Chapter 8
Hiruzen and the council where running like their lives depended on it, all the while a million things were running through the mind of the elderly Hokage.
In his mind, there was only one way to bring someone back from the dead, a forbidden jutsu so vile that even his own teacher, Tobirama Senju, the man who created said jutsu had forbidden it’s use and research.
The group barrels through the entrance of the Senju compound, courtesy be damned.
Sensing the chakra of both Tsunade, Naruto and two familiar figures, although faint, Hiruzen sprints to where the reading was pointing.
It is also worth mentioning, his joints where killing him now… getting old sucks.
“Naruto stop this mad-“, Hiruzen stars demanding when a sake dish almost hits him square in the face.
“stop screaming Saru!!”, comes Mito’s voice, “use you indoor voice for goodness sake”.
The scene was, to say the least, uncanny, right there, in the middle of the room in what looked like a ritual, was Naruto, Tsunade, Mito Uzumaki, the wife of Hashirama Senju, the first Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki, wife of Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, all boozing and chilling.
“also, it is very rude to interrupt when someone is speaking”, Mito completes.
“gosh Hiruzen you look old”, Kushina says, also mildly drunk.
Hiruzen, feeling his age and the fact his fucks suddenly drained, join then on the table and pours himself a cup of sake while the rest of the council watch in amusement.
“alright Naruto”, Hiruzen says after four cups, “care to explain to me, why are you commuting with my teacher’s dead wife and your mother?”.
“and how is that even possible to begin with”, Fugako says, weirdly interested on how to communicate with the dead.
“the latter is none of your business”, Naruto answers, making Fugako click his tongue in annoyance, “as for the former as I said, I have a way of bringing then back and I mean really bringing then back”.
“Naruto, I don’t know how… actually scratch that, I know how you got your hands on that jutsu, but it’s a forbidden jutsu for a reason”, Hiruzen says.
“I’m not doing that using the jutsu you have in mind, I’m bringing then back to life proper”, Naruto says, making the others raise their eyebrows, “warm blood, a pumping heart, the whole shebang”.
“let’s ignore that bit for a second”, Inoichi says, already feeling the migraine, “you are aware that by implying that you are bringing then back to life, you’ll be pulling them out of the Pure Lands”.
“that’s where you are wrong, he won’t be pulling us out of the Pure Lands”, Mito says, with a regal posture, “we aren’t in the Pure Lands to begin with”.
“what?”, Haiashi was the next one to speak, “if you are not in the Pure Lands, then where are you?”.
“I would love to say hell, but actually we got stuck in the second worst option, Limbo”, Kushina says, downing another cup.
“wait, I’m not following, how the fuck are you not in the Pure Lands and what the fuck is Limbo?”, Tsume asks.
“a long, long time ago, lived a Uzumaki seal master by the name of Tsushiko Uzumaki, The Goddess of Fuinjutsu as she was known far and wide”, Mito starts explaining, “she was the creator of the Reaper Death Seal, however, her creation came with a horrible price, the curse of the shinigami befell all Uzumaki women”.
“by making a contract with the god of death against his will, we were cursed to never be able cross the veil and to forever stay trapped on limbo”, Kushina completes, “roaming around for eternity as ghosts unable to be seen or heard for eternity, heck we couldn’t even see each other”.
“ok, I get it, but won’t this cause problems?”, Choza the Akimichi clan head asks.
“not at all, they are what is called a sanctioned travesty against the natural order”, Naruto explain, “which basically means, the higher ups had given up on their souls, so they are fair game”.
“if you are not using that”, Hiruzen speaks again, pinching the bridge of his nose, “then how do you intend on bringing them back?”.
“like any good Uzumaki, with seals”, Naruto says opening a large smile.
But that smile vanishes as the color drains from his face. It starts to contort as the bitter taste of iron fills his throat and assaults his tongue; suddenly he turns around, his cheeks puffing as a thin line of blood trickles down the corner of his mouth.
“Naruto, what’s wrong?”, Kushina asks, worried sick, “Sochi are you hurt?”.
The answer she gets comes in the shape of Naruto pulling a bucket from somewhere and spitting a huge mouthful of a vile smelling goo made blackened blood, pieces of singed rotten flesh and teeth, seemingly all of them.
“what the fuck brat?!”, Tsunade springs into action, pulling Naruto into her arms as Mito and Kushina do the same.
As she examines his, looking inside his mouth now devoid of teeth, she sees a new set growing back, whiter and sharper with four big and sharp canines.
“Naruto, what’s happening here?!”, Hiruzen asks as the boy’s color return to his skin.
All the other council were also on guard, some out of worry for the boy, other out of fear that whatever it is, it might be contagious.
“ugh, that tasted horrid”, Naruto says, whipping his mouth and looking around to see the others worried, “well, the cat is out of the bag now, don’t worry I’m not sick, it’s just that the metamorphosis ten to get a little violent here and there”.
“metamorphosis…”, Hiruzen says, then his eyes go wide, so wide they might had fallen of his face, “is the…”.
“no, Kurama has nothing to do with this”, Naruto says, grumbling.
“if the demon inside your guts has nothing to do with that…”, Tsume, who was barely keeping herself from puking from the smell of the goo Naruto had just puked says pointing at the bucket, “than what the hell is wrong with you?”.
“the higher ups fucked up, that’s what is wrong with me”, Naruto says, with a very nasty headache, he wasn’t technically lying either.
“the fuck are you talking about?”, Tsume asks, even more confused.
“ok, fun fact, body and soul exist in equilibrium of equal strength, when one is not in equilibrium, the strongest molds the weaker”, Naruto says to a confused group, “in short, a strong soul molds the body and a strong body molds the soul, the norm is a body”.
“that explains a lot”, Mito says, being a ghost do has it’s perks, “that’s why your soul look like an if someone tried to bottle up the sun”.
“exactly, my soul reincarnated in this body, but my soul is too strong and now is molding my body to better house it”, Naruto explains.
“so that’s what you mean by the higher ups messed up”, Shikaku says, with an expression of realization, “so, you are what? An adult trapped in the body of a child?”.
“close, more like I was shoved here, but that’s not important, the important thing is that I’m slowing down the metamorphosis, so not to cause my body to self-combust”, Naruto finishes.
“that explains a lot”, Hiruzen says, “like, a lot, is that why you act like an adult with a bone to pick?”.
“yes it is, I know scorn way too well, didn’t lied it the first time around, nor the second and sure as hell I don’t like the third time around”, that was Izuku talking, both his first and second life were filed with scorn, the first one, driven by bling hate and the second one by jealously and fear, “fucktards, I didn’t fought back to back for 800 years against hell itself to be called a demon behind my back”.
There was a fat second of silence as everybody there heard what it sounded like an elderly war veteran grumbling about the punk asses that annoyed him.
“if you’re gonna call ma demon, then do it to my face!!”, Naruto exclaims, smashing his hands against the table, making the bottles and cups on it rattle.
“how old were you?”, Kushina asks, unnerved by the revelation that he Sochi apparently was way older on the inside.
“I stopped counting after 2900th birthday”, Naruto answers, making everybody’s eyes go wide, “I was a high elf ok? But even then I was an anomaly, since high elves only live for a thousand years and by the time I died, which I believe I didn’t died and just got my soul ripped from my old body and shoved into this one by the way. Can we go back to the part where I bring the Uzumakis back to life?”.
At that, Hiruzen simply grabs the sake bottle and chugs it down, manners be dammed, right now he wanted to get white girl wasted.