Naruto Fan Fiction ❯ The Dark, The Light, The Crazy ❯ Shinigami's Embrace ( Chapter 6 )

Disclaimer: I don't own anything, I don't even pwn anything

W A R N I N G : Do not read if you don't like being depressed.

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Buildings lay smoking across the compound, reduced to rubble. Bodies of the dead and dying lay everywhere; women, children and the old slaughtered like everyone else. The only living thing not screaming for its mother lay tethered to consienceness by a thread.

He opened his eyes, barely seeing his surroundings. Bits of corpses lay scattered around the battlefield ripped apart by jutsu of unbelievable power.

`Everyone… is dead,' he came to realize. `The only reason my body is still here is my regeneration. But how long will that hold me? I can't feel the pain, that's a bad sign.'

Looking down, Naruto wished he hadn't. Not feeling the pain wasn't just him going into shock… it was that he had nothing to feel from the waist down. Blood pumped out of his chest cavity, his intestine and stomach lay bare on the ground covered in slime and gore.

`I guess I really don't have long for this world. But maybe I'll rejoin my Hinata-chan… it's not like I'm dying. That happened when she was taken away from me. The day Hinata had the Caged Bird seal put on her was the day my soul left the world. My body is just now being taken with it.' He laughed, a hollow sound that only sprayed more of his own blood onto the red soaked earth and startled the carrion crows already feasting on chunks of the Hyuuga clans' flesh.

Naruto thought back hoping that Hinata could forgive him for what he had done. After a Hiashi had found out they were dating as genin, he had disowned Hinata from the main branch jumping on the excuse like the crow feeding on Naruto's liver. Hiashi put a curse seal on her forehead and slowly tortured her to death, breaking her sanity with a sadistic grin. Since then Naruto had gone on suicide missions surviving only by the Kyuubi pumping full of chakra.

Now he had made a lone assault the Hyuuga compound, completely eliminating each clan member until there was only Hiashi left. Naruto had done to him what he did to Naruto on the inside; meaning Naruto took extreme pleasure in peeling off his skin inch by inch.

Drawing up his last strength, Naruto pulled a kunai out of its holster with his right hand. With quick slashing motions he carved the kanji on his body starting on his face to his chest, repeating the process on each arm. They read `Happiness Mockery' and `Man's true fate.' With a final fox grin of defiance, Naruto put the kunai up to his own throat and whispered

“Hinata-chan, there really is no such thing as happiness for me. But now I can rest in the Shinigami's embrace, the kindest touch anyone but you has given me.”

So with his beloved's name on his lips, Naruto's body rejoined his soul, never to be mourned.

“Dobe got what was coming to him”

“The demon brat will never harass us again”

“Now that the demon is gone we can all rest easy”

These things and more were said, not only around town, but were given in the eulogies at Naruto's funeral. Of course the Hokage didn't stop them. After all, she realized that he had murdered an entire clan, and if he hadn't taken his own life the Kyuubi probably would've forced him to heal. So what if he was getting revenge for the only person who was truly kind to him for the 16 years of his life. It didn't matter to the Hokage, how was she supposed to understand how it felt for only ONE person to ever be kind to you, while everyone else hated you for saving their sorry asses and actively tried to hurt and kill you.

After all his life was just a mask, a mockery of happiness. But how was a ninja trained to read other people's personalities, who was supposed to look out for every ninja, who was supposed to see underneath the underneath, how in the world could she have penetrated such a flimsy mask and see even an inkling of his pain? I mean lets be realistic here how could someone that qualified notice. It was his destiny to fufill this, his true fate.

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A/N: Well I got that out of my system. This needed to be posted, it's your fault you read it. Yes I know this is bad, I know because I wasn't going to make my beta read this.