Contract Of The Shinigami

One week later

Naruto was finally released from the hospital with Tsunade's approval and immediately went to his apartment. Jiraiya told him that they would be leaving the next day so that would be enough time for Naruto to tie up any loose ends he had. The blonde had said goodbye to all his friends in that weak and told them that he would get stronger in no time. Everyone seemed sad about Naruto leaving especially Hinata, but they knew that they would see him again.

Currently, Naruto was packing his bags full of essentials for his trip, but if one looked close enough they would see that the blonde wasn't entirely focused on packing, but more or less what he could do as the Shinigami's summoner. Those conditions that Naruto knew about had occupied his mind for that entire week. He thought about all the good it could do him to revive people as well as have someone as powerful as the Shinigami. The blonde knew however that this was a delicate situation. He might have been dumb and clueless at times, but he was far from stupid. He knew that something like this would be impossible to explain to anyone especially Tsunade and Jiraiya. If word found out about this then there would be so many problems that it wasn't even funny. The blonde imagined all the happy faces people would have from loved ones and things like that, but what would they do if he said no to them. Would they force him to do it? Would he be deemed a traitor for him helping his village?

"Aren't you over-thinking this a bit?" His tenant asked making its presence known. Naruto broke from his thought and continued packing. It wasn't like he wanted to over-think something like this, but the whole situation made it that way.

"It's not that I guess. I've just never felt so responsible before. This is heavy furball. I guess I'm glad that Shin's interested in me, but I can only wonder about the good I can do with him," Naruto said and Kyuubi allowed it's tails to thrash around for a bit out of boredom.

"Hmph if it was me, I'd immediately just revive the closet thing to me and kill all of you for compensation," Kyuubi said with a sly grin. Naruto narrowed his eyes and looked up at the ceiling.

"And that's why your stuck in there in the first place," Naruto said bringing Kyuubi's mood down and making the fox growl at him. The blonde chuckled at his tenant and looked at his room. His lonely room that hadn't been in the best of shape. He always tried to keep it clean, but he had always been training so there wasn't much of a full use for it besides sleep. It was then that Naruto remembered when Shin said that he could revive anyone and at the time, Naruto immediately thought about his parents. They were the first thing that popped in his head when he heard that. He wondered what it would be like to see his mother, his father. To hold them and see their smiles on his face, but he wondered if he were disrespecting them by wanting to that wish. He also wondered what it would be like for others. How Gaara and his siblings would feel, Hinata and her mother, Neji and his father. Even Sasuke and his family. He could just see Sasuke shocked at the thought of his parents being alive. It all sounded like a good idea, but then there was the second part of the condition. He had to kill two people for every one person he revived. One to fill the void of the revived soul and the second as a payment to the Shinigami.

"Don't tell me your scared of killing someone brat. In your line of work, the fact that you haven't really killed anyone yet is amazing. Time to grow up and see how the world works brat," Kyuubi said and Naruto looked at the ground. He wanted to argue that against Kyuubi, but he knew that the furball was right. Naruto didn't have the experience that went with killing someone. He had seen deaths before that ranged from Haku and Zabuza to his Jiji. It wasn't a pleasant experience and the thought of Naruto doing that was felt ridiculous.

"I suppose," Naruto said as he finished the last of his packing and got to his bed. He put on his pajamas and went to sleep leaving his thoughts behind for the next morning.

Next Morning

Naruto groggily woke up and rubbed his eyes from the intense sunlight. The blonde yawned and got out of bed. It was a terrible night. He barely got any sleep at all. The blonde had been thinking all night, but now was the time to get ready. Naruto got to his feet and quickly took a shower. He felt revived from the feeling of hot water on his body and watched it trickle down his form. His spiky hair felt down and covered his face while the blonde leaned on the wall. He stayed in the shower for about twenty minutes before getting out and wrapping a towel over his waist. He came up to his closet and saw the last of his orange jumpsuit and snorted.

"Why'd he have to tell me to change my attire? I like orange," Naruto said to himself and Kyuubi rolled his eyes at his container.

"Are you kidding? You stick out like a sore thumb in that thing. I'll admit that orange goes well with certain colors, but its not good being the dominant color. Shinigami nailed it right on the head," Kyuubi said making Naruto growl. The whole world was against him wearing orange. It wasn't that bad of a color was it?