Sealed
A/N: Okay, I don't know why I'm doing this when I should be working on my current project (aka, Of Exorcists, Hunters, and Shinigami) but since I was bored in the summer with nothing to read, I decided to take a look at HarryPotterxNaruto crossovers and some how I got hooked. So now I'm stuck with a fanfic that has a bunch of tiny other stories sticking out of it. I'll eventually finish what I started once I get rid of the annoying fanfic-idea-that-pops-up-everytime-i-am-bored mode. It's a curse I tell you!!
And lastly before, the fanfic starts, I just want to say that although I've been lazy since June, it doesn't mean I'm not going to update anything. I'm just not motivated to do anything. And as I promised to a certain someone *cough*xzeroxkira*cough*, I'm updating the other crossover and releasing this one to all the other people. I was going to post it up on Hitsugaya's birthday which was about a few days ago but I got lazy and I didn't have time to do anything like rereading it for any mistakes because of all the other things I must get done before I can enjoy winter break (which is now known as teachers-give-a lot-of-homework break).
Disclaimer: No one in my house owns Bleach or Naruto except for the DVDs we have and the lonely poster I have of Hitsugaya, Ichimaru, Kira, and Hisagi.
Warning: Hitsugaya will be a bit OOC for his mission and because a certain someone was rubbing off of him.
CHAPTER ONE – A MISTAKE IN SEALING
A village was in chaos. Dead bodies lay scattered after getting swatted away easily by a nine-tailed demon fox. Trees were scattered all over like toothpicks on the floor. There was silence everywhere as though the world had been paused by a remote control.
Yet, in a room, it was so much unlike the outside. A room with only candles that held light was filled a baby's crying. A lone figure stood above the child as it cried.
Time just slowed as the lone figure reached down toward the baby and whispered into the infant's ear.
"I hope you're made the right decision, Namikaze Minato." The lone figure turned around and saw nothing.
"I'm down here." Minato looked down to see a boy about the age of eleven with white, spiky hair and sharp, blue-green eyes staring at him with his hands crossed. Apparently the kid had problems with people criticizing his height.
"Heh heh. Didn't see you there." The man said, scratching the back of his head.
"Are you sure you want your son to-" The boy started.
"I don't want anyone's child to be faced with this burden." Minato stated. The boy understood. It was because the man was an honorable one that did anything to protect his precious people.
"You should get going. I'll meet you there." The boy said as he walked towards the baby, looking over the seals that were prepared.
Just as before Minato left the room, he asked, "Are you sure you're a shinigami? I thought they were taller."He laughed, making sure he teased someone for the last time.
The boy twitched and Minato left just in time before the boy aimed something at his head. His laughter lingered in the room.
The boy looked over the seals for any mistakes and strengthened it more with his own. He looked up in a few minutes.
"It's about time. Sayonara, Naruto."
Moments later, the outside world was finally back to life as the Yondaime and Gamabunta, who had the Yondaime on top of his head, appeared on the battle field against the Kyuubi. Seconds later, the same boy earlier appeared next to the Yondaime without a sound.
"What kept you?"
"Nothing much. Just wanted to make sure your seals were okay and strengthened them."
"Really? And here I thought you weren't going to make it." The boy twitched at the comment, using all of his control not to strangle the joking man in front of him.
If anyone had heard their talk, not like anyone could, they would have thought the man and the boy were crazy talking so casually with a demon that could create many tsunamis with just a swing of its tails right in front of them ready to lunge at the pair.
"Let's take down this old fur ball." Hitsugaya Toushirou smiled. He was starting to like this man. It reminded him of a certain someone.
Three Years Later…
Another meeting in Soul Society was driving every high ranking shinigami crazy. They were having at least two meetings each day, one in the early morning and one late in the evening.
Why? There was only one reason: Too many hollows popping up in two odd places.
No matter how many times one of them was cut down, ten more hollows would pop up in the killed hollow's place. The 'two odd places' was even more odd than the fact that hollows pop up like daisies (not like hollows are daisies). Location number one was Karakura Town, which happened to be the next jyuureichi(1) location. Location number two was just a small (or not so small depending on how you look at it) sub-dimensional pocket in Japan that only the taichou(s) would know about. Casualties were increasing each day as the number of hollows increased. The only division enjoying this was, of course, the eleventh division but it was hell week for the fourth division.
But that matter wasn't the big issue today.
The big issue today was what to do about the other location, the sub dimension pocket in Japan that only the taichou(s) know about. And since the current meeting that our characters are stuck in, are for both taichou(s) and fukutaichou(s), the topic was held at the end of the meeting after the Karakura Town issue and other issues that were discussed.
"As for the other location's issue, everyone but Soi Fong-taichou, Unohana-taichou, Kuchiki-taichou, Kyouraku-taichou, Hitsugaya-taichou, Zaraki-taichou, Kusajishi-fukutaichou, Kurotsuchi-taichou, Kurotsuchi-fukutaichou, and Ukitake-taichou can leave." Everyone, who includes Sasakibe-fukutaichou, Oumaeda-fukutaichou, Ichimaru-taichou, Kira-fukutaichou, Kotetsu-fukutaichou, Aizen-taichou, Hinamori-fukutaichou, Abarai-fukutaichou, Komamura-taichou, Iba-fukutaichou, Ise-fukutaichou, Tousen-taichou, Hisagi-fukutaichou, Matsumoto-fukutaichou, and the two third seats (Kotetsu and Kotsubaki) that follow Uki-chan around, trying to get the fukutaichou seat, left the ten said people.
Hinamori and Matsumoto walked out of the first division doors, both having the same intentions.
Hunt down Toushirou when he comes out and squeeze out the information from him about the sub dimensional pocket in Japan that didn't knew about and while they're at it, they'll ask him about what he wants for his birthday with indirect questions. His birthday was in three days and they still had no idea what to get him. At least, they got Ukitake's present and the shirou-chans' party planned about a week ago. Maybe they'll get him a month supply of fresh, sweet watermelons.
But they both didn't know that Hitsugaya wouldn't be coming out in quite a while and so would the others.
Deep in the forests of Konoha…
Another day was over and snow was still falling but much softer than before. (A/N: It sounds strange hearing Konoha having snow…) For the first time in the year, Konoha was snowing. It started out as a light snow fall three days ago that had everyone enchanted by how soft and pretty it looked when it came down but on the second day, it turned into a blizzard and continued until a few hours ago. Now the snow was falling more angelic like than ever in history of Konoha. It was like staring at a postcard picture. So real yet so fake.
This day was like every other normal day. Or at least as normal as a ninja village can get.
It was just another peaceful day therefore the Sandaime was free from the wretched paperwork and all the other events that a Hokage must do. And what's the best thing to do with snow and free time to relax? Of course! It would be to spend time with a certain sunny boy that had no one to play with. And that was exactly what the Sandaime did.
Uzumaki Naruto and Sarutobi Hiruzen were having a nice, harmless game of a snowball fight. The old man said that for each snowball that he got hit with, he'll pay for a bowl of ramen at Ichiraku's. Also, for each snowball that Naruto got hit with, the Sandaime would minus one from the number of ramen bowls that Naruto had, who's score was fifty thanks to his really effective 'innocent' puppy faces.
Currently, the blonde four year old boy wasn't running away from the old man. He was running away from the nameless (A/N: Though they are nameless, they'll pop up in the now and then) bullies that decided that it would be fun to throw snowballs on their moving target. Whoever said that snowballs were harmless, didn't experience this.
Naruto was covered in snow and a bit of mud from the snowballs that the nameless bullies threw. His knees were soaked from the snow and bruised from tripping over the snow hidden tree roots. It was getting colder and night was approaching.
Naruto turned around when he heard rustling from behind the bushes behind him. He prepared himself for another snowball with his own. As soon as the figure stood up, Naruto launched the snowball at his supposed attacker.
"GAH! Who did that?!" The familiar old, white hair and wrinkles appeared from the bush.
"Ojii-chan!" Forty five (A/N: I'm just guessing that five years old would be around that) pounds of Naruto launched himself at the Hokage. "There were these three meanies…" And the rest of his words became muffled, trying to wipe the tears that escaped from his eyes with the Sandaime's shirt. The Sarutobi patted Naruto on his head.
Once again, there was rustling of leaves behind Naruto. Was that starting to be a common thing now? After five minutes of silent tension, Naruto went over with a random stick he found buried in the snow and poke into the bushes.
Poke. Poke. Poke.
… Silence.
Poke. Poke. Poke. Squishy!
"Ojii-san, there's something squishy in there." Naruto withdraw the wooden stick and on the end of the twig was a red, sticky liquid that everyone knew as blood.
Eyes widen, Naruto, dropping the blood stained stick, backed away from the bush. The older of the two stepped forward to investigate. Is it a body? A dead animal? Or worse a injured fellow shinobi?
The older of the two pushed the branches that blocked their view away and saw snow slightly stained with blood. Lying there was a child about the age of two with bruises and cuts that looked similar to what Naruto would have when the villagers decided to 'play with the demon'. The hair almost went un-noticed since its color was as white as the snow on the ground. A black scarf covered the bottom portion of the face. A black bloodied cloak covered most of the boy's body but the bruises and cuts were seeable. Tucked between the arms of the child was a small blue dragon looking stuff animal.
'What kind of person would do this to a child?'
Naruto sniffed and sneezed, bringing the Sandaime out of his thoughts. It was getting cold and they should probably do something other than just stare. He lifted the child off the snow and handed the injured child to Naruto, who was soon held by the old man.
With both children safely tucked under his arms, the Sandaime, as fast as his old bones can carry him, immediately headed straight for the hospital. He could have sworn that he saw someone with long white hair walked away as soon as they found the child as though the person wanted to make sure the child was in safe hands.
Was it his imagination?
FLASHBACK (to the moment after the meeting was supposedly over for most of the taichou(s) and fukutaichou(s))
Shortly after all the other members of the meeting left, the ten said people were confused as to why they remained behind. The extremely old man began talking, silencing the whole room from its whispering.
"Hitsugaya-taichou will be sent alone to the sub dimensional pocket in Japan to fix the hollow problem for an uncertain amount of time and-"
That one sentence set off numerous questions that slowly began to sound like the usual number of annoying questions that taichou(s) ask every meeting with everyone else in the room instead of less than half of the usual.
"Why am I the only one going?" (Hitsugaya)
"Why won't someone tell me what is this 'sub dimensional pocket in Japan' that everyone talks about?" (Kusajishi)
"Then what am I doing here?" (Basically everyone else)
"To prepare Hitsugaya-taichou to survive in the sub dimensional pocket in Japan, Soi Fong-taichou, Unohana-taichou, Kuchiki-taichou, Kyouraku-taichou, Zaraki-taichou, Kusajishi-fukutaichou, Kurotsuchi-taichou, Kurotsuchi-fukutaichou, and Ukitake-taichou will be the only people that should know about his mission to the sub dimensional pocket in Japan (or as some might prefer it as, disappearance). Hitsugaya-taichou's mission is simple. Objective one is to minimize the damage made by hollows and get rid of them until objective two is over with. Objective two is to find the source and stop it from attracting any more hollows." Yamamoto continued, ignoring the other questions and outraged comments.
"Isn't the sub dimensional pocket in Japan (2) the place with the reiatsu like powers and the Edo-trapped time place?" Soi Fong questioned. Yachiru immediately thought of ninja(s) jumping around on the roof tops blasting with kidou.
"Indeed. Since the people in the sub dimensional pocket in Japan has slightly different reiatsu powers, Kurotsuchi made a new gigai that will be able to adapt to the reiatsu's uses."
Kurotsuchi began explaining about the gigai he 'made' with his extremely creepy voice of his. And by the time (which by the way took about three hours) he finished, no one was able to comprehend what just came out of his mouth because apparently there was a very entertaining fly that flew around distracting the listeners. So having no choice, the twelfth division taichou gave the manual, which was about the size of the monthly stack of paperwork that taichou(s) get, to Hitsugaya to digest.
"…"
"Now that Kurotsuchi-taichou has explained, Hitsugaya-taichou has three days to prepare. Tomorrow, Soi Fong-taichou will teach the necessaries of the shinobi's knowledge and training and Unohana-taichou will be teaching him advance healing kidou. After that, Kusajishi-fukutaichou will 'help' him with acting skills. And that's basically it for preparations with the others. Hitsugaya-taichou, stop by later to pick up the details of the mission. Now dismiss."
They were all about to comment about the sudden mission for the young prodigy but to their dismay, Yamamoto was already snoring away at the odd time.
Hitsugaya was anything but calm. He was suppose to spend a uncertain amount of time in the sub dimensional pocket in Japan in a gigai that turned out to have some really weird functions (3) and he was suppose to be ready in three days, along with the lessons from the .
So basically the next three days, he spent his time doing the following:
Day one after the mission was assigned, he was being taught the hand seals used in the sub dimensional pocket in Japan and other things he needed to survive in the ninja world, along with a few techniques that might be useful by Soi Fong. He didn't spend too much time being stuck in the training area of the second division because one; he was a tensai, and two; it was almost like he knew them already. Along with the lessons from Soi Fong, were a few hours with Unohana, who taught him quite a number of advance healing kidou that might turn out to be useful.
Day two: He was getting LESSONS from KUSAJISHI YACHIRU on HOW TO ACT (or be) A CHILD. It took a lot of self-convincing that he might really needed it but for kami-sama's sake, his reputation will be ruined if someone caught him 'trying' to act childish. He could just imagine the faces already when people hear about it. The second half of the second day was being drowned by information in the library with Ukitake, Kuchiki, and Shunsui helping.
Day three: It was finally last day he'll have a normal day in Seireitei for at least five years was like hell.
Packing equipment and papers he would need in a small stuff animal, (it looks like Hyourinmaru) that was modified to fit many things, was horrifying especially with Ukitake along with Yachiru (who both tried to fill it with candy), Unohana (who insisted in packing first aid that were not available in the sub dimensional pocket in Japan), Kurotsuchi (who wanted to play a recorder to record all of the information in the sub dimensional pocket in Japan so that he could experiment with the knowledge gained), Shunsui (who tried to put sake in there because his excuse was Hitsugaya 'will never be able to drink any in that gigai' and 'you'll never know when it comes in handy'), Soi Fong (who wanted to make sure he doesn't forget anything she taught him so she gave him a tiny booklet that contained a review of what she taught), Kuchiki (who gave fancy candy and many varieties of, for some reason, scarves), and Yamamoto (who insisted that Hitsugaya will continue to drink tea and keep up with his paperwork). The many things included above had still managed to fit in along with Hitsugaya's whole wardrobe, paperwork, his cell phone, his tiny scrapbook of pictures of his friends, food that he can't find in where he was going, gigai related stuff, and mission related stuff along with a mysterious package from a mysterious person. And all those left only a tiny dent in the stuff animal, which currently looks like an overstuffed stuff animal. The only problem with that was Hyourinmaru and Hitsugaya were outraged at the sight of the stuff animal.
After a convincing 'battle' from Zaraki Kenpachi, Hitsugaya (who was unconscious at that time because a certain pink headed fukutaichou decided to club him in the head with a metal bat) and Ukitake were on their way to the sub dimensional pocket and to be specific, they headed toward Konohagakure, the village hidden in the leaves.
END OF FLASHBACK
Hitsugaya could have sworn that he had the worst luck. Of all the short and powerful, high ranking shinigami, meaning besides him, there was Kusajishi, he had to take this troublesome mission to protect the troublesome location from being attacked by troublesome hollows that continue to increase its numbers as one was cut down like the situation with Karakura Town and at the same time, find out why the hollows are attracted to Konoha like fruit flies to bananas (A/N: I swear. Each time I eat a banana in the summer or when it's not cold, there's always fruit flies swooping in on the peeled banana) plus he has to look after the possible cause of the attraction of the hollows since he, Hitsugaya, was partially the reason that this cause was the way it is and that meant babysitting and since he was the only 'young' looking taichou lying around, he had to be a pint sized baby, which degraded him even more than having to stay in the living world for as long as possible until the problem is at least solved half way or fixed until they could find a permanent solution, and would have to wait for about a decade before he was back to his ordinary, which means he has to wait about ten years for it, height and until then, he had to act like a 'regular' child with abnormal knowledge that someone his age (ehem… one year old) shouldn't know and power that no 'living' person should have. (A/N: I swear that's a run-on sentence.)
Was kami-sama punishing him because he died early and became a taichou earlier than everyone else? Or was it just the Central 46's way of punishing him for sealing the Kyuubi into a baby when he was supposed to be on his no working no matter what days?
To be continued…
(1) – jyuureichi – spiritually saturated ground (h t t p : / / w w w . o n e m a n g a . c o m / B l e a c h / 2 2 3 / 0 9 /) this thing took me a while to find the appropriate word for it
(2) – sub dimensional pocket in Japan – I don't care if I'm being uncreative. I'm getting really tired or typing all of that out…
(3) – the gigai – it'll be explained probably in the next chapter since I wanted to keep this chapter as short as possible.
IMPORTANT: I'm looking for someone who could beta this… Anyone who is willing to do this will probably be getting last minute chapters or if I feel like sending parts of the incomplete chapter at an earlier time. I'll be updating at the end of every month just to let everyone know.
Question of the Chapter: Okay, so every chapter will have a question that I want your opinion on and I will refuse to update until I get a satisfying answer that might have a big impact on the next chapter(s). And it'll help me get unstuck from a tiny writer's block like the one I'm having right now.
What kind of clothes should Hitsugaya wear while he's stuck in Konoha? Include colors (colors are evil I tell ya) and any other details or advice. I'll somehow mix the choices together so that I could at least have my original idea.
NEXT CHAPTER: Chapter Two: A Mistake for Distrusting