Naruto Paradise

With her own strength and ability, it would be difficult for Ino to die even if she wanted to.

"Although I'm weak, you don't have to protect me... because I want to protect you too."

Rather than being a burden, Ino would rather watch the boy she likes become a hero silently.

but……

It's so strange, there's clearly no such atmosphere.

But it seems to have turned into a feeling of confessing to each other?

It was the first time that Ino heard the Uchiha Kage say so confidently that he would protect her.

This made her feel as if her heart was hit by joy, and she was so happy that it seemed unreal.

"Shadow, we..."

Grabbing the boy's hand, Ino finally couldn't help but muster up the courage to attack.

We have already expressed our feelings to each other, so now I can become his girlfriend just by asking, right?

pat.

A dead branch was stepped on and broken.

At some point, the blue-haired girl suddenly woke up from the ground, twisted her body strangely, and walked out of the cave.

"you……"

Of course, the Uchiha Kage noticed Konan's abnormality.

And at the same time, he also noticed more and more strange things.

Outside... there are strange things outside.

"Xiaonan, where are you going?"

After seeing the blue-haired girl running out of the cave as soon as she woke up, Ino didn't bother to continue her confession and quickly ran to her and stopped her.

But what made her even more surprised was that the blue-haired girl never looked at her from beginning to end. She just murmured something in a very soft voice, and then continued to walk forward with a silly smile on her face.

"Illusion? Or..."

Are you mentally ill because of the heavy blow you suffered during the day?

Ino wanted to continue holding the girl, but she suddenly accelerated and ran away from her body, and her figure quickly blended into the darkness outside.

At the moment when their bodies were dislocated, Ino was able to hear Konan's murmurs.

'Mom is waiting for me'?

It turns out that he has a mental problem...

"Shadow, we..."

Just when Ino was about to go with Uchiha Kage to find Konan who had run away, Uchiha Kage also said something difficult to understand to her.

"A lot of souls appeared outside."

"Soul body?"

"You can think of it as the soul of a dead person."

"what?"

Ino looked puzzled.

Is there really a soul in this world?

Why does it feel like something is wrong with the shadow...

Could it be that this is actually just a dream of mine?

Ino followed the Uchiha Kage in a daze and soon ran out of the cave.

But outside, she only saw the dark forest and the equally dark village at the foot of the mountain that was burned.

Where is the soul?

"It seems this is the reason why the task is garbled?"

Although there was nothing in Ino's eyes, it was in Uchiha Kage's vision.

The village at the foot of the mountain and the nearby forests are all filled with the glimmer of souls. They are like fireflies, faint and numerous.

And these spirits now gathered in the center of the village below as if they had received some kind of instructions.

And Xiaonan, who had woken up inexplicably and chased out inexplicably, was also heading in that direction.

"She... isn't just fainted, she's almost dead?"

The Uchiha Kage, who possessed the fragments of the God of Death and some of the God of Death's abilities, finally saw Konan's condition clearly.

Too frightened and too hungry, the girl is now being guided by this strange energy and is probably going to die soon.

"However, I didn't expect Him to appear in a place like this. It's really strange."

However, compared to Konan, Uchiha Kage was more surprised by the tall phantom that appeared in the center of the burnt village. It was illusory and slowly descended, but its figure gradually became apparent.

He had purple skin, wore a white robe, had long gray hair with two long devil-like horns, and held a strange dagger in his mouth...

The god of death, the god of death in this world actually appeared here without anyone summoning him.

It is also attracting the surrounding souls to approach it.

It was like the opening of a grand banquet of the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.

"The God of Death? If I can kill Him here, maybe I can get more fragments of the God of Death?"

The Death Fragments previously obtained from the Death Mask were not enough for Uchiha Kage to possess all the power of the Death God.

His only ability of absorbing spirits was not enough to satisfy him.

It would be great if I could have the sealing power of the god of death without having to pay the price of my life and soul.

"What appeared? Why can't I see anything?"

Ino still looked confused.

"Just wait here for a while, I'll go bring Xiaonan back."

Placing a specially made Flying Thunder God Kunai in Ino's hand, the Uchiha Kage disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.

"film……"

There was no other way. Ino, who was still confused, had to return to the cave with the special kunai in her hand.

And the other side.

Just as the Uchiha Kage appeared beside Konan using the Flying Thunder God Technique, a white figure suddenly appeared in the scene of the God of Death and the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons.

"This is!?"

An old man with white beard, who also had two horns on his head and was also wearing a white robe, but with six black magatama patterns on his chest, slowly emerged near the Grim Reaper.

And that black ring staff...

This situation reminded Uchiha Kage of the scene he saw in his first copy mission.

The Sage of Six Paths... this guy, no, why did this 'big boy' appear here too?

Chapter 7: A Girl in Love is Invincible [K]

"Mother……"

In a trance, Xiaonan found that everything around him had turned into a pitch-black ocean.

And everyone is swimming in this black ocean like glowing jellyfish.

Let’s gather together towards the warmest and most attractive place ahead.

Xiaonan saw her mother among the glowing 'jellyfish', and she herself began to become gradually lighter, as if she was about to escape the gravity.

"It's so cold... Take me with you."

If I stop, I will feel extremely cold. Only by moving forward can I feel warmth and see my mother...

But his body was too heavy, and Xiaonan had difficulty walking as he dragged his feet.

I really want to give up my body and become a 'jellyfish' like everyone else.

As she thought this, her body began to emit the same faint light, and a transparent self began to gradually emerge from her body.

However, just as she came out, a hand suddenly patted her shoulder.

"Finally caught up."

"..."

Xiaonan, who was almost out of his body, felt himself being slapped back into his body.

Her consciousness began to gradually clear.

“Oh, it’s so hot…”

But this time the warmth did not come from the illusory place in front, but from the hand on her shoulder.

A steady stream of heat was being transferred from that palm into her body.

"Now is not the time to commit suicide."

The Uchiha Kage used chakra to stabilize the girl whose soul was about to leave her body.

"Have you forgotten what you said before? I helped you and you said you would do anything for me, but now you're going to break your promise?"

"I...but Mom...and everyone else..."

In a trance, Xiaonan saw her dead mother waving to her again, and the villagers were also smiling at her.

"That's just an illusion given to you by the god of death."

The Uchiha Kage waved his finger in front of the girl's eyes.

"Look again at what's ahead."

"grim Reaper?"

Xiaonan calmed himself down, then blinked his bright eyes and looked around.

There were scorched ruins everywhere. The waving mother and the villagers smiling at her did not exist at all. There was only a tall shadow sitting in the center of the village.

And those luminous bodies floating around are not "jellyfish", but souls.

Those souls were queuing up in front of the phantom in a daze, allowing the other party's huge hand to grab them and put them into the mouth to chew.

"It really is death... the god of death..."

Seeing the huge phantom monster madly grabbing the souls around it like a hungry evil ghost for many years, Xiaonan was so frightened that he lost his voice for a moment.

"No, if this goes on, Mom will also be..."

It will be eaten!

Konan quickly grabbed the Uchiha Kage's sleeve as if asking for help.

"Eating them may not be a bad thing. They will be reincarnated again."

Although the Shinigami now looks like a demon that devours souls, the Uchiha Kage who has absorbed the fragments of the Shinigami knows very well that souls swallowed by the Shinigami in this way will have their memories and resentments washed away, becoming the purest soul body and then falling into reincarnation.

"Of course, if we follow the plan of that old man with white beard, your mother's soul can stay in the Pure Land forever."

Uchiha Kage couldn't decide which of the two was better.

Just by looking at the Death God in front of him, who looked like a starving ghost, it was not difficult to guess that the Six Paths Sage must have restrained the Death God for a very long time.

I'm afraid that ever since this guy opened up a pure land space for the souls of the dead to exist, the god of death has almost never performed his duty and instinct of devouring souls again.

"White beard……"

Xiaonan looked over subconsciously and saw another old man in a white coat next to the figure of the Grim Reaper.

"Death God, it was you who caused Ashura and Indra to fall into the cycle of reincarnation, which led to the chaos in the ninja world. I have already warned you not to devour souls again! Don't stop!"

As the Six Paths Sage rebuked him righteously, the God of Death obviously slowed down his actions of devouring souls.