Naruto and Bleach AU
By: FunahoMisaki
(A/N: I own nothing and what if after death Kushina became a Shinigami that no one ever suspected? And Naru's father was the most unlikely of Espada? AU OOC FEM!Naruto. Some bashing and maybe some Femslash. Set before Aizens betrayal and Rukia's execution.)
Tenth Division Taicho Toshiro Hitsugaya heard a small sigh across the room from him and looked over to see his Fukutaicho Rangiku Matsumoto taking another drink of sake and staring sadly at a calendar on the wall. Toshiro raised an eyebrow when he noticed his Fukutaicho stare at the calendar and sigh again before throwing back the whole bottle of sake in one long gulp. Usually Rangiku would drink this much anyways but never that quickly and never while staring at a calendar while in her own little world. Toshiro really knew something was wrong however when he noticed that for once Rangiku had done all of her paperwork without him forcing her too.
"Something bothering you Rangiku?" Toshiro asked as he signed a few more pieces of paper on his desk, looking up from them again when he noticed that the sudden question seemed to have startled the busty Fukutaicho into falling out of her chair.
"Nothing Captain." Rangiku said sadly after a moment of silence as she climbed back into her chair and took another bottle of sake out of her desk drawer, causing Toshiro's eyebrow to twitch. Dammit he thought he got rid of all of them.
"That's dragon dung and we both know it Rangiku. For once you have your paperwork done without me having to yell and force you to do it, you've been drinking while staring at the calendar all day and you've been sighing sadly the whole time as well. Now what's on your mind?" Toshiro said signing the last of his paperwork and putting down his pen as he leaned back to look at his Fukutaicho, who was a little surprised and yet a little touched that he had noticed.
"…I just hate Halloween is all." Rangiku said after a moment as she played with her simple necklace that was partially hidden in her ample cleavage. Toshiro was mildly surprised when he caught glimpse of a golden band on the end of the right that seemed to have a small blue gem on it. Toshiro opened his mouth to say something else when Ikkaku from squad 11 bust into the room and grinned at Rangiku.
"Hey Rangiku! Wanna hit the bars with me and the other guys again tonight?" Ikkaku asked not taking notice of Rangikus somewhat depressed demeanor.
"No." Was Rangikus monotone answer that sent off big red flags within Toshiros' mind, Rangiku never turned down an invitation to go drinking.
"Aww come on Rangiku don't be so stingy." Ikkaku said almost pouting at Rangiku who looked at the calendar again and sighed.
"No Ikkaku. I don't feel like it tonight." Rangiku said causing Ikkaku to frown at her while Toshiro was worried over his Fukutaicho.
"Aww come on you say that every Halloween! It wouldn't kill you to actually come with us this time!" Ikkaku exclaimed causing Rangiku to glare and growl at him, literally growling much to Toshiros slight amusement.
"I said no." Rangiku said her eyes flashing dangerously while her hair began to eerily float and split into nine segments.
"Come on just this once?" Ikkaku nearly begged causing Rangiku to snap.
"I said no now leave me alone with my grief!" Rangiku yelled at him, several glowing chains springing out of the ground and throwing Ikkaku through the door with enough force to leave him planted into the wall behind it. Almost immediately after Rangiku took another long gulp and drowned the full bottle of sake as the chains disappeared and her hair went back to normal.
"Rangiku? What was that just now?" Toshiro asked looking at his second in command shocked at what had just taken place. He had never seen Rangiku do either of those things before, not the hair split and definitely not the chains.
"Nothing important Taicho." Rangiku said sighing as she looked at the date on the calendar again, her eyes sad and regretful.
"Rangiku…" Toshiro trailed off, wanting her to open up to him about whatever it was that was making her so upset. He didn't like her 'glomp attack' as he called it, that was for sure but he also cared deeply for his second in command, he was the closest thing he had to an actual mother…although a very strange one. Rangiku took one look at a picture she pulled from out of her pocket and sighed as she stood up and repaired the door, also throwing up a silencing seal for good measure.
"Taicho." Rangiku said looking at Toshiro dead serious and causing him to look startled, this was the most serious he had ever seen her.
"I had a daughter once." Rangiku said, those five little words startling Toshiro more than anything else he could name to date. In Los Noches an Espada with an eternally sleepy look on his face looked at the small picture in his hand and sighed sadly, not noticing the others at the meeting with their leaders look at him curiously as he used his free hand to idly play with the simple chain around his neck.
"Something wrong Stark?" Aizen asked raising an eyebrow at the laziest of the Espada, wondering what could make him sigh like that.
"No sir. Just thinking about my daughter." Stark said uttering those words that forever changed Los Noches and its inhabitants.
Meanwhile in Konoha a small four year old girl was running from a mob of Chunin and civilians wondering where her so called protectors were. The small girl didn't make a sound as they finally caught her and beat her in an alley, not until one of the Chunin broke her arm and stabbed her in the stomach with a kunai.
"Waah!" The small blond four year old girl screamed and bawled at the top of her lungs at the pain while another Chunin moved to slice her throat with his kunai. He never got the chance to see the next sunrise.
Back with Rangiku and Toshiro.
"Rangiku. I'm so sorry you had to go through all that. M-Maybe we can work together and try to find your daughter here in the afterlife. I don't think anyone will have a problem with you taking her in and if they do let me know and I'll flash freeze them!" Toshiro said hugging his crying Fukutaicho and pseudo mother when she broke down crying after she had told him everything from her assignment to the world of Shinobi, to her strange ability which had awakened then, to her daughter that she was told that was dead.
"Thank you Taicho but I-" Here Rangiku was cut off by the ring on the end of her necklace glowing slightly, causing her to take it into her hands and stare at in shock.
With Stark.
"I'm afraid that I haven't found my wife yet in the afterlife or my daughter, it's entirely possible that they were either eaten by another hollow early on or they're Shinigami." Stark said finishing off his explanation of what had happened when he went back to the world of Shinobi once after being bored with Los Noches and Huenco Mundo. Tia and the other females were devastated at hearing that his daughter, an adorable little blond haired blue eyed whiskered girl that he had shown the picture of to them, was supposedly dead.
"Perhaps we can get permission to go back to this world of Shinobi and search in case she is alive there." Tia reassured the lazy man that gave her a small smile before he stared shocked when the ring on his necklace began to glow.
"That's impossible. This should only happen if either my wife or daughter are still alive and in danger." Stark said not knowing that Rangiku had said the exact same thing at the exact same time, only using the word husband instead of wife. A small screen popped up above both Stark and Rangikus rings showing the blood covered four year old that was stabbed in the stomach by a grown man.
"I'LL KILL THOSE BASTARDS FOR HARMING MY BABY!" Stark and Rangiku roared in unknowing unision as they both opened their own ways of traveling and went to save their child, not knowing that they would now meet each other face to face first the first time since they had 'died' in the Shinobi world. And also not knowing that Toshiro and Tia respectively followed along swearing to show those child abusers what a real monster was like.