Bridge of Worlds Series II chapter 1:
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AN: Ok this is the second series ^^
New World…Again
"…" *indistinct chatter*
"…huh?" Ichigo felt his consciousness returning slowly.
"…is he alright…!?"
"…what's his stat…!?"
"He's coming to!" Renji's familiar voice ringed in his ears.
Ichigo's vision came to being and he was surrounded by the Shinigami of Soul Society and then Renji punched Ichigo's face in the part that didn't have a mask and Ichigo jolted up. "Hey that hurt jackass!"
"Well you shouldn't have disappeared off the map like that and then crash through the roof of 1st Captain Genryusai's office!"
"Huh?" Ichigo touched his face and the mask piece was still in place then he looked down to see the hole in his chest was still there.
"Yeah imagine our surprise when we discover the infamous Ichigo Kurosaki was turned into an Arrancar it took all we had to keep Captain Mayuri Kurotsuchi of the 12th Division from dissecting you and your friend over their." Captain Kyoraku pointed to the corner of the room where Yachiru was playing with Naruto's fox ears without Naruto complaining. "He has a great sense of aesthetics if he was a few years older I'd like to go drinking with him and talk of aesthetics till we get drunk also I like his kimono."
"Naruto what are you doing here?" Ichigo was getting comfortable by sitting up in the bed.
"Hey I grabbed you and the next thing I know I wake up in a bed with this little girl playing with my ears."
"Why don't you tell her to stop?"
"Because it's in my aesthetics to allow children to enjoy themselves even at my own expense."
"I bet it feels good doesn't it?"
"Shut up my ears are very sensitive…also for some reason." Naruto opens his kimono to reveal a hole in his chest. "I've turned into a hollow."
"Hey you guys why didn't you kill me and Naruto?" Then an old man's voice that's tone is so powerful it demands attention and respect resonated through the room. "Because you are still Ichigo Kurosaki…*walks into room*…even if you are an Arrancar that doesn't change and we here in Soul Society owe you more than we can repay so we'll keep you on and I've just gotten back from a chat with this fellow here that deepens our need for you." Then Genryusai gestured to the door and Rinku entered the room.
"You!"
"Calm down and be sure to pay attention Kurosaki Ichigo…as this concerns the safety of all dimensions…."
***
Sonic was fighting another of Eggman's stupid robots but unlike the Sonic wannabes like Metal and the oversized themed robots or the piloted ones this one looked almost like his normal troops but it was obviously different.
"Oh, ho, ho, ho! Yes run Sonic! E001 is my fastest creation yet! Even faster than Metal!" Boasted Eggman as he was filming for data.
"You're not kidding Eggman but it seems to lack any real soul like Metal did!" Right as he said this E001 came up from behind and boosted forward into Sonic's back knocking him to the ground leaving him unable to get up from the soreness in his muscles. "Ah! Man what is that!?"
"It's simple: by using the energy of your wake E001 activated a Breaker Shield. Honestly it was meant as a way to counteract your homing attack but E001 found an interesting application for it and utilized the energy into a sort of muscle stimulant that injures the muscles within…think of it as reverse massage therapy."
After Eggman was done babbling on Sonic was standing up massaging his back looking content. "You're right Eggman a little massage and it feels all better."
"I didn't tell you to massage yourself how did you get that out of my speech!?"
"Oh shut it egg-head I'm gonna finish off your little toy then you can go and make a new one again!" Sonic was about to make a move when E001 suddenly grabbed Sonic by the neck and started strangling him. "Gah! Let go…you tin can! *cough*"
"Huh!? Stop E001 I didn't program you to do that!" Eggman was trying to stop his haywire machine he may want Sonic dead but not because of a defect if he was going to kill Sonic it would be because he meant it to happen. "Eh!? There's something inside E001!?"
Then all of a sudden E001 was enveloped in what looked like a tear in space and it transformed into something more monster than machine and it continued to strangle Sonic.
"Oh no you don't I'm the one who's going to kill Sonic!" Eggman opened fire on the machine-monster and distracted it from Sonic making it let go of him but it immediately jumped up and knocked Eggman's chair to the ground leaving it smoking and the poor doctor in it's clutches but before the beast could kill him Sonic sawed right through him in a homing attack.
"You ok Eggman?" Then before anything else could be said Eggman pulled out a laser gun and pointed it square between Sonic's eyes before he could react.
"How ironic; you save me but I can kill you with a squeeze of this trigger…." Said Eggman grimly without looking at him.
"You wouldn't do that it's not your style." Said Sonic with a smirk.
Then Eggman lowered his gun after a short moment and got his chair flying again. "You're right it's not my style…I'm taking a vacation to study what happened to E001 so until I'm done you can relax hedgehog." Eggman then sucked the remains of E001 into his mysterious tractor beam and left leaving Sonic alone in the green hilly fields.
"Heh good riddance doc I need a vacation too…." Then Sonic noticed two lights falling from the sky and at first dismissed them as early shooting stars since a meteor shower was going to happen that night until one impacted a short distance away and the other impacted somewhere near the mystic ruins. "Whoa! Better check it out to make sure it isn't some sort of alien life form bent on world destruction…hope that other one didn't hit Tails' house." Then Sonic rushed off to the closer one.
***
Ichigo was struggling to get his head unstuck from the ground and eventually managed to free his face from the earthy prison. "Gah! Damn you Rinku when I get my hands on you…!" It didn't take Ichigo long to notice but he was wearing gloves and his…FUR! Ichigo took a good look at himself and immediately turned beet red with steam coming from his triangular ears. "Damn it he turned me into a furry not only that what am I!?...More importantly why am I naked and where's Zangetsu?" Ichigo jumped out of the crater and looked around to no avail. "Just great! I'm good with my fists but I'm hopeless without a sword."
"Hey pal what's eatin' ya?" Ichigo turned around to look at the source of the voice to see a blue hedgehog dressed like him. "Whoa what's with you?"
Ichigo was a white hedgehog with no other colors save for the red symbol that starts over his left eye and traveled down every spine on the left side of his head like tendrils. His eyes were the same as always with black and yellow and he still had a large hole in his chest.
"Well I didn't expect to see someone out here in the middle of a field who might you be?" Asked Ichigo not bothered by the fact they were naked since nothing obscene seemed to make an appearance.
"Well pretty up front aren't ya? I'm Sonic the Hedgehog the fastest thing alive!"
This caused Ichigo to involuntarily twitch his left ear as where he's from he's considered the fastest because of his fighting style and this punk just said he's the fastest and he got a confident smirk which was uncommon for his scowling face. "You're kidding right? Someone like you? I doubt it cause where I'm from I Ichigo Kurosaki am the fastest…."
Then Sonic seemed to disappear and reappear behind Ichigo stunning him slightly. "What about now huh?"
"Are you kidding?" Then Ichigo did the same startling Sonic. "To me you were moving in slow motion."
"Hey you're pretty fast how about a race it's been a while since I've had a good one." Sonic started doing his leg stretches.
"Yeah sure I could use a distraction, where to?"
Sonic pointed toward the mystic ruins. "To my friend Tails' house in the mystic ruins I'm going over there anyway since we're gonna watch the meteor shower on the roof tonight."
"Hm sounds good after the race is it alright if I join you…I haven't really been able to relax lately." Ichigo was scratching the back of his head and felt something familiar there.
"Yeah sure I don't think Tails would…whoa nice sword!"
Ichigo found Zangetsu buried in his quills and took it out. Despite his new Mobian size body Zangetsu had retained its extensive 5 ½ foot long blade and honestly had no idea how it was in his quills. "How could that be back there?"
"You don't know? We hedgehogs have something weird about our quills that lets us store stuff there. My guess is you have thick quills to have that in there." Sonic went around and measured one of Ichigo's quills then measured his own. "Damn your quills are a foot longer than mine!"
"Well whatever." Then Ichigo put Zangetsu back in his quills. "So are we gonna race or what?"
"Yeah alright! Ready Set GO!" Then Ichigo and Sonic started racing to the mystic ruins at an amazing passé.
***
Tails was recovering from the shock of the impact on his house. Whatever fell from the sky it crashed through his roof then through at least 5ft of steel into his workshop leaving a nice hole and a crater near the X-Tornado. 'Phew at least the X-Tornado is unscathed but now I have to touch up the paint on the nose again!' Then a figure crawled out of the crater and dusted itself off. Not knowing what or who it was Tails took cover to spy on it.
Naruto was rather unhappy his very aesthetic kimono was gone and he was naked and from what he felt he had turned into a literal kitsune with 9 tails and his fur was silver instead of orange and white in normal places save for the hole in his chest. "Ugh man being naked is so uncool and that landing was very ungraceful I have to practice my landings more." Naruto walked more out in the open appreciating the cool gadgets and stuff around. "Dondochakka-san would flip if he got his hands on this stuff."
Tails was surprised to see another kitsune let alone one with 9 tails that's 7 over his two and he was treated horribly as a child he couldn't imagine what this guy with 9 went through so he decided to call out of curiosity. "Hey you with the 9 tails over there!"
Naruto noticed the 2 tailed kitsune and ran over to him. "Hey could you tell me where I am?"
"Well you're in my workshop what I should be asking is why you fell out of the sky." Stated Tails pointing to the gaping hole in his home.
"Oh that! Rinku decided to drop the bomb on me and Ichigo then threw us both into a dimensional portal without warning honestly I thought it was pretty funny until he did it to me." Naruto felt extremely relaxed since he had 9 tails resting on the ground he felt like he could get hit by Sakura without falling back.
"Well whatever since you're obviously not evil I'll forgive all the damage you did to my house I can fix it up easy anyway. Oh and the name's Tails by the way" Tails then started walking towards and elevator and Naruto followed.
"The name's Naruto remember it and sorry about that it is so unaesthetic of me to simply except your forgiveness…well if I find my friend Ichigo he can pretty much do anything but it will always be for a price." Naruto then further realized both he and Tails were naked and he was disturbed by it but he simply wanted to wear his kimono again and they went up to the top.
***
Ichigo and Sonic both crossed the finish line that Tails set up and they both stopped to gloat but they realized that it was too close to call. "Dang it guess we'll never know who won now huh?"
"Actually Robo-Chao should be able to tell us…." Sonic seemed a little nervous when he said Robo-Chao.
Right as Sonic said this a flash of light happened and a weird blue robot thing with a propeller on its head appeared. "Hey bitches Satan's back ha, ha, ha!"
"*sweat-drop* what's with that thing?"
"That's Robo-Chao…Tails made him a long time ago as a directional assistant but as he says I swear he's possessed or something…don't ask."
"He, he, he yeah bitches I have the picture and here it is it's a tie so you're both fucking losers! Ha, ha, ha!" Then Robo-Chao disappeared in another flash of light and Ichigo looked at Sonic with a creeped out face.
"…Like I said don't ask…." Sonic and Ichigo then walked up to Tails' house. "Aw man it did crash into his house seriously there must be a curse on this place…."
"Must be my friend Naruto I swear if he starts going on about aesthetic right away I'm going to kill him." Ichigo then walked into the place with Sonic right as Naruto and Tails stepped out of the elevator and they met.
For a few short moments Ichigo and Naruto stared at each other then sparks flew between their eyes causing Sonic and Tails to step back. "C-come on guys please don't fight in here I already have enough to fix…."
The stare-down continued until they both gave a thumbs up and a smirk. (In unison) "You look cool!"
Sonic and Tails do an anime fall-over. "Man this sucks what world are we in now and I want my kimono back it was seriously cool…."
"Good thing you said cool because I was going to punch you if you said anything about aesthetics right off that bat. By the way why are we all naked? Where are our dicks?"
Sonic and Tails both blushed and Sonic spoke up. "How can you not know it's just not there!?"
(In unison) "WHAT!?"
*depression corner* "I can't believe it…."
"We're dickless…."
"Uh wait! Wait! I probably phrased that wrong but…it just doesn't appear until you need it like when you go to the bathroom…." Sonic and Tails were still blushing they couldn't believe someone this old doesn't know how to go number 1 properly.
"Really thank god I wouldn't know how to pee otherwise…." Ichigo was seriously relieved.
"I thought I would die of septic shock for a moment there…." Naruto was glad he wasn't going to die of a thing like not going number 1.
"Well now that, that dilemma is over I still would like to wear some clothes just for comfort." Ichigo was used to being naked now but he figured he would feel better wearing clothes.
"Is there anything like kimono or at least fabrics I can work with?" Naruto was going to make it from scratch if it meant wearing his aesthetic kimono again.
"Yeah sure come with me I think Shadow left some of his stuff here last time." Sonic led Ichigo to one of the many guest rooms of Tails' self-build manor.
"Well there isn't anything like a real Kimono but I can make one for you I'm good with my hands after all and not just with machines." Tails was proud of how he excelled at practically anything involving working with your hands.
"Oh a ladies man huh?" Naruto mistook his meaning.
"Huh?"
"Oh nothing you're too young to understand." Then Tails led Naruto to the linen closet and the sewing room where he made the basic fabrics for some of his clothing based tech.
***
(Same room 15minutes later) Sonic and Ichigo enter and they're both wearing punk outfits with leather jackets, loose fitting jeans and even shades. "Dude these clothes are awesome I can't believe you don't wear these."
"Yeah they're Shadow's clothes but he left them here almost half a year ago when he finally got his own place, honestly I'm glad you talked me into it I kinda like it but I think it'll slow me down a little…."
"Hey I used to wear a wind catching haori and I still moved super fast something awesome like this shouldn't be too much of a burden." Then Tails and Naruto walked in both wearing kimonos designed exactly like Naruto's original only they had a hole in the back for their tails and Tails' was orange and white.
"So how does it feel to be aesthetically pleasing Tails?"
"Very nice actually; hey Sonic I see you're getting into Shadow's stuff huh? I'll keep to the classics and the appealing instead of the off-putting." Tails wasn't kidding the moment he put on the kimono he felt fancy he was thinking of making this aesthetics deal part of his lifestyle.
"Aw whatever lets go outside it's starting to get dark the meteor shower should start soon and our friends will be here." Then they went outside and waited on the roof which was accessible because of a staircase chiseled into the rock by Tails' house and soon their friends were all there. "Hey Shads how's it going I see you have a hot new girlfriend what's her name?"
"Hey don't you dare eye her like that…although yes she is hot her name's Flora." Shadow gestured towards her and a female hedgehog with fur colors similar to Shadow wearing gothic gear stepped forward and Ichigo couldn't shake the feeling that she was familiar.
"Hello my full name's Flora Ayami Takashimi I'm pleased to meet you but fuck with me and you die!" Everyone sweat-dropped and looked nervous except for Ichigo he just started laughing. "Why are you laughing weirdo?"
"Sorry Flora but even in another dimension you're the same when did Rinku send you here?" This caused everyone to look at Ichigo funny including Flora.
"So you're from another dimension that would explain your weird behavior but what do you mean? I've lived in this dimension my whole life I've never met you."
*mental drama shock to Ichigo* '…What…how is this possible that is without a doubt the same Flora Ayami Takashimi that I know from Naruto's dimension yet she says she's lived here her whole life and doesn't know me!?' "You…must be kidding right I know you personally: You're obsessed with control over others, you severely punish people if they piss you off or disobey you by putting them into a dimensional pocket, if that doesn't work you trample them, you wield a spiritually powerful double sided sword called the Seireitou and you have the ability to use telekinesis to a limited degree along with unnatural degrees of physical strength also the true color of your forward bangs aren't red they're white same with your eyes!"
*awkward silence…tumbleweed on a roof wtf!?* "…Eh…not even Shadow knows that much about me…."
"Eh so everything he said is true!?" Shadow was surprised his new girlfriend wasn't only hot she had some serious skills.
"Yeah…but please don't dwell on that I feel a little exposed now…."
The rest of the expected visitors all showed up except for The Wolven; Flora's friend and soon after the meteor shower started. "Wow so pretty I'm actually glad I left my cave full of gems to see this." (Anyone who knows the series will realize this is Rouge)
Then Ichigo stood up and took out Zangetsu. "This is boring…hey guys what do you say to us going up there and hitting meteors?"
Knuckles jumped up at this. "Alright sounds fun I've always wanted to kick nature's ass to the extreme!"
Then all the girls got up and protested but all the guys and Flora stood up and raised their fists with sparkles in their eyes and they all say: "Let's go kick Mother Nature's ass!" Next thing you know their all flying up there in planes and stuff and start hitting meteors and they actually cause them to turn into a fireworks display making it even more awesome of a view from down below.
"Wow I'm actually glad they decided to fight a meteor shower but we better get a lot of icepacks ready that can't be good for them."
"Already got them covered." Cream was sitting on an ice cooler apparently filled with icepacks and then The Wolven showed up. "Oh hi which one of you is it right now?"
"Its me Shanks…hey what's going on I though it was a meteor shower not a fireworks display…."
"It is but the boys and Flora are up there hitting them."
"What!? *flares up* How dare they kick Mother Nature's ass without me!?" Then Shanks flew up there using his ki.
"I can see why Flora keeps turning The Wolven's feelings down I mean he is 3 people in one body I'd feel like it's my own harem if I was dating someone like that."
"I don't know he's kinda cute…."
"Cream you have weird taste…."
After the shower was over the boys and Flora came back and all of them but Naruto, Ichigo and Shanks since he was late were cradling their injuries and being treated by the girls. "Man you guys are weak I was hitting them with my fists too and you don't see me curled on the ground." Naruto was in a meditative pose and was actually floating in the air with his tails flowing every-which-way making him look like a spirit or something.
"Sigh because I was late I didn't get to kick nature's ass as much as I wanted to…." Shanks was slumping and about to lose consciousness to one of his other personalities.
"Well…now's as good time as any since we have such a big crowd…what do you think Naruto?" Ichigo was tending to Zangetsu the meteors were actually good for helping keep the blade for dulling.
"…Yeah we've had our fun let's get down to business…hey everyone give your attention to Ichigo he has an important announcement." Everyone fell silent and looked at Ichigo who stood up.
"Everyone as you can guess we didn't come here for pleasantries now we must tell you of a great danger that befalls all dimensions."
Shinigami Picture Book "GOLDEN"
"Hey Ichigo didn't the entire left half of your mask have those fanning red feather tendril things? Why is only the top there?" "I don't know Naruto honestly why did you turn into a fox and I turn into a hedgehog? Who knows what the dimensional rift does to us when we travel." Then Ichigo and Naruto started eating their chilidogs. "Hey Ichigo what's in these things?" Then Ichigo hid the rat tail poking out of his chilidog. "There are some things best left unsaid and unknown."