinking about letting some of the animal roam my land, the lack of wildlife is a bit disturbing for me."
"I'll allow it," the Hokage said, "But please remember to put up warning signs, and something to keep them in and people out."
"I will," Naruto said, "Wouldn't want people to freak out even more."
"What do you mean?" the Hokage asked.
"Don't you usually go everywhere with an escort?"
