Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or Naruto…
"Where are we?" Ino questioned.
Kaori shrugged. "Beats me, nice view though," she said casually, shielding her eyes from the sun.
The other three looked at her with utter disbelief on their faces. 'Why is she so calm about this?!'
Suddenly, Akamaru and Yue jumped down from their respective owners' arms. Both their fur was beginning to stand as Akamaru began to growl and snarl ferociously while Yue was also doing the same thing with equal ferocity. Both their eyes had dilated into slits as they swiveled around searching the area. "Akamaru? What's up boy?" asked Kiba.
"We sense a strong dark presence..... and it's coming closer......." hissed Yue. Akamaru barked in agreement.
A loud terrifying howl vibrated in the air. "I smell 4 strong retiatsu!!!!!" an invisible voice roared.
All four genins felt danger approaching them as they quickly braced themselves for attack. Kiba had his soldier pills on standby while Kaori hand quickly closed around her 'Heavy Weapon' Scroll. Slowly just before their eyes a huge monsterous form began to materialize in front of the ninjas. It had a huge black bulking figure that resembled a cross between a reptile and a primate. It wore a white mask that appeared to be reptilian and had a huge gaping hole in it's stomach. A long powerful spiked monkey's tail swished behind it as moved it's hand toward the kids.
"LOOK OUT!!!!" Kiba yelled, alerting the others to quickly jump out of the way.
In a flash, Kiba swallowed a soldier pill and tossed the other one to Akamaru, who also managed to catch it in his mouth and swallow it. Immediately, Akamaru's began to turn a dark shade of red as he landed on Kiba's back. "Beast Clone Jutsu!" yelled Kiba as his pup turned into an identical copy of his master.
Kaori quickly whipped out her red 'Heavy Weapon' scroll and let it unravel before her as she bit her thumb and smeared her blood on it. In a puff of smoke, a pair of large golden cat bells attached to a long silver sash (Check: Kaori's Weapon artillery, on profile.) appeared in her hands. Kaori swiftly got into her battle stance. "Heavy Weapon: Cat Sash Bells!" she exclaimed.
"Winged Beast Jutsu!" yelled Yue as a pair of white wings grew out of her back and engulfed the kitten in a large puff of smoke. When the smoke cleared, a large greyish, silver, saber- tooth leopard with huge white stretched her wings to their full length and roared.
"I want to eat!! Give me your retiatsu!!!!!"roared the monster as it tried to make a snatch at Ino, who jumped.
While in the air, Ino whipped out kunai and raised it above her head. "GO ON A DIET!" she retorted as she dropped and plunged the kunai into the creature's right arm. The monster gave a cry of pain as it flailed it's giant arm throwing into the air.
The girl screamed as she felt herself falling. Suddenly Kaori appeared riding Yue and grabbed her arm, swinging Ino onto Yue's back. "You okay?" Kaori asked.
"Never been better."
"Okay, play times over" Naruto said as he began to form the hand signs for the Shadow clone jutsu.
"LOOK OUT!!!!" Ino screamed as another one of the monster's hand came down on Naruto before he had a chance to activate the technique.
"NARUTO!!!" Ino and Kiba screamed simultaneously as Naruto was smashed into the ground.
Naruto struggled as the monster lifted him up and held him up to it's face. The monster sniffed the boy. "You have a very high level of retiatsu, and it's unique too, this definitely would be satisfying..."
Naruto glared at the monster. "Yeah, this would... for me!" he said as he manged to slip his arms out of the monster's grasp and form the desired seal. "Shadow Clone Jutsu!"
A clone of Naruto quickly appeared and stabbed the monster's arm with a kunai like what Ino did. The monster gave a cry of pain and dropped Naruto to the ground. "Kiba!" he called.
"You got it! Let's go Akamaru!" said Kiba as he and his pup jumped into the air and began to spin rapidly. "Gatsuga!!!!" he cried, as Akamaru and his attack hit the monster, only to go through the hole in it's stomach.
"A hole in one...." said Yue bluntly.
"10 points!" announced Kaori holding up a sign with the said score. She then simply tilted her head to the side to dodge Ino's punch from behind.
"DON'T SCORE THEM, BAKA!!!" yelled Ino and Naruto.
Suddenly the monster opened it's mouth and out shot an extremely long tongue with saliva running down on the surface. Both girls screamed in surprise as Ino quickly grabbed on to Kaori's waist and Kaori onto Yue as the flying leopard made a dive to avoid it. The tongue shot back into the creature's mouth as fast as it shot out. "Ewwwww!" Ino squealed in disgust as she used her handkerchief to wipe saliva of her face.
"Monster spit..... charming...." muttered Kaori sarcastically she wiped saliva of her own face with her own handkerchief.
"Look out!" yelled the boys as the monster's tongue shot out again.
This time Yue flapped her wings so that they soared out of reach. Blue static began forming on Yue's fangs. Noticing this Kaori quickly jumped off the leopard's back and twirled one of her bells so quickly that electricity could be seen sparking. "Lightning Style: Lightning Shot!" she yelled, throwing one of her static covered bells at the creature.
At the same time Yue cried ,"Roar of Raiju!!!" opening her jaws and roared, expelling a huge surge of azure lightning.
Both attacks hit the monster dead on. Ino, Yue and Kaori landed on the ground next to Naruto. Kiba and Akamaru quickly caught up with them. The smoke cleared to show the monster very much unfazed and pissed.
"You've got to be kidding me...."groaned Naruto.
"Are we almost there?" asked Ichigo Kurosaki, our favorite orange headed substitute shinigami, as he dashed through the forest of the Soul Society.
"Yeah, I can feel it," replied Rukia Kuchiki, a regular shinigami, as she ran along side him. As they came to the clearing a deafening was heard.
The monster gave a deafening roar. Kaori turned to the others. "Everyone, attack together!"
The rest nodded in acknowledgment. The monster dashed forward and slammed a fist at where the genins where standing. They quickly dodged. Kaori leaped onto Yue's back and soared into the sky. "Now Ino!" she called to her friend who stood on the ground.
Ino nodded as she formed a rectangle with her fingers. "Ninja Art: Mind Destruction Jutsu!"
Suddenly the monster felt it's body go stiff. It began trying to break the invisible force that was restraining it. Ino gritted her teeth as she began to use her full strength to keep the jutsu intact. "Hurry, I can't hold for long!" she yelled as her hands began to quiver.
Naruto quickly created a shadow clone and began to form Rasengan in his palm. Kiba and a transformed Akamaru were on standby while Kaori began to collect static electricity in one of her bells while gathered energy in her saber-toothed fangs. "HURRY!" cried Ino desperately as she felt her hold was slipping. Beads of sweat formed on her forehead.
"NOW!" yelled Kaori.
"Lightning Style: Lightning Bell!"
"Roar of Raiju!"
"Gatsuga!"
"Rasengan!"
All four attacks flew at the creature at great speed. At the last moment, Ino quickly released the technique just as the attacks the monster full on, causing an explosion.
Meanwhile our two shinigami arrived at the scene just in time to catch the explosion.
"Did we get it?" asked Naruto as Kaori and Yue, transforming back into her kitten form landed right beside him. Kiba and Akamaru (who had transformed back to his original form) had already caught up to them at that point.
Ino was starting run towards them when the monster appeared out of the smoke roaring. The combination attack only succeded in cracking it's mask and dismembering one of it's arms and blasted off half it's tail. The monster roared as it reached down to grab Ino. "INO!!!" her teammates yelled to warn her.
Ino seeing the giant hand coming towards her, screamed, closed her eyes and crossed her arms over her head. As she braced for impact, she heard the clashing of metal and blow never came. Slowly she opened her eyes to see a man, a teenager at most with bright orange hair and was wearing a black male kimono. He effortlessly stopped the monster's giant fist with a large black sword as long as the guy himself and had no hilt, giving it an appearance similar to a kitchen knife.
"Huh, picking on kids, that's low even for a Hollow," the man said.
He turned his head slightly to look at Ino. "Hey kid, you okay?" he asked. Ino, to shocked to talk, nodded in guy turned back to the monster. "Damn it, BACK OFF!" he yelled as pushed the giant fist of his sword and cut off the creature's hand, causing blood to spray. The guy quickly turned around, grabbed Ino bridal style and carried her to her friends. Ino blushed as her hand brushed against the teenager's well muscled chest. "Rukia, NOW!" he called.
Suddenly, , a woman appeared in the air from behind the monster with a regular size sword and cut the monster's head in half. She was dressed the same way as the man, but she had black, neck length hair. As soon as the monster's head split in half, literally, the whole monster disappeared. The woman landed on the ground gracefully in front of the Kaori, Kiba and Naruto. The boys mouths were hung open in shock while Kaori who managed maintain a straight face clearly showed shock in her eyes. The man caught up to them and set down Ino, still slightly blushing, with them.
Everyone there, ninjas, feline, canine and shinigami alike, all had the same thought going through their head. 'Who are these people?'