Chapter 28: Long Day's Completion
"If today wasn't a rollercoaster enough, I've got a meeting that is sure to give me enough to cap off the week," Tsunade complaigned as she all but crashed behind her desk.
"What makes you say that? It's just a meeting after all," Naru smiled.
"Nothing's 'just' anything with you Naru. Now, stop wasting time, I need a nice long sleep after today and I feel like I need to start adding hours now."
"Maybe we should just start with the discussion, Fox-san. The others are weary from their travels as well," Inferno supplied, gaining a grateful glance from Tsunade.
"Well, Inferno, you may remove your hood now. I've placed privacy wards around the building this afternoon."
"And why couldn't you have done this earlier rather than have others do it for you," Tsunade queeried.
"Well, my jutsus are of a different nature now baa-san. They're more powerful and might have had an effect on Gaara from the demonic chakra. Inferno?"
As Inferno's hood dropped, Tsunade jumped up,"What is this, Naru? He's supposed to be dead!"
"It was all set up for Sasuk to be taken into the Akatsuki. I found out Madara's plan to kill me off for Sasuke. I thought of a way that would seem as if I were killed by him before hiding away. It was four months later that Naru found me.
"I didn't recognize her as the Kyuubi Jinchuuriki until later. It was tense before I joined Mekai Heki. Now, with Akatsuki abolished and many of the members dead, there were no questions about accepting her request to join her. With my mission to the Third Hokage done, there was nothing left and I was a dead man on the run. Naru offered asylum in the likely case that Konoha would not provide it."
"Those four months; what were you doing all that time?"
"Trying to get in touch with Jiraiya-sensei. That's what lead me to him," Naru answered.
Tsunade heaved a sigh as she pulled out a cup of sake and took a shot,"So what now? I take it that you can't tell me anything about what you have been doing since then."
"Other than running Mekai Heki for Naru while she's been here, no."
"What about Sasuke?"
"He doesn't know I'm alive yet, but that's all up t Naru."
They both looked at the demon mistress.
"He was so sure that he had killed Itachi and claimed that nobody could survive whatever he did. I'm currently testing him."
"Testing him? What do you mean by that?"Tasunade asked, cautiously.
"Well, it was sort of a 'spur of the moment' thing. I asked him what he would do if you were alive now, knowing why you killed your clan and left him alive."
"You what? He's not ready for that kind of pressure!"
"Hokage-sama, who do you think his psychoanalysis?"
"What do you mean?"
"Anko was the one who evaluated him."
"She taught me so I didn't have to tell her what my plans were. We think alike in many areas," naru replied before answering the Hokage,"He's mentally safe and it won't harm him to think about things for once. Look at it this way: if he leaves, we know there's a large chance that he will leave us again."
"And if he doesn't? What are your plans for him then?"
"Sorry, that's confidential," Naru grinned.
"Do you want him to die?"
Q:how can someone come back from being eaten by a shinigami?
A: Lol, I actually didn't even think about that when I was writing, it just kind of made sense to me.
Well, when the 3rd Hokage was fighting Orochimaru there was a spirit entity there that did all this. I know this is not the Shinigami form that is related to Bleach(lol), but there are many different categories for those with Shinigami powers(like the Arrancar and Vizards).There are many categories, who's to say that those three are all there are? A great many things effected them.
The Shinigami that was with the 3rd and 4th is something of a lesser being. He's one of the ones that ninja's deal with and the only ones they see. To have Ichigo and Rukia show up for Naru shows the status that the Biju have and how far it reaches. [The original contract was to seal Kyuubi into Naruto by the price of the Fourth's soul. Now that Kyuubi has merged (and some other stuff you will have to wait to see, the contract was broken and the Fourth was released from it.)]
