Konan, Pain and Obito stood atop the hill overlooking Konoha, ready to finally enact the Infinite Tsukuyomi. Obito began his process, and instinctively Pain stepped back. Konan took his hand, smiles lighting up both faces. All Konan heard next was Obito say,

"Whoops." And suddenly, she was hurtling through everything and nothing, glimpses of pasts and futures, worlds upon worlds flashed by her. Suddenly she was surrounded by light, and saw buildings approaching very quickly. She was falling, and fast. She created her wings barely in time, swooping up from the ground and coming down on a sidewalk on an empty street. Well, almost empty.

-Ichigo's View-

The orangette was wandering a street by himself, looking for something to do, or someone to hang out with. He heard a rumbling, then a flash of reddish purple light as the sky opened up, and something- no, someone- falling from the gap in the sky which closed after it vomited out its human cargo. He looked on with concern, then surprise as she suddenly whooshed past him on wings that shed leafs of paper as she went by. He stared openmouthed and unabashed at the blue-haired beauty that had flown past him. Her hair kept up in a perfect bun, even after flight at ridiculous speeds. She wore a black robe adorned in red clouds with white lining. Her wings vanished in a rustle of paper as she turned to meet his gaze, hazel eyes flashing a glimpse of that same spark she had no doubt seen in his own. Both at once spoke after a tense, yet tender moment.

"Hi, my name is-" They both stopped.

-Konan's View-

She collected herself after landing, and turned around to meet the gaze of whoever was staring at her. She couldn't believe her eyes. The man before her looked almost exactly as Yahiko had, long ago. Maybe her eyes were simply telling her brain what she wanted to see, or maybe... this mysterious man she had met just moments ago was right here, right now for a reason. What this reason was, she was uncertain. Then she decided to speak. They both spoke, and paused. He gestured for her to speak first.

"I am Konan, second in command of the Akatsuki. And I must say, you are an intriguing one." The orangette returned the greeting.

"OK, cool. My name's Ichigo, and you definitely are intriguing too. It's not often people who look as good as you just fall out of the sky." She blushed involuntarily for just a moment before reining herself in. He spoke up after another awkward stare.

"You must be a bit shaken up after whatever happened, and the captains are going to want to know about it. I'll show you there, OK?" She nodded, and the stranger walked along with her object of memory to a place she could only assume was actually what he said it was. As the last of the glow from her descent faded into the cloudy autumn afternoon sky, she found herself fighting with herself to reach for Ichigo's hand.