(In the Forest of Death)
There was not even a flicker of emotion in Naruto's cold, crimson eyes as he watched Kabuto's body fall to the floor with a soft thud. The silver haired boy's skin rapidly greying and desiccating as he collapsed forward, his gaze blank and empty.
It had been almost embarrassingly easy to track down and kill this group, so much so that it had seriously made Naruto concerned about whether or not he did just wipe out a group of genin. Not that he would lose much sleep over it if he had.
Kabuto had been a little shit revealing Naruto's secrets like he had and as for the other two… well he didn't know enough about them to judge, but they were probably pretty shit people too.
Looking away from Kabuto's desiccating remains, Naruto instead looked at the two other dead bodies in the clearing, the bodies of Kabuto's now dead teammates.
Naruto grinned to himself as he could already see the small, wispy glowing orbs that represented a beings soul, floating over their corpses.
Shrugging to himself Naruto walked over to each of the bodies and with a deft had scooped up the souls before he devoured them, savoring the taste of yet more souls.
He was a bit peckish after all he had been subsisting off of the souls of animals for the last few days now, which was less than pleasant and barely sustained him.
Even so he could cope with having a poor diet if it meant his mission succeeded, it wasn't like he could just start picking Konoha citizens off the street, such disappearance wouldn't go unnoticed.
Whislt he was enjoying his mid-afternoon snack, Naruto decided to speak with You. He had after all hunted down Kabuto for a reason. 'So were we right about that Kabuto, was he a spy or was he just a nosy little shit who couldn't keep his mouth shut?'
...
(In You's Domain)
Within Naruto's own soul You stirred, his crimson eyes opening as he stood up from where he was sitting in the centre of his and Naruto's soul, ignoring everything else as he found Kabuto's soul orb floating around, his eyes gleaming with childlike curiosity as he grabbed it before he began to carefully examine it.
"Wait a second and I will have little look." You replied back to Naruto, his look of curiosity turning to revulsion as he continued to inspect Kabuto's soul, noting as he did how dark and twisted it was.
"I can't say for sure whether he was a spy yet, but looking at his soul I can tell you he was one fucked up little shit."
'Really?' Naruto questioned, his voice echoing around You's domain without a sound he appeared in front of You, his outer body now on autopilot as he retreated into You's domain, an amused smile on his face as he saw the incredulous look You threw him.
"Oh wow I am honoured, you don't normally visit me…" You drawled as he looked up at Naruto incredulously, before dismissing him and going back to what he was doing before.
Toying about with Kabuto's soul, his hands glowing with greyish blue chakra as he began to manipulate it like a normal Shinobi would manipulate the elements.
Naruto ignored his inner self's sarcasm, having become very used to it over the years, instead he looked at the soul You was currently playing with a look of interest making its way across his face.
Looking closer Naruto was able to see just what You meant before about Kabuto being twisted and dark, where a pure humans soul was a light blue colour free of corruption, Kabuto's soul was distinctly corrupted, with dozens of dark marks staining his soul.
It wasn't the worst he had ever seen, but it was up there. 'Can't say I envy you having to go through his memories.'
"Meh you have your interests I have mine. I generally quite like going through memories of the sickos.
It makes it that much sweeter when I torture them, plus their memories are usually far more entertaining those though shitty films people make now, what was it called the Princess Gale Sage or something?" You replied his own red and black eyes twinkling maliciously as he sat down on the floor.
Cross his legs as he looked up at Naruto.
"You're a real sadist as anyone ever told you that?" Naruto replied blandly not commenting on the film You mentioned as he instead looked out over the vast landscape that made up his own soul, watching in interest as hundreds of shadowy shapes moved around both human and animal.
There were he noticed, more humans in the hell side of his soul than there was in the heaven. But considering the majority of the souls he had eaten had come from Shinobi it was probably not all that surprising.
"Not really, but to be fair disembodied souls are not the greatest of conversationalists." You replied in amusement as he continued to toy around with Kabuto's soul, not even glancing at his surroundings, after all this was his domain.
Ignoring his surroundings for the moment, Naruto instead bent down and scooped up the souls of the other two genin he had killed, noticed the spots of darkness that infested their souls as he did so.
It appeared he had been correct, these two were obviously not the most pleasant of people, more than that though they were probably grunts, cannon fodder which allowed Kabuto the real spy to go undetected.
With a sigh Naruto flung them away, casting them into the hell where they would remain until Naruto used them, died or he released them.
'You know we can always swap places for a bit if you want. You can take over the body for a bit and I can lounge around here playing with souls and watching the highlights from their memories?' Naruto said as he turned back to look at his horned alter ego.
A thoughtful look on his face as he thought about some of the amusing and interesting things, that the Shinobi he had defeated had probably experienced.
"Pass!" You said quickly as he glanced up at Naruto again, his expression telling Naruto he wasn't at all interested in swapping their current positons.
"I am happy doing my own thing, dealing with those pedants outside just seems so… boring."
'You're also quite antisocial you now, I mean come on a bit of time outside might do you some good.
I may even let you cut loose during the invasion if you want?' Naruto said with a grin as he turned away from the hell side of their domain and instead looked out over the much nicer looking heaven side. Smiling as he saw a flock of avian souls flying overhead.
"You know I can always kick you out of here don't you? I am the inner you and you are the outer me." You replied irritably, less than pleased at how pushy Naruto was being.
Before a sudden grin spread across his face. "Though I wouldn't mind it if you start reading a few of those Icha Icha books, that Jiraiya guy wrote, you know the erotica?."
Naruto gave You an incredulous look at that, this was the last thing he was expecting to hear.
You seeing the look gave Naruto a grin a soft chuckle leaving his mouth. "What can I say Kakashi didn't just have memories of jutsu, he also had memories of reading those books and I have to admit the storyline is really good?"
'Of course it is… perv…' Naruto replied with a grin and a loud chuckle of his own, who knew, even when he was dead Kakashi was still being a bad influence..
"Hey I blame you. We seriously need a girlfriend, and you are more goddamn oblivious than Minaka from Icha Icha is when Kushirou is chasing after him."
You commented a bit embarrassed as he saw how Naruto was looking at him when he made up an analogy based off of an erotica novel's storyline, so much so that he stopped manipulating Kabuto's soul and instead deliberately avoided eye contact with his outer self.
'You do realise that those characters are based off of our mother and father…?' Naruto said with a wince. 'You know Minaka and Kushirou is actually Minato and Kushina…"
"No they're not their names are completely different. Besides stopping avoiding the real topic here. We need a girlfriend." You replied as he looked back at Naruto, trying not to think about what Naruto had just said.
Technically speaking they may not have given birth to You, but You still considered them his sort of parents, after all he felt what Naruto felt and remembered what Naruto remembered.
'I did not know you were into voyeurism…' Naruto said blandly, sidestepping You comment once again. It wasn't that he didn't want to find a girlfriend, it was just that he didn't want to get into it right now and with You, the guy could be a real dick sometimes.
"Piss off." You replied with a snort of laughter. "But being serious you should go back, we are in the middle of the Forest of Death after all and our body is on autopilot…"
'True, true" Naruto said agreeably, before he took one last look around, glancing at a colossal shadowy soul that was chained down in the distance as he did so, before he turned back to You a serious look on his face.
'How long do you reckon it will take to get all of Kabuto's memories and knowledge?'
"Couple of hours for me to get as much as I can out of him, maybe longer. For now though I will focus on the short term memories, I will share them with you when I find them." You replied with a nod as he deicded to get serious.
'Nice one.' Naruto commented as he gave the ominous shadow in the distance one last look before he turned back to You with a grin. 'Speak to you later, You. Things are moving quickly and I think this upcoming invasion is going to be an all you can eat buffet'
"Yeah, yeah piss off?" You replied with a slight grin spreading across his face before he turned his attention back to manipulating Kabuto's soul.