Just watched seven different movies revolving around bikers, read a fic concerning this genre, and listened to a LOT of Johnny Cash, Disturbed, and Ozzy Osborne. If you couldn't guess, this is a Ghost Rider and Naruto crossover.

Sorry, about the Nibi and Bird thing. I fixed it.

Rider's Solitude

Devil Went Down to Konoha

A spikey blonde haired preteen looked down at the gravestone that marked one of his most precious people in the rainy night. His bandaged body and dark funeral clothing was soaked from the rain he stood in. He looked down at the picture set before the tombstone, the old man in it showing complete and utter wisdom gleaming in his eyes. The tombstone read 'Here rests Sarutobi Hiruzen, Sandaime Hokage and the Professor of the Leaf.' Drops of liquid rolled down his cheeks, whether it was tears or rain he was unsure.

"Why did you have to die, Jiji?" the blonde whispered softly as he thought about his future. Although he played the fool, he knew that the old man was the only one that stood between his staying in Konoha and being banished or executed. He just wanted to follow his dream and prove his worth, prove he was worthy of existence in this village.

The blonde sat down and hugged his legs tightly. He rested his chin on his knees and looked at the neutral face of the Sandaime Hokage that he was staring at. He sighed and closed his eyes before whispering, "I wish I could have been strong enough to save you."

"Who says you aren't strong?" an elderly voice said from behind the blonde. The blonde turned his head and saw a smiling old man that was an easy six feet tall and dressed in dark robes adorned with dragons. In his hands was a cane with a skull atop it, red rubies in the eye sockets. His grey hair was similar to the way the blonde's jiji used to look.

"W-Who are you?" the blonde asked as he jumped to his feet and settled into a sloppy fighting stance. The old man chuckled, lightning flashing along with his laughter, before smiling at the blonde.

"Uzumaki Naruto," the man said as he slowly started to walk around the blonde, his cane clacking against the stones scattered throughout the grass, "An orphan, no known relatives in any of the Elemental Nations, has a total of three people that genuinely care for his well-being now that Sarutobi Hiruzen is dead and most importantly..."

The man stood on Naruto's right before leaning down and whispering into his ear, "The container of the Kyuubi no Kitsune."

Naruto was becoming scared and uneasy. This man was dangerous, every fiber in his being screamed it and he wanted so badly to just run away from him, but his body wouldn't obey him. The man smiled in an unnerving manner as he stood back up and rested on his cane.

"Yes, I know about your...burden," he said, seemingly reading his mind, "I should, seeing as I am the one that designed your seal."

"Y-You..." the blonde stuttered with fear marking his features, "You made...who...?"

"I, dear child, am Mephistopheles," the man said, "Otherwise known to you mortals as the shinigami. Within you is one of the most sought after souls my sister ever created. The Kyuubi is mine."

Naruto fell back on his ass as Mephistopheles' eyes flashed yellow. The Shinigami sighed and ran a hand over his hair, combing it back before looking back down at the blonde. With a smile plastered on his face, Mephistopheles spoke again, "How would you like to be able stay in Konoha no matter what you did? Even if you accidentally tapped into the Nine-Tails' chakra?"

The blonde looked up at him, "Y-You can do that?"

"Of course boy," Mephistopheles said with a smile as he rapped his cane on the blonde's head lightly, "I am a High Deity after all. You just need to sign this."

Reaching into his robe, the shinigami then pulled out a scroll which he unrolled to show a contract of some sort. With an equally sinister smile, Mephistopheles said, "This...is a Rider Contract. The second you sign this, your soul is mine and you become my bounty hunter, delivering me souls when their time has come."

"And if I sign this...I can't ever be banished from Konoha? Or sentenced to death?" Naruto asked quietly. Mephistopheles chuckled again before looking at the blonde.

"And here I thought you actually were a gullible oaf," the shinigami said, "Tell you what, I'll do you one better. Name a single person, aside from Sarutobi Hiruzen, that you wish to be alive once again."

Naruto's jaw popped open slightly and his mind was sent into a whirl. Who would he bring back? Who would he choose if given that chance?

Closing his eyes, Naruto began to think. He wanted ever so badly to know his mother and father, but he wasn't sure if they were truly dead or not. He couldn't bring the Old man back, so that was out of the question. A thought occurred to him, a voice in the back of his head whispered softly. "Ask for Uchiha Mikoto...Sasuke's mother..."

Knowing that Sasuke was also sad and alone, Naruto did as he always did and put someone else before himself. With newfound determination, Naruto stood and stared death in the face...literally. Holding his hand out, the blonde spoke, "I want you to bring my friend Uchiha Sasuke's mother Uchiha Mikoto back."

The shinigami's eyes widened before reverting to their original state and a smile crossed his features. He gave the contract to the blonde and twisted his hand, making a pen appear, before handing that over to the blonde as well. As Naruto signed the contract, he felt a strong sense of self-achievement from doing something for his broody friend. Perhaps friendship wasn't enough for someone who had had family before; hopefully this would help Sasuke open up. The blonde finished signing the contract before looking up at Mephistopheles and handing the contract back.

Mephistopheles looked over the contract once before looking back down at the blonde with a grin, "The deal is done. As far as anyone other than you or me are concerned, Uchiha Mikoto has been in a coma for the past seven years. She is now waking. Now, give me your hand."

Hesitantly, Naruto extended his own hand to shake the Death God's. No sooner had their hands touched did a fire burn within the blonde, causing him to fall to his knees. Mephistopheles' smile grew as fire encased the blonde, his screams muted by the flames. The blonde's flesh melted away from his body, leaving only a skull covered by fire. The strange thing was on each cheek bone of the skull were three slashes, thin and deep in the bone. Mephistopheles released the hand of the skeletal being and stepped back, admiring his handy work.

"Good riding, Uzumaki Naruto," the shinigami said as he laughed afterwards and vanished with an explosion of flames. The now skeletal Uzumaki Naruto held his head with his bony and flaming hands before standing. He felt a great evil come from the right, a soul calling out for assistance. His eyes flashed red and he went towards them both.

"Come on, Ayame!" Koga, a low rank freshly made chunin, said as he held the brown haired ramen making girl's hand tightly, "Just once?"

"No Koga!" Ayame said smacking his cheek, "I don't do that!"

Koga glared at her, "You bitch!"

He backhanded her hard, causing the ramen chef to fall to the ground. He delivered a quick chop to the back of her neck and knocked her unconscious. Smirking, Koga pulled her pants down before starting to remove his own. As he stroked himself to full mast, a sudden heat came across his back.

"Go away!" Koga snarled, barely glancing over his shoulder, "Can't you see I'm busy?"

There was no response, only the intensifying of the heat on his back. Growling in frustration, Koga turned, ready to beat the intruder to a pulp, but froze when he looked into the black eyes of a flaming skull head.

"Your soul is stained by the blood of the innocent," The skull said, its eyes seeming to narrow, "You are guilty."

"What the fuck are you?" Koga managed to breathe out. Before he could do anything to defend himself, the skull grabbed his collar and slammed him into the ground. Koga yelped from the pain of gravel burrowing into his back, and prepared to retaliate, but froze again when his eyes went to the black orbs that seemed to call to him.

"You shall feel their pain," The skull said as its eyes turned red, "Look into my eyes. Feel the pain of those you wronged!"

And he did. His screams attracted the attention of a nearby ANBU squad. When they arrived, they saw the skull throwing Koga's body to the ground as he looked over to the girl that was slowly regaining consciousness. The ANBU all leapt to the girl's defense, holding their swords out towards him. One of them held a chain with a blade at the end of it and was swinging it in preparation to attack. The skull locked his eyes on the one with the chain and he raised his finger to point at the rookie ANBU.

"You...guilty," The skull said. The other ANBU blinked behind their masks before the captain, Tora, stepped forward.

"Who are you?" the ANBU captain asked, "What did you do to that shinobi? What do you mean, guilty?"

"He has done many a horrible acts without the orders to do so," the skull said, "When he was a chunin, he raped three girls he was assigned to defend. One was no older than six years."

The other ANBU, Tori and Neko looked in disgust at the blank masked ANBU. His hands tightened around his chain and he leapt at the flaming skull with a roar. The others made to back him up when Tora held his hand up for them to stay put. They did have to defend the now fear stricken girl that was watching after all.

The skull let the ANBU punch him hard across the face, dislocating his jaw. As the ANBU stepped back and smirked behind his mask as he assumed to dissolve the genjutsu, his eyes widened in horror as the skull grabbed its jaw and set it back into place with a loud crack. It raised a bony finger and shook it.

"Un, un, uh," the skull tisked before grabbing the chain that was slack in the ANBU's hands. As the skull seemed to smile, it said, "My turn!"

The chain suddenly burst into flames, spreading quickly and covering the arms of the ANBU. He screamed in pain and released the chain, stepping back and flapping his arms in an effort to douse the flames. The skull held the chain in its hands, examining its flame form, before it grinned again and flicked the chain around the ANBU's body, causing his arms to become pinned to his body.

The ANBU rookie looked over at his superiors, the emotion of fear crossing even his mask, and he said, "Help me! Please Taichou, Help me!"

Tora looked to step in when a fireball hit near his feet. Tora looked up into the narrowed eyes of the skeleton and stayed put, recalling what the crimes the rookie had committed in his chunin years. The skeleton wrapped the ends of the chains around his arms as he pulled the ANBU rookie towards him, his pleas for mercy echoing in the night. When he was close enough, the skeleton turned him around and stared deep into his eyes.

"Your soul is stained by the blood of the innocent!" the skeleton barked, "Look into my eyes and feel their pain!"

The eyes of the skeleton glowed a ruby red and the rookie cried out in pain. He heard the girls he raped echo in his ears, the men he had slaughtered to keep his crime silent, the children he executed in separate missions when he was away from the village. He felt them all, only to feel them again separately before the pain united and made his heart burst from the excess adrenaline form their fear and pain.

The skeleton dropped the now deceased ANBU to the ground, unwrapping the chain around him with a jerk of his hand. With a flick of his wrist, the chain's flame vanished and it wrapped snugly around the chest of the skeletal being. Tora stepped forward, meaning to talk to the being when it suddenly dropped to the ground, holding its head and releasing a pain filled cry. Tora looked to the east as the sun rose before looking back at the skull whose flames were dying down. He along with the other four witnesses gasped as the skull reverted back into the form of Uzumaki Naruto.

Neko stepped forward and looked at Tora with a questioning gaze. Silently, Tora knelt down and picked the unconscious boy up, jumping in surprise when the civilian appeared at his side, doting over the unconscious boy with worry etched in her features. Tora carefully handed the boy to her and looked at Tori, "Escort them home. Neko and I shall clean up."

"Yes sir," Tori said with a nod. He started leading the ramen chef towards her home, leaving the two to clean up.

"What do we do about them?" Neko asked, gesturing to the two dead men, whose eyes were now ashes. Tora performed a few hand seals before the bodies were encased in wood and dragged below the ground. When they had vanished, Tora turned to Neko.

"The rookie attempted to stop the rape in progress, Koga used a Katon technique to burn away his body, but it backfired and killed him as well," Tora said. Nibi nodded before she turned her head to look at the fading sight of Tori and the civilian. Tora followed her gaze and he said, "What we saw doesn't leave us until a new Kage is in place."

"Do you think it was the fox, Taichou?" she asked, looking back at him. Tora shook his head.

"It was not the Kyuubi," he said, "I felt nothing of malice or death reek from his body."

"We will have to speak to him later," Neko said, looking back at the direction she was looking at before, "And Tori will have to know about your decision."

"I know," Tora said with a nod before he leapt to the rooftops. Nibi followed him immediately. They both were unaware that they were thinking along the same lines. What happened to the boy?

AN: There's chapter one for ya. R&R. PEACE.