Chapter 1
Re: A thousand years of Death
Konoha
A few years passed since the 3rd Shinobi War. Hiruzen was reinstated as the Hokage when Minato died along with his wife.
Orochimaru has defected and was chased by Jiraiya while Tsunade left the village after losing her loved ones, Dan and Nawaki.
Danzo remains in the shadows with an ever-greater desire for the seat of Hokage.
And the Uchiha clan was slowly forming a secret coup against the village.
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Just a few distance from Konoha.
A caravan of family merchant was attacked by bandits. The ninjas who were hired to protect them were currently struggling due to the number of bandits.
The family had servants but only two remains who were now looking at them like prey. A man with big belly, probably the head of the family was in front protecting his wife and children suddenly said.
"Traitors! I even treated you guys like a friend! How could you do this to me!?" complained the man, but sadly that won't change the minds of these men around them.
"Hehehe. It's really nothing personal boss. We too, treat you as a friend. But this is nothing personal. This is just the way our business works." Says one of them while holding a knife while the other was holding a sword.
The two of them then rushed towards the family. One was faced by the head of the family while the other was faced by a woman, probably the wife. While the children composed of an oldest young girl about 16 years old, was holding a baby and a little boy about 5 years old, was holding on to her while crying.
The wife died first after being decapitated by the traitors. The oldest and the boy cried in horror after seeing their mother beheaded just like that.
The traitor now looking at the oldest was smiling. "I will finally be able to taste you bitch, don't worry, me and my friends will definitely give you a good time! Hehahahaha."
The oldest who heard this stopped from crying as fear filled his heart. But suddenly, she was shocked when he saw his younger brother in front of her with wide arms open.
"You will not harm my sister as long as I'm here!" He shouted with shaking legs, crying eyes and full of snot nose. Then suddenly they heard another cry as their father was full of stabbed wounds to his body drop dead to the ground.
"Dad!" the boy cried out. 'Why?! Why are all of this is happening to me?' he asked in his mind. Then suddenly a breaking glass resounded inside him, as a memory that was locked was now opened. It rushed all at once making him faint.
When he came to be, blood was already escaping from his lips and he heard his sister call his name. "Endou!" Shouts his sister after seeing him being stabbed in the stomach.
He turned and saw his sister on the ground, clothes being torn apart by one of the traitors.
'Shit! why did I get my memories back right when I'm about to fucking die?' was the first thought that came to him.
He reincarnated 5 years ago but without his memories, and simply experiencing what it means to have a loving family.
He finally got the genuine love of a family he never had in his past life only to feel the pain of losing it. The ever so emotionless Diablo for the first time felt genuine love and pain as he slowly succumbs to his death.
He could still hear his sister's voice fading, that voice that he often heard every day and filled his heart with longing and affection was now so painful to hear. He felt remorseful yet couldn't do anything.
His baby sister that he would often snatch from his mother because he wants to hold her in his arms too, was beside his older sister still wrapped in the same clothes but soaked with blood.
It was an utterly devastating feeling in the world. Diablo died while asking inside his head.
'Did I reincarnate here to experience what my victims felt when I killed them?'
but then-
"Traitors! I even treated you guys like a friend! How could you do this to me!?" complained the man, but sadly that won't change the minds of these men around them.
"Hehehe. It's really nothing personal boss. We too, treat you as a friend. But this is nothing personal. This is just the way our business works." Says one of them while holding a knife while the other was holding a sword.
The same situation happened once more as his memories returned just in time as his sister shouts his name.
"Endou!" Shouts his sister after seeing him being stabbed in the stomach.
He turned and saw his sister on the ground, clothes being torn apart by one of the traitors.
"N-no, not again." He uttered weakly
He once more slowly died while listening to his sister's agonizing scream, looking at his little sister covered in blood, his mother's body was beheaded and his father full of stabbed wounds in his body.
A storm of emotions built up inside him. The first time happened just a few seconds ago for him and now he's experiencing it once more?
As his consciousness slowly left his new body, a new question formed in his mind.
'Is this hell?'
"Endou!" Shouts his sister after seeing him being stabbed in the stomach.
He turned and saw his sister on the ground, clothes being torn apart by one of the traitors.
'I guess it is' were his answer to his own question as tears pours out of his eyes.
The countdown of his torture started.
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35th turn of being reincarnated.
Once again, the same situation happened as he slowly died while his family beside him were all dead besides his sister who was being raped.
And then he slowly lost consciousness.
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When he came to be, he didn't hear his sister's voice, this time he was inside a room he couldn't recognize, and there was a woman standing there he also didn't recognize. Wasn't he supposed to be back in the turf of that entity? he thought for a moment as he slowly regained consciousness.
Upon seeing him open his eyes, the woman immediately said.
"You're awake! Let me get Hokage-sama for you." she rushed outside.
'I'm still alive? For once, there was a different development? Did she just say Hokage?' Diablo calmly analyzed in his head.
Who would have thought that even after experiencing something, that can only be described as hell or even worse, he was still as composed and calm as ever? As if nothing could shake him.
Some could have mistaken him to possess a gamer's mind, but sadly no, him feeling love and pain forcibly was proof, that he could still feel. He was simply holding it all in. How?
While he was dying each time, he let it all burst out of him. All the emotions that he's been holding on. You could say that he was able to lessen the burden and hold it in, for now.
A moment later the door opened up and a single figure suddenly walked inside. One look and he could tell it was the 3rd Hokage, Sarutobi Hiruzen. He was after all, a fan of Naruto anime back in his world. The clothes and especially the Hokage hat gave it all away.
"Endou-kun. I'm sorry about what happened to your family." Hiruzen immediately broke the Ice.
Ba-dump!
He felt a wild thug in his heart and remembered what happened. Tears rushed out from his eyes without control subconsciously. Although he was trying to hold it in consciously, he still couldn't control his subconscious.
"Huh?" He was surprised to see himself crying.
Surprised as he was, he still let it out since he was used to doing it when he was 'tortured' in this world.
Hiruzen gave him a few moments to calm down before talking with him.
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On this 35th turn, Diablo now named Endou, lived with the plan to be strong so he won't die and experience the same thing again.
As an assassin in his past life, he utilized his skills, and planned carefully on what path to take.
He took 2 pairs of Sharingan on the night of the massacre done by Itachi and Obito, he was swift about it that not even Danzo's root knew he was there. Such were his skills in the professional world of the underworld as an assassin.
Naturally, he knows of chakra and has learned how to manipulate it since he already has knowledge of this world.
Making his presence disappear was one of the skills he easily developed since he already khow to train it. Hiding his chakra was a bit of a challenging since it was something he knew but never felt. Nevertheless, it was only that, challenging.
He then graduated from the academy early and joined the root Anbu under Danzo. He didn't bother joining the protagonists and their group, as strength was what he valued most important at the moment.
By joining the Anbu under him, Endou was able to further grow in strength. Especially by receiving a lot of assassination missions outside the village. He also was able to temporarily held back and forget what he went through before all this due to the emotionless training he received which he was already accustomed to in his first lifetime.
He learned medical ninjutsu in secret, along with sealing ninjutsu. The former was for his initial plan after gaining those infamous eyes and the latter for the seal on his tongue, so he can remove it.
He didn't bother learning anything else besides that, as smart as he is, the two ninjutsu was already an extremely advanced field, even for him.
After certain mastery of medical ninjutsu, he began transplanting one pair set of sharingan eyes.
Normally, this would be dangerous as he doesn't have the body of an Uchiha. But that was also the reason why he gave the other set of Sharingan he took that night, to Orochimaru, in exchange for Hashirama cells after the Konoha Crush incident.
With his medical knowledge, it was easy enough not to be affected by the setback of the eyes, using those cells.
But this way, he was also able to discover, that his mental energy or spirit energy was monstrous!
His conclusion about this was that, due to his experience of returning back to the moment of his family's death.
He was not only returning back in time but in the process of doing so his soul aged continuously instead of it simply reverting back to its younger state.
Basically, his soul still aged while time kept on repeating.
So even if he didn't add Hashirama cell in the equation of transplanting sharingan eyes, he 'might' still be fine in the end.
Hashirama's cells invoked a reaction, making the eyes evolve to the next stage. This phenomenon, was predicted by him. The Rinnegan was proved to be the result combination of Uchiha and Senju DNA in the show.
But only getting Mangekyou Sharingan? His only conclusion about this is because the pair of eyes he got was only a normal 3 Tomoe Sharingan and not an eternal Mangekyou from the start.
He was able to do all this over the years as Danzo became a little bit inactive and only resurfaced at a certain time.
It was of course the time when Tsunade was unconscious, this was after pain destroyed Konoha. Danzo took the seat of Hokage to himself, amidst the unstable state of Konoha.
Endou has long since gotten rid of the seal on him, and he silently got out of the root quite easily, since Danzo himself has long since forgotten about him, or so he thought.
He never expected for Danzo to be targeting him all along.
He was on his way out of the border of the fire country when Danzo showed up along with his bodyguards.
Taking out those two was a simple matter but Danzo with 10 sharingan on his arm?
It was not as easy as Sasuke made it to be, and Endou died even after using his Mangekyou sharingan. He was able to exhaust Danzo up until the 8th Izanagi but the old Hawk was not underestimating him the way he did when he fought Sasuke in the show.
Must have been nice having plot armor was Endou's complaint against Sasuke.
The only reason he was able to exhaust Danzo until the 8th Sharingan on his arms was because of his Mangekyou prowess.
His left eye let's him stop time for any living beings for 3 mins, and a few more seconds if he stretches it. The greater number of living beings he stops time, the lesser the time it will be stopped. The concept is that, their consciousness still runs but their bodies stop or freezes in time.
Meanwhile on his right eye, he was able to turn time 5 seconds back to the past. It has a limit of twice a month before he is able to use it again. The ability's drawback is that the time interval decreases from 5 seconds down to 3 seconds per use, and 1 second if he stretches it one more time in exchange greater pressure on his eyes and his life force.
Every use of Mangekyou clearly have a drawback. If it wasn't for his monstrous spirit energy, he might have been able to stop or turn back time for much longer.
Clearly, all these powers were influenced by his repeated regressions.
But even with all this powers, he still died after Danzo used his 9th sharingan and rewrote reality with Izanagi. While his ability to turn back time was only 2 times, 3 if he forced it, and he did. The result still didn't change.
Ando so, Endou died for the 35th time in Naruto world.
[AN: He is unaware of the number of times he returned back in time.]
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"Endou!" he heard his sister call out his name as memories of what happened came to him.
Endou bit his lips as tears fell off his eyes, he clenched his fist as blood slowly gushed out his stomach after the traitor pulled out the knife.
However, both his eyes suddenly turned scarlet with 3 tomoe circling the black dot in the center of his eyes!
It didn't stop there though, those three tomoe connected to each other and formed a standing infinity sign it almost looked like an hourglass if not for the dots inside each of the circle.
Endou could feel power through his eyes, and the way his sight change was proof of that as he could clearly see the bandit's next move.
He knew this feeling, it was the Mangekyou sharingan! He actually carried it with him, and it became his own.
Not bothering to dodge, he immediately put the bandit under Genjutsu, rendering him unable to move. Turning back time would be useless since his parents died way more than 5 seconds ago.
Feeling the pain in his stomach, he put pressure on it while utilizing the healing palm jutsu and slowly walked to his sister, who was mostly naked by now.
The bandit about to rape his sister saw Endou struggling to walk towards him. He complained to his companion.
"Why can't you hold a kid back, he's going to ruin my fun.!!" but his companion remained standing there, eyes opened as if he didn't hear what he said, in fact he was not moving at all.
"Fuck!! Just when I'm about to have some fun!" he stands up and was about to take care of the kid, but he halts from his movements as soon as he looked into kid's eyes.
The other bandits were dead along with some of the shinobi they hired as bodyguards. Only 2 of them remained, both was exhausted and injured.
They were probably the ones responsible for his survival the last time. Endou discreetly deactivated his eyes, and without hesitation picked up a blade from the bandit and killed them.
With his sister alive, Endou returned to Konoha with a family member. Right now, what is important to him was not getting stronger but the safety of his sister.
Therefore, he planned to live an ordinary and happy life with her.
He must have been out of his mind though; such a life was not possible here.
It must have been those pent-up emotions inside him that blinded his judgement, because his sister dying during Orochimaru's attack was not part of his plan to live an ordinary and happy life.
He held her bloodied body while crying, not caring of the chaos around him, but nothing seemed to affect them as no one bothered his sobbing moment.
His pain that he's been holding and tried to lessen burst out like water breaking out of a dam.
Ba dump!
[A heart beat gently enveloped the chaos rising in the center of Konoha]
"Ahhhhhh!!!!!!" Endou's spiritual energy exploded along with his pent-up emotions as he shouted. His eyes, rippled!!!
His body as if being sucked dry became thinner.
Bloodlust as dense as a smoke was felt by all the living beings in Konoha, be it allies or enemies, they all felt heavy, pressured and those weaker, felt afraid.
That's right, he was still Diablo, he's killed thousands of lives, and he's carried his bloodlust from his very first life.
What happened next was a blood bath. As someone who wielded the Rinnegan, his powers upgraded on a whole new level.
He razed Konoha to the ground using the almighty push, the same way pain did, but in the end, he was stopped by Kakashi and Gai. He died along with Hiruzen, Kakashi, Gai, Asuma, Kurenai, Iruka, and other Konoha shinobi both Jonin and Chunin levels.
But this blood bath didn't stop there, because each time he restarted, he did everything to save his sister, only for that sister to die later.
As if that was a fixed point in time that cannot be changed. Even when he tried to live in each hidden village, starting from the small ones to the 5 Great ones.
The fate of his sister to die cannot be changed and with it, a bloodbath and massacre followed and also his death as if both were predetermined that every time, he starts a massacre he was fated to die too.
Starting from the 37th restart he found no hidden village to hide his sister, he tried to even settle down to a forest where no one would bother them.
As if the world was out to get them, his sister still died by drowning in a lake, where they bathe.
That was his 101st restart, so Endou accepted his sister's fate dying in a forest from wild animal attacks while gathering fire woods.
Was he fated to repeat this for eternity? He doesn't know if he could take any more of this. He got an outlet each lifetime sure, but it doesn't really feel any better. Moving on is not forgetting the pain, it is getting used to it.
How can he get used to it when it all happens in mere moments not giving him the time needed.
He continued living there for as long as he can, he doesn't want to start the process once more as soon as his sister dies. He didn't even massacre and entire village, he simply lived an ordinary life alone in there.
Few years passed and he died during the 4th shinobi wars when the ten tails controlled by Madara and Tobi shot a concentrated tailed beast bomb, his place along with him was wiped out from the face of the Elemental Nations.
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104th restart begins!
Endou didn't fight fate anymore and lived in Konoha with his sister whom he still saved, after receiving his memories back.
He started interacting with the protagonist and went to the ninja academy as a normal civilian.
This way he was close to Naruto and his plan starts when both of them failed the graduation exam. And as expected, Mizuki showed up in front of Naruto, but this time, Endou was there with him.
He was driven by a new objective, since he'll be spending a lot of time in this world, then why not learn all the jutsu in this world?
And so, Endou spent a lot of restarts to learn all the jutsu that he can on the forbidden scroll. Any ninjutsu outside of it, he earnestly learned that too within Konoha and that was all done until his 156th restart.
Once he was done with that, he followed up on the next largest hidden villages. Hidden Sand, Hidden Mist, Hidden stone and the Hidden Cloud village and did it all until his 403rd restart.
From time to time at a certain restart, Endou's emotions would explode at certain points, then ensue a bloodbath on the village which he's currently learning from.
He actually had to return back and forth from village to village in every restart, to reach a certain mastery of what ninjutsu he's learning.
From the flying raijin, 8 inner gates, reanimation, puppetry, poison, silent killing, lighting armor to kekkai genkai and touta such as the atomic dismantling jutsu, lava style, magnet style, Ice style, and finally even the crystal style of Guren.
Be it by experimentation to get those bloodline limits, he was able to develop them and by restarting make it as if it was his own from birth. This blind spot in his every restart was taken advantage fully by him. It was one of the reasons why he never had to repeat stealing sharingan eyes again.
There were bloodline limits however that he was unsuccessful with such as the Kaguya Clan's, Hyuga Clan, Aburame and those special clans that needs special bodies besides the Ino-Shika-Cho Clan which he was able to acquire through numerous corpses of the said Clans.
This was all done up until his 469th restart.
As his emotions blew from time to time, his mental prowess grew with it. And even if he didn't die after killing a lot, he was hunted down by all the hidden villages.
He, for some reason still dies during the 4th shinobi war. Be it by accident or intended, at a certain point, he dies for some reason, the same way his sister's death was a fixed point in time.
He then thought, if that was the case then he will steal a certain organization's plan.
On his 477th restart he started collecting the Bijuus because, why not? When there were no consequences, it'll all restart anyway.
It took a lot of restarts to eventually make their chakra his own. Only Bee and Gyuki made it difficult for him to capture, the rest along with Naruto was easy enough using his Rinnegan and planned tactics.
He captured the 3rd Bijuu last and sealed it inside him, completing the collection of chakras.
As if on cue, his hair turned white along with his body, 9 black balls appeared and floated behind him.
But-
Without the husk (Gedo), all that power inside him, even his body with all the power up he got was unable to hold it together.
He died due to the power he possessed. How laughable, to die by his own hands.
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599th restart
Endou started as a powerful individual. If last time his body couldn't handle it, this time it did. Although, he was a lower version of Hagoromo, power was still power.
Reanimating his family was simple enough and reviving them was just a bit harder.
For the first time, Endou didn't have to live alone with his sister, but with the all family he loved, although forced, he still loves them genuinely based on the memories.
He'd still pick them over his very first family on earth.
But,
a fixed point in time remains fixed. His family still dies. Surprisingly though, he hasn't started a bloodbath because of it nor did he revive them again only to suffer the same emotional breakdown.
Instead, he wasted himself in every red-light district he can go to, with his prowess, entering was easy enough by making his figure mature more in one go.
Liquor, gambling, women and even drugs. He wasted himself in it. HIV? AIDS? And other communicable diseases during sexual intercourse with multiple partners? What does it matter? He will live again anyway.
That was until he encountered a certain blond. Pretty face, a very attractive rack, a very seductive figure, blond and a diamond shaped tattoo on her forehead
It was another emotion he felt besides Love, Pain, Annoyance, Despair, and Wrath.
He was infatuated with this blond, it was Lust. And lust he felt, he followed.
Courting, subduing or even taming Tsunade was close to impossible. But blackmailing her through gambling?
Endou could honestly say, he had the best sex in his entire lifetime with her. Her stamina was monstrous! Good thing he himself was more than that.
What he didn't expect after that, was him marrying her and joining on her journey back to Konoha. Jiraiya and Naruto actually came few days later, and after a certain confrontation with Orochimaru, she finally agreed to return.
But bringing Endou with her was out of Jiraiya's trembling expectation. He was like a corpse the whole trip with Naruto laughing at his misery.
And so, Endou enjoyed his married life with Tsunade. Many could only envy him as he didn't just marry a beautiful woman but the strongest woman in konoha and also the Godaime Hokage.
In the span of 2 years, they had a daughter.
Endou already revealed to her his Rinnegan before their marriage. He told her; he was experimented when he was young which was true only that he himself did it. Tsunade still married him after knowing that and believed in him. She didn't enlist him in Konoha and only appointed him one job. Protect their daughter, Tsumei, which he will of course do even if she didn't say it herself.
Pain's invasion didn't last long and Konoha wasn't destroyed with Endou protecting it long enough for Naruto's return.
But his fixed point still came, the 4th shinobi war, was a stage he was destined to die.
It was the fight between Madara and the five Kage, where Tsunade's body was separated from top to bottom.
He, as her husband, doesn't want that scenario, what if Orochimaru didn't help this time? he doesn't want to leave it to chance.
And so, he saved the five Kage from certain near-death experience. But by doing so, it made Kaguya's revival earlier than expected.
By saving Tsunade, this time he died once more, as it was a very dangerous and deadly attack in Kaguya's arsenal which killed Obito in Canon. It was the ash bone killing Jutsu.
"Dear!" Tsunade screamed in despair as Endou's body crumbled while shielding her from the attack.
His last words to her were, "Take care of our daughter. I love you both, Tsunade."
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Endou was actually content with such an ending that he followed through it from his 700th restart until the 901st restart when something unexpected happens.
In his 901st restart, Kaguya didn't emerge at all.
That was the time he was able to fight with his everything against the 'ghost' of the Uchiha Clan, Madara himself. He also didn't die and watched his daughter Tsumei become a shinobi herself and even have 5 more younger siblings.
The 2nd eldest son, Tsukishima. The 3rd son, Tsubaki. The 4th daughter, Elise. The 5th son, Eli. And the 6th daughter, Elizabeth.
His children up to the 5th son were attending the academy while his youngest and his wife was with him on vacation when Konoha was attacked by the Otsutsuki Clan.
Naruto confronted them but was defeated as he had to sacrifice himself to save Konoha. When the enemy caught Naruto, they were supposed to leave.
But on the fleeing civilians something caught their eyes.
They sensed their bloodlines through 5 children who were helping the evacuation.
Momoshiki, clearly the higher one in rank ordered for the capture of the 5 children who were taken with Naruto to another dimension.
While waiting for Sasuke, Naruto was helpless as he saw 3 of Tsunade's children were turned into fruits. That was when Sasuke arrived with Boruto and the other kage.
Upon learning the death of his 3 eldest children, Tsunade returned to her depressed state while Endou and his remaining children comforted her.
Endou asked Naruto and Sasuke to inform them to call him should the rest of the clan of the two invaders came. From Sasuke he was able to know that there were more of them that roams the universe and sucked every planet they invade dry by planting the god-tree.
Endou faced the rest of the Otsutsuki clan and died at their hand's multiple times.
He could not prevent the death of his children just like how he was unable to prevent the death of his sister and family, it took 3 restarts for him to accept that.
It took him 2 restarts to defeat the invading Otsutsuki clan members, another 2 to destroy their multiple conquered worlds and finally 94 restarts to destroy their main world.
He returned to his grieving wife and remaining 3 children after eradicating every last one of the Otsutsuki, Kama or not. He was their executioner and ender.
Endou watched as Tsunade dies of old age.
As his children have families of their own and give him grandchildren.
As his children also dies of old age.
As his grandchildren also dies the same way.
Down to the very last bloodline.
He watched as he stopped aging.
He was immortal.
He was cursed.
He watched as the shinobi civilization ended.
As another rise from the ashes and burn the same.
As the world breathed its last breath.
As he was swallowed by the exploding sun.
He watched as everything became nothing.
[999th restart ended]
End of chapter 1