Don't Fear the Reaper: Epilogue

Yachiru smiled brightly on seeing Naruto, as she did whenever she could spare the time. Naruto kun!" she squealed, tackling him to the ground.

Naruto smiled, but looked a little sad as he stood up, holding the girl barely half his size in his arms.

"What's wrong?" she asked concerned.

"Everyone in my class says I'm getting too big to play with you anymore," he said sadly.

"I could get bigger if it would help," she offered, while making a mental note to slaughter his classmates.

"Really?" he asked excitedly.

"Sure," she said brightly, using her innate abilities as a reaper to change her apparent age.

Naruto was completely unprepared for Yachiru to suddenly double in size, and neither were her clothes.

Ino and Sakura, Naruto's top fangirls, watched in shock as Naruto passed out with a nosebleed from the near naked pinkette on top of him.

"What do you think? Naruto? Naruto?!" she asked shaking him.

Hinata, who'd just arrived, quickly shed her jacket and gave it to Yachiru with a grin. "I believe the answer is yes, he likes it…a lot."

Naruto slowly regained consciousness now that he didn't have a nearly naked sixteen year old Yachiru on top of him. "I'll never stop playing with you, believe it!" he exclaimed, still not quite all there.

Hinata bit back a groan. She loved Naruto like a brother, but he was so tactless at times.

Yachiru beamed at him and stepped forward to hug him letting her borrowed jacket fall open.

"Naruto," rumbled a deep and raspy voice from behind him, making him wish he'd learned his father's teleportation jutsu.

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Yachiru turned to Naruto's parents who'd just arrived by following the trail of destruction to the edge of the clearing where the fox had been defeated and grinned. "Kenny and Naruto are playing!"

Kushina recognized Yachiru by the bloodlust in her eyes and put together what had happened remarkably quickly, but before she could say anything Naruto's voice could be heard calling out, "Bankai!" and a wave of spiritual pressure sent the crowd tumbling backwards.

"He just achieved bankai without training for it? I've been trying for months and I haven't gotten close!" Kushina complained as she dusted herself off.

"My Naruto-kun is awesome!" The pink haired reaper giggled.

"Weren't you somewhere around seven years old last week?" Minato asked curiously.

"Naruto-kun said someone told him he was getting too old to play with me," Yachiru said her eyes still watching the fight with glee.

"So you decided to grow up all at once?" Minato asked.

"Yeah, but oopsie, my clothes didn't," she explained, as if she hadn't planned this out when she'd seen his eyes wandering to older girls.

"And Kenpachi just happened by?" Minato sighed, picturing the scene in his head.

"Yep," Yachiru lied.

"Is the boss going to be okay?" Konohamaru asked. Sure he thought Yachiru should be his girlfriend and she was hung up on Naruto, but he was still a friend.

"He'll be fine," Yachiru assured him. "Ken-chan's going to kill him, but after that he'll be okay."

"What?!" screamed the crowd.

Yachiru giggled. "He'll have to go through the academy, but since he's reached bankai that'll only take about a week or two and after that I'll simply take maternity leave and we'll be back here for the second half of the chunin exams."

"You've been sixteen for all of what, a couple of hours, how did you…" Minato looked back at the battle in shock.

Kushina shook her head. "Reaper maternity leave isn't done like normal maternity leave here in the living world. Reapers come to the living world so they can get pregnant and have children."

"How long does it last?" Kakashi asked.

"A mortal lifespan." Yachiru giggled.

"You'll need a replacement since you're a vice captain," Kushina pointed out.

"Found one a couple of months ago while the swim team tryouts were being held in hell."

"Zabuza," Kushina said, putting the pieces together. "I recall Haku mentioning him."

"How is Haku doing?"

"She is still adjusting to being a 'she' but she seemed happier lately and now I know why. How did you find them so quickly?" Kushina asked.

"Anyone Naruto-kun has been in contact with I can find," Yachiru smirked.

"That takes a strong bond, a very strong bond," she said thoughtfully.

"Yep," Yachiru smirked. "And I'm going to request a healer for my leave too! Do you know any that would mind the duty?"

Kushina looked at Yachiru in awe. "You are the one that suggested I go into medicine. You'd have had to plan this out from the beginning."

"Yep."

Typing by: The Last Primarch!