Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Bleach.

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Hello and thank you for reading my story, I hope you liked the first chapter. Now, two things. First is that this chapter is just revealing Naruto's past and something important about his zanpakutou. Second, I am put a poll so that everyone could vote for Naruto's future lady; the choices are two humans, two shinigami, and two arrancars.

That is all, on with the story.

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Naruto Uzumaki's first thought as he entered the medical room was that his vice-captain was incredibly cute. The second thought was that his vice-captain was dead.

Her eyes were lifeless, as if someone had gotten hold of her soul and ripped it out without mercy. In fact, those eyes seemed very familiar to him.

Mine used to be just like that.

Naruto spoke softly. "Hey, I'm Naruto. I'm supposed to be your new captain." Hinamori did not respond, her eyes did not move. "So, I checked your file and I liked what I saw so why don't you get out of your coma so we could get to work?"

Silence

"Right, let's try something else. Why don't you tell me what happened to you?"

Silence

"Okay, tell me about your life?"

Silence

Naruto stared at the catatonic brown-haired girl. The only time he remembered feeling like how she looked was after Sasuke had left. What had Sakura done to make him respond? Well he had loved her, so just seeing her had gotten a response, but she had also promise to be next to him when they met Sasuke again to bring him back to the village together.

I can't promise that, I don't know Aizen like I did Sasuke, and even if I did, I failed to save Sasuke. The kind of person Hinamori is, is a dependent person, just like Haku; She wants to serve and be acknowledged by the person. If Zabuza had betrayed Haku, she would have been in the same state as Hinamori.

When he was alive, Naruto had always been good at reading people. After so many years of being hated, he was forced to learn which people actually wanted to be closed to him, and which only wanted to harm him. This ability had increased when he had become an assassin for Soul Society. He had to learn how to manipulate his targets to make an efficient kill.

So Naruto knew exactly the kind of person Hinamori was, and to get her out of the coma he was going to manipulate her feelings enough to respond.

"Sigh, Hinamori-fukutaicho, the truth is that I joined the Soul Society to kill Aizen." For the first time Hinamori reacted. Her body jerked and her eyes flickered to him. She started shaking her head and mumbling, 'Aizen-taicho, Aizen-taicho…'

Naruto gripped Hinamori's shoulders and pressed her against the bed. He stared deeply into her eyes and continued.

He said, "You don't understand Hinamori, I have to kill him because that's what he wants!" Naruto made his eyes wider and continue to look deeply into her eyes, making himself the picture of sincerity as Hinamori looked at him disbelievingly.

"It's true Hinamori, you just don't understand Aizen the way I do. He is such a powerful being that he left Soul Society to search for people just as strong as him. He feels alone because he is so powerful, that's why he left."

Hinamori spoke in a raspy voice. "But that doesn't mean he has to die, I can be strong I can show him that I'm strong. Shiro-Chan is strong. Soutaicho-sama is strong! He didn't have to leave!"

Naruto felt sick by what he was doing, but he had finally gotten her to respond so he continued. "But he did Hinamori, he did. Now it's up to us to show him how strong Soul Society is and the only way to do that is to kill!"

Hinamori screamed. "Why do we have to kill him, why can't we just capture him and bring him back!"

Because he'll take that as a sign of weakness. I know how Aizen thinks, and for him true strength is when you are able to kill someone, no matter how you feel about it. If we don't kill him he'll never respect us. He'll never respect you!"

Hinamori sobbed. "I don't want to kill him, I love him!" Tears poured out of her eyes, she got into a fetus position pressing her hands into her eyes.

Naruto gathered her into his arms and hugged her, placing her head into his shoulders. Her body jerked with tears but he held her tightly.

After minutes passed, she finally stopped crying enough to ask him: "W-who are you?"

Naruto sighed; apparently she had only started paying attention when he started talking about Aizen. "I am captain of the fifth division Uzumaki Naruto."

"So you are Uzumaki-taicho?"

"Hai, please serve me well, Hinamori-fukutaicho, so we can show Aizen our full strength."

Hinamori nodded hesitantly. "H-hai, but how will I know I can trust you, Uzumaki-taicho?"

Naruto stopped and thought about it. The only way to get her to trust him would be to tell her about his past, but did he want to? Did he want to open up to this stranger?

It is necessary, but before I do…

Naruto spoke. "Well, how about this. You tell me your life story and I'll tell you mine. This way we'll know everything about each other. Do you agree?"

Hinamori nodded

"How about you start?"

Hinamori looked hesitant for a moment before she started.

"Well, I don't remember my human life, but when I was a kid in Soul Society I lived with my grandma…

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Hours Later

Naruto did not move at all during Hinamori's story. His eyes never wavered away from her, and Hinamori felt as if she was the only person in the world to her new captain as she told her story. When she was done Naruto stayed silent for a moment taking her life in. It was as normal and happy as a shinigami's life could get, except for the Aizen thing.

Hinamori continued looking at Uzumaki-taicho waiting for him to speak while her hand ringed the blanket she was holding.

"Well, how about I start, hm?" said Naruto.

Hinamori nodded eagerly. She wanted to know more about Uzumaki-taicho, maybe she would learn how he knew so much about Aizen-taicho's desires.

So, Naruto told her about his life in the living. How his father was the village leader, how his mother was the vessel of a demon, how they both sacrificed their lives to put the demon inside him (her eyes got really wide for a moment).

Then he told her about the hatred he suffered through in his childhood. How he became a ninja because he wanted to gain the respect of the village. How he had made his own nindo, how his bestfriend had betrayed him and stabed him through the chest.

Finally he told her about the war and how he had died killing his best friend and himself to try to stop a madman's dream.

Then he told her about his life in Soul Society.

"When I came to Soul Society, I did not know what was going on. I was hungry and lost in a forest and suddenly a hollow burst out of the ground, I tried to defend myself but my powers, the ones I had use my whole life suddenly didn't work. You can't imagine how scared I was. I thought I was in hell and one of the demons was going to eat me." Said Naruto, a faraway gaze in his eyes.

"Suddenly a katana appeared in my hands." He patted his zanpakutou. "I reacted by cutting the hollows mask killing it. Suddenly shinigami appeared like ninjas, I was impressed, and they asked me to join the academy….

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Years ago…

Naruto stood in the forest surrounded by the omnitsukido, the carcass of the snake hollow had not disappeared yet. Out of the ring of the ninja-like shinigami came a man with dark tanned skin, purple hair and eyes. He was a handsome man with a serious expression on his face as he regared the corpse of a hollow with a detective's eye.

He looked at the shaken Naruto, the blonde had not let go of his zanpakutou, it was still in his hands in an iron grip. But Naruto was injured, a gash on his left shoulder and a bite of his right ankle.

The captain walked over to Naruto who regarded the man with awe and suspicion in his gaze. "My name is Shihoin Ken'ichi, captain of the second squad of Soul Society. I am impress, you, a new soul, have already manifested a zanpakutou. I would like to invite you to the shinigami academy where you will learn how to handle your powers. Do you agree?"

Naruto did not know what the hell the guy was talking about but he found himself nodding all the same.

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Shinigami Academy

Naruto walked through the halls of the shinigami academy, months later after the meeting with Shihoin-taicho. As he walked he listened to the whispers of his peers.

"That's Uzumaki Naruto, you should have seen him in Kido class yesterday, he performed all of the techniques perfectly and without incantations!"

"That's nothing he was faster than sensei during Hoho training and stronger in Hakuda too!"

"Wah, Uzumaki-kun is so cute with his blonde hair and blue eyes, and he is so strong too. He moved so gracefully with his sword yesterday, it was beautiful."

As he went outside, he wondered if this is how Sasuke felt like in the Shinobi Academy.

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"They called me prodigy, not knowing how much I hated that word. But that all changed years later after graduation when they found out my zanpakutou did not have a shikai." Said Naruto

"You don't have shikai?" Hinamori said surprised.

Naruto glanced at the clock before turning back to Hinamori.

"No, I don't but it's getting late and that is a story for another time. Get some rest and I will see you tomorrow, okay?"said Naruto, his slitted blue eyes squinting as he gave Hinamori a fox-like grin.

Hinamori nodded and Naruto stoo and left the room, leaving Hinamori to ponder just how strong was her new captain to have that position when his zanpakutou did not have a shikai.

Hinamori stared at the wall, her brown eyes again taking a soulless quality as a thought crossed her mind.

Aizen-taicho, I'll show you how strong I am are. I will give your strongest desire…you're death!