Naruto x Bleach

chapter 1

'This is the stupidest thing ever. Why? Why do I have to be stuck here with these people? The world is obviously coming to an end.' I fumed as I walked down the street, surrounded by some stupid, bubble-headed ninja who wouldn't stop asking me about the new "transfer shinobi."

"Who's that guy with the tattoos?" she blabbed, bouncing around like she was made from rubber, twisting a lock of brown hair in her fingers. "How old is that white-haired kid? Is that one girl in love with him? Do you think Izuru likes brunettes?"

"That's it!" I snapped, stopping and turning so abruptly that the twit almost ran into me. I probably could have held it together longer if that last question didn't fly from her mouth. "You better shut up if you want to keep your tongue much longer!" I stood there, relishing over the fact that, despite being a chunin, the girl looked terrified. "And for your information, Izu-" A long, fair hand covered my mouth, and, unfortunately, cut off my words.

"I've been looking all over for you, Kei." A quiet voice said from behind me. I felt my face turn pink as I turned around to look at the thin, pale face of Izuru Kira. I was thankful that the bouncy ball behind me took the hint and left. "Now, what were you going to say about me?"

My eyes widened and I buried my face into his chest to hide my growing blush. "Nothing... Nothing at all..." I mumbled and felt his cool hand brush away my bright pink bangs.

"Oh, okay then." He said, and with a flick of his wrist he pulled my hair down from its usual high ponytail. He quickly stepped away, taking in the rare sight of my free flowing hair, and to prepare for rage that was soon to come.

It took me a second to realize what happened, but only a second. "Kira Izuru! Give that back!" I ran at him with all the speed I could without busting the mandatory spirit energy seal. It was hard to run in the crowded Leaf Village streets, so I took the opportunity when Izuru leaped toward a roof to flash step up there first.

Unfortunately, I surprised him by my sudden appearance and I didn't have much time to think as he landed on top of me. I felt the air rush from my lungs, but used the momentum to roll over so that I was sitting on top of the stunned blonde lieutenant. "Ah-Ha!" I yelled when I grabbed my hair tie from his hand and proceeded to put up my hair, not moving from my rather comfy seat.

"Are we interrupting?" a cold, annoyed voice questioned. I spun around to face the white-haired and "vertically challenged" captain who stood in front of the snickering lieutenant Renji and the presently blushing lieutenant Hinamori.

"Of course you're not interrupting, Hitsugaya-taichou." I said with a smile and bowed my head in only slightly sarcastic respect. "You're looking well today, annoyance suits you." I heard a small gasp and, when I looked back to see Izuru's face, smiled when I saw a blush of embarrassment shade his cheeks.

I raised myself off of him, because if I didn't, I was sure that the icy captain would have no problem doing it for me. "You missed the meeting with the Hokage." the captain stated. I paused in dusting my legs off to smack my forehead. 'Whoops.' Izuru looked like he had committed a crime aand bowed down to the captain in apology.

Giving a moment to pat Izuru's shoulder I said, "So, what did we miss?... Sir."

The captain rolled his eyes. "She trusts us enough to let us stay, and to even help in missions." I was a split-second away from cheering when he continued with, "But we are to be supervised." and with that, the cheer died and I found myself smacking my forehead again.

"You have got to be kidding me!" I said. "We're going to be baby-sat by people younger than us?!" I hung my head in defeat. "That's it. I give up. This is the stupidest thing ever."

"They said that they would be sending someone to meet us..." piped up Hinamori, looking around nervously. At that moment, a group of people landed behind us. Heads whipped around and hands flew to zanpakutos, only to face a large group of teenage shinobi.

One particularly loud boy dressed in orange, 'Of all the colors...' jumped forward to yell that his name was Naruto Uzumaki and then mentioned something about a hokage. The others slowly introduced themselves as Shikamaru Nara, 'Pineapple-head', Sakura Haruno, 'Ms. Punch-a-lot', Kiba Inuzuka and his dog, Akamaru, 'Dog-boy plus one', Kiko Ookamiinu, 'Dog-boy's owner', and Neji Hyuuga, 'Boring.' Apparently there were supposed to be more, but they got the flu... or some excuse like that. Not that it mattered, there were supposed to be more of us too.

After we introduced ourselves, the rather noisy teens showed us the way to the inn that we would be staying at and told us that they would meet up with us in the morning. The inn was nice, not fancy, but nice. I quietly chatted with Hinamori, having decided to stay in a room with her while the three guys shared another room. We laughed as we heard Renji not-so-quietly ask Izuru what he was really doing with me on the roof. Then we laughed harder when Hitsugaya took refuge in our room to save himself from the oncoming migraine of having to deal with the following shouting match.