Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. I do own the plot, along with some members of the cast.

Chapter Four: Reaping

It's a thief in the night
To come and grab you
It can creep up inside you
And consume you
A disease of the mind
It can control you
It's too close for comfort (Oh)

"Ah! No, no, not there!"

"Well then where?"

"Just not there. Oh, Sasuke-Kun! Yeah, right there!"

"There? Like that?"

"Mmhmm."

Sasuke growled, wondering how Sakura had convinced him to give her a massage. It worked out though, in his favor, because he wanted to talk to her. She'd just dropped a large leather book on his desk about ten minutes ago. "Sakura, what's in that book?" He asked, softly kneading her shoulders and breathing on her ear. She shuddered lightly and glanced back at him, emerald eyes probing. He hated how he felt she could see into his mind. After their tender moment in the nurse's office two weeks before she was all hard stares and bitter words. This was actually the first time he'd seen her in demon form since his stay in the hospital.

She squirmed, trying to get up. He used his weight to his advantage by keeping her trapped and frustrated. She glared back up at him. "It's a book filled with demonic know-how's written by all the previous Satan's. Daddy said it would be good to let you start brushing up on it all." She huffed, blowing a strand of hair out of her face. Sakura turned around so that they were facing each other. "Now will you please let me up?" She hissed softly. He looked down, chuckling at her little pout. He suddenly wondered how it would feel to start the kiss, to be the one controlling it. He'd never kissed Karin. Sakura had been the one to kiss him. He looked at those lips taunting him.

"My, My! I think you should save that for the honeymoon you two!" It was Sakura's Overseer, Kakashi. Sasuke jumped right off Sakura, landing on his ass on his blue carpet. Sakura sat up and looked down at him. She giggled, a light pink tinting her cheeks. "If he's this eager we should get him down there now." Kakashi stated as he stood on Sasuke's windowsill. Sakura nodded eagerly.

"Just what are you doing here Kakashi?" Sasuke snapped angrily. He was thankful he was home alone, considering he was the only one who could see Kakashi and Sakura when they were in Demon form. He also disliked when they referred to the day of his death so nonchalantly in front of him. He didn't want to know when it would happen, but he didn't like at how they hinted it was soon.

Kakashi looked at him, curious for a moment, then smiled and nodded. "Satan thought it would be a good idea if you reaped your first soul today." He announced merrily. Sasuke stared at him as if he were crazy. "If you want to know how, it's not that hard. You'll just have to die for about an hour, but Sakura will watch your body and make sure it keeps breathing." He mused softly, rummaging through his pocket for something. Sasuke took a cautious step back but Sakura had some how managed to get behind him. She grinned at him cheerfully.

Sasuke opened his mouth to protest when a small white orb was thrown into his open mouth. He blinked a few times and a shudder rippled down his spinal cord. He clenched his eyes shut, and he heard a small thump. He forced his eyes opened and glanced back, looking at Sakura holding his body. She smiled sweetly and placed his body on the bed. She then snapped her fingers and returned to her human form. She was still dressed for school, hair in a braid this time. Sasuke gulped lightly and glanced at himself. He was wearing a pair of black slacks and nice black stage shoes. He looked over the rest of his outfit as well. He had a white long sleeved button up top on with a black vest over it. He looked at the attire curiously, deciding it was nice enough. "So this is what I'll be wearing when I die?" He asked curiously. Kakashi shook his head and pulled something else out. It was a little black cap with an extra part for puppy ears. Sasuke raised an eyebrow and felt something else go up with it. He looked and saw a pair of black dog ears on the sides of his head. So that was the reason for the hat. He growled lowly as Kakashi fixed it up atop his head. Sasuke hated hats. Sakura giggled again and watched. 'This was just a random outfit you guys chose for me?" He asked flatly.

"No, I picked it for you. It matches with mine!" Sakura cheered happily. Sasuke's face blanched a little and Sakura looked suddenly sad. "You don't like it, Sasuke-Kun?" She asked worriedly, tears rimming her eyes. Sasuke groaned lightly, because he hated to make any girl cry.

He shook his head. "It's fine. But why am I a dog?" He asked. Kakashi rolled his eyes and grabbed Sasuke's wrist. "Hey, wait just a-!" He froze when he and Kakashi fazed right through the wall. "I really am dead right now, aren't I?" He stammered as they floated above the city. He'd never seen it like this and he had to admit it was stunning, how all the lights glowed and shimmered. Even the ocean, which Sasuke always thought looked like pollution and muck, seemed to be made of rippling liquefied diamonds. "It's so beautiful." He murmured.

"Yes, this is why Sakura chose you." Kakashi stated calmly. Sasuke looked at him curiously as he led him to their destination. "She thought you'd have a better appreciation of the little things that most people would ignore. In that first second she saw you, she knew all about you in yet knew nothing at all." He stated with a small chuckle and grin. Sasuke was about to ask what he meant by that but they were suddenly on the ground again.

It was a car crash scene. Sasuke watched as the lights flashed vividly and the ambulance workers rushed around. It was then he saw Itachi and Mayumi, and he began to panic. "Don't worry, they just got hit with some flying objects." Kakashi stated and pointed to the little patches on them. Mayumi had one on her forehead, her silvery evening gown slightly tattered and stained a little. She was clinging to Itachi's left hand while the right was being taken care of by one of the medics. "Current Situation: A car accident. Three pedestrians were harmed, all minor wounds. The driver that caused the accident was a mother of two that had been drinking heavily due to a recent divorce. Her two children, a boy of eight and a girl of six, were at their soccer practice and the family was on their way home. Sadly, the one driving the van she hit was a college student one her way to celebrate her mother's birthday. Her name was Tsunika Mika, age 20. Also, the woman's older child, named Mitsukashi Tatsuka, died in this accident. He was in the front seat and his lungs were crushed by the air bag." He explained with a small sigh.

It was then Sasuke saw the two bodies of the dead. One was charred violently. It was a bit taller than his own, so he decided it must have been Mika. He watched as the doctors placed a white sheet over a much smaller form. The young boy, Tatsuka, Sasuke thought. His mother was screaming and sobbing as they took his body away. A little girl with long brown curls and large green eyes was crying as a social worker picked her up and headed away. She wore a pink and white soccer uniform with the number 7 on the back. She was crying out for her big brother. Kakashi offered something to Sasuke that he had pulled from his robes. It was a scythe with a long chain dangling off the top of it. Sasuke looked at it, and then back at Kakashi. "Just slash it in the air above their bodies. Their souls will come out and the Chains of Judgement will be wrapped around their ankles." He explained and Sasuke felt his stomach twist in complete disapproval.

Sasuke gulped and raised the scythe. He began to wonder if this was what his parents had been put through when they died all those years ago. The scythe came down and two orbs of bright light entered his now widened sight. The two lights took the form of two people. One was a small boy with curly black hair and large green eyes. He wore a soccer uniform in the shade of light blue and black with the number twelve on the back. The other was a girl, around Sasuke's height. Her hair was a pale blond, most likely bleached to be that way. She looked like a Barbie doll, wearing a tasteful cocktail dress shaded with a blue fabric. Her hair was up in a twisted bun and her bangs cradled her face. "Hello Mika and Tatsuka. I am a God of Death, come to reap your souls. You will be judged and then sentenced to where you belong. Please don't put up a fight." He said flatly, the words simply flowing out of him.

The little boy suddenly looked scared. "N-No! I can't go to Heaven! Mitsura still needs me! I can't leave her all alone!" He cried, tears filling those frightened eyes. Sasuke felt his heart tearing to pieces within his chest. Had his mother cried like this, knowing she'd never be able to hold her boys again? Was she scared of being reborn and not remembering them? Was she afraid she would make it through the judging that Satan would be giving her? The older girl suddenly took the boy's hand and looked at him. He looked up from his sobbing, curious and scared.

"It's okay Sweetheart. I'll go with you, and help take care of you. And you see those men?" She asked him, pointing to the social workers. Tatsuka nodded and sniffled lightly. "Well, they are going to find a family that will take care of your sister. She won't be all alone for long, I promise." She stated sweetly, smiling as reassuringly as she could. He nodded and smiled faintly. Sasuke felt a little better as well. He looked over at Kakashi, waiting to get his next instruction.

"You can give me the scythe and I'll take them down. You'll return to your body the minute I reach the Gates of Fates so just sit tight." He stated, taking the sharp tool Sasuke handed him. He smiled sweetly at the two ghosts and they disappeared. Sasuke hovered, watching his brother and sister-in-law from above. Mayumi was fretting over Itachi lovingly, and Itachi was trying to get her to relax. Sasuke chuckled, knowing how Mayumi could get when she was anxious. He suddenly felt a sensation of the air in his lungs being forced back in, and in the blink of an eye, he was back in his room.

He took a deep breath and realized there was a little bit of weight above his heart. He glanced down and spotted pink. 'Sakura.' He thought in annoyance. But it brought him a second thought. Sasuke was suddenly curious if Sakura had ever been human and had had to die. Or what her first reaping was like and how she felt after. "Hey, Sakura, I have a question." He mumbled. She groaned softly, nuzzled closer to him and ignored him. She was breathing so calmly, her face seeming so angelic like this, that he decided his questions could wait. He watched her until he himself fell asleep, not understanding why he couldn't look away from her when she feigned her purity.

TBC

So yeah, kinda lame but I wanted to do it. I hope you liked it. Maybe I'll have those two ghosts show up again later! Until then!