Rei Tantei Uzumaki Naruto
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.
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Chapter 3 --The Problem with Death is….--
(Previously)
All the while the ghost of Naruto watched in silence.
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After a few minutes order came back to the group. Kakashi spoke to the group, "We will have the service tomorrow. We need to get ready. Take him to the morgue." The sensei's in the room nodded and walked their teams into their teammates' recovery rooms. The news they had when Kiba, Neji, and Chouji woke up would not be pleasant.
Now originally, Team Baki wasn't informed of Naruto's death. To an outsider, they had no direct interest. However, when quiet murmurs around town of the death of "the demon" started Temari started to worry. It wasn't that she wasn't already on edge, being in the village her nation had just invaded and lost to, and being next to Gaara, despite his newfound lack of bloodthirstiness (Kankuro kept insisting that it was a temporary thing.) was worrisome enough. But hearing "death" and "demon" in whispered sentences usually meant someone going after Gaara. And then getting crushed.
She moved over to one group of such gossipers, with her team following slightly, and asked, "What do you mean 'the demon' died?" The conversation stopped slightly as the adults looked at her for a moment and looked around suspiciously. After seeing no one (not that it made a difference in a shinobi village) they said, "Oh well, it doesn't matter now I guess. He is dead after all, and you are foreign anyway. The Uzumaki-gaki was killed…" Was all the man got out before sand engulfed him.
"Uzumaki is dead?" asked Gaara in a quiet voice.
"Yes." Nothing but terror there.
"…"
"Gaa—"
"Temari. Kankuro. We are going to the hospital. Now." The three Sand siblings disappeared, allowing the man to fall to the ground in a pile of sand.
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Botan watched her mark in silence. He was quiet and contemplative, something that was totally against her file on him. His reaction to Gaara's entrance and demand to see "Uzumaki-san" dead or alive was almost to a normal standard as he smiled widely. When he was about to follow Gaara to the morgue she and Naruto were both interrupted by a child's voice.
"BOTAN!! Where the heck is Naruto?!" Botan and Naruto whirled around to see the image of the face of a toddler in the air. Naruto yelled but Botan cut him off. "What is it sir? I was letting him see-"
"There's no time for that now!" yelled the face. "We need him here right away! He wasn't supposed to have died yet, you know that, but the fact is we can't deal with his death yet!"
"Well why not sir?"
"Kyuubi! Now get him back to Spirit World NOW!"
And with that he faded out. Botan didn't like going back on promises, but it looked like Naruto wasn't going to see his friend's send off.
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The flight to Spirit World wasn't long, but it gave time for some explanation to Naruto.
"So that is Styx down there? And who was that? Why is he just a kid? Why are you taking orders from him, and why can't I see my funeral? You promised I could!"
"I am sorry Naruto but that is my orders. Yes that is Styx and we are on our way to Spirit World, where people go before they move on to the other side. I am supposed to take you there and your spirit will find it's place in death. That face was Koenma, and even though he looks like he is only a toddler, he is a few thousand years old and the leader of Spirit World, kind of like the Hokage is for Konoha. He has to make sure that Human, Spirit, and Demon realms all are balanced and they never hurt one another."
"Wow he seems pretty important. So I stay in Spirit World? Does that mean I can come visit you?"
"Silly. Spirit World is like the gate desk of your village. You go there to check out of the village, but you don't stay there forever, you move on to the other side. I guess the only difference is that you never check back in. But thanks for asking if you could see me. It's not everyday that someone tries to make friends with the Grim Reaper."
"Oh. So why is it so important that I go back now? He said Kyuubi, but I thought that when I died, the furball died with me?"
"I don't know, but we will have to see Koenma-san to find out."
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Seeing ogres running around with paper work was really weirding Naruto out, so it made him feel better to get to the huge set of doors that was Koenma's office. They made him kind of nervous though. "Come in Botan, Naruto."
Now Naruto had seen Koenma's face when he projected himself to the real world, but seeing a toddler behind a desk like he had seen the old man was a little too much. So he had to laugh.
"Dangit, why does everyone DO that?" "Well Koenma-san……."
"No I am sorry bebi-san, I just imagined if Hokage-jiji looked as young as you do. HAHAHAHA!!"
Koenma's eye was still twitching, but not as much as he yelled, "I'm not a baby! Oh, whatever! Now sit down we need your help you idiot!"
"HEY! I am not an idiot you little twerp!"
"You ARE an idiot because you died! Do you know how much paper work it is causing me to have Kyuubi running free around Spirit World?"
"WHAT?!" Both Botan and Naruto were now yelling.
"It is true that the seal on your stomach is supposed to intertwine the Kyuubi's spirit with your own by separating the Kyuubi from the immense amount of power that it has. The problem is that you didn't live long enough for it to loose enough strength for us to deal with. If you had lived long enough to make it an 8 tailed demon we would have been able to take care of it, but since it still possesses the ninth tail, its power is still beyond imagining. It's time locked within you has weakened it, making it loose almost 2/3 of its last tail, but we are still not able to deal with it. I even sent Yusuke out and he failed, as tough as he is. The other death pilot's are merely containing the beast now, but that will only hold until he gets that last tail back and then nothing will stop it. I think that only my father might be able to match it here. Maybe. Certainly no one else."
"Y—YUSUKE lost? YUSUKE URAMESHI LOST?!" Botan hadn't seen the man loose in thousands of years.
"That's exactly my point. The only thing to do is to contain it again. And that is where YOU come into play Naruto."
"What do you want me to do? I'm dead and the fox is already loose."
"Koenma! You want to do that with him? It hasn't been done since Yusuke himself!"
"It is the only way. Naruto, how would you like a new lease on life?"