A/N: Mentions of suicide and homophobia.
(I'll start introducing canon Naruto characters next chapter, in case you were getting impatient.)
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Leah's lands, such as they are, are barren and dry. She feels the power tingle in her hands, the power to make things grow and warp and build. She can change these lands. Her power is absolute.
She is Queen.
She is also getting ahead of herself.
Souls have already begun pouring in. Victims of bandit attacks, shinobi that tried to flee from battle but were slaughtered as they ran, people who found their lives too difficult to continue and ended themselves.
Leah needs some place to keep them, so she forms a holding space to cage them for the time being, senseless until she has somewhere to put them.
She builds a paradise for the righteous.
She builds a punishment for the wicked.
She builds… something for the rest. It's an odd place. It works. That's enough.
She weaves the enchantments to judge souls as they arrive, to send them to the level of Hel they deserve to go to. The enchantments are complex, and differ from the world she came from. The values systems here are different, and so is she. She needs to weigh why people have done things, how many they have hurt, how many saved, how much they were punished in life for the sins they committed.
(How much they believe they deserved punishment is not taken into account. At least one youth has come through with his life ended by people's hatred of those who lie with their own kind. He has helped enough people in his life, has been righteous enough, that she sends him to paradise as soon as she has finished it. To say he is surprised is an understatement.)
She builds her queendom, and is satisfied. Her population is low, but it will grow. She can micromanage for now.
The Third Great Shinobi War begins.
(It also ends.)
(Leah's queendom has grown quite a bit by the end. She'll need to start choosing subordinates soon.)
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Next Time: Leah wasn't expecting to find someone being strangled in Fate's strings like this.
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A/N: Some of my description of Hel was inspired by Sera's description of 616's Hel in "Angela: Queen of Hel" #1.