Yo, what up? Shamrock Sage here and this is my pilot story (wild applause from the audience)! Okay, okay calm down everybody. As always me and my stories will be open to your opinions and your criticism so please read and review.

Bold- Demon/ Hollow speaking

Bold Italics- Demon/Hollow thinking

normal- nuff said

Italics- person thinking

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Bleach

Now without further ado let the story begin!!

Drink Away Your Sorrows

Chapter 1: Remembering Me

-Unknown Location-

He awoke suddenly in a strange place. He was disoriented, his head hurt like a mother fucker, and there was a strange burning sensation behind his eyes. When the pain finally subsided he took in his surroundings. It was an run-down urban area or, more a slum than anything. No matter how hard he tried he just couldn't remember where he was. In fact, he couldn't even remember how he got here or where he came from. All the years of happy, sad ,and precious memories seemed to have been whisked away on his apparent journey to where he was currently located.

The city he was in was massive but for so inconceivable reason seemed abandoned. All the buildings around him while run-down seemed like they were waiting for their occupants return.

He debated with himself whether or not to break into a house

He decided that it was worth any risk to find somebody... anybody who could help

Around the next bend he saw a row of run down houses each one looking steadily worse as though they had been planned to do so

"Hello is anybody home?"

He was meet only with silence

"I hope you don't mind me taking a look around," He called out in a vague attempt to humor himself... It was unsuccessful.

The houses' outer appearances masked the true nature of the house; it was more a shack or a dump than a house. He figured that at one time this had been a fairly nice house but those days were long gone and the rotting floorboards beneath he only served to legitimize his reasoning. Seeing there was nothing to be gained from staying here he decided to move on

Our Hero wandered aimlessly for a couple hours coming no closer to any answers as to why he was here the same questions kept running through his head. Why can't I remember anything? Who am I? Where am I? Why won't this throbbing in my head STOP? Calm down, just think about the problem let's see someone must know who I am I mean I didn't just fall from the sky... right? Just think; search your mind let's see... the last thing I remember is.

-Flashback-

He found himself standing amongst a village set ablaze by black flames. Villagers were running everywhere trying to douse the flames with water and fire extinguishers, but to no avail. The flames kept consuming the woodwork and concrete like some kind of hunger crazed animal.

He had a very weird feeling; it was as though he had been here before and his body had a yearning or longing for him to return here. That feeling however was quickly replaced by nausea as he watched innocent people being consumed by the black flames and the village hospital collapsing in on itself while the wounded were still being evacuated.

Men, women, and children where running around with fear in their eyes and plastered all over their faces. Though for some reason he could not hear them. Strange men with masks were desperately shouting commands trying desperately to calm the raging masses. People everywhere we're shouting things at him, he tried to read their lips but he could only make out a few words.

"Stop d...ing ..round ......-sama we ne.. yo... help!!" yelled an vaguely familiar girl.

"Naruto-kun ....ry our ..ouse is b...ning down!" called out a beautiful women that felt very familiar

A collective shout of "Help us ......-sama!!" was yelled out by the villager that now surrounded him

All the while buildings all around him collapsed in on themselves consumed by the black flames. Alone man walked from amongst the flames but was not consumed by them and said.

" Thi..... the... for... Naruto Namikaze." Then the world around him faded into nothingness.

-End Flashback-

He regained consciousness in the alleyway that he apparently passed out in with the same throbbing head ache that he woke up with earlier. He was back in the same slum that he had wandered around in earlier. Gone we're the insatiable black flames, vaguely familiar faces and the strange man who walked out of the flames. Peace and quiet had been restored and he was once again left alone with only his thoughts to keep him company.

So many new questions filled his head Okay WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT. Kami must hate me because that really just raised even more questions than before. After all that I still don't know anything about who I am and what the hell I'm doing here.

More confused than he had been just a few minutes prior he decided that he would use the name that the mysterious man called him. Naruto Namikaze... whenever he thought the name he got the same sense of nostalgia that he had when he saw the burning village in his dream. It was as though his dormant memories were yelling out for him to remember who he was but no matter how hard he tried he couldn't seem to make his memories resurface.

It got dark in this city faster than normal and the time came when finding shelter from the unnaturally cold night became a necessity for Naruto. Already too late to turn back to the row of houses that he passed through earlier he sought shelter in the public restrooms that appeared every few blocks.

Upon his arrival he quickly found himself quite the comfortable spot inside the women's' restroom (the men's room was a wreck). He was happy to discover that the bathroom both had lighting and running water for a shower. Refreshed from his shower Naruto looked into the mirror mounted on the wall for the first time. His reflection showed that of an average 19 year old man with two piercing, silted blue eyes and spiky golden blond hair that had cherry-red highlights at the tips. He had a very well sculpted build that he obviously worked very hard to maintain. Standing at 5 11" he was a little on the shorter side but could feel the power and grace coiled up in his body.

Just before Naruto slipped into a deep and well-deserved respite heard in the distance an animalistic screech and what sounded like a young girl crying. Naruto's instincts took control of him and he rushed towards the sounds.

The roaring and screaming kept getting closer and closer as Naruto rushed down the streets. Until finally he arrived at the source.

A little girl was flailing and screaming wildly as some... thing held her up in the air. She was clamped between the appendages of some horribly disfigured creature. It had long spindly legs that looked almost like a humans if not for the two spikes that jutted out of the monsters knees. Its body also looked almost human except for the massive hole in the middle of its chest and the two crab-like arms that were attached to it. But the thing that most caught Naruto's attention was the large white mask that was donned upon its head. The mask was bent and contorted at weird angles it almost looked like that of a humans skull but one that that was disfigured almost beyond recognition.

"What the hell are you doing," yelled Naruto

The creature stopped what it was doing and turned to face Naruto

the beast said nothing to him not wanting to was its words on him apparently.The beast had a wild look in its eyes as it casually examined the man that stood before him as though he was staring at a piece of beef.

"Answer me damn it!" screamed Naruto, " Just what the fuck are you?"

"What am I?" reiterated the creature "You wanna know who I am?"

Naruto suddenly felt very ill and a sickly aura settled in the pit of his stomach. This thing is just toying with me. Like a child playing with his food. thought Naruto ironically.

The creature then moved with a speed that a creature with its girth should not be able to achieve and whispered in Naruto's ear with a mocking tone "I have no name."

Naruto was just quick enough to avoid getting his head lobbed off by the gigantic creature. realizing that he had an opening for an attack Naruto unleashed a vicious combo of round house kicks, but to no avail the creature though stunned did not seem to show any signs of fatigue or injury. Naruto on the other hand was already panting like a dog and his legs were undoubtedly banged up after hitting the creatures hardened torso so many times. A glazed look came over Naruto's eyes as he collapsed to the floor in front of the creature.

Unfazed by the boys attacks the creature strutted over and picked Naruto up with a smug smile plastered upon his masked face. "If that's all that you got kid than I've had better fights from small children" mocked the creature.

In that instant he lost track of Naruto only to find the cherry-blonde standing directly in behind of him with a kunai knife pressed against the creatures neck. There was a soulless look in Naruto's eyes as he bent down and whispered in the monsters ear "I remember".