New Life
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto, Bleach or anything else.
The first few chapters are a little shaky _ every fic's start is a little shaky _ but it gets much more interesting in latter chapters, trust me!
Question of the day (Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world?)
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Time is the unsurpassed teacher for those permanently prone to learn new things, superlative friend to those aware of its significance and the merciless nemesis to those absorbed in their own utopia, ignorant of reality. Time is what we desire most, yet it's also what we use the worst. Ironic isn't it?
A man and a woman were wandering through the quite streets of Karakura Town in virtual silence. The man was a tall 6ft, 7inch with blond hair extending up to his waist, quivering in the early afternoon breeze.
The man was garbed in a sleeveless black coat with red flames licking the bottom, a crimson skin tight T-shirt showing the man's chiseled torso, bulging pectorals and washboard abs, no doubt a result of intense physical training.
Some kind of gleaming black metal bands with a Tree design were wrapped around his wrist reaching up to his elbows, black leather pants with bloody red combat boots reaching up to his knees and a black staff with several rings hanging from the top, jingling with every step.
However, the strange attire was immediately overlooked by anyone seeing a glimpse of the man's face. The man had two bangs hanging on either side of his crimson slitted eyes, red lines _ almost like whiskers _ on both cheeks, giving him a somewhat demonic appearance
The woman of the other hand could be considered as the epitome of beauty with delicate features. She was a well-endowed blonde woman of average height, her long silky hair tied in a high ponytail with two long bangs hanging on either side of her beautiful face and eyebrows cut short.
She was garbed in a white high collared hime-kimono with a black design of a ten tailed creature embroidered into the back and the front opened a little to show a temping amount of cleavage.
Peaking from underneath the white kimono was a black kimono style blouse worn barely containing her massive assets, black form-fitting pants tightly clinging to her seductively longs legs, thick thighs and plump rear with black high heel sandals.
"It's been a long time since we last came here" the voluptuous woman started with nostalgic expression on her delicate features as she stared at the scene they had come across. Many things had changed, many things had evolved and the technological evolution was evident … but the feel and the sensation of the place remained the same.
"That it has. You know as well as I do why I didn't want to come to this place or any place associated with Japan" the tall and muscular man answered with a sad smile. Just being here was resurfacing his long forgotten and desperately buried memories.
"You can't escape from your past; eventually you'll have to face it"
The delicately featured woman knew how painful it was for her blond companion to return here _ she could certainly understand his pain as she too was hurt _ but it had to be done, for him to once again return to the loving enthusiastic blond she knew.
Besides, he being moody was putting a damper on certain activities that simply could not be helped. In their immortal lives, they needed to indulged in these 'activities' once or maybe thrice a day to keep a straight mind!
"Coming from you, it's not very convincing" the man teased, only to earn an elbow to the rib for his troubles.
"Oh shut up!"
"Just kidding, Tsunade" the man assured, gazing at his blonde companion with small smile on his face.
"If I didn't know that even after all this time spent with you, then I need to get my head examined"
"I wouldn't mind 'examining' you" the blond retorted with a perverted grin and gave her plump rear a teasing squeeze through her long kimono.
Tsunade's cheeked tinged slightly red at the suggestive tone and mumbled 'perv' under her breath, getting a loud chuckle from her blond companion. She wouldn't mind that at all, especially since he was so good in 'analyzing' her!
'Yup, Still got it!' the blond thought triumphantly.
"All right, let's find us a hotel room to stay for the night"
"Sure thing…Naruto"
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Place Unknown
A solitary blond man could be seen staggering absentmindedly through a landscape of gloomy sky and scorched ground, pungent smell of dead bodies, animals and trees lingering around in the air. The eyes of the man devoid of life, so dull, lifeless and without light as he stared at the dead bodies of his comrades.
The people he played with, laughed with and shared happiness and sadness with, lay broken and drowning in their blood
Utter destruction
Sheer Annihilation
Unreserved Genocide
All for the sake of what?
Just the idiotic ambition of a delusional madman hell bent on creating a perfect world!
The same man torn limbs to limbs by the vengeful lone blond man.
He was all alone in this cruel world; he now had all the power he needed, yet it was useless. What's the point of having power, yet can't use it to save your comrades, your loved ones?
Hearing a cough among the endless pile of dead bodies ignited a glimmer of hope for the future, he dashed in the direction of the sound and came across a blonde woman covered in her blood, her once flawlessly silky light blonde hair covered in dirt and blood, her once ethereal beauty nothing but a mere shell of her former glory.
"I-it seemed we s-succeeded… eh Naruto?" The woman addressed the blond man with a pained smile on her bloody face, staring at his red slitted eyes, once the most alluring and attractive ocean blue eyes she had ever seen, now a dull and lifeless red "Don't look so … dejected Naruto, we triumphed. And look at you… so powerful and handsome, if I do say so myself."
Chuckling softly to herself, she continued "Live your life as contented as you can be. Don't mourn us as we did what we thought was right and because … we loved you. My only regret is that I won't be able to see what the future brings for you, to see you … settle down, have a family, have small blue eyed blond gakis calling me granny"
Tears swelled up in her clear chocolate brown eyes as she gripped Naruto's hand with her own "but my greatest regret right now is that we will be leaving you alone again. I-I wish i just had the power to stay with you … to keep you company through happy and sad times. D-do me a favor Naruto, never change who you are and what you stand for … Don't let the power you now possess seduce you towards the dark side as there is no future on that side. If you r-r-remain the same as you are now, you won't be lulled or corrupted by darkness"
Coughing up blood, she gazed at the concerned blond for the last time "Leave the past in the past and look to the future. Time wasted on regrets is … even more wasted time. R-remember me"
Slowly closing her tired eyes, the last thing she saw was the freely falling tears of the blond man, Tsunade of the Legendary Sannin passed away with a peaceful expression on her face.
"C-c-come on, Tsunade. This isn't funny! Get up; you can't leave me here! What happened to your promise of raising a family with me? Was that just some empty promise?" Frantically shaking the prone body of the legendary medic, hoping against hope that this was all just a nightmare, an illusion, but deep down, he knew it was all real, not an illusion but the cruel joke of fate and reality.
"C-c-come on, y-y-you can't leave me" the sobbing of the blond could be only sound heard throughout the hellish and grimly scorched landscape.
All that they had been through, all those nights of comforting her with the assurance of a better day … all those days of endless bloodshed and battles with the White Zetsu … all those rivers of blood flowing from the prone bodies of his people … all the nights he and his friends had spent around a campfire sharing stories of their childhood and hoping that they would more to come … were now nothing but memories of the distant past.
Everything was gone!
He would no longer be able to share a peaceful moment of camaraderie under the serene blue sky with a certain Lazy Nara, all the while sharing stories of women being troublesome!
He would no longer be able to challenge a certain plump Akamichi to a ramen eating contest with his surrogate sister's musical laugh lingering in the background!
He would no longer be able to have a youthful sparring session with the ever youthful and enthusiastic Rock Lee!
He would no longer be able to have a battle of wits against Kiba! No longer able to insult Anko and have her chase him around the village with a blunt kunai, only to tire themselves out in the Forest of Death and lean against each other without any violence involved.
And more importantly, he won't be able to fulfil his dream of marrying Tsunade … won't be able to argue with her on every single insignificant thing … insult her for her drinking and have her insult him for being obsessed with ramen. He would no longer be able to see her beautiful face flanked by her silky long blonde bangs.
He won't be able to see her full pouty lips stretched into a fond smile when she would see his comical antics … no longer able to feel those lips upon his forehead, cheeks and lips whenever he would do something dangerous and she would heal him back to health.
He would no longer be able hear her tempting smiles, alluring giggles and musical laugh!
Everything was gone!
A terrifying aura of death and absolute power washed over the charred land as Naruto stood up, his hands clenched so tightly that his knuckles turned white. He had his eyes closed as he attempted to come to terms with the genocide, his mind repeatedly showcasing the pained smiles of his comrades especially Tsunade.
A slit opened on his temple to reveal a third red eye with concentric rings, each ring having three tomoes swirling around three rings, forming a nine tomoe combination, the same eyes appearing in his two eye sockets, pulsing with power as a black and crimson fire like aura surrounded his body.
Almost on instincts, his hands came up to form a single hand seal as he screamed to the heavens, the ground around him blasted away in a massive explosion of power as a shield appeared above the dead Sanin in a protective gesture
"Gedo Art: Rinnie Rebirth!"
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Karakura Town
Naruto jolted up from his sleep with a soundless scream. His heart was beating and thumping frantically in his chest, cold sweat covered the entirety of his nude torso, dampening the sheets of the bed. He groaned as he laid his head into his hands, trying to bury the memories of a long forgotten era.
"Not this again" Naruto muttered tiredly as he rubbed the edges of his temple and brushed aside the two bangs hanging in front of his eyes. It'd been the same most of the nights; he would live the same nightmare from his haunted past and wake up with no hopes of sleeping again for the fear of witnessing what he'd tried so hard to forget.
Memories and visions would haunt his dreams, the smiling faces of his parents replaced by absolute horror, as if terrified of what he had become. He knew that it was all just a nightmare, yet he couldn't shake off the heart wrenching pain implicated upon him by their expressions.
Sometimes he was glad for his immortality because he knew he wouldn't have the resolve to face his parents and comrades in the afterlife.
Naruto slowly untangled himself from the possessively strong grip of his busty wife as to not wake her up. Standing up, he gazed at the serene and satisfied expression on her face from their late night activities and couldn't help but smile despite his trouble induced state.
Her tantalizingly full and tempting pouty lips were stretched into a peaceful smile, full of satisfaction and harmony. One of her long silky bang was halfway sprawled across her beautiful face, hiding one of her eye from view. Both of her hands were stretched towards his side of the bed, no doubt searching for his warmth while her seductively long legs and thick thighs, peaking from underneath the silver night gown, were extended to his side.
Sometimes, he wondered whether he would be the same if she was not here with him, to comfort him and to share his pain.
Would he be the same man?
Would he still be sane?
Would he still resist the undeniably strong temptation of conquest? With his might, it would be laughingly effortless.
If he was honest with himself, he understood without any uncertainty that he would have been seduced by the desire and temptation of more power, to get more and more, to reduce all creation to ashes just because he was too busy submerging in his own self-pity, misery and anguish.
Smiling one last time, he softly pecked her pouty lips, cautiously walked up to the door without bothering to wear a shirt and slowly closed it behind him without a sound.
The outside atmosphere was quite pleasant, the soft and chilling breeze licking at his nude torso provided a cool sensation on his skin. Levitating from the ground, Naruto calmly floated up to the roof of the Japanese style house they had paid for the night, and landed with elegance and grace.
Looking at the full moon, shining so brightly up in the sky, blanketing the land with a silver glow, he absently wondered if it felt loneliness staying all alone above the earth.
With a flick of his wrist, a wooden sofa like chair appeared behind him as he calmly sat down, with fingers laced together in front of his face, elbows on the armrest as he gazed at the full moon shinning in the sky.
So much time had passed from their era. He had witnessed the rise and fall of civilizations one after the other. He had seen the inhabitants of the earth wage war on each other, reduce everything to ashes just because of their endless greed for power and resources, return back to the Stone Age in regards to their Technology, and start over again only to destroy it. Again.
He and Tsunade had isolated themselves from civilizations mostly for decades, only coming out either to neutralize a great threat to the balance of the world or to see what had become of the earth during their isolation, but they had always been disappointed to see History repeat itself over and over and over again.
He had pretty much gotten tired of the endless fighting and wars, that's why he hated conflicts so much. If you can resolve a conflict by mere words and a simple apology, why use violence and risk the lives of countless innocents, just because you couldn't get over your pathetic and useless pride.
Feeling a pair of delicate and slender arms wrap itself around his neck and a warm kiss on his right cheek, he smiled and slowly turned his head to gaze at the sight of perfection. There she stood in a simple silver sleeping night gown, glowing ethereally in the moonlight with a small but flawless smile on her angelic face.
"Having trouble sleeping again?" came the silky and musical voice of the aforementioned angel as she walked around the chair, the wooden furniture enlarging to accommodate the new occupant, as she sat down with grace.
"I can't hide anything from you, can I?" Naruto muttered with a good natured chuckle.
"Not a chance, beloved" Taking a hold of his head, she prompted Naruto to lie down on the now enlarged chair with his head in her lap as she ran her fingers through his blond locks "So it was the same dream as the last time?"
"No. This one was about how you died and… well you know" Naruto explained uncomfortably.
Sitting for a few moments in a comforting silence, Naruto eventually spoke in a sad tone "Hime, do you think my parents would be proud of what I've become? Would they still call me their son knowing that I was the one responsible for all the deaths in the past? Would they welcome me with open arms if I were to die, if I could die that is? Knowing my luck, I wouldn't hold my breath on that"
"Love, if I know your parents as good as I think I do, then they would always welcome you with beaming smiles on their faces even if you were to become the most evil man the world had ever seen. I was contacted by Kushina to check up on you as soon as you were born" Tsunade said comfortingly "That damn redhead had summoned me one month before your birth. She would constantly rant about how she would raise you, care for you, see your first steps and hear your first words. Honestly she wouldn't shut up. Don't even make me start about the goofy smile Minato had on his face the moment he found out about you. They only had you for a few minutes, but I've never seen them more alive and more vibrant than the moment they laid their eyes on you."
Naruto smiled delicately at her comforting words and closed his eyes in peace before opening them to look up Tsunade's angelic features with a fond smile.
Her comforting smile turned mischievous "I honestly couldn't blame them, you were absolutely adorable with those whisker marks"
"Thank you, Hime. I don't know what I would do without you" Naruto said with a peaceful smile on his face as he closed his tired eyes, finally in the comfort and warmth of someone he loved and trusted with his life.
Tsunade smiled fondly at her blond lover sleeping soundly as she ran her fingers through his scalp. For all his power and might, showing emotions were a proof of his former existence as a human. Times like these were when she was truly thankful for her immortality, where she could comfort him when he was troubled, raise up his spirits when he felt downtrodden and love him when he felt lonely.
'I think you would be fine even without me, but I don't think I will be able to live without you' Tsunade mused sadly 'Especially after seeing the kind of man you are'
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Karakura Town Park
The two immortal beings were strolling in a park near Karakura Town, simply enjoying nature. It was a peaceful afternoon. The sun was bright and pleasant, the winds were happily speeding through the lush landscapes of the park, providing a heartwarming environment.
"Thank you for comforting me last night, Hime" Naruto started, smiling a genuine smile at his companion who returned it with a warm one of her own.
"No problem, Love, though dragging your sorry ass back to the room was a real hassle" Tsunade said in teasing voice, to lighten the mood.
"Well I'm not as full bodied as you, so I'm sure I wasn't that heavy to carry. However, knowing you, you'd probably 'Shinra Tensei'ed my ass back to the room"
As soon as the words left his mouth, a feeling of dread washed over him. Turning his head almost robotically towards the source of the aura, he came face to face with a terrifying sight. Tsunade was smiling sweetly _ too sweetly for that matter _ at him as a visible aura of death and dread oozed off of her in waves.
"You wouldn't happen to imply that I'm fat by being 'full bodied', would you beloved?" she questioned with a sweet smile on her face, promising clear death and a painful one at that.
"O-of c-course not, Hime" Naruto stuttered and raised his hands in surrender. Well, fat wouldn't be the correct word to describe her figure, but she certainly was quite gifted _ temptingly so _ in certain areas.
Though he sure as hell wouldn't voice out his thoughts!
"Good!" she chirped in a happy tone, the aura vanishing as quickly as it had appeared as well as her attitude changing a total 180 degree turn.
The duo resumed their comfortingly silent stroll through the natural environment, with the birds chippering and the slight jingle of Naruto's Shakujo. However the peaceful atmosphere was ruined by strange sounds coming from the middle of the park, which surprisingly only they could hear since the rest of the strolling couples remained oblivious.
They discreetly quickened their pace and stopped quite a distance away from the scene. It appeared two teenagers were fighting some sort of white mask wearing beasts with holes in their torsos.
The first youth, an orange haired boy was attired in a black wide and long sleeve kimono style shirt with matching black hakama. He wore some kind of straw sandals and white socks, a long sword, with its sheath strapped to the back of the teen with a leather strap.
The other was a black haired teen in a white shirt, a blue- yellow neck tie and gray pants with dress shoes, in short a high school student. The strange thing about the teen was that he was shooting glowing arrows from an equally glowing bow.
"What is this?" Naruto questioned inquiringly as he jumped up a tree and sat down followed by Tsunade "Two High School students, one with a long ass sword and the other with a glowing bow and arrows, fighting some kind of mask wearing monsters in the middle of a park in BROAD daylight with no one noticing it?!"
Tsunade smirked.
"Hime, this wouldn't happen to be that costume wearing holiday, Halloween I believe, would it?" Naruto asked with a sweatdrop
"No" the blond woman snickered quietly "They seem to be fighting for their lives. Should we help them?"
Hearing no response from her blond lover, she turned her gaze towards his sitting body, only to sweatdrop. Apparently Naruto had deemed the fight interesting and was watching it with keen interest with a big bag of popcorns he got from who knows where, a gleeful expression on his face as he witnessed the fight
"They could get hurt you know"
"Aww come on Tsu-chan, they can handle themselves, especially the orange haired one from what I'm sensing from him. Now bring your pretty ass over here" Without waiting for her reply, he pulled her on to his lap and wrapped his arms around her protectively. Raising the bag of popcorns up to her face he asked with a grin "Popcorns?"
The blonde shrugged nonchalantly and reached for the popcorns, slowly easing herself into his lap, seeing no reason to doubt Naruto as he didn't do anything without a reason, unless he was drunk. Hey, if he was not keen on interfering, why would she go out of her way and try to get her hands dirty?
The fight below seemed to be picking up pace as the opposing sides grew more in numbers, appearing one after the other only to be struck either by the black haired or the orange haired one and evaporate into black mist. The 'good guys' also increased in numbers it seemed, as four more entered the park.
Two children and two grown men, the first child, a small girl with black hair tied in two pigtails carrying a white weapon of sorts was firing relentlessly at the beasts with a meek expression on her face. The second child, a small red haired boy carrying a bat-like weapon was beating the crap out of the masked monsters.
The first man was attired in green cloak with white spots, a bucket hat and geta sandals while the second man was wearing a white apron, blue denim jeans and a white shirt as well as black glasses over his eyes.
"The party is heating up. Atta boy, hit him in the face!" Naruto cheered from his position on the tree, watching the bat holding boy ramming the faces of several masked beasts while Tsunade sweatdropped.
He was awfully enthusiastic today!
Hearing a roar from behind them, they turned a disinterested glance at the source of the noise and there it was, a black monster similar to the others approaching them with its jaw open, saliva dripping down from it like a mindless beast stalking its prey
"Hime, would you be a dear and dispose of the party pooper for me?" Naruto asked uninterestedly.
"Do it yourself!" Tsunade, despite her irritation, couldn't possibly resist the unbeatable Puppy-Dog Eyes Jutsu and the adorable pouting face of the blond. With a sigh she impassively raised a finger and pointed it at the stupid beast having the audacity to attack them, without even getting up "You are interrupting our fun, be gone"
The beast roared in agony and pain as it was split in half and vanished in a black mist while Naruto nodded in approval and turned to the fight once again. Sensing a disturbance in the sky, the beautiful blonde woman turned her attention to the slowly cracking sky "It seems something is coming"
"Indeed. From the looks of it, something very big!" Naruto said gleefully as if he was ready to have an orgasm.
"What has got you so excited? They are fighting for their lives you know" she deadpanned at him. Sometimes, he was way too childish!
"Well, your ass is currently suffocating my junior, so if you will have to excuse me for being excited" Naruto retorted with a perverted grin, only to receive a slap to the head "Hey, don't be such a party-pooper! It is getting to the fun part, besides as I said they can handle themselves"
A giant black spatial distortion appeared at the sky, the two sides of the tear slowly pushed by two colossal clawed hands as a giant head with elongated nose appeared followed by two white boot wearing feet. The being was apparently very big, towering over the park and the surrounding area.
The two fighting teens were visibly nervous as they tried to come up with a strategy to beat the colossal masked beast, well at least one of them was trying to think while the other dashed at the beast head-on and attack the beast's feet, only to be kicked back like a mere bug.
"That one reminds me of you when you were young" Tsunade snickered.
"Hey!"
The monster was seemingly irked as it unsealed its masked jaw and concentrated some sort of reddish energy, unmistakably intent on obliterating them with one attack. Ascertaining the inescapable assault, Tsunade glanced at the gleeful visage of Naruto as he devoured the popcorns in an accelerated tempo "Shouldn't we help them, they look like they need someone to save their asses?"
"And miss all the fun? Hell no!" Tsunade palmed her face when she heard his blunt response.
The concentrated energy was emitted as the orange haired boy rushed at the beast and blocked the beam of light with his sword in an impressive show of strength and courage. The boy was noticeably straining under the pressure of the offensive energy beam while the others looked on in dependence and anxiety.
With a roar of defiance, the orange haired boy released a bluish torrent of energy from the tips of his large sword at the towering beast, slicing its right side and forcing it to retreat. The colossal beast stepped back into the black portal it had emerged from and closed the opening like closing a curtain. How strange!
"Aww man, all the fun is over! Well no use moping over it, let's meet these interesting strangers" Naruto whined, witnessing the untimely and unsatisfactory end of the fun battle. Taking a hold of Tsunade's slender waist, he raised her from his lap and jumped to the ground, carrying her bridal style.
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With Ichigo and His Friends
Ichigo grinned in triumph as he witnessed the retreat of the Menos Grande and turned around to Uryu with a smug look on his bloody face "What's the matter Uryu? Cat got your tongue?"
However the smug grin vanished, replaced by a pained sneer when he slowly lost feeling in his legs and dropped to the ground with a meaty thud.
'What the hell is going on?! I can't even move!' Ichigo thought in worry, trying to regain some semblance of support. The sword in his hand suddenly started pulsing uncontrollably, emitting wave after wave of energy into the atmosphere.
"Ichigo used all of his Spirit Energy at once, causing his body to handle more strain than it was accustomed to" Rukia said in a worried tone.
'He must have an enormous amount of Spirit Energy to be able hurt a Menos Grande!' Uryu Ishida mused in disbelief 'I have to do something. If I connect myself with his Spirit Energy through his Zanpakuto and fire all excessive energy into the air, I might be able to stabilize it enough for him to regain control'
Just as he was about to step forward and reach for the sword, a new unfamiliar but deep and smooth voice stopped him "Perhaps I could be of some assistance"
The group turned towards the source of the voice and saw two figures approaching them, a tall man and a woman in possession of some shocking features and garbed in strange clothes.
Kisuke Urahara gazed at the strange man and woman in interest and wariness. Judging from their clothes, they were not from here, in fact he didn't know any place with people garbed in such attires. He had the feeling as if something or someone had been watching them from afar during the fight, but hadn't been able to quite locate the source.
Now, he was sure who were watching them during the confusion.
The man was stranger than the woman seeing as he was in possession of some interesting facial and body features, meaning the claws and red eyes as well as the red lines on his cheeks
As for the woman, it had to be her otherworldly beauty.
The fact that they had evaded his senses during the fight and that he couldn't sense them now even though they were standing in front of them, made him wary to no end. However, he was sensing nothing hostile from them, in fact he couldn't sense anything at all from them, he decided to believe his instincts as it was telling him to trust the strange duo.
'Wow!' Rukia thought with a slight hint of redness on her cheeks.
"Sure, it will be kind of you if you can"
Naruto nodded softly, moving forward and kneeled down beside the prone body of Ichigo while the others watched in interest and curiosity.
Naruto calmly placed his hand on the pulsing sword, the group watched in amazement and awe as the energy release died down and disappeared into the glowing hand of the mysterious man, eventually vanishing completely.
Ichigo grunted in pain and struggled to stand up, unmistakably strained by the whole process; however he was stopped by a firm hand before he could try to stand.
"I suggest you don't move for a while, Strawberry" Blissfully ignoring the shouts of indignation from the struggling teen as he spew out curses one after the other, Naruto turned his gaze to his beautiful blonde wife "Hime, if you please"
Getting the hint, Tsunade wordlessly moved towards them and placed her glowing hand on the boy's back. Ichigo relaxed considerably as a comforting and relaxing energy entered his body, mending his broken ribs, replacing his damaged cells, overcoming it completely.
He felt as though he was a whole new person, as though he hadn't fought at all! The relaxing energy vanished as soon as it had appeared while he stood up, flexing his arms to test if it was all just a dream. You can't just heal that quickly, and yet these strangers did just that in few seconds!
Kisuke and Uryu were thinking the same thing. Even all the healing spells he had seen during his captaincy, none of them came close to the effectiveness of this one. It didn't take them any effort at all. It obviously wasn't a healing Kido, so what was it? These two sure were strange and interesting.
Kisuke took the initiative of introducing himself to the strange duo.
"My name is Kisuke Urahara. The two standing behind me are Ururu and Jinta respectively" Gesturing to a tall and muscular man with dark glasses, Kisuke flipped open his fan and grinned widely "And last but not the least my assistance Tessia"
"Ichigo Kurasaki" Ichigo said dryly, still miffed about the comment. He had enough people insulting his perfectly colored hair, now he had to worry about another one! He saw nothing wrong with his hair! What was wrong with orange anyway?! It was a wonderful color!
"Uryu Ishida, a pleasure"
"Rukia Kuchiki" Rukia said politely, followed by a small bow.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki" Gesturing to the busty lady standing beside him, Naruto wrapped his hand around her narrow waist and pulled her close to his body "This gorgeous young lady here is my soul mate, Tsunade Senju. FYI, don't get on her bad side, she has one mean left hook!"
The aforementioned blonde smirked triumphantly "You heard him"
"Anyway, it's a pleasure to meet you, Bucket, Shades, Pinhead, Meeky, Moustache, Shorty and Shorty no 2"
The group sweatdropped. Was this guy for real!? Who the hell calls people with rude nicknames after meeting them for the first time?!
After the rather awkward introduction, the group descended into an uncomfortable silence.
"So are we going to stand here all day or what?" Naruto started impatiently after a few minutes of awkward and uncomfortable silence.
Kisuke laughed cheerfully, knowing what was coming when he saw the almost constipated expression on the blond's face during the silence.
"You know what? You guys are interesting. I haven't seen you in Karakura Town so you must be new here"
"Yep!" Naruto exclaimed cheerfully "Now then bucket, can you explain what those gender-confused bastards were doing down there?"
"Those were Hollows" Seeing the confused look on the duo's faces, he grinned sheepishly "You don't know what Hollows are, do you? Okay then, why don't you come by my store tomorrow and I will explain everything in details"
"That reminds me, how the hell can you see me?" Ichigo stated in surprise and confusion. While the whole Shinigami stuff was still pretty new to him, he at least understood the basics. The basics said that no ordinary person may be able to see him when he was in this form.
His surprised state of mind didn't even register that these two had displayed abilities which couldn't exactly be listed as ordinary by any standard.
"What the hell do you mean, Pinhead? You are standing right there" Naruto retorted dryly "Are you supposed to be invisible or something, because I can clearly see your sorry ass from here"
"He has a point you know, if he couldn't see you, then how did he healed your beaten ass?" Uryu put his two cents into it as well as he pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose. He liked this guy already. Anyone with a dislike for sugarcoating his words and a dark sense of humor was a plus in his books!
"Why you..." Seeing the incoming bickering, Kisuke decided to interject before the duo continued any further. He had much better things to do than stand here all day and listen to these two strangely alike individuals, such as figuring out who or what these new characters were.
On a side note, he also needed to sell a few products which were about to be expired in a few days to some unsuspecting customer, but you didn't hear that from him!
"Like I said everything will be explained in details in my store" Taking out a piece of paper, Kisuke wrote something on it and handed it over to Naruto "That's the address to my store"
Naruto nodded, grabbing the paper and pocketing it "All right, we will try to be there. Now hime, let's be on our way"
Taking a hold of Tsunade's hand, he started walking out of the park while enjoying the scenery.
"There is something strange about those two. I can't sense any Spirit Energy or Spiritual Pressure from them and yet they were able to see you in your Shingami form. Not to mention that strange Absorption Technique demonstrated by the blond man as well as the Healing Technique" Kisuke surmised while the rest of the group nodded in agreement.
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Karakura Town, Night Time
"Target sighted. The reports are confirmed as the target has apparently lost her Shingami powers and is currently in a Gigai" A tall man with red hair tied in a high ponytail with a white bandage wrapped around his head, clothes similar to Ichigo said to his companion with a smirk on his face as he lifted glasses from his eyes "Rukai Kuchiki, we found you at last!"
The second one was a fairly tall man with black hair and some sort of silver thick hair pins on his side and the front of his head. The man was wearing an attire similar to the first one except he had a light green-white sash wrapped around his neck and a sword sheathed at his side.
The man was standing silently with a calm look on his face as he looked at the scene of Rukia running away.
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Urahara Shop, Next Morning
"So let me get this straight, the mask wearing idiots are called 'Hollows' … who were human spirits but were corrupted by feeling of hatred or stayed too long in the World of the Living. There are sword carrying idiots calling themselves the Shinigami … who take care of these corrupt souls by purifying their souls with their 'Zanpakuto' and sending them to the 'Soul Society' so they can be resurrected in the 'Cycle of Rebirth'" Naruto deadpanned, turning to Tsunade with a cutely confused look on his face.
He knew he shouldn't have stayed awake too long but dammit, his partner had showcased a particularly wild and strangely provocative side last night! Who in his right mind would be able to deny what he had seen!? He hadn't closed his eyes for a few seconds, let alone a few hours, but it was all worth it.
Seeing as their activities of carnal pleasures had stopped as soon as the first ray of sunlight streamed into their room and signified that the time for sleeping _ which they had spent in something much more pleasurable _ was over, they had decided to pay Urahara's Candy Shop a visit after an irritated Tsunade had cursed the sun for rising too early in the morning.
Frankly, he was still quite disturbed about that! They had been going at it like a pair of bunnies all night yet the busty blonde cursed the sun for raising too soon and leaving no time for her to properly enjoy herself!
He was all up _ literally and figuratively _ for indulging his partner's bodily desires when she was in her moods _ which strangely enough, was more often than not _ but even his former Uzumaki genes and presently infinite energy supply needed to at least take a few minutes to replenish!
Ok, who was he kidding?! It would take an eternity of carnal activities to exhaust his current energy reserves! He was pure energy incarnate! How can you run out of energy when you are basically energy itself!
"Hey Hime, are you sure I'm awake?"
"Yes, Beloved, we are awake" Tsunade answered amusingly as she watched Naruto try to wrap his mind around the ridiculousness of the situation. Guess, she had tired him out too much!
Nobody could blame her for being in the mood. Seeing all those creatures mindlessly attacking the humans … feeling the bloodlust and vile sensation in the air during the battle had riled her up quite a bit!
She may not like conflict like Naruto, but both of them were former Ninja. Even the more docile and meek Shinobi of their time had an innate thirst for battle, she and Naruto were no exception even if they had done a remarkable job of suppressing those desires for so long.
"I need Sake"
As soon as the words left his mouth, a bottle of sake dropped down into his lap, causing the rest of the group to blink in surprise and disbelief, wondering where the sake come from.
"What the hell? Where did that come from!?" Jinta shouted in surprise.
"A little birdie brought it to me" Naruto said sagely, as if it explained everything, while the group sweatdropped.
Without even waiting for an invitation, Tsunade flopped herself in the blond's lap _ making sure to grind her sensually plump rear into his groin _ produced a saucer from who knows where and poured herself some sake.
Naruto gave the discreetly and seductively smirking Tsunade a warning look when he felt her sensual grating but weakly groaned when she ignored his subtle glare and repeated her action, causing him to sigh in resignation and try to control his urges.
Damn that woman!
"All right Bucket, start over again"
Kisuke sweatdropped at his nickname, but complied, not aware of the battle of wills that was going on in front of him.
Even though he didn't know what was truly going on between the duo in front of him at the moment, he was still trying not to appear uncomfortable when the blonde casually flopped herself in the Naruto's lap, not caring for their reactions or thoughts on the matter.
If the knowing smirk on the blonde woman's face was any indication – he had no idea she was smirking because she was feeling Naruto Jr throbbing under form – he had a feeling she knew about their discomfort and was quite thoroughly enjoying it.
He knew they were Soul Mates and if memory served him right then the word could also be referred to as husband and wife but come on! They should at least try to appear normal when in front of others.
Just as he was about to commence his annoyingly long explanation for a second time, a disheveled Ichigo entered and looked around the room frantically. The other three occupants of the room excused themselves and left, seeing no place and reason for them to be in the conversation.
"All right Hat and Clogs, where the hell is Rukia?!" Ichigo asked hastily, obvious from the state of his clothes and spikier than normal hair that he had just woken up.
"What? Did you forget last night that early? She is gone" Kisuke countered with a jovial look on his face while he gazed at the frantic teen from under his bucket hat.
"What the hell are you so happy about? I just lost my friend! If don't rescue her, she is going to be executed!" Ichigo shouted, glaring at the blond hat wearing man for being so uncaring "I'm going after her!"
"Calm down Ichigo. With the way you are right now, you won't be able to even wound a Third seat of any Squad, let alone the whole Soul Society. We have ten days until Rukia's execution, so that gives me plenty of time to train you" Kisuke said calmly as he flap-opened his fan.
"Train me?! How the hell are you going to train me to be able to fight with that kind of strong opponents in only 10 days?" Ichigo shouted in disbelief.
"I have my ways. Anyways, come back here tomorrow and we will start right way."
"Ok, I can be pretty patient but can someone kindly explain what the hell happened last night?!" Naruto shouted in an irritated tone.
His irritation was actually stemmed from the fact that Tsunade was now actively trying to bury her wide posterior into his lap, but managing to stay discreet which was surprising and irritating at the same time.
He being angry and snappish had nothing to do with the current dilemma of Rukia being taken away for execution but he had to direct his anger at someone or something lest he lose control!
"Sorry about that" Kisuke answered sheepishly "It seemed someone from the Soul Society had sent for Rukia to be brought back and executed for giving her powers to a human. As you know that human is Ichigo. He was defeated by the assigned guard last night and Rukia was taken"
"So she is being executed just because she gave her powers to a human? What kind of idiotic logic is that?"
Tsunade was silent as she sat and listened to the conversation while subtly grinding her considerable rear in Naruto's lap, taking sick pleasure from his barely controlled visage. It was one thing doing those kind of things alone, but teasing Naruto out in the open was simply exhilarating!
'For goodness sake, Tsunade! I am trying to have a decent conversation here!' Naruto practically shouted through the telepathic link. He was on the last end of his rope!
'Nobody is preventing you from anything, Beloved' she retorted smugly and emphasized her words with another painfully slow gyrate while Naruto gritted his teeth as to not moan out loud.
'Then stop your grinding, dammit!'
'Try to control yourself, Naruto, I have to say I am disappointed. Didn't you get enough of me last night?' she admonished in a mocking tone.
'How the hell do you expect me to control myself when you are grinding your fat ass on my groin!?'
'My ass is not fat!' she snapped, a vein popping up on her temple as she put all her weight on Naruto's lap, earning a surprised but weak yelp.
'You are suffocating my junior, you damn woman!'
'From the way your so-called 'junior' is throbbing and pulsing under me, I don't think it has any problem with what I am doing!'
"That's what it is. Law is law, we can't change anything, but we can try to bring her back unharmed" A new voice came from the corner of the room as a black cat with golden eyes appeared from the shadows of the room.
"Hello there little kitty" Naruto mooed in a childish tone and that's when realization struck him "A FREAKING CAT JUST TALKED TO ME!"
Naruto attempted to jump up in fake surprise, betting all his hopes on the fact that Tsunade would be thrown off of his lap and he would be spared from the torture she called fun, but sadly, it was not his lucky day.
He received a light fist to the head, courtesy of an irritated Tsunade.
'Nice try, Beloved, but I am not that easy to fool!'
'Dammit!'
Getting his irritation under control, he turned his gaze to the talking black cat, only to palm his face in frustration. As if his 'condition' wasn't already worse enough, a dark-skinned woman showed up under the disguise of a male cat, all the while wearing nothing but her birthday clothes!
'What the hell is wrong with that cat? Who the hell goes all commando under a disguise!? It's as if she knows about my state of body and is purposely torturing me'
Tsunade took a calm sip from her sake cup and smirked at him 'You like it when I go commando'
'Not at the moment, you damn woman! Wait until we leave this place, I will show you why you shouldn't temp an Uzumaki!'
'Looking forward to it, Love' she retorted in smug tone '… that is if you can survive until that time'
"So you can talk" Naruto asked with a subtly twitching eyebrow as Tsunade continued her grinding and rubbing motion with even more vigor "What do you mean by 'bring her back'?"
"What Yoruichi means is that we can send Ichigo and his friends to the Soul Society to rescue Rukia" Kisuke explained cheerfully, totally oblivious to the real proceedings going on right in front of his eyes.
"Well then it's decided. I, the Great Naruto Uzumaki-sama shall help you commoners and rescue Shorty from execution" Naruto said in a grand fashion as he pumped his hands towards the roof, sunlight streaming and shinning down on him, showering him in a grand light, while the group, minus Tsunade sweatdropped.
She knew exactly why he did it. Neither Naruto nor she had any ulterior motive or had any intention of gaining anything from the rescue; it was merely to see to what extent the orange haired boy would go to save his friends.
Well, it's not that they had anything to do; they might as well see where this would take them, besides she would follow the blond anywhere, that's what she had promised.
Kisuke nodded his head in gratitude and held the fan to his face with a wide grin, inwardly wondering why the two would want to help someone they had only met yesterday. While he was confused and curious at the same time, he wasn't about to look a gift horse in the mouth and was still grateful to them for offering their help.
"Thank you, your help will be greatly appreciated" he announced gratefully and gestured for Ichigo with his fan "Ichigo follow me"
Not able to take it any longer, Naruto griped Tsunade grinding waist and lifted her like a doll with a tic mark on his temple, not noticing the wide smirk on said blonde's face as he smiled a forced smile "Well, seeing as we don't anything else to discuss at the moment, you fellas will have to excuse me. I have some PRESSING matters that I need to attend to right away!"
Kisuke chuckled perversely as Naruto vanished so quickly that he was gone before the former Captain had time to blink. Yoruichi's eyes shone a mischievous golden as she saw the wide triumphant grin on Tsunade before the two blondes disappeared without a trace.
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