The Espada Jinchuriki:
This Chapter will be a lot longer than the prologue as it is my official chapter 1. I hope you enjoy it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Bleach so I'm stuck doing a fanfic instead.
Chapter 1 – The Jinchuriki Hollowification:
It had been 6 months since the Leaf village's destruction and the death of Naruto Uzumaki. Even though Naruto was lonely, he hadn't said a word to the Kyuubi or anyone else for that matter, for the past 6 months.
Truth be told, Kyuubi knew full well that Naruto blamed him for the deaths of his beloved village and friends and in return Naruto had become a shadow of who he was.
Kyuubi had on multiple occasions attempted to talk to Naruto but in all those attempts for the past 6 months Naruto hadn't said a word.
And it worried the ancient fox to no end. Don't get him wrong, Kyuubi still longed for freedom and would happily destroy all those that attempted to control or 'tame' him or other such nonsense. However, he couldn't help but feel for the once bright, energetic and loving boy now turned cold, hateful and hollow.
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Pain, both emotionally and physically was slowly consuming him; already twisting his already tortured soul by constantly reminding him that his friends were all dead… all because of his weakness.
He had not said a word to the bastard fox in all this time as he had nothing to say to him. He was all alone and stuck in the dark, underneath the very crater that used to hold all his happy memories.
He hadn't kept track of the time so he had no idea how long he had been enclosed in chains tied to the ground. He had long since given up trying to escape the chains as they were nearly as painfully to pull on as his chest chain (Soul-chain if you are puzzled) was.
As his guilt and pain had risen his chain, that was attached to his chest, had slowly eroded away slowly opening some random hole in his chest. But he couldn't bring himself to care that much over it apart from the pain that it brought him – he would scream continuously for 5-10 minutes every time it would.
There was not much of the chain left and the hole in the middle of his chest was getting larger and larger as time went on. But if one thing Naruto didn't lose in his attitude reversal was his stubbornness and so he refused to care about what the chain would do when it reached its limit.
He had not been able to see the surface for a long time. He just remembered running away from what looked like samurai fighters with their black get-ups and swords. Naruto didn't know if they could see him or not but he didn't want to find out. So he had run away from them wanting to be alone to mourn his fallen village and friends.
So after running around, carefully dodging in and out of shadows of trees or left over debris from the village, he had this small hole that lead underground not far from the crater and eventually lead him to staying there in the lonely darkness.
His mind and eyes wandering over to the few links of chain that was still attached to his chest; he yet again wondered what would happen to him when they all encroached to the end.
"You don't want that Naruto… you must fight it, where is that annoying brat that use to never give up." Came the voice of the Kyuubi no Kitsune, however, if you listened intently you could pick up the slight edge of worry and desperation in it. Though whether that was for the well-being of him or Naruto was anyone's guess.
"…" Naruto as usual said nothing in response to his inner demon and just sat there waiting for the encroachment to happen – he had a feeling this was going to be the last one.
"Naruto…" yelled the nervous fox, "You must fight it what about your friends' boy, your nindo, your determination don't they matter to you anymore. If that chain encroaches fully you will become a monster that you have tried to deny your whole life? Do you want that Naruto Uzumaki?"
The unresponsive blond teen just looked at the chain in defeat. He could feel the final encroachment approaching soon. Very soon.
'10…9…8…' came the defeated inner voice of the once happy-go-lucky teen.
'7…6...'
"DO NOT IGNORE ME BOY! ANSWER ME UZUMAKI IS THIS HOW YOU WANT TO GO DOWN WHERE IS YOUR HONOUR AND PRIDE?"
'5…4…'
"He grew up Kyuubi and wants to be free of this damn world. I have removed that fake mask that I wore all the time. I want to make those that get in my way of power just a stain on floor. I can't do that in this form…" Came the dark eerie voice of one Naruto Uzumaki; his voice dry and raspy, having not used it in such a long time.
"Don't do i-"
'1…'
Then pain like Naruto had never experienced before drowned out the voice of the fox and his own screams. He had just enough time to see a big hole in his chest fully open and then all he saw was white.
He was in too much pain to even think coherently all he could do was let the white substance that had started pouring out or his eyes, nose and mouth start to take over.
It reeked of power, hatred and despair. Naruto welcomed it with open arms.
Then darkness consumed him.
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In his cage, Kyuubi was also feeling pain beyond anything he had ever felt in his thousands of years of life.
He could feel his virtually limitless supply of chakra breaking down and becoming something else it was somewhat similar to chakra but had a slightly denser feel to it like it was the building blocks of something or maybe everything Kyuubi didn't know.
Going back to his millenniums worth of knowledge on chakra he realised that as chakra was half spiritual, half physical this power must be 100 percent spiritual. Kyuubi was not sure what to think of it.
He then felt a darkness spreading throughout the mindscape and in his mind – he couldn't speak as he was too busy groaning and grunting in agony. All he could do was watch as this darkness spread throughout the cage until it reached Kyuubi and with some rather dark profanities Kyuubi also let the darkness take him to unconsciousness.
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When Naruto came to, he found that he was lying on what looked like sand.
'Strange, I don't remember going to Suna?' Thought Naruto irritably, not that the sand really bothered him at all, it was just annoying when you can't remember what you did or have done.
'No this isn't Suna it's something else I can feel it. The energy here is totally different to the elemental nations? So where the hell am I?'
As Naruto went to pick up some sand with his hand he realised that his hand wasn't what he remembered it to be. He looked down at his hands and body and swore loudly in shock.
The reason for this was and is quite simple.
Where Naruto's hands use to be; were now more animalistic than anything else with 5 really sharp, strong, red claws that gave him a rather menacing look about him. However, it was his body that really sent him into shock.
In the middle of his chest was the ever present hole that almost made him want to yell with hunger ever since he woke up.
He didn't know what it was about it but he just knew that he was hungry and needed something to eat.
He still had a rather slim body with an athletic look to it, he did not have any shirt leaving his torso and abdomen open to darkness, but he did have some sort of red fur that coated everything from his hips down to his feet that were also clawed as well. The red fur also looked rather fierce in the sense that it looked like blood had steadily coated it until it was a dark crimson.
Naruto knew his body was strong, in fact he felt his power and was pleasantly surprised to find that it didn't feel like chakra. However, he had never felt more powerful – he had nearly twice the amount of this energy as chakra and it made him feel strong to his very soul. Chakra had never done that much for him before.
It didn't hurt that his body looked badass as well.
No what caused him real shock was the fact that he had 2 tails producing out of his tail bone. Two big, red powerful appendages that swirled around lazily but also looked to be ready to go offensive or defensive in an instant.
Naruto chuckled darkly in the open darkness of this sandy world.
Just then Naruto detected movement in his peripheral vision and in seconds 4 very large creatures with some strange masks and body compositions came and surrounded to the just now standing Naruto.
They stood there for a second but finally one of them, the ugliest one and clearly the leader in this case Naruto noted, took a step forwards towards him.
"My, my, what do we have here boys… a fresh little hollow that has some rather tasty reiatsu from the smell of you? In fact you have as much spiritual pressure as we Gillain-class do. You're a rather interesting hollow but we're hungry so nothing personal." The massive Gillain-classed hollow trailed off his voice grating and squeaky sounding like nails on a chalkboard.
Naruto looked unimpressed. He had faced a 'God' he wasn't going to back out against these four losers.
"Oh Reiatsu, that is my new power is it. As for what you guys are meant to be I have no idea. You look like something Shukaku ate and spat out!" Naruto replied with a slight hint of cockiness and casualness to it.
It did its job and got all 4 behemoths annoyed and on edge.
"That's a rather sharp tongue you have there for a simple hollow, you Greenhorn!"
"Let's hurry up and kill him already guys I'm hungry?"
"Yeah, I am going to enjoy eating you trash."
Naruto just smirked and said loudly and in a taunting fashion. "Wait what...? You like eating trash?"
The others recoiled slightly at the still very calm looking hollow in front of them, showing no fear or hesitation at all. The hollow that just said that glared darkly and was about to reply when the leader gave a sharp look to him silencing anything he was about to say to the witty new hollow.
Instead the leader just said "Okay enough of the pleasantries I hope you have had a nice life of 3 minutes greenhorn, you can now spend eternity in our growing spiritual pressure…"
Naruto just looked up and grinned darkly. He was hungry, very hungry and he certainly was not going to be on the menu.
With speeds that the others didn't expect he had already disappeared and appeared in front of the group leader and before the giant could say anything else, Naruto had ripped out his throat… with his teeth.
The others just looked on in shock as they watched their leader go down in a single move.
Green blood squirted out of the wound as the nameless leader fell to the fall rasping in agony. The sand was painted green where he lay still after less than 30 seconds.
Within that time Naruto had just continued to eat the throat of the ex-hollow – while doing so he slowly turned to the others who looked at him in fear as Naruto just said darkly "Nothing personal… but I'm hungry!" he then charged at the shocked hollows with no mercy, just raw survival instinct.
10 minutes later and Naruto had all but consumed all four of the hollows that were, unfortunately, in his way.
Naruto looked down to one of the larger green puddles of hollow blood that coated the local area and saw his face for the first time since arriving in this plane of existence.
Well it wasn't exactly a face that looked up at him but a mask that covered his face in a sort of wolf or fox skull mask. Although, he did have long flowing red hair that hung down to his waist (think of Tensa Zangetsu, when he takes over Ichigo in the finla fight against Ulquiorra in the Anime, only a dark crimson red). But what truly made his appearance look demonic were the blood red eyes of a predator. Those eyes were of a killer, a survivor, a hungry predator on the prowl for his next meal.
Overall, Naruto cleaned up himself and stood at his full height of 6 foot and chuckled darkly, once again, at the feeling of his power growing from his meal. He was pleased to see that his spiritual pressure had already nearly increased by 20 percent since he first woke up. It meant that all he had to do was to keep eating his next meal.
If he could do that, then his power will keep rising exponentially until he could do whatever he wants. He was no longer bond to contracts of friendship or promises he could just focus on getting stronger.
Naruto decided then and there that he was going to leave his old life behind; he would use that hatred and guilt to push him forward but other than that he was done with friends. It was just too painful in the end. Whether they died on you or betray you… there was always an ending to a friendship…
Naruto looked down once more to the puddle and felt his mask with his clawed hands and smirked at the irony.
'I got rid of my emotional mask only to have gained another type of mask.'
With that thought in mind, Naruto walked away from the area looking for the next meal for him to sink his fangs and teeth into.
To gain power he had to be willing to go to any lengths to get it – if you want to stand at the top then you have to be willing to step on some toes.