The Fox and the Zanpakutuo

I OWN NOTHING...nothing at all

AN: ok this is my first story so don't be to hard on me but some advise would be much appreciated thanks

A panting Naruto Uzumaki stands over the almost lifeless body of Sasuke Uchiha. It had been an exhausting battle with both teens pushed to their limits. Naruto had to use the Kyuubi cloak to even compete with Sasuke and his sharingan. Then the Uchiha pulled his trump card and used the curse marks second form.

The combatants were equally matched then Sasuke formed a black chidori while Naruto formed the demon rasengan. The resulting backlash through them both against the cannon wall…hard the blonde with his high healing rate got up with nothing but a slightly large bump on the back of his head the Uchiha however got knocked out.

Now Naruto was planning to drag the unconscious Uchiha back to the awaiting Sakura Haruno who undoubtedly would yell and hit him for bringing Sasuke back in such a condition. That was when he felt it. A presence unfamiliar to him but the Kyuubi snarled in its cage at it.

A very pissed off snake sannin came at Naruto with a kuni hoping to catch him off guard but the blonde knew better then that and spun around doing a sweep kick to orochimaru which he jumped over but Naruto saw this coming and countered with an uppercut strait to his jaw. This knocked the sannin back a couple of feet.

'damn he got Sasuke, well since the Kyuubi prevents me from taking over his mind I guess it's a good time to try out that new jutsu' Orochimaru thought with a sneer.

He flashed through hand seals and just as the Kyuubi container rushed at him with a chakra enhanced punch the sannin opened a inter-dimensional portal that the blonde dove right into. Orochimaru smirked, his plan had worked and he basked in his glory as he drug the Uchiha off to his lair. The rest of the Uchiha rescue team arrived shortly after and finding nothing they went to report the horrible news to the hokage and undoubtably worried sakura and hinata.

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Naruto woke up with a splitting headache and got up. "What happened?" he moaned to no person in particular "I remember kicking the Uchiha's ass" he gave a slight chuckle "And then Orochi-jackson showed up and used that weird jutsu on me, looked sort of like a black hole" he recalled. He sat up and realized a girl about his age was standing in front of him look behind him at something with an expression of utter horror on her face. He slowly turned around his mind returning back to those horror movies he and his best friend Kiba would always watch on Saturdays unless one of them had a mission. (No not yaoi or however you spell that) He expected it to be a monster but nothing like what he saw.

There was a giant monster thing completely white except for the red stripes across its body it had a hole where its heart should be and a rather scary mask. The thing was looking at him with a thirst. Naruto was surprised to find no killer intent rolling off of the monster but rather just extreme sorrow and hunger. "Your soul smells especially delicious" the monster said in a deep demonic voice and grinned if it was possible. Naruto backed away slowly hoping to be able to run from the creature but every step he made the monster took two towards him.

Then he heard it. It sounded sort of like a screaming cat with its leg cut off then a blade appeared through the monsters skull and followed down all the way through its entire body. There where it had stood now stood a teenager around Naruto's age with bright orange hair (my fanfic I'm making ichigo Naruto's age) the kid had a sword about five feet long and Naruto was surprised he could carry it as he was only about five foot. "T-Thank you" Naruto stuttered out and cursed himself for not putting a little confidence in his voice.

The kid seemed to turn and looked surprised. "You can see me?" the kid asked pure disbelief in his voice.

"Well yea why would I be able to?" Naruto asked a little annoyed that the kid who saved him thought he was invisible.

"Uhh I'll explain later first we need to get you both somewhere more safe" Naruto then remembered the girl who had at some time during all these events, pulled a hinata and fainted. Naruto took it upon himself to carry the girl partly out of kindness partly to show he wasn't helpless. Naruto found himself following the kid into a two story house with about 3-4 bedroom and followed him upstairs and into the kids apparent room. He laid the girl on the bed and he and the kid with the orange hair sat on the floor. "Ok so looks like I'm going to have to explain a lot of things" said the kid with orange hair "First off my name is Ichigo, Ichigo Kurasaki" he stated with a rather proud look on his face.

"Names Naruto Uzumaki" the blonde jinchuuriki said. "Ok so first off why wouldn't i be able to see you? Where am i? What was that thing? How can you carry that big sword?" he would have kept going on with questions if ichigo hadn't stopped him.

"In order?" he asked "You shouldn't be able to see me unless you have high spiritual pressure as I am a shinigami. You are in japan and since you didn't know that i suspect you aren't from around here. That thing that attacked you and the girl is what's called a hollow ill explain about them later. And quite simply i work out." he said with a shrug.

"What's spiritual pressure? Wait there's more then one shinigami?" the blonde asked ichigo just nodded his head. "There's a whole society of us actually it's called The Soul Society there are 13 guard squads of shinigami there an.....wait why am i telling you this you could be spying for the hollows." ichigo then put his sword to naruto's throat and naruto gulped rather loudly.

"N-now why would i spy for the things that tried to kill me?" ichigo lowered his sword "Good point but what I'm really curious about is that you can see me clear as any other human"

Then the closet door slammed open causing naruto to jump and ready for a fight but Ichigo was used to it, naruto already had two kuni in his hands before Ichigo told him it was alright and naruto put them back in their pouches. out of the closet came a girl wearing some bunny pajamas and matching bunny slippers holding what looked to be an unconscious ichigo by the hair and yelling about finding it in her bed.

Needless to say this freaked the hell out of naruto as he looked back from the ichigo held by the strange girl and the one on the floor who seemed to be cowering from her. Then Ichigo and the girl realized his presence the girl desperately tried to hide the body behind herself which was kinda idiotic considering she had been flailing it around like a hammer at the ichigo on the floor.

"Oh uh Rukia-chan this is naruto-san" Ichigo said hoping to get her to forget about how much trouble he was in and turn her attention to naruto ".....You can see him" she asked naruto who just nodded in response as he was really terrified of the girl. she shook her head and said "Well looks like you have some help Ichigo-san, all we need to do is find him someplace to stay."

"he could stay here." ichigo proposed. "Where? in the closet? no wait I'm staying there." then the girl woke up and rubbed her head "Where am I?" she questioned and looked around

"Why am I in Ichigo-kun's room??" rukia quickly went back into the closet and closed the door and then the strange girl realized there were people in the room and she gained a slight blush when she realized she added '-kun' to ichigo's name and that he was in the room wearing a strange black kimono she had no idea he had along with a giant blade along with a strange boy in an orange monstrosity of a jacket and orange pants and though 'hey he's kinda cute'.

"Hello ichigo-san" she made a point of saying '-san' instead of '-kun' "How did i get here? who is this person?" she asked pointing to naruto "And what was that thing that attacked me?" naruto gave a slight chuckle at the frustrated look on ichigo's face at the fact he would have to re-explain everything.

"Naruto-san carried you here on his back seeing as you fainted." he said while jerking a thumb in naruto's direction "That and what do you mean? nothing attacked you." naruto gave ichigo a questioning look and ichigo returned it with one that said 'I know what I'm doing'.

"Don't play dumb with me Ichigo Kurasaki I mean the giant white thing that said something about eating my soul." "Oh that well looks like i can't fool you Orihime-san" orihime was a little saddened he didn't say orihime-chan. "That thing that attacked you is what's called a hollow its my job to destroy them and help send other souls to the soul society."

"Hey you never told me that part!" exclaimed naruto. orihime then realized she forgot to introduce herself to the blonde boy. "Hi my name is Orihime Inoue what's yours?" she asked extending her hand to the blonde. "Hi my name is Naruto Uzumaki nice to meet you orihime-chan" the blonde boy smiled and extended his hand to shake hers. She blushed slightly at naruto calling her orihime-chan.

They shook hands then out of nowhere ichigo blurted out "How about naruto stays at your house orihime-san?" orihime was embarrassed at the thought of a boy not in her family, one that she thought was cute no less, staying at here house. "Please? he has nowhere else to stay and its not like he can stay here my dad might go berserk and if he didn't he would probably try to fight him." orihime had to agree with that, ichigo was always complaining about his dad getting him in a headlock after he woke up. 'What's the big deal? its just a boy and its not like we would...' she turned bright red at the thought which had the boys confused she eventually nodded her head which had the blonde hugging and thanking her multiple times and ichigo trying to hold in a laugh at her deepening blush.

Orihime was surprised to find he had nothing except the clothes on his back even if he wasn't from here she expected him to have at least one suite case she felt sorry for the boy. They walked for a while in silence the blonde boy seeming to be deep in thought. Orihime thought of a way to break the ice with the boy "Where are you from?" she asked he looked up like he just realized she was there then his expression turned to sadness

"I come from a place called konoha." he stated she saw a flash of pure hatred pass before his eyes. "What was it like there?" she asked probing hoping to find the reason for the flash of hatred, it appeared again only this time it lasted for a few seconds before his blue eyes turned back to their usual warmth and kindness and he smiled his signature smile before answering her "You would love it there Orihime-chan lots of people always places to pull pranks." she laughed at that last part "I don't pull pranks naruto-kun but i suppose you do right?" he nodded "And besides i was wonder how you liked it there."

The blondes expression didn't change "Oh I love it there." orihime heard the falseness in his voice "Naruto really how do you like it there." she demanded. Naruto seemed to get sad "It's ok but all the villagers hated me for what i contain and ended up charging me two times as much for moldy old bread and my family died when i was born. The only people who didn't hate me were kiba, shino, shikamaru, chouji, old man hokage, and iruka-sensei." orihime figured it was best not to ask what he contained to make the villagers hate him so as for what she had seen of him in the short time they had known each other the blonde would tell her when he decided he was ready to.

They continued their walk in silence until they got to orihime's house and she unlocked the door. "I supose i should give you a tour of the place." she suggested. They walked into a room with white tiles some greenish cabinets and blue/yellow counters and was attacked to a black stove and up on a shelf was a little microwave. "This is the kitchen, not much in here at the moment but i was going to go shopping soon anyway feel free to help yourself what's yours is mine."

Naruto marveled at how clean it was, naruto had neglected his apartment as it would just get trashed anyway and it was a waist of effort. she lead them to a room with a relatively small sofa and a t.v. with another small table. "Unfortunately i only have a few channels on the T.V but after the encounter with that hollow i think this will be enough for me for a couple of days." naruto suppressed a laugh and followed her into a hall and into a room with a wooden desk blue carpet that covered the entire house a bed quite larger then himself was made neatly in the corner. On the opposite wall there was a closet.

"This is where you are going to be staying." orihime announced "sorry it doesn't have a lot in it but no one has stayed here for about 4 years." "It's no problem at all orihime-chan I'm just glad your letting me stay here considering we just met and all." naruto said and happily started pulling off his boots, kuni and shuriken holsters and his jacket. Orihime was surprised to find he was wearing a black tank top that fit his body tightly and showcased the young boys muscles. orihime caught herself blushing at the site of him and turned away from him to hide it. "Ok well you should get comfortable bathroom is back down the hall and the door on your left right before you reach the living room." she said before walking into her room. Naruto took off his pants leaving him in nothing but his black tank top and some dark green boxers. he made his way down the hall and stopped before the living room, there was a door on either side. "she said down the hall to the left so." he turned left and went in the room. he was surprised and rather embarrassed to find orihime in nothing but her her blue bra and matching panties. he blushed heavily and went to leave before she caught him but then she turned around and yelled. "NARUTO UZUMAKI WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN MY ROOM!?"

AN: ok that's it tell me what you think I decided to turn ichigo 13 because I hadn't thought of it earlier so I didn't change Naruto's age so I decided to change Ichigo's don't know how often I will be posted a chapter to those who will read this, sorry