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Chapter 35
While strings were being pulled down below, for a variety of reasons, the Shinigami was smiling as he spoke to another of his subordinates. His face shifting through a variety of emotions, ranging from pleasure to anger, and then understanding, he sent the being away to gaze at the two sets of parents studying the living world below him.
If they only knew what was going to happen, he would be sure they would both be proud. Both families had been on pins and needles watching the fight between the only living reminders left of their past.
Itachi was now indeed dead, for he himself was summoned by his minions who were having a most difficult time taking the youth's soul to its destination. The older of the two in denial that his brother had succeeded, he was determined that he was still trapped in Genjutsu of Sasuke's design.
The Shinigami had no trouble disillusioning him of that belief when he not only showed the youth his dead body, but proceeded to drop him in the middle of Hell itself. Giving instructions to the one in charge named Lucifer that Itachi would be his personal little toy.
The God was pleased for as he started to leave, he could already hear the youth beginning to scream.
Despite being whom he was, he did not have the heart to tell those that he was here, and unlike most of his family. Would be along with one other, the only two of their clan to be tortured for eternity...
When it comes to the ninjas of this land, the Shinigami had to test them more for morals then deeds. Because they do kill for pay, those like Itachi were obvious and destined for Hell.
But Kakashi Hatake would be a thoughtful process in and all on its own. Some of the things he has done would merit a position in the fires of Hades, but yet the way he treasures his friends and those whom he considers family, like his three students.
He also fights to keep things whole and the same so that those whom are away. Have something to come home to. To the Death God, that is a man deserving of the Fields of Heaven...
All in all, though Kakashi was the catalyst to this world's fate. Not the blonde or his friend but Kakashi...
It would be through his attention to those boys, which would determine how they grow. Already he had made great strides that should he live, the jinchurriki will eventually start calling him Dad without thinking about it.
As for the Uchiha boy, it is to be the same. All three are alone. All three have something the other two needs to be complete.
For Naruto...it is the sense of family. He knows he has been accepted in Konoha as someone whom is simply a jailer thanks to recent events, but he has never known the real meaning of family. His leader, became his father, his best friends, would become siblings...
To Sasuke, it was the sense of knowing you are not alone. Naruto understands him more then anything and like Naruto, he had begun to think of the copy ninja as a father. A man though for unlike Fugaku, would be there for him and offering words of pride and solace, when he needs it.
But to Kakashi, it would be both for not only, would he receive the sense of having a family, having been an orphan much like both boys. He would also know that he was not alone.
And to not be alone is something that the Shinigami knows all life needs...
He was the true connection between the two boys who would be the heroes of the Shinobis. Already even with the loss of Itachi their enemies the Akatsuki begin to move. Having all but the Kyuubi within their grasp, they were biding their time to wait and gather Naruto when he was weak.
Minato was already chomping at the bits to be allowed to save his son from such a fate that those ninja intended for him. But the Death God had simply shaken his head.
That is no longer your job...
You see, it was a job, which belonged to two other men. Sasuke and Kakashi... They were the only two on this world, who had the capability to break through the hold that the Kyuubi can have on him. The incident at the bridge should remind them of that much, once they tell the Uchiha of those events.
Naruto did not hear, Sakura screaming, was begging him to come back to them. But because of the Sharingan, that both have. He will be able to hear them...
Only those two could keep Naruto from that fate. Sakura was the one destined to heal their bodies. They would be the ones to heal each other's souls...