Shadowclone076 Reborn

Listen to Afterlife-Avenged Sevenfold. It inspired this chapter: a guy that refuses to go to heaven, instead choosing life, wanting to go there when his real time arrives. Listen to the lyrics, they add up.

Beta: Animewatcher4685

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto (but I do own the characters I created)

(If inclined, listen to one of these songs, you decide when.)

"Speech"

'Thought'

Reading

"Demon/Hideo Talking"

Theme song: This Is War by Thirty Seconds To Mars (I don't own them either. Imagine the fight in Mac's dream, the one with all the anime hero's vs. villain's!)

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Ichi was at his apartment, lying in bed deep in thought. The decision he had to make was not easy, and it weighed heavily on him that he could ruin hundreds of relationships if he didn't go. Naruto for one. In the original series, he wanted to get stronger to save Sasuke. If he doesn't go, Naruto won't grow as fast. At the same time, if he doesn't go, he could help strengthen the leaf by exploiting what he does know and won't change simply because of time. For example, Danzo. Ichi would easily exploit all that dirt and lead two bombs within each other's blast range.

He sat up, looking around at his blue, dull apartment. Sasuke had a gigantic place, Ichi felt envious. Sasuke was strong, he was smart, and he was a leader for a short time. Ichi was there, he was cautious, and he was the reason his best friend died in the previous world…

"Dammit, I guess my choice is clear."

*Knock Knock*

Ichi sat up, looking at his door with a puzzled expression.

'Probably Sakura again, I can admire persistence, but she is Lee's girl.'

Ichi jumped off his bed, and opened his front door to see-

"Yo"

"Kakashi, why are you here?"

The scarecrow sensei walked into his apartment without any permission and casually looked around.

"I came to talk to you about something."

Ichi closed the door and sighed. That was right; this is the part where Sasuke was supposed to be upset about losing to his bro. Only that never happened, so why was he still here?

"I am fine, you can leave now." Ichi still had to draw up plans. Unlike Mac, he can't afford to tear holed in this plan.

"I will, I will, I just wanted to ask you about these."

Kakashi threw a scroll onto the floor in front of ichi. It rolled open to reveal his…

'CRAP!'

"Apparently you are planning to either defect to Orochimaru for the better good, or Stay in the leaf and kill Danzo, who was supposed to be covert." Said Kakashi with an eye smile. It changed quickly to a serious glare.

Ichi immediately commenced operation crapping duck!

"Those are part of my dream journal! Look, here are my other entries!" Ichi tossed a random book he had been writing poetry in (In the Naruto world, there is no TV, Internet, OR video games. Slow hours are slow)

*Note: operation crapping duck involves the duck (Ichi) tossing as much BS at the opponent as possible*

Kakashi faltered for a second, but used his ninja reasoning to recover.

"Then explain how you know who Danzo is? How do you know exactly what he would do?"

Ichi mentally smiled.

"I'm a ninja, if I want to know about something, I research it by any means. He was the only one I got low info on, so I did my own."

Kakashi crossed his arms and sighed. "In the future, please don't spy on the Leaf officials. If your "dream journal" falls into the wrong hands, well, you know."

'I know exactly what you mean.'

Kakashi was about to leave when he said one more thing.

"Ichi, I can't force you to make a decision if you are against it, you will just find a way around it. Just don't make a decision you are going to regret." He Flash jumped away.

Ichi closed his door again and gathered his scrolls off the floor.

"I'd better burn these from now on."

Mac POV

Mac was walking towards where a random traveller told him the Mist was. The road was misty, sure, but the ground was cracked and dry, like it hadn't rained there for a long time.

"Hey, Hideo, do you believe there is a Kami?"

"Sure, He is why I am stuck in a dumbass body."

"Thank you! Anyways, I think so too, even though when I died, I came here."

"Oh this I gotta hear."

"You see, I was an asshole back then-

"Back then he says"

"-and a real womaniser. I use that word cause that's what Ichi called me."

"So this is hell for you?"

"Let me finish! At the same time I was that, I was also a cop, helping shoot mafia grunts in the kneecaps and slam a bat into random thugs gold teeth, which I sold after they flew out. All legal!"

"I refuse to believe that is a redeeming act."

"But really, what really made me a God guy was that he gave me a best friend that could handle my level of awesome! Most people bailed, saying that I was a "Bad influence" or "Too Intense"."

"Where is the redeeming act?"

"Uh, there is none, I just knew that Kami was an awesome dude."

"So you are saying Kami was torn weither to send you to heaven or hell?"

"I guess Awsome vs. Badass is a stalemate."

"What about Ichi? He seemed like a decent guy."

"Oh, him? He is! He was a guy who went the extra mile to help a guy out. A real team player."

"So you dragged him to Limbo with you?"

"Actually, he has a tragic but awesome backstory. You see, he had this girlfriend who he got along with like bread and butter. She was also fun! The only other person I could go frog shooting with!"

"*hurl*"

"But she didn't really believe in any Kami. Apparently she was a science gal. Then, when Ichi was starting to plan his proposal, she was hit by car. Hit n run. The same guy who we were chasing when we fell out that office building. Long story short: if you don't believe in kami, he won't accept you in heaven. Default is hell, so Ichi decided to start being a dick so he could see his girlfriend again."

"Wow…That's deep. Turning away from heaven for hell, knowing that even though heaven can give you everything you want, it won't give you the one you need."

"Don't go all soft on me, he forgot about her! Dude even forgot his own name. Damn that was lucky though, he probably would have tried to commit suicide again…ha." Mac laughed weakly.

"So because he was such a good guy, and suddenly stopped believeing, he was sent with you to Limbo."

"…You don't understand. The guy is a good guy, he deserves to be happy."

"I may not have known you for a long time, but I know you got a heart of gold."

Mac continued to walk in silence, something bugging his subconscious. It was Hideo.

"You should tell him. You should tell him. You should tell him. You should tell him."

"You think I don't want to?! The guy will break down!"

Out of the bushes jumped an anbu ninja, who was wearing a mist headband.

'Crap! I was too loud!'

"You! You're coming with me!" Said the Anbu, readying a kunai.

"Ok."

"Don't even try any sudden- Wha?"

"I said ok."

"Uh, ok. I'll just restrain you then."

Mac has been captured!

"WHY! WHY DID YOU LET HIM DO THAT!?"

"Let's be honest, we aren't going to find the Mist without a GPS. So we got this guy!"

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Hopefully this will shed some light on the backstory of Ichi! I have been piecing together a ton of my own puzzle pieces and made a valid reason for Ichi being without a real love interest, his GF is dead! Dark, but most backstories in anime are.

(Update times: 2 weeks+-)