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Hiruzen had watched everything that had just occurred, from Kakashi opening the closed Ramen Bar's door to the copy ninja being punched into a wall by a man wearing black robes with long blond hair.

'Its impossible, but there is a huge resemblance... But Naruto shouldn't be as old as this man... Even if he was alive...'

The man who had punched Kakashi turned around to look at the old Hokage. Looking into those blue eyes, shining with life Hiruzen couldn't help but let a tear fall from his face as he remembered Naruto's last moments in the world.

'Please don't let me be to late!' The third Hokage though as he ran as fast as he could towards a young Naruto's fading chakra signature.

When he finally got to the scene he was about to kill all the villagers that were cheering in the middle of the busy street, but he was stopped when a weak voice came from a five year old boy who should have already died at that point.

"Jiji, ple..ase... don't kill... them. They were on...ly doing what... What the...y had... thought... Was right."

He was staying alive with his own free will?! The third Hokage ran over to the blond while all of the villagers were leaving the area as quickly as possible, afraid of what would happen if they stayed.

Naruto coughed up blood.

"Jiji... Will... Will you pro...mise not to hurt... them?" Hiruzen gently picked the blond haired five year old up into his arms. There were so many injuries it was impossible to tell what was what but one thing stood out, Naruto's eyes, ones that had once been full of life, had dimmed a considerable amount.

"Don't worry Naruto! You'll be fine in no time!" Tears were threatening to fall down the old Hokage's face. Why had he fallen for the civilian councils cheap trick? Because of that Naruto was...

"Hey... Jiji." Naruto coughed again and Hiruzen said in a pained tone.

"Naruto! Don't talk, save your strength!" Another cough and Naruto's weak voice spoke.

"Jiji... You were... always kind... to me, you were... The only one... Who cared... You were... Always there for... Me." A small hand was timidly placed on the old Hokage's hand. "Thank you... Goodbye... Jiji." The boys eyes lost all of the light that they had once held and the small hand fell.

The third Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen cried while holding the body of one who he had considered a grandchild, completely ignoring the fact that the Kyuubi should have been released that day, or anything going on around him for that matter.

He wouldn't harm the villagers who had attacked Naruto, no matter how much he wanted to. After all, it had been the blond haired boy's last request.

"Yo! Jiji, you look like you've seen a ghost -although technically you have-! And what's with the tears?" Hiruzen's eye twitched, his sadness and regret replaced by many -many- questions. The main one being.

"Ugh, what the hell is going on?" And Kakashi, who was located on the other side of the room, took the words right out of the old Hokage's mouth.

Hiruzen looked over to Kakashi and saw someone that looked like an older version of the copy ninja's dead female teammate looking to see if he was ok...

'No, she doesn't look like... she is Kakashi's dead teammate... What is going on here!?' Two people who should definitely be dead were standing in front of him seemed to be to much for both the third Hokage and Kakashi, they both did the only thing they could in that kind of situation, they passed out.

Naruto just blinked and looked at Rin, who was attempting to put the strange now-unconscious one eyed guy who had attacked her onto her back.

Naruto sighed, Rin seemed to be worried about whoever the silver haired man was and Hokage-Jiji -could he even call him an old man anymore? He was older then the the third Hokage- was here as well... and had recognised the blond and Rin as well...

'This is going to be very... Troublesome... Shit! That lazy Nara from my squad must have given me that troublesome illness thing he talked about... And I thought the he was joking!'

"Rin, I'm going to make some Tea for those two" Naruto pointed to Kakashi and Hiruzen "and I don't think we should open up shop today..." Naruto went into a Kitchen that was located in a room at the back of the Bar.

Rin nodded, showing that she had heard and understood what her blond haired friend and little brother in all but blood had said, even if she had other things on her mind.

One of her teammates from when she had been alive was here, Kakashi was here...

Ever since she had died she couldn't help but worry about the cyclops, she had seen how he had taken Obito's death and it hadn't been good. So how had he taken it when she had died...?

Just as she started to drag Kakashi towards a seat in the ramen bar that looked like a mixture of an actual bar and a traditional Japanese restaurant -it was Naruto's idea- something fell out of one of Kakashi's hands.

Rin looked down,

It was a book,

A book with an orange cover,

That carried the title of 'Icha Icha Paradise',

The brown haired Shinigami saw rage,

Instantly recognising the book,

It was like the ones Minato-Sensei and Obito used to secretly read,

The female Shinigami dropped the cyclops,

And pulled a frying pan out of nowhere,

There was a groan coming for the person she had just dropped,

Her living former teammate had awoken from his slumber,

But it did not matter,

He would be back in it soon enough.

"YOU PERVERT!"

Kakashi had only just managed to dodge the frying pan and instantly recognised it. It was the same frying pan that Rin always used when she had caught their Sensei or Obito reading anything from the 'Icha Icha' series. Realisation came up and hit Kakashi on the head with a frying pan. Was that thing chakra enhanced or something?

"Your really... Rin? What? How? I remember that day I had..." Kakashi saw Rin gesture for him to have a seat and so he did. She sat down across from him. "How did you survive!?"

"You know... I never said that I wasn't dead-" the voice of an old man cut Rin off and Kakashi's one eye widened.

"I find that believable and yet unbelievable at the same time, I know for a fact that you and Naruto are who you appear to be but... But I find it hard to believe that you two are ghosts." It seemed that Hokage-Sama had regained consciousness and was now sitting next to the copy ninja.

A cup of tea was placed in front of Hiruzen as well as everyone else at the table and the blond haired man that the third Hokage was ninety nine percent sure was Uzumaki Naruto sat down next to the woman that he was seventy percent sure was Nohara Rin. They both looked around the same age, both wore some kind of black robe and they both had a sword. Hiruzen took note of those facts.

There was a pause and the third Hokage took a sip of his tea while Kakashi was staring at Rin with a tear falling down his face.

"Jiji! Who said we were ghosts! We're Shinigami -ttebayo!"

Hiruzen did the only thing he could do with a mouth full of tea, he did a spit-take while Kakashi looked like he had just seen a Shinigami, which he had... soooooo...

"W-w-what!?" Hiruzen stuttered in shock. Perhaps he had misheard, yeah... That must have been it! He must have finally gone insane from all the paperwork!

This time it was Rin who replied.

"Naruto said 'Jiji! Who said we were ghosts! We're Shinigami -ttebayo!'" The Hokage took note that the last part was said while doing a pretty good impression of Naruto. He also noticed Naruto turn to look at his brown haired friend.

"Hey! What did I tell you about doing that!?" Rin smiled innocently while turning to look at him and said.

"Doing what?" Alright, maybe that smile wasn't so innocent, it was like... like... The third Hokage didn't know how to describe it but it was creepy as hell. Although he didn't know what hell looked like...

'Crap, has Rin been having more lessons with Unohana-Sama? -well she is her captain...-' Yes, Naruto calls Retsu Unohana -captain or squad four- 'Unohana-Sama', she was the only person in the whole Soul Society that he treated with respect. Why? Because she was so damn scary!

Naruto sighed as he pulled a blue sketch book that had a label on it saying 'Rukia's assistance to those who need to explain things about the afterlife!'. He'd have to remember to thank Rukia for giving him this masterpiece...

"You intend to use Rukia's crappy drawings to help explain our situation?" spoke a female voice from next to him.

"HEY! Rukia's drawings are not crappy!" All Rin did was sigh while the two living occupants in the bar seemed to be confused. Naruto opened the sketch book to the first page. "Alright, this is what happens when you die." He pointed at a bunny that had a chain connected to its chest.

1 Hour Later

"Now that I've explained everything I need you both to promise to never tell anyone else about it!" Both the third Hokage and copy ninja could only nod in silence. Who would have guessed that there were five different worlds? Not them...

Naruto continued "alright then! Jiji, perverted cyclops who Ive completely forgotten the name of! You should stop by sometime to eat ramen! You'll love it -ttebayo!"

"Naruto, there is something else I would like to ask you." Hokage-Jiji said and Naruto simply nodded with a very fox-like grin on his face. "When you... Died the kyuubi should have been released, what happened to it?" With that question said Naruto's eyes widened and a serious look came onto his face, something that no one would see to often. How had Jiji known that he knew about the Kyuubi?

In a serious tone Naruto said

"Jiji, I can not go into the details but I will say this, the Kyuubi is no longer a giant mass of chakra."

After that the four had done some friendly -if you can call Rin trying to kill Kakashi with a frying pan friendly- catching up and in the evening the two ninja left.

Naruto sighed as he sat down in one of the seats of the bar part of the Ramen Bar, today had been both good and bad...

"You ok?" A gentle female voice coming from his left side asked. It seemed like Rin was worried about him.

"I guess, why do you ask?"

"You seemed tired today."

Naruto sighed "I guess that's what happens when you sleep in a storage room and get woken up by Yachiru and Kenpachi..."

Rin blinked in confusion.

"Why were they here?"

"They came to deliver us a gigai each, as well as a message from Yama-Jiji."

"Oh... So now we don't have to be in the Ramen Bar to be seen by the living. By the way, you do realise that there are two bedrooms at the back of the bar... Right?" Naruto's eyes widened.

"WHAT!?" 'Does this mean that... I never had to sleep in that storage room?!'

"Hey Naruto..." Naruto felt a pair of warm arms wrap around him in an kind hug. "You told the the truth because you trusted both of them... both the Hokage and Kakashi, thank you for doing that." The blond haired shinigami looked over to see Rin hugging him with a warm smile on her face.

The only thing he could do now was...

"Hey! I just wanted to piss Yama-Jiji off, you know how he is about telling the living about the dead! He always says things like 'those who are not spiritually aware should not have knowledge of the afterlife'." Say something stupid and get hit on the head with Rin's frying pan.

'Ouch! That hurts... A lot!' Naruto was rubbing a large bump on his head when an idea came to him.

"Rin, I'm going to test out the gigai that was made for me and go out for a walk around Konoha, you wanna come?" The blond haired Shinigami noticed that a tired look crossed Rin's face when she said

"Sorry, not today. A lot of things have happened today and I'm tired."

Naruto then said in a cheerful tone while trying to hide in the sadness of Rin not coming.

"It's ok! It's understandable, you just met with one of your teammates after who knows how may years!"

"Thank you for understanding, Naruto."

Naruto was now standing in front of the entrance to the ramen bar that was located in Konoha, he was now in a gigai that looked exactly like him except for his clothes.

While in his Shinigami form he would wear the standard Shinigami uniform but, while in his gigai he was wearing casual 'civilian' clothes that consisted of a hooded jacked and shorts, the shorts being a dark tone of orange while the jacket was a lighter shade of the same colour. Oh how he loved the colour orange!

Where should he go first? Anywhere he went he would be picked out and quickly categorised as 'the demon brat' and people would most likely start screaming about how he had 'come back from hell for revenge'...

Naruto sighed, of course he could just say something like 'I feel horrible! That demon brat that had been killed five years ago had stollen my appearance to disguise himself as a human!' But he didn't want to call himself the 'demon brat'...

It was nighttime and the stars were out, perhaps he could find a nice peaceful place closer to the outskirts of the village to watch the stars? A wave of nostalgia came with that idea.

When he had been alive there had been a place that he would always go to to watch the stars, maybe he should go there?

Naruto grinned at the idea, yup, he would go there! But if memory served him correctly then that place was on the other side of the village, and he would have to walk through the town to get there, luckily his jacket had a hood so he could hide at least part of his appearance.

Naruto tucked his long blond hair into his jacket and pulled the hood over his head so that it would at least hide the rest of his blond hair.

As Naruto walked through the village he couldn't help but be surprised, he couldn't quiet put his finger on it but something was different and it wasn't just the hateful stares that he was NOT getting. Things seemed to have become more... organised? No. Serious? No...

As he walked by he heard someone say to one of their companions.

"Damn, things have really become stricter since we killed the demon..." Completely ignoring the fact that someone had called him a demon Naruto's eyes widened.

Stricter, that's the word he was looking for! But the question was, how had it become stricter? It obviously had something to do with him...

Naruto just kept walking until he came across something that made his eyes go wide in both surprise and anger -mainly anger-, there was a ramen stand that had a sign that said 'Ichiraku Ramen' on it. But seeing the place wasn't what had made his eyes widen, he had expected to come across the stand on his way to his special spot. He had come here a lot with Hokage-Jiji when he had been younger and the Ichiraku family always treated him with kindness and so, seeing the stand in the condition it was in at that moment made him almost wish that the Kyuubi had destroyed Konoha -key word: Almost-.

'Ichiraku Ramen' was a mess, it looked like belonged somewhere in the slums of the Rukongai, and that was not a good place.

"NO! PLEASE STOP!" Came a female voice from inside the stand and, without waisting a second Naruto ran into the stand to see what was happening.

What he saw made him leak a little of his true amount of spiritual pressure -something that he had never done before-, but he quickly got it under control again.

There was a man that he instantly recognised as the owner of the stand lying in a pool of his own blood, the spirit of the man was standing in front of a girl that appeared to be around the age of fifteen in a protective manner.

Teuichi -Naruto would never forget the name of someone who showed him kindness- was trying to protect his daughter from a man who was holding a blood stained kunai, -most likely the one that had killed him- but was failing, a spirit with so little spiritual pressure could not even touch something that belonged to one of the living realms...

Seeing that the man with the Kunai was about to attack the girl that Naruto guessed was Ayame he acted fast and grabbed the hand that the kunai was being held in before it could come close to the girl.

The man had seemed surprised and he shouted

"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING YOU LITTLE SHIT! DONT YA KNOW WHO YOUR PROTECTING? THOSE TWO ARE... demon... lovers..."

Naruto's hair may have been covered by his hood but his blue eyes and whisker marks weren't, the blond haired Shinigami knew that much and he also knew what would come next.

The man who's kunai he had stopped started to radiate with fear as he said

"N-n-no way! It's impossible! You should be... you should be dead you fucking monster!" The man attempted to run away and Naruto let him, that man wasn't his main concern anyway...

"W-who... who are you?" Came the timid voice of a fifteen year old girl who was now cradling her dead father in her lap, Ayame was looking at him with tears streaming down her face.

Naruto didn't answer, instead he looked over the wounds on Teuchi's dead body, ignoring the spirit of the dead ramen chef as he tried to tell his daughter that he was ok.

After examining the wounds Naruto let out a happy yet also frustrated sigh and he mumbled loud enough for Ayame to hear, purposely so that she could hear.

"His chain of fate has yet to be severed, he can still survive..." The blond haired shinigami then proceeded to grab Teuchi's soul and -quite literally- throw him back into his body while at the same time performing a medical Kido. Being friends with a member of squad four had its ups and downs. The ups were that Rin would sometimes teach him medical things while the downside was... the smile that both Rin and Unohana-Sama had.

After he had finished performing the Kido and Teuchi had been stabilised Naruto pulled a memory modifier out of one of his jackets pockets and used it. It didn't hurt that he just got rid of the two Ichiraku's memories, they were best off not knowing what had happened though...

Naruto sighed, it had been an... eventful night so far. As he walked towards his destination he passed the Uchiha clan compound but ignored it.

After a little while he had finally arrived at his destination, it was a big lake in the middle of a forest but there were no trees located near the lake. Naruto stood at the edge of the lake, the place made him feel calm, it always had, the way that the moon reflected of the waters surface and the only lights were the stars and the moon made the place seem like a world of its own.

The blond haired shinigami took off his hood and when just when he was about to sit down he saw a young boy sitting on the other side of the lake, the boy had his face hidden by his knees and Naruto could tell that he was crying.

Should he go over to try and comfort the boy? Maybe he shouldn't but then again... The first time Naruto had come to the lake he had cried like the boy on the other side and at that time all the blond had wanted was for someone to be there for him.

'Ahhh, stuff it!' Naruto started to walk around the lake to the other side where the boy was, he didn't want to scare the boy so he made no effort in keeping himself hidden.

"Yo!" The boy jumped, obviously startled by Naruto's greeting. The boy turned and glared at the blond haired shinigami.

"I wasn't crying!" Naruto was now able to get a better look at the young boy, he had black hair that was -in all honesty- shaped like a ducks ass, dark eyes and a face that screamed that he had been crying but there was something that stood out to the blond.

On the boys clothes was a symbol that Naruto could easily recognise, the symbol of the Uchiha Clan. The Uchiha clan existed in both Elemental Nations and Soul Society, if an Uchiha died then he would be found by his dead clansmen and taken to the nicer parts of the Rukongai, where they would all be 'royalty'. 'More like royal pain in the asses...'

Almost every single Uchiha there was the same, arrogant and spoiled, Naruto had only met one Uchiha that didn't have a stick the size of Komamura's bankai stuck up their ass. That person was one of the only Uchiha that was actually a Shinigami, Uchiha Mikoto, the person who's son he had found crying at a lake.

Naruto twitched.

"I didn't say you were!"

"S-shut up! Do you know who I am!?" Ah, so he's become an arrogant prick like the rest of them...

"Yup, I know who you are. Your Mikoto's youngest son, Sasuke. Right?"

Sasuke's eyes widened and darkened.

"How did you know my mother?"

Naruto went and patted Sasuke on the head.

"I'm good friends with her, she wouldn't want you walking down the path your heading down. You should go make friends or something!" Naruto saw that Sasuke was about to reply and decided to cut him off "well, it was nice to meet you Sasuke!"

And then the blond haired shinigami ran off into the forest with a small smile on his face.

Today had been interesting, that's for sure...

Finished!

Was this... No it couldn't be! The longest chapter I've ever wrote!? How is this possible!? Most likely because I wrote half of it in the middle of the night... so don't get used to longish chapters!

I now have a set idea for this story and the plot should start to develop in a couple of chapters! Although I'm still unsure of the pairing... If anyone wants to recommend what pairing they would like to see in the story then fell free to do so.

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