Rei Tantei Naruto Uzumaki
General AU to the VotE fight where Naruto dies. I'm borrowing from the Naruto, and Yu Yu Hakusho verse definitely, maybe a few others later if I feel like it.
(A/N): I own nothing. Not even the computer I am writing this on. I claim to own nothing and you will not get anything from a lawsuit so just leave me alone please.
Also, I know NO Japanese so if I mistranslate, then calmly send me a review with corrections. If I leave it as the English spelling that means that I don't know how to spell it. Either send me an accurate spelling or get off my case. While I would love to learn Japanese, I am not very good with languages and I do not have time to learn since I am in college. Cry about it.
(End A/N)
Chapter 2 --Reactions from the Living--
(Previously)
Unseen by both men Naruto watched, seemingly hovering 20 feet above them. Or his spirit did at least. He watched in silence until both men had gone until finally he came back to his senses.
"HEY!! Now what happens?!"
A bubbly female voice behind him said, "Why you come with me of course."
"GAH!!" Naruto yelled and whirled around to see a woman with light blue hair floating on an oar. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK THERE? WHO ARE YOU?"
The woman giggled and smiled, "Well it's my job as the pilot of the River Styx to escort dead souls to the other side. But you don't have to call me by any title, just call me Botan!"
Naruto was confused. Now this wasn't exactly an Earth shattering deal, because it happened all the time, but this time he was really thrown for a loop.
"So I am dead?"
"Yep!"
"And you are here to take me to wherever dead people go?"
"Uh huh."
"So why aren't we gone yet?"
"Don't you want to see what happens until your funeral? Generally people want to see that before they go."
Naruto smiled and said, "Ah, there probably won't be much to see. Kakashi and the rest of the team will show up cause they have to. Iruka would show up and might cry a little but he will be fine. Tsunade is too busy as Hokage. Ero-Sennin will go back to peeking. Team 8, 10, and Gai not only will be too busy, but they don't know me all that well anyway. Konohamaru will find another "Boss" and Teuchi and Ayame may show up later, but other than that, everyone else won't care."
Botan looked sad as she said, "Maybe you should stay around just in case? And even if nothing happens, this way you could still say goodbye to Konoha."
Naruto looked up and nodded in agreement. "That sounds good. Lead the way Botan!"
Sasuke and Kakashi arrived at the village gates some hours later. Sasuke was holding on to Naruto's body like it was his last hope. The guards looked on quietly but summoned ANBU at Kakashi's hand signal once the two were out of sight. Then once disappeared in a puff of smoke to summon the Hokage.
As the 2 Sharingan users walked through town towards the hospital, the villagers watched on in silence as the former Jinchuuriki's body was carried by. Word got around through various shinobi to certain people around Konoha all of whom had different reactions.
The sensei's of Team Gai, 10, and 8 gathered their non-injured students and walked them to the entrance to meet their fallen shinobi and friend. No explanation was given to their teams for why they were being taken away from their injured teammates, but they followed none the less.
Sakura was told by a passing Chuunin that she might want to go to the Shinobi hospital immediately. She couldn't figure out what the look the woman gave her could be.
Shizune paled as she heard the news from the chuunin gate guard. She was in slight shock as she told her master and teacher that the rest of the team was approaching, though she left out the rest of the news as Tsunade was in the process of stabilizing Akimichi Chouji. She preyed that her master wouldn't react as badly as she knew Tsunade was going to do. She then left the room and cried for the death of another person dear to her.
Jiraya was behind bushes at a waterfall and was in the process of pulling out his telescope when a messenger came to him. He shunshined away, forgetting his pencil, telescope, and even his all important notebook.
Umino Iruka was teaching class as he was told. He froze for just a second and then blew through the nearby window with speed no one had seen from the man ever before. Three members of a certain Corp heard the news and followed their sensei, albeit through the door. They all were crying the whole way there.
Various people across Konoha began celebrating but were immediately stopped by other members of their society. Whether or not the boy was a demon was unimportant to them, he had died on a mission for their village and he deserved, if not a quiet respect, then at least some measure of dignity in death in the service to his village.
The sensei's and members of teammates who were injured on the Retrieval Mission were waiting in the lobby, both for word of their injured comrades and for whatever reason their squads were told to meet the last members of Team 7 for. Tsunade walked into the lobby and smiled. "Chouji, Kiba, and Neji are all stable and their prognosis looks good. They should all be at least awake by tomorrow."
As the students of the respective teams relaxed, the sensei's all tensed up, something that did not go unnoticed by the 5th Hokage. Her eyes narrowed as she asked the question, "What?"
No one answered the Slug Sannin. She began again, "What is…" but the sentence died on her lips as the doors to the hospital opened with Kakashi, Sasuke, and Naruto's limp body entering.
For a moment no one spoke and no one moved. Sasuke finally moved and set down his friend's body in the floor. Iruka came flying in right as Sasuke began to speak, "I know that you are going to arrest me, and you are probably going to have me executed for taking his life, but please, I ask to attend his funeral before you carry out my sentence. I cannot express how sorry I am for what I have done."
Nobody moved for a moment until hell broke loose. Tsunade fell to the ground crying without remorse or thought to her image. Sakura and Ino both stood crying in place, their eyes locked on the dead blonde. Shino never moved, but his body was buzzing with the agitated state his hive's reaction to his emotions. Shikamaru looked neither bored nor was he asleep; instead he was solely focused on the person who had confessed and was projecting KI. Hinata… looked unusual compared to normal since she looked like a normal Hyuuga, with a perfectly blank, unreadable expression. However, her Byakugan had unconsciously and unintentionally activated and she was projecting KI at Sasuke as well. Tenten looked on at everything, though she never let her guard down. Iruka was visibly crying with an expression with absolute rage on his face. It took both Kakashi and Asuma to hold back his attempts to kill the Uchiha, though all of the jounin were failing at holding up neutral expressions.
All the while the ghost of Naruto watched in silence.