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Death.
Death would always exist so long as life existed, and the spirits of death would never disappear until all life from an era had been wiped out. That was to say, that it would be impossible for death to die unless it was killed by a living human, or unless all life was gone, thus it's purpose was served and done.
"I was born before the first shinobi ever drew breath, and long have I slept. The last shinobi alive once more on this world, my job unfinished."
The Shinigami.
Death itself crawled upon the world, greatly weakened by the eons of being unable to feed. Death was unable to feed upon the humans of this era, since he had not been born to feed on the spirits of this era. Once he had stood taller than any man could stand, his skin purple and muscles strong. Now his body was lacked any skin and his muscle fibers themselves were showing. Great red horns on his head with white hair falling from his skull, a long, white, flowing kimono hanging from his skeleton-like body.
He had not fed in so many years.
He could not feed on Zetsu, Zetsu was an immortal with no soul to feed on, a mere creation of the goddess Kaguya. His life was not what kept him roaming this mortal plane, searching for a soul that he could never eat. Of course, it would be the last Uzumaki, the clan of beings who sealed gods and demons alike in their cursed masks. Death could remember the Uzumaki very clearly, the way they used their fuinjutsu to create the mask that enslaved him, and the technique that could force him to do their bidding. The Dead Demon Consuming Seal, which forced him to do whatever they told him to do, at the cost of their soul, but the fact remains that the Uzumaki clan could command him, a god of death, the existence that was death itself.
It would of course be an Uzumaki.
Not only that, but a Ex-Jinchuriki, since Jinchuriki were unable to summon him, and he was unable to consume their living souls. His relationship meant that he would need to wait for Naruto to die naturally, or he would need to become part of the world of the living.
He needed to be done.
He wanted death, the ability to finally stop existing in this world. He had been starving for so long, and wanted nothing more than to feed on the final gasp of breath of man one final time before his existence could finally end.
He had a job to do.
He had a belly to fill.
There was one last creature left from his era, only a single soul remaining for him to send to the afterlife. No longer could he take a passive route and allow a human to die, not in a world where immortality was possible. Where there was a grail that could grant endless life, he needed to make sure that Naruto never stumbled onto a life that never ended. If that happened, he could never do his job, never fill his belly, and never end his own existence.
Yet, his physical form didn't exist.
He needed a vessel that he could possess, and fuse his spiritual body to in order to slay and devour Naruto. He had no faded away like many had thought he had, his spiritual presence had just become linked to the last soul from his era. He needed to find the soul that was most like his own, the existence that best portrayed death.
It wasn't hard to find.
Go to the Underworld, easy, and find the being most surrounded by death. He did that, and he was currently floating behind such a being. The god Hades was the perfect host, and they would have the highest compatibility.
"You won't take... I am HADES!"
"You'll get your body back when I'm done with it, until then, sleep inside of my stomach." Death was having none of Hades' rejection. He was an ancient spirit of death, he was not to be denied by a god of the modern era. His ancient mind swallowed up Hades without the god being able to do anything but roar out his disapproval, before being silenced.
Muscles started to grow out of Hades' bone body, and the Shinigami, the spirit of Death, ripped off the fancy robes that the god had been wearing. He had no use for such fancy clothes, they would just get in the way of the job that needed to be done.
"... A scythe as a weapon, how... ineffective... but it seems to possess a unique power. Very well, I'll use it to prepare my last meal." Shinigami stated as he tossed the crown on top of his head to the ground, having no need for anything that Hades valued for the coming fight.
Golden chains came out of the air itself.
The Shinigami was unable to move, wrapped by the chains.
"You'll not take one step further."
The ghostly figure before him seemed familiar to him, as if he had seen this person before. It was a dead person who summoned the chains that were binding him at the moment. He had forgotten, that he was currently located in the afterlife. He was able to interact with the souls of the dead, and the souls of the dead would be able to interact with him as well.
"You'll not stop me for long woman."
"I'll stop you for as long as I can."
"I WILL FEED! I will enjoy the silence of death, and Uzumaki Naruto's soul will be the last thing I ever enjoy before succumbing to nothingness! I will die, as the last thing tethering my existence dies out! I will not be stopped!"
"Shut up, and stay quiet, and never talk to my son, and just don't open your mouth, your breath smells like death."
-With Naruto-
"... Seems like something really important is happening, and I'm missing it right now... but oh well..." Naruto was done introducing Xenovia to Rias, and the red haired princess had accepted Xenovia into her peerage. Kokabiel's death had been reported to many people already, but Rias was not one of those people who were required to know anything about who killed the man.
He hated the fact that he knew when something bad was coming.
A sixth sense for when shit was about to go down, developed over years and years of his life constantly being stressed and put into danger. He didn't know who, what, when, where, or why his life was going to be threatened, but he knew that it was coming, and he could tell that it would be coming soon enough that he should put some serious thought into trying to remember more of his techniques.
Oh well.
If shit was going to hit the fan, he may at least enjoy himself until it does go down.
"I'm a Knight now Naruto."
"How do you two know each other again?"
"He stabbed a Fallen Angel I was assigned to kill in the back of the head with a convenience store knife, and I got kicked from the church for learning a bad secret."
"Ah... Naruto-stuff."
Naruto heard that and just stared at Rias with a deadpan stare.
What the fuck was "Naruto-stuff" suppose to mean!?
Chapter End!
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