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Chapter 4 - 4. Ruler over the living and the dead

"No, the contract I have with you is one that the other summons don't know about and never will. You can continue to use the toads at your leisure, but our contract is more than that," The Shinigami said and Naruto raised an eyebrow.

"Umm why, no I mean how?" Naruto asked making the Shinigami chuckle slightly.

"As you know I'm the Shinigami, the Ruler over the living and the dead. If you summoned me like the Yondaime or Sandaime did then I would have to take your soul as compensation, but since your my first summon then I'm going to set the normal conditions. For now you are only allowed to summon me twice a day. Second, whenever you summon me I won't take your soul since we have a contract," The Shinigami told Naruto.

All this information was burned into the blonde's mind and he immediately agreed. He could only imagine if people thought he could summon the Shinigami. It would be mass chaos.

"The Third condition is more to your benefit depending on how you use it," The Shinigami said and Naruto raised an eyebrow. He was getting excited, but that was to be expected of the first real summoner to the Shinigami.

"Alright so what is this final condition or benefit?" Naruto asked in a hurry. The Shinigami sighed as it had to remember that it was dealing with a thirteen year old boy so it wasn't abnormal that he would be excited though the thought of being someone's summon was sort of interesting to the Shinigami even if it didn't show it completely.

"Alright since you know I'm the Shinigami it's sort of a benefit if you could call it that. Since I rule the dead your allowed to bring people back to life if you want to," The Shinigami said making Naruto widen his eyes and drop his jaw. He could nearly faint from that information.

"I can revive anyone I want? That's awesome dattebayo," Naruto said forgetting his injuries and jumping up and down the room. The Shinigami sighed and its eyebrow twitched.

"I'm not done with it. This has two parts to it so pay attention," The Shinigami said and Naruto nodded calming down enough to hear the rest of what the Shinigami had to say to him.

"While you can revive anyone you want, I still have to be the Shinigami and just allowing you to bring back people would bring disorder to the realm of the dead. So on that note, for every person you revive you must kill two people. One to fill the empty space and the second as a sort of interest payment to me," The Shinigami told him.

Naruto raised an eyebrow at the last part.

"But your the Shinigami why do you need more souls when you probably have millions of them already?" Naruto asked and the Shinigami nodded.

"It's like I said. It would cause disorder in the realm of the dead Naruto Uzumaki. Humans, animals and other things going there is fine because when you die I take you there, but leaving is a completely different matter. No one has ever left my realm and for good reason that I can't go into right now," The Shinigami said and Naruto nodding feeling that some secrecy must have been needed. He wasn't really sure that he wanted to know the consequences.

"So anything else I need to know?" Naruto asked and the Shinigami stared at him for a second most likely in thought rather than plain looking. He then focused on the blonde some more and nodded.

"Last thing is that people like the Sandaime and Yondaime who used the imperfect contract with me can't be revived no matter what. That's the price they pay for the using that jutsu. Their souls are held within this pot right here to never be let out again," The Shinigami said and Naruto looked at it in awe and slight sadness.

In there was his admiration, the Yondaime, and his surrogate grandfather, Sarutobi Hiruzen. The blonde felt so close to them, but so far away. It really made him sad, but for some reason it wasn't as lasting as the blonde thought.

"Alright just one last question," Naruto said and the Shinigami nodded at it's summoner.

"Alright what is it?" The Shinigami asked and Naruto pointed to himself making his summon raise an eyebrow.

"Why me? I mean why did you chose me to be your summoner?" Naruto asked and the Shinigami had to chuckle.

Maybe it was from Naruto's embarrassment of being the summoner to him or for his own entertainment the summon wasn't sure.

"I said it's because you interest me. Your the first person to threaten ME of all beings. Your also the first person who had woken up before I could take your soul. Not to mention that even though it didn't hurt, you pierced your chest with that kunai to show how serious to me you were. I think that warrants enough of my interest in you so like I said I keep my eye on interesting things and this is the best way," The Shinigami said and Naruto nodded. His life just got better he figured.

"Alright I think I understand everything. So I can only summon you twice a day, unlike those with the imperfect contract you won't take my soul if I do summon you, and I can revive anyone from the dead so long as I pay back two people. Lastly I can't bring those back who have used you in the imperfect contract, the 'Shiki Fujin' thing that the furball was talking about right?" Naruto asked.

The Shinigami nodded in a complete affirmative and the blonde grinned.

"Alright then. I don't know what I can do, but I will be a great summoner to you Shinigami. Umm..is there anything else I can call you? Do you have a name?" Naruto asked.

The Shinigami raised an eyebrow and shook his head. Naruto sighed and rubbed the back of his head while wincing at the pain in his body.

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