AN: Wow, thanks everyone who followed, favourited and commented! I fealy didn't expect that I would update so soon! Although I will admit that I was stuck on this chapter... I don't think i did as well as I did in the last chapter. Oh well! I've decided that I'm going to just put in a little bit of NaruHina, not to much though. Again Reviews are much appreciated!
Warinig: Vague (Really Vague) references to -Man chapter 168!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or -Man...
"It seems as if you are finally awake Cross Marian or should I say... Uzumaki Naruto" A voice spoke, the voice sounded demonic yet humane at the same time. Cross Marian stood up and looked around to find that he was in a room that was being lit by candles burning an ominous mixture of blue and green flames. Cross blinked, but it looked more like a wink due to the face that the right side of his face was covered by some sort of mask. The red long haired man was confused, he had just been killed after revealing things about the 14th to his apprentice... Was this the afterlife? Not what the general of the order had expected... There wasn't any wine of women for kami's sake! It was only after the general had finished his mental complaints about there being no wine of women that he realised that he was not alone. Standing in the corner of the room was a figure, obviously male but there were some odd things about this person. His skin for starters was purple and he was wearing white robes. His hair was white, long and spiky but the thing that stood out the most was his face, he had sharp teeth and eyes his eyes were completely black. All in all this being had a look that would send shivers down anyone's spines, cross however was not 'anyone'. The masked man had seen many scarier things in his life then what was in front of him. But then something finally sunk in 'It seems as if you are finally awake Cross Marian or should I say... Uzumaki Naruto'. Cross's one visible eye widened and then narrowed.
"How did he know about that? Who is this person? You are thinking something along those lines aren't you?" A demonic voice spoke ending in a chuckle. "Well you see Cross Marian I was the one who was summoned to seal the Kyuubi in you as Uzumaki Naruto, the night that the fox attacked the place known as Konoha. Now that I've said that you should be able to work out who I am" he spoke again ending in another chuckle.
"Your the Shinigami" it was not a question on witch cross spoke but a statement.
"That is what humans know me as but now you probably have more questions like 'Why am I in front of you?' or 'What the hell do you want?' or perhaps 'Why did I remember something that never happened?' am I correct?" The being, now identified at the shinigami now had a serious tone in his voice. Cross just nodded. The shinigami chuckled "everything in the elemental nations is real, everything that happened in your memory o Uzunaki Naruto truly did happen, you truly did die that day but there was a slight problem you see..." The shinigami started to mumble incomprehensible words and it seemed as if a blush of embarrassment had appeared on the beings face. The masked general raised an eyebrow and asked "what happened?" Now womaniser was getting curious.
"Well you see..., there are more Devine beings then just myself as we were born by humankind's imagination..." The purple skinned being trailed off.
"What dose that have to do with anything?" Cross was getting a little irritated by this time.
"Well you see the day you died as Uzumaki Naruto it was not meant to be. At the valley of the end Hattake Kakashi was not supposed to show up until sasuke had escaped to Orochimaru and that was were an error was made..." Cross frowned.
"What happened?" The red haired general questioned.
"What I'm about to say stays between the two of us ok?" Cross just nodded. "It's a bit embarrassing but that day another Devine being known as what humans would call Fate and myself went out drinking and things went downhill when fate got drunk..." It was obvious to anyone that shinigami was embarrassed. The shinigami rubbed the back of his head and Cross sighed.
"So I died because you and Fate went and got drunk and Fate altered my... fate? I don't expect that you would bring me here just to talk about how I died, so what do you want?" Cross didn't know how to feel, he had decided to ignore the memories of Naruto thinking that it never truly existed but here he was in front of the shinigami who was saying it was all real! The shinigami smirked, so now the time has finally come. He then spoke in a serious tone
"It is true that I have bought you here for something, something important. As I said, you were not supposed to die that day as you were supposed to live a full life, you would have ended up saving the world, become Hokage, marry Hyuuga Hinata and then pass away peacefully in your sleep. However with you dead none of that happened and there was... no, is no one to save the world and that is were out problem resides. There is a man out in the elemental nations who's aim is to, in light words, become a god. I would like to return you, Cross Marian to the elemental nations so that you may deal with this person and in exchange I will allow you to do anything you wish to do in that world, even destroy Konoha" Cross rose an eyebrow.
"So in short you want me to save that world and in exchange I can do what ever I want there... Sorry but even if I did go back there would be nothing left for me there, it would have been fifty or so years since I died as Uzumaki Naruto and even if it hadn't been that long there would be no point, I'm not looking for revenge if that's what you had expected." It was true, Cross had never been one for revenge and he had never even thought about it because he understood the reason as to why the village killed him off as Naruto, it was fear.
"That's a surprise, I was expecting you to jump at the chance to go back and by the way time passes differently in different dimensions. It's only been three years since you died." 'That truly is a surprise, he wasn't consumed by hatred at all, but...' The shinigami was truly surprised.
"Aren't you forgetting something? Or perhaps someone?" Before Cross could reply the shinigami summoned what looked like a giant mirror and on it she appeared.
"Hi Naruto-kun, it's me again. Sorry I've been away for so long, I had a long term mission with Kiba and Shino. Things are finally moving on from when you died, most of the Konoha twelve still miss you dearly. The only ones who don't are Sasuke and Sakura. Tsunade-sama is acting like she usually had before your death but I can tell she is still grieving. Otosama has been a little accepting but he still wishes that I marry another clan head but I think some of the council members may be pressuring him. The civilian side of the council has more power then the Shinobi side at the moment tho-"
"Hinata-Sama it is time to leave"
"I need to go now, I hope we can meet again in the afterlife when the time comes. I love you Naruto-kun."
Cross's eyes widened, she had grown up to be a beautiful woman and even after three years she still loved him.
"Shit, I suppose I'll go, but is there anything important I need to know?"
The shinigami grinned, women truly are his weakness.
"You will be sent there in your current form and abilities but I will allow you to be able to access the chakra you had as Uzumaki Naruto minus the Kyuubi's. Now bai bai!" Just as the shinigami said that he waved live one would when saying goodby to a good friend and the floor underneath Cross disappeared and the womanising former general of the order fell.
A man with long red hair was seen walking through a desert.
'Shit, now I know how Allen felt those 5 times I dumped him in the desert with no directions...'
"FOR THE LOVE OF KAMI! WHERE THE HELL AM I?!"
Well that ends chapter 2! Please Leave reviews and tell me what you think! this chapter was really hard for me to write and reviews may possibly be my motivation to write more!