SHADOW OF THE FORSAKEN SOUL

PROLOUGE

War! Waging of armed conflict against an enemy! Something he thought he understood. Hatred! The emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action! He was too naïve. As long as humanity exists so will their hatred towards each other and eventually, this leads to the inevitable…War! As the war ends, the hatred for each other increases. A wheel that never stops turning.

Death is all around him. Death traveled along with him like your shadow following you where ever you go. Naruto never wanted to slaughter all those shinobi; he never wanted to deprive families with their loved ones. But it wasn't like he had a choice on that matter either. After the desolation caused by Pain; with Tsunade in coma, Danzo had been elected the new hokage by the feudal lords of the fire country. Under the orders of Danzo the new hokage, a caged bird seal had been placed on him so that they could control him like the puppet weapon they always wanted. The bitter thing was that the majority of the shinobi and civilians alike had aligned with the old war hawk. Only a handful of Naruto's friends had supported him. It was as if Pain had never attacked Konoha. As if they refused to recognize who had save them from their day of reckoning. He should have been considered a hero.

Yet the attack from Pain was blamed on him. They believed if he didn't exist Pain would have never attacked Konoha. A bunch of pathetic cowards who refused to open their eyes to the truth as it is, as it should be even if it is right in front of their eyes. To them he was kyubi reincarnated in human form. Nothing more, nothing less! If there was a thing as justice he hoped they would burn in the deepest pits of hell. The elders even decided that Naruto couldn't control the kyubi and seal was failing. What did they know of the seal? What did they know of how he lived his life? No more. No more will he submit before those senile old fools who cower when danger lurks around. He really hoped they would burn in hell. He will not to give up though. He wasn't called the unpredictable ninja for nothing. And he's going to show them whose blood is running through him even if it's the last thing he's going to do.

With much planning and difficulty Naruto had finally obtained the Forbidden Scroll of Konoha. He had very little amount of time. Before long they will notice the scroll missing. Sooner or later they are going to connect the dots that it was him who stole it. So he cannot afford to screw this up. This is his last chance to leave this god forsaken place. If a god is unable to help him Naruto didn't think there was anyone who ever can. And that was the purpose of going through all of the trouble to steal the Forbidden Scroll. Shiki-Fuin! The ultimate seal his father created for sole purpose of summoning the Death God. The very seal that burdened him with the one of the most powerful deities live on earth from the day he was born.

For a seal master it wasn't hard for Naruto to re-create the Shiki-Fuin. As he was adding the last arrays to the seal the alarm went off. 'Probably found out that the forbidden scroll was stolen' muttering to himself he added the finishing touch to the Shiki-Fuin.

'Wherefore thee summon me? Desires of thyself is thine.'

Overwhelmed with the presence of the being that appeared Naruto stood there gaping not knowing what to say. There was no possible way to describe the presence of the being in front of him. He mentally shook his head. This was not the time for him to stand there with awe. The clock was ticking. He could faintly hear the outcries of the shinobi. It was safe to assume that they still didn't know who had stolen the scroll. He needed to pull himself together and think rationally. A loud booming voice had pulled Naruto out of his inner musings.

'What thee desires thou shall pay in tantamount'

''I know it's foolish to consider that there are other dimensions but if there are others I want to go to one of those dimensions. I want to live in a world that does not engage constantly in war. And I want a general idea of how things work in that world; by that I mean knowledge that every person has in common in that world such as… language. Besides that I want to get rid of this caged bird seal that had been placed on me!' he answered in his haste to get it done quickly.

'Desires of thine componed'

'What shall thee pay in tantamount?'

'Kyubi… One more thing, take what everyone calls the gifts that came with the kyubi be it healing above norm or high chakra reserves; I don't care as long as there isn't anything that remind me of kyubi in my body physically.' said Naruto while destroying the Forbidden Scroll so that the only one with knowledge of Shiki-Fuin alive would be him or so he would like to think. That war hawk Danzo is obsessed with possibilities that benefit Konoha and particularly himself. Knowing Danzo he might go through the forbidden scroll to find if there are techniques that might benefit him. 'And no one should be able to follow me in any way to where I'm going or bring me back. I should be the last one that's going forth from this dimension to where you are sending me or from there to here.' He added as an afterthought not wanting to take any avoidable risks.

An inhuman roar echoed in the depths of his mind. For a moment Naruto thought that his brain had blown from inside. 'You pitiful puny little mortal! Did you really think I would just stand aside and let you do this? DON'T UNDERESTIMATE ME. I will make you regret this for the rest of your life. MARK MY WORDS MORTAL! You will regret it. No matter where you are you will always be reminded of me. You think getting rid of my physical effects on you can stop me from doing anything to you. I am going to put a dreadful curse on you so that you will always be reminded of the biggest mistakes you've ever made. Don't worry. It won't have any physical effects on you. A fitting partying gift for you I would say human.'

(Author note: you can imagine a malicious laughter from kyubi if you want and the end of its speech if you want. Don't know about you but I find it very odd to add 'hahaha' to that speech. It don't fit a being such as kyubi in my opinion)

'What are you talking about? What did you do? DAMN TO ME 'T YOU DARE IGNORE M….'

'Tantamount of thine for what thee desires componed.'

He never got the answer to the question. He didn't know how he lost consciousness but he knew it was not natural and that meant it was the work of the death god. And that was the last of Uzumaki Naruto the elemental nations will ever see. A place he now wished that he had never existed from the beginning.