In a world where Shinobi manipulate the flow of chakra, Naruto Uzumaki is an outcast, hated for the nine-tailed demon fox sealed within him. But the Kyuubi is not the only power dwelling in his soul. Trapped alongside the beast are the echoes of a past life-the stubborn will of a Substitute Shinigami, the primal instinct of an inner Hollow, and the stoic wisdom of a Quincy.