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"Talk"
'Think'
"Talk"
'Think'
Barely a day after his death Naruto's body finally looked to be at peace. Due to rigor mortis settling in he was laying awkwardly on one of the futons within Tazuna's home. His legs were slightly bent in an odd angle, his body looked twisted, and his hands were pitifully trying to cover the gigantic hole in his chest. But his face held a serene look to it, and a peaceful smile to go with it.
That was what Kakashi was brooding over. The man was a mess, his hair greasy any unkempt, his visible eye was red and puffy from the amount of tears he shed. Let's not forget he was still healing from his fight from Zabuza. Sighing behind his mask he sincerely envied his student, from all his experiences in his life Kakashi never saw such a serene death face, not from his fellow shinobi at least. In fact he only saw his sensei and his wife smiling upon their deaths, it was like they knew something everyone didn't, and to this day he still didn't know what they were smiling about. And now their son was giving him that same smile that haunted him in his dreams.
Getting to his feet, the Copycat Ninja brought his hand to his deceased students cold forehead, and brushed his messy strands of hair out of his face. "Naruto, I'm sorry...I'm so, so sorry. I promised that I would never let anything happen to you or anyone on the team. But just like with Rin I failed you too because I wasn't strong enough. I hope your in a better place and talking with your folks, you definitely deserve it."
Turning around he headed towards the door and opened it up. "I will miss you Naruto, nothing will the same without you." with one last tear falling from his eye he shut the door.
Barely five minutes later, a dark powerful and sinister energy transferred to Naruto's lifeless body, wrapping around him in a cocoon-like fashion. The energy started building up until it expanded until it became unstable. The energy expanded until it exploded, blowing the two windows in the room out, and shattering the furniture, and tearing off Naruto's bloody jacket along with chunks of his flesh-though it grew back within seconds. Our hero's body stirred a little before he woke up breathing his first breath of air. "Note to self: Don't die again." he muttered to himself.
"Wait I'm alive? Yea! I'm fucking alive!" he cheered to himself in joy. He would would have jumped around hooting and hollering, but a sharp pain jabbed him in the back of his neck.
"Hey brat." Shinigami spoke up after mentally slapping him.
Gingerly rubbing the back of his head, Naruto looked around the destroyed room. "Shinigami I can't see you, where are you?"
"I'm speaking through your mind, and don't talk out loud in public people will think your crazy." the Death God replied.
'"Oh." Naruto immediately thought stopped talking and focused his thoughts into his head, 'Is this better?'
"Perfect, now listen up I want you to get out of here now!"
'Wha?' Naruto started to question him.
"Don't question me do it now!" Shinigami roared making him shut up, and scramble out one of the broken windows. He left just in time because Kakashi and Zabuza started kicking the door down. Shinigami used some of his power to write a message on the wall to throw them off. He finished the last letter when the door was reduced to splinters via Zabuza's giant cleaver. When everyone got into the room most of them were horrified to see the destruction in the room. The bed Naruto's bloody body was on was gone, the windows were blown out, and any bit of furniture was reduced to splinters.
"What the hell happened!" Kakashi cried out, as he frantically started searching for Naruto's body.
"Kakashi you might want to take a look at this." Zabuza pointed to one of the walls with the writing on it.
Sasuke read it out loud, his eyes narrowing with every word, "Dear Leaf scum, we finally got him." and at the end of the message there was some sort of symbol, showing two stones next to each other.
"Who would do this?" Tazuna asked horrified that someone would do this to the deceased. Completely forgetting what the Hunter ninja do to their targets.
Narrowing his eyes, and clenching his fists Kakashi answered him, "Stone Country. They always hated us, especially the blonds in our village." he surveyed the damaged room, seeing parts of his students flesh and clothing. He clenched his hands harder drawing blood, and his eye starting to mist up. "It must have been the Explosion Corps, only they would have the gull to do this."
"Well at least we don't have to carry him all the way back to the village." Sakura said, trying to play the part as the naive and optimistic Genin. But it was hard for her to try and not smile, and cheer that she would never see the Kyuubi brat-as her mom called him ever again.
"But how did they even know we were here?" Sasuke asked, because this scenario honestly didn't add up.
"They must have been hired by Gato before he turned on us." Zabuza commented, the late crime lord was the type to do it after all.
"I guess so." Kakashi replied.
That was the last they talked about it. Zabuza swore that he would utterly destroy any Stone ninja he came across, Tsunami and Haku were holding in their tears to stay strong in front of the men, but Inari however ran out the room just because he just couldn't bear the sight any longer. And the two honorable members of Team Seven were silently praying for Naruto's poor soul.
The next month was going to be hell for most of them.
But then they would be in one hell of a surprise once it ended.
Panting heavily Naruto collapsed onto the forest floor, the Shinigami kept screaming at him to run until he collapsed. That was a few miles ago which was pathetic in his opinion, after all he was known to be a stamina freak back in his village.
"Shinigami why am I so weak?" he managed to pant out.
"You just came back from the dead, what did you expect? Did you expect to be back at full performance once you came back?" the God of Death replied, almost in a smartass tone.
"All right why are you so casual? Aren't you supposed to have a 'I'm a God and you should bow to me' attitude?"
"Kid I'm not my brothers, or my parents, they have that commanding attitude. While I just like to sit back, relax, and do what I want. Before you ask what the hell I'm talking about I'll say it so that even you can understand. This is my attitude and I'm keeping it that way, titles, social status, and honorifics don't mean shit to me. You want my respect you have to earn it."
"And yet you find a fifteen year old girl hot, very creepy you cradle robber." Naruto muttered.
"Don't you dare compare me to those sick bastards! I may be old, but I'm not going to go all pervert pedophile on anyone. So I find her attractive big fucking deal!" Shinigami shouted at his Avatar. "And just for that I'm gonna make your training seem like hell on earth! Now get up so we can get started!"
While Naruto wasn't scared of most things-even though seeing The God of Death freaked him out at first, hearing Shinigami scream at him brought him to attention.
"Now I'm gonna bestow you the darkness flames, however this comes with a price."
"Price?" the blond asked The Lord of Death.
"Yes, the first is that I'll have to implant the tool into your forehead to awaken the power I promised you. But first I must scan you to see if you will even survive the process." Shinigami said appearing before him in his six foot ghostly form, and analyzed him with his eyes. "Impossible!" he gasped out.
"I can never get it?" Naruto asked, worried that he wasn't good enough to receive his saviors blessing, and mad that there was something wrong with his body.
"No it's not that, you have a seal on you. And not just Kyuubi's seal, a suppressing seal."
"Suppressing seal?"
"Yes, and by the looks of it it's been on you for years." Shinigami half-lied to the blond, there was a seal on him, but there was something else that he needed to study upon further.
"What in the great Elemental Nations is that?"
"It's just as it sounds, it probably has been suppressing your learning skills, and making you dumber than now." the God replied taking a shot at him. "Now I'm not going to lie this just made the precess more complicated. Usually you have a fifty percent chance of dying, but with Kyuubi's chakra and the seal this increases your chances of death to ninety-nine point nine percent. If you die your soul will be destroyed with no possibility of coming back. Are you sure you want to go through with this, despite knowing this knowledge?" he asked him.
"Who do you think your talking to? I'm ready for it, and nothing will stop me." Naruto replied with determination.
"Don't say I didn't warn you." after Shinigami said those words he hit the blond on the forehead, and transferred the power he promised. At first nothing happened until the black flames of hell started to swirl around Naruto making him scream out in pain. The rest of his orange jacket burst into flames and burned his upper torso, the pain was so intense that his skin ripped off and regenerated multiple times, and he started banging his head on a nearby tree. The agonizing process went on for hours, the blond destroyed many trees and stones to try and relieve himself of the pain, his bones broke and re-healed, his hair fell out and grew back, and he started bleeding out of every hole in his body.
For three hellish days Naruto's body destroyed itself. The entire area around him was nothing but a destroyed wasteland, ten trees were felled and broken into splinters, any stone withing the area was crushed into fine powder, and the grass was up rooted and stained with an untold amount of his blood. Even after three days of torture Naruto didn't give up all of that mind racking pain served a purpose, that purpose was for him to live and become stronger that his previous life. Through the pain he felt every repressed memory surge through him, the knowledge he so blatantly ignored, the people who wronged him, the exercises that he furiously put his body through, and the emotions he always wanted to show finally came to the surface. When the fourth day finally came the last thing Naruto felt was his eyes bursting into a red haze, and his forehead splitting wide open.
After hours of being unconscious our hero woke up, and cringed in pain. He couldn't move a muscle without it screaming at him to stay still. It took another few hours of lying still the sun began to come up. Cringing in a low amount of pain he finally crawled to the nearest river to see any changes, when he got there he was in for one hell of a surprise. Slowly standing up he saw that he was as tall as Sasuke, and lost all the baby fat on his face and body leaving nothing but muscles, he developed some abs that needed some work to be fully defined to a full six pack along with his chest. And from what he could tell his shoulders were a lot wider and his arm muscles were much bigger than before.
His face was well defined and his whisker-like scars were darker like a tattoo, and his canines were a little longer and a lot sharper than normal, his blond hair was definitely longer that defied gravity with black streaks in it.
But the most shocking thing were his eyes he had the familiar Sharingan only its three tomoes were crimson, and the iris was like pure obsidian. Yet that didn't compare to the third eye in the middle of his forehead, its crimson iris staring back at him. Now Naruto did what any normal person would have done at that time.
He freaked right the fuck out.
"Shinigami you fucking bastard! What the hell did you do to me?"
He was greeted with a yawn, and what sounded like scratching, "Mmm...yea good morning to you too."
"What did you do to me?" he demanded, letting out a slight growl.
"And here I thought I was doing you a favor removing the damn seal." The God of Death yawned again, scratching his ass in limbo.
"Wait, what? You removed it? How?" Naruto asked, completely doing a one-eighty in his attitude.
There were a few seconds of silence, and what sounded like an exasperated sigh, what sounded like a face palm, and the muttering of idiots, "Kid I removed your suppressing seal. It took some doing, but I did it. Thankfully it was worn down which allowed less time for your gift to break it. And now because your seal broke, I was able to successfully reverse its effects. In the time span you were screaming and unconscious…for lack of a better word, I fixed you."
Naruto was at a loss. The freaking God of Death fixed him. Not only was he granted with the black flames of hell, but he changed completely, and he felt better than any day in his life. His thoughts weren't cluttered, his body wasn't nearly as sluggish as it normally was, and for the first time in his life he felt calm.
It felt right.
"I-I-I, damn I don't know what to say. I'm not sure a simple thank you can amount to what you have done." he paused for a moment staring at his reflection, "But I gotta ask why-"
"You are undoubtedly wondering why you think more clearly, and you are more calm, eh? It's slight, but it's noticeable, I'm sure. I told you a few days ago, the suppression seal affects absolutely everything about you. This includes your brain, and therefore your mind. Your thought processes are now natural. This means that you can think more clearly, you can be calmer than you used to be, now that you aren't tremendously chemically imbalanced, and you will probably have a much easier time of retaining knowledge. In simple words, you're no longer dumb." he then chuckled."You're still an idiot in my opinion though."
"How am I an idiot still? I thought I was fixed."
"Yet your wondering why your Sharingan is not like your sensei's or teammates, or why you have an eye in the middle of your forehead."
"Well yea I-"
"Well for your information because of the changes you went through your Sharingan mutated from the power I granted you. And I told you that gaining the power of The Darkness Flames comes with a price. Now before you argue you agreed without asking what said price was, and the deal is irreversible." Shinigami said, chuckling how mortals always rushed into things without thinking things over.
Now there were a few things that Naruto could have done. He could have screamed in anger, swore at The God of Death, fell into some sort of temper tantrum, or even killed himself. But instead he let a small true smile grace his lips for the first time in what seemed like forever. Why? He didn't know, but it felt good. Then he was laughing like there was no tomorrow, he was happy. He knew he looked much different than before, and it would draw more hate from the villagers if they ever found out. But he didn't care for he was finally free to be himself, not the idiot everyone came to know because of that damn seal on him.
After his laughing streak he deactivated the chakra in his eyes-something that he remembered from what his memories until they were the true blue color everyone was familiar with. And mentally sighed in relief that his eyes kept their natural color. He turned to look at Shinigami to thank him, but instead of seeing he shadowy specter of death, he saw what looked like sweat bands, his hitai-ate with a black black cloth on it, and a note. Raising his right eyebrow he picked up the note and read it out loud.
"Dear Naruto, I would love to train you but being The God of Death I have God things to attend to, you know like sentencing souls to heaven and hell. Yea I know I promised, but unlike Kakashi I'm going to leave you precise instructions. Now what you see there are special chakra bands that I "acquired" some time ago, anyways first you put two on your ankles and two on your wrists. They will automatically draw your chakra into them and steadily increase in weight as you get used to it. Now for your training schedule in the morning I require you to hunt and gather your meals and constantly wear the weights to increase your strength. Now for the hard part you are to run around this entire area ten times, do five-hundred push-ups, five-hundred sit-ups, a thousand punches for each arm and leg, a one-hundred squats, and various chakra exercises that are written on the back of the paper that I "learned" about. When it hits noon you'll rest for a half hour before making seven clones to work on the chakra exercises again while you work on the Jagan eye in the middle of your forehead. After that you'll hunt for your dinner and then sleep until six o' clock where we will continue this regiment until further notice...P.S. use your hitai-ate to cover up the eye when your not using it."
After reading it out loud Naruto dropped the paper to the forest floor, knowing that he was indeed screwed.
"God damn you Shinigami." he cursed out before he felt a mental slap on the back of his head. "All right, all right, I'm going!" he yelled into the sky and immediately began his training regiment.
Pvt. Liquor: Holy crap that's just not fair Danzo has the fucking Sharingan, the Wood Style bloodline, some freaky demonic summon called a Baku, and some forbidden Uchiha technique called the Izanagi! Kashimoto stole one of Armageddon's-
Armageddon: *knocks the private unconscious* Now we can't tell the readers a spoiler, and for the record I was thinking it up. But I never got around to writing it *hears the flamers screams of pain* now if you'll excuse me I have some rightful judgment to...umm do *walk into the room and a gunshot is heard*
Lt. Doom: And I believe that he's sorry for the short chapter, but I believe it was informative was it not? Now please tune in next time for this story will kick some major ass! *hears more gunshots* Man flamers are too stubborn to die I better go help. *walks in and you all hear what sounded like firing squad*