Well, this is my second attempt at writing a fanfic. I'll be finishing up Grey Moon Howling Chapter 3 as soon as I finish Chapter 1 of this. It got in my head and won't get out, just like the other fic. I might know where this goes, I might not. So, I hope you enjoy it.
Summary: At the Nine-Tailed Fox's sealing, the Yondaime Hokage's life was not taken. Instead, it was Naruto Uzumaki's. He is taken by the Shinigami to be trained as one of his soldiers, beings who transcend Life and Death. It is there he gains the name, Arimoshinai no Kyoushu, the Imaginary Assassin. I think… I'm not really sure. If anyone knows a good translator thing, please tell me.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto. I have no intention of owning a man. That would be kinda awkward.
As a note, I wrote this in two hours with many breaks in between. If there are any mistakes, please tell me. Also, keep in mind, the Prologue must suck for the rest of the Story to seem Good.
Chapter 1:Prologue… Because Every Story Needs One
It ran on. The fox was at least 100 feet tall, and with nine tails, it was a sight to behold. It's eyes were a red, with veins running around it. The fox lifted one of its tails and brought it down. It crashed into the ground and brought with it an earthquake that shook the ground beneath the shinobi's feet.
The fox had attacked not one hour ago. Already it had destroyed half of the forest surrounding Konoha and was attacking the outer walls.
The force of the fox's tail impacting the ground caused the wall to crumble. With a single leap, it was inside Kohnoha.
They had immediately assembled all their military forces and nothing could stop the great beast. The samurai the Damiyo had sent were nothing against the beast. They could do nothing with their swords to hinder the beast. Those that tried to slash at the fox's legs were blown away in a hellish red glow when their swords touched the beast.
The shinobi were not doing much better. The Aburame clan had sent all their available kikaichu against the beast, but they had all been burnt to a crisp. The Yamanaka had no luck either. The beast's mind was too old and complex for them to manipulate. They, like the Aburame clan, had started attacking with jutsu's. The Uchiha and Hyuga clans dojutsu's were no use against the beast's might, and everything they tried could not stop the beast. The Nara and Akimichi were having better luck than the rest of the clan's. With the combined forces of the Nara clan, they were able to use their clan jutsu to slow the beast down. They wouldn't hold on for much longer though. The Akimichi were enlarging themselves to half the Demon's height, and using all their strength to attack, and their efforts were showing. The fox was held back long enough for the Yondaime Hokage to show.
"Sensei!" a fifteen year old Hatake Kakashi yelled. He had his Sharingan revealed. He was bloody and dirty, having helped his teammate Rin carry bodies on and off the field. He and every other ninja smiled as the Yondaime approached.
'We're going to win this battle for sure now,' was the same thought on all their minds. The smiles were quickly wiped off their faces however, when they looked at the Yondaime's face. His face was grave, and a fierce look of determination was on his face.
"Sensei? What are you going to do?" Kakashi worriedly said. He knew that when a look of determination was on his sensei's face, the consequences would be bad. The last time he had seen his sensei this determined was when Obito had died and he had gone on alone to face the Iwa nin. He had slaughtered them all and had thus earned the eternal hatred of Iwa.
He ignored Kakshi's question and strode forward. Kakashi ran up to his sensei, but someone had kept a hold on him.
"Jiraiya-sama?" questioned Kakashi. The toad hermit stood there, along with his sensei the Third Hokage.
"We have to let the brat do this." Jiraiya said solemnly. He was watching his former student and friend as he was about to sacrifice his life for his village.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" the Yondaime yelled as he slammed his palm into the ground.
"Arashi-san, how are you today?" asked the giant toad. The Yondaime was standing on the toad's head, with a bundle in his arms.
"We have to make this quick, Gamabunta-san. The fox is already at the gates." and it was true. Despite the previous efforts of the Konoha nin, they were not able to fully stop the beast's charge.
"I understand." With a single leap, the toad king leapt over and in front of demon fox. He drew his giant Yakuza sword and made a single slash at the fox. The fox dodged it and flung a tail headed straight for Gamabunta. The toad jumped high into the air and the Yondaime only stayed on because he had used chakra to stick to the toad's head.
He placed the bundle that was in his arms onto the top of the toad's head. The blanket around it shifted slightly to reveal an unruly mop of blonde hair.
He sighed wistfully as he looked down at his son. It had only been an hour ago, exactly when the demon had attacked, that he had been born. Still, his son had an unruly mop of blonde hair on his head. He sighed once more, as took out a drawing utensil and drew the Shiki Fujin onto his son's naval. His wife was still in the hospital, recovering from giving birth to their twins.
He had chosen to use his son Naruto, instead of his other son Ryoma because Naruto was the one that had come out silent. Naruto had come first, oddly silent as he exited his mother. Then came Ryoma, who was crying loudly and thrashing madly.
He did his seals blindingly fast, going through 5 of them every second. He went through 30 seals before he stopped. When he was finished, behind him came the apparition of the Shinigami.
'Damn human!' thought the Shinigami madly. 'How the hell am I supposed to explain to the other gods that I was forced out here!'
The Shinigami was waving his hands madly. Arashi just thought that he was trying to look ghostly and scary.
He called out, "Shinigami-sama. Please, seal this beast into this boy and take my life as payment!"
The Shinigami nodded for a second, then reached out with an arm and stuck it inside the Kyubi.
It howled and went rigid. Those that were watching stared in awe. The Shinigami was standing behind the Yondaime, with an arm stuck inside the Kyubi.
Suddenly, it pulled something out of the Kyubi. Everyone, including the Yondaime, was staring at shock at the Shinigami.
When the Death God had pulled its arm out, the Kyubi had shrunk unto itself, a vortex forming at the middle of the beast. It sucked in all of the Kyubi, and created huge gusts of wind, that caused some shinobi and samurai to be blown away. Then it stuck the other arm it had into the boy in Arashi's arms. All throughout this exchange, the boy had stayed silent. It had not made a sound, nor did it move much. Then it stuck the other arm, the one that held the soul of the Kyubi, who was howling, into the boy's naval, where the seal Arashi had placed onto the boy.
"Wait a minute!" Arashi yelled over the huge gusts of wind that were still raging, "You're not supposed to take him! I'm the one that summoned you!"
'All the more reason not to take you.' thought the Shinigami. 'Your ass made me come out here, when I'm not allowed to interfere in the mortal realms.
"I am taking this boy, and the fox that now resides within him, with me." The Shinigami said in a loud booming voice.
"NO!" Arashi cried out, over the still raging winds. "Take me instead! I'm the one that brought you out here!"
"You're not the one the fox is sealed into." and with that, the Shinigami left. The winds died down, and the shinobi and people of Konoha surveyed the damage. In the Death God and Kyubi's wake, they left a huge clearing where a hundreds of trees were blown back, looking as if something had sat there then got back up.
The Kyubi had created a whole in the outer wall. The Demon Fox had also killed over one third of Konoha's active shinobi forces, and had almost destroyed most of the Damiyo's samurai army. Out of the original hundred thousand the Damiyo had sent, only fifty thousand remained. That meant over half of the samurai had lost their lives against the Demon Fox. Most of the forest was completely decimated.
Everyone slowly walked back into Konoha. They walked through the streets, battle weary and a little bit in awe at what they had seen. Only a few people were left, helping to tend to the injured.
The Yondaime was leaning against a tree in shock and exhaustion. He had used most of his chakra to summon the Shinigami, and he had one of his sons.
'It might take years for Konoha to recover.' Arashi mentally said. Gamabunta had gone back and he was left alone on the battle field.
Over and over in his mind replayed the same image of the Shinigami taking away his son.
Kakashi, the Third Hokage, and Jiraiya walked up to tree the Yondaime leaned against.
They stood there in silence for a few moments none of them knowing what to say. The current Hokage's shoulders were slumped, his breath a little ragged. It was Jiraiya who broke the silence first, "You did good, gaki."
The Yondaime slowly whispered, "I didn't do good. The Shinigami was suppoed to take me, not Naruto."
"Maybe it was for the best." the Third Hokage slowly said, as if thinking it out while saying it.
"What do you mean it was for the best, Sandaime-sama?!" yelled out Kakashi, half in shock and the other in puzzlement.
"If you think about it, it does." said the Yondaime, speaking for the first time since the Shinigami had sealed the Demon Fox.
"What do you mean?" shouted Kakashi. His gaze turned and now rested on his former sensei. Where there was once a look of depression on his face, there was more of hope on it now.
"He means," began Jiraiya, "That with the Arashi's help, we can help rebuild Konoha back to it's former glory."
It had been a week since the Kyubi attack. The Yondaime had allowed everyone some time to recover from the Kyubi's attack, and now, they were ready to begin rebuilding their lives.
"Citizens of Konoha!" Arashi said. Beside him were his wife, Haruhei Uchiha, with their week old son in her arms. He was crying and flaying his arms wildly in the air, despite Haruhei's best efforts to calm him. "Today we begin rebuilding Konoha, a week after the attack instigated by the Nine-Tailed Fox." many of the citizens of Konoha spat on the ground at this. Everyone in the Fire country had been affected by this. Some lost business, others lost lives. "For now though, I ask we take a moment of silence to remember our comrades who have fallen in battle."
All present fell silent, offering their prayers up to the Heavens. Then they got started on what promised to be a long period of recuperation.
"You know you can't directly interfere with the lives of mortals, Shinigami-san." Kami said. Immediately when the Shinigami had left the Immoral Plane, they had felt it.
"It wasn't my choice, Kami-san. A foolish mortal summoned me there to help. I could not leave until my purpose for my summoning was completed." The Shinigami said. In his arms he held a sleeping boy. On his face were six whisker marks, three on each side of his cheeks. The boy's hair was a dull blonde, which made it look white. On the boy's stomach was a seal, the very one that the Shinigami had been called into Mortal Plane for.
"Who is the boy then? I sense he is mortal, and you know the rules. No mortals unless they are one of the Senmin are allowed onto the Immortal Plane." Kami said. None of the other Gods knew, as he was the lord of the living, and he knew when someone had left or entered the mortal plane.
"I have chosen the boy, Kami-san." The Shinigami stated in a simple tone.
"This is preposterous!" bellowed Kami, "No god has ever chosen a child to become one of the Senmin. I will not allow it!"
"That is because the other gods believe that a child cannot pass through the planes of the Dead and Living." the Shinigami said, watching the boy who had just woken up. He was watching with apathetic eyes, eyes that were a sharp blue the color of the sky. When you looked at his eyes from a certain view however, they changed to a deep red. From the Kyubi's influence, probably.
"And for good reason. A child's mind cannot possibly take the strain from being one of the Senmin." chastised Kami, "They're too young."
"You'd be surprised what a child's mind can take. Furthermore," he held the baby up, "I will personally be training the boy."
Kami sighed. The Death God seemed to be unusually persistent today. Maybe he was growing a little soft? "Fine. Take the boy and train him, but I suggest you do so well."
He left his words hanging cryptically.
"I will train the boy well. In fact, I'll train him to be one of the best Senmin ever."
Thus, the Arimoshinai no Kyoushu was born.
That was my second attempt at writing a fanfic. I'll try to use Japanese names for things, but I won't use it full time. My knowledge of Japanese is mostly gotten from watching Anime. That means the knowledge I have of the language is VERY SMALL.
Here's a glossary for those of you that can't read Japanese, like me.
Senmin- chosen people
Arimoshinai no Kyoushu- Imaginary Assassin
Kyubi no Yoko- Nine Tailed Demon Fox, I think…
Shinigami- Death God
Kami- God…I guess
Tell me if there are any mistakes, and thank you for reading.
Word Count: 2,450
Total pages: 6