Naruto God of The Shinobi

CHAPTER 9

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Chapter Nine

The room was silent at Naruto's offer of trade for the Nine-Tails. Four of the room's five occupants were reeling in shock, that a person would trade themself for a bijū, what was essentially a large mass of demonic chakra. At least as far as they knew.

The thought of someone exchanging themself for a bijū was completely foreign to them, it was something that they would think only a crazy person would do. Yet here was someone, perfectly sane, offering themself in place of a bijū.

Tobirama was the first to regain his bearings after Naruto's offer of himself for the Kyūbi.
The man's stoic demeanour snapping back into place, Tobirama looked straight at Naruto, trying to gleam whether Naruto was lying. "You would essentially sacrifice yourself for a monster that had killed untold numbers? A being that is known as a 'Walking Natural Disaster', you would trade places with it? Forgive me if I find that hard to believe." The Hokage's voice was full of scepticism, it made Naruto clench his jaw. He already didn't like what he was doing but Hashirama's brother was making his decision that much harder.

"I would," Naruto responded. "It was mostly my fault for what happened to the Kyūbi and now I am here to make things right. If this is the price I must pay for rectifying my mistake then so be it. Besides, humans and bijū aren't so different when you think about it." Naruto held out his hand to stop the vocal disagreement that he knew was coming, and spoke after lowering his hand. "Do any of you feel remorse for stepping on an ant as you walk? Do feel any different for the fly you squat when it annoys you? If you don't then how can you expect a bijū to feel remorse for killing humans?"

"Perhaps because we are sentient being capable of words?" Tobirama said sarcastically.

"Are you?" Naruto countered. "In my life time, I have rarely seen humans speak with the bijū as equals, it has always been with hate and scorn, or used to lure the bijū into traps. I once saw an entire village hold a festival to honour the bijū, it turned out to be a trap in order to lure one closer to the village so that could be ambushed." Naruto's mouth formed a smirk as he remembered that event. "They got more than they bargained for when the Hachibi and Nanabi turned up."

Tobirama scowled. "And what about the times that the bijū have attacked without reasons? The Ichibi is a prime example of this."

Naruto's smirk turned into a frown when Tobirama mentioned Shukaku, Naruto missed his 'nephew'. The ancient man knew that Shukaku used to attack without reason to get his attention and that the One-Tails method of gaining attention were... a little strange, but he wouldn't admit that to Tobirama. "The bijū have been hunted by humans for millennia, do you really expect that they wouldn't have started to attack humans on site?"

The scowl on Tobirama's face increased, Naruto idly noted that it seemed to fit his face. "What about at the Valley of the End? Hashirama told me that the Kyūbi attacked you when it had possessed Mito? Why would you defend something that attacked you?"

Naruto simple rolled his eyes at Tobirama's now desperate ploys to poke holes in his logic. "First off, I attacked first, not the Kyūbi so I think that it was justified. Secondly, the reason that the Kyūbi went ballistic is basically Mito's fault." Naruto poked a finger in the red-head's direction. That startled many in the room, unsurprisingly; it was Hashirama that came to his wife's defence first.

"Wait, how was that Mito's fault?" Naruto could see that anger that Hashirama felt at his wife being accused of something that he didn't think she did, so the ancient man quickly explained to Hashirama before the man popped a vein.