Yay, really long chapter!
Thank Frozen Wolf13 or I would have been too sad to write this chapter.
Drake G. Reaper: I'm sorry but, Naruto is in Hell, I can't tell you whether or not he will come back. This chapter will explain it more
An arrancar is created by removing the mask of a hollow and a hollow is created when a whole soul spends too much time in the real world and goes bad
A month later, Sasuke woke up excited. It was the first day that the students were going to work on using spells instead of learning the theories behind them. Sasuke had missed using the jutsus that he worked so hard to perfect in life. He was positive that his time as a shinobi would place him well ahead of his peers.
He quickly showered and got dressed in the uniform. Daisuke was a late riser and Sasuke didn't know if he had the patience to wait for him. Getting to the training room, he sat next to a boy who was just a little bit older than him. His name was Tsuusetsu Nadakai. They had met on Sasuke's second day at the academy.
My First Flashback!!
Only one day into the year and already Sasuke was working in the library. He was surrounded by books that made an effective barrier against any outsiders.
Nadakai was carrying a huge bag into the library to find that someone else had taken his seat. The only thing he could see was a tuft of black hair peaking from somewhere underneath the pile of books covering the table. Standing over the person, he looked over their shoulder to see what they were reading.
"Wow, Fumio-sama's superior spell-casting. Iwao-sensei must be working you newbies hard this year. He really is made of stone (1)."
The boy at the table looked up, startled but did not say anything. Nadakai laughed.
"Yo."
Sasuke scowled at the older student that interrupted his reading.
"What do you want?" He said
Nadakai sighed dramatically, "What do we all want out of this life?"
Sasuke glared even more, then smirked and answered, "Peace and quiet."
"Oi, oi, that wasn't funny! Now you hurt my feelings and I'm going to have to beat you up."
And thus, it was the beginning of a (beautiful?) friendship
End of first Flashback!!
Even though Nadakai was older, all of the students that had spells class at this time learned together. They just learned different materials.
"Ne, Uchiha-kun, you nervous? Wouldn't want you to completely embarrass yourself in front of all your friends. That happened to this one kid in my class, he dropped out a few days later. I would hate to lose my favorite freshmen."
"Tsuusetsu-sempai, I was a strongest rookie shinobi of the greatest village in all of the elemental countries. I had the best training and my family had been the best for generations before me. It is in my blood to succeed." He said this all with a straight face, somehow.
"You had better be, or else you won't get into that new training program, only the top students can. Good luck, the teacher is here."
Sasuke stood in line with the rest of the students in his class. Approximately fifty feet away were training dummies. The teacher stood in front of the students and separated them into groups of three. Sasuke was paired with Daisuke and a girl named Laroque Kiku.
"Alright," The teacher started, "We will begin with Bakudo number 1 and only Bakudo number 1." At the last part he seemed to be looking at a group on the other side of the line and the entire class started giggling. "Now, begin!"
Kiku went first but her spell only lasted for a second before dropping. Daisuke held his for about three seconds. Then it was Sasuke's turn. He walked up to the line and said, "Bakudo one, Sai" The others were surprised that he had gotten rid of the incantation, but were even more surprised when the spell held for over thirty minutes; a record.
"Woah, that was amazing, Uchiha-san!" Kiku said, "How did you do it so well without the incantation?"
"As a shinobi, I did not use long incantations to perform jutsu, so I thought that it would be easier to do spells that way." He answered, proud with himself for thinking ahead and researching.
"Sugoi, Uchiha- san will get picked for the new training program for sure. Azazel-san too. I don't have good enough grades for that." Kiku said.
"Don't worry Kiku-chan," Daisuke comforted her, "You still have a few years to get better."
After the class let out, Sasuke met up with Obito. They had become closer over the last month. They would often talk about their daily lives in soul society. Obito rarely had much work to do, but every once in a while he would get a mission that would take him away from sereitei then he would come back to tell Sasuke all about it. Sasuke never went to visit his family though. It would be too painful, but Obito told him that they were all staying inside the walls; all together. He might have even seen them sometimes, but he never tried to talk to them. They weren't even Uchihas anymore; the official name of the clan was Kuchiki now.
Today though, Obito brought news from the Captain Commander himself: Namikaze Minato. He and the Sandaime, who was his vice captain, remembered. It had taken a while for them to clear their busy schedules but the three of them were to meet at 3:00, which was in about five minutes. "WHY DIDN"T YOU TELL ME SOONER, OBITO-BAKA!" So Sasuke ran across sereitei in record time.
He arrived at the meeting place at exactly 3:00:00. It was not the formal chamber, but a more casual setting. When he arrived, he immediately dropped to one knee, this being the formal greeting of a shinobi to his Kage.
The Sandaime smiled, but said, "Uchiha- kun, I am no longer your Hokage. There is no need to kneel."
Sasuke slowly got up, his cheeks slightly red from embarrassment. "Sorry, habit."
"It's alright, Uchiha-kun." The Yondaime reassured him. "Actually, part of the reason I wanted to speak with you was concerning the details of your death. We got a strange reading around the time that you were collected."
"That is something I wanted to talk to you about as well, Namikaze-sama. Not long after we died, the Gates of Hell opened. I have researched, but I cannot figure out why they took him. The Gates appear when they detect a naturally 'bad' soul. They appeared for the Kyuubi, not Naruto. He doesn't belong there, but he is."
The Yondaime turned Captain Commander looked at Sasuke sadly. "I'm sorry Uchiha-kun, but there is no way to summon the Gates. Even if there was, souls only go one way."
Sasuke's eyes widened at the implications of his words. "But, there must be a way! We can't abandon him! Naruto is innocent; the Gates took him by mistake!"
"There is nothing that can be done, I'm sorry."
Sasuke, in his fury, stormed out of the room. He ran, far away from Sereitei, deep into the fields surrounding the city. He needed to think, he needed to leave. He needed to find a way to save Naruto.
Meanwhile, back in sereitei, Minato and the Sandaime continued the conversation.
"Minato-kun, are you sure that there is nothing that can be done?"
"Sarutobi-san, there is only one person that can summon the Gates of Hell, and no one can contact him."
"Who, whoever they are we can find them. I know Naruto enough to know about everything that he has suffered because of you. He does not deserve the endless torment of Hell. Please Minato-kun, do not think of him as your mistake, think of him as your son."
At this, the Yondaime's eyes widened in realization of what he had been doing. He had ceased to think of Naruto as a human being, but as a jinchuriki.
"As much as I wish that I could save an innocent life from Hell, the daemons will not be persuaded to let any soul good or bad leave their clutches."
"It seems that you underestimate the bonds that Sasuke and Naruto share. Naruto died to keep his promise and Sasuke will do anything to keep his." Sandaime looked out the window, thinking of what he had seen while watching over his surrogate grandson. He remembered the times that Sasuke and Naruto shared, saving eachother's lives and he knew they would save each other even in death. "Just because you refuse to help him does not mean that Sasuke will give up on his quest to save Naruto. I cannot help the feeling that this will be our downfall."
(1) – Forgive the pun. I couldn't help it. In order to find names, because nobody would give me any OCs, I look them up with their translations. Iwao means something like 'stone man'.
