Call of souls

Part 1

"Naruto no!" a voice screamed from the darkness " don't die" it called again, but no response. He drifted, drifted into the darkness.

"You weak child, leaving before it is your time" an evil voice growled in the darkness. "Very well, where you are going, I shall accompany you!" the voice shouted out crimson energy shattered through the darkness.

Surfacing memories

What seemed like four years later

It'd been a long time since he came here, a long time since he'd first arrived at the 34th Rukongai district. A katana on his back with nothing else but his name, a pair of shredded orange and black trousers and a tattooed stomach. Four years of hell in this supposed paradise the Shinigami made it out to be.

Naruto gripped his Zanpaktou… or rather his would be Zanpaktou, a katana, his knuckles going white, his eyes emotionless as they had been since he'd gotten there, once again he could hear the voice call out who he was. "Where have your dreams gone?" one of the voices said. "What do you fight for!" "Why won't you try find your 'precious ones' yet?"

These questions tore at Naruto, but he couldn't remember anything.

"How's the dropout? He heard from across the seat he was on, it wasn't an insult, it was a friendly voice. In Shinigami academy, he was known as the lethal dropout.

"Hello Mai, how's it goin?" Naruto said trying to put the effort into greeting his friend.

"The voices taking jabs at you again?" she asked, concern in her voice.

"Bingo," was all Naruto could say. He took a look beside him to look at Mai for the first time in the conversation, she was a tall, very tan girl with violet hair, her eyes were sea blue, and a smile that could make anything stop and look twice if it could.

"It's not your fault," she said before she got up to go. "Those guys were going to get hurt either way, you just did it before I did!" she smiled and raised her fist to him. "I've been assigned a squad, told you it'd only take

A few years, and not the entire course!" she said punching the air above her. "I'm now in squad 13 under captain Jushiro Ukitake, would you come and walk me to the barracks?" she fluttered her eye-lashes and made puppy dog eye's at him.

"Sure why not," Naruto said letting out an odd lopsided grin. "not like I have anything better to do."

Soul society

7:43PM

Squad 13 barracks

"Sorry bout the 'shortcut' Naruto, I thought the forest led to here" mai said rubbing the back of her head.

"You still have no sense of direction Mai Shihōin," said shaking his head

"Well, I guess this is it," she said hugging Naruto. "See you as soon as I get off!" Mai nodded her head and walked into the barracks. yeah Naruto thought sadly. Maybe when you get past all the 100 things you'll have to do, he shook his head sadly. He jumped into a tree and closed his eyes.

He'd been there 3 days, his stomach growled, Guess it's time to look for something to eat, he thought jumping down from his place and running off into a near by forest, hunting for something big enough to fill him. He saw it, a huge boar. With skills he didn't know where came from, he stalked the creature, jumping high into trees whenever it looked behind and tried to catch what made a twig snap, or the leaves rustle. Naruto was directly over it now, he unsheathed his katana slowly and dropped.

Naruto was sitting in the middle of the woods alone, sitting by a fire he'd made, tearing chunks from a leg with his feral like canines, he could hear small pads silently pace around the camp.

"If you want some, I'm not gonna be able to finish it all by myself," he let off a smiled seeing a pack of foxes come into the light, he ripped on of the front legs off and skinned it with his katana before throwing it to the foxes boar down and let them nibble and tear into it while the kit's tried to imitate the adult, Naruto let out a rare smile, this was the reason he came out here, he loved the forest, and foxes liked him just as much. The pack's ears went up as a scream sounded towards the edge of the forest, Naruto's ears pricked up and eyes widened as he realised where the scream came from.

"It's all yours, eat up!" he shouted as his footsteps disappeared into the darkness. His instincts told him he was going into the heart of a battle ground, the familiar voice sounded in his head "Why are you going towards the fight?" it said. "could you have finally found someone precious?" the voice laughed coldly, an image started forming in his head, a effeminate guy about 16 was drifting away'you can only become truly strong if you have someone precious to protect. You will be strong', the voice rang clear in his ears, he smiled his old grin and eyes widened revealing slits where his pupils should have been.

When he got to the compound it looked as if a war had gone on there, another scream sounded, hold on Mai, I'm coming!

He came to a clearing soon after he heard the scream, he saw Mai sitting against a rock, sword facing up towards a monster with a white mask. Shivering wildly, she was clutching her shoulder where what looked to be a Large bite wound. Seeing her in this condition made Naruto's blood boil.

" Hey! Ugly, why not pick on someone with a little more muscle!" he said flexing his arm, the hollow licked it's lips, sensing a rich source or energy emitting from the boy, it slowly stalked around the boy, trying to find a break in defence.

Okay you stupid voice, if your there, lend me your strength to protect my precious one! Naruto shouted in his mind.

"FINALLY!" The voice roared, pleased to see the one he knew for the first time in years. The ground around Naruto turned blood red, Naruto gripped his zanpaktou and channelled his reatsu, the chakra from the demon fox merging with it, changing it into something different, demonic yet pure. The hollow smashed to the floor under the weight of the pressure, struggling intensely to stand.

"Wha-what are y-you?" it stuttered in fear, Naruto unsheathed his katana, and let his reatsu/chakra drop, he swung the blade and called 'fall from the torn heavens, Ellyon(lost/fallen angel)!' a shallow red light came from the blade, as it moulded into it's new form, the guard merged with the blade and stretched down, parallel to the hilt like a dagger, the blade though, turned blood red, and the blade curved in on itself on both sides before head back out, and stretching back to meet each other.

"A fallen angel looking for acceptance," he mumbled, red eyes glowing under his fringe

Mai looked in awe as her friend, the lethal dropout, turned out to be a lethal weapon, Naruto turned to the whimpering hollow and with a quick slash cut straight through the mask of the beast, putting the blade up to his shoulder, he put his hands on the fading mask of the hollow, and whispered 'live in peace friend', with that he turned and ran too Mai eyes full of concern.

"You okay?" he asked emotion registering on his face for the first time ever while he was here.

"You there what is your name?" a voice asked from atop the rock Mai was leaning against.

"With all due respect captain Ukitake, you just sat there and watched as a member of YOUR squad was attacked by a hollow, and I'm not part of the thirteen court guard, so with as little respect as this whole situation calls for… go shove it up your sickly ass!" Naruto said, emphasising all of his points, he insulted one of the fourteen most powerful men in Seireitei. With his piece said, he walked off.

Mai's eyes widened in shock and she stood up immediately and started apologising for Naruto's words, causing said blonde to sigh in exasperation.

She and captain Ukitake started discussing something frantically.

"Hey Naruto!" Mai called out to him.

"Yeah Mai?" Naruto said with warmth, taking mai by surprise.

"Captain Ukitake can arrange for you to go see head commander Yamamoto to become a full fledge soul reaper, how would you feel about that?" Mai smiled seeing his face light up then proceeding to doing a whole line of back flips.

Captain Ukitake leaned "Is he always this, uh, energetic?" he put it as delicately as he could.

"Actually captain," she started smiling. " he's been an emotionless husk since I met him.

Head captain Yamamotos' office

9:AM

"Naruto Uzumaki," head captain Yamamoto began. Naruto sat in a chair in front of him, fidgeting uncomfortably. "You have shown incredible prowess in killing that hollow, yet you failed every single exam in the academy, even summoning your shikai failed, yet you were able to do it with ease when fighting, and on another note, you were never tested for reatsu on account that you never were able to muster even a small amount, but on the accounts of both Mai Shihōin and captain Ukitake, the hollow could barley stand up, so let me experience this flooring spiritual pressure of yours." Yamamoto said smiling clearly thinking this was exaggeration.

Naruto stood up "As you wish sir," with that, the spiritual pressure started to rise, but Naruto was barley focusing, already it was at fourth seat level. "Do you want me to keep goin or?…" Naruto trailed off as Yamamoto nodded his head. Naruto took one deep breath and then the pressure doubled and doubled and doubled again, the room was starting to shake, but Naruto kept going, he put his hands into the ninja way to gather chakra, the pressure rose again, this time it was starting to make the general gain a shinier sheen on his baled head. "Enough," the words finally reached his lips and they were as strong and confident as if it never he'd never felt the pressure. "You may go, on the way out ask my secretary to write you a letter to captain Ukitake," he said walking to the huge balcony in his office. "You may go now".

A pale woman with bluish hair jumped down behind Yamamoto, "Were you trying to intimidate the poor boy, Captain?" she asked as she bowed.

"No, in fact, he made quite the impression on me, it was all his." Yamamoto said not even turning to look at his guest. "Soi fon, test him, see how far his skills go.

Naruto walked into the squad 13 barracks and knocked on captain Ukitake's door. He waited to be invited in but when he got no answer, he walked in, placed the letter on his desk, and walked out. Out of the barracks, and out of the compound, and into the forest he saw the familiar pack of foxes following him, he came to a clearing and saw a girl sitting on a stone, dark indigo hair , she looked up at him revealing a pair of pail lavender eyes with veins bulging around the sides of them, she smiled beautifully. "Found you, Naruto-kun" she smiled, then disappeared… leaving a stunned Naruto in her wake

Okay, I know this is my original story and all, but I decided to redo it, hopefully, this'll do better then it did the last time, of well I hope you enjoy this, hopefully eye's of chaos and order or twilight Shinobi order will be up next, till then. Slan!