From Ninja to Shinigami

Chapter 12: Surprises

By: jacke44

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===July 20, 10:30 PM, Wave Country Academy, Naruto's Mindscape===

Naruto, with his parents, look at the tall, pale-skinned man with deep wrinkles, a strong jaw line and spiky, shoulder-length, pale brown hair with a chin-length, braided lock hanging in front of his left ear. He also had a goatee and had a pair of horn-like protrusions extending from either side of his forehead and pupil-less white eyes. He was dressed in a white, full-length kimono with a pattern of six black magatama around a high collar, beneath which, he wore a necklace which was also made up of six black magatama. On the back of his kimono was a larger, black marking of nine magatama arranged in three rows of three beneath it. In his left hand he held a black staff with a large white crescent moon at the top.

He looked up at the nine tails as he entered the cage. "I am disappointed in you Kurama." Then struck his staff on the ground, suddenly the darkness vanished and revealed the full form of the nine tails.

Naruto, Minato and Kushina were surprised to see the fox hanging his head in shame.

Minato stepped. forward. "Excuse me, but who are you and how did you get here?"

The white figure turned around and gave a small chuckle. "I guess I should let you know who I am, my name is Hagoromo Otsutsuki..." Their faces told him they didn't know his name. "...but you might know me by my titles, The Rikudou Sannin or Sage of Six Paths... I'm also known as the first God of Shinobi as I created Ninjutsu.".

Minato was shocked as he realized who they were standing in front of. Looking to his right he saw his wife and Naruto were clearly confused, and heard his wife whisper 'don't ask me, I was never good at history in the Academy' to Naruto. "I apologize for my wife and son." He said respectfully.

To their obvious surprise Hagoromo laughed briefly. "Do not worry Minato, the Uzumaki Clan have never been the sharpest of people unless it involves Ramen or Fuinjutsu, they get that from my son Asura."

"Oh... you want to come say that to my face old man?" Kushina and Naruto screamed together, both were whacked on the head with his staff and sent to the ground holding their heads before either could even react.

Hagoromo softly sighed in disappointment. "Maybe that will finally get some respect through your thick Uzumaki skulls, though I doubt it, your family has never been one for respect."

"I apologize for them Lord Hagoromo." Minato said obviously embarrassed.

Hagoromo just waves it off. "I have dealt with their kind for generations so I'm used to it, they're nowhere near as bad as Mito Uzumaki, she was more hardheaded then a herd of bulls in her youth. We can get to the family history in a moment, first I need to discipline another child... so do you want to explain to me why you have disregarded everything I tried to instill into you Kurama?"

Kurama looked down in shame." It's not as easy as you think Father, humans have treating me like a mindless beast for years, they kept me in a cage and demanded I give them my power, never once asking me how I feel about it and every time I get free somebody takes control of my mind and I'm forced to do their bidding, only to be locked it in another cage. Right there are two of them... the younger one has not demanded I give him my power yet, but he would no doubt do it eventually, he's taken my power twice already and never once has he acknowledge that I helped him, not to mention all the times I had to heal him as a child."

Naruto stepped up next to Hagoromo and gave small bow. "I apologize for never once acknowledging you for helping me, but for the first 12 years of my life I didn't even know you were inside of me, and the two times that I did use your powers I was incredibly angry and not aware of what I was doing. I also want to thank you for all the times you healed me as a child and want you to know that I would never demand that you give me your power. I want to get to where I am going on my own power, not rely on others to always get me out of trouble."

Hagoromo looked at Naruto with a great deal of respect, then back up at Kurama. "I believe you are wrong about this boy, he seems nothing like what you're saying."

For a moment after hearing that, as a woman, an elite kunoichi, and especially as the daughter of the Uzumaki Clan Head, Kushina emotionally felt like Naruto just kicked her in the pussy, but was able to hide her emotions so it didn't show on her face he'd humbled her. She hated even thinking about it... as an Uzumaki she could withstand a beating that would kill anyone else and keep fighting, but that was her only true weakness both physically and emotionally.

"Perhaps you're right Father, but he's still young and could change." Kurama commented.

Naruto straightened up. "That would never happen, I have a secret dream that I've never told anybody. I have a dream a dream that there will one day be a generation of children that live in a Nation that no longer need Ninja and they'll be nothing more than stories told to children about a time long ago, so I will fight with everything I have to see my dream happen." He said with pride.

Minato and Kushina looked at Naruto, both full of pride for their son.

Hagoromo placed his hand on Naruto's shoulder. "I can tell you have a greater destiny than I can imagine." With a wave of his hand he changed the simple table into a grand table. "Now I'm going to give you a little history lesson, but I can't tell you everything right now." He said as they were sitting down, they nodded.

They listened for what seemed like hours getting a history lesson about the ten-tailed beast, how he sealed it inside of himself to becoming the first Jinchuuriki, how he used his yin-yang release to make the tailed beasts and finished with a little history on his sons.

Hagoromo stood. "That is everything I can tell you for now, my time is running out and I must return to my dimension to regain my power, but before I go I'm have three gifts so please come stand before me Naruto. He said then stepped away from the table. Once Naruto is standing in front of him Hagoromo touches his staff to Naruto's stomach, there's a surge of power everyone felt. With a small flash a silver necklace appeared around Naruto's neck with the Uzumaki family crest hanging off it.

Naruto looked down at the necklace. "What's this?" He asked as his parents came up and looked at the necklace.

"I removed the seal that Orochimaru placed on you in what you call the Forest of Death, it was disrupting your chakra control and cutting off a portion of your chakra, though the seal was already cracked due to you messing around in this Laboratory and having that chemical compound injected into you to boost your spiritual powers. That necklace now act's as a limiter, it works in the same as those the Captains and Lieutenants from Soul Society wear when they go to what they call the world of the living, that necklace cuts your chakra and spiritual power by 80%." Hagoromo replied.

"Wait a minute, you know about the Soul Society?" Naruto asked.

Hagoromo nodded. "Yes. I have been there many times and too many other places, now to my second gift I'm going to give you..." He touches his staff to Naruto's forehead, they feel another surge power then he removes his staff. "...I have just given you the knowledge of your Clan in the art of Fuinjutsu along with some of my own knowledge..." He looks at Kurama. "...I hope you will help this boy. I believe that this is the boy that I spoke of that will one day bring a great change to the world. I must go now, but we will meet again." He said then fades away.

Naruto looks at his parents. "Well that was interesting." Both nodded, then he turned to Kurama. "I hope that one day we can be partners, I mean we're stuck with each other anyway so why should we hate each other." The only response he got was a puff of air from the fox laying down and closing its eyes.

"I'll think about it." Kurama replied.

Naruto turned back to his parents. "I'm going to turn in for tonight... hey, that old man said he was going to give me three gifts, but he only gave me two." His parents laughed and he heard a chuckle from Kurama as he faded away.

===Real World===

Naruto opened his eyes, then they go wide at what is laying on the floor in front of him... the bodies of his parents in perfect condition with a piece of paper on his father's chest picking up the paper Naruto reads the note.

(Start Note)

Dear Naruto Uzumaki

You no doubt freaked out moments after I left because I did not give you your third gift, here it is. I have used my Yin-Yang Release: Creation of all things! technique to remake your parents bodies so you can put their souls in them, hopefully you can now have a better life with your parents.

Signed, Hagoromo Otsutsuki

PS: If Kurama gives you any trouble and is not willing to help you I would suggest that you go and find his younger sister Matatabi the two-tail cat, she has always had a way to scare him into doing what she wants.

(End Note)

The smile on Naruto's face was priceless. "Well I guess that solves one problem..." His parents say yes, then Naruto grins. "...so the big bad Kurama is afraid of a little pussycat." Suddenly he can hear the voice of Kurama ranting about how he is not afraid of a stupid cat. "I'll be sure to tell her you said that." Unseen by Naruto Kurama was absolutely horrified.

===Kumo, Catch of the Day Sushi Restaurant===

Sitting at the bar in the Cloud village the kunoichi Jonin known as Yugito Nii is enjoying a large plate of her favorite dish, when suddenly she can hear a sneeze inside her head. 'Are you okay Matatabi?'

"I'm fine kitten, go back to your food." Matatabi replied then thinks to herself. 'I don't know why, but I think I'm about to get a bigger headache than I've had in long time because of my idiotic brother Kurama-baka.'

===Wave Country Academy, Training Ground 2===

Deciding to turn in for the night Naruto heads back to Training Ground 2, after checking on the kids and making sure they were asleep he was only in his bed about 2 minutes when he hears a tiny voice outside his tent asking if he's awake and sits up. "Yes, come in." Ashia comes in wearing pajamas with cat paws on them, her onyx eyes showing her fear, her long black hair in a ponytail and she's holding a stuffed Crow that she bought with her allowance.

"What's wrong Ashia?" Naruto asked.

Hugging the stuffed Crow Ashia looks down. "Well, you see Big Brother, caw had a nightmare and he was wondering if we could stay in here with you tonight?"

Naruto smiles. "You can both stay here tonight."

With a small smile on her face Ashia climbs into the bed, snuggles up next to his chest and quickly falls back to sleep.

"Naruto-chan I can't shake this feeling, but I think I know this girl, she looks really familiar to me I just can't place her." Kushina said.

"You know mom I'm with you on that, she does look familiar to me too, I'm sure we'll figure it out eventually." Naruto replied.

===July 21, 6:56 AM===

Naruto woke up with Ashia sleeping on his chest, a little drool in the corner of her mouth. he gently rubs her shoulder to wake her, she sits up a few moments later. "I know it's early princess, but we need to get up and make breakfast."

This wakes Ashia up with a bright smile. "Okay big brother, I'm starving."

"Well I can solve that problem by making breakfast for everybody, now let's see... I guess caw wants to have blueberry pancakes with syrup and I'm sure you want a big plate of bugs right."

With a green face Ashia shakes her head no. "I want the pancakes and caw can have the bugs."

Naruto laughs and nods.

As they walk out of the tent they see everyone's already is up and the buffet of breakfast foods already set up and being served. "Here big brother, you hold caw, I'm going to get my breakfast." Ashia said as she thrust the crow into his arms then quickly runs over to a line to get pancakes

Naruto goes over and sees one of the tables is the women feeding the babies and toddlers, and one of the babies is fussy and crying. "Is everything okay, do you need anything?" The woman who is feeding the baby he recognizes as a woman from Tsunami's Book Club.

With a small blush she looks at him. "Everything is okay, she's just teething."

Naruto grabs an apple from the nearby table, pulls out a kunai then cuts a slice out of it and hands it to the woman. "Here, let her chew on this, it will help with her teething."

The moment the apple slice is in her mouth she begins to suck on it and stops crying.

As Naruto walked away from the table he can hear the whispers of the women making comments about how he's going to make a terrific husband one day but before he could even start making his own plate he is approached by Fumi.

Fumi gives a small bow. "Good morning Lord Uzumaki..."

Before she could say anything else Naruto held up a hand to stop her. "Please just call me Naruto."

Fumi shakes her head. "I can't do that, you are a Lord of Whirlpool Country. Forgive me, but I couldn't call you anything else even if ordered to."

Naruto sighed in defeat. "Okay, what did you want to talk to me about?"

"You see, long ago before Whirlpool was destroyed a marriage contract was made between our clans, the first male heir to the throne and the first female heir to my clan, technically the contract was never officially fulfilled and I was wondering if you would like to marry my daughter to fulfill it."

"You know that does ring a bell... " Kushina said.

A moment later he hears her say "uh-oh" and puts his hand over his face. "What is it now Mom?"

"Well you see Naruto-chan, I might have sort of made a marriage contract between you and Hana-chan on the night I discovered I was pregnant with you while I was drunk with her mom." Kushina replies nervously. Technically he was Lord of the Uzumaki clan and she couldn't refuse any order he gave her, being his Mother meant nothing, she was just one of his kunoichi legally and there was no restriction to what he could do to her, good or bad, she just hoped he didn't know or would forget that information. If he did, she was counting heavily on his good qualities like mercy and compassion.

Minato glanced at his wife. Though he couldn't see her face and was amused by what he just learned, he'd swear she was almost scared of Naruto. He chuckled quietly and shook that ridiculous thought off, Kushina Uzumaki wasn't afraid of anyone.

Finally having enough of everything crashing around him Naruto finally snaps, looks up at the sky and begins shouting. "That does it! I've had enough, fuck you Kami, you just can't give me one day of peace can you... no, on the first day I was born I get a cranky ass Fox sealed in me! Then I had 12 years of living hell with barely any friends, then I get put on the shittiest team you could possibly imagine, and when I finally get a C-Rank mission it turns into an A-Rank mission that nearly killed me twice while I was saving a country from a pint-sized midget who thought he was King... and when I get a chance to advance in rank what happens... I get eaten by a giant fucking snake and end up having to fight a Kage-level freak, and then I get abandoned by my teacher, insulted by my teammate, end up finding a secret lab made by some Mad Scientist from a different dimension, find out my parents are a Clan Princess from another country and the former Hokage of my village, plus I have two Clans that have to be rebuild... and now you're throwing marriage contracts at me..."

All the while Naruto was ranting, everybody in the room was watching in stunned shock, the women covering the children's ears so they could not hear what he was saying.

"...so why don't you just open a big black whole and hit me with your best shot, I'm done with your shit!" Naruto screamed almost in rage, then looked down and took a deep breath... making him miss a giant black hole opening above him, but everybody else in the room saw it. Yoruichi called out his name, lifting his head he looked to his right. "What do you want?" He said fiercely, the only response he got was everybody pointing above him, cursing his luck he looked up and saw the giant black hole. The only thought running through his mind at that moment was, 'fuck me sideways.'

Suddenly everybody in the room hears screaming, then a small gray object fall out of the hole and hits Naruto on the head sending both of them to the ground, seconds later the hole closes and disappears.

Ashia throws both her hands up in the air. "Now let it rain ice cream!" She screams hopefully.

Fuu screams out "No!" and Dives underneath a table as all the children look up at the sky and see nothing.

Ashia crosses her arms and pouts cutely, despite not trying to be. "It's not fair, big brother got his wish." All the other children agreed.

Naruto sits up while rubbing his head. "Never ask for anything if you don't really want it." Looking down at the gray bundle of clothes he hears soft crying coming from it, lifting it up the bundle falls open shocking everybody when they learn that it's little girl with green hair and a goat-like mask on her head with a crack in it. She has a red line across her cheeks and nose that reminds him of Iruka.

"Owie... you got a really hard head." She said.

Naruto stood up, walked over to Rangiku, handed her the child, immediately turned around and headed to his tent. Ashia asked his where he was going. "You were right, it's too early for this shit. I'm going back to sleep." He replied before disappearing into his tent. All his comment did was make everybody in the room bust out laughing.

===9:12 AM===

Naruto left his tent feeling a little better at all the children playing, then frowns as he sees Ashia being teased by two of the boys playing keep-away with her stuffed Crow. He quickly walked over as he remaining anger began to boil again. "That's enough! Both of you go sit at the table until you're told you can move!" He said powerfully, a little killer intent accidentally slipping out, the boys quickly ran to the table and sat down, very scared.

Naruto picked her up as he anger vanished. "How about you spend the day with your big brother." Getting a nod Naruto turns to one of the women still in the room, on her way to stop the teasing. "Those two boys are going to sit there for next 15 minutes then they can get up."

She nods. "I will make sure it gets done and also ensure they do not pick on anybody else."

Walking out of a training room Naruto saw Nemu waiting. "What happened to the little girl that came out of the black hole?"

"She was taken to the medical wing." Nemu said.

"According to the memories I got from the download she's a arrancar class Hollow wasn't she?" Naruto asked and Nemu nodded. "I want you to go to the living quarters I visited last night, pick up the 2 bodies and bring them back to the main lab. I'm going to make a stop at the medical wing to check on Hinata-chan and this girl and hopefully find out why she's here."

Nemu nods." I'll see to it Naruto-kun."

===9:15 AM, Medical Wing===

Standing at the door Naruto looks down at Ashia. "While we're in here you need to behave and keep quiet, people resting so no running around."

"Yes big brother, I understand." Ashia said.

Walking in Naruto sees Hinata sitting up in her bed talking to Hanabi. Naruto walks over and clears his throat to get their attention, the moment Hinata sees him she turns red. "How are you feeling Hinata-chan?" Naruto asked as he sat on her bed. Hinata just hugs him and says 'thank you' over and over again, he returns her hug. "Don't worry, you're going to be fine." She released him. "I'm guessing she told you everything that's happening." They nod then he feels a small tag on his shirt. Naruto chuckles and picks her up. "Hinata-chan, I'd like to introduce you to your new little sister."

At that moment the only thing going through Hinata's head was 'she is so Kawai'.

"Hi big sister, I'm Ashia Uzumaki and this is Caw." Ashia said holding up the stuffed Crow.

"It's nice to meet you Ashia." Hinata said in a whispered voice.

Naruto sat Ashia next to him. "Would you to mind watching her while I go to talk to the doctor." The former Hyuuga heiresses nod. After talking to Unohana Naruto returns to the hear Ashia telling the story of what happened this morning, both of them look at Naruto with amusement, Hinata was giggling. Naruto drops his head. Come on, not you to Hinata-chan." This just makes her giggle harder. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, all of you just laugh it up... you're not the one who has to put up with all this, come on Ashia, since the rest of the patients are asleep we'll come back and visit you later Hinata-chan." As they walk away Ashia waves goodbye.

Walking down the hallway towards the main lab Naruto has to listen to his Mother sing her stupid song about him and Hinata sitting in a tree and kissing, but she spelled out kissing as part of the song. Halfway down the hallway Naruto cut the connection with a red face. He was glad he Father was quiet and respectful, unfortunately it was because Minato was standing next to her very red-faced from holding in his laughter.

Walking into the main lab he saw his parents new bodies laying on two tables off to the left hand side next to a large machine, making his way over to the tables where Nemu is standing she turns to him.

"I have the machine ready Naruto-kun, if you would please just sit in this chair we can extract the souls of your parents." Nemu said.

Naruto sat down and she began hooking him up to the machine. He noticed Ashia looked scared. "Don't worry, I'll be fine." The process was rather easy, though Naruto felt like he just got sucked through a vacuum cleaner. Soon enough both his parents begin to move then sit up.

Minato and Kushina look at Naruto and Ashia. The moment her brain processes that she was out of the seal, Kushina flew off the table and hugged both children with a high-pitched giggle. "Naruto-chan, Ashia-chan, it's so good to see both of you finally!" Luckily she didn't squeeze them too tightly, then released the hug.

"Who are you?" Ashia asked.

Kushina jumped backwards and struck a pose. "I am the one and the only Kushina Uzumaki, but from this day forward you will refer to me as Grandma Kushina!" She exclaimed happily, hands on her hips and sticking out her ample chest, though it didn't look at big as it was because of her of dress and snug kunoichi bra. Though proud of her very ample endowments, if she didn't restrain them they bounced too much and threw off her balance as a kunoichi when moving and fighting.

While this was going on Minato was hanging his head in embarrassment as he thought. 'And she gets mad when Jiraiya-sensei does that.' Coming out of his thought he sees his wife on her knees in front of the little girl, looking her over he decides to have a word with his son. He walked over to Naruto and shakes his hand, both of them look over at the women when they hear giggling Naruto whispers to his dad. "She's going to spoil them rotten isn't she?"

Minato smirks. "It's not even a question my son."

Suddenly Kushina calls out "I knew she looked familiar!"

Both men walk over to see what is happening. "What's going on Mom, what happened?" Naruto said.

Kushina stood up and faced them with a piece of paper in her hand. "When I was checking on her I noticed that she had this little locket around her neck, she said that she's had it since the day she was left at the orphanage, but you she didn't know how to open it. When I looked at it I noticed that it had a chakra lock on it, opening it was easy enough and this is what I found inside of it."

(Start Note)

My dearest little princess. Let me first say that I never wanted to leave you at the orphanage, but I had to hide you, you're the most precious treasure that I have. Let me introduce myself, I am your Father and my name is Itachi Uchiha.

(End Note)

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End Chapter 12