The human ability to adapt is unparalleled. For each obstacle we face, we have the ability to overcome it and triumph. With enough time, we can overcome anything, anything but death. Death is a challenge that no species or individual has ever overcome; it Is a certainty. Life may not be guaranteed, but death is.
All living creatures fear death; they all have an instinct to want to live to survive, not because they cherish life but because they fear the unknown and the uncertainty that death brings.
What happens after death? Do we just turn to bone and dust, or is there something more at play, something supernatural? If there is something more after death, are we positive it Is always good? Would humans ever truly know until we have felt the reaper's cold grasp on our hearts and sailed down the river Styx?
I was never a believer in karma, reincarnation, or any of that rubbish. I lived my life according to my whims, desires, and hopes, no matter what I did or who I hurt. That's coast me now. This agony never ends. t Thisburning never ends .
Pain is all I have felt for... well, the time really doesn't matter, for no matter how long it has been, each burn feels as painful as the first, each cut is worse than the last, and the air even feels toxic. Each breath lights my lungs aflame.
Fire, blood, and solitude are all I have known since I left the mortal coil. There is no one here but loneliness and pain; no friends to vent to; no family to hide behind; only the echos of my screams to keep me company.
A bright light cut through the darkness of my prison like a blade through a man. It embraced me like a mother would her child, keeping away the pain. Gravity seemed as if it was no longer able to affect me as I was lifted up by the light, finally free.
When the pain stopped and the light lifted me up in its embrace, freeing me from my torment, I finally felt, for the first time since my death, a feeling I had clasped onto in my previous life: hope. I finally had hope. My face morphed into an expression I had long forgotten. I smiled. I finally smiled again.
The light grew brighter and brighter till, in a blinding flash that uncloaked the darkness of the world, it vanished, taking me along with it.
I was welcomed to the sight—my first time seeing anything since my death—of a boarded room with a long wooden table in the middle surrounded by chairs and two people standing on the opposite side of it from me.
One was a child no older than seven with red hair and blue eyes, and the other was an androgynous being made of an oil-like substance that seemed to constantly flow. It had a humanoid shape but was very large, at least 3 metres tall (9'8 feet) and very skinny. On its head were a pair of two green glowing lights in place of eyes; it had no other facial features or any other features other than those bright green eyes.
He stared at me for a moment with the child and then pointed its skinny hand out and spoke in a neutral tone that gave no hint to its gender: "Please, my friend, take a seat; we have munch to discuss." I complied with its request even though I was still flabbergasted at the whole situation. I just looked at the thing in front of me in awe. I didn't even attempt to pick my jaw up off the floor, seeing as it would be a pointless exercise.
So, my friend, I take it you would like to know what is going on here," he said in a friendly tone. "Yes, that would be an accurate statement to make." I spoke with caution, slipping into my voice.
"Well, you see, due to a deal I made with that fellow over there, I need a third party to contract for me to fulfil my end of the deal." He spoke in an emotionless tone.
"And I would be that third party? Why would I participate or help you in any way? What benefit does it offer me?" I spoke, trying to gain at least a bit of control over this unprecedented situation.
"Well, apart from not going back to the bad place, you will be given some benefits if you accept," he said cheerfully.
"The bad place, huh? What would these benefits be?" I spoke in a more calm manner than before, finally allowing my experience in business to shine.
"Well, it's all right; they're in that contract in front of you," he said, pointing at the piece of paper that just appeared in front of me. I took some time to pause and analyse the situation and then began to read over the contract, and the more I read, the more I was confused, so I voiced out my concerns to him: "So I would have to get revenge on the stone village for him, and in exchange, I get to take over his body, and my negative karma is cleared, and no negative karma will be pulled on my next life, and I will go to the pure world after my death." I spoke
Yes," he replied, as if it were the most normal thing in the universe.
"First off, how am I meant to get revenge on a fictional place, and what the hell is negative karma, and how can you just erase it?" My frustration was becoming clear.
"You see, negative karma is the bad deeds you did in your life; each time you hurt a person, you got negative karma. If the amount of your negative karma is more than your positive karma, you get sent to the bad place to suffer and become cleansed, and then you are stripped of your memories and sent back to the reincarnation cycle. As for the Naruto world being fictional, I can tell you it's not; it's very much real, as real as you and I are." He spoke calmly, not even batting an eye to my outburst.
"I see, so I have seen what I get out of this and what the child gets. What do you get out of this deal?" I ask, my distrust in him evident.
"I get entertained by you and how you mess with the story we are both familiar with," he said in a jovial manner.
"So all you want is entertainment, so why pick me? I'm sure millions could be more entertained than me." I spoke still, not trusting the thing.
"Yes, there are other options out there, but you would best entertain me and fulfil my contractual obligation. You see, I have seen your past life. I saw your penchant for violence against those you saw as enemies. I saw your unwillingness to let anything go. I saw your talent. I mean, you did build a fortune-five hundred company from nothing. You turned into a billionaire without any assurance from anyone. I like that grit and passion in a main character, so I chose you," he said, sounding elected as he listed off things about my life.
"Okay, if I accept, how would I complete the task? I mean, I would have to destroy an entire village; only people with those edge-lord eyes or beastly tenants can do that." I ask.
"Well, you see, this boy is no ordinary child, he says, pointing at the strawberry-haired child. He's an Uzumaki and Uchiha hybrid, and if you accept, I will awaken all the kekkie genkie in your blood. Weather it be mind-eye kaguya, the adamantine chains, the healing bites, the eyes of edginess, or the insane chakra an Uzumaki has, you will have them all," he says, his voice filled with elation.
"I see, throw in at least three chakra affinities, and we have a deal. I say, "I know he would accept anything big, so hopefully this can help me.
He doesn't speak for a moment until the contract glows and all the new terms are on it. He then motions for me to sign it, which I do.
"So what do you know?" I ask, still unsure of this whole situation.
"Know you get all the child's memories and wake up in your new body," he says as his eyes glow brighter, and suddenly my head feels like it's going to explode as I relive memories not my own. I stagger forward till everything goes black.
The end
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