Chapter 1 prologue

A child no older than 6 years old was desperately running down the street of the Hidden village of the leaves panting heavily. A question you might ask is why was he running. Well, this child is a little special ... He was Naruto Uzumaki Jinchuriki of the Nine-tailed demon fox that attacked the village six years ago causing massive destruction, killing many shinobi and civilians alike, It wasn't until Konoha, the greatest hero and strongest ninja in the village. The fourth Hokage Minato Namikaze sacrificed himself sealing the fox into his newborn son, sadly few knew of his heritage, But many saw him as the fox reincarnate leading to the so-called 'fox hunts' by both civilians and shinobis. 

The young boy made a sharp turn to the right to try and shake the villagers constantly pursuing him while yelling things like. "My daughter would have been ten years old this month if it wasn't for you!" A woman shouted from the middle of the mob, prompting others to express their agreement. The kid stopped as he came to a dead end, seeing no way to escape he turned and ran back to the street were it not for the mob that cut off from his only escape route. "Bu-but I didn't do anything." Naruto could only stammer as the boy backed away slowly from the crowd that slowly began to descend on him with malicious intent. "Don't even try to lie, you demon brat." Another man replied as he raised his hand that held a lead pipe and brought it down harshly on the young boy's shoulder.

A resounding crack could be heard and a cry of pain from the young child as his right arm hung limp from where his clavicle was broken. After the initial strike, everyone else joined in, throwing rocks, bottles, and even some kunai at the poor child and ignoring his cries of pain and pleas to stop. These only seemed to inspire the mob more. After a few minutes, Naruto collapsed to the ground, blood pooling around his body as darkness began to claim his vision. Bloodied, with kunai's sticking out of his chest, belly, and legs. As the mob stopped, the leader of the group came forward and took out another blade.

"This is for my family you demon sack of filth!" He stated as he brought the blade down on the child's arm and slashed it down. Opening the flesh up to expose muscle and tendons. The man repeated the process with Naruto's left leg and started to move towards the stomach when a voice got their attention. "What are you doing to Naruto-kun?" asked a young girl about Nine years old with short black hair and Onix black eyes as she rushed to kick the man who was attacking the young kid but a shinobi with red eyes and two tomos appeared a cruel smirk appeared on his lips as he punched her on the stomach threw her on the ground next to the boy. 

"We should also kill any demon sympathizers like her and fully cleanse this village from the shame of the Uchiha clan." said the man as the other civilians agreed. "Y-you won't get away with this," weakly said the girl as she wiped away the blood only to be hit again by the shinobi. He grabbed her by the hair and smashed her on the concrete. "Demon sympathizers like you are worse than him," said the shinobi. "That's enough let her die with this demon filth," said the leaders only to feel a large amount of killing intent and hear thousands of chirping birds. "Raikiri," said a voice as the Uchiha man caught up blood a hand covered in lighting pierced the shinobi's heart as he slashed the head of another civilian.

The light showed on the man revealing his Dog mask with silver gravity-defiant hair and a Sharingan could be seen through his mask. "Tora take them to the hospital and don't leave their side," said Dog as the Anbu in a Tora mask nodded and left. "I'll give you ten seconds to explain why you are attacking and leaving two kids like this." asked the Dog-masked Anbu stoically but everyone could feel his anger. "THAT'S NO CHILD IT'S THE DEMON FOX THAT KILLED THOUSANDS OF OUR PEOPLE AND THE FOURTH WEAKENED FOR US TO FINISH HIS WORK" yelled a civilian feeling anger and separation. 

"You've broken the third law your punishment is death as for the rest send them to Ibiki and tell him that he can use the new torture techniques on them for a test run," said Dog-masked Anbu with an emotionless tone this sent shivers to the anbu team that appeared ready to take them and made the crowd go white. Not wasting time he left running to the hospital with mixed emotions and thoughts But he noticed something at the last second. 'This can't happen again it seems like I'm going to have to change things myself and maybe be more active I'm sorry Kushina-nee I've failed you.'

Naruto's mind escape. 

"Damn it hold on kit," yelled a giant fox who was on the other side of the bars with a paper with the word 'seal' on it, while sending an overwhelming amount of chakra to the boy only for a small amount to come out. 

"Damn seal if I don't do something we will both" he didn't finish as he wasn't ready even if he would return it would be a real pain. That's when he noticed the boy started to move when his hand went up to his eye. "Am I dead?" he asked as he looked around not feeling the pain or missing his eye as his eyes landed on the giant fox he backed away saying Y-y-you are the nine-tailed fox so I'm dead" he screamed as sadness took him. 

"No you aren't dead yet and yes I am the fox but we don't have much time I need you to tear a part of this seal that way my chakra will heal you," the fox said and growled. "why should I trust you. You are the reason why everyone hates me" Naruto asked/stated. "Cause I don't want to die either. You aren't the only one forced to be here. I was forced to attack this damn village against my will when I was removed from your mother my last container. Like when I was forced to fight the first." Growled The fox as his killing spiked when he remembered being controlled by the same person twice. But soon stopped as he noticed the kid froze only for him to take a deep breath. "What else do I have to lose" he muttered to himself. As he walked up to the gate and was about to tear off a part of the seal when he was suddenly kicked sending him flying back several meters. 

"I didn't sacrifice myself just for you to ruin my plans," said a voice of an older man who sneered standing in front of the seal. "You truly are as bad as I thought Minato Namikaze only if that fool of Kushina tried to listen to me when I tried to warn her," said the fox with destain he had always sensed something off with Minato and tried to warn Kushina but she didn't listen to him stupid love-struck girl and followed Mito's advise of love. "So would you let your son die like this," the fox asked looking at the man. 

"he'll survive," said Minato Namikaze the Fourth Hokage, the man who finished off an army "This experience will only harden him further to make him a powerful weapon for Konoha, and with your help" 

"you're truly a heartless monster," said the fox "only if Kushina knew what kind of person she was married to." 

"deception is the best shinobi weapon," said Minato grinned "I deceived her into falling for me securing the secrets the Uzumaki clan had so Konoha would be the most powerful village and be able to conquer the whole elemental nations," 

"you truly are a vile and corrupted man," said a distorted voice, both Minato and the fox moved their heads in search of the source of the voice. The whole place became dark when in the middle of the room appeared a male with white hair falling to his back, and crimson red eyes wearing a black suit with purple and gold lines. 

"Who are you" asked the older blonde sweat falling from his forehead as he was in a battle stance. "That's none of your concern mortal, what matters is that I'm here for your pathetic soul" saying that smirking Minato said. "Sorry to tell you but my soul is property of the shinigami" 

But the man looked unbothered "You've disappointed me, you don't recognize the owner of your soul then again I'm in my human disguise," said the man as Minato's face turned into a grimace of horror and despair. But before he could do anything he was pierced by a small tanto. "I'll send you back from where you were to be tortured for eternity." said the man as he transformed into a translucent, demonic-looking creature larger than a man with long shaggy white hair and purple skin two red horns, a large white kimono a set of prayer beads a tanto on his mouth. 

"Now that this is done let's get to the important things." said the shinigami as he touched the seal. 

Outside Naruto's mindscape

Dog looked at Naruto and the mystery girl the Hokage was with him now as Tora reported he was denied entry for Naruto and how he threatened some of the doctors only to decide it was better to take him to the anbu part of the hospital which only made both anbu and Kage angry. He then revealed that even with the anbu doctors he had multiple lacerations, broken bones, torn muscles, his right eye was destroyed, and part of his heart had collapsed. 

"What about the girl who helped him," asked Dog looking at Tora. "She's alright she has already healed and left nothing major," said Tora. "Sorry to interrupt." said a female everyone turned to see the voice. Only to be surprised to see the girl with Mikoto Uchiha. "Lady Mikoto what are you doing here" asked Hiruzen. "I came looking for my niece here when she didn't show up home when I found her she told me what happened and I came to see myself when my niece told me about one being a Uchiha so I could personally punish him," Mikoto said respectfully her eyes showing angry and sad glow when she noticed naruto's condition. 

"That won't be necessary I killed him for breaking the third law." said Kakashi emotionlessly Which earned a sad nod from Mikoto "May I ask what Naruto-kun's condition is?" asked Mikoto's niece as everyone had a grim face. "He's in bad condition add to that he's lost his right eye," said Hiruzen sadly as he showed his worry this hit Mikoto. "Can't we do something?" asked the girl looking at Mikoto with expectant eyes as Mikoto patted her head. "Since one of the attackers was from my Uchiha clan you can transplant one of his eyes this will be kept a secret If my husband knows he will make hell," Mikoto said looking at everyone who was shocked at her decision. "Are you sure about this?" asked Kakashi. "Yes my clan is probably the one to hurt him the most this is just something to repay him" sadly said Mikoto as she looked at her niece.

When they felt a pulse of chakra coming from the young blonde, everyone turned to see how the jinchuriki body began to heal from all the wounds his attackers caused him. " how ironic your 'curse' is saving you" said Hiruzen sadly as he reflected on the many mistakes he made while raising naruto and mentally curse. The moment he knew of Naruto's status as a jinchuriki should be kept a secret from the public only for someone to leak the information condemning Naruto to be an outcast the best he could do was make a law prohibiting anyone from talking about it to their kids in hopes he could make friends with the new generation but it didn't work. 

Naruto mindscape

As Naruto was getting up, he looked around to see he was in front of the cage and a figure he hadn't seen before. "Ah you're awake that's good," said the figure. "Umm not to be rude but who are you? And what happened to my 'father'" asked Naruto, the last part with venom as could hear most of the conversation between the fourth and the fox. 

"For your first question I'm the death god, shinigami,"  said the man surprising the blond, "As for your second question he's already in my stomach where he'll be punished for eternity," said the shinigami as he looked at Naruto who only nodded slowly as he was processing it. "Now on to the main reason why I came here," said the shinigami catching Naruto and the fox by surprise. "What is your main reason" said the fox on edge. "Just a simple deal with your host,"  said the Shinigami as he sat on a thrown made of darkness this shocked Naruto and the fox. "I've had my eye on you since your father summoned me. And I've got to say you've impressed me and with this close death call I wanted to make you a deal." He said shocking them even more "What kind of deal?" asked the Fox looking at the shinigami suspiciously.

"I want Naruto to be my agent and he'll be the first I have ever done this for. " said the Shinigami. "Agent?" asked Naruto. " Yes, you may not know this but there's a delicate balance in the Universe that balance has been changing as people have been acquiring different artifacts and planning the destruction of the world shifting the balance. This could lead to the destruction of the world. This would generate an influx of souls, and this would lead to the end of the human race." said the shinigami dropping this bomb. "So what can I do?" asked Naruto looking at the shinigami.

"Naturally you won't do this until you are ready so I'll help you by developing a bloodline that can help you," said the shinigami. "this bloodline is made for a hunter. I'll be making everything that your kurama chakra would have given you enhanced speed, strength, and stamina. I'm adding my twist and integrating different abilities like shadow soldiers, demonic blood, your own Dojutsu called Jigan (analytical eye), death aura, a chakra cloak as well as some other things along other things this deal also extends to Kurama who will be returned the half Minato stole." said the Shinigami making the fox look at him. "What about the conditions if I were to accept?" asked Naruto looking at the shinigami. "I want you to keep a balance here and eliminate people I tell you," said Shinigami. "What about the catch?" asked Naruto. "Yes there's one I'll turn you into a half-demon," said Shinigami looking at Naruto calculatingly. "So you are going to turn me into what the villagers accuse me of" asked a frightened Naruto scared he would be even more hated than he already was and more mobs would chase him. 

"I don't think it would make a difference, the villagers already see you as a demon due to their ignorance only thing is your skills and abilities to help you." said the shinigami shrugging. "skills," asked the blonde. "Aside from your body becoming stronger and better genetics, a better healing factor, your body might be taller and better looking." Said the shinigami. "What are the skills in the bloodline?' asked Naruto. 

"They are simple Shadow Soldiers, the souls of warriors you killed brought to life again under your command but they take a certain amount of your chakra. This is also one that you can grow without limits as long as you have chakra. The second one is the Jigan's dojutsu the abilities are simple it'll allow you to see in the dark, the tenketsu in a human body, sense emotions that'll be shown to you in a spectrum, and since the living essence as well as analyzing your situation and understanding and trying to make better choices. Death Aura has a special ability to decay and erode what you cut. Your demonic blood is one that I based on one of your clan abilities bitting or drawing blood that has a strong vitality that can heal and maybe increase the physical body as well as the reserves of people who bit you theirs a few others like the Sharingan that are transplanting you." said the shinigami the fox growled at that.

After five minutes of thinking it over "I-I accept the deal" said Naruto Shinigami grinned and nodded "I'm not going to lie your body will be in immense pain when you wake up I would leave you scrolls to give you. After all, researching your bloodline and abilities is half the fun experiencing and controlling them is the other right. Outside of that,t I won't intervene in your life " said the shinigami. Naruto nodded as he wanted to work hard and show his worth by himself. "I hope you two can get along after all you two are bound together." said the shinigami as he touched Naruto on the chest lines that appeared on him. 

Real-world

The first thing Naruto was made aware of as he regained consciousness was that his body felt like it was on fire. It was as if someone had tossed him into an oven and left him there to bake. Granted, he wouldn't put it past the villagers to attempt something like that. Gritting his teeth, he forced his body to move, despite his muscles' protest to do even the most basic of movements. 'Damn shinigami-sama said it'll hurt but I didn't think to this extent.' suffered as he managed to sit up on the bed with the help of the anbu, in that Hiruzen approached the redhead.

"Are you okay Naruto-kun?" the old monkey asked worriedly when he saw his surrogate grandson in that state. "I'm fine Ji-ji," he said in a voice that sounded like a whisper."Don't talk, Naruto. Your throat was damaged in the attack," said Hiruzen, regret in his voice. Naruto frowned but nodded as he remembered what had happened. If he focused on the memories, he could still feel each hit that fell on him. The urge to move his hand to his eye but know stopping when. 

"As I understand it, the matron of the orphanage kicked you out this morning before the attack. Currently, she is being detained and a replacement for her is being reviewed so that we can get you situated back with the other kids," said Hiruzen. Naruto turned to see someone else Mikoto and a girl about three years older than him. "IF I may hokage-sama I think it'll be better if Naruto-kun has his apartment," said Kakashi. "He's hated by the villagers so no matter who is in charge, it will just happen all over again later." Hiruzen could only sadly nod. He knew Kakashi had a point. The old man swore to himself that he knew it was stupid when he revealed Naruto's status to the council and whoever leaked it.

"I'll see what I can do about it since you have a good point," said Dog staying with him. As they left the girl stopped and looked at Naruto with a small smile. "From now on we are friends," she said as he went up to him and kissed him on the cheeks blushing while Mikoto had a small sad smile as they left. Once everyone started to leave Dog made sure everyone was gone he removed his mask and looked at Naruto revealing his Sharingan. "Naruto-kun, My name is Kakashi Hatake, you might be thinking I have some evil intentions against you," said Kakashi as he moved closer to Naruto only to see black marks appear on Naruto's body and his only blue eye turned black with a golden slit and three golden Tomo's looking at Kakashi which made him stop a bit surprised. 

"N-naruto, what's this?" said Kakashi as his eyes narrowed and quickly rushed to the body and looked at him. Naruto was shocked instead of feeling animosity and rage he saw concern and curiosity for the first time he felt love. "Tell him everything, he knows both your parents and was close to your mother," said Kurama surprising Naruto but after a moment Naruto nodded. "I-i-i made a deal and a-awoke a bloodline," said Naruto softly as he looked at Kakashi who was crestfallen but pushed that aside looking at Naruto with determination as he processed what he heard. "How?" he asked softly. "Shinigami." were the only words he could muster. As Kakashi looked at him shocked that he was that close to death making him angry but after a few minutes of thought. 

"Naruto, would you like me to train you in everything I know and more," Kakashi asked hesitantly only getting a nod from Naruto as Kakashi's eye smiled. "Good I can't reveal your parents' names but I'll tell you this I saw your mother as a big sister figure when my father taught her and know I'm going to fix things that I should've done a long time ago but this has to remain a secret ok?" Kakashi finished talking as he looked at Naruto who nodded still unable to speak. "Rest up we'll have time to get to know each other and from what I've seen you are already a smooth talker." Kakashi teased as Naruto blushed remembering how the girl kissed his cheek.