10 Chapter 10

Experiencing death was an unknown thing and even now after having experienced it, Naruto didn't know what it felt like since he died so peacefully.

He pretty much lost everything from this experience but can never deny that he was okay with the current status quo as the things he gained were things so far from his grasp.

Gaining Kurama as a friend and Kushina into his life made up for everything. Plus he got a nifty ability to go with it, spiritual sense and sense of death.

Spiritual sense helped feel anything that interacted with souls around him or his own soul. Before this he could see ghosts since ghosts were just spiritual energy itself while chakra was made of physical energy from the billions of cell plus the mental and spiritual energy of the soul.

When circulating chakra one was able to see ghosts but it was always a rare occurrence since it wasn't everyday someone would seal away ghost somewhere in the woods or someone creates a jutsu to make themselves ghosts.

But before this he could only rely on sight but now he could feel the presence before he even saw the ghost or even if he didn't see the ghost and it entered his body somehow since his attacks would still affect it but ghosts were unknown beings in the first place so maybe they had their ways.

Or they entered while he was sleeping.

Or used their intangibility to pass through his defenses.

Thinking about that, Naruto saw the problem and felt happier about Kurama's existence as the giant fox would come in the way of anyone trying to posses him.

The spiritual awareness had been awakened along with spatial awareness from the knowledge received from Asura but that didn't mean Naruto could now just teleport or sense all kinds of teleportation taking place or he could sense all kinds of changes to the soul.

Everything has a skill level and Naruto was at the bottom of these fields so he could only see low levels spiritual or spatial interference.

As such when Zatanna placed the soul mark on his soul, he didn't' know about it if she didn't say a thing nor did Kurama as both of them aren't on her skill level to notice such things.

It was used so that Zatanna could locate him anywhere he went, this solar system to another world wouldn't change the outcome.

It was made carefully not casually throw about so that no weak amateur would see it and to make sure no one knows about it from Naruto or Kurama, she erased both of their memories.

But before that Naruto did voice his interest in the powers of the soul and got Zatanna to change the look of the place where Kurama was residing.

Kurama resided in his seal space which still existed but was open. Now with Zatanna's help, Kurama moved to his soul space while the seal was scraped as both of them started a merger.

It was proposed by Kurama as he found that the outside world was too noisy with his original body and his powers were reduced to nothing as he couldn't focus the power.

He preferred this feeling of invincibility and growth plus entering the soul space allowed him to finally also experience growth.

All tailed beasts had a piece of the ten tail and that was their limit naturally but how did the ten tail get its power. It was through absorbing the power of the world, nature energy or life force of the planet.

Kurama thought that once Naruto gets used to the current level of power and has them under control, they can pour some energy into his body to fully retain.

This would reduce the life expectancy of the planet since it was taking away the energy permanently but it wasn't a problem if they could just absorb it from a star.

It was long term plan that was made so that Naruto didn't move on ahead while leaving him behind as nature energy and this direct fusion would grant him even more of a push that his natural powers would leave Kurama behind.

To be partners in combat, it was necessary that you had something to give and now Kurama had the chakra, chakra control and his mind.

But in the future he might just become a small chakra battery so the thought led to this result. He had been fully utilizing his brain power from the day they arrived and taking in all the changes, it wasn't hard for him to see this future.

He had already noticed Naruto's growth from the beginning with a terrible training regime but now there was a proper one and it will only accelerate the results that he had foreseen.

And Naruto didn't mind as he trusted Kurama completely once their souls touched for a brief moment.

It was all he needed to know and the fusion was done. Kurama was part of his soul space now.

There wasn't any downside for both of them as Naruto would gain a natural power up as soul expands to accommodate the new guest and a protection against threats while Kurama gains a good future.

Once Naruto dies, Kurama will return back from the dead with his body and all his powers so it was an investment for him.

Naruto thought of Kurama as friend while Kurama thought of him as a partner that could be a close friend as they went on plus an investment.

Finally was the death sense, it allowed him to feel when death was close. He realized this when his clone had saved somebody and saw that the man would have been hit by a falling flower pot.

This sense worked with his danger sense to improve his chances of survival.

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"Why do you not feel any anger for their actions?" Kushina asked as she heard his story

"I did feel anger in the beginning but with understanding came forgiveness. I understood that they were just fragile beings that couldn't move on from their fears.

It was logical since they had no power to protect themselves if I ever became violent. This fear led them to isolation and only my positive actions of putting my life for them caused them to change their mind.

It was a lot better than everyone else since Gaara was regularly attacked, which led to his violent personality. I was just left alone that's it."

"That's nothing small as it has an effect on your mind. You could have ended up as a violent criminal or even killed yourself or been taken by depression."

"I didn't so it's fine."

"Tell me who taught you this?" Kushina disliked the way her son was answering questions as if he put his life beneath others

It was a bad quality as it meant he was ready to die for strangers and wouldn't really care for his own life.

"Old man third, Iruka, Kakashi and Jiraiya are the ones that taught me."

"It must have been that old man, always speaking non sense about the village being a family and dying for them. Naruto never do that, ever. Your life is precious and if you get hurt, it will hurt the people that care about you. I will be hurt if you get hurt.

Only help people when it doesn't endanger your life. Understand!" Kushina muttered with tears in her eyes as she squeezed his face between her hands

"I will try to be careful but if I do that it will be hypocrisy to expect others to do good while ignoring their own life. Do I want to show the world that it is better to leave behind a man in danger if the danger might hurt me? The world is already devolving into a terrible place where morals are dead and people don't even care for their neighbor. Friendship barely means anything as people stab each other in the back and only care about their own benefits.

Calling each other brothers by blood or through relationship but never going further than words. The world needs examples and it needs a guide. I don't want to be normal that was what I understand from the villagers.

I don't want to be another sheep that is waiting for the Shepherd because I want to be the shepherd that leads this crowd."

Listening to his powerful words, Kushina felt like slapping but she also felt proud of his confidence and determination. She was happy about his good nature but also worried about his self sacrificial part.

She could see that he was like them and would never just give up on his ideals so the only thing she could do was guide him and help him with his goal so that he doesn't end up dead in some corner.

"Fine, I won't ask you to stop but you will keep make sure to keep your survival as top priority as your life is more precious than others. Dying for some people means that you won't be able to help others in the future."

Naruto didn't agree to those words as he found all life equal and now Kurama could always take his place but he refrained from saying that as he saw her emotions and looks.

It did make hesitate for a moment but Naruto knew that he didn't a want a world where people were willing to let children die in the streets. He didn't want a world where people thought of themselves as weapons.

He wanted a world where people lived in harmony and peace.

If kindness didn't exist in this world then he would have died in the streets of Konoha because of loneliness.

The Ichiraku's were his inspiration while the Third and Jiraiya were his guide.

"I will keep that mind and become stronger and stronger so that I will always survive any encounter." Naruto promised and he never went back on his words, and his desire for power increased with this promise

"I can see that you have no seals on your body or anywhere. You really should have just gone to Tsunade for training instead of that perverted toad, your weak state is testament to his failure as a teacher.

Even with Minato that old toad barely did anything, I did more than him and I wasn't his teacher."

"You taught Father!"

"Of course, where do you think he got that fighting style. It's the Uzumaki style of fuinjutsu where we can use chakra to create seals on anyone through contact.

I taught him many other things that he incorporated into his style and recreated the second Hokage's teleportation seal while even improving it."

"I thought it was his original creation?"

"No, Minato did make the second step for the seal and that was his original while the first step was already made by the second Hokage but Minato didn't have access to the data as all of it had been destroyed by that time as Second was a very cautious man."

"Didn't he leave forbidden jutsu in the scroll?"

"Those are not that dangerous while FTG allowed people to appear instantly where ever the seal was placed. It allowed the user to escape and attack from anywhere."

"I think he might have just forgotten to put into the scroll as the most likely answer since that scroll had some wonky jutsu like death reaper seal."

"What?"

"Yeah, I remember seeing that jutsu inside."

"That old bastard, I can't believe he did that." Kushina cursed the second Hokage for putting something that dangerous inside a scroll

"Is fuinjutsu really that good?"

"Is it really good? It's the best. There is no art higher than fuinjutsu. Fuinjutsu allows everything to become possible if you can imagine it clearly and provide the right amount of chakra while having the proper materials.

As an example, you can summon the Shinigami through fuinjutsu. You can summon souls from the upper domain through fuinjutsu and even give them undying bodies. Yes, you can achieve that goal through fuinjutsu."

Naruto's mouth was open wide in shock at the words he heard, "You are the best mother in the world."

"I know, and I will teach how to be a proper Uzumaki from now on since it is so wrong seeing you without seals."

"I know how to make storage, explosion and weight seals."

"Those are basic stuff any genin can do and you must likely only know the first level of each of them."

"Ah, yes"

"What kind of fan are you? Your father specialized in Fuinjutsu and you couldn't even follow him as a fan. I was a fan of Mito Uzumaki and I made sure to keep strong in fuinjutsu, making it my best skill followed by sword mastery and ninjutsu."

"I was just a bad student." Naruto didn't blame anyone though he did have the right to since no body actually taught him how to learn properly

He was only taught how to read and write with some basic things by some unknown caretakers before being put alone in an apartment at the age of six.

The world was dark and enormous for a child of that age but no one cared to guide him through. The Ichiraku's run a small business and couldn't keep him company all the time. But he even declined to stay in the shop with them because he saw the affect of his presence and didn't want these kind people to experience his loneliness.

The teachers at the academy were good but children need adults to help them unless the kid is a genius with higher brain capacity.

Naruto was alone so he fell behind throughout the time in the academy before he devolved into a clown to get attention as he couldn't take the loneliness. Any attention was enough if it allowed him escape from this prison of darkness.

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A.N I hope you enjoyed and comment

How is it going?

This is pretty much canon Naruto personality but with some adjustments so that Jiraiya doesn't look a terrible teacher that he is canon. Naruto has experienced simple jobs to experience the spy life.

He will change as the story goes on from the no killing to killing when necessary as Canon Naruto only seems to kill people that want to destroy the planet while leaving everyone alive.

Just so you know those fanfic Narutos aren't real. Naruto didn't even kill Nagato even though he hated him to the extreme and Nagato had killed everyone important to him except Tsunade, Sakura and some other people.

Naruto didn't know that he could bring people back to life.

He forgave Obito completely, heart and mind.

Jiraiya is truly the worst teacher in the history of anime. The only teacher that makes the main character actually weaker. If you have followed the story you will understand what i mean.

With Kakashi as their teacher Sasuke and Naruto were both improving while Naruto was catching up from behind. Jiraiya in the start made it so that Naruto caught up to Sasuke even without the help of kurama to stand equal to him.

In the last battle before seperation both were almost equal but once the time skip happened we all know how weak Naruto became compared to Sasuke.

Naruto became equal to Sakura. You know Saskura that girl with the most powerful bloodline. What did you say? She has no bloodline.

Yes, Sakura that girl who Naruto and Sasuke could kill with a single slap and she wouldn't realize it. That girl became Naruto's equal in the time skip before Naruto learned the sage mode.

Do you see that bull shit?

Just so you know Jiraiya and orochi are the strongest of the sanin and Jiraiya even stands above all of them when he goes sage. How did Jiraiya who was equal to Orochi make it that Naruto who was growing so fast become weak enough that Sakura caught him.

I know its plot but we can only blame Jiriaya for being a shit teacher and Naruto for actually not leaving him.

The best solution would have been staying with Kakashi.