Past Mistakes: A Naruto/Bleach Crossover Story
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Bleach
There are no bounts in this story and this is right after the Rescue Rukia arc. 2nd story!
"Talking"
'Thinking'/ Flashback
"Zanpakuto/Hollow talking"
'Zanpakuto/Hollow thinking'
Chapter 1
000oooo000
Seireitei, 12:00 p.m.
Squad 13 Barracks
Things were finally beginning to cool down with all that had happened recently. Rukia's execution, intruders in the Seireitei, and then the most unexpected- the betrayals of Kaname Tosen, Ichimaru Gin, and Souske Aizen: ex-captains of Squads Nine, Three, and Five.
Tonight it was acting fuku-taicho's of Squad 13, Sentaro and Kiyone on guard duty.
Though life has now returned to normalcy in the Seireitei and the two guards on duty that night were taking full advantage of the peace, while they were on the job nothing would get past them.
"Zzzzzzzzz..."
"Hey, wake up lazybones! You're supposed to be on guard duty!" hissed Kiyone. "Or maybe I should tell Ukitake-taicho you were lying down on the job." "That would make me a shoein for the spot of fuku-taicho! Yatta!"
"Like he would believe you anyway." Sentaro sniffed. "I am the one that is practically running this squad all on his own, that's why I'm fuku-taicho-"
"Oi!"
"- besides all the excitement has come and gone. There's no guarding to be done."
"Baka! We can't afford to be so lax right now! Ryoka have broken in before it could happen again."
"Ha, I wish someone would try to get in here I'd-"
"Be careful what you wish for Sentaro." said a new voice.
Sentaro and Kiyone stopped arguing long enough for them to see "Rukia!" they shouted.
"Are-you-alright-should -you-be-up?" Bombarding her with questions and butting in on one another's sentences.
"I was just on my way to see Ukitake-taicho since-" A heavy spritual pressure fell suddenly, choking them to the point of nearly passing out. Then it was gone as if it were never there leaving them all stunned in silence.
"That was not natural," Rukia began "no one in the Seireitei has such a large amount of spiritual pressure."
"Except for Zaraki-taicho."
"How would you know, you'd be flattened the minute you stepped within 20-ft of the guy."
"So would you Kiyone!"
"Nu-uh."
The strange spiritual pressure was quickly forgotten by the two fuku-taicho wannabes as they began arguing again back to their post.
Sighing, Rukia continued her trek to the captains office just a little more wary then before.
Unlike her squad members she knew Kenpachi would'nt go flaring spirit energy like that unless he found an opponent worthy like 'Ichigo...'
Her thoughts turned to her rescuer that had gone back to his home in the human world a few days ago. She didn't feel as though she would ever see him again, and yet was worried for his safety in the future. '...be careful.'
Reaching her destination Rukia looked to the sky, half expecting to see a cannonball shoot though it again. When that clearly didn't happen she decided to refocus on her reason for being there and went inside.
In the shadow of the moon the silhouette of an animal of some sort appeared and as quickly as it came it was gone.
000oooo000
12:30 a.m.
Squad Six Barracks
A worn Kuchki Byakuya was sitting by a pond trying to meditate and calm his nerves. Said nerves were very hard to get on, however, an event earlier that day has made him anxious.
~Flashback~
7:45 p.m.
Squad One Barracks
Byakuya and his fuku-taicho Abarai Renji was walking to the captians meeting room in Squad One's headquarters. This was the first meeting to be called after Aizen's betrayal.
Upon arriving, he saw them discussing (arguing) amongst themselves as always what the topic of the meeting was about.
The head of Squad One, Yamamoto Gennryuusai-Shigekuni, walked in and stamped his cane on the floor. "Order! This meeting of the 13 court guard squads will now be in session."
"As you know, the events transpired in the last 28 days have caused chaos in the Seireitei.
We are now short three captains and due to extenuating circumstances divisions three, five, and nine are hereby disbanded!"
Gasps went up all around the room and the protests started to roll in.
"You can't be serious!"
"Yamamoto-taicho!"
"This isn't-"
"QUIET! With the Central Forty-six's execution, sole responsibility of such matters fall to me. None of the vice-captains are qualified to take over for their divisions. Nor can we afford to send others to run them." referring to Renji who had obtained Bankai during the ordeal.
"Also, with no way to know how this travesty has occured, caution is the only path to be treading."
"All shinigami of Squads Three, Five, and nine are now suspended until further notice."
~Flashback End~
12:45 a.m.
Squad Six Barracks
The last thing anyone expected was Byakuya to be questioning authority, however...
'Never in history has such an act transpired. There have been traitors in the past and were dealt with under the fullest extent of the law.'
He looked at his reflection in the pond. 'The right to disband any one of the 13 Court Guard Squads belongs only to the king...'
"Hm?" Byakuya whipped around, hand on the hilt of senbonzakura. Sensing no one he settled down again.
'... They turn on their own now. He must be desperate...' A shadow in the moon's thought as it leapt off, getting ever closer to it's target. ' Desperation attracts vultures old man.'
000oooo000
12:50 a.m.
Squad 8 Barracks
-knock-knock-
"Hmm? Come in." said the captain of Squad 8, Kyoraku Shunsui.
-Slam- the door slid open to reveal an out of breath Juushiro Ukitake.
"What is wrong?"
"The outside...of the gate-cough-wheeze-cough-COUGH!" That last cough had Ukitake spitting up blood.
Kyoraku left Nanao to tend to his friend while he went to see what it is that had Ukitake risking his health over. Coming to the front of his barracks' gate 'It can't be...its true...'
~Many flashbacks ago~
"Sensei why did this happen?" asked a much younger looking Ukitake.
"It was a...tragic accident." said a somber looking Kyoraku.
"Urusei! I was asking sensei not you. How could you call something like this an accident! Millions of lives-!"
"Juushiro! I would have expected you to understand why it is necessary to destroy a threat before it destroys you. Have I taught you nothing?" said Head Captian Yamamoto.
"THERE WAS NO THREAT! You call defenseless women and children a threat? What about the shinigami we lost, how are we going to tell their families they died over a stupid MISTAKE!"
"Such casualties are always the product of war. No side is a true victor. However, with this last one we will ensure the safety of future generations."
"I can never accept that, and I can't accept that you would try and justify what happened here. We were wrong."
"It is the past and this part shall stay buried beneath the sands of time."
"...I will not help you."
"What?"
"I will not turn a blind eye to this. I know what happened here and will always know. So will everyone that has survived. However I will not tell of what happened here for three reasons."
"And what might those be?"
"While I have lost my respect for you, you are still my sensei and I am not a total ingrate."
"..."
"Second because I would rather the future be ignorant instead of having guilt and shame weigh over their heads for their ancestors sins."
"More like ashamed of all shinigami." muttered Kyoraku not too happy with where this was going.
"Third, karma. What goes around comes around."
'Someday...'
"I don't know when but there will come a time for retribution especially if he's still out there."
"That's impossible Juushiro, there is no more life in this world."
"Technically that includes us as well."
"He is not wrong sensei, there could still be many restless spirits out there."
"Hollows are the product of restlessness, and it is your job as a shinigami to exterminate hollows."
~Flashback to the Present~
12:55 a.m.
Squad 8 Barracks
'Someday... I said I would return the favor.'Was the message written in blood dripping from the wall across the Seireitei.
"Taicho! Ukitake-sama's- gasp- Nani!"
"Nanao go inside."
"But!-"
"Go inside and stay there until I tell you otherwise!"
"...Hai."
'You always have to be right don't you 'Shiro?' Kyoraku sent the first hell butterfly he got to every captian in the Seireitei telling them to call all their men back to their barracks and to head to Squad One. What was coming was too strong for them to handle.
Finishing the messages, he shunpoed there himself.
000oooo000
12:58 a.m
Squad 1 Barracks-Meeting Room
Yamamoto was standing alone in the meeting hall. The wind was blowing so hard outside it could be heard. One dim light of a candle remained in the room giving it light.
"Have you resigned to your fate old man?" said the voice of the shadow plaguing everyone's peripheral senses.
"Such an arrogant boy you are. To think you can defeat me- laughable."
"I don't see any of my enemies laughing now. Soon you won't be either. You made a grave mistake."
"...And what might that be." Yamamoto asked.
"You underestimated me."
000oooo000
12:59 a.m.
Squad One Barr-
BOOM
'What was that?' was the question running through everyone's mind as they raced to the 1st division, or ratther what was left of it when they got there.
The entirety of Squad 1 laid in shambles on the ground. Dismembered parts and disfigured bodies were strewn amongst the rubble. One body stood out in particular.
-GASP-
The head of Squad One, founder of the Shinigami Academy, Yamamoto Gennryuusai-Shigekuni, was dead.
To be continued
AN: Hello everybody! This is my second story and I hope you've enjoyed the first chapter of Past Mistakes. What happened to the old man? Details will be given in the next chapter. For a while this will have a formal Bleach setting then we will get into the background of things. Read and review.