EDIT: A New, more fleshed out version of the prologue, can be found further down the page.
Currently Unnamed
A Prologue
'Ya know... This kinda sucks.'
It was a long battle.
'Damn, but what's gonna happen to me now?'
Things didn't go so well.
'I still haven't reached my goal! I'm not ready to die yet!'
Sometimes, you don't get a choice.
'... Well, I guess there ain't much more for me to do... I already failed the mission. I just wish...'
And with that, Uzumaki Naruto died.
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It was during the Sasuke Retrieval Mission.
Fight after fight, Naruto left a teammate behind, to deal with a foe that was probably superior.
Finally, he made it to Sasuke.
Words couldn't convince the Uchiha to return, so Naruto decided fists would have to be good enough.
Down at the wire, after curse seal activations and drawing on the Kyuubi, the two reared back, ready to lay the final blow.
Only this time, instead of aiming for his chest... Sasuke hit Naruto's stomach.
Right at the top of the seal.
Most would be terrified that this would release the Kyuubi.
But the seal is just the gateway that leads to the portion of Naruto's soul that the Kyuubi was placed in.
Instead, damaging the seal, as Sasuke did, cut off the Kyuubi's ability to reach out into Naruto's body.
Cutting off his regeneration.
Kabuto arrived, and picked up Sasuke's body.
But Naruto?
Naruto died.
'But, I've found... Death is really only the beginning.'
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'I don't quite know what I was expecting death to be like... But it certainly wasn't this...'
Naruto found himself not minding being a ghost... He could fly around, which was a lot of fun.
However... It was kind of sad, watching Kakashi find his body. The man just look so downcast, that Naruto actually started feeling a little loved.
He even planned on following Kakashi back to Konoha, too.
Before, that is, he was interrupted.
"Ahem. You are Uzumaki Naruto, correct?"
Naruto stopped, midfloat.
'Someone... Someone can see me?'
He turned to face where the voice came from, and was pleasantly shocked.
Shocked to see a woman, dressed in a long black robe, floating in the air behind him.
"You can see me? And yeah, I'm Naruto. Who are you?"
The girl drew herself up. She was fairly short, but still a head taller then Naruto. She was, Naruto noted, quite attractive, in a refined sort of way. A pair of oval glasses perched on an angular face, and she carried a large book.
She answered, rather primly. "My name is Fukutaicho Ise Nanao, of the 8th Division of Gotei 13... and I'm here to send you to Soul Society."
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'I never knew death was so complicated...'
Naruto had immediately begun firing questions at the girl, after her introduction.
"What's Soul Society? What are the Gotei 13? How can you see me?"
So Nanao began to patiently explain.
She told Naruto what Soul Society was ('It's where the souls of good people go to, when a Shinigami performs konso on them. Konso is the act of sending a soul on its way.'). She explained the basics of what the 13 Divisions did. She even explained how she could see Naruto.
Because Nanao knew this was a delicate case... She had been sent on this specific konso for a reason.
After all, it would take at least a master of Kido on the level of a Fukutaicho to ensure that the Kyuubi no Kitsune was sent to Hell.
After some deliberation, she was chosen to be sent on this specific cleansing... She was to ensure that the consciousness of the Kyuubi was to be sent to Hell, while ensuring enough of it's reishi remained with Naruto to ensure that the Kyuubi was not able to power it's way out of hell.
The Elemental Countries were just one of the areas that the Shinigami patrolled, though due to the abundance of Chakra users, there were exceptionally few Hollows roaming. Most were in control enough of their internal energies to fight the Hollow Transformation long enough for a Shinigami to arrive...
But those that didn't... Well, they spawned the Hollows, that after building up as Gillian, would become known as the biju.
Because there was such a huge abundance of energy in most everything, the Elemental Countries were a veritable buffet for a Hollow. Luckily, the Elemental Countries were located quite far from any gates to Hueco Mundo, making it hard for a Hollow to get there unimpeded. Most didn't even know it existed, and those that did tended to be killed on the Journey.
So ensuring that the Kyuubi would be unable to break free from Hell, and possibly alert the Hollow population to the presence of such rich eating, was of high priority.
After patiently answering all of Naruto's questions (a patience she had developed from dealing with her new captains... advances), she explained to him what she was going to do.
"Naruto... I need to remove part of the Kyuubi from you. I need you to relax, and not interrupt me. Just stay still, and this should be over quickly."
Naruto was embarrassed... Even as a ghost, he found he could still blush.
Standing around without a shirt in front of a pretty older girl (not that Naruto knew exactly how much older then Nanao was... He just knew she looked a couple years older) would do that to your average 13 year old boy.
Especially when she had her hands on your stomach.
In fact, it felt so weird, that Naruto began to twitch. It felt kind of ticklish, now that he thought about it.
Nanao opened up a gate to Hell.
This caused Naruto to start twitching even more.
Then Nanao moved her hands a little. She was actually moving the Kyuubi out of the seal right now, but Naruto didn't know that.
All he knew was she was tickling him now.
He couldn't help himself... He began to laugh.
And screwed Nanao up.
"Oh no!"
There was a bright flash of light.
The gate disappeared.
At first, Nanao thought it was just her imagination, and that nothing was wrong.
She could tell that the Kyuubi's mind was gone... He had been fighting her the whole way through the process.
She began exploring the remainders of the broken seal with her reishi. After finding no trace of the Kyuubi, she was satisfied. There was a whole lot more of the Kyuubi's reishi floating around in Naruto then she had planned on leaving him, but that wasn't a problem.
But then she tried to pull away.
And found that a portion of her reishi was stuck. Caught up somehow in the seal. She could pull her hands away, and everything felt fine... But a portion of her reishi, however small, seemed to be stuck behind on something in the seal.
So she decided that she would cast a minor destruction kido on that aspect of the seal.
Only to get entangled worse.
After two more failed attempts, she decided to give up on it. She wasn't physically attached to the kid, or anything... But part of her energies seemed to be.
She stopped when she did, when she realized that she had gotten so entangled, that it seemed she could utilize some of the Kyuubi's reishi, too.
"... That's not good."
Before Naruto could ask, Nanao reached into her sleeve, and poked Naruto in the forehead with the butt of her sword.
As Naruto disappeared... Nanao felt herself disappearing, too.
As she feared she would.
Well, I got the idea of a Naruto/Nanao matchup in my head the other day, and tonight, I decided to give it a try. I'm planning on making it a humor/romance/action kinda deal, focusing on the interaction between Naruto and Nanao.
Nanao's poking around the seal caused it to mistakenly clamp down on her. Becuase it was broken from the Chidori that killed Naruto, it wasn't able to percieve that Nanao was a Shinigami, and therefore allowed to screw with it. The first thing they're gonna do is find the guy who the Yondaime summoned up to begin with.
The implications of what happened is that, for the moment, Nanao's reishi is tied up in Naruto. It's freely there for her use... She just has to be near Naruto to use it. She can also tap into the Kyuubi's chakra that's there... Something that the accident ended up leaving far more of it then she expected.
With such huge reiatsu, Naruto will practically have to become a Shinigami. But since he's now sorta tied to Nanao, he won't be able to attend the Academy the way a normal person would. He'll end up taking private lessons from her, or something... Something that Nanao, who is apparently a highly studious person, will be able to handle.
This will lead to a lot of Naruto/Shunsui interaction, which will solidly land in the 'humerous' category.
This is all a while before Bleach starts... Naruto will be trained before Ichigo shows up.
The reason I'm putting this in the Bleach section is because it's going to be more Bleach then Naruto. I'd also like some clarification on the correct term for the spiritual energy they use in Bleach... I used Reishi, as that's what I saw on wiki, but I doubt it's right. I'm pretty sure reiatsu just is for your spiritual presence. Specifics here would be useful. Ideas for names would be cool, too.
Thoughts?
Currently Unnamed
A Prologue
'Ya know... This kinda sucks.'
It was a long battle.
'Damn, but what's gonna happen to me now?'
Things didn't go so well.
'I still haven't reached my goal! I'm not ready to die yet!'
Sometimes, you don't get a choice.
'... Well, I guess there ain't much more for me to do... I already failed the mission. I just wish...'
And with that, Uzumaki Naruto died.
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It was during the Sasuke Retrieval Mission.
Fight after fight, Naruto left a teammate behind, to deal with a foe that was probably superior.
Finally, he made it to Sasuke.
Words couldn't convince the Uchiha to return, so Naruto decided fists would have to be good enough.
Down at the wire, after curse seal activations and drawing on the Kyuubi, the two reared back, ready to lay the final blow.
Only this time, instead of aiming for his chest... Sasuke hit Naruto's stomach.
Right at the top of the seal.
Most would be terrified that this would release the Kyuubi.
But the seal is just the gateway that leads to the portion of Naruto's soul that the Kyuubi was placed in.
Instead, damaging the seal, as Sasuke did, cut off the Kyuubi's ability to reach out into Naruto's body.
Cutting off his regeneration.
Kabuto arrived, and picked up Sasuke's body.
But Naruto?
Naruto died.
'But, I've found... Death is really only the beginning.'
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'I don't quite know what I was expecting death to be like... But it certainly wasn't this...'
Naruto found himself not minding being a ghost... He could fly around, which was a lot of fun.
However... It was kind of sad, watching Kakashi find his body. The man just look so downcast, that Naruto actually started feeling a little loved.
He even planned on following Kakashi back to Konoha, too.
Before, that is, he was interrupted.
"Ahem. You are Uzumaki Naruto, correct?"
Naruto stopped, midfloat.
'Someone... Someone can see me?'
He turned to face where the voice came from, and was pleasantly shocked.
Shocked to see a woman, dressed in a long black robe, floating in the air behind him.
"You can see me? And yeah, I'm Naruto. Who are you?"
The girl drew herself up. She was fairly short, but still a head taller then Naruto. She was, Naruto noted, quite attractive, in a refined sort of way. A pair of oval glasses perched on an angular face, and she carried a large book.
She answered, rather primly. "My name is Fukutaicho Ise Nanao, of the 8th Division of Gotei 13... and I'm here to send you to Soul Society."
1234567890
'I never knew death was so complicated...'
Naruto had immediately begun firing questions at the girl, after her introduction.
"What's Soul Society? What are the Gotei 13? How can you see me?"
So Nanao began to patiently explain.
She told Naruto what Soul Society was ('It's where the souls of good people go to, when a Shinigami performs konso on them. Konso is the act of sending a soul on its way.'). She explained the basics of what the 13 Divisions did. She even explained how she could see Naruto.
Because Nanao knew this was a delicate case... She had been sent on this specific konso for a reason.
After all, it would take at least a master of Kido on the level of a Fukutaicho to ensure that the Kyuubi no Kitsune was sent to Hell.
After some deliberation, she was chosen to be sent on this specific cleansing... She was to ensure that the consciousness of the Kyuubi was to be sent to Hell, while ensuring enough of it's reishi remained with Naruto to ensure that the Kyuubi was not able to power it's way out of hell.
The Elemental Countries were just one of the areas that the Shinigami patrolled, though due to the abundance of Chakra users, there were exceptionally few Hollows roaming. Most were in control enough of their internal energies to fight the Hollow Transformation long enough for a Shinigami to arrive...
But those that didn't... Well, they spawned the Hollows, that after building up as Gillian, would become known as the biju.
Because there was such a huge abundance of energy in most everything, the Elemental Countries were a veritable buffet for a Hollow. Luckily, the Elemental Countries were located quite far from any gates to Hueco Mundo, making it hard for a Hollow to get there unimpeded. Most didn't even know it existed, and those that did tended to be killed on the Journey.
So ensuring that the Kyuubi would be unable to break free from Hell, and possibly alert the Hollow population to the presence of such rich eating, was of high priority.
After patiently answering all of Naruto's questions (a patience she had developed from dealing with her new captains... advances), she explained to him what she was going to do.
"Naruto... I need to remove part of the Kyuubi from you. I need you to relax, and not interrupt me. Just stay still, and this should be over quickly."
Naruto was embarrassed... Even as a ghost, he found he could still blush.
Standing around without a shirt in front of a pretty older girl (not that Naruto knew exactly how much older then Nanao was... He just knew she looked a couple years older) would do that to your average 13 year old boy.
Especially when she had her hands on your stomach.
In fact, it felt so weird, that Naruto began to twitch. It felt kind of ticklish, now that he thought about it.
Nanao opened up a gate to Hell.
This caused Naruto to start twitching even more.
Then Nanao moved her hands a little. She was actually moving the Kyuubi out of the seal right now, but Naruto didn't know that.
All he knew was she was tickling him now.
He couldn't help himself... He began to laugh.
And screwed Nanao up.
"Oh no!"
There was a bright flash of light.
The gate disappeared.
At first, Nanao thought it was just her imagination, and that nothing was wrong.
She could tell that the Kyuubi's mind was gone... He had been fighting her the whole way through the process.
She began exploring the remainders of the broken seal with her reishi. After finding no trace of the Kyuubi, she was satisfied. There was a whole lot more of the Kyuubi's reishi floating around in Naruto then she had planned on leaving him, but that wasn't a problem.
But then she tried to pull away.
And found that a portion of her reishi was stuck. Caught up somehow in the seal. She could pull her hands away, and everything felt fine... But a portion of her reishi, however small, seemed to be stuck behind on something in the seal.
So she decided that she would cast a minor destruction kido on that aspect of the seal.
Only to get entangled worse.
After two more failed attempts, she decided to give up on it. She wasn't physically attached to the kid, or anything... But part of her energies seemed to be.
She stopped when she did, when she realized that she had gotten so entangled, that it seemed she could utilize some of the Kyuubi's reishi, too.
"... That's not good."
Before Naruto could ask, Nanao reached into her sleeve, and poked Naruto in the forehead with the butt of her sword.
As Naruto disappeared... Nanao felt herself disappearing, too.
As she feared she would.
Well, I got the idea of a Naruto/Nanao matchup in my head the other day, and tonight, I decided to give it a try. I'm planning on making it a humor/romance/action kinda deal, focusing on the interaction between Naruto and Nanao.
Nanao's poking around the seal caused it to mistakenly clamp down on her. Becuase it was broken from the Chidori that killed Naruto, it wasn't able to percieve that Nanao was a Shinigami, and therefore allowed to screw with it. The first thing they're gonna do is find the guy who the Yondaime summoned up to begin with.
The implications of what happened is that, for the moment, Nanao's reishi is tied up in Naruto. It's freely there for her use... She just has to be near Naruto to use it. She can also tap into the Kyuubi's chakra that's there... Something that the accident ended up leaving far more of it then she expected.
With such huge reiatsu, Naruto will practically have to become a Shinigami. But since he's now sorta tied to Nanao, he won't be able to attend the Academy the way a normal person would. He'll end up taking private lessons from her, or something... Something that Nanao, who is apparently a highly studious person, will be able to handle.
This will lead to a lot of Naruto/Shunsui interaction, which will solidly land in the 'humerous' category.
This is all a while before Bleach starts... Naruto will be trained before Ichigo shows up.
The reason I'm putting this in the Bleach section is because it's going to be more Bleach then Naruto. I'd also like some clarification on the correct term for the spiritual energy they use in Bleach... I used Reishi, as that's what I saw on wiki, but I doubt it's right. I'm pretty sure reiatsu just is for your spiritual presence. Specifics here would be useful. Ideas for names would be cool, too.
Thoughts?