Beyond the afterlife

"normal talk"

"normal thoughts"

"bijuu/super natural talk"

"demon/super natural thoughts"

I don't own anything, except O.C.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was seething with undiluted rage, as he watched Orochimaru desecrate one more time the memory of the past Hokage's. Before, he was disappointed and melancholic at seeing how low had his former pupil fallen as he orchestrated this invasion in conjunction with Suna and used a forbidden Jutsu to summon the First and Second Hokage's but now, now he was completely livid with rage. Before him were two open coffins summoned by Orochimaru thanks to a slip off from him, all because he was forced to focus more on his predecessor than on his late apprentice.

"Orochimaru! You… have gone… too FAR!" Hiruzen shouted with pure contempt for his past apprentice

"oh my sensei, if I knew summoning them would rile you up like this I would have done so from the beginning" responded Orochimaru with a chuckle but even him felt a shiver crawl up his spine as he received the killing intent from Sarutobi. Just as Orochimaru was going to apply his obedience tags something in Sarutobi snapped, he would not let this two to be used to destroy the leaf. More importantly he would not let HIM… use HIS parents to destroy the leaf. With newfound strength he blasted off leaving the two past Hokages stunned at his sudden burst of speed. Orochimaru dazed for a second because of the surprise, but in that second Hiruzen made his move and launched Enma in his Bo form at terminal speed.

"now, ENMA!" he shouted as the Bo suddenly expanded wide as it also lengthened striking Orochimaru's extended right forearm, smashing it completely and leaving hanging limp just some torn pieces of flesh. Even if he could repair the damage, the pain of it made Orochimaru grunt and swear bloody murder.

"FUUUCK! You shitty old man, go die already like worthless pie-" he could finish that as Hiruzen's sole slammed to his face sending off a few feet. He turned to two of his most precious people.

"Minato, Kushina! I'll set you free!" at this the two figures seemed to snap out of a daze and looked at him thoroughly confused and Hiruzen made some hand signs and two dragon maws of earth surged and tried to smash on to them. Unfortunately he was forced to abandon his technique when Orochimaru extended arm with Kusanagi in hand almost impaled him. Then the first's mokuton smashed at the same time at his earth Jutsu. From the wreckage Minato and Kushina's forms emerged, still confused and unable to completely act on their own but still out of Orochimaru's control, as he still hadn't applied his obedience tag.

"3rd? Why… wait the Kyuubi… Kushina?" mumbled Minato's corpse

"Mina-kun?... what… Saru-jiji, what?" said Kushina as she glanced at the sight before them. Orochimaru chuckled and sneered at them

"my isn't this a lovely get together, the Yondaime after giving his life protecting the village from the terrible Nine tailed fox is given a second chance to meet his wife… and destroy this accursed village!" shouted Orochimaru before he laughed like a lunatic

"I… but I died in… another place… I was already… dead?" said minato in a low tone.

"Yeah… I died two times?... Kushina... not so-?"

"No… both! two sets of memories" responded minato. Orochimaru seemed to not take notice and continued his rambling

"But you two should be happy, after all is this shitty village that has manhandled, abused and made a pariah of your precious son, kukuku for the past 12 years!"

"Son!?"

"Son!?"

This snapped the two from their quiet musings and brought the full brunt of their last moments 12 years ago as their son laid before them and the Kyuubi's claw sticking from their stomachs as the sealing process was kicking in. the ghastly figure of THE shinigami looming over their bodiers as they hold still the behemoth of a claw sticking through their guts. They were saying their last words to him trying to ease his cries and told him they were and would always be proud of him, that he as his dad had faith that he would be able to carry this burden and that he was mightily sorry to give it to him in the first place. But something unexpected happened and as they were claimed by the Shinigami he said in barely a whisper

"For past services, (…) if the conditions are set (…)"

As if on cue a loud boom was heard in the distances and the one tailed Raccoon could be seen from miles away emerging. It roared mightily screaming freedom, then a few seconds later another massive boom was heard as a gigantic red toad with a blue vest and carrying a tanto emerged from a white smoke cloud. Orochimaru narrowed his eyes as her saw Gamabunta.

"Don't tell me Jiraiya-kun is here" Orochimaru scowled as Gamabunta battled the Ichibi without being able to land a decisive blow

"It seems not all went according to plan Orochimaru"

"Details dear sensei at the end of the day Konoha shall burn with your oh-so-precious will of fire along with you shriveling old man" smirked Orochimaru as he talked as if you talked about the weather. Another explosion was heard and Gamabunta was no more and a visage of the Kyuubi was seen charging the Ichibi

"Ah seems that Naruto-kun wants to play how amusing for the demon boy use the image of the demon to protect the village, well amusing as he was it's about time he left the stage kuku." said Orochimaru with evil mirth and a sneer as he launched himself to Minato and Kushina keeping Hiruzen busy with the Hokage brothers. Panic filled the 3rd hokage he would not be able to hold his own against them and his failure to Naruto's family would be complete. Just as Orochimaru was about to slam his obedience tags Minato's hand caught his wrist and slammed him to the ground.

"Protect… that's right! I'm also the one who protects I have no time to doubt, I can only go forward!" suddenly minato's form started to change at rapid pace; first his decrepit form filled out replaced by healthy looking skin albeit with some sort of crack here and there, then his changes became more dramatic as the kanji for soul glowed on his chest and the cracks started expand over. His body started dissolving like papers picked up by the wind revealing a whole other person beneath. This was a young man with large but lean physique brown eyes and striking orange hair and was towering over Orochimaru with roughly 1.80m. He was wearing a black shihakushō and a bonie white shoulder plate with crossed straps where rested a black oversized Khyber knife, with the grip at the base of the blade and a handle extending back from this about roughly the width and length of his forearm. It had a thin, hollowed-out portion running along the back edge of the blade from the base to the middle of the blade. A second blade rested on his hip it was relatively small, about the size of his arm, and similar to the first blade, but resembled a trench knife with an enclosed guard.

"Who are you!" growled Orochimaru still in the man's grasp, he simply eyed him with a hardened stare and swiftly battered him against the floor again and throwed him against the barrier walls but the snake sannin righted himself and avoided smashing onto it. All the presents' eyes widened as they saw this new warrior manhandle a sannin like he was some ragdoll. The past Hokages felt silent orders come and attacked the man. However he grabbed the still corpse of Kushina and disappeared from their sight and reappears where Hiruzen was. Only years of war and battle hardened experience prevented him from yelping when this man landed softly beside him. Kushina looked at him and spoke with a voice that was not hers.

"Kuro…saki?..." Sarutobi arched an eyebrow at Kushina

"Snap out of it! regardless of who we were before and now both of the women I loved never hesitated to act swiftly, if we don't our only chance to save the son we have now and never could have before will be lost forever" he said as his messy hair yellowed from the tips and grew up to his shoulders and his eyes changed to electric blue just like Minato's own. Then Kushina's expression hardened and became resolute and kissed him. Kushina went thru the same transformation, leaving behind a lite woman with a very obvious martial build. She had raven short hair and two long ponytails wrapped in white clothe that reached all the way to end of her shoulder blades and ended in a golden circlet as a sort of safepin in each ponytail. She wore the same shihakushō but fitted to her frame and she wore a white sleveless haori with light orange lining inside and the kanji for 2nd inside a diamond on the back, strapped to her back was a wakizashi with blue scarab and yellow hilt. They broke off the kiss and she looked at him with soft grey eyes. He rubbed softly her cheek with back of his hand and cupped his with hers and she said softly and barely audible but the emotions behind were very palpable.

"Ichigo… lets go to our sochi" she responded as her moistened eyes became violet and her hair reddened, but unlike Kushina's vibrant flaming red this one was barely red, a dark red eerily reminiscent of blood red.

"you keep getting more and more entertaining, I'll take my time figuring out just what have you done once I have you in my dissection table kukuku" laughed Orochimaru as if all of this was just a minor inconvenience and the two hokages charged again. Tobirama draw the moisture of the air and created several senbons that flew right to the trio and three dragon heads sprouted from the floor to their sides and back. Hiruzen was prepping an earth barrier when he heard Kushina-not-kushina recite something.

"Bakudo No. 57 Sora no me, chōdo shōheki "(heavenly eye; just barrier, as in justice) incanted the woman and immediately a golden circle shined bellow them with a closed eyed figure. The attacks of Hashirama and Tobirama collided with the border of the circle and instantly were nullified as an equal force pushed them back when the eye figure opened.

"Never been so happy to see some unknown jutsu Saru" said tobirama

"So am I Tobirama-sensei" responded Sarutobi as the Shodaime smiled softly relieved that whoever these two new arrivals were they seemed to be on konoha's side for now. From his position Orochimaru eyed warily the strangers before them. As much as he was intrigued by this enigma, he couldn't help to be slightly worried. The man had an unbelievable strength and whatever he did was making him heal more slowly, his arm blasted by the old man had already regenerated with his shedding but his wrist was still fractured and unusable.

Ichigo eyed the barrier and some of his knowledge as Minato came back. He grabbed Yasei Zangetsu (the big one, Yasei: Savage) instead of Old man Zangetsu (the trench knife) for his corroding reiatsu. Sui-feng took the hint she grabbed Sarutobi, much to his discomfort from the shirt neck and made him back off as black reiatsu gathered on ichigo's zanpakuto. All of them least Sui-feng were surprised as an unknown force pressed down on them when the eerie dark energy gathered on the oversized sword. Ichigo raised his sword and slashed downward to one of the corners while softly letting all within earshot know the name of the technique.

"Getsuga Tensho" and the air screeched as the crescent mass of blackness engulfed everything in its path roaring like a mad beast. For the infortune of Tayuya of the Sound Four she was the one in charge of the corner Ichigo decided to attack and could only stare wide eyed as the roaring wave neared her.

"Why you gotta be shitting me! What in bloody hell is that shit!" Tayuya screamed as the Getsuga crashed upon her corner and after some 5 odd seconds it shattered the inner barrier and after another 5 it shattered the outer one. The jounin outside had to dodge as the energy wave still went forward carving its way past the stadium, they were still getting their bearings when they heard an screeching through the air. Those with the great eye sight saw a woman practically soaring through the air screaming bloody murder and some not so friendly promises to some Ichigo. Then said woman was engulfed in pure white light and speed off like a shooting star towards the ongoing battle with the Ichibi.

As it turns out when Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho went past the first barrier, he promptly grabbed the petite Sui-Feng by the Obi hefting her over his over his shoulder, earning an eep from her. While he used his other hand to balance himself he took a stance not unlike a Quarterback from football.

"Go get our son, I'll deal with the old timers and the pedophile Mayuri rip-off" he told her with an amused smile before, with a heavy grunt, she was practically launched off when Ichigo used some reishi manipulation with Old man Zangetsu's help.

"I really hope that red-head girl is not dead, I tried to make the crescent circumvent her" he muttered as he turned to Orochimaru with a scowl that promised punishment. He then eyed the past hokages and again knowledge from his time as Minato flooded his mind and got some inspiration, it seemed that both of his life times were slowly merging together. While he doubted he could wield chakra by the feel of his body, he got the impression that his skills, knowledge and maybe muscle memory remained. He flexed his right hand and got ready as the gears of his mind began to stir.

"Sarutobi…" the 3rd hokage flinched at the familiarity "Sorry, guess its unnerving; Hiruzen better?" said Ichigo apologetically

"Latter" Ichigo just nodded

"Get ready for it, and then watch out" said Ichigo cryptically Sarutobi nodded as he understood the underlying message. Then the air thickened again albeit much more subdued than before and Ichigo raised his hand and wrote on the air, seemingly.

"Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini! Look upon yourself with horror and then claw out your own throat!" he shouted as a kanji glowed in the space he previously wrote. Hiruzen didn't know what that was, but trusting the figure that seemingly used to be Minato, took off and went on the offensive with Enma

"Bakudo No. 9 Geki!" finished Ichigo and immediately both resurrected Hokages were frozen still as a red glow outlined them. Hiruzen promptly launched two shuriken and with a hand sign, said weapons bursted in flames and each of them shimmered as several copies appeared. Ichigo not finished began chanting again.

"Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south!" though he made a slight change; as the chanting took care of the overall process he willed the Kido to spin.

Orochimaru quickly understood their game plan and tried to stop the shurikens but with just one hand his Jutsus available were limited so he used Fuuton: Shinkuutai Naihatsu in a futile attempted to knock away his sensei's attack. Several bursts of air disrupted some of the shurikens in their path. But they still reached their mark exploding and destroying the heads of the frozen Edo Tensei victims, promptly revealing the tags in them. Not wasting time the 3rd Hokage barreled out of the way, idly noting the outer barrier was up again, barely after he heard.

"Hado No. 31 Shakkaho!" and two swirling crimson red rassengan like orbs shot straight to their targets impacting dead on them. Ichigo cursed to himself as one of them was slightly off and stroke the Firsts shoulder, he doubted that the great Hashirama Senju would fall for the same trick twice. He quickly began to think of ways to surprise them when the Shakkaho's actually exploded and consumed both Edo Tensei's completely, in crimson maelstroms. Few seconds later all that remained were ashes and a soft whisper.

"Well played boy" Ichigo just growled and flicked his trench knife to Orochimaru firing a cutting shockwave that almost gutted him in two. He managed to get always with just a cut on the stomach, but his suspicions were proven as he saw that whatever he was doing all his attacks made healing very slow. The cut was barely even healing and his wrist had just repaired itself and it still was sore. He was taken out of his musings as he sensed the young man appear behind him and whirled out of his way as he slashed at him. Orochimaru parried with his Kusanagi and several sparks flew from the swords clash.

KLANG!

SWOOSH

KLAANG

SCREECH

KLANG!

Ichigo was relentless on his onslaught against Orochimaru. While the snake himself was holding very well against him, he couldn't really get on the offensive. His snake style wasn't quite cutting it and ichigo's style was rought and unpredictable. It wasn't a brawler style mind you, but it was unorthodox; almost instinctive, but very precise, deadly and so fucking strong. Outright blocking was out of the picture, the first time he did so was like being slapped by Manda's tail bash. Orochimaru now very wary of whatever ability this Minato-not-minato had that thwarted healing keep dodging and parrying the strikes. He opened his mouth and two snakes shot fangs aimed at Ichigo, he cut them but the remains exploded. Orochimaru extended his sleeves and anaconda like snakes bursted out towards the smoke, but Ichigo shunpoed behind Orochimaru and slashed at him with Zangetsu. Orochimaru avoided the blade but the snakes were cut apart and surprisingly pain shot through his arm. Ichigo twirled his body using his momentum; with Old man Zangetsu he fired a white-blue wave from the blade.

"Getsuga Tensho" he said mid swing as the getsuga was firing of, he knew that naming your attack before you fire them was a bad idea but still old habits die the hardest. With a light chuckle he noticed how some habits from his two lives contradicted each other. The blast crashed at the barrier cracking it a bit shacking the battle field but Orochimaru was nowhere to be seen. Then he promptly made to stab the ground on his left side and Orochimaru jumped out of the way from the floor. He slashed upwards in a diagonal fashion to his left side, making Orochimaru dodge to the right. The Enma Bo form extended and almost got him on the gut as he ducked below. The three got in a fast paced exchange of sword slashes, kicks and punches as much as Orochimaru tried to get the upper hand with his snakes jutsus the flares of pain Ichigo's swords dealt to him were too much. Ichigo sent several air slashes and forced Orochimaru back.

Ichigo paused for a moment, never losing sight of Orochimaru who looked a bit winded but Sarutobi was starting to struggle just to keep up. He rolled his shoulder and cracked his neck; when he felt a spike in Sui-Feng's reiatsu followed by a loud Boom and by the feel of her reiatsu it wasn't good. It had been tinted with fear, apprehension and for a brief moment hesitance.

"Warm-up it's over fucker" suddenly said Ichigo as his scowl deepened.

"Don't get cocky Min- er Kurosaki-san"

"You've provided much amuss-" Orochimaru couldn't finish his rant as the invisible pressure came again by tenfold. Sarutobi stared wide eyed as ichigo's figure was surrounded by heavy dark energy with red tints in it. He turned to Sarutobi.

"Get out as soon it breaks, I'm going to get my son…" Sarutobi was about to question him but shut up as his field vision was filled with black and the roaring wave once again was released and first shot upwards smashing to barrier shattering the top most part of it. Then with a double handed downward slash it raced toward his past apprentice obscuring him from view, the roaring deafening his screams as the attack hit him since all the space inside was being filled with the technique. The snake sannin felt his limbs and body mauled, bitten, scorched and disintegrated all at the same time by this unholy energy and pain like never before coursed his nervous system; went past this and bored onto his soul, he didn't know if it made sense but it felt right like the attack was striking his very soul. Everything just faded to black before Sarutobi raced out of the crumbling purple cube. As he landed outside of the barrier the Konoha shinobi near him rushed over.

"Hokage-sama!" whats happening and who's that man and woman?" inquired Kakashi

"I'm not sure kakashi, one minute Orochimaru used the Edo Tensei on minato and Kushina and the next they transform on two completely different people but still…" he stopped as he remembered they were out in the open.

"Sensei and Kushina were brought back!?"

"Yes, at least for a moment but it's too soon to assume too much. I only know that they fought off the first and second hokage's and went straight to Naruto I would most likely be death by now if not for Kurosaki Ichigo" kakashi and the few jounin senseis present were shell shocked by the news the fourth and his presumed lover brought back with a forbidden justsu, then they turn into someone else completely and fought off a sannin AND the first two hokages!

They eyed the black energy from the attack dissipate suddenly they heard a swoooosh and next thing they know the red headed girl from the four that set up the barrier came flying in a screech and was nailed to a wall as giant black Khyber knife pinned her from one of her very torn uniform looped laces. Then a man landed next to the 3rd hokage.

"Ah Ichigo-san, is…?" said Sarutobi

"He escaped, some kids took off with him but I crippled him pretty badly he won't perform jutsus in a long time" he said with a sadistic smile, then he got serious again "My first priority is reaching Soi-Feng and my son though; I'll be taking her as prisoner she was mostly injured because of me" pointing to the red-head hanging from the wall

"Who do you think-"

"Very well" cut in the 3rd, all were stunned that their hokage agreed so easily to hand over a war prisoner with potential info.

"Hey shit head! Where you get to decide that and how the fuck did you pinned me to a wall- Ooof!" she too was cut off, when the midnight black sword dislodged itself from the wall and flew straight to its wielder hand, letting her fall unceremoniously to the rooftop.

"Not in the mood so be thankful you're not directly in my shit list" said Ichigo as he gave her an icy glare that leaved no quarters. Tayuya promptly shut up as a shiver ran up her spine.

"we will talk about my son being a pariah later" he said to Hiruzen in a cold something took his attention and worry filled his face.

"Shit" he said and gathered his spiritual pressure on his blade, all the shinobi near the area got a shiver at the sheer pressure and the sudden thickening on the air. Ichigo ignored the frightened shinobi and stabbed the air with his swords and a loud thundering was getting near.

Few minutes earlier Sui-feng was racing through the air toward her sochi, her son. As he went past the village she noticed that the invasion was not going so smoothly for the invaders, which seemed to be Suna and some other force she didn't recognize. Apparently something went wrong as the invading forces were discordinated and couldn't quite yet cripple the defending forces. If she had to take a guess the Ichibi was supposed to rampage inside Konoha. Soon both the Ichibi and the henged Gamabunta where near her. Gamabunta in his fox appearance jumped and tried to latch to the Ichibi but the sand raccoon enraged apparently because the nine tailed fox supposed appearance, recoiled and avoided him. Soi-Feng could now see her sochi on top of the Toad boss head, she knew that keeping a henge this massive for so long was extremely draining. It was already impressive he actually pulled it off but it would last for long and she just knew it.

"Don't worry sochi, Kaa-san is here and will help you take down this oversized raccoon" Sui-Feng whispered to herself as she came up with a plan when she saw Gamabunta dodge the massive Air bullets Jutsu from the Ichibi.

"God Damn it would that freaking raccoon shut up already" shouted Naruto as he struggling to keep himself on Gamabunta's head as he skidded after dodging Shukaku's air jutsu

"Focus gaki we need to get you on his head so you can dispel his false death jutsu! Being honest I'm running on fumes right now" Naruto grumbled more in frustration than in anything else.

"Right!" answered Naruto; suddenly there was a big white flash oh the Tailed beasts back quickly followed by a loud explosion. The explosion not unlike a small meteorite impact actually created ripples on his sand body. Gamabunta in his henge arched an eyebrow but hey who was he to not take a freebie.

"What the he-"

"Hold on gaki that's a kamisend!" replied Gamabunta as he raced again against the damned Ichibi as it screamed at the unexpected impact on his back

"Roger that Oyabun!"

"Who dares? To..!"

"Shut the fuck up you oversized raccoon 'ttebane!" a feminine voice with a very familiar verbal tick, Gamabunta almost froze up when he heard said tick. Before the Bijuu could actually turn back he was greeted with another earth shattering strike that pretty much blasted his jaw off. Both Naruto and Gamabunta were awed at the power display but they didn't stop and charged on. Gamabunta jumped and managed to latch himself to the sand raccoon. The henge fell off immediately and Naruto jumped down to the mad Bijuu aiming for the forehead allowing him to get brief sight of the crazy strong woman, if the voice was anything to go by. In those brief moments Naruto was completely awed clad up in pure white lighting a redheaded beauty snarled in womanly fury at the Sand raccoon, she was lean and athletic clad in black attire that exposed her back completely as the lighting raced through it. their eyes locked just for a second on each other. She gave him a warm smile, completely in contrast with her past scowl yet it seemed so right in her face. Her eyes seemed to bore onto him scanning him and taking note of every minute detail, they seemed so familiar. Her gaze and the loving look she gave him made Naruto think that it was as if just seeing him had made her day worth it a thousand times.

"Why do her eyes seem so familiar, it's as if they call on to me"

"sochi…"

Fleeting moment it was between a mother and her unknowing son. Naruto continued his trek to the Ichibi's forehead but the Raccoon jerked his body and so Naruto landed near his shoulder.

"Fuck!" Naruto grunted but wasted no time began to run up the giant beast shoulder sticking himself with chakra. But suddenly tendrils of sand sprouted from the Raccoons body with miniature Ichibis Heads

"Last hit gaki then I'm out don't waste it!" Shouted the giant toad summon as he shot Oil bullets making the Ichibi stager and clearing the way from the sand tendrils he wasted no time and ran up with renown strength.

"Thanks a lot Oyabun!"

"Just finish the job gaki!" and he exploded in white smoke disappearing completely

"I really hope even if it foolish and impossible but I really hope it was her… then maybe the gaki will finally have the peace of mind he deserves"

Naruto raced right up where Gaara was but the sand was starting to repair the damage and he also was severely weakened he couldn't go any faster. Then a screech pierced his ear and then the light came, the woman from before came before him with an all-buisness face.

"If know what to do tell me what you need" she said in an emotionless tone as she ran beside him

"I need to reach up to where Gaara is and smack the bastards head hard"

"Done!" she said as the lighting surged from her arms and she grabbed him from the belt and raised him in a familiar stance

"Hey lady what's the big ide… woah!" Naruto screamed as he was thrown like he was some ball or something (football ovoid actually but who cares) and soared at impossible speeds with eyes watering from the insane wind rush.

"heh… now I know why he likes to do that so often" Naruto flew right onto Gaara and gave him a speed powered right punch right on the face. Effectively breaking the jutsu and the Bijuu's body began decomposing and loose integrity.

"Wake up! God damn it Gaara" gaara in half a snarl half a yawn eyed Naruto and cursed him

"Na…ruto U…zuma…ki!" as both of them were falling and the pieces of the sand construct crashing down a particular big chunk exploded on contact with the ground and hurled them savagely onto the threes. They crashed thru branches and slammed heavily against the trunk of a very big three, they finally hit the floor bloodied and ragged.

"Feels like something popped inside of me, probably not good" grimaced Naruto

"Damn you! I need to prove my existence" growled gaara who was just slightly in better condition than Naruto because of his sand armor, even if it was falling off right now.

"it hurts doesn't it?"

"!?"

"It hurts very badly being alone… that nobody actually tries to even recognize you're there… that you exist" said Naruto as he started crawling up to him leaving a trail of blood.

"What?"

"I know perfectly, I know your pain because I've felt it too, we really are very similar I got the feeling since our first meeting"

"Then how… how are you this strong" said gaara reeling at the blondes stubbornness as he neared him and gaara started to try to get away. Something in Naruto scared him. It scared him because he then knew that he would not be stopped by anything.

"What could it be that makes him so strong"

"Because I met people that saw me for who I truly am, granted some can be an ass sometimes, they still are my precious people… because of that I would give my life to protect them, I care more about them than I do for myself and I won't stop at nothing, I will stop you believe it (dattebayo)"

"But why, why would you go to such length for somebody besides yourself?"

"Because they saved me from myself; they saved me from my loneliness, they saved me from becoming what you've become" then he lost consciousness. Gaara was completely stunned and began to remember his good time with yashamaru. At this time Sasuke arrived and went to Naruto in a hurry.

"Naruto! Please, please, please wake up" he said as he cradled his head on his lap in uncharacteristic worry

"whats the matter teme, not your style at all" he groaned weakly and noticed the small tears forming on the corner of his eyes, he idly his face was less hard lined and more slim and soft

"SOCHIII!" Sui-Feng screamed as she landed near them. Sasuke instantly got on the defensive and whipped a kunai readying as best she could to fight this woman. Alas she was frozen stiff when she blasted him with a wave of killing intent. Naruto groaned as she saw the visage of the pretty lady with scary blood red hair.

"Don't have time for your shit honey, get out of the way or help get my sochi to safety" Sasuke was still doubtful of this woman claims of being naruto's mother but his life took precedence and she detected no deceit in her for now.

"He…lp Ga..ara" croaked Naruto, said woman groaned and seemed to battle with herself for a second

"Pick up the sand kid! First check for any external bleeding then piggy back him and get ready this will be rough" Sasuke wanted to argue but did as he was told. Gaara seemed to be ok for now he got hold of him and carried him.

"Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini! Look upon yourself with horror and then claw out your own throat! Double Bakudo No. 9 Geki-Horin" she shouted and a red glow surrounded them and paralyzed them except the woman, next a rope of orange lighting surrounded him and gaara together connecting them to the supposed mother of naruto. She quickly but very tenderly lifted Naruto and cradled him in her arms.

"Shunko!" she shouted and white lighting erupted from her back and raced down it to her legs and coursed through her arms. Before he could even think to ask they blasted off the ground as the woman practically flew up in the air and once every while she took a step in the thin air. Sasuke couldn't even speak from the shock as they neared Konoha by the second. Sui-Feng started flaring her reiatsu in hopes that her husband picked it up and he wrapped things up, their son was very gravely injured and even with the Kyuubi in him his life was in danger. She could only hope that Unohana's apprentice in Soul Society (SS) was able to help them. As they neared the stadium she felt Ichigo's spirit pressure flare up and was relieved when she saw him trying to open a Senkaimon but it didn't seemed to open. She was a bit concerned as she wasn't still sure this was the realm she thought it was.

"Ichigo! Pump as much power you can I'll guide it" she shouted as she landed ignoring the people around her. Her beloved eyed quickly their son and then the ones behind her still caught in her Kidos

"We need Orihime! She can heal as much as Unohana could" he said putting a hand on her shoulder and she only nodded inserting her own Zanpakuto where Ichigo's where a moment ago. She focused and visualized the Orangette that always was around him in the past, even if she never had strong interactions with her at the beginning, a brief episode of jealousy had led them to a somewhat dramatic bout, but that was a story for another time. Thinking about that time she could perfectly picture her. Just then she gasped as her beloved pumped massive amounts of reiatsu through her system, she momentarily feared her body wouldn't be able to handle the strain but it seemed somewhat of her physiology as Kushina remained as her body accepted the influx of energy and almost feed from it. She refocused and made the connection with the Senkaimon and forcibly directed it to wherever the busty human woman where.

"We'll return this one's after they're healed but Naruto is a whole other matter Sarutobi" said Ichigo in a deep growl and then they entered the spirit gate that materialized from thin air and mist.

"I'm too old for this" Groaned Sarutobi

The SS was having a relative peaceful day as they were slowly but surely recovering from what the new generations of students and fresh graduated from the Shinigami Academy had come to call the Great Crisis wars of SS. The devastation caused by the aftermath of the Aizen betrayal, the Winter War, the fullbring incident & 1000 year blood war was so great that the surviving Shinigamis were currently a minority from the SS population; barely less than on third of it. they were viewed as veterans and called the Old Generation heroes. Of course this also included the group of four humans that through blood and sweat had actually made SS change its iron clad views. Each one of them a legend on his own, along with their shinigami friends, they rapidly became a role model and inspiration to the new generations. But the one that distinguished above was none other than Kurosaki Ichigo for his sacrifice alongside his, at the time, secret lover former 2nd Squad captain Sui-Feng at the hands of the Quincy King in an all-out suicide move. The group of friends had actually ended moving to SS as their powers grew too great and would start affecting the people from Karakura Town. They readily accepted as the town itself was a constant remainder of their lost friend almost 30 years ago.

The peace of that day was thoroughly disturbed as an unofficial Senkaimon opened inside the Seireitei and made all the reiatsu alarms flare. Then every single shinigami was hit with the brunt force of two of the strongest reiatsu's they could imagine. Three fourths of the Shinigami corps were floored to the ground and even some fainted. The remaining last, not only resisted but instantly recognized the two powers and could only whisper in awe, shock and incredulity.

"…they're alive…"

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now for the moment i won't enter into detail as how the reiatsu and chakra concepts will interact with each other, cause i'll be abording that in the next two chapters slowly so pls have some patience and bear with me XD

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