Chapter 1: The Unsealing

There wasn't much reaction from the taicho present, of course all of them already knew what had happened and they knew better then to interrupt the soutaicho. Even though the man was old - ancient really - and he barely ever showed it, Yamamoto had quite a temper.

"Now of course you were all aware of this," He continued, "And while this has surprised all of us, we cannot afford to panic. We must get the Seireitei repaired from the damage Aizen caused and defend our borders in cause Aizen comes to attack with a Hollow army. But the most serious threat that this betrayal poses is that Aizen is in possession of the Hogyoku. None of you have enough knowledge of the Kogyoku to understand what I am talking about."

"Sensei" Ukitake spoke up, "What does this Hogyoku do to make it such a dangerous tool in the wrong hands?"

Yamamoto sighed, "The Hogyoku will allow Aizen to break the barrier between Hollow and Shinigami, giving him the opportunity to create Arrancar, both Hollow and Shinigami. But while this poses a big threat to us, it is not the great threat that I spoke off. If Aizen were to get in tune with the Hogyoku and implant it in himself he would become nigh immortal, a threat that only myself could perhaps face."

"So, what do you propose we do?" Kuchiki Byakuya asked.

"And how do you know so much about this Hogyoku?" Kyoraku added.

"I am aware of the Hogyoku because I have reluctantly been in contact with Urahare Kisuke, the maker of the Hogyoku. This was all he could tell me, and he said that he barely understood the Hogyoku, meaning there may be much more." Yamamoto answered.

"And do we have a plan on how to deal with this?" The ever-practical Soifon asked.

"There is one option that I have considered we use," Yamamoto started, "But it is not something I like, and also something that has been a secret for hundreds of years. Something that only a former taichou of the 6th Division and I know of. It concerns a sixteen year old boy that was sealed away by his best friend and greatest enemy hundreds of years ago. At that time we had been following him and his enemy for some time, because of the outrageous amount of power they possessed. The boy that was sealed away had always been good at heart and if we were to unseal him he would most likely side with us. But we most make this decision with cation, because he is without a doubt stronger than I am or ever will be. And therefore, if he should choose to side with the enemy, we will be near powerless to stop him."

There was a stunning silence in the room. How could there not be, they had just heard that there existed/exists a sixteen year old mortal who is more powerful then the soutaicho. It had already been hard to believe that a fifteen year old Kurosaki Ichigo was as powerful as he was.

"Surely you are exaggerating this boy's powers, Yama-jii?" Kyoraku couldn't resist asking.

"I am not," Yamamoto stated, "In this boy's time the standard soldiers was about as strong as a third seat of us. He was the son of one of the most praised fighters of that time, in his body he houses nine demons, of incredible power. These demons could probably destroy halve of Soul Society on their own, and they cannot be killed, for if they are in some way defeated in battle, in a few years they will have reformed. But even without these demons in his body the boy would have been the most powerful man of his time, along with the man who eventually sealed him away. With a single attack of his he could eradicate the entire Seireitei."

"So basically if we revive him and he sides with us, we will most definitely win. But if he should stand against us, we will be completely annihilated." Unohana concluded.

"Correct." Yamamoto answered.

"It's a gamble, but the odds appear to be in our favor." Hitsugaya concluded.

"What is his name? I think I want to have a spar with him." Kenpachi asked with lust for battle.

"His name is Uzumaki Naruto, though Uzumaki is his mother name, his father's family name was Namikaze." Yamamoto answered.

"But how can a mere sixteen year old mortal have that much power?" Kurotsuchi asked skeptically.

"As I have already told you, in his time they had other standards of power then we have now," Yamamoto started, "But his story begins during his birth. The most poweful of the demons that he holds, was first sealed in his mother. But the beast was extracted by a man named Uchiha Obito during his birth. This meant his mother would die, it is impossible to survive the extraction of a demon. Obito guided the beast to the village Naruto lived in. Naruto's father was the village Hokage, the most powerful warrior on the village and it's protector. But as I told you the beast cannot be killed so he decided to seal it in his son. He brought his son, and his dying wife - who insisted on coming - and at the cost of his own life sealed the beats in his son."

Yamamoto stopped for a moment to catch his breath, and saw that most taicho were already saddened by only the beginning of the story.

"Because he had the demon sealed in him, the entire village hated Naruto and ignored him. Because of this Naruto decided that he would become Hokage, so that the villagers had no other choice but to accept him. He became a ninja and never stopped striving for more power, but eventually he was betrayed by a boy he had called his first true friend, the man who eventually ended up sealing him away. He saved his village multiple times from enemies and eventually found himself a sort of father figure, his sensei, Jiraiya. But Jiraiya was killed by a man who named Pein who thought himself a God, but was actually just manipulated by Obito. Pein came and destroyed Naruto's entire village, before Naruto beat him. At that time the nine demons were all sealed in nine different people and a war broke out because Uchiha Madara wanted all the demons, and it was Uchiha Madara who had been manipulating Obito all the time. His friend who had betrayed him, Uchiha Sasuke returned to fight by his side and they defeated Madara, by each acquiring halve of the power of a man hailed as a god in their era."

Once more Yamamoto needed to catch his breath and by now a glass of water would have been nice too.

"But the defeat of Madara gave way to a woman named Kaguya, who had been manipulating Madara. And after a long fight in the dimensions Kaguya had created herself, s he was sealed away because they did not have the power to kill her. After fighting together for such a long time, Sasuke once more turned his back on Naruto and betrayed him. In the fight that followed Naruto was defeated and sealed away along with the nine demons he now holds."

The selince that followed to Naruto's story was deafening, it was probably the saddest story they ever heard.

"This boy, lived quiet a harsh live. Why would have any wish to fight again?" Ukitake asked silently.

Yamamoto took a moment to answer, "Because he has always fought against that which wishes to unnecessarily harm others."

"If we awaken him and he does not wish to fight we should support him in that decision, he deserves that much." Komamura voiced his opinion.

"I agree." Answered Kyoraku.

"I am afraid I cannot agree with that," Yamamoto spoke firmly, "We cannot allow him to become a loose cannon, if he refuses to fight he must stay here in Seireitei under constant watch."

"Where is he sealed anyway?" Kyoraku asked, deciding to ignore Yamamoto's last comment. If Naruto decided he did not want to fight, and live a free live, he would do it and they would not be able to stop him. But Kyoraku was not bothered by that, he had no plans at all to stop Naruto form doing what he wanted if they were to unseal him.

"He is sealed away in a country covered in an illusion, in a tomb covered by a more powerful illusion." Yamamoto answered.

"How would we get past the illusions?" Soifon asked.

"The illusion on the country itself is not a problem, if we open a Senkaimon into the country the illusion will have no effect. This is how we accidentally discovered the country in the first place. The illusion in the tomb itself would be a bigger problem. If we decide to unseal this man, Kurotsuchi-taicho will be tasked with building a devise to break the illusion. Now I would like to vote on the matter."

Soifon began, "I want to unseal him, if he turns in us all it will take is two stabs from Suzumebachi and he is dead."

There was no 3rd Division taicho so Unohana was next, "I believe it would carry too much risk to unseal this boy, I vote no."

There was no 5th Division taicho either meaning it was Kuchiki Byakuya, "I agree with Unohana-taicho, it is a risk we should not take."

The next voter was Komamura, "I think we should unseal him, just so that this boy may live without being discriminated. If he should fight with us that would only be a bonus."

"I agree with Komamura-taicho. If the boy does not wish to fight I will not lift a finger so long as he does not fight us." Kyoraku said, getting an approving nod from Komamura.

The position of taicho of teh 9th Division was now vacant ans thus it was Hitsugaya's turn, "So long as he aids our cause he is welcome, otherwise he cannot be tolerated. I vote yes for unsealing."

"I want to fight with him, so unseal the lad." Kenpachi voiced his unsurprising opinion.

"Though the boy would make an interesting experiment, he is only a human. Besides I have better things to do then create a device which cancels illusions. Just leave him sealed." Kurotsuchi said, surprising some captains that he would let a chance at some a specimen slip by him.

"I think Naruto-kun deserves to be free." Ukitake said, and he left it at that because of a coughing fit.

Yamamoto banged his cane on the ground again, "Then it is decided, the sealed warrior Naruto shall be unsealed. Kurotsuchi-taicho will start working right away, I expect the devise ready in a few days. Dismissed."

Some days later

The taicho of Seireitei were gathered again on order of Yamamoto, but most taicho had already concluded that Kurotsuchi-taicho was done and that they were ready to move to the human world to unseal Naruto.

Yamamoto banged his cane on the ground three times like he always does. "To begin this meeting I will pass the word to Kurotsuchi-taicho."

Kurotsuchi made one step forward, before speaking. "The devise that was requested of me is done. I shall not bother explaining how it works because your simple minds would be unable to comprehend a word that I am saying. All I will say is that it sucks the Reiryoku out of the illusion, which should cancel it."

"A Senkaimon has already been prepared," Yamamoto said, "Kuchiki-taicho, Kyoraku-taicho and Ukitake-taicho as well as Kurotsuchi-taicho will accompany me to the living world. If they were to wish, they can bring their fukotaicho. We will meet at the Senkaimon in an hour."

He once more banged his cane on the ground and the meeting was over and the taicho dismissed.

Ichigo was walking peacefully through the Seireitei, not being chased by any Shinigami for a change. He had been wounded even before he entered the battle with Aizen, but compared to the massive wound he had after that fight his former wounds were nothing. Had it not been for Inoue present on that hill, he would have probably bled out before help could reach him.

Ichigo was aware of the extra commotion that was going on around him, but he felt no need to know why. He had had quiet enough of Seireitei business for a while. When Aizen would come out he would fight by their side, but that was around the only thing that Seireitei agreed with him on, Aizen needed to be defeated.

"Ichigo!" He heard Renji's voice from behind him, nearing fast. Without thinking Ichigo turned on his heel and planted his foot right in Renji's face, who flew a meter of two to the side.

"WHAT THE HELL, DUDE!" Renji yelled at him, clearly upset by the random kick to his face.

"Sorry, I have a violent dad and it was a reflex." Ichigo stated casually and continued walking.

But before he knew it his face was meeting with the pavement, courtesy of a smack-down by Renji.

"Good, now that were even," Renji started speaking while Ichigo got up, "Have you heard?"

"Heard what?" Ichigo asked with bleeding nose and his fist implanted in Renji's gut.

Renji retaliated by a headbutt to his already bleeding nose, "The Seireitei are going to resurect some ancient warrior to fight against Aizen we leave in halve an hour."

Now, Ichigo had seen enough movies and anime to know that it was always the bad guys that resurrected people to fight for them. "What?! You are going to have some undead fight for you, that's just wrong!"

"No, it's not like that!" Renji yelled back in Ichigo's face, "It's a sixteen year old boy! He has just been sealed away hundreds of years ago!"

"How is he sixteen then, if he has been sealed for hundreds of years he can't really be sixteen right!?"

"I don't know the details!" Renji yelled back at Ichigo, before they both got smacked in the face.

"WHAT!?" Both yelled at the one who slapped them, before they saw it was Rukia.

"You tell me, morons." Rukia answered with a twitching eyebrow, "Why are you screaming your conversation in the middle of the street?"

"Well..." Renji mumbled.

"It's because Renji's an ass." Ichigo stated.

"What!?" Renji started yelling again, but once more Rukia hit the both of them in the face. By now Ichigo's face was quite a piece of art, both his cheeks were red from Rukia's slaps, his forehead was red from Renji's headbutt and his nose was still bleeding.

"Ichigo, go patch yourself up at the 4th Division," Rukia commanded, "And Renji, I believe you should be at the Senkeimon."

Both men gave a quick "Hai" and left to heed the orders given them by Rukia.

"Honestly," Rukia said to herself, "Will they ever grow up?"

All the taicho that would be going to the living world and their fukotaicho were currently gathered in front of the Senkaimon, that was currently being fixated on the spot that they needed to go, inside the illusion covering Naruto's country.

"Is everything prepared?" Yamamoto asked the member of the Kido Corps operation the Senkaimon.

"It is, soutaicho." The member answered respectfully, "You will leave the Dangai and enter the Living World at the place you personally specified."

"Good." Yamamoto answered, seeing that the Jigokucho were already ready and ready to depart.

"Let us go." He spoke to those that would go with him and he stepped through the Senkaimon, and his followers followed.

Their trip through the Dangai was short and unhindered by the Cleaner due to their Jigokucho, soon they saw the light of the Living World at the end of the Dangai.

In the Elemental Nations above the Valley of the End the Japanese style door opened and the soutaicho, taicho and fukotaicho all came running out.

It was clear that a battle had been fought there. On both sides of a waterfall the remnants of two stautues stood, all that remained were the feet.

"Naruto is sealed at the side of the lake." Yamamoto said and started walking there with the air walking technique. There was nothing to see at the point that Yamamoto was walking towards, proof that the illusion was still in place.

Yamamoto stepped on the ground and faced the ruined statues, "It should be somewhere in front of me, Kurotsuchi-taicho, please activate your device."

Kurotsuchi switched something on, on the metal box that he had in his hands. After a few seconds the box started making a light beeping sound, causing Kurotsuchi to start moving around with it, which made the beeping louder or weaker. He stopped when the beeping was loudest since he started and switched the beeping sound off again.

"It should be here." If Kurotsuchi made two steps to the side he would fall in the water, and two steps forward he would hit the ruined statue of Hashirama.

"Please start removing the illusion." Yamamoto commanded.

Kurotsuchi pressed another button on the box, and the top disappeared. The inside of the box looked like the end of some megaphone, the reiryoku would probably get sucked in their. "This might take some time, depending on how much reiryoku was put into the illusion."

It had barely been a minute when they briefly saw a see-through barrier and some raised earth in it, before the barrier exploded, blowing away the Shinigami present.

Kurotsuchi was the first to comment, "Something must be wrong with the device, guess that a 12th Division member just volunteered to be a test subject."

"Kurotsuchi-taicho, please refrain from experimenting on fellow Shinigami." Yamamoto commanded Kurotsuchi. "Now let us enter the tomb."

The earth that had covered Naruto and had made it into tomb had been blown away by the explosion, and a midst some dirt and rocks, Naruto's body was clearly visible. Anything Naruto had worn to cover his modesty had long since rotten away in the passing of time. But the black chakra rods were still deeply implanted in his body.

"He misses an arm." Kyoraku noted, "And the wound looks painfully burned."

"Removing the black rods should bring him back to live." Yamamoto said, not paying heed to Kyoraku's comment. "Everyone, grab a rod. We should remove them all at the same time."

Everyone present grabbed a rod and on Yamamoto's command they pulled them all out at the same time. Nothing happened at first, not even any blood came from the holes were the rods had been.

"Nemu, look for a heartbeat." Kurotsuchi commanded his fukotaicho.

"Hai, Mayuri-sama." Nemu answered and she grabbed Naruto's wrist and felt his artery vain, trying to feel a heartbeat. When she felt nothing she put her ear on the left side of Naruto's chest, seeing if she could hear a heartbeat.

"He has a very soft heartbeat, I could barely hear it, but it is steadily getting stronger." Nemu reported her findings.

Slowly the Shinigami could see blood coming from his wounds, a sign that his blood had started flowing again.

His chest started to slightly raise and fall again, a sign that he was breathing. Before the eyes of the Shinigami all his wounds except the one that was his arm healed over the coarse of a few seconds. Slowly Naruto's eyes opened, revealing them to be deep blue. His eyes quickly scanned his surroundings, the way only the eyes of a warrior can. Slowly Naruto started rising into a sitting position.

"Who are you?" Naruto asked with an extremely hoarse voice. He either had not noticed his nudity yet, or was not bothered by it.

"We are Shinigami." Yamamoto answered his question.

"So death has come to claim me, even after what Sasuke did." Naruto hoarsely said, excepting his fate.

"Not quite," Kyoraku said, "We are here because we require you help."

"What?" Naruto asked quite dumbly.

Kyoraku chuckled, he really was just a sixteen year old boy. "We are not here because you are dead, we are here because we need your help."

"Uh, sure. I guess." Naruto answered while scratching the back of his head.

When Naruto turned to Kotetsu and Nanao he spotted their blushes, "Something wrong?" He asked.

"You are nude Naruto-san." Nanao answered politely.

"What!?" Naruto yelled out as best as he could with his hoarse voice while looking at his indeed naked form.

"Henge!" Naruto spoke with his hand in some weird position. Smoke erupted around Naruto and the Shinigami were on instant alert, Zanpaktou drawn. When the smoke was blown away it revealed a now clothes Naruto scratching the back of his head. "Sorry about that."

It was unclear to the Shinigami if he apologized for being nude or putting them on edge, in any case what he did was no threat. They sheathed their Zanpaktou again. Naruto was now wearing some horrible orange and black jumpsuit, the women among them - except Nemu - cringed at his choice of fashion.

"So you need my help?" Naruto asked, hoping to continue their previous conversation.

"Yes, we need your help in defeating a traitor." Ukitake answered Naruto's question. Yamamoto visibly did not like the way Ukitake had formulated that but no one but him seemed to care.

"And what does this traitor plan on doing?" Naruto asked, he wanted to sure he fought with the good guys.

"When he escaped he explained that he plans on sacrificing 100.000 souls to recreate a key, and with that key he gains entrance to the Royal Family. He plans to kill the King." Byakuya explained.

"Ah, okay." Naruto said, "So I guess you are the good guys. Sure, I'll help."

Though Naruto did not realize this, everyone present let out a mental relieved sigh. The boy agreed to fight with them, and not against them.

"Though you still have some explaining to do, but that can wait." Naruto added to his previous statement as he tried getting up, his muscles incredibly soar from doing nothing over a hundred years.

Using some chakra to walk up the walls of tomb, unintentionally stunning the Shinigami. When he reached the surface Naruto filled his lungs with fresh air for the first time in some hundreds of years. Looking around he saw the scene of his final battle, the battle he had ultimately lost.

He turned to the Shinigami, "Please stay here for a few minutes, I need to check on something. I'll be back in few minutes."

Before the Shinigami had a chance to reply Naruto was gone in a flash of orange.

Naruto had used a slight bit of Kurama's power to significantly increasing his speed. He needed to see what had become of Konoha. Had Sasuke spared it or had he destroyed it? With Naruto defeated there was no one around anymore who had the power to stand up to Sasuke.

When he arrived at Konoha a few seconds later he found it in complete ruins, nearly nothing of it was left. Most it had been burned, but most it had probably rotten away since there was no one left to look after it any more.

'I guess Sasuke decided to destroy the village then, probably along with the villagers.'

It saddened Naruto, that his friend had fallen so deep as to completely annihilate a village of innocent people. The only ones Sasuke could rightfully blame were the elders and Danzo, he could have killed them and left it at just that, but apparently that had not been possible for Sasuke.

"I guess I should get back, nothing I can do here anymore." Naruto said to himself before vanishing in a flash of orange again.

Naruto appeared in front of the Shinigami, who had - with the exception of Kurotsuchi - patiently waited for him.

"If your business is done Uzumaki-san, are you ready to come to Soul Society?" Yamamoto asked.

"What's Soul Society?" Naruto asked, how could he know?

"It is practically the afterlife, but we have made arrangements so you can go there as a living being." Ukitake answered.

"Ah, then it is okay. I have no intention on dying so I was worried for a moment." Naruto answered grinning.

"Kurotsuchi-taicho, please prepare our return." Yamamoto commanded.

"Fine, fine. Stupid human requires special treatment because he does not want to die, how narrow-minded." Kurotsuchi answered but started working on it anyway.

After some minutes of work Kurotsuchi produced some sort of square with a clear portal in the middle. "This portal will keep you alive when you go to Soul Society, I shall not bother explaining to a simpleton such as you."

Naruto skipped over the insult, he had gotten good at doing so over the years. "Sure." He said instead and jumped through the portal.

"He sure is an interesting fellow," Kyoraku said, "Though we probably will be running from the Cleaner because of him."

After that Kyoraku and everyone else present quickly followed Naruto through the portal.

Seconds Later

"What the hell is this thing?!" Naruto asked while running for his life.

"It is the Cleaner, all you should know is that in absolutely no occasion can you touch it." Kyoraku briefly explained.

"Can't I just kick it's ass!?" Naruto yelled.

"How would you propose you do that, you can't touch it remember!" Ukitake commented.

"Is that a challenge?" Naruto asked with a cheeky grin.

"Sure, so long as you don't die and take the beating from Yama-jii for it." Kyoraku said, not expecting Naruto to do it.

"Accepted." Naruto shocked all of them. "Let's go, Kurama!"

Naruto was enveloped in some orange fire-like cloak with a haori similar to a taicho haori. Around him was a gaint fox head out of the same fire-like stuff. The fox's mouth was open and in front of it floated a ball that was mostly black, but contained a lot of other colors. By now the Cleaner was about fifty meters away from Naruto and approaching quickly.

"Bijuudama!" Naruto yelled out, and the black ball shot to the Cleaner and completely evaporated it on contact.

"Good enough?" Naruto asked Kyoraku, now back to his normal form.

Kyoraku - along with the other Shinigai - was unable to answer however because his chin was currently resting on the floor.

Yamamoto was the first to get it together, "You just destroyed the Cleaner." It was all he was able to say right now.

"Apparently." Naruto answered, "Though I can't blame him, Bijuudama always kicks ass. It really is the only thing it is good for."

"We should get out of the Dangai." Yamamoto said, "We will talk about this later, Uzumaki-san."

"Sure," Naruto answered, "Yama-jii."

A/N

So, that's it for the first chapter, hope you liked it. Please inform me of any suggestions you might have for a pairing, there is also a poll for the pairing on my profile page. Any other suggestions for the story are welcome as well. I can handle criticism, but don't leave Flames, they will be deleted.