A/N - Good day everyone, I hope you all are doing swell!

Anyways, I've written a new chapter for this story. I like the concept behind it, but I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it. I wouldn't mind hearing your opinions.

When reading like this, it means you're not in a scene.

When reading like this, it means you're in a scene.

Thoughts are inverted!

I do not own Naruto.

I do own my OCs though!

Enjoy the story!


Naruto turned away from the screen and looked out the window filled with tall buildings. He was starting to get anxious sitting in the same spot for so long. Watching his different lives is interesting, he won't fight you on that. However, he doesn't want to do that for the rest of his existence. "Hey, Kami, can I go outside?" he asked suddenly.

Kami glanced over at her fellow blond thinking it over. Letting Naruto loose on this world where his life is considered a story wasn't the greatest idea. Though, the people would just assume he's a cosplayer. After a bit of thinking, she conceded. "I'll take you out later and show you some sights. Sound good?" she asked, not really wanting to leave the television right now.

"Alright!" he shouted excitedly.

"Okay, later though, like I said. Anyways, you ready for the next world?" she asked, her finger hovering over the play button on her remote. When he nodded his head, she pressed the play button. The blank screen flashed to life.

Naruto's eyes traveled down to his chest where he saw his best friend's hand sticking out of his chest. He coughed up blood, splattering his rival's clothes. "H-how could you?" he choked out, blood dribbling down his chin. His breathing became more labored and shallower, his eyes brimming with agony and betrayal. "Sasuke…" he whispered, his body falling limp on the Uchiha's arm as he took his last breath.

"Did I just die?" Naruto asked out loud, but it was more to himself.

Kami stopped glaring at the Uchiha and winced at Naruto's tone. She turned toward her companion and put a comforting hand on his shoulder. "It would seem you passed away in this world," she replied to his question. She looked back at the screen and glanced at the wound. The Uchiha's hand was sticking through his chest where his heart should be. A lethal wound that most likely destroyed his heart.

Naruto let out a tired sigh. "It's just hard to see my death by Sasuke, ya know? He said half-heartedly. He remembered this exact fight happening but ending differently. Seems like this version of himself wouldn't be seeing the future.

Regret filled the Uchiha's eyes as he pulled his hand from his friends' chest.

Naruto laughed pitifully, "Well, at least he regrets it, right?" he murmured.

Kami scrunched up her nose, "It doesn't matter if he regrets it, he still killed you," she argued. She could care less if the Uchiha regretted his actions, she still murdered her companion. She idly wondered if she'd be smiting the brat in the future.

A pitiful thump was heard as his body collapsed onto the ground like a puppet having its strings cut. He raised his hand in front of his face and stared at the blood-soaked appendage. What have I done? He thought as he fell to his knees. He felt a horrible string in his eyes, and he knew he finally achieved the same eyes as him.

You've become the very person you seek to destroy. Congratulations little Uchiha, Kami thought balefully.

Tears of blood streamed down his cheeks as he looked at the body of the blond. As the clouds covered the sun, the Uchiha desperately tried to rationalize what he had done. Your death won't be in vain, with this power I will achieve my goals. I promise, he thought to himself, before turning away and heading away from their battleground.

Naruto deadpanned at the screen, "Wow, thanks ya bastard," he said sarcastically.

The heavens wept in despair; nature roared in anguish.

Oh, I'm upset, she thought before stealing a glance at her fellow blond. Then again, I was always upset when my Naruto was in pain or hurt. When he performed that suicide technique, I was disheartened, she thought while running a hand through his hair.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at the loli-goddess but shrugged it off and continued watching the scene play.

A silver-haired man appeared on the scene soon after soaked to the bone from the downpour. This storm came out of nowhere, he thought before pausing at the sight before him. His blond student laid on his back, a hole the size of a fist where his heart should be. A stream of red-tinted water running away from him. He approached the body of his student and hesitantly kneeled beside him. He pressed two fingers against his neck and sighed when he couldn't find a pulse. "I was too late," he whispered mournfully. He felt a familiar pain of losing another one of his precious people. Obito, Rin, Minato-sensei, I've failed again… he thought sadly before cradling the blonde's body in his arms.

Naruto frowned as Kakashi slowly carried him away from where he died. He didn't like seeing Kakashi looking so emotionally destroyed. It wasn't his fault that he died and didn't want his sensei blaming himself.

This is what happened when you teach an emotionally disturbed kid an assassination technique, the blond loli thought.

It took him a short while of jumping branch to branch to get the cooling body of his student back to Konoha. As he approached the gate, his eye lingered on the small group of people awaiting his return in the rain. His last loyal student, Sakura, looking around him hoping to see their traitorous Uchiha.

Naruto let out another sigh, "I honestly should have expected that but it still hurts," he commented.

"She's always had tunnel vision when it comes to your teammate," Kami pointed out getting a simple nod in return.

Then the two others who were eyeing the blond in his arms alarmingly. The Godaime Hokage, Tsunade and her apprentice Shizune. If he didn't despise his dark-haired student so much, he would almost feel bad for what would be coming his way.

"Oh yeah, Tsunade is going to break him if she ever gets her hands on him," Naruto chuckled lightly at the mental image. Something about seeing the bastard flung around as a ragdoll appealed to him. Kami snorted at the mental image herself.

"Kakashi-sensei, where's Sasuke-kun?" Sakura asked immediately and he couldn't help but glare at her. She took a step back at the heated look before noticing her motionless teammate. "I-is Naruto okay?" she asked hesitantly, holding a hand against her chest.

"Feeling just peachy, thanks for asking Sakura-chan!" Naruto said in a fox-cheerful tone.

The Hokage and her apprentice both rushed to Kakashi's side and snatched the blond from his grip. They both grimaced at the large hole in his chest but quickly scanned his vitals. Tsunade and Shizune are both experienced doctors, so, it only took them a second to conclude their knucklehead had passed away.

"Sorry baa-chan looks like I won't be taking the hat in that life either," Naruto said sorrowfully.

Tears well within both of their eyes as they saw a flash of Naruto grinning at them while giving them a cheesy thumbs up. Tsunade blinked a few times and willed the tears back, her face becoming serious. "Shizune, take Naruto's body," she started to order as Sakura gasped, "to the hospital. Make sure his body is treated with respect," she said concisely.

Shizune nodded mutely, curling the blonde's body in her arms closely. Her eyes trailed over the large wound on his chest and swallowed heavily. She vanished in a Shunshin to do as ordered.

"Sorry Shizune-nee-chan…" he whispered to himself.

Tsunade stared at the empty space for a few seconds before gathering herself. She took a long, deep breath and let it out shakily as she tried to ignore the faint traces of blood coating her hands. "Kakashi, my office, now," she ordered before vanishing in a swirl of leaves.

Sakura who had been listening finally turned toward her sensei. "Naruto is going to be fine, right sensei?" she asked hurriedly. The way they talked about the baka; it was as if he was dead. That isn't possible, he's too stubborn to die! He made a promise, he always keeps his promises! She thought assuredly, but the look her sensei gave her made her falter.

"She's not wrong in one regard. You're usually too stubborn to die," Kami stated.

"What ya mean?" Naruto asked curiously.

"There is a world where you miraculously managed to talk your way out of the Shinigami's grasp," she said in an informative manner.

Naruto blinked at that, "I managed to talk my way out of death?" he asked owlishly.

The goddess hummed, "Indeed and you even managed to get a summoning contract out of it. But, that's for another time," she said before he could ask any more questions on that world. She wasn't sure he was prepared to bite into that forbidden fruit yet.

"I'm sorry, Sakura but Naruto is gone," he said softly turning his lone eye on his last student. "Go home and decompress. Wait until you're called for a report. I have to report to Hokage-sama," he said tiredly before vanishing in the same manner as the kage.

Sakura suddenly alone in the rain felt colder than before. She nodded her head absently in the direction her sensei was and made her way home. She felt tears prick at her green eyes as the day's events caught up to her.

Kakashi knocked on the Hokage's office door and waited until he was given permission to walk in. He was going through a mixture of emotions and imagined it was the same for his kage. A few moments later he heard her say, "Come in," and opened the door. When he stepped inside, he saw Tsunade with a stern, hardened expression adorned on her face. He could see without his Sharingan that her eyes were filled with grief.

She wanted to know everything, and so he did. He spoke of every detail of the grisly scene he walked upon. He gave his opinions of what he thought happened between his two students. When he finished speaking, he eyed his leader who had a calculative spark in her eyes. Her hands were folded in front of her, head hung low.

"What do you believe should be done with Sasuke Uchiha?" she asked the one-eyed shinobi.

Kakashi looked down at the floor, his eyes flickering around as he thought about the question. What did he want to be done to the traitorous Uchiha? He closed his eyes and released a low breath. His eyes met his leaders and he knew what was going to happen either way. "Sasuke Uchiha should be brought back to the village and held accountable for his actions," he stated, wanting justice for his blond student.

The Senju hummed to herself for a moment. "Sasuke Uchiha will be placed in the bingo book wanted dead or alive. If brought back alive, he will face justice and be executed for his crimes. If he's brought back a corpse, he will be burned and his ashes scattered in the wind," she stated in an authoritative tone. "You have no qualms about that, do you?" the leader asked, but it was clear she wouldn't care about his opinion. He knew the crime for killing one of their own and deserting the village.

"No, Hokage-sama."

"Very well, you're dismissed," she said waving him away.

"He deserves no less," Kami said not feeling bad for the future of the Uchiha.

Kakashi nodded his head stiffly and slipped out of the office. He made his way through the streets filled with a few villagers with umbrellas. He arrived at his lonely apartment and went inside. He pressed his back against the wall and slid down onto his rear. He sighed deeply, "I'm sorry, Naruto…" he whispered losing himself in his memories and failures.

"It's not your fault Kakashi-sensei," Naruto said worriedly for his teacher.

"To him, it's going to be. You died because of the Chidori which he taught Sasuke. In his eyes, this is just another death on his hands," she replied.

"He only taught the technique and he told Sasuke not to use it on his allies. My blood is on the bastard's hands, not his," he argued.

She looked over to the protective blond and gave a faint smile. "I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm just pointing out what he's most likely feeling," she stated softly. She watched him give a slow nod and turn back to the screen.

When Kakashi left her office, she dismissed her ANBU guards and sat in silence for a few moments. She reached into her desk and pulled out some sake and took a long swig. As if a dam broke, tears started to flow. "Damn you brat, you were supposed to live," she clenched her teeth. Her head fell onto her desk after taking another swig. And so, the damn curse claims another one… she thought miserably as she drifted into her memories of her loved ones.

Darkness took over the sky, and the moon shined down on Konoha. Things were going as normal except for something strange occurring in the morgue.

"Ah, this is most likely why this world was marked," Kami informed her fellow blond.

The blond's body laid lifelessly on a metal slab in the dark when his body started glowing a faint gold. Chakra started emitting from him warming the cold room, gathering around his body. The levels of chakra continued to rise gathering the attention of the shinobi of Konoha. Shinobi of all ranks filled directly toward the site joined by the Hokage and her apprentice. When they saw the blonde's body glowing, they paused. "Hokage-sama, what do we do?" a random jonin asked.

Tsunade had rushed over in fear that someone was doing something to Naruto's body. She hadn't been expecting Naruto's body to be the source. She raised her hand, "Hold off for now," she answered, hoping for some sort of miracle.

The crowd watched as his body started to slowly turn transparent as if looking at a spirit. The chakra continued to rise yet the comforting warmth never left. Then, all the chakra condensed onto him and he burst in hundreds of small balls of light. Tsunade reached out to grab onto any piece of Naruto, but the light just passed through her before fading away.

"Well, that was unexpected," Naruto replied after a moment of staring.

"Ditto. I expected you to be revived or something of that nature," she commented.

"What do you think happened?"

"I'm not entirely sure…"

On that day, Naruto's body had vanished off the face of the Elemental Nations. There was no sign, no hint or trace. It was as if he no longer existed. No one knew what happened, but people put together theories. Some argued that it was the Kyūbi dying once and for all, most disagreed with that since they didn't feel any malice. Others assumed someone stole the boy's body. Some theories sounded silly; others more plausible.

"You have any theories?" Naruto asked curiously.

Kami rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "I do have one," she relented and decided to elaborate. "I believe your body may have turned into chakra and got released into the world. It would explain why no one could find a trace of your body, but I'm not sure if I'm right or not," she commented, tilting her head to the side cutely.

"I like your theory better than mine," Naruto replied with a shiver.

"What was your theory?"

"That I turned into a ghost."

"Oh."

"I don't like ghosts…"

"Fair enough."

Three long years passed by in the Elemental Nations. The world continued to move on without the blonde's presence. That would not last for much longer. Somewhere in a random forest, wisps of golden light started to condense onto itself. Very slowly for the last three years, the light was been making its way to this location. As the light continued to grow, it started taking a form. An older and distinctly male humanoid form.

An explosion of chakra suddenly radiated from its body; a feeling of warmth shot over the Elemental Nations. Everyone felt it as if a wave of comforting warmth and innocence washed over them. At the epicenter of this chakra storm, the figure finished taking shape.

He had glowing golden skin with a slightly darker shade of spikey golden hair. He wore a long golden cloak that appeared to be living flames with intricate black patterns over it. However, the most distinctive feature was his nine golden tails swishing back and forth behind him. When he slowly opened his eyes, a vibrant golden glow emanated from them.

"Well, I believe we were sort of right on you being revived," Kami commented while staring at the blonde's new form. She had a small blush appear on her cheeks. Hot, she thought to herself.

"I look so cool!" he cheered in awe.

His golden eyes looked around in confusion. He didn't know where he was, and his memories were all jumbled together. He could remember some things. He remembered a sage bringing him and his eight siblings into the world, but he also remembered growing up in a village. He couldn't piece the two together almost as if they were separate, to begin with.

"I think I merged with Kurama," Naruto said thoughtfully, and Kami hummed in agreement.

A feeling of serenity washed over him and he gazed up into the heavens. "A shared soul of two brought together by the cold grasp. You are our champion; our child of prophecy. You're our will. Fulfill your destiny and bring upon your judgment to this land," multiple voices layered upon one another whispered to him. The feeling of serenity vanished alongside them.

and so, the child of prophecy picked a random direction and began walking. He would judge the world for himself, but first, he needed to figure himself out. Some time walking would give him time to clear up his thoughts. While he did that, the Elemental Nations scrambled together to investigate his appearance.

The screen went blank leaving more questions than answers. "So, I think I merged with Kurama, but I don't know what those voices are," Naruto said breaking the silence. He didn't know how he felt about that.

"Most likely some divine being," Kami answered.

"Like you?"

"It very well could have been me that revived you in that world."

"Wait, how does that work? Wouldn't you know if you did that?" he asked genuinely confused.

"Yes and no. There are multiple versions of myself out there, but we created one another to run different domains. We're connected with one another and can share our experiences whenever we desire. However, like me, we get bored and if we knew everything it wouldn't help. This way, we don't know what's happening all the time while also always knowing what's happening all the time," she said as clearly as she could for her fellow blond.

Naruto nodded slowly at her explanation.

"Now, what did you think of that world?" Kami asked as usual.

"Different and I'm not sure I liked this one," Naruto said honestly and when Kami continued to eye him, he decided to elaborate. "My death hurt my precious people. Tsunade-baa-chan, Shizune-nee-chan, Kakashi-sense and everyone else I care for were hurt or feeling guilty for my death. I didn't like seeing them that way."

"I understand. We don't like seeing the people we love hurt. We'd do almost anything to protect what is ours," she commented.

"Yeah, yeah we would…"


A/N - Thanks for reading another chapter of Death Watching! I hope you all enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one! Have a nice one!