A/N : Second chapter remake! Don't worry it still has Hitsugaya for those Hitsugaya fans


Without further collisions between the Shinigami World and the Ninja World (I refrained from using 'Real world' to avoid confusion), time continued almost normally. Almost coincidentally however, the dark shadows of the two supposedly separate worlds began to merge; the birth of an evil plan was underway.

"Yosh! I did it!"

A hundred -or perhaps thousand- voices followed after, reciting the exact same cheer after the waterfull had successfully been 'cut' into half. In that same instant, almost all of the clones disappeared, leaving Naruto to wearily faint from the increased faituge. Thankfully, Kakashi saw this coming and grabbed him just in time; Yamato simply gives a sigh of relief after another day of controlling his chakra came to an end.

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"Welcome...I thought you would come, Kurosaki-kun."

"Why?"

"You'd probably guess that I'm the only one who would know how to get into Hueco Mundo."

There was a pause.

"You were right."

The man in clogs led Ichigo inside his shop. The atmosphere was heavy as the two began to talk about the recent incident of Orihime gone missing. Ichigo was suspicious at first, but calmed down as Urahara assured him that he would not mind helping Ichigo – even if it meant rebelling against Soul Society. In the midst of it all however, a familiar voice resounded.

"That's a real awful expression you've got there, Kurosaki."

Ichigo turned away from Urahara that paced in front of him and followed the source of the voice. Donning a pure white clothing with aquamarine lines, the bespectacled Quincy prodigy sat on top of a flat rock. A smile formed on the Quincy as he proceeded to jump down from the rock, Ichigo questioned his purpose.

Instead of Ishida however, another familiar voice replied.

"Chad?"

Ichigo turned away from them and glanced at Urahara. After understanding that Urahara had already expected and noticed their presence, he thought hard for a moment before thanking their efforts.

"But I can't let you guys come, not with your power-"

It was thankful that the blond had already gained acute senses to block against the sudden strike from Chad. Instinctively, Ichigo felt his feet press onto the ground, and he felt his entire body brace. He looked into Chad's visible eye and noticed for the first time that it was full of determination that carried the message 'we're coming no matter what'.

"Do you still believe we lack power?"

It was only then did Ichigo noticed the ground around his footing had eroded from the impact that Chad and Ichigo's blade made.

"Alright, so are we all ready?" Urahara joyfully announced to the 3 friends.

After pulling back his attack, Chad and Ichigo came to a silent consensus that they would all be going – together.

"It seems that we are."

Urahara repeated in a softer voice before shooting them a glance. There was a strange glint in his eye; a glint that only a master who had just been beaten by his apprentice would have, it was a glint of content, satisfaction, and even happiness perhaps. There was a moment of silence when all the 4 exchanged looks.

"Now, let's go."

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The oblivious blond ate barbarically at Ichiraku's, after all it was a treat from none other than Kakashi-sensei.

"Are you done?"

"I've only gone through 7 bowls, just one more Kakashi-sensei!"

"Sure."

Naruto ate his fill before turning to Kakashi, or turning to where Kakashi was.

"Ka-Kakashi..?"

"Naruto, if you don't pay up you know what will happen..."

Naruto let out a weak laugh before giving them his entire wallet. He left with a frown before Kakashi appeared in front of him. Just before Naruto could ever begin to rant about how Kakashi had tricked him, Kakashi led him to the training grounds, the same grounds that Naruto had cut the waterfall at. Looking around, Naruto inquired where was Yamato, after all, he knew Yamato had to keep his chakra levels in check.

"He will not be needed for this training."

"W-Why? Is it something secret? Wha-"

Kakashi didn't reply but simply placed his arms out : palm facing the sky, fingers slightly curled in as if holding a ball; his free hand grasped his wrist tightly and began to channel chakra in his hands. Naruto watched in awe.

"R-Rasengan???"

Before any further questions could be asked, Yamato made his presence clear. Suddenly the Rasengan diminished in Kakashi's hand as the two Jounins whispered to each other, distinctly annoying Naruto. Naruto watched in dismay as his 2 senseis simply went off with just an apology and a good bye. Sighing, he was about to look for something more interesting to do when a wispy volume of dust hit him head on.

"What the..?"

A strong force hit the ground, forcing Naruto to grit his teeth as he could feel himself sliding off the ground ever so slightly. Had it not been for his chakra control, the area of where he could have been might have been stained with red. Relaxing his arms, he slowly allowed them to drop to his sides, where he watched in amazement of the battle going on in front of him.

"Heh, this is all you got Shinigami? Geez you're not even a threat haha! Why did we even need to eliminate you!"

"You..!"

Flying and slicing through the air like a bullet, the small sized, turquoise eyed boy charged forward, just to be taunted at as he missed again. Glancing over his shoulder, he cursed silently as he affixed his eyes on the target once more.

"If you are a Captain of Soul Society, and you can't even beat an arrancar like me, you expected to even fight off our Espada in Hueco Mundo?! HAH!"

The white haired Captain raised his ears to what he had just said, the arrancar was referring to Ichigo; Hitsugaya wondered if Ichigo was really bent on going into Hueco Mundo.

"Don't daze off now..."

In the midst of his thinking, the arrancar, number 56, Martini Franz, swooped down, releasing his ultimate form at once. Hitsugaya watched as he drew his sword and a blinding flash ensued. Appearing behind him, Martini sent a drive kick aimed at Hitsugaya's head.

"Bankai."

As calm and collected as Hitsugaya was, he watched as the arrancar's kick only managed to connect with one of his heavenly frost wings. An audible grunt was emitted as Martini barely managed to avoid Hitsugaya's counter attack.

"Tch."

There was a considerable change in Martini's appearance ever since he released his sword; his arms and legs were layered with bones, so much so it looked like his arms and legs could act as whips. His body was covered with a triangle shaped plate, protruding slightly at the sides; his face was only half covered by a seemingly streamlined head gear that held his hair back, the other half of his face revealed his menacing grin. His finger tips and feet were joined to a pointed tip, making him look like a rather comical star.

Hitsugaya glanced one more time over his shoulder, he noticed the 10th flower petal disintegrating and cursed inwardly. Martini saw his eyes looked away and charged forth, placing both of his arms straight towards the small prodigy. Toshiro had already felt him coming and raised his blade in defence, as he tried to stabilize himself. Martini sent a swooping kick, but just made the 10th Division Captain take to the skies. Before Hitsugaya could turn on the offensive, Martini darted through the air and forcibly tried to pierce Hitsugaya, although he failed on every shot as the Captain irritably blocked every shot with his sword.

All of a sudden, Martini cried out a foreign language, and water blasted Hitsugaya through the skies. Almost instantly, Martini flew past the hydro cannon and right behind the pushed back Hitsugaya. Grinning, he sounded his command once more, allowing water jets to form at the tips of his feet, bursting towards Hitsugaya with his pointed fingers.

"Can't take it can you Captain!"

The 10th captain was full of annoyance as he rapidly flew upwards to dodge his attack.

"That's not going to work!"

Spinning a full 180 degrees in less than a second, Martini blasted 2 gigantic streams of water towards Hitsugaya with a maniacal laugh.

"Hyourinmaru!"

Striking right in between the water, Martini watched in shock and horror as his water froze instantly from the touch of Hitsugaya's sword. Before Martini could ever call off his bullets of water, Hitsugaya's zanpakuto ability had already froze the entire jet of water as well as his legs.

"When in the real world, all Shinigami's have a limiter placed on them. It reduces our power by a factor of 5 no matter what state we're in until Soul Society decides to lift the limiter."

"W-What?!"

"You are currently only fighting 20% of my true power, arrogant arrancar."

"Why you little kid-"

Keyword : kid.

"Go! Daiguren Hyourinmaru!"

Stabbing him cleanly, Hitsugaya watched as the arrancar before him froze in horror. In the next second, the ice shattered, shattering the body that was encased inside the icy prison. Catching his breath as he descended to the ground, the captain of the 10th squad in Soul Society sheathed his sword – his icy wings, icy tail and icy arms disappearing as well.

"Woah! That was WAY TOO COOL!"

Hitsugaya turned towards the blond that had watched the whole thing. At first, he remained silent, expecting to see if Naruto was able to see him or not.

"You're one of Ichigo's friend right?"

Upon hearing their names, Hitsugaya's eyes lit up with curiosity and stepped forward, asking a few questions of his own.

"You saw him?"

"A couple of days ago."

Almost immediately, Hitsugaya drew his sword and pointed it directly at Naruto, while his Bankai had already disappeared, his sword was like any other and could cut through a human easier than cutting through rocks. Slightly threatened and bewildered at the same time, Hitsugaya continued prodding, never once allowing the doubt to leave his heart.

"How much do you know?"

"Ah, Ichigo already explained everything to me! T-The sword looks pretty dangerous you know..."

The oblivious idiot was still trying to move away from his sword, but every time Naruto took a step towards the left or right, almost instinctively the sword would follow; just thinking about it, one would feel nervous if a sword was consistently pointing at their throats. He gulped when the white haired Captain showed no hint of dropping his sword.

Even though Yamamoto had already challenged him on that, Ichigo seemed to love being blacklisted or otherwise viewed as the enemy until the last possible moment. Hitsugaya had not heard of Yamamoto's final verdict; he sighed deeply.

"Wait! Where are you going?"

"Off. Away. You have your own life here, you shouldn't meddle in ours."

"Don't talk so arrogant you little kid!"

Hitsugaya stopped walking.

Naruto's eyes widened as he watched intriguingly as Hitsugaya gave a death glare. Naruto did not talk after that as he watched him walk off, and eventually sped off at amazing speed.

"So Shinigami's can do Ice attacks too..."

He walked off, kicking the dust that interestingly no longer had the icy remains or fragments.

"Sasuke..."


A/N : The difference with this chapter is that I've not only totally erased Rukia's presence, I've also turned back time so that Ichigo has just entered Hueco Mundo.