Title: The Shinigami… 

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The Shinigami is a translucent, gaunt spectre with a demonic visage. It is still behind Minato, whose eyes are slowly turning hollow signifying his soon to be death.

The Shinigami is  still looking at Yami with its ghostly eyes as he opens his mouth, which shows that he has a mouth full of sharp, jagged teeth, and a very long almost serpentine tongue.

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-Yami POV-

The thing is looking at me… and the intimidating aura really is something else isn't it. I actually feel fear, even though I know that he can't hurt me. Though I do not use, and will most likely never use the Reapers Death Seal, I do know some of the details about it. Whenever I see this and other techniques like the Edo Tensei, it… really humbles me, it reminds me that monstrous geniuses like them exist, those whom even something like death is an abstract concept that is understandable.

I can easily admit to myself that I am extremely envious of them. I wonder who created the Reaper Death Seal, he was definitely a talented Fuinjutsu User. Though I can easily claim that I am the best Fuinjutsu User alive… when compared to geniuses at the art along its history, I am nothing special.

I see that he moves its mouth and suddenly a voice comes out of its mouth. "YoU CaN sEe mE? aH! I UnDeRsTAN noW."

The voice that comes out is hoarse and strange, as if it isn't supposed to exist. I see that it seems as if it noticed something. My body is already translucent as I have already used Kamui to become intangible.

Also… this thing seems to know something about me. I can easily guess that it must be my reincarnation, after all that is the only thing even remotely special for me.

I just look directly at the thing's empty eyes. My eyes locked into his… as a malicious smile appeared on my face and slowly a black hole opened in the middle of the Shinigami's chest. 

I simply say to him. "Tell me now… what do you know about me. Or that hole will expand and kill you."

The Shinigami… just looks at his chest without even a look of worry on his face. 

I know that this is unlikely to work since it is not a spiritual attack. But he doesn't need to know that I already know that.

The Shinigami suddenly forks his snake like tongue licking the air all around him. I can see his jagged teeth as his face… morphs into a terrifying smile. 

"HahAhAhahaHaHaAh." Laughed the Shinigami, I have to manually turn off a little of the reception from my ears to stop them from bleeding. The baby Naruto on the ground is also protected by me, before the sound can reach him, a wood enactment appears all around him.  After finishing his laughter it says. "YoU aRe NoT FrOm herE."

Slowly the Shinigami starts dissipating as Minato is already dead and his soul sacrifice can no longer keep the Shinigami here. 

But I just look at the creature coldly and say to the shinigami as I point my finger at it. "Tick, tock the clock is ticking, just wait a little more and I will come to torture you to insanity. I will come and kill you all up there. So be careful…"

But the only things I hear is his laughter as it gets dimmer and dimmer, his laughter sounding as if someone who just heard something that was the funniest thing in the world.

*tch* 

I was trying to guide him to get closer to me, but sadly it seems like it didn't work. I guess old beings like him could easily see through stuff like this. Sadly I only have the Dagger of Soul Valley which was absorbed by the Red Cube which can help me hit soul beings. I mean my cube can change forms into it and take its properties, but that is still useless. I am not dumb enough to approach him. Now I at least have a lead on my reincarnation. But... I need to be patient on this or else it will be a wreckage, I mustn't rush this or it will have devastating implications. I don't want to lose everything just due to recklessness.

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I move the wood which is protecting Naruto away. I see a baby Naruto with whiskers and all that. He is crying, so I pick him up and rock him a little to calm him down. And he soon stops crying, even though his parent's corpses are only around five metres away. 

Obviously babies don't have something like a 6th sense that allows them to know if their parents died. I can already sense Naruto's chakra bubble up and his chakra reserves slowly raise up.

It seems like… I will have to take action.

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 -General POV-

It takes Hiruzen and his anbu a little time before they arrive at the battle sight. They see the wreckage all around, a whole forest has been leveled in the battle with the Nine Tails. Plus Konoha has devastating damages too, so they will have to start rebuilding soon, or they will not really be a great village anymore if they slack around.

But since the Nine Tails seems to have been handled, at least they know that Konoha will at least not be completely gone from the world. Today is one to remember since Konoha was almost gone from the face of the world. 

Suddenly when they enter the place where the surge in chakra was felt before the Nine Tails completely disappeared.

When they arrive there, Hiruzen has to stop himself from exclaiming in shock. The 4th Hokage, Minato Namikaze... on the ground dead… Kushina Uzumaki on the ground dead too.  There is only Yami sitting on a boulder that got taken out off the ground during the fight against the Nine Tails.

Yami just looks at Hiruzen and the ninja behind him, unlike his usual neutral look. Yami's eyes had a cold glint on his eyes. 

'Dominating, stubborn, inflexible, makes himself seem like he does it all for the better of his organisation… that is how a leader acts. Leaders don't necessarily need to even know anything as long as they act like they know things. The sheep will believe him.' Think Yami. 'I need to dominate now… finally I don't need to wear any more masks.'

Yami just opened his mouth, his eyes cold, with the full moon behind his back. 

"I am going to be the 5th Hokage." Says Yami simply, no matter if anyone wants to refuse this or not. Their instincts scream at them and they all get chills as Yami simply gets up and jumps down from the boulder. 

No one stopped him just walking away as he gave Hiruzen the baby Naruto. No one dared stop him, the dangerous atmosphere around Yami… even stopped on his tracks someone like Hiruzen who has been in hundreds of close death situations.

Yami wasn't simply exclaiming or explaining anything… he is simply informing everyone of his decision as he walks back towards Konoha.

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AUTHOR NOTE:

The subject of Yami's reincarnation and how it happened won't be brought back up again for quite some time.

Also we see that Yami doesn't need to hide anymore, everything is calculated and his power is unshakable.

P.S: Like always, you get +1 chapter for that day if the story reaches 1000 power stones.

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