Contract Of The Shinigami

The dark clouds loomed around the valley. Lightning and thunder reigned as it showed the scars and destruction of a battle of fate. The battle between Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha over the Uchiha's future in either Konoha or Oto. Upon closer inspection there was only one person on the field in an unconscious state. It was the very blonde who fought against Sasuke. A small trickle of light was on the face of the blonde shinobi. His clothes were little ripped pieces and his body was covered in bruises from the fight. The most noticeable was the one on his chest like he'd been struck by something hard.

Naruto laid in his unconscious state for a little longer and before anymore time passed someone came to the ground and looked at the blonde with a mournful expression.

"Naruto, you must've fought as hard as you could," the person said. They were wearing the standard jonin vest for Konoha shinobi. They had white hair and their headband was over their left eye with a small cloth covering their mouth. It was Kakashi Hatake, jonin sensei to Naruto Uzumaki, Sakura Haruno and Sasuke Uchiha. Kakashi looked at the damaged part of Naruto's skin and lifted the blonde into his arms. He flung Naruto over his back and shot off for Konoha, but not before looking back in the opposite direction.

"Sasuke," Kakashi said to himself before sighing and running off. The white haired shinobi knew he had to hurry. He could feel Naruto's heartbeat and it was slowly stopping.

"Come on Naruto. Just last a little longer," Kakashi thought and narrowed his left eye as he looked at the blonde's face. He could only hope that Naruto would be alright. Kakashi could only imagine if Naruto died. So many people would be sad and maybe even Tsunade, their Hokage, would spiral into depression again.

"Minato-sensei, what would you do if you were holding your son like this?" Kakashi asked in thought. He had no idea of what was happening with Naruto and how it would shape him to be who he always could be.

Naruto's mind

Naruto laid in the emptiness of his mind, his unconscious state was visible to Kyuubi and the fox grumbled at its container. He offered the blonde power, but he still lost and his heart was giving out of him. The darkness around Kyuubi was growing more and more making the bijuu curse.

"Fading...it's fading...am I going to die?" Kyuubi wondered and before long a white light appeared in front of him. The Kyuubi narrowed his eyes and growled at the newcomer, but quickly paled when he saw who it was. It was a white spirit with purple arms and a sword in it's mouth.

"So the kid's finally dead huh? I must say he was kind of lucky. The damn brat escaped me so many times it wasn't even funny," The figure said and Kyuubi growled again.

"Shinigami!" Kyuubi said and the white haired figure turned to the Kyuubi. The Shinigami narrowed his eyes then turned back to Naruto. He took out his sword and traced it over the blonde's form.

"What's dead is dead. That means your next Kyuubi," the Shinigami said to him. He was about to slash at Naruto and rip the blonde's soul from his body, but turns out that fate was against even the Shinigami.

"Sasuke!" Naruto yelled immediately and shot up dodging the blade from the Shinigami in one swift move. Kyuubi widened his eyes and the Shinigami raised an eyebrow. This hadn't happened before in all the times the Death God did this. Kyuubi was at least surprised if not anything else.

"Dammit brat, you sure know how to scare people. I thought I was gonna die because of you for a second," Kyuubi said and instantly Naruto turned to his unwanted Bijuu behind its cage.

"Furball what the hell happened?" Naruto asked making the Kyuubi growl. His container was always a damn smart-mouth. It really irritated the fox to no end, but that was a point for another time.

"Damn brat. In case your blind, the Shinigami is right in front of you," Kyuubi said and immediately Naruto turned his head to see the real thing in front of him. The blonde gulped while the Shinigami looked at him with its menacing glare.

"Come on brat. It's time to die," the Shinigami said and Naruto immediately stopped paling and his expression changed from one of fear to confusion.

"But I'm not dead. Why are you here for me?" Naruto asked and the Shinigami sighed. This was so much better when someone was actually dead and not all into questions.

"Well you'll be dead in a matter of seconds so I might as well just stay here and wait for it. I swear, you humans fight over the simplest of things and die by the simplest of methods," The Shinigami said and Naruto narrowed his eyes at the god.

So fighting to save his friend was supposed to be a simple matter?

"Well I don't care if you are the Shinigami or anything else, but I'm not dying till I become Hokage!" Naruto yelled making the Kyuubi grin at its container's disrespect to even the Shinigami. The spirit in question looked at the blonde impassively and sighed.