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Chapter 26

Meiyo looked at her dead body in Kakashi's arms in shock

"I'm dead?" She whispered

"Weird huh?" the familiar voice of the Shinigami said beside her, making the woman jump "Why do you look so surprised? I told you I would be back"

"What do you want?" Meiyo asked, scared of her answer. The Shinigami smiled, showing off her sharp teeth.

"Nothing much" She said as she laid herself down, propping her head once more on her palms floating beside Meiyo "Just wanted you to see something" She said evilly and snapped her long slender bony fingers as the scene changed around her "I want you to see what happens in the future" the Shinigami said evilly and tilted her head to the upstairs room of the house she grew up in. In an instant the two were in the room to see Nenriki filtering through her things and coming across the half of the scroll that she had attempted to translate.

"What's this?" Nenriki said voice hoarse from the constant screaming and yelling as he opened the scroll.

"He spends a month straight translating the scroll" the Shinigami said. "This is two days after your death, by the way" the Shinigami said. Meiyo watched as the scene changed to Kakashi's house, where he just sat on his couch staring at the wall "He has been this way ever since he got back here after your funeral" the Shinigami commented. "The fun happens after your brother finishes translating that scroll" the Shinigami said evilly and snapped her fingers. Kakashi and Nenriki were seen talking amongst themselves.

"So we are set for tomorrow?" Kakashi asked and Nenriki nodded

"They will pay for what they did to my sister"

"The two of them are going to the Shikyo island?" Meiyo screamed "They will get themselves killed!" the Shinigami's grin widened at the woman's anger as she snapped her fingers to show Kakashi's dead body with a single bloody kunai sticking out from his shoulder, and Meiyo felt the urge to throw up

"Hatake Kakashi dies the second he steps onto their island" the Shinigami said, snapping her fingers once more "Your twin brother did a bit more damage" she said, sitting as she motioned her right hand to show the damage to the buildings around them "But Kodowari Nenriki dies twenty minutes after Hatake Kakashi, the two became AWOL and search parties for the two never found either of their bodies."

Meiyo fell to her knees as the Shinigami snapped her fingers to go back to the scene of Meiyo's death

"I… I can't let it happen" Meiyo said in shock, looking into Kakashi's eye even though he could not see her.

"You don't have to" the Shinigami said "I can make sure that Hake Kakashi and Kodowari Nenriki never make it to the Shikyo Island and that they live to a nice old age" the woman said, her voice once more sounding like a predator rounding up on its prey. Meiyo looked at the Shinigami, her black fluid like hair floating as the wispy black smoke that was her clothing wafted around her outstretched hand that fell near the woman. Meiyo tentatively took the hand and was lifted to her feet

"What do I have to do?" Meiyo said after gulping, after all, she was already dead; it wasn't like she could offer much

"Just sign here" the Shinigami said as a scroll appeared out of the sleeve of her left hand, she unrolled it, the scroll falling near Meiyo's feet, a line next to a letter x shown in deep red.

"What do I sign with?" Meiyo asked

"Your blood" the Shinigami said, her grin widening as the stitches of her wounds on either side of her mouth began to tighten by the gesture. Meiyo pulled down her mask and bit hard on her thumb until she drew blood and wrote her name on the line. The Shinigami grinned and pulled the scroll out of the way, and it rolled back up into her awaiting right hand, and it disappeared in the wispy black smoke of the sleeve of the beings left arm.

Meiyo watched as her body was forced out of Kakashi's hands and wheeled into the morgue for her autopsy

Meiyo stood with the Shinigami, unsure of what was going to happen next "Well then" She said evilly, causing Meiyo to regret signing the scroll already, although she was still dead, what could possibly be her payment? "Shall we start the fun?" She asked

"What f-" the Shinigami grinned too wide for her mouth and snapped her fingers

Meiyo shot up, breathing as the coroner screamed as he jumped back and hit his head on the table, falling unconscious, but Meiyo couldn't care much about that, she stared at her hands. She was dead, right? She didn't feel any pain, but she was breathing.

"What?" Meiyo asked confused, as thoughts of what was going to happen rushed into her mind and she jumped off the operation table and ran to the door, a cold bony arm stopped her

"Not so fast" the Shinigami said, Meiyo jumped back

"But Nenriki, Kakashi-"

"Will be fine, time to hold up your end of the deal" she said

"What deal?"

"I keep Kakashi and Nenriki safe and in return you get to help me kill the rest of the Shikyo clan" She said happily

"What?" Meiyo yelled in shock

"You signed for it" the Shinigami said evilly, grabbing the scroll from her sleeve and unrolling it "In return, I, Kodowari Meiyo, will slay the remainder of the Shikyo clan" she read, rolling the scroll back up and placing it in her sleeve

"You tricked me!" Meiyo yelled indignantly "I just wanted to keep them safe!"

"Meiyo, Meiyo, Meiyo" the Shinigami said, shaking her hand "I am giving you life again, and the freedom to live happily with Hatake Kakashi without the constant threat of the Shikyo clan, is that not worth doing this simple, small task for me?" The Shinigami said with her mischievous smirk on her face. Meiyo glared at her

"But how?" Meiyo asked, and the Shinigami's grin widened too much for her mouth as it spilled into her scars, tightening the stitches, she took off her right glove showing off her sickly grey skin of her bony hand and handed it to Meiyo

"With this, any jutsu you use with this glove on will kill any Shikyo, whether or not they have the swords"

"But, even if I go to the island they will kill me in seconds"

"No, because you made a deal with a Shinigami, and technically you are already dead, you will not, and cannot die until the scroll you signed is completed, so basically you can't die by anyone until the Shikyo are all dead"

"But I still need to see Nenriki and Kakashi and tell them I am alright"

"No, you are my slave until this is complete, we are getting the scroll for the Shikyo whip and leaving Konoha for the Shikyo Island, and we are going via teleportation" She said and snapped her fingers, Meiyo finding herself in her room, Meiyo put the glove on and grabbed the scroll from her closet and the Shinigami snapped her fingers once more, Meiyo finding herself on a boat heading towards the Shikyo Island.

"What's the plan?" Meiyo asked bitterly

Two Years Later

A figure in black rushed the man with purple hair, pushing a kunai against his throat.

"Shikyo" Nenriki said bitterly

"Keep her away from me!" She said, the wind blew past the two

"Keep who away from you? And why would I want to, haven't you taken enough from me as it is?" Nenriki asked bitterly to the frightened man

"Who? Your twin, she's crazy, she can kill us! She's killed a lot of us; she is coming to kill me!" Nenriki raised an eyebrow to the frightened, shaking man, not believing him for a second

"The only way to kill a Shikyo is with the swords, and if I remember correctly, the Shikyo clan took them the same day your clan killed my sister"

A figure clad in black with a long billowing black cloak that covered the figures face appeared a few feet away from the two. The man looked back in fear

"Stay away from me!" he said as he ran, and Nenriki looked shocked, the Shikyo were not allowed to show emotion, especially fear, it made them believe they were weak. Nenriki looked at the figure as they began to do seals and a whip of lightning appeared in the gloved hand of the person, and it crashed into the Shikyo's arm, ripping the limb off, the man's eyes lost their light and the figure spoke

"How many more are left?" Nenriki's eyes widened when his mind recognized the voice

Kakashi walked out of the bookstore with the newest Icha Icha book when he overhear Nenriki

"Meiyo?" the book in Kakashi's hands dropped and looked in the direction of the cloaked figure.

Ten men in black, the symbol for the Shikyo clan in white on their backs jumped around the cloaked figure and threw kunai at it. One hit the hood and it fell to reveal the face that Kakashi and Nenriki knew as Meiyo and the day that she died faded back for them

"What do you mean she's alive?" Nenriki yelled at the coroner

"I performed the healing jutsu on her and felt the life leave her body, for her to 'wake up' is impossible" Sakura said, Kakashi just stood there stunned at the thought

"I was about to cut off her clothes to start the autopsy when she sat up and breathed deeply, I screamed and hit my head, she must have walked off"

"Are you sure?" Nenriki said, not fully believing the man

"I would bet my life on it" the coroner said. Tsunade shook the shocked look off of her face, it was too unbelievable to be true

Meiyo did the same seals she performed minutes earlier and let the whip fly, hitting the majority of the ambush as the rest dodged the best they could, a couple running for their life. The four alive took the example of the two that ran off and Meiyo did the seals for her signature

"Raiton: Shikyo Ryuu Doragon Denkou (Killing Lightning Dragon of Death)" she yelled, slamming her right hand on the ground as a dragon of black lightning shot up, engulfing the four remaining Shikyo "Am I done now?" Meiyo asked the pointed question to the air beside her

"Who is she talking to?" Kakashi asked her twin

"I don't know" The two watched in shock as she sighed the two watched in horror as a sword ran through her body

"NO" The two men said in shock and anger. Meiyo rolled her eyes as the sword was ripped out of her, and she fell, pretending to be dead

"I did it!" the man said "I killed the murderer!"

"Watch who you call murderer" Meiyo said from the ground and sent the whip she had in her hand at the man, watching as the whip of black lightning struck the man in his middle, separating him. Meiyo got up, the wound caused by the blade completely healed "There" she said, head pointed to the air beside her "I'm done" she said. The two men looked at each other in confusion before looking back at Meiyo as she began to take off the glove on her right hand, she handed it to the air beside her, and the Shinigami appeared as she touched the glove. The two men jumped backwards

"What is that?" Nenriki asked in shock

"Are you sure?" The Shinigami asked Meiyo as she glared back at the creature "I could get rid of all those horrible scars that run across your body" She said as she stroked Meiyo's masked cheek

Meiyo thought about the offer, for it was very tempting

"No" Meiyo answered, and the Shinigami frowned at the woman "It is a tempting offer, but I don't want to see what I would have to do in return to pay for such a thing" Meiyo said as confidently as she could, The Shinigami's frown deepened and she lightly glare

"Very well, I will see you again soon, Kodowari Meiyo" She said and disappeared in the black wispy smoke. When the creature was finally gone Meiyo's body relaxed and she released the breath she was holding and turned to her brother and Kakashi, she grinned

"I'm free" She said as she ran to them

"You're alive" Nenriki said as he enveloped her in a big hug "What was that thing?" he asked and held her at arm's length, Kakashi looked annoyed that Nenriki was subconsciously keeping her away from him

"A Shinigami" Meiyo said calmly

"A WHAT? YOU MADE A DEAL WITH A WHAT?"

"… It wasn't intentional" Meiyo admitted, Kakashi looked taken aback

"You made a deal to be brought back to life? Meiyo-chan, I am glad you are alive, but still, the price to pay for any deal is too high, what did you have to do anyway that took two years?"

"Kill the Shikyo clan"

"WHAT?"

"And I didn't make a deal for me to be brought back to life, I unintentionally made a deal to save the two of you from killing yourself because of my death" Meiyo said

"You are an idiot!" Nenriki said as he let Meiyo go and began pacing next to her, lecturing her all the while why it is such a bad idea to make deals with other-worldly beings, but Meiyo wasn't listening because she was focused on the silver haired masked man that was near her

"You are alive" Kakashi said as she got closer to him

"I noticed" Meiyo joked

"Why didn't you come see me?"

"I couldn't, I was her slave until the end of the contract" Meiyo explained, and the two just stared at each other

"Meiyo? Are you even listening to me?" Nenriki asked, enraged that he was being ignored

Meiyo took the chance and quickly closed the distance between the two of them and pulled down his mask the same moment she pulled down hers and captured his lips in the most passionate kiss she could

"What the hell is this?" Nenriki asked in shock, motioning to the two kissing

Kakashi wrapped his arms around her and did the seals necessary to teleport the two of them into his bedroom

Epilogue

Three Months Later

Meiyo headed up to the Hokage Tower so happy that she had to force herself from skipping

"Hokage-sama" She said to the woman behind the desk to get her attention, Tsunade looked up "I need to resign from being a kunoichi" Meiyo said

"What? Why?"

"I'm pregnant" Meiyo said as she grinned

"Oh… does Kakashi know?"

"Nope"

"Ah, well then, thank you for your service to Konoha" Tsunade said and Meiyo took off her hitai-ate and went to place it on her desk "Keep it" Tsunade said and shooed her out of her office "What are you going to name it?"

"I don't know what I am going to name them" Meiyo answered as she closed the door to the office leaving a wide-eyed Tsunade to mouth the word "Twins"

Meiyo happily finished dinner the second Kakashi came home

"You look happy" he said as they kissed lightly "That looks good" he said as he sat down eager to eat her food

"I have a surprise for you" She said as she sat down, Kakashi filled his plate and began shoving the food in his mouth; he acknowledged her words by a quick glance in her direction. He stopped eating and took a drink "I'm pregnant" Kakashi's drink spouted out of mouth and all over the floor from the shock. Meiyo continued to grin happily as Kakashi looked back at her in shock

"Oh"

Two Months Later

"Have you thought of any names?" Kakashi asked his fiancé

"I don't know yet"

"What about Nami?" he asked "If it is a boy" he continued, and Meiyo thought about it

"It's okay, but what about the other one?"

"If we have a girl?"

"No, if we have two boys."

"What?" Kakashi asked, thoroughly scared now

"I'm related to the Shikyo clan, Kakashi, I am most likely having twins" Meiyo said in her 'duh' voice, as if it were completely obvious

"Twins"

"Twins"

"We are having twins"

"Yep" Meiyo said, getting slightly annoyed by his idiocy. "What did you expect me to have? A litter of puppies?"

Meiyo and Kakashi were married a month later

Meiyo ended up having twins, a boy and a girl, and they both wrecked havoc on Konoha, just as Nenriki and Meiyo had when they were younger. The two had little of the Shikyo's power with blood, as it had been diluted twice now, and barely knocked someone out when it pierced the skin. This, to Meiyo, was great news, as the blood of the Shikyo was an annoying hindrance and a great responsibility to bear, that she did not wish to pass to her children

When Meiyo's twins were two Nenriki and Anko got engaged and were soon building up their own family as well. Anko did not have twins, to Nenriki's horror for their first child, but to Nenriki's delight, two years later, Anko gave birth to twin boys. Anko hatred for little boys stems directly from this.

Meiyo slapped Kakashi when he came back to see her after he supposedly died

"You are not allowed to die, got it, if it happens again I will summon the Shinigami and bring you back to life myself, and then when my debt is paid off I will beat you up until you are an inch from death, understand me?"