Naruto/Shinto Mythology/PJO (Earlier this Year/2013)
The Ancient Tenshi of Death
Prologue
The Granting of Immortality
Yomi (The Shadowy land of the Dead)
Natsuki Uzumaki, the hero of Konohagakure slowly wakes. She looks around in the pitch black room she is in. Desperately trying to pierce the veil of darkness surrounding her, her heart races. The last thing she remembered was fusing herself with the Kyūbi to prevent the rebirth of the Juubi. 'Did she fail?'
"No" a dry whispery voice speaks, somehow the speaker read Natsuki's mind. The voice sounds like it hadn't been used for millennia. Natsuki's heart races 'Who's there, what's going on'
The voice, Natsuki absently notices that its feminine chuckles. "Who's there is easy enough, as for 'What's going on'?. That's more complex. Needless to say. However you Natsuki Uzumaki, died when you fused with my granddaughter Kurama no Kyūbi. Her last wish was for me to look after you. So I shall. As for who I am? I am Izanagi-no-Mikoto. Long ago I had Eight Shikome, but my bastard former husband Izanami killed them all. In order to fulfill my granddaughter's request, I offer you Natsuki Uzumaki. The chance to become the first of my new Shikome. What do you say?"
Natsuki thinks hard over this offer, she is tempted. She asks only one question "would I be able to meet with my parents and Ero-Sennin?"
Izanagi nods on reflex before she catches herself and says "Yes, you will. You will be the new Shikome, and you will fulfill your duties, most of which people think the Shinigami does. In actual fact he simply ushers souls to their final afterlife. I was the one who sealed my granddaughter into you. If someone uses that most selfless jutsu again, you will be the one to answer. You will find no barrier between the afterlives and the mortal world, you can traverse all with no restriction. I ask one final time, will you become the Shodai of the Nidaime Sedai (generation) Shikome?"
Natsuki didn't even hesitate "Yes, I will"
Izanagi smiles "Excellent" she then snaps her right hand and causes Natsuki to be covered in cloth veils, they completely cover her body, but don't restrict her movement at all.
Izanagi sighs and says "To prevent the living from seeing you alive, for the next three hundred years you will wear these veils. You may take them off only when you are in the afterlife and not in the mortal realm"
Natsuki nods, she notices that she can see again, and that her lady was wearing a similar arraignment as she was. Before she can say anything she feels a tug. Izanagi sighs and says "Unfortunately someone is using the Dead Demon Consuming Seal, you must answer"
Natsuki bows to Izanagi "Yes my Lady"
Izanagi smiles as Natsuki fades out.
Battlefield
Tsunade Senju pants as she holds the final hand seal for the Dead Demon Consuming Seal. She idly wonders what the Shinigami will look like while her grand-father, grand-uncle, Sensei and friend all look at her in horror. Orochimaru's face is pale as he recognizes the jutsu. He charges forwards to end Tsunade's life.
Just as he is about to strike a white veil grabs his Kusanagi and rips it from his hand. The livings eyes all bulge out as from behind Tsunade a young feminine figure walks out, they cannot tell who this person is because she is covered by robes.
Tsunade slumps down only to be caught by the mysterious figure. "Baa-chan, I'm sorry" She gasps, she knows that voice.
The figure gently lays Tsunade down on the ground and turns to Orochimaru and Obito, both who are now sweating at the inhuman Killing Intent that is now focusing on them. The next thing the figure says causes chills to go down their spines "You two, have escaped death far too often. No. More" Before anyone can blink the figure is in front of Orochimaru, who is currently falling backwards with his heart ripped out and his head removed from his body.
Anko grabs at her curse mark only for the pain to disappear, when she looks she goes into ecstatic celebration as the mark is gone.
Obito gapes at the slain sennin, but before he can react he too is eliminated. Ripped in half by the inhumanly strong Natsuki.
The girl returns to her beloved 'Baa-chan' she kneels and lowers her hands as if to lift Tsunade, but instead of going under her body they enter it. Natsuki lifts Tsunade Senju's soul out of her body and walks towards the past Hokages with it in her arms. Behind her Tsunade's body disappears into a spray of snowflakes. She walks past the Hokages, as she does so four veils split from her outfit and grab onto the right wrist of the four Hokages. Their fake bodies collapse to dust and their souls are pulled along by Natsuki's veils.
Hinata, having cried over her lost friend runs up to the veiled figure and asks "Excuse me, but. Can you tell me. What happened to Natsuki Uzumaki" Everyone including the past Hokages listens in hoping for an answer, all except for Tsunade who had awoken. She knew, she knew and she was happy.
Natsuki smiles under her veils and says "I'm okay 'Nata, I'm happy" Hinata's mouth drops as does all the mouths of those listening in. Natsuki then spins on her feet and disappears with the souls of the five Hokages into a spray of snowflakes that fly off and into the Zetsu clones and Zetsu himself causing them to rapidly decay. Seven of the flakes slam into the ruins of the Gedo Mazo causing the seven imprisoned Bijuu to be released.
Natsuki Uzumaki had won the war for freedom.
In her honor all of the Shinobi declared peace, and the Elemental Nations would know peace for the next five hundred years which were known as a Golden Age, until the rapid onset of an Ice Age destroyed them. The survivors scattered and the ancient Shinobi were all but forgotten. Humanity had left its Golden Age, and it would soon return to its bloodstained roots. However they would never again learn the secrets of chakra, not until Natsuki Uzumaki returned to the world of the living.
She would eventually travel once more, Three Eras later. After her lady Izanagi had faded into the Sapphire fields to which all faded Shinto Gods and Goddesses went. Izanagi went happily, she would be able to reunite with her 'dear' husband.
Natsuki wondered across the world, it had changed in the millions of years she had slept, the first and only Second Generation Shikome. On one of her travels she wondered into the ancient lands of Greece. She was approached by the young Primordials Gaia and Ouranos. With the couple was Ananke the Primordial of Fate. Ananke seeing the power of the Ancient Tenshi of Death who predated all of the Primordials but Chaos herself, offered her the power to command Fate and the strings of life. Upon her doing so all of the other Primordials except for Chaos appeared, in various states of shock.
Natsuki looks at the Primordial kneeling to her and says "I accept your offer"
Ananke smiles and then sends and orb containing a copy of her power to Natsuki, who absorbs it and unintentionally shifts herself from an angel to a goddess. Specifically she is the Primordial goddess of Knowledge, Forbidden Knowledge, Balance, Death, Secrets, Opposing Natures, Heroes and most importantly Life.
Each of the Primordials present then gave Natsuki a gift. Chronos gave Natsuki the ability to resist power over time, she could never be frozen or slowed by time. Eros gave Natsuki the power of love, she could mold it however she wished, and in return was immune to others attempts to affect her with love. Erebus gave Natsuki power over darkness, she smiled at him and gave him a memory of her home, he thanked her. Nyx gave Natsuki the ability to travel to anywhere instantly at night. Hemera not to be outmatched by her mother gave Natsuki the same power during the day. Aether gave Natsuki power over light, to match his father's power over darkness. Pontus and Thalassa gave Natsuki the power to command the sea. Gaia and Ouranos gave Natsuki the power to command the Earth and Sky respectively. Tartarus gave Natsuki two gifts, the first was the ability to enter the Underworld without restriction, but since she already had a similar power he also gave her the power to lay a fated curse upon someone, the nature of the curse was if the bearer broke the condition or conditions that Natsuki specifies then they would suffer a consequence or consequences also specified by Natsuki.
After all these gifts Chaos herself appeared before Natsuki and gave her both a gift and a purpose.
Chaos stares into the eyes of the Ancient Primordial before her, this Primordial had been of the first cycle, this was the fourth cycle. She is only two thousand years younger than Chaos herself. Chaos smiles and says to Natsuki "You have been given great power Natsuki. So I will give you both a power and a responsibility. You will be the lawmaker and enforcer, you will write the Ancient Laws of the Greek Pantheon, and you will enforce them. Do you accept this gift"
Natsuki smiles, she had finally found another purpose. She says to Chaos "I do, I will start to write the laws then"
Natsuki then wrote the laws regarding how the Primordials and their immortal and semi-immortal descendents were to act. The laws were short and simple.
A hundred years later Ananke and Natsuki give the Moirai: Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos their powers.
Natsuki goes to Clotho, hands her a spindle and says "Clotho, you will spins the Threads of Fate for the mortals" Natsuki and Ananke then bless the youngest sister
She then goes to Lachesis and hands her a measuring rod and says "Lachesis, you will measure out the mortal's allotment of days upon their Thread of Fate" Natsuki and Ananke then bless the middle sister
Natsuki then goes to Atropos and hands her a pair of shears and says "To you Atropos, eldest of the Moirai I give the darkest and most necessary job. When a mortal's allotment of days is over, you will cut their Thread of Fate" Natsuki and Ananke then bless the eldest sister.
They then turn to the three and bless them with "May you never waver in your task, may you always be content and never know the terror of despair. This we Primordials bless you with" Natsuki smiles at the mother and her daughters before disappearing in a swirl of snowflakes.
One thousand four hundred and twenty-two years later Natsuki softly lets golden tears run down her face as she watches the remnant of her old friend Ouranos be castrated and thrown into the heavens. She remembered the enthusiastic and optimistic Primordial she had first met. In her arms Gaia weeps for her fallen husband, she had watched as he tried and failed to absorb the evils of Humanity, it eventually drove him to his madness. Which lead to his destruction by his son Kronos.
Before he went to castrate his father Natsuki told him "I will give you one chance, if you go down the same path as your father, I will take the majority of your power and Fate will see you fall as your father will. Don't disappoint me Kronos" Natsuki turned and walked away, leaving a slightly terrified Kronos behind her.
However two thousand years later the story repeated itself, and once more Natsuki cries as she comforts a grieving Gaia. Gaia having had enough decides "I'm going to sleep now, no more will I get close to my children and descendents only for them to become corrupted"
Natsuki simply hugs Gaia and says "No matter what, when you wake up I will be there for you Gaia. Remember that"