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The New Kyuubi
Chapter 1
The End is only the Beginning
Naruto stared in shock at the body that laid before him. It was a short, spiky hair, blonde with tan skin and whisker marks etched onto its' cheeks. It wore a bright orange jumpsuit and a ninja headband with the Konoha leaf engraved on the plate. A hole ran through its' chest where the heart was located. You could see the ground through the hole in the chest.
Naruto shook his head in bewilderment. Why was he seeing his own body with a hole through it? Was it some elaborate genjutsu created by Sasuke to stop Naruto from interfering with Sasuke's journey to Orochimaru. He didn't understand at all. Last he remember, he was covered in Kyuubi's red chakra and holding a huge rasegan in hand as he was charging against Sasuke. Sasuke was transformed into a hideous being with hand like wings, black skin, and horns. One of Sasuke's hands held a chidori to met against his rasegan. They crashed against each other in midair in front of the waterfall that fed into the lake they fought over. A great explosion occurred and Naruto felt a searing pain in his chest before he crashed into the ground and blacked out. Now he woke up to see his body in front of him with a hole in the chest.
He brought his hands in front of him and tried to dispel the illusion in front of him. "Kia!" Nothing happened. In fact, He couldn't feel any of his chakra built up inside of him to do this. Was he that depleted in chakra? Funny, now that he thought about it, he couldn't feel any exhaustion or pain from his fight with Sasuke. Speak of the devil, there was Sasuke. It looked like he reverted back to his normal form with his pale skin and dark colored eyes and hair. He was walking tiredly over to the body in front of him.
"Hey bastard!" Naruto yelled out at him. "What's with the illusion?"
Sasuke didn't act like he heard him and instead knelt down in front of the body and looked at it with a mixture of horror and guilt on his face. He bowed his head and said:
"Why dolt? Why didn't you try to stop me?"
"What do you mean try to stop you?! I'm still trying to stop you! Stop with this weird genjutsu and fight fairly!"
Again, Sasuke seemed like he didn't hear Naruto's voice and continue to stare at the body in front of him. Naruto was getting angry with this. He didn't understand what was going on and he wanted to continue on with the fight with Sasuke to prove to him that he could become strong in Konoha. He ran over to Sasuke and threw a punch to his head. It went right through and off balanced Naruto. He toppled over in surprise and found himself falling through Sasuke and the body. Naruto voiced his thoughts at Sasuke.
"What the hell is happening? What kind of genjutsu is this? I never heard of this! I bet Kakashi-sensei taught you this for your fight against Gaara. Well I'm not going to let this beat me bastard!"
Naruto got up from his position and circled round Sasuke and the body while trying to figure out what was going on. What was the importance of this? Was it to distract him while Sasuke prepared another chidora? Couldn't be. Far as he knew, Sasuke was at the ends of his strength. Even with the cursed seal on him. Grabbing his hair in frustration, Naruto tugged it as he tried to understand. He then decided to leave the place. The Sasuke in front of him must be part of the genjutsu to distract him while the real one was working on a new plan to beat him. Naruto started to run away in search for the real Sasuke. He found he couldn't go far from the illusion.
He struggled to no avail and found that he couldn't go beyond twenty five feet from the scene. He tried several methods to get out of the illusion but the dispel technique didn't work and he found that his weapons weren't on him. Pinching himself didn't seem to work either. The scene was still the same. Sasuke bowing over a body that looked like him and asking over and over the question of why he didn't stop him. Stuck there with no idea as to what to do next, Naruto held himself in a ready position to wait out the illusion. A new figure appeared on the scene.
Kakashi, along with Pakkun, came running up to Sasuke and the body. He too, ignored Naruto who was standing nearby. He stopped quickly in front of them and looked at the figures before him. Both of his mismatched eyes were shown in an fearful stare. Kakashi knelt down in front of Sasuke and the body and put one hand on the body's neck. His eyes above the mask turned into anger and grief. Whipping his head from staring at the body's face to Sasuke's guilt ridden face, he quietly asked in a menacing tone:
"What did you do to Naruto?"
"Yeah bastard, what are you doing to me?" Naruto added his two ryo. Neither Kakashi or Sasuke acknowledged his voice. Naruto decided to stop talking since it wasn't working and watch the scene unfold before him.
"I…I didn't mean too." Sasuke in a guilty voice said, "I..I wanted to prove to him that he and Konoha was slowing me down in my quest for revenge against Itachi. He wasn't suppose to die!" He screamed out the last sentence.
"But he did by your own hand!" Kakashi thundered back and then added softly that Naruto almost didn't hear him. "And by the looks of it, by the technique that I showed you."
Kakashi got up from his position and motioned Sasuke to do the same. Sasuke did so and flinchingly looked into Kakashi's angry eyes. Kakashi narrowed his eyes and said:
"Now this is what we are going to do. We are going back to Konoha and you are going to explain everything to Tsunada about how you killed Naruto, whom she considered as a little brother, and why you turned traitor to Konoha. You are going to be the one that will carry Naruto's body and if you try to escape back to Orochimaru, I will kill you in the most painful way possible that what you did to Naruto will be but a love tap."
Sasuke shakily nodded and knelt down again to pick up the body. He slung it over one shoulder, got up from his position and turned to face the direction to Konoha. Kakashi got behind him and they both walked slowly away from the scene in front of Naruto. Naruto tried to follow them but found himself still stuck in that area.
What was going on? Sasuke hadn't attacked him during the whole time he watched the scene. Wasn't this an elaborate genjutsu to distract him while Sasuke tried a new plan to attack him? Things were not adding up. Naruto decided to start yelling again.
"Hey bastard! What are you doing? This genjutsu won't make me lose my guard. Come out and fight me you big chicken!" Naruto, in a ready position, scan the area around him; looking for the real Sasuke. A melancholy voice that he knew wasn't Sasuke spoke up behind:
"Man, why is it I always have to be the one who takes care of the ninjas?"
Naruto whirled around quickly and looked at his potential attacker. Could this be another one of Orochimaru's goons? The person in front of him was male, wearing a flowing black robe with a hood up. The hood covered the guy's face but Naruto could swear that he saw two glowing blue eyes. A sword was strapped to his side with a gloved hand clasping the handle. He towered over Naruto and beckoned one of his gloved covered hands. Gently he said:
"Don't worry Naruto. I'm not here to attack you. In fact, I'm here to explain what's going on. First thing, this is not a genjutsu. What you saw before you is reality. I made you stay near your body so you could understand what happened to you and hopefully have some closure in life."
"You mean.. I'm dead? Sasuke killed me?" Naruto stated in disbelief and asked, "How did this happened?"
"Plunged a chidora right through your heart from the looks of your body."
"I know that!" Naruto waved his arms at the guy and then crossed his arms in front of him in a thoughtful manner. "Hmm.. I guess I should say why did this happen. Why did Sasuke do this? I thought we were best friends."
"I can't answer you that. My job is to make sure you're properly escorted to the afterlife." the man answered matter-of-factly with a shrug of his shoulders.
"Speaking of which, who the hell are you?" Naruto asked and pointed a finger at the man. "Are you the Grim reaper or something?"
"Yes, matter of fact, I am the Grim reaper. Name's Martin. I'm here to guide you to the afterlife." Martin stuck his hand out to Naruto. Naruto only stared at the reaper and wondered why the heck he was named Martin. Shouldn't a reaper have an awe inspiring name or one that provoke fear? Unfortunately, he voiced his thoughts.
"Why the heck are you named Martin. I thought it would be something..well..grim."
"This coming from a ninja whose named after fishcakes."
"Hey! It actually means maelstrom, weirdo."
"My point being is that the job doesn't necessarily reflect in what my name is."
"Argh! Never mind that! What am I going to do now? Sasuke shouldn't get away with this and I can't become Hokage if I'm dead. Is there a chance I could become alive again?" Naruto gave Martin a pleading look. "I'll..I'll give you all my raman coupons if you could let me live again."
Martin shook his head no. "Look Naruto, what you ask is out of my jurisdiction and power. Upstairs would throw a fit if I try to make you alive. Besides, your body is destroyed enough that if I put you in it, you would die all over again. If you want to come to life again you have to talk to the administration. Speaking of which, the administration actually wanted to see you before your soul is processed. It's best to not keep them waiting."
"What if I don't want to see the administration and instead stay here." Naruto said surly over the fact that he couldn't come to life again. He started to plan on haunting Sasuke, Orochimaru, and maybe Jiraiya to keep him out of the ladies bath side.
"No can do kid. The administration wants to see you as soon as you were dead and I always follow orders." Martin prepared himself to draw his sword and added a warning. "Naruto, your dead so you don't have any chakra to manipulate since you need a body to do that. You also have no strength since, again, you have no body. You couldn't possible stop me from dragging you from here to the administrators desk and I think you might want to come in a more dignified manner."
"We'll see about that weirdo!" Naruto yelled as he cocked a fist back and ran up to Martin to punch him. Martin drew out his sword quickly and slashed Naruto. In an anticlimactic way, that was all that was needed as Naruto felt himself being sucked into the sword Martin was holding.
Naruto could sense things outside the sword and heard Martin mutter:
"Kid, I told you that wasn't going to work and now your going to meet your maker in an embarrassing way. My sword is designed to contain troublesome souls that refuse to leave this plane."
Naruto screamed from the sword: "Let me out! I believe you now and promise not to run away but please let me out! It's cramped in here!"
Martin chuckled at this. "Kid, it was designed that way too to punish those who tried to escape me. You can't leave my sword until we're at the administration building for a secretary to release you. I don't have the power. Upstairs backup measures for in case I face several beings that team up and want me to release their companions in the sword."
Naruto yell several explicative's at Martin on what he would do to him when he is released. Martin merely shook his head at this, put away his sword, and walked away from the area. He disappeared in thin air with a shimmer.
So what do you think? Good? Bad? First fanfic and would love to get reviews. Critisms welcomed and if there is something wrong with the grammer or spelling, tell me how I could go about fixing it since I don't know how to go about fixing the story once it is posted. Thankyou for reading.
Savanor