I'm a God, Ok? (Naruto/God-SI)

Gatō paced back and forth within his spacious office angrily while thinking hard about everything that had happened recently. Was it too much to ask for these people to understand that what they were doing was useless? A waste of time!? 

First that Kaiza or whatever his name was, he thought after killing him the peasants would get scared enough to stop. But instead, they decided that listening to a random preacher was a good idea!?

Gatō hated preachers and priests, nothing but con men with fancy words. What a load of shit...

Sadly, he also knew that the peasants loved being told what to think, so he didn't want to kill him like that first fool, so he decided to give him a chance. It all ended up as a big mistake though.

He made the mistake of thinking that boy was just another charlatan like most others he had dealt with over the years...

But no, this one was worse, instead of being a conman, he actually believed his own bullshit! He was planning to take the boy away and hire an impersonator or something along those lines, but then, when they captured him, Gatō got pissed off.

The nerve of that kid! Acting like he was something special just because he could convince a bunch of stupid peasants to follow him around like some kind of holy saint.

Thankfully, his lapse of judgment didn't really matter much in the long run, his grunts told him everyone was quite crushed by the boy dying, and he heard of no one taking over or widespread anger yet.

But then... as if taunting him, some random bridge builder tried to build a fucking bridge, so these worthless people could leave Wave Country. How dare that fucker try to mess with his business!? So, he sent some men to break both of the bastard's legs, but the idiot was already gone! 

He got lucky that the old fuck was dumb as a brick, and one of his contacts found him going in the direction of Konohagakure.

Now he was waiting on his most trusted employees to return with news about a big shot missing-nin in Water Country. A man called Momochi Zabuza.

"Gatō-sama?"

Gatō glanced at the door where his secretary stood silently before waving him inside impatiently. 

"What?" He snapped irritably towards him while continuing to pace around angrily. The secretary swallowed nervously before speaking. 

"Sir! Waraji has returned with Zabuza, sir! But... Zabuza brought three additional people!"

Gatō paused briefly and smiled widely.

"Good... I will be down shortly."

Three more people? That was great! It's not like he was planning on paying them anyways.

***

Being a crow is surprisingly fun. While I technically got a Crows 'View' from the sky whenever I wanted, it just isn't the same as actually being in the air.

The wind rushing past my feathers, the feeling of soaring high above everything else on earth...

I think I'll keep this body permanently, for those times when I need a break from watching over my followers.

Also, did you know the world was big? Shocking stuff, I was learning much while flying from Wave to the Land of Iron.

Honestly though, I thought it would be like, a few hours tops. It took 2 days straight of non-stop flight to get here, and I'm only this far thanks to cheating, don't need to stop to eat or drink if I just used DP.

Meh, no point complaining, I have reached my destination. Now, let's see what we're dealing with here...

***

...

"My soul grows weary of your insults!" A voice shouted in outrage. "Do you not understand the pain my heart feels for having lost the love of my life?!"

"You fool, I will paint the leaves red with your blood!" Another voice answered just as loudly. "The darkness within me is strong and nothing can sate it."

"Shut up! You don't even know what real suffering is!" A third one called out angrily before continuing further. "You have never tasted the saltiness of despair!"

What the fuck was this shit?

I stood silently on a branch near the voices, taking in the scene below me.

A large open courtyard sat next to a pond, overgrown with weeds and other wild plants growing all over its surface. There were dozens upon dozens of gravestones surrounding the entire area around it too, each one seemingly placed randomly throughout without any rhyme or reason behind their placement.

Upon the porch overlooking the gravesite stood three crows. All bigger than what I expected crows could get, in fact, they were fucking massive!

I arrived here an hour ago, and they have been yelling at each other since then... for some reason. But why...

"Miscreant, you dare question my anguish?" The crow on the right spoke again after hearing those words coming out of his companion's beak. "Your eyes shall see true torment today!"

Why the fuck are they so edgy? Why did they speak like that!?

"The only thing my eyes will witness is your head being severed from your shoulders!" The crow on the left answered back with a snarl of rage.

I really hope the rest of them are more normal because if not, I think I made a mistake choosing crows as my holy animal. I'd rather spend a thousand years trying to make eldritch horrors cute before I ever go full 'My dark soul will crush all those who oppose me' as my main theme.

I was tempted to let them continue whatever this shit was but decided against it for now. I wanted to be done with this business sooner rather than later.

I let out a caw above them, loud enough that it could be heard even over their shouting.

The effect was instant, they all fell silent immediately upon hearing my voice call out from above them. Each looked up at me, clearly startled.

"Tch, a lowly bird dares interrupt our confrontation?" The crow in the middle spoke up angrily while glaring daggers at me.

"Heh, truly a fool you are." The one on the right scoffed dismissively as well. "It lacks Chakra, I can feel its emptiness."

Fucking end me. Every word they said made me want to slam my face into a tree and go back to watching over my followers instead of this... whatever this is.

"Silence." I said simply, trying not to show how much I disliked them on my face.

Upon hearing me speak, all three of them stiffened.

"I wish to see your leader." I asked coldly.

"Who are you to demand the location of Sage Mukuro!?" The middle crow hissed out furiously before continuing further. "Do you think just because you can hide your Chakra that you are worthy to stand before him?"

"Yes."

It seems these crows were unused to someone not entertaining their nonsense, they all stared at me silently for several seconds before one of them spoke up again.

"Impudent whelp! We should pluck its feathers off one by one!"

"Indeed."

"Its existence itself is an insult to our tribe!"

"You should let your leader do that, since it's such a big insult. He would probably make quick work of me." I replied, not letting myself give in to temptation and spent my precious DP to have a tree fall on them or something along those lines.

Also, Sage Mukuro? That at least was good news, Sage meant Senjutsu. That will be useful for my plans down the line.

"Foolish creature!" One crow shouted indignantly towards me while spreading its wings wide open. "Do not presume to know what our lord would do!"

"The ignorant must die for their ignorance!" Another crow added menacingly.

"Enough." A raspy female voice came from above us, causing all three crows to freeze mid-step as they prepared themselves for flight.

A massive crow fell from the sky above them, landing atop one of the larger gravestones nearby before glaring down upon everyone present here today with cold eyes. Its feathers were a faded gray and it towered over the other three crows, even though they were already huge.

"You three have displeased me." She said quietly, which considering how big she was, wasn't that quiet. "Do not presume to decide who can meet Sage Mukuro."

"Apologies, Karasu-hime!" The middle crow bowed deeply before speaking again quickly. "This ignorant whelp insulted us greatly with its arrogance!"

Ohhhh, a princess. That's a step up from these edgelords. Hopefully, she is normal.

"I care not about your squabbles, nor do I care for any insults spoken by an outsider, you three should know better." She rebuked sternly. All three lowered their heads shamefully upon hearing her words.

"Now, go make yourselves useful somewhere else until I call upon you once more." They all nodded obediently as they took off into the sky.

After they had gone far enough away from us, the princess turned back towards me again before speaking.

"You wish to meet our Sage?" Her voice sounded tired. Well, tired is definitely something you would feel if you had to deal with those idiots all the time.

"Yes."

"Then follow, his words are available for all who seek them."

Good enough for me. I flew alongside the Princess as she led me further into the forest.

***

After flying deeper into the woods for about ten minutes, we finally reached what seemed like an abandoned temple surrounded by tall trees whose branches almost completely blocked out the sunlight above us.

"Welcome to our home." She said softly as she landed gracefully atop one of the many statues scattered around outside.

"This is where Sage Mukuro lives?"

"Yes." Karasu gestured with her wing. "Simply go in."

I nodded and flew inside the temple, finding it quite spacious despite its rundown appearance from the outside. There were countless statues within the main hall alone, each lifelike, all of them depicting various crow-like humanoids in different poses.

Oh, oh! I almost forgot, if you fail to learn Senjutsu you turn into stone, these must be the failed ones.

Eventually, I arrived at a large, mostly empty room. Well, besides the single tree in the center, anyway.

A single crow sat atop a branch on top of the tree, meditating quietly. It was by far the biggest crow I had seen so far, about twice as big as Princess Karasu.

He looked ancient, his feathers were all white with some faded black spots here and there. If I wasn't an actual God, I'd be intimidated by him.

"Greetings, Sage." I said respectfully, no need to be rude after all.

"A puppet, hmm?" He mused curiously. "No Chakra at all. Impossible for any living being." Well, he isn't wrong.

"Of a kind, I wished to recruit your Clan."

"Mmm..." He paused momentarily before speaking once more. "Interesting... We have decided quite a while ago to live without interacting with humans or ninja."

That was actually pretty understandable, if I didn't know about the clusterfuck that was the future, I might have just done the same. But, well...

"Why?"

"We are weary of human affairs," He replied. "I saw much bloodshed with little gain. In my youth, I and some others left our former home to search for a simpler life. The main clan was massacred by a rival summoning contract years later." Even while speaking about such a heavy topic, his voice remained calm and level.

"Time and time again, history has shown us that living away from conflict is the best path for our kind."

"So you have nothing you want? Nothing that would be worth allying yourself with me?" I asked.

His gaze intensified slightly at those words before he continued further. "Can you offer safety? Protection from wounds and disease? Can you promise peace, where death will not find us?"

I could hear the slight hint of mocking in his tone, which you know, fair enough. It was clear that these guys had their own thing going on, and it was working pretty well for them too.

But at the same time, Uhhh yeah? I can totally give them that, maybe not immediately, but eventually, I could drag them to my divine real, that was the plan anyways.

"...Yes."

He chuckled darkly upon hearing my answer. "Very well, I will humor you." He waved his wing and with a puff of smoke, a massive scroll appeared. "You will sign the contract with your blood, your blood, not this puppet's."

He threw the scroll towards me with a quick flap of his wings, and it landed smoothly on the ground next to my feet, now open.

"Once you sign it, you have a season to fulfill your promise of safety. Otherwise, I will tear apart your flesh until nothing remains."

Okay, a bit extreme, but I can respect it, he is giving me a choice, after all.

Before I continued, I quickly fixed the whole 'ball of energy' thing that was my godly form. Thankfully it didn't cost anything, I would have to run some tests later to see if I could freely shapeshift without using DP.

The form I chose was a slightly altered version of what I made my followers see in the sky after Ayumu's death, male form, body made of stars and darkness, three eyes, one vertical in the middle of the forehead, two horizontal where human eyes should be.

I felt more... natural? In this form compared to being a ball of energy. Was that because I used to have a human form before, or was it because my followers thought I looked like this?

Either way, I didn't mind. I needed to use a physical body sooner or later anyway.

Back with my crow body, I prepared myself for some theatrics as I burned through my remaining DP to open a rift between the mortal realm and my Divine Realm, revealing an endless void, empty sans my divine self floating above it all.

I reached out with my arm, hand positioned above the open scroll. With a simple thought, black liquid gathered on the tip of one of my fingers, dripping down onto the paper below.

THE BARGAIN IS STRUCK

The moment those words rang out from my lips, the liquid on the paper seeped into the contract, forming ever shifting letters and symbols, completely overwriting whatever was there before.

A pact has been formed.

MY REALM WILL BE YOUR HOME

DISEASE WILL NOT TOUCH YOUR PEOPLE

WOUNDS OF MIND AND BODY WILL BE HEALED

DEATH WILL NOT REACH YOU

YOU WILL SERVE AS MY MESSENGERS AND SWORDS

The rift slammed shut, cutting off the connection to the mortal realm, leaving nothing behind besides a completely normal crow standing next to a new contract.

The Sage stared uncomprehendingly at where the portal once stood. I waited for several minutes, but he did not move or speak. Was he even breathing?

I think I'm going to leave now. Can't really wait around here forever.

"Gather your people and belongings, I will return in a month."

He still didn't react. Eh, he heard me, good enough.

With that, I left him alone and flew back towards Wave, satisfied with how everything turned out.