( A/N: i dont own naruto or bleach. the summary is the italisized words below the chapter name)
Chapter 1: recollection
Zanpaku-to, they are born with their owners and they die with their owners. If a soul is reborn the zanpaku-to is reborn with them. This is the story of a boy who fell into the darkness and learned control of his darkness and saved his home, this is the story of Uzumaki naruto and his journey in life with his zanpaku-to; zangetsu
It had been two years since ichigo kurosaki had lost his shinigami powers; he was steadily regaining them through the help of a group of people called Xcusion. He had officially gotten usage of his zanpaku-to back and now is in the middle of a patrol with his partner in hollow extermination
"Oi ichigo, I know you're happy to have zangetsu back but don't ya think your going overboard?" said the short black haired woman
"Hm? Nah I'm just doing my job, killing hallows as I see'em so no I'm not going overboard rukia." Ichigo said while getting into a stance to kill another hallow
"sigh' ichigo you're a piece of work, ya know that?" said rukia while crossing her arms
"Yeah but you love it don't ya midget."
"Don't call me a midget strawberry!"
"Don't call me strawberry midget!" this argument lasted for the remainder of the patrol
Rukia's inner world
Rukia's inner world was a serene snow field that had the makings of Canadian vacation lodgings.
"It's been a wile since we got to talk like this, hasn't it. Zangetsu-san." A woman clad in a white kimono called out to a man clad in a black coat with a pair of faded orange sunglasses.
"Indeed it has, Shiriyuki-san. I am still indebted to you from our past life." The man known as Zangetsu said
'Rukia could you materialize a sitting area, a table and a brew of tea, please?' her mental call was answered with a kitchen area being formed in front of the two.
"Please have a seat." Sode no Shiriyuki said. Zangetsu happily abliged
"Even after 700 years of this we are still the greatest of combinations aren't we? There is no doubt that we will still be in future generation's to come, right?" he said after taking a sip of the tea
"Indeed, we have been comrades in arms and with our owners soul mates since dating back to the day when you became who you are today, you remember don't you
Shin'en no dakuenjeru *"She said
"please don't call me that, my name is Zangetsu and you know that. I can't undo the mistakes I've led my owner to do in the past, that's why I chose to start a new. Turning a new leaf as some would say." The black clad man said staring into his tea with eyes of regret. "I've played my past over and over and I feel even worse every time I do 'sigh' why did I come into this life filled with hatred? I was influenced by the sadness of my owner and led him to have power, but in the end result he almost lost his heart and his beloved to the darkness had controlled."
A third figure entered the conversation, a certain white hallow wearing a white shihakshou
"still reminiscing eh, old man?" this was the inner hallow that ichigo had named Shirosaki Ogichi
"And I see that you are still loyal to the king, I must say your acting skills have gotten better in the past 500 years. When ichigo was learning the final getsuga, that was the last time I ever want to go into that form. I split you apart from me so I wouldn't influence my owner to do terrible deeds." Said Zangetsu not even looking at Shirosaki
"you don't have to remind me, we split so the malice our original owner wouldn't make us into an arrancar's zanpaku-to we have two sides two our power, your's being the shinigami half and mine, the hallow half all in all though if one goes, so does the other. I've accepted that and am only giving the kid my powers on the terms of self-preservation, even though we'll be eventually reincarnated into another person's zanpaku-to in the next life I'd rather stay out of the hell hole that we went to last time." Shirosaki explained from his point of view
"Those days after we split were pretty fun though. I wonder what happened to kyubbi no kitsune." Shiro asked
"the Kyubbi was linked to the kid through the seal that minato placed on him as an infant." The snow zanpaku-to said
"as a result, the kyubbi had to pass it's power to the boys kin in order for his legacy to stay alive, ichigo doesn't show sign of that power so im assuming that the kyubbi's power wasn't passed to him." Zangetsu said
All three of them looked to the sky and remembered their past life
A/N: Shin'en no dakuenjeru from the translator I'm using means dark angel of the abyss.
Next chapter: Naruto of the darkness