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Yes, Naruto's gang will eventually meet up with Yusuke's gang. And all questions will be answered when Naruto meets Koenma. As in why Kyuubi didn't heal Naruto. For your info Naruto is 14 in this fic and since I have only sadly seen up to episode 124, were just going to pretend that Sasuke never went to Sound or that he went but they brought him back or whatever. It doesn't really matter either way. I love all my readers, but I love my reviewers more!

Warning: This story will eventually be Yaoi. Don't like it then stop reading now. You suck anyway!

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"Botan is my name! Chief pilot of the River Styx," she greeted cheerily which surprised Naruto, since he had never met a pretty girl who was happy to meet him. "I take care of people like you. When people die unexpectedly like you just did, often they can't accept it and become ghosts! Though that death was really pretty brutal." Naruto had a blank look on his face.

"Chief pilot of the what?" Naruto asked, his confusion coming back full force. She just smiled. "Chief pilot of the River Styx. I believe in your culture they also call me the Grim Reaper. Ring a bell?" Naruto suddenly smiled at her.

"Man, if I had known the Grim Reaper was prettier than Sakura-chan I would have died a LONG time ago! So you want to go out sometime?" he asked her eagerly. Botan sweat dropped. She had never gotten this reaction from people before; it definitely wasn't in her guidebook.

Smiling at him apologetically she said, "You're dead, remember? You can't go on dates." Oh yeah, now he remembered. He knew this death thing was going to have a down side. He crossed his arms across his chest and pouted. Naruto was then struck with an idea.

"Hey Botan? If you're death, then you probably know what happened in the fight after I died, right?" Naruto was still very confused about that.

"Oh your friend killed the man you were fighting," she said, as if she were talking about the weather. "What?" Naruto exclaimed. "Well then shouldn't he be here too?" The blonde began to spin around wildly with his fists up, looking for the jackass that had killed him. Botan giggled.

"He's not here, silly. People only become ghosts when they die unexpectedly, and he knew he was going to die." Naruto had hung around Sasuke and Sakura long enough to know that he was never going to understand them, and accepted that he would spend most of his time around them confused; but he had never been so confused in one day, and with the big words Sakura liked to use when explaining things that was saying something. Botan sighed, resigned to the fact that she was going to have to recap everything.

"Okay, see, after you died, your friend, the really good looking one-"

"Sakura-chan." Naruto supplied helpfully. "No, the other one. The one you saved." Naruto looked disgusted that yet another girl thought Sasuke was the better looking one.

"You mean Sasuke-teme?"

"Yes, that's the one; well after watching you die, the prisoner said that you were stupid and weak, and Sasuke flew into a blind rage and used the…Thunder-cut, I believe and killed the convict. Well, I guess annihilated would be a better term," she explained, pointing to the same tree that the bastard had been staring at earlier.

Now that Naruto was looking at it closely he could see that the whole tree was burnt black and there was an out line, but the blonde couldn't tell of what. It looked like it had a head and arms and…it was the prisoner…or at least what was left of him; she had not been kidding. Sasuke was such a show-off, even when Naruto was the one that had just died.

"I would feel honored if someone avenged my death," Botan said, but then rolled her eyes at the stupidity of that statement since she wasn't alive technically to begin with, but it would have been flattering. Naruto obviously hadn't noticed.

"That jerk is a spoiled selfish bastard. He probably only did it because he wanted to be the one to do that or he just doesn't like people taking his stuff. If he even considers me his friend!"

"Oh come on now! I'm sure that's not true," Botan said, trying to reassure the boy. "Is so!" Seeing the mature argument that was going to ensue, Botan quickly changed the topic to try and cheer Naruto up.

"You know Naruto, you should feel special! Unexpected cases such as yours only occur once every hundred years or so." Naruto looked at her questioningly. "Unexpected?"

"None of us were expecting you to die to today. You've thrown us all for a loop." Botan smiled at him

"Ha! Take that Sasuke you bastard! I'm special! Wait a second…if you weren't expecting me today then what was supposed to happen?" Botan pulled a little book out of her sleeve and flipped through it.

"See, if we were to run someone with your credentials through that scenario a thousand times, they never would save saved Sasuke like that. You may have done the Shadow divided art and tried to save him, but never would have willingly given up your life for Sasuke. No one saw it coming and quite frankly we haven't prepared a place for you yet." Naruto shrugged.

"I'm not sure why I did it, I just did…" He trailed off trying to figure it out. "That still doesn't tell me what was supposed to happen. Were you people expecting that prick to die?" Botan flipped to the next page of the little book.

"Well, yes actually. According to this your friend was supposed to have died three times already, but for some reason or another has lived through every time." Naruto looked at her, shocked. Sasuke was meant to die and he'd saved him. No one had expected him to die. Well it came with the territory of being Konoha's most unpredictable ninja.

"What other times was he meant to die?" Naruto asked. The happy Grim Reaper flipped through a couple more pages. "He was supposed to die the first time when he was seven, but for a reason still unknown his brother spared his life. We can not determine why because Uchiha Itachi's soul does not belong to us any more."

"Why?"

"He is too evil to handle, his soul is like that of a demon's."

"Oh." Naruto didn't really understand but he didn't want to look stupid in front of such a pretty girl. Botan continued.

"He was also supposed to die when he was twelve. However it says here that a demonic chakra healed him enough to keep him alive." Naruto knew what she was talking about. That day on the bridge in the Nation of Waves when Haku tried to kill him, but Sasuke had saved his life. He had gone into a blind rage and felt the power of the demon fox flowing through him for the first time.

He had never realized that he had saved Sasuke that day; he had merely thought that Haku had done the same thing as he had done with Zabuza. A fake death or had missed, but now that he thought about it that didn't make sense, since Haku was a perfect marksman and if Zabuza wanted him to kill anybody he would do it. 'That means I never owed the bastard in the first place!'

"And then of course Sasuke was supposed to die today." Botan finished reading and smiled at him, putting her book back into her sleeve. "So now I'm going to be taking Sasuke's place in hell or wherever?" Naruto asked her. Botan giggled again.

"No, I'm not here to take you away from this world; actually I'm here to see if you will accept an ordeal that would give your life back." Naruto stared at her blankly. He had been ready to die, had been ready to move on to the next world and now he was being told that he could have a second chance. Minutes ago Naruto thought he would have jumped at the chance, but now that it was being handed to him he wasn't sure he really wanted it.

Sure he wanted to become Hokage, but that was just to prove to the villagers that he was somebody and so they would stop glaring. Now that he was dead he didn't have to prove himself and in death he was special even if he would have to stay a ghost while they placed him. And in the next world there would be no evil nine-tailed fox, no glares, no pressure to always be better, no insults, and it wasn't like in this world he had any friends, anyway.

Sure Iruka-sensei cared about him and he had teammates, but neither of them liked him. They just felt obligated to be around him because he had been like Iruka and was on the same team with the others. So what was the point of sticking around? He was always being told that he was a loser or stupid, and Sakura had once said that stupid people were a waste of oxygen. Coming back to life would just mean loneliness. He hated loneliness more than anything! And if making it go away meant staying dead and getting a new start in another world, then he would.

"No thanks." Botan looked taken aback; she had not expected him to say that. He seemed to surprise her a lot. "You just go through this eency ordeal and you'll be back to life in no time. Come on it's a pretty good deal, don't you think?"

"I guess…but I think everyone will be much happier now that I'm erased. Besides it not like anyone cares if I'm gone; I have no family. The only reason Sakura-chan was crying is because it was probably a shock," Naruto said, smiling at her reassuringly. The Grim Reaper was having Déjà vu. Naruto sounded a lot like a kid in a green jumpsuit that she knew.

"I'm sorry you feel that way. Such an early age," she replied, feeling sorry for this poor lonely kid. "Yeah, well, you got to agree that there is no point in me doing some stupid ordeal."

Botan then smiled again and began to rise higher in the air with each word, "I don't suppose there's any point making big decisions in a hurry. Why don't you spend some time at your wake and think it over." Then she turned and just before flying away she said, "I'll come back when you decide." And with that she flew over the clouds and out of sight.

"Hey! Wait! I DID DECIDE!" Naruto yelled at the clouds. Nothing happened. Oh well, he might as well just do as she said and go to his wake. Naruto slowly floated back to the village but he took his time about it, knowing that any wake that they might have for him wouldn't be set up until nightfall.

Being ninja he knew his team would already be back by now. Naruto didn't understand why Botan thought they would be having a wake for him anyway. He didn't even expect a funeral. The village people would probably take his body and burn it at the stake.

Which seemed a pretty stupid thing to do since it would let Kyuubi out. Something occurred to the blonde he hadn't thought of before. Why hadn't Kyuubi come out when he had died? The seal was supposed to be broken if he died, so why hadn't it? Naruto became worried. What if the seal took a while to wear off and the evil fox was now rampaging through the town! Would Tsunade-baachan be able to stop it?

Naruto sped up, but he didn't know how to make himself go any faster. However, when he reached the town everything seemed just as he had left it. No gigantic evil fox destroying everything, no bonfire all prepared in the middle of town to burn his body. Just normalcy.

Naruto wandered above the village for several hours before night fell and he decided to go over to his apartment. When he got there, however, no one was there, but the lights were on. He then noticed some of his things were gone. All of his favorite potted plants were missing and some picture frames on the shelves were empty. If someone was going to clean out his apartment, now that he was dead, shouldn't they take some of the other stuff?

Naruto decided he would go over to Sasuke-teme's house/mansion thing and follow him to his wake. He was probably being forced by Kakashi-sensei to go for the sake of team spirit. Naruto left his apartment and headed over to Sasuke's. What he saw when he got there shocked him.

Pretty much every person he knew was there. Most of them were sitting or standing around the main room of Sasuke's mansion; the room was huge, though, so it wasn't an uncomfortable fit, and the rest were in the front, sitting on the porch. They never would have been able to fit in his small apartment.

In the main room against the far wall was a huge shrine with a closed coffin in front on it. The shrine had the potted plants from his house and the missing pictures sitting on it. One was of himself and Iruka-sensei laughing in front of the ramen shop. Another was of the team; they each had a copy of it. The next one was of Naruto right before he had graduated the ninja academy; the next one was of Naruto scowling at Jiraiya, who was looking away from the camera at a bikini clad girl at the beach. And the last one was of him and the Konohamaru band playing ninja games at the training fields. The shrine had candles lit all around it.

Naruto had never really paid attention to many people he knew. He realized he didn't know some of the people and had only ever seen them around. They were the Jounin, and it looked like a few of them were laughing and telling jokes. He heard one say his name.

'They're probably only here because they have to be, since I'm a ninja as well! That really pisses me off!' Naruto's blood was starting to boil. His attention was caught however by a group of girls sitting on a couch, two of them crying really badly. He recognized them to be Hinata and Sakura, whilst Ino and Tenten tried to comfort them. Ino and Tenten looked sad, too.

"I was always so mean to him!" Sakura cried, burying her face in her knees, "Naruto…I'm so sorry," she sobbed. "I know, I was too," Ino agreed, trying to comfort the distraught girl. "I never told Naruto-kun how I feel…" Hinata squeaked in the smallest voice she had ever used, and continued to cry. Naruto was totally lost.

"Are they making all that noise for me…? They care?" But before Naruto could even try to comprehend this something else caught his attention. One of the Jounin laughed loudly. He was standing next to the shrine talking with another Jounin. Both of them had given Naruto that look that he just hated. The one that said they knew about the nine tailed fox and wished he would die.

"Well the village is safe now," the one who had laughed said. "Yes," agreed the other one, "Safe from both evil creatures and idiots. He was obviously weak, too, in order to get killed by a prisoner." They laughed again. Naruto wanted to beat them into the dirt, but knew he would just go right through them.

"If I could only-" He was cut short when a hand grabbed each one of their vests and turned them around forcefully. Sasuke stood there growling menacingly. He let go of them and looked at them with hate in his eyes.

"The last person," Sasuke threatened, "Who insulted Naruto in front of me, died very painfully…I made sure of it. Would you like to be next?" he said in a deadly calm voice. His Sharigan was activated and the sound of birds chirping was beginning to fill the room. They looked down at Sasuke's hand where the noise was coming from and saw lightening beginning to form there. Knowing Kakashi and having seen Sasuke perform this technique they both knew that Sasuke would keep his word in making it painful.

They both ran from the house very quickly. Naruto normally would have laughed at seeing two fully-grown men running from a fourteen year old, even if it was Uchiha Sasuke, if he hadn't been so stunned at his behavior. The chirping of the birds stopped and Sasuke went to stand near the shrine, looking at the Naruto pictures; he still had that soulless look to his eyes.

Naruto's eyes scanned the room. Gai-sensei was hugging Rock Lee and they were both crying; however it wasn't their usual 'manly' tears of joy, but actual tears of sadness.

Neji was leaning up against the wall near the door, looking across the room at the shrine, but with his eyes he could be looking anywhere. His gaze seemed different though…he looked sad, really sad! This startled Naruto a lot; he had thought Neji didn't like him at all since he had beat him, not that he liked him before then, either.

Kiba, Shino, Shikamaru, and Chouji were also there. This shocked Naruto as well, since he thought none of them liked him, either. He remember them all saying pretty often how useless and how stupid he was. Yet here they were, all looking thoroughly depressed at his wake.

Iruka-sensei sat on the couch opposite the girls with Konohamaru. They both had tears in their eyes. "Why Naruto-niichan?" Konohamaru asked Iruka. "I don't know…" Iruka was trying very hard to hold back his tears. Neji then answered from where he was standing near them, "Because fate is cruel." Konohamaru nodded.

Naruto's attention then went to a very drunk Jiraiya, who was sitting next to Tsunade up against one of the walls. Jiraiya was trying to drown his sorrows in alcohol and it didn't seem to be working.

"Naruto you are an idiot," he directed the comment to the shrine. "I was training you to be the Hokage. I wanted you to stay. You were like a son to me." Tsunade let out a rather loud sob next to him. She was crying with her head in her knees. In her right hand she was clutching the necklace she had lost to Naruto. Tsunade pulled her head up, grabbed the bottle of sake from Jiraiya and downed it in one swig. But it didn't seem to help her either as she just cried harder.

Sitting on the floor in front of the shrine was Kakashi-sensei. His aura radiated depression. "Why didn't you stay, Naruto? You were going to be great. You were meant to be Hokage. You had what it takes." Kakashi hung his head. Naruto had always thought that Kakashi-sensei thought he was weak and a burden to the team. Now he just didn't know what to think anymore.

Suddenly there was a loud bang. It sounded like someone had cracked stone. Everyone looked up to see Sasuke with his fist clenched so tightly his knuckles were white and bleeding from their contact with the wall. The wall had a large crater in it.

"Dammit Naruto!" he yelled at his pictures. "Why did you have to save me! Who am I going to fight with now! Who am I going to talk to and argue with! Haven't I lost enough people without losing my best friend too! You're supposed to be here…for me…" Sasuke then wiped his arm across his eyes to stop the tears from coming, and sped out of his house.

'Who would have guessed…?' Naruto thought and floated up through the ceiling. He sat in a cross-legged position above the house for quite a while. How long, he didn't know. He thought about everything he had seen and tried to let it sink in. Sometime later Botan appeared next to him.

"Well, have you decided?" she asked him in a gentle voice. "Botan, hey."

"Yes dear?" she looked at him curiously. "Have you ever not known about something that seemed obvious to everybody else?" he asked, still replaying the night over and over again in his head.

"That happens to us all I think. So are you ready now?" Naruto nodded his head.

"Yeah! I want to get back as quickly as possible so Sasuke-teme doesn't get stronger then me while I'm dead!" Naruto responded, determination and spirit returning to his voice.

"Good to hear! Now let's not waste any time and get this baby started!" she said, and began to fly away at top speed. Luckily, Naruto had grabbed onto her oar just before she had done that. Botan laughed happily

"Where are you taking us?" Naruto yelled.

"The Spirit World!" she answered back cheerfully.

"To the what?" He wasn't sure he wanted the answer.

"The Spirit World! We're going to see someone who will explain the ordeal to you, and give you what you need!" she said in her bubbly little voice.

"Wait, what do I need!" Naruto asked.

"You'll see!" She laughed happily again. 'Oh shit. Well no use worrying! I'm Uzumaki Naruto and I will one day be Hokage! I'm not afraid of the ruler of the land of the dead…' he thought, trying and failing to reassure himself.

Not a lot of humor in this chapter but it was necessary. Next chapter he meets Koenma! Please review! I wish to know what you think! 122 people read the first chapter and only 3 reviewed. Please Review! The more reviews I get the more inspiration I get! I love my reviewers! Cookies for all! And any couples you might want in this story please tell me. I do accept straight couples, but yaoi are preferred. But I DO NOT accept Sasuke/Sakura! It makes me sick to my stomach. So tell me if there is anyone else you want to see together!