Rei Tantei Naruto Uzumaki
(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.
Wow… I got lots of reviews. Sorry I haven't answered them up until now, but I just now found the place to do so on the author's site… I know, it's a fail, but FFnet is confusing sometimes. Either way, here is another chapter for you guys to enjoy.
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(Previously)
Tsunade stared. She couldn't help it. She ran to the door to check the list of people who came into the morgue since the body was placed and when she found that no one had been in the room since Naruto had been dropped off, she immediately sent a single clone to the nearest guard in the building. When her clone informed her that the guards had seen no one in this section of the building all day, she literally could not comprehend what this could mean.
In the wreckage of the center of Naruto's slashed up jacket, the holes that were killing blows on his young body were no longer there.
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GOTCHA! ... Almost.
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Jiraiya hadn't felt this bad since the day Minato died… of course thinking back to that made him think about Naruto being born, which brought his morbid thoughts full circle back to Naruto's death. He liked to think of himself as a fair, considerate, and generally kind man. Of course he also considered himself to be the penultimate ladies man, having heard stories as a kid of the writer ninja named Casanova from Boot Country(1), but that wasn't anything to think about now.
But right now, he dreamed of killing Uchiha Sasuke more than anything. More than killing Orochimaru. More than… well, almost as much as seeing Tsunade's boobs. But even as he wanted to kill the kid, he knew Naruto would have never stood for it… if he was still alive.
Jiraiya cursed out loud. Even when he was dead that brat made his head spin in circles from the chaos the boy created.
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Uchiha Madara looked over the destroyed Valley of the End. Fortunately, his mask was on and concealed the frown on his face. There was not enough energy from the Kyuubi here to seal. The statue wouldn't work if the nine tails' power wasn't added to it. Damn Namikaze and his seal. How on earth had he managed to completely send the Kyuubi to the other side of death? Madara could tell that the seal had not simply released the demon back to its demonic home otherwise he would have been able to summon it like he had on that fateful October night. DAMN that man! He would have to do some massive alterations to compensate for this amount of youki lost. Minor demons wouldn't be able to match a demon lord's power, not unless there were a few thousand of them in one spot…
Well now… THAT was a thought.
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Koenma, Sarutobi Hiruzen, and Namikaze Minato looked over the table.
"Well…"
"Yeah…"
"Gentlemen, I think that we have it finished. Are there any objections from you two?"
"I can only wonder if this will react badly with my original seal when he returns to Earth. If so then we have only dealt with half of the problem…"
"I cannot say I would be glad if Kyuubi was out of Spirit World, but we can only hope that he is as strong as ever. You do realize that this will burden him even further correct? When his spirit energy is low, the Kyuubi will gain more predominance in his psyche. He could lose himself forever to the beast."
"That was part of my original seal too if you will remember Koenma sir. Now though, the fail-safes are broken and he will not have the extra protections he originally had. We have to bet everything on him now."
"I believe in Naruto. I watched him grow up and I can say that if there is anyone who could do this, it would be that boy."
"I sure hope you two know what you are talking about. For your village's sake. OGRE!!!"
"Yes Koenma sir?"
"Bring Uzumaki Naruto to me immediately."
"Right away sir."
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Naruto and Kurama were having a good time. Well, Naruto was, but with the almost constant look on Kurama's face it was rather hard to tell. He had this small smile except when he got serious about something and then got this bland look about him. How could you tell how someone was feeling if they only had 2 facial expressions?
They had figured out that Naruto was a veritable ocean of energy and suppressing that for even short periods of time was impossible for now, so Kurama suggested to suppress a fraction of the energy for as long as possible, which worked infinitely better. Kurama hinted that it was possible, once he learned how to completely hide himself, that he could learn how to project his energy like a ventriloquist projects sound, but that only 5 demons had mastered this technique in all of demon history.
As the two friends sat in the library (Naruto practicing the energy suppression and Kurama reading) an ogre ran into the library, and, once he spotted the pair, ran over to them.
"Kurama sir. Koenma requests Uzumaki's presence in his office immediately sir! They have finished the seal."
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Ten years.
Kazahana Koyuki lost the most important person to her ten years ago when Dotō's forces had assaulted the daimyo's residence and murdered her father. She had only been a girl, no more than six years old when that happened. She could still remember the ash and the tears she cried on that horrendous escape on that dog sled.
But ten years of ice had melted away with a kind but almost stupidly determined blond. He had saved her, multiple times, from the enemy, from her past, and from herself. He drove her up the wall, but for the past few months she felt like there was something worthwhile to do with her life.
As the walls of Konoha came into sight of her carriage, she could not help but wonder what had happened to him. How he had died? As good of a young man as he was, the entire town must have been devastated, she was sure. As much as he said about being their Hokage, it must have been a big blow for morale to lose such a candidate.
She chuckled to herself, despite the occasion. The boy probably had half a dozen women chasing after him from the people he had saved. (2)
'If only…' she thought before she cut herself off. As she showed her passport to the guards she steeled herself so that she wouldn't fall into the same chasm she did last time. The time now was for mourning, not for the theatrics that were her past way of dealing with loss.
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Tsunade had managed to delay the service.
And prevent the cremation of the body.
If hunter nin could dissect bodies in the wild and bring their secrets back to their home village, so could they if the bodies were buried… only they had to be more careful. As such, graveyards for shinobi were nonexistent, most being cremated to preserve the village's secrets. As Hokage and Chief Medical Officer for the village, she had enough sway to delay for at least a day with a bogus medical excuse.
'I never thought that checking for any "sign" of the demon altering him would be enough to hold off secret protecting measures. Naruto, you had better come quick brat, cause I can do nothing more.' Tsunade thought before starting up a medical jutsu. 'Let's see if I can help your body along here Naruto…'
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"I thought it would be… I don't know… bigger I guess. Like the size of the one I used to have."
Koenma had said that he needed to actually apply the seal to the Kyuubi for it to work, so the entire group set out over the rocky terrain that surrounded the Spirit World office towards the red light in the sky on the horizon. Sarutobi was arguing ethics with Botan and Koenma, Yusuke and Kurama were chatting about one of Naruto's "lessons" with Yusuke, but Minato decided to walk with Naruto in the back of the group to try to catch up on his son's life. He felt delighted that Naruto was talking to him, and was grateful he was asking about the seal since he knew a lot about those.
"Well if you want bigger, then you can see the uncompressed drawings if you want. They are about a meter across both ways."
"Uncompressed?"
"When you compress seals, it means that all of the symbols get squished together to where they look like lines for another symbol or like the outlines on your original seal. Don't you know anything about sealing by now?"
"Of course not, it's not like my dad was around to teach me was it?" Naruto knew it was a low blow, but really, your dad practically telling you that you were an idiot? It kinda ticked him off.
Minato winced. "Ok ok, I get it. But still, I would have figured that the Old man here would have given you my old books or something in hopes of getting a second Yellow Flash or something even better. Even if he didn't tell you I was your dad."
"I can barely read. I got kicked out of lessons at the academy up until Iruka became my sensei, but by then I was two years behind. Any other obvious, glaring holes you would like to point out in my education?"
"Oh…" 'Geez, what a GREAT father-son bonding moment this is Minato! What are you going to bring up next, a lack of a girlfriend? He has my looks, so it can't be too hard for him to have a girlfriend yet…'
"So, how many girlfriends have you had?"
"None. They all learned that they weren't supposed to like me at a young age, and so when they got older… well you get the picture."
"But, you look just like me and I never had girl problems… after I realized that some of the girls that were talking to me weren't being weird, but were flirting with me like normal people. The 'flirting' that my fan girls did always felt weird. Surely it can't be that bad…"
"Alright, how's this? I am overcharged at most places because of what I am, for food and supplies. I have an ultra high metabolism so I have to eat a lot of food and a genin's paycheck can't afford the overpriced food. The cheapest food I can buy is ramen and there happens to be this wonderful shop in town where they actually DON'T overprice for me, but the low health content prevents me from getting to a normal height," Naruto had to take a breath after rushing all that out before plugging on ahead.
"All of the adults know better than to attack a shinobi, but no acknowledgement of your existence is just as bad. I turned to pranking just to force people to show that they knew I was there and make them respond to me. It's not abuse, but negligence of a human soul is just as bad for it."
"All of the kids my age demean me because I was purposefully sent out of class, which degraded my ninja skills to the worst in the Academy. Until I recently proved that I was the most powerful fighter out of all of them, I was practically laughed at for trying. Even then, I am STILL called an idiot because of my ignorance. The only attention that I see from the guys in class is them wondering what the next funny screw up that I will do is, and the only attention I get from the girls is getting yelled at or hit because I am bothering them."
Naruto took a deep breath and let out an even larger sigh, "But no, it's not so bad is it?"
Naruto kept on walking passed a stunned 4th Hokage who couldn't find anything to say.
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Hyuuga Hinata wasn't exactly feeling good. Her long time crush had died and she had cried until there were no more tears left. All she wanted was to clean herself up and get some food and water to help her dehydrated body cope with the traumatic events she had been through. But one of her cousins from the main house just had to spout his mouth off. He was only three or so years older than her and didn't know Naruto personally, so when he made the comment that "nobody missed the loser," Hinata snapped.
One jūken strike to the throat had him gasping for air on his knees in front of half a dozen main house members and over twenty branch house members, who were all stunned into silence.
Hinata spoke into the silence, "Let me make this clear. NOBODY is to speak ill of that boy again. It is disrespectful to speak of the dead in the first place, but to mock a shinobi dead in the line of duty is worse. It puts us as no more than a common rabble holding a petty disdain for the dead. You are Hyuuga are you not? Act like one. Be civilized and respect the dead and your fallen comrades. Also, as for your comment, he was a friend of mine, so I will miss him and he was dear to Tsunade our Hokage and she will miss him. I can tell you that it would be in your best interest to never make such remarks around her, for she would do far worse than I would to you. Tsunade is a respectable member of our village and it reflects badly upon the Hyuuga to not be, in the very least, respectful to the dead if not for his sake then at least for the clan's image. Do I make myself clear?"
Almost as one, her family members around her began to nod slowly in agreement with her argument; her reasoning, not fear of her, made them agree.
From the door behind her, Hyuuga Hiashi watched his daughter walk away in deep thought.
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As they came over the rise, Naruto's group stared out at the devastation that lay in the land where the River Styx ran from human world to the Spirit Realm. The rise in terrain had merely been the edge of the crater where earth had been tossed due to the ferocious rage the Kyuubi had been attempting to throw all over Reikai. Naruto could see a mass of red surrounded by what looked like arcs of electricity coming from several point in a dome shape around it. This, he realized, must be the other Death Pilots containing the beast. As they slowly began walking down the face of the crater, he could see bulges appear in the shield from the inside.
After the group cleared the wall and approached the shield, Koenma turned to Naruto. "Now, what you need to do is to go in and apply this anywhere on Kyuubi's body. It will sap the beast's strength and bind it to the chakra in your body like last time. The soul of the beast will have to remain here until you transfer back to your body, or it would take over your body like it would have any other soulless object. Thankfully, without the majority of the nine-tails strength, its soul cannot do much and we can let some of these pilots go back to doing their work. I will warn you Naruto, should you get into very stressful fights and call upon Kyuubi's power, the beast will have a direct connection to your mind and body… there will not be the same protections as last time to prevent your full possession, we simply couldn't include them into this seal. This is an all or nothing gamble. Should you run out of spirit energy to hold the seal in place, your life force will attempt to compensate and the Kyuubi will be given a free shot at taking complete control of your body. There is no way we could stop it from here. You alone are holding the line from here on out. Good luck."
Naruto couldn't help but gulp as the scope of the situation hit him.
Koenma turned away to look at the shield and continued, "The beast is kept at bay behind here. We need you to stick that seal anywhere on its body for it to begin working. I should warn you, if you are devoured here, the gamble will be lost. No one but you can put it on, it is part of the binding process, but Yusuke is going to accompany you into the fray to take some of the focus away from you. Just remember, there are eight and part of a ninth tail, a set of really sharp teeth, and four paws aiming for you. It does not know what our plan is, but you still need to be careful."
Naruto nodded and, not for the first time, walked towards a fight to determine destiny.
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(A/N)
Note: Sorry if this chapter seems really emotional or dark, but I always think "darkest before the dawn" and all that.
I think that Naruto's rant to his father is exactly how it would be. Naruto has been bottling this up for years and cannot really control himself or his mouth. I would dare say that he would be blunt (like usual) and would want to finally be able to rant at the person who some of the stuff in his life went wrong for. He would be defensive about his living conditions, intelligence, and social life because they were all negatively affected by the fourth's actions. He knows that the man couldn't do anything else under the conditions, but he is just ranting because of the incorrect assumptions the 4th made and is defensive because Naruto may feel that the assumptions are what should have happened and he could do nothing about it.
(1) Casanova was from Venice, Italy. Italy is shaped like a boot, so "Boot Country." Clever? Casanova was a womanizer, gambler, and drunk… wait, was I talking about him or Jiraiya? Both were spies, both met the heads of state of the countries around them, and were well respected for their knowledge. Jiraiya for his knowledge about shinobi things while Casanova was into the occult, though his "practical" occult knowledge was actually fraudulent.
(2) I read one of the story lines either on Wiki or somewhere else saying that this was the only movie/filler that had happened before the Retrieval Mission. Haruna & Toki both happened in the fillers later, along with the Fūma clan incident and the mission that dealt with Isaribi. And of course, the Demon country mission is after the time skip. So the 'half a dozen' line hasn't happened yet. Note, though it may be apparent that she likes him, Koyuki may or may not be the ship for this. Plus, he is only 12-13 right now while she is 16-17, so there is time. Now that the "Do not start a 'Shipping War' bombardment" is out of the way, I may throw in some fluff for fun. You never know. ;)
Next Chapter is a big one. The Kyuubi encounter and more!