"Get up you lazy bitch!"

Akiri opened her eyes and looked at the fox, the way he crouched over her like she was his newest meal. It didn't scare her, she knew what had happened and that she was dead. The Kyuubi had placed too much pressure on her body as it was and she'd pushed herself too far. She was dead and this was some cruel afterlife.

"What do you want, Kyuubi-kun?" Akiri asked, lying there in the water.

"It's been two fucking years. You're seventeen fucking years old and now we can fucking take this world by storm!" The Kyuubi roared, grinning like some sort of sick psychopath. Every one of it's sharp canine-like teeth were clear to her eyes but they no longer scared her. She was dead, so she couldn't die again.

"I'm tired, Kyuubi. Please shut up." Akiri said, her voice dull and lacking any sort of real emotion.

"Get the fuck up you whore!"

Akiri's eyes opened wide and she glared at the Kyuubi, a vein in her forehead jutting out quite evidently to the Kyuubi. It's loud cackle of laughter shook the walls of the cavern they were trapped in and Akiri had to do everything in her power to not stand up and hit him with as much power as she could. Instead, she just glared with a look that could pierce rock.

"I hit a nerve, did I?" The Kyuubi chortled, grinning maniacally. "I'm the one inside and I'm here to kick your ass if you don't revive yourself."

"What?" Akiri snapped, sitting up and pressing her forehead against the Kyuubi's black nose.

"It's time to re-appear up there. We're alive."

"A jutsu?" Akiri gasped, eyes wide in horror.

"No. It's my unique ability."

"In other words, you need to revive me in order to live yourself, correct?" Akiri asked with a smirk.

"Fuck you." The beast snarled.

"Fine. Let's go."

Akiri gasped, the smell of rotting flesh filling her nose and causing her to choke as she fell off the white rock. A spider scuttled away from her and Akiri hacked up a green-ish fluid from her stomach. Unable to stop, she coughed a few more times before looking about. Again, she gasped and repeated the process again.

The room Akiri was in was dark but with flaming torches illuminating the room. On several white alters were other bodies, each of them preserved by a jutsu that Akiri couldn't even begin to try and comprehend. Bodies that she recognized, like Minato and Kushina, her grandparents. Even the fifth Hokage, who must've only recently died considering she was only in her seventies. Probably something to do with her liver considering she drank so much alcohol.

"Oh god." Akiri whispered, standing up.

She donned a white gown that reached the floor, hiding her tiny pale feet from view. Her arms were covered by white lace and the bodice of the dress was covered in the same lace. She'd been dead for two years but the dress looked brand new. It was odd but very fitting since it was so ghostly. Especially since she was like a zombie now, walking through a crypt that held her descendants within it.

"Jesus, get out of there!"

"Kyuubi-kun?" Akiri asked, her eyes darting around the corpses in a moment of childhood fear that the dead would move.

"I'm pretty weak right now. Get yourself out of there!"

Akiri nodded, hurrying up the steps of the crypt to a door. She hit the door and much to her surprise, the door opened easily on well-oiled hinges. And there she was, in the graveyard near Konoha. In pure horror, Akiri ran past numerous gravestones until she reached the woods. She gasped for breath before walking through the wood, lost without her sense of direction. The place was said to be timeless but the woods had changed over the two years that Akiri had spent dead.

She saw an ANBU and hurriedly ran to him. But when he saw her, the boy fell back and crawled backwards away from her as though she were a danger to him. He pulled kunai from his pack but it was a clumsy shot. He was clearly dumbfounded and Akiri couldn't blame him. If the Hokage's only daughter suddenly rose from the dead and you were the first to see her, you'd have reacted the same way, if not worse.

"Relax, please. I'm lost-"

"Get away from me!"

Confused, Akiri felt tears gather in her eyes and she soon fell to the floor in tears. Her entire body shook as she sobbed, wondering if everybody would react to her this way. Would her own parents throw weapons at her, eager for her imminent demise? Would her brother run away in fear for his own sanity when he caught sight of her? And what of Itachi? He was the level-headed type of guy that would kill her without delay, knowing she was bad news. But she wasn't, was she?

"Akiri?"

Akiri looked up to see the ANBU from moments ago and her brother stood metres from her, their faces contorted in shock. She recognized the ANBU to be her old friend Masao Inuzuka, the child of Kiba Inuzuka and his wife, Ino. After a second, Masao's dog, Takeshi appeared with it's tongue lolling out.

For a second, Akiri said nothing and instead sniffed.

"Takeshi, get back here!"

Instead, the large husky dog, Takeshi, came over to Akiri and began licking her face with a passion he had always done. The dog was lovely and had always had a soft spot for her. So, as the dog continued to lick her face, Akiri began to laugh and smile. Soon enough, she had her hands in his fur, rubbing his stomach and scratching behind his ears.

"Akiri, is it really you?" Masao asked as he hugged her.

"It's me." Akiri giggled, hugging Masao back as he laughed loudly. Takeshi barked.

"Oh my fucking god."

Akiri embraced her old friend, noticing his sudden growth spurt. He was at least six foot tall and the face paint he donned had gone from cherry red to a more crimson shade. He had clearly grown up, even if he did still sport his strange hair and somewhat immature behavior.

"Brother?" Akiri asked, looking to her older brother.

"How?" Hinato asked as he stared at Akiri, making her feel oddly out of place.

"The kyuubi chakra revived me. I don't exactly know how. But I'm back." Akiri chuckled, smiling.

Hinato looked at her, his eyes wide as he stared at his sister. Though she'd hardly changed, it seemed as though everything about her had in it's own unique way. For starters, though she'd barely grown an inch in height, leaving her still at her tiny 5'3", it had become evident she'd matured, though he didn't want to think about it. But her hair had lengthened, now reaching her waist whilst the blue in her eyes had reddish flecks around the pupil. It was something he certainly didn't want to think about.

"You've changed." Hinato said, looking at her.

"It's been two years brother. May I go home?"

"Alright." Hinato said calmly.

"At least he didn't say your home was in the ground or something."

When Akiri walked through the large doors of her home, she watched Hinato go into the family room and speak to his parents. In the mean time, Akiri looked at photos that were placed around the room. Several of her and her brother, her two parents and even one of her Father and Sasuke. But what caught her attention was a photo of her aunt Hanabi and Konohamaru, which was adorable in it's own way. It was about time that they'd gotten married, though Akiri was saddened that she'd missed that.

"Promise you won't freak out, okay?" Akiri heard her brother said and her concentration snapped back to her brother.

"Hinato! Damn it son-"

"Naruto, calm down. Please. We ought listen to what Hinato has to say."

Akiri heard her family arguing and yelling at one another but she went back to looking about her home. There was a small, tuxedo cat wandering about the living room, looking perplexed by the sight of Akiri. But it soon became interested by something outside and it hopped out of the window.

"Come on in." Hinato called and Akiri walked toward the door slowly, praying that the reaction would be one she could embrace.