Naruto x Various Females

~Devil's Due~

The after-life smelled funny. Not like death, or rotten tomatoes, or even ramen if it was a good kind of after-life. No rather it kind of just smelled clean, and kind of like fire, and other chemicals. Ahh, that's what it was it smelled like, the hospital. Except it wasn't the hospital. Probably. His head was still spinning and everything hurt.

Especially the giant hole in his chest. Wait, where was the giant hole in his chest? It was the size of, well the size of most of his chest, he could see growing a finger back maybe, but there was no way that Sakura or granny could replace something like a heart...maybe. He wasn't a medic.

The ceiling was tall and made of white stone with some fancy lights hanging really high up there. Again, this probably wasn't a hospital, but then again it might be some kind of super hospital that could replace important things like a heart, and stomach, and other important things. Like lungs, those were important. But hey he could breathe. So he was either dead, back in time, or in a hospital.

And one of those seemed a lot more likely after getting a giant hole getting blasted into his body. Still, the ceiling was white, wasn't the afterlife supposed to be white? But what was with the lights? And the whole pain thing? Hopefully, it went away soon.

"Right, well I am never taking that contract ever again," A gruff and vaguely familiar voice said from his right. It wasn't familiar in that he heard it before it was just familiar in how annoyed the voice was. "Still, it's nice to finally be home."

He grit his teeth moving his head over just enough to see a man with thick well-groomed mane of red hair and a square face, kind of like if Jiraiya cut his hair and dyed it red, especially with how tall and built the man was, his clothes were black and different from any he had seen before.

But it was the nine red tails that flowed behind the man that truly caught his eyes. With a grunt, he sat up on his elbow and looked up at the man. "Kurama?"

The man turned to him with red eyes and had to blink in surprise. He adjusted the tassels that hung around his neck, covering the buttons of his white shirt. "Oh, so uh you're alive and umm here. Hmm, this uhh complicates things." Kurama - or at least he thought it was Kurama - sighed running a hand through his hair. "Of course work would follow me home."

"Home?" Things were starting to hurt less, well everything but his head, that was still hurting like it was the part of his body that had a massive chunk missing out of it. Sakura would probably say that he wouldn't be missing anything too important. "Are we in Konoha?"

"No, you see well," Kurama reached down, his hand was bigger than he thought, and covered in multiple rings that shined with a light of their own. With no effort, the human that looked, and sounded a lot like the giant angry tsundere fox that used to live in his stomach stood him on his feet. "Long story short, you're not in Konoha, you're not even in the same dimension. You're in my home."

Kurama shoved him towards a giant window that looked out across a lush garden filled with life and fountains that shined like sapphires, and roses like rubies. The greenery came to a harsh stop, giving way to a background filled with red like the very sky was bleeding and the horizon blended away into nothing, broken islands floated in the air like clouds would have, some were barren scrapes, others looked to be thriving cities all on their own.

"Welcome to Hell Naruto," Kurama patted him on the back with a giant toothy smile that showed off a set of sharp looking teeth. Then that smile faded. And Kurama took a more regal pose with his hands clasped behind his back. "Though this really is complicated, you should be dead back in your own world I'll have to-"

The twin doors on the other side of the hall opened with the sound of thunder. A woman with long red hair came running in, her hands grabbing at the hem of her skirt as she sprinted towards them. She was easily the most beautiful woman Naruto had ever seen, slender frame, wide hips, large - okay, so maybe Jiraiya had rubbed off on him more than he'd care to admit, still, the woman was very hot.