Disclaimer: I Don't Own Anything Having To Do With Naruto and Bleach, but I do have a really cool Naruto calendar!
Yo! This is my version of Naruto and Bleach with a few twists and tweaks!
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Running that's what she was doing. Running from what only she knew, but if one looked close enough they could see she was running out of fear. What she was afraid of seemed invisible to the naked eye but it was as clear as day to her.
'It's getting closer! It's getting closer! Why is it chasing me? WHY!' She shrieked in her mind completely panicked. Her lungs were burning with the effort of her running as she huffed and puffed in her haste.
Obviously it would appear that she is being chased by some kind of monster. Now most would call her childish and foolish because there's no such thing as monsters. But that's only to those who can't see them or feel their presence.
'What the hell is that thing? Why do they always come after me?' She contemplated on this as she ran. 'But it'll go away again like they always do right?'
Apparently this happens frequently and what a shame it is, considering most people would question her sanity if she told them about it. They'd probably come up with a few choice words and phrases on the matter, but that's neither here nor there. Right now though it's about time that the hero makes their debut.
'Alright, now where's that… THERE IT IS!' A seemingly young man with green eyes and shoulder-length spiky black hair with red streaks dressed in a black battle kimono thought to himself as he spotted the young pale-eyed girl running for her life away from the beast.
He was perched on a tree branch searching for his target when he saw it running after a defenseless kid. Unsheathing his katana and jumping down he headed straight for the monster.
Landing between the little girl and the creature he held his sword out in front of him while standing in a battle-ready stance. He stood confident with a glare promising death should it try and get passed him.
"Hey you! What the hell is your fucking problem hunting down a child? Leave her alone! Your fight's with me!" he declared in all seriousness
With a deafening roar the monster ran straight at him with startling speed. Not expecting it to be so fast due to its massive size the young man barely blocked the incoming attack. The power behind the strike made him skid back quite a few feet.
'Okay, so it's fast and strong. Damn this could get ugly, better keep an eye on the girl. Who knows how smart this thing is.' He thought as he parried another one of the beast's vicious blows.
The fighting intensified between the two as their speed picked up. Ducking its claws the red head slashed back at its arm with his blade. Cutting its flesh successfully the blood streamed out from the wound as it let loose a monstrous howl. The beast eyed him with pure malice due to the pain he caused. Then it turned its head to stare at the frightened child with hungry eyes.
'Oh yes, I can see it now. After I destroy him I'll devour that girl. I bet she tastes delicious.' It thought with malevolent glee. 'But first, to do away with this annoying pest.'
"Hey! Pay attention you bastard!" he shouted out to his opponent, "You should worry about me because I'm going to kill you before you get the chance to hurt her!"
"You seem very talkative boy. Allow me to shut you up!" it retorted in a dangerously deep voice
"Oh? So you do talk? Amazing! I thought all you did was roar like some mindless ape." he taunted right back causing the beast to growl at him
'It'll be so satisfying to shut his big mouth up.' With that in mind it charged him at an even faster pace.
In what could only be considered break neck speed it unleashed an overwhelming barrage of attacks. Clawing at him with a furious pace the man could barely keep up, only having enough time to block rather than dodge. Then the monster did something unexpected.
Noticing now that the boy seemed too focused on his own defense more than protecting the kid it left her wide open for attack. Without a second of hesitation it changed course and went after the girl swiftly.
She watched frozen in fear with wide eyes as that thing came in for the kill. The young man looked surprised as well but without another moment to lose he sped off to save her.
It looked like everything was going in slow motion as the beast made its final approach and the fighter hot on its tail trying to stop it. Then she shut her eyes as she felt like it was all over for her, waiting for the killing blow that was sure to come. But it never came, slowly opening one eye and then the other she saw him with his back turned to her trembling.
"Don't worry little one, you're safe." he choked out as he held the beast at bay
When she heard that she carefully looked to see what had happened. She saw him bleeding profusely from a large wound to his stomach where the monster had sunk its claw in an attempt to get her. He had taken the hit for her while he held back its other claw with his bare hands.
The beast simply forced its claw deeper into his wound causing him to cough out more blood. Through all the immense pain he forced the monster back and removed its claw from his body.
"It looks like I'm gonna have to get serious now." he managed to get out in a dry heave
Grabbing his sword he mumbled something under his breath and the blade began to glow an azure color. It looked like green flames surrounded it and the energy flowing from it was enormous. His green eyes began to shimmer from the energy pumping through him. The girl felt small and weak due to the power coming from the young man.
"Don't be scared. I'm not gonna hurt you, I'll save you. I promise." He turned to her with a heart warming reassuring smile to show he would protect her at all costs.
Looking back at his enemy his eyes changed from warm to cold instantly. Then without any warning he zoomed toward his target with unbelievable speed and determination. The monster didn't stand a chance against this foe and before it realized what was happening the guy disappeared from view, only to reappear above his head.
With one swift downward arc, he slashed the beast right down the middle of its head to the ground and jumped back to watch it fade away. After defeating his enemy he collapsed to one knee while using his sword as a staff to keep him balanced.
The little girl got up and ran to her savior to help him and thank him for protecting her. Helping him to lie down on his back she watched as his breathing came in quick pants while he fought to stay conscious. Quietly thanking him she immediately got to the task of nursing him back to health.
Wiping his blood away as it poured out of the wound she tore the bottom half of her shirt away to use in helping her slow his bleeding down; once she did that she tore off some of her pant leg to use it to wrap up the wound. Until she could get the necessary items to clean and properly treat his wound all she could do was stop the bleeding and wrap him up.
Then she ran off into the woods to get some firewood and herbs since she knew she couldn't carry him back with her to civilization. Knowing it was going to be a long night she did the best she could to make a fire and a makeshift hut to shelter them for the time being. Determined to save him she vowed to watch over him the entire time until he got better.
Throughout the night she treated his wounds with the medicinal herbs she found and did her best to keep him warm. She watched him intently the whole time and while she did she began to wonder about him and that monster.
'Will he be okay? Who is he? What was that thing? Why'd he save me? What kind of power was that? Would he tell me when he wakes up?' Her mind was a muddled mass of questions as she stared at his youthful face, which seemed to be set in a grimace from his pain.
Her eyes wondered from his face to his sword which she grabbed knowing he would want it the moment he awoke. 'What in Kami's name was that power that came from it?' She pondered while eyeing the strange katana. For the rest of the night she was left awake to watch over her protector while she dealt with her thoughts.
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In the morning the young man woke up to see that he was inside a small hut of twigs while lying wrapped in a small jacket. Then he looked over to his right to see the little girl from the previous night asleep leaning against one of the hut walls. He saw that she was exhausted and, from the looks of the recently put out fire, that she had stayed up all night watching over him.
He smiled at her and then attempted to sit up only to give up on that endeavor completely because of the pain that shot through his very core. That's when he saw his wound that was still healing. 'Not bad. For someone who didn't have anything to work with. She seemed to do a pretty decent job patching me up. I'll have to thank her when she wakes up.'
For the next two hours he worked at trying to at least sit up. Finally right before she woke up he was able to get up on his own and then he turned to stare at her.
"Top of the morning to ya! How'd you sleep?" he greeted her
"Y-you're… you're okay!" she exclaimed after getting over the shock of seeing him sitting up
"Wow the first thing you do is worry over me, that's real nice but I'm fine thanks to you. So good morning!" he tried greeting her again
"Oh! G-Good m-morning… um w-who are you i-if y-you don't m-mind m-me a-asking." she inquired, her stutter returning with a vengeance
"Ah! My name is Watanabe Daisuke, nice to meet ya lil missy!" he introduced himself, "So what's your name seeing as though it's courteous to give out one's name before learning another's."
With an indignant blush of embarrassment she answered him, "Gomen nasai! M-my name is H-Hyuga H-Hinata! N-Nice to m-meet you W-Watanabe-san."
"Hyuga Hinata, what a pretty name! It suits you! And please don't call me Watanabe-san, it makes me sound old! Daisuke will be just fine." he commented kindly
"A-Ano… W-Watana… I m-mean Daisuke-san, are you h-hungry, y-you feel any b-better?"
"Yeah! Never better! Just needed to sleep a night's work off is all, although I can say it still hurts to move around too much. And yes I'm starved!"
Once he said that Hinata went about trying to find them some food while Daisuke decided to go and meditate for a bit. It was to help the healing process along faster. After a few minutes he was feeling refreshed and chose to go help her gather food. He saw she was standing on the bank of a small river and next to her was a cloth full of berries she obviously picked. It appeared Hinata was trying to catch some fish and was having some trouble doing so.
"Hey let me do that. You've already done enough for me. At least I can show my gratitude by getting the fish."
After he caught their food they cooked it over an open fire while they ate that and the berries. Sharing small talk and light conversation during their meal, it eventually led to the topic that Hinata has been dying to learn about.
"Yosh! That was some good eatin'! You're a pretty good cook! I'm stuffed how 'bout you?" he asked her to which she responded with a shy nod, "Good! So uh… about last night… are ya okay?"
"H-hai! A-ano… h-how'd y-you k-know a-about t-that t-thing c-chashing m-me?"
"Oh! Because I saw it! Why'd you ask that?" he tilted his head to the side curiously
"B-because n-no one e-else ever s-saw them b-before. They all t-thought I w-was c-crazy." she whispered so quietly he had to strain his ears to hear her
"Well, I don't think you're crazy. They were definitely there. They only thought that because they couldn't see them like you can. So I take it this isn't the first time it's happened to ya, ne?" she nodded her head yes to confirm his suspicion, "Could ya just hold still for a sec, I just wanna check something out if ya don't mind? It won't take long, promise."
Shifting his vision a bit Daisuke looked at her silently for a moment studying her energy pattern. It seemed normal enough for your typical person. Then he altered his vision some more to study something else about her and that's when he saw it.
It made his eyes go as wide as saucers, there sitting before him was a child with red spirit ribbons and not just three or four but a huge number of them! There must've been at least 30 to 40 of them! With that mind blowing revelation everything seemed to fall into place.
It would explain why the hollows were chasing her so much. But it was more than obvious that she didn't understand any of this; she just thought they were monsters. How could she understand when even most priests and priestesses of her world didn't even know. No one here could teach her what she needed to learn, so he knew he'd have to do it and that's what he'd do.
"A-ano D-Daisuke-san? W-what's w-wrong?" came the nervous stutter
"Oh! Nothing's wrong it's just I think I figured out why that thing was chasing you around." he told her casually
"R-Really? C-could you tell me because I just don't get it." she said mostly without stuttering, although she was confused she started to feel more comfortable around him
"Sure thing! But first there's a few things you got to understand like what that 'thing' as you call it was and what makes you so special." with a slow nod to show her comprehension he continued, "That 'thing' is an evil spirit that devours other souls with high reiatsu or spirit energy, I'll explain more about that later. Where I come from we call that monster a hollow, there are classifications for them but at the moment that ain't important. So do ya kinda see why they chase ya?"
'Well he just answered most of my questions.' She thought before responding with a quiet affirmative. "So that 'hollow' was chasing me because I have a lot of reiatsu, right?" she asked to confirm the information
"Yep!" he said glad that she understood right away, "You're definitely one bright girl! You look a little curious about something, what's up?"
"Well… um why'd you save me and what kind of power was that with your sword?"
"You're just full of questions aren't you? Hehehe it's good that you're curious; well to answer the first question… I saved you because I wanted to and it was the right thing to do and it's my job. Besides that bastard hollow had it coming. And for the second question, that power was my reiatsu combining with my zanpakuto or soul slayer if you prefer."
"Eh? Your zanpakuto? What's that?"
"Oh, that's my sword! It's a special kind of katana that's actually my reiatsu in its physical form. Instead of it being just a typical sword, it has really cool special abilities like what you saw last night." he said proudly
"That's awesome. Ano… you said it's just your reiatsu in physical form right?" after receiving a nod she continued, "Does that mean I have one too? And if so how come I've never been able to use it?"
"Ah! I figured you'd ask me that next. Well not everyone has a zanpakuto even if they have a lot of reiatsu. It all depends on the type of abilities your spirit possesses and because of that people have different colored spirit ribbons. These ribbons show how much spirit energy a person has by how many they possess and the color of the ribbons determine the abilities of the person."
"Okay. So then I take it a specific color determines who gets a zanpakuto or something else, right?"
"Uh-huh, that's right. Red ribbons are for shinigami, like me, they get a zanpakuto and white ribbons are for your average human. If you have a bunch of white ribbons then that means that you can still fight hollows you just have to train hard enough to get enough control over your reiatsu to be able to use whatever spiritual abilities you have."
"So, when you were looking at me you were checking my spirit ribbons weren't you? What did you see?" she asked totally at ease with Daisuke
"Man you're one smart kid. Well yes I was looking and what I saw shocked the hell out of me. You've got a ton of reiatsu for one of your age and kind, even some shinigami don't have that much at your age. And I bet your wondering the color, right?" she nodded vigorously full of curiosity, "They're red, congrats kiddo! You've got shinigami abilities!"
Hinata's jaw dropped, sure she figured she might've had more than most normal people given that she could see hollows and they couldn't and even see a shinigami and converse with him, but to learn that she can be a shinigami too completely through the girl through a loop! It was an overwhelming tidbit of information to deal with.
"Shocked aren't you? I can tell, not many ryoka like yourself have that rare gift. Anyways I bet your dying to know how to be able to tap into that power. I could teach you but I'd have to take you with me to my world, the Soul Society, if you truly wanna learn. So what's it gonna be Hinata-chan?" he took on a serious tone
Thinking it over and realizing that she really, really, really wanted to go and learn about this she was about to answer yes when another thought struck her. Beneath all of the seemingly endless curiosity was the worry of leaving her family behind, but as quickly as it came it left because she realized that her family didn't really care for her. Her cousin hated her, her father always called her weak and a lost cause, basically abandoning her to get by with her own devices and the rest of her clan could care less. So the decision became painfully easy and obvious to make.
"I'll go with you Daisuke-san." she said with steel resolve and determination
"Alright! This is gonna be so great! Just follow me and stay close okay?" with her confirmation they walked off further into the forest
Daisuke stood in front of an open field in the deep recesses of the forest and waited… and waited… and waited. Starting to get agitated with impatience he began tapping his foot with a huff until something happened.
A huge structure started to appear out of thin air and it took on the shape of large double doors. They opened to reveal a blinding white light and once they were fully opened Daisuke took her hand and led her in through the doors. This was the start of a new chapter in little Hinata's life and she couldn't wait to start her adventures.
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A/N: WOOT! Goodness gracious! I didn't know I had it in me to write so much, but this idea was just nagging me for the longest! Hope that you liked it so far, this is truly a first for me and I want to know what you guys think. So PLEASE LEAVE REVIEWS! Whether they're good or bad I really want to know what you think. Ciao!