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Summary: Dedication on behalf of James of Gales. Ash, Angie, Naruto and Hinata mysteriously wind up in the Soul Society being chased by Soul Reapers.

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A village. A maze of linking structures and plated roofs stretched miles on end. To live here would take time to understand the layout of the village. That's time four young unsuspecting people and two creatures don't have, even if granted a head start. One was a raven-haired boy wearing a red baseball cap, jeans and a black zipped-up vest over a white tee-shirt. By him was a green-haired female in a loose green shirt. She had blue sweatpants on. Probably working out. Across from the first boy was another. He was blond with some interesting whiskers on his face while dressed in a stocky orange jumpsuit and sporting a blue headband. By him was a violet-haired female in a light gray coat and blue slacks. Let's not forgo the two creatures. One was a yellow mouse with a tail shaped like a lightning bolt. The other was a blue lion cub with a black back end and a four-point star on it's tail. It would be that cub that awoke first. It saw the downed people and mouse, swiftly dashing over to the green-haired female. ("Master!") it was calling out as it used it's tail to ruffle her nose. ("Master, you okay?") It was doing the trick. The green-haired girl began to stir.

"I'm...alive?" she moaned. She started to rise but slipped and plopped her butt on the tile road. "Man, what happened? First that little girl, then the vacuum forcing us into that cave..." Something about that didn't quite make sense. She peered around, knowing that she wasn't in this "cave" she claimed to be in. She turned to the cub. "Shinx, get Pikachu up. I got Ash."

("Yes, ma'am!") The quick talk seemed to have had been listened on by the violet-haired girl who woke...but what happened to her eyes? There was no iris, no pupil... Was she blind?

"What's going on?" she weakly muttered. She looked around the same area and then down to the blond in orange...and blushed blood red so fast. Did she know him? 'N-N-N-Naruto? He was beside me all-' she backed away until she slipped, falling back first onto the raven-haired. She shifted her body to make sure she fell and caught herself. Well in a sense, she did. She smacked her hands on the road...but landed her face onto his, lips touching. Anyone thinking "Sleeping Beauty" with reversed roles? The raven-haired felt the extra pair of lips rubbing along his own. He opened his eyes to see her on top of him. The girl saw what she was doing and pushed herself up, deep flood of nervous sweat washing her face. "I-I-I-I-I'm sorry! That was not on purpose! I swear!" The raven-haired was more bewildered than the girl who kissed him, if anyone hadn't figured it out already.

"Hey, hey, relax," he tried to ease. "Don't get so uptight about it." The violet-haired female began to comfort herself, breathing slower and easier since the incidental kiss. The raven-haired looked around the scene for his own before picking up Pikachu who was still out. "How the heck did we go from the school to this place?" He was in a school?

"I'm not sure, Ash," the green-haired girl shrugged. The violet-haired girl was curious about where the two came from.

"What school do you go to?" she questioned. Ash and the green-haired girl turned to the violet-haired one. The green-haired sported a smug at the violet-haired. Was it the kiss? It looked more than likely.

"And you are?" Ash wondered. The violet-haired girl slightly jumped but recovered quick.

"I-I'm Hinata. Hinata Hyuga, a chunin from the Hidden Leaf Village."

"I'm Ash Ketchum, Pokémon trainer and that's Angie." Hinata noticed the smug on Angie's face.

"Why is...Angie looking at me like that?" Ash looked at Angie and had a clue.

"It could be that accidental kiss." It could be? It looked more than could.

"I-It's not that!" Angie tried to deny while darting her head away. She did turn back to answer her question. "It's the Pokémon Summer Academy held every year in the Sinnoh Region. It's like summer camp." While she did answer, her attitude still needed work. She continued to grit at Hinata, still being innocent to the incident.

"Angie, I told you that it was accidental. No reason to blow your shirt off." Angie wanted to do something to Hinata. Hearing Ash, Angie believed that Ash was protecting Hinata for a more prominent theory. That's when she saw Shinx smelling out Naruto. This could be good for a laugh. Shinx had a whiff of something foul.

"Shinx?" Pikachu woke up to the noise, wondering about what was going on. Then, Shinx opened its mouth wide. Oh boy. CRUNCH! Naruto opened blue eyes...and air filled lungs. He screamed from Shinx's bite to the buttocks. There's no worse feeling than having your seat as someone's snack. Naruto began to dance in terror and pain from the bite...and Shinx held on for dear life.

"Get it off!" he screamed in pain. "Get it off!Get it off!Get it off!" Shinx released its fangs and allowed Naruto to relax. He was rubbing his own tail end to make sure the bite wasn't permanent.

"Never thought Shinx would use Crunch to wake someone up." At least Angie had calmed down. Naruto was livid. His pride had been tampered...literally.

"What the heck was that all about?" he roared. "I didn't deserve that bite to my tail. It's not breakfast!" Okay... That's when Naruto finally took stock of the scenery. This wasn't where he wanted to end up. "Say, this isn't the pathway to the Hidden Village in the Land of Earth, is it?" No, not quite.

"Hidden Village in the Land of Earth?" Ash repeated. That's when Naruto remembered some specific detail that just clicked in his head. He turned to Ash.

"Say Kiba, can you look up the map and make sure we're going the right way?" Kiba? Ash was stupefied with Naruto's request...or what he called him.

"Do I look like a Kiba to you?" Naruto had to look again and realize that Ash was not Kiba.

"Okay, who the heck are you, pal? And what have you done to Kiba and Akamaru?" So now he's accusing Ash of hindering the team? Even Angie had to step in.

"That's enough!" she yelled. Everyone was paying attention to the green-haired owner of Shinx. "Look, I understand that we're all rather bewildered about what's been going on. No one is familiar with where we're at but that doesn't mean we should blow our tops in frustration." Ash and Hinata listened with intent. They knew that cooperation was key in surviving this maze of buildings. Naruto understood the issue.

"Well, if anything, we should stick together and watch our backs," Ash acknowledged. Hinata nodded to the idea but Naruto was pretty uptight about staying with a group.

"Hey, maybe you guys feel better about sticking together," he huffed. "But you two should know that Hinata and I just happened to be ninjas in training." Naruto and Hinata were ninjas? Even Ash had to scratch his head about the jumpsuit on Naruto if he was a ninja.

"I may not be an expert on ninjas and anything related but I don't recall any ninja wearing orange." Naruto gulped at the notion of being challenged as a real ninja because of the color of his clothes. Without warning, Pikachu's ears perked up. It was hearing something. Angie noticed the perking, knowing that something was coming.

"Pikachu, what is it?" she asked.

("I hear a group on their way here,") it squeaked. A group? Should they move? Wait?

"Do you know which direction, little guy?" Naruto wondered. Did...Naruto understood Pikachu? Pikachu tried to listen harder. That's when it heard more voices in different locations. Pikachu couldn't find out which direction they were all approaching from.

("Too many voices in all directions.") That was a letdown. Naruto shifted to Hinata.

"Hinata,you think your Byakugan can locate these guys?" What did Hinata have? Byakugan?

"I-I can try," she wondered. Naruto stood back, giving room for Hinata to perform.

"What's Byakugan?" Angie wondered. Naruto grinned and turned to the other non-ninjas.

"Step back and watch the magic," he assured. Ash and Angie obeyed and took a couple steps back. Hinata clasped her hands with two fingers each sticking up. Concentrate...

"Byakugan!" she shouted. A wave of force emitted from her and her eyes seemed to grow blood vessels. From her view, it was white...except for blue figures. These blue figures were running despondently in directions. There was another group...and another. Figuring that it was a maze they were running through, they were on their way to this spot. "There are groups of men that will arrive soon." That helped.

"Are they friendly?" Angie questioned. Hinata couldn't tell.

"I don't know. My Byakugan can't depict ally to hostile." Knowing that people were coming, Ash decided to be friendly with these coming people.

"Well, maybe if we tell them our situation," Ash opened up. "They'll understand and help us out." Not a bad idea. That's when the people arrived, all men...in black feudal era suits and all carrying swords. They're not really in the mood to talk.

"If by understanding being in the use of huge swords," Naruto hiccuped. This wasn't good news.

"Intruders!" one of the men in black yelled. The four were being chased by the garbed men. They began to run when more of the men showed up. Cornered.

"Now what?" Angie stuttered in fear. Naruto looked at the roofs. It's an option.

"Hinata, take the girl!" he commanded. "I'll take him." Hinata listened and allowed Angie to board her. Ash jumped onto Naruto before scaling the roof. The two ninjas carried the other two across the rooftops seeing miles of village around. They needed some place to keep out of danger. The question: where? They were wanted intruders being hunted down by men in black garbs. They had no idea where they were. The men leaped for the roofs, cutting the paths of the ninjas and others.

"Stop in the name of the Soul Society!" another in the black garb barked. Man, these guys were all over the place. Naruto and Hinata ceased where Ash hopped off, seeing if he could explain themselves out of the situation.

"Please, give us a chance to explain!" he wished. "We've been brought here against our will. We meant no trouble." It would seem as though maybe these guys would get the message.

"Surround! Make sure not to leave any openings for an escape! We wanna make sure they're not going to cause trouble!" From that sound, it wasn't good. The men surrounded the four, their swords trained to make sure any sudden move would be punishable. "Before, we had a substitute Soul Reaper bring his friends to redeem one of our own from death." Soul Reaper?

"So, what you're saying is that you guys are Soul Reapers who hunt souls to reap?" Angie guessed. The talker shook his head.

"It's nowhere near straightforward as you might think. We'll let you have your say in front of Head General Yamamoto and the 13-Court Squad to decide." A 13-Court Squad? To Ash, Angie, Naruto, Hinata, Pikachu and Shinx, doom was on the trip to see this Head General Yamamoto.

TO BE CONTINUED...