Dedicated to the lovely MnC21(Monica) who is so awesome to have thought of this plot! Just think of me as a writing tool that brings her amazing ideas to life, hehe. Anyways, moving on I hope everyone likes this story and please review! :)

"Shinobi and Shinigami Chronicle"

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, Bleach or the plot (wow, that's strange to write), they belong to their respective owners!

Chapter 1: Discovery
Reccommend Song: Do You Remember by Jay Sean ft. Sean Paul & Lil Jon

"Hitsugaya-taicho!" sang the lieutenant of the tenth division as she strode into her Captain's office with a bright smile on her face, which made Hitsugaya question the mental stability of the woman. The white haired captain of the tenth division chose to ignore his lieutenant in hopes that she would get bored and eventually go away, too bad for him that Rangiku was on a mission to gain her captain's attention.

"Oi, it's rude to ignore a woman. I'm hurt", Rangiku mock pouted and a vein in Hitsugaya's forehead began to throb as he focused intently on his paperwork, trying to block out the pestering woman in front of him.

"I'm gonna cry, Hitsugaya-taicho!" whined Rangiku and Hitsugaya snapped the pen in his hand as his head snapped up in annoyance. Rangiku gave her captain a cheery smile and if looks could kill she would've been burning in the depths of Hell right about now.

"What do you want, Rangiku!" snapped Hitsugaya in a clearly irritated tone and Rangiku made a thoughtful look, before a sheepish smile crossed her face and she rubbed the back of her head.

"Ah, I've seemed to have forgotten", the busty blonde admitted in a innocent voice and Hitsugaya's eyes narrowed to the size of slits. Rangiku smiled nervously when she felt the room suddenly drop a few degrees and she mentally racked her brain for what she had been sent to inform Hitsugaya.

"Rangiku", Hitsugaya growled out her name and the lieutenant's face turned a sickly pale color in her fear, she needed to say something or she wouldn't survive much longer. Rangiku slowly began to inch her way back towards the door, gulping when she saw the physical materialization of Hitsugaya'sreiastu form above him in the shape of an angry ice dragon.

"Oh yeah! Captain Commander wants us to head to Karakura Town to investigate the sudden spike in hollow activity!" Rangiku suddenly exclaimed and she sighed in relief as the dragon disappeared and the temperature of the room returned to normal.

"I thought, Kurosaki and Kuchiki could handle everything in Karakura?" Hitsugaya questioned and Rangiku shrugged her shoulders in response. Hitsugaya stood up from behind his desk and gave Rangiku a serious look.

"When do we leave?" he asked and Rangiku once again Rangiku formed a sheepish expression on her face, which made Hitsugaya cross his arms over his chest and raise one of his eyebrows at his lieutenant.

"An hour ago", the blonde replied before she bolted out of the room, leaving a momentarily confused Hitsugaya behind before her words finally registered in his mind and he gritted his teeth in rage.

"RANGIKU!"

"Rukia that does not resemble a rabbit in the slightest", Ichigo told the small, black haired shinigami as he stared at the picture that she had drawn. He had turned it in every direction possible and he still couldn't see the rabbit that she had supposedly drawn.

"Shut up! It's there, your just blind!" snapped Rukia as she kicked Ichigo off his bed and crossed her arms over her chest in an angry pout, the substitute Shinigami hopped off the floor and glared at the violent Shinigami, who simply ignored him.

"Ichigo! You have a phone call!" Isshin's voice echoed up the stairs and Ichigo sent one final glare at Rukia, before he exited the room. Rukia lied back on the bed and looked at her drawing with a slight frown on her face.

"Stupid Strawberry", the small shinigami mumured under her breath and glanced out the window, just in time to see Rangiku hop on the window sill in her gigai with a frantic look on her face. Rukia quickly sat up and opened the window, while Rangiku wasted no time rushing in.

"Rangiku-fukutaicho, what's wrong!" exclaimed Rukia as she watched the older woman try to collect herself and Rangiku closed the curtains of the windows, before she sat down on the bed beside Rukia with a sigh of relief.

"Hitsugaya-taicho is looking for me and I'd rather not let him find me until he is calmer", Rangiku explained to Rukia in a cheery tone and Rukia stared at the older woman with an incrudlous look on her face, how could she be so calm?

Ichigo walked back in his room with his signature scowl on his face and his eyes widened slightly when he saw Rangiku sitting on his bed next to Rukia. He looked at Rukia with a silent question burning in his eyes but she just shook her head at him; he wouldn't want to get involved.

"Hey Ichigo, how's lfe been treating you?" asked Rangiku in a chipper voice and Ichigo rubbed the back of his neck, before he shrugged.

"Everything's the same", Ichigo admitted and Rangiku looked thoughtful, before she shivered lightly when a cold breeze swept through the room. Rukia and Ichigo watched the pure look of terror cross Rangiku's face as Hitsugaya suddenly swept into the room through the window.

"You have been experiencing an increase in Hollows, correct?" spoke Hitsugaya in a serious tone and Rukia nodded her head once to answer his question. Ichigo's scowl deepened when he noticed how crowded his room was getting.

"We still don't know what's causing them to appear more often, Hitsugaya-taicho", Rukia explained and Hitsugaya crossed his arms over his chest before he closed his eyes deep in thought. Rangiku inched away from her captain slowly, but froze in place when his eyes suddenly snapped open.

"Rangiku", he said in a low tone and the lieutenant gulped as beats of sweat began to form on her face. Rangiku stared at her captain and a quick relief flashed through her when she noticed that he was in his gigai, at least he couldn't do her any bodily harm.

"I really hate to interrupt the issue that you two seem to be having, but Sado just called and Uryuu wants everyone to meet up at the park. Normally, I wouldn't give a damn what Uryuu wants, but he can be a real bitch when he doesn't get his way", Ichigo spoke up and Rukia stood up, before she smoothed out her strapless baby blue sundress.

"Hitsugaya-taicho, Rangiku-fukutaicho I think it might benefit you two to come with us. It may be a clue on why the sudden increase of hollows in Karakura Town has occurred", Rukia stated and Hitsugaya nodded, while Rangiku made a mental note to repay Rukia and Ichigo both for distracting her captain.

"Kurotsuchi-taicho", Nemu's soft voice spoke up and Mayuri turned to look at his daughter with a crazed gleam in his eyes. The elder Kurotsuchi took a step towards his creation and Nemu bowed her head low, as she fiddled with the bottom of her kimono.

"The preparations for your experiment are complete", she murmured and Mayuri smiled brightly, before he strode past Nemu without another word. Once her father had left the room, Nemu sank to the floor and sighed in relief, fear was the only emotion she felt when she was near him.

Mayuri walked into his lab and stared at the large black screen that flickered to life once he began to press buttons on a keyboard located in front of the screen. Mayuri had always been curious about the pasts of the shinigami in the Gotei 13 and so he decided to see just what everyone was hiding.

Mayuri's grin grew larger once he saw images begin to appear on the screen and he heard someone walk in the room, but he didn't bother to turn around. Mayuri knew the only person who was allowed in the lab was Nemu and he knew that she wouldn't interfere with his plans, she was here simply to observe.

Nemu watched her father continue to type in words into the machine and her eyes widened a fraction when she saw a image of Rukia in rags skit across the screen, before it was replaced with another pointless image.

"Whose past shall we observe first? So many wonderful choices", Mayuri spoke to himself and Nemu remained silent as she listened to the mad scientist rant and ramble to himself, in times like these she didn't even think of him as a human being.

"Ah! I know who we should start with!" Mayuri suddenly exclaimed and he began to press more button, Nemu allowed a small gasp to escape her lips when a familiar picture of a captain appeared on the screen.

"That brat, Torshiro Hitsugaya", Mayuri growled under his breath and after a few moments of silence a bar appeared on the screen and process of retrieving the shinigami's past began to download.

Hitsugaya sat on a park bench with a light scowl on his face as he watched Rangiku and Orihime, talk about everything except what was causing the sudden increase in hollow activity. Sado sat next to Hitsugaya with his bangs covering his eyes as he listened to the two blondes continued to talk happily, while Uryuu pushed his glasses up further on his face to hide the burning annoyance in his eyes.

"Uhm Rangiku-fukutaicho, Orhime-san don't you think we should be discussing the hollow activity?" Rukia spoke up when she noticed the growing ire of the males, especially Ichigo who had begun to grit his teeth.

"That's a excellent idea, Rukia!" Orhime said happily and Hitsugaya released a breath in annoyance, before he stood up and began to walk away. Rangiku ran up and stood in front of her captain with her hands on her hips.

"Where are you headed, Hitsugaya-taicho?" she asked and Hitsugaya glared her but she only smiled at him in response. Hitsugaya resisted the urge to pull out his hair and he growled in annoyance, he didn't have the patience for this.

Rukia looked at the captain of Tenth Division and decided to take pity on him, she took a step forward and suddenly the ground crumbled beaneath her. Ichigo's eyes widened and he recahed forward to catch her and succeeded, but somehow the two still managed to fall down the hole. Everyone crowded around the hole and shouted for Rukia and Ichigo, waiting to hear a response.

"Rukia! Ichigo!" shouted Sado down the hole and no one made sound when they heard a light groan come from the hole.

"Dammit, Rukia get up your heavy!" they heard Ichigo snap and everyone sighed when they heard a loud 'thump' followed by Ichigo's shout of pain. Obviously the two were okay, if they could still do bodily harm to each other.

"We are going to have to go down after them", Hitsugaya stated after a while and Rangiku made a sound of protest, which quickly died down in her throat when Hitsugaya shot her a dark look.

One by one, everyone slowly jumped down in the hole and their eyes widened at the amount of space that was down the hole. They had expected it to be cramped or at least compacted, but the truth was that Ichigo and Rukia fallen into a large underground cave.

"How could no one know that this was beneath the park?" Uryuu questioned out loud and Orhime shrugged, before she sprinted over to where Ichigo and Rukia were glaring at each other; oblivious to the world around them.

"Kurosaki-kun, Rukia are you both alright?" asked Orhime in a worried tone and Rukia smiled at the blonde haired girl briefly, while Ichigo nodded his head once. Hitsugaya glanced around the cave and noticed the crystal like rocks that were on the ceiling that were used as a light source.

"How do we get out of here?" asked Rangiku and Hitsugaya began to walk deeper into the cave, until the voices of the others became nothing but a soft whisper behind him. Hitsugaya turned the corner and his eyes widened at the sight that greeted him.

A large iceberg stood in front of him with a pink haired girl inside. If Hitsugaya didn't know any better, he could've sworn that she was sleeping. Hitsugaya reached out a hand to touch the iceberg and he faintly noted Rangiku's gasp in shock behind him. The Captain of the Tenth Division closed his eyes and released an icy breath.

"Sakura."