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Tsunayoshi Sawada was nervous. Very nervous. Tsuna sat in the grand hall of the Shonen castle in a large and surprisingly comfortable marble and granite chair. The hall was a large circular with a large granite table the spanned half of the room, it was a large arc with marble chairs lining the entire table with name tags for each of the world's representatives. And somehow, Tsuna had been appointed as the one of the representatives for his world. As Tsuna looked around at the other representatives as they piled into the room and took their seats, he became more and more intimidated at the groups entering the room. Tsuna was clearly one of, if not the youngest person there. What if none of the other people respected him? What if he offended someone and started an interdimensional war? What if..?
"Tsuna!"
A small voice to Tsuna's left snapped him out of his downward spiral. The voice was from his life coach and "home tutor," Reborn. Reborn was, for lack of a better term, a small infant. He wore a sleek black suit, with a red long sleeved shirt and black necktie from underneath, and a black fedora with an orange stripe. He was slightly tanned with black spiky hair, and thin curly sideburns. Around his neck was an orange pacifier. On the bridge of his hat was his trusty chameleon Leon.
"You have to relax Tsuna," Reborn questioned "Why are you panicking to yourself again? Also, straighten your tie. A mafia boss needs to always look his best,"
Tsuna gave a Reborn a sheepish look before adjusting his own tie. Tsuna had on a black suit with a white dress shirt on underneath it. He had on a Vongola family crest with his Vongola Sky Ring X on his fingers. In his pockets were his X-headphones and contact lenses. Just in case things went south.
"Easy for you to say, Reborn," Tsuna said twisting his ring anxiously on his finger, "You're the world's strongest hitman. I'm just a kid! I shouldn't be handling interdimensional politics!" He finished turning to his mentor...
"Zzzz,"
...Just to see that he had fallen asleep, a giant snot bubble forming.
"How can you sleep at a time like this!?"
Pop!
Just as suddenly as he fell asleep, Reborn woke up with a pop of his snot bubble. This time his demeanor was much more serious. "Quiet Tsuna, it's starting,"
Just as Tsuna was about to retort, the front doors of the room slammed shut, and all of the remaining representatives took their seats.
"Ahhh, here we go, sorry about that," came the deep voice of a man as he sat next to Tsuna, lightly bumping into him.
Tsuna quickly turned around to greet the man, "Ah, don't worry about i-EHHH!" Tsuna's words quickly turned into a surprised scream at the sheer size of the man before him. He was immensely tall, it was hard to tell since he was sitting, but he had to be at least 7 feet tall standing up. He wore a bright blue, red, white, and yellow jumpsuit. His short blonde hair had two distinct bangs that stood up over his head. He was VERY muscular, and cast an imposing shadow over Tsuna. Next to him was almost his mirror opposite. The man next to him was thin and disheveled. He wore all black with white bandages loosely hanging around his neck. He had long, gangly black hair that fell to his shoulders, and tired black eyes. The main had messy stubble on his face and overall looked like he had just rolled out of bed.
The first man, noticing Tsuna's intimidation, flashed the young boy a blinding white smile and extended his massive hand towards the boy. "Worry not young man, for I am here today to make peace." He said before letting out a hearty and confidant laugh.
Tsuna could only sweatdrop at the massive man before him, before meeting his handshake halfway. "R-right, my name is Tsunayoshi Sawada, I look forward to working with you."
The giant man nodded, his white smile still on his face. "I am All Might, and likewise," He then gestured towards the man next to him. "This here is Shouta Aizawa, or Eraserhead!" Said man simply grunted and sat down.
'All Might, huh?' Tsuna thought to himself, exasperated, 'he's like a character straight out of a comic book,'
"Pardon me for asking Tsunayoshi-shounen," All Might began, "But you seem a little young to be-"
Before All Might could finish his thought, the sound of trumpets could blared throughout the hall, drowning out whatever All Might was going to say. The entrance opened, letting in the blinding light of the outside, before a blonde woman wearing a blue dress patted with body armor. Anticipation fueled tension filled the room as their wait had come to and end.
"All Rise!" The woman declared, "For her grace; she who correctly guides the Holy Grail; The Saint of New Orleans: Ruler Jeanne d'Arc!" As she finished, everyone in the room stood up, albeit some begrudgingly, a motion that Tsuna quickly followed. Entering the room was one of the most beautiful women Tsuna had ever seen. She had long blonde hair which flowed down to the back of her legs in a long french braid. She wore a midnight blue dress with dazzling silver armor covering her stomach and upper legs. She wore metal gauntlets on her arms with a short purple shroud covering her shoulders and chest area. Her body was full and mature despite her face looking very girlish and young. She had deep purple eyes that sparkled like gemstones. Atop her head was a thin metal plate which framed the top of her head, almost like a tiara.
The woman strode in confidently, a smile on her face, the clanking of her metal boots echoing throughout the hall as she approached the throne in front of the room behind a massive mahogany desk.
Tsuna looked around the room and noticed a few of the representatives in the room chose to give the woman a slight bow, while some looked like they were to bothered to even be standing.
"I thank you all for coming today," she finally spoke as took her seat. Her voice was melodic and confidant. "You may all be seated, I thank you very much for accepting the invitation to our humble peace summit." Everyone began to take their seats as the woman began to speak.
"Before we begun I-" Just as she was beginning to talk the doors to the front swung open again, making way for 3 people to enter the room.
"Ah, you must forgive my rudeness your highness, but we got a tad bit lost on the way here,"
"Only cause you wanted to look for food Whis-sama!"
"Dad c'mon, we're making a terrible first impression, plus you were hungry too."
The tension in the room had returned, but it wasn't that of anticipation, it was one of pure intimidation. The sheer power that seeped off of the three men that just entered was suffocating, to the point where even Tsuna could recognize the vast difference in power between them.
The first man, Whis, was tall and thin, with pale blue skin, tall white hair, violet eyes, and rather effeminate features. He wore a maroon robe with a black cuirass over it, with a light blue halo around his neck. In his hand was a long scepter with a black orb floating above it.
The second man was slightly shorter but a lot more muscular. He had large, spiky black hair with black eyes. He wore an orange traditional and loose gi that was secured together with a blue obi tied in a knot at the left of his waist. He also wore blue wristbands that cover nearly his entire forearms and blue boots that clasp together on the front of his shins.
The third man, supposedly his son, was just as tall and just as muscular. He had short spiky hair, with similar facial features to the man next to him. He wore a matching gi with a blue shirt under it.
Everyone in the room simply stared at the 3 beings that had just entered as they bickered among themselves. Some tried to keep their composure, but it was clear to everyone that even with all the power in the room, these three men might have been able to beat everyone there.
Tsuna looked back to the queen, wondering how she would react to the three men, who were admittedly being a little disrespectful. The blonde woman simply smiled at the antics.
"It's quite alright Whis-dono," she said getting their attention,"You're actually just in time, we were just about to do introductions. Please, have a seat."
"Oh, sure," the spiky haired one said as he found himself a seat, "Sorry about that," His allies soon followed and took their seats as well.
The tension in the room was still there a bit, but the queen being relaxed certainly helped the idea that there was a lack of danger.
"Now then, the queen began again. "Now that everybody is here, we can begin."
Naruto, who had been slumped in his chair since he sat down, quickly straightened himself at the queen's words. He definitely wasn't used to waiting through boring meetings, in fact it was one of the things young shinobi hated the most. But since he had been selected as the next Hokage, he had gone through a lot of political training with Kakashi-sensei and Tsunade-obaasan. This was on an entirely different level though.
"As I said, we can begin with introductions," She said giving the room a friendly smile. Naruto could feel the tension slightly lower from the sheer charm emanating from the queen. The way she spoke was confident yet unintimidating, and drew respect without commanding it.
The woman stood, giving everyone a respectful bow. "As my aid Saber announced, I am Ruler Jeanne d'Arc. I act as the Warrior Queen of the Kingdom of Shounen. It is truly a pleasure to see you all gathered here." She took her seat as she finished her introduction. "Now I'm sure you all have many questions, but before we do that I wish for everyone to introduce themselves, with their rank, affiliation, and any other relevant information if at all possible." She finished as she spread her hands forward. "Now who would like to go first?"
...
An awkward silence filled the room as no one seemed eager to share any information about themselves. 'Figures,' Naruto thought to himself as he slumped back in his seat a little, 'looks like we'll be here a while,'
"Sate sate sate," Came an amused voice from the very end of the table. "If no one else is gonna do it, we might as well start. Right Elizabeth?"
Naruto, along with everyone else, turned to the end of the table for the source of the smug sounding voice, only to be met with a blonde man. Despite his mature features and messy blonde hair, the man was exceptionally short, making him look almost like a child. He had bright emerald eyes. He wore a messy fitting white dress shirt with a loose red tie under a black vest. Strapped to his back was a short sword in a green sheath with a golden dragon on it.
"Yes, of course," The woman next to him, introduced as Elizabeth, stood up before everyone and giving a polite albeit nervous bow. "M-my name is Elizabeth Liones, the third princess of the Kingdom of Liones." The woman was young looking, probably no older than Naruto was, with long silken silver hair which obscured her right eye her other eye being a bright sky blue. She wore a long light blue dress that went to the middle of her thighs, which led into a frilly white skirt. She rather thin but had had fairly large breasts which seemed to strain against he dress a bit. She gestured to the two people next to her. " I am the head representative of my world, we look forward to creating strong allies with all of you. These are 2 of my kingdom's holy knights,"
The two people on the either side of her stood up. The short one who had spoke up earlier went first.
"Yo," he said giving the room a nonchalant two finger salute. "Nice to meet you guys. I'm Meliodas, leader of the Seven Deadly Sins."
"Hello," the woman spoke, "I am Merlin,"
"GHA!" Naruto heard the sound of blood escaping from Kakashi's face and for once Naruto couldn't fault his perverted sensei. The woman that stood before the room was wearing clothes that certainly left little to the imagination. She was a slim, tall woman with shoulder length black hair, a beauty mark below her right eye. Her outfit consisted of a highly revealing and open purple fur collared long coat, which covered almost nothing except he breasts which were reasonably modest but well shaped. She wore short shorts with a heart on it, though to Naruto they didn't look any more than regular old panties, and purple thigh high boots. It was certainly an erotic look. Naruto mentally decided to take some notes for his Sexy Jutsu.
The outfit certainly got some mixed reactions from the room. While Kakashi-sensei was trying to cover his nosebleed, most others in the room seemed apathetic towards it, or at least not outwardly showing any reaction, though a few certainly had blushes on their faces.
"I am a Holy Knight of the Kingdom of Liones, as well as a member of the Seven Deadly Sins. We look forward to working with all of you. Especially some of the...more interesting ones." Naruto swore her eyes met his before the 3 of them sat down.
The queen looked over them with a smile before nodding towards the group next to them. "Why don't we continue from there. Next."
The next person nodded and stood, giving the room a respectful bow. He wore a standard black and white suit, with black eyes and sandy blonde hair. Naruto grimaced at the tired look of the man's eyes. He'd seen many times, all of which were on Sasuke. That look did not bring up good memories.
"I'm Kurapika, I represent the Hunter Association." He spoke in a polite yet reserved tone. "I look forward to meeting with you all." And with that the man sat down without another word. Naruto shivered a little bit at how cold the man was. Definitely reminded him of Sasuke.
The queen, however, seemed unphased "Very well, next," she said nodding.
"Zzzz..."
Naruto, along with everyone else, blinked at the next representative, who definitely asleep. It was a older teenage boy, probably around the same age as Naruto. He wore a open, long-sleeved red cardigan with four buttons, revealing his lean body and large X-shaped scar on his chest. He wore a pair of blue denim shorts with white fur at the end, with a yellow sash around his waist. The thing that really stood out though was his straw hat which covered his short messy black hair. His head was currently resting on his hand as he slept.
"O!, Luffy! Wake up you idiot!" The woman next to him shouted as she smacked the sleeping boy over the head with a good wack, sending his head into the table, effectively waking him up.
"Nami! What the hell was that for?" Luffy shouted back at the newly named "Nami", clearly upset at being woken up.
"This is important! What makes you think sleeping is a good idea...,"
Before the two could begin to argue any further, a sudden laughter emerged from the blonde man next to them, quickly causing them to become distracted and stop.
"You'll have to excuse my younger brother," the blonde man said addressing the queen, "He isn't used to being in formal situations, so sitting still and talking for an extended period of time if difficult for him." With that the man stood up, revealing his full form. He wore a long black jacket with a buckle on the left sleeve, over a blue shirt and vest, a frilled cravat, and a simple belt holding a pair of loosen light-blue pants with black boots. His hands were covered with a pair of brown gloves. And like his brother he wore a unique hat, being a tall black top hat with blue goggles around the rim. Across his back was a long pipe, which was easily the length of the man's body.
"My name is Sabo," the man said. "I am chief of staff of the Revolutionary Army, a major faction within our dimension. This here is my younger brother Luffy, one of the five emperors of the sea and captain of the Straw Hat Pirates," he said putting his hand on the black haired boy's shoulder.
"Yo," The boy said with a wave, not even bothering to stand up, "I'm Monkey D. Luffy," Then, much to the shock of everyone present, took his finger and put it in his mouth before pulling hard on the his own cheek, stretching it at least two feet from its natural position. "I'm ah rhubber mahn," he spoke through his stretched out mouth before releasing it, causing his cheek to snap back to normal like a rubber band.
Sighing at the antics of the man next to him, Nami stood up with her hands on her hips. Her long orange hair was fell behind her to the small of her back, a few strands falling in front of her face. She had a knockout figure, with very large breasts and wide hips to go along with her thin limbs and stomach. Her alluring body was only accented by her outfit. Which consisted of a orange and red bikini top, with tight fitting jeans.
"I apologize for my captain's behavior," she said, shooting Luffy a dirty look, "I'm Nami, the navigator of the Strawhat Pirates." Nami sweat slightly seeing the room visibly tense at the word "pirate".
"But we're not bad people," she quickly said trying to diffuse some of the tension, "I mean does he really seem all that dangerous," she turned towards Luffy for support...only to see that he had fallen asleep again.
"Wake up you idiot!" She shouted as she smacked him hard again,"
'You seem like the dangerous one,' the room collectively thought as they watched the young woman beat on her captain, as Sabo bagan to laugh at them again.
"Ehem," The queen interjected, interrupting the two. "As entertaining as this is, we must move on,"
"Right," Nami said laughing slightly as she sat down, "sorry about that,"
With that the next person stood up, and to Naruto's surprise, it was someone that he had already met.
"My name is Ichigo Kurosaki, Captain of the 7th Division of the Gotei 13." Ichigo had the same scowl on his face when Naruto had run into him earlier. "I am here representing the human world and the Soul Society as well as several smaller factions within my dimension. It's nice to meet all of you." With that he sat down and the dark skin woman Naruto had seen with Ichigo earlier stood up. She wore the same white midriff outfit she had on earlier.
"My name is Tier Halibel, Queen of Hueco Mundo, and the current acting 1st Espada." Her voice was deep and smooth, holding a quiet confidence. "I hope we may come to an understanding," And with that, just like Ichigo, she sat down.
Finally a short, raven haired woman stood up, she wore a similar outfit as Ichigo, but instead of being sleeveless her robe went all the way past her wrists, looking almost too big for her petite frame. "My name is Rukia Kuchiki, Captain of the 13th Division of the Gotei 13. I am here representing the Soul Soul Society and the Kuchiki Clan."
With that, the next group stood to introduce themselves, and-
'HOLY SHIT'
Naruto could only gawk at the two men that stood before the room. They were massive, each easily being around seven feet tall. Not only were they tall, they were both ridiculously muscular, their biceps were easily bigger than Naruto's head.
One was slightly taller than the other with wild blue hair with three scars running from his left ear to just under his left eye. He was older than Naruto, maybe like mid to late twenties. He wore a tight orange spandex jumpsuit with matching spandex orange cargo pants. He had on dark blue knee-high boots, a black belt, a thin tight muscle black t-shirt with a tight muscle orange sleeveless vest both tucked in, and a red armband on his left arm. Naruto took a mental note to ask him where he got his clothing later, he loved the orange jumpsuit. The other man was just as massive but looked decently older, perhaps middle aged. He had a full head of black hair, with a thick mustache. He wore a leopard fur pelt over a black tank top with cargo shorts.
The blue haired man spoke first, "My name is Toriko," despite speaking professionally, the man was enthusiastic with a wild grin on his face. "I'm a Gourmet Hunter, I search for rare ingredients and culinary from around the world, and I can't wait to try the kinds of food you have here!" Naruto could see the slight drool dripping from the gargantuan man's mouth. "And this is Mansam,"
"Did you just call me handsome?" The man ask excitedly.
"No you old-geezer! Just introduce yourself!"
"Oh yeah!" The man said before giving out a hearty laugh. "My name is Mansam, President of the International Gourmet Organization. Nice to meet you all!"
With that it was time for the group that walked in late to introduce themselves. To which the man with tall spiky hair excitedly jumped out of his seat.
"Hi! My name is Son Goku!" He gave the room a casual salute before placing his hands on his hips. "I wanna fight all you guys!"
The reaction to the man's words were instant. Ichigo and Tier instinctively put their hands on their weapons. Toriko had a wild grin on his face, as if excited at the idea. While everyone else in the room sweat at the thought of this man possibly being an enemy...
"Huh, what'd I miss?" Asked a confused pirate captain.
...except Luffy who continued to not pay attention.
The queen simply watched on as the tensions rose in the room, looking more curious as to the outcome than scared of the man.
"Dad don't say that!" The younger man said standing up, "Look, you freaked them out."
"What?" Goku questioned tilting his head, "Why would they freak out?" To which his son just sighed before turning to the others.
"Please ignore my father," he sighed out slumping his shoulders, "He's just excited about this whole tournament thing. My name is Son Gohan, my father and I are martial artists, and we look forward to working with you all," He finished giving a bow, relieving the tension in the room, causing Naruto to release the breath he was holding. Naruto had fought many powerful beings, including a weird rabbit goddess, but none had exuded the power these men did. And it was obvious to everyone in the room, that they were suppressing their power, which made them all the more terrifying.
'They seem nice enough though,' The young Hokage-in-training thought to himself as he watched the third, blue skin man stand up.
"I am known as Whis, I act as angel and attendant of my dimension's God of Destruction, Beerus-sama." He then sat back down, his face unchanging from a laidback smile.
"Welp, guess it's my turn," Came the gruff voice of the man to Naruto's right. His feet were kicked up on the table as he leaned back on the back legs of his chair. He wore a tattered red cloak with a long-tailed gray dress shirt, black dress pants, and black dress shoes. He had spiky black hair with bangs that fell in front of his forehead, just above his rust colored eyes. He smelled of expensive whisky, Naruto could tell he had been drinking recently, which was confirmed when he took a quick swig from a silver flask.
"Sup," he said to everyone not bothering to stand up. "Name's Qrow, good to meet you or whatever," He finished waving his hand in a dismissive manner before taking another swig from his flask.
'Wow,' Naruto thought to himself as he stood up for his turn, 'Who is this guy?'
To his left Kakashi stood up to introduce himself as well. "My name is Kakashi Hatake, sixth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village." He then gestured to Naruto, "This is my successor,"
"Hello!" Naruto let out, his nerves finally getting to him, "My name is Naruto Uzumaki, jounin of the Hidden Leaf Village and the future Seventh Hokage. Like everyone else said, I look forward to working with you," And with that he sat down and released a breath of relief that he didn't mess anything up. This was his first diplomatic mission after all, and would be the first of many if he was going to be a successful Hokage.
'Only a few groups left,' Naruto thought to himself in exasperation. 'These introductions are taking forever.' Looked on as some guy in a military uniform named Roy Mustang introduced himself.
After Roy sat down, another gargantuan man stood before everybody that mad Toriko and Mansam look small in comparison.
"AHHAHAHAHA," The huge man let out a hearty laugh which reverberated throughout the room, "I am All Might, Symbol of Peace, and former number one-bleggh!" The man was interrupted by spitting up a decent amount of blood, interrupting his monologue. As he doubled over the table, a few of the people around the table stood to help him only to be halted by All Might raising his hand.
"Much appreciated, my friends," He said as he wiped the blood from mouth and sat back down. "But I'm quite alright, just some damage from an old wound,"
"All Might-dono," Ichigo said from across the table catching the hero's attention, "I have a friend who specializes in healing lingering injuries, and we would be happy to take a look at it. Consider it our first reach of good faith as allies." He said with a small smile gracing his usual scowl filled face.
"Ah," All Might said after some hesitation, "Thank you, Kurosaki-dono,"
With that, All Might sat down and the man next to him stood up. "Oi," he quietly muttered raising his hand, "I'm Aizawa Shouta," He then sat back down.
...
"Anyways..." The queen said, cutting through the silence following the muted introduction from the disheveled looking man before shooting a cute smile at the the next two members.
"A-A-A-A" The next participant shot up, and began to nervously sputter at the group, he wore a simple black suit with large brown hair.
'So young,' Naruto thought to himself. The boy that stood up couldn't have been much older than an academy student.
"M-m-y n-n-n-na-m-m-e i-s-s T-s-" Before he could continue his incoherent muttering by a baby smacking his head into a desk, muttering something about 'no good' under his breath.
The infant stood on top of the unconscious boy's head with his hands in his pockets and addressed the table.
"My name is Reborn, the world's most dangerous hitman. And this," he kicked the unconscious child below him. "Is Tsunayoshi Sawada, head of the Vongola mafia,"
'This kid is a mafia boss?' Naruto and many others in the room thought as they watched the baby continue to kick the boy, this time in an attempt to wake him up.
"Ehem..." The next person coughed to gather the room's attention before standing up. She had long scarlet hair with silver armor. "My name is Erza Scarlet, S-class wizard of Fairy Tail, number one wizard's guild in the Fiore Kingdom. I look forward to taking up arms with you all."
The next man didn't even bother to stand. He was muscular with a white long coat and... Naruto had to do a double take, as it looked like the man's hat faded into his black hair. No matter what angle Naruto looked at it from, he couldn't get a clear look where the hair started and the hat ended.
"Yare yare daze," the man said tilting the rim of his hat down over his face. His voice as deep and uninterested, "My name is Jotaro Kujo, a representative of the Speedwagon Foundation. It's nice to meet you all."
The next representative stood up confidently with a confidant smile. "So, it's finally my turn, huh?" The man was tall and tan, with long purple hair tied into a wild pony tail that fell down his back. He wore floor-length purple and white robes, a white turban with feather decorations, and pointed red shoes. He was also decorated in ornate jewelry and gold."My name is Sinbad, King of Sindria and head of the Seven Seas Alliance." The man oozed confidence and charisma. His smile was infectious and his voice was confidant and demanded attention. "I look forward to building an alliance with all of you." This actually managed to get some murmurs of agreement from the room as the final representative stood up.
"It appears I am last then," The final representative was by far the most bizzare looking in the room, which was certainly saying a lot. They were tall and appeared to be made out of a tattered black cloth. Their face looked like a cartoon skull mask with 3 long prongs.
"I am simply known as Death," his voice, despite is slightly terrifying appearance, his voice was light and jovial. "I am the humble headmaster of Death Weapon Meister Academy. Nice to meetcha all,"
The queen released a slight sigh and gave her neck a slight stretch. "Well now that we're finally with introductions, we can really begin the negotiations.
"First let me explain the purpose of this kingdom,"
The queen stood up and strutted in front of her desk before leaning back on it. She brought her hands together, activating a magic circle within them, before spreading her hands apart, projecting a large hologram showing various scenes of action.
"Our job is to observe pivotal moments in the history of various universes. As well as keep the balance between them." she gestured her hand towards Naruto, "Events such as the Great Shinobi War," she moved her hand from Naruto to Ichigo, "Or the Winter War of Kurosaki-dono's dimension are events of great interest to us."
"If they are of such interest, then why didn't you help?" Ichigo questioned, eyeballing the woman suspiciously. "A lot of good people died in that war, and from that footage," He nodded towards a clip of fire being blasted into a large army of people. "Many more died in their war as well."
A genuinely pained expression crossed the face of the queen. "Regrettably, we are not allowed to directly interfere. It is simply our job to observe, document, and maintain balance."
Ichigo gazed at the woman a bit longer before seemingly accepting her answer, turning to whisper something into the ear of the dark skin woman next to him, seemingly trying to convince her of something.
"Well you sure are doing a lot of interfering right now aren't ya?" The somewhat slurred, drunken voice of Qrow spoke up. "So what exactly changed? Huh?"
The woman's face quickly changed from guilty to frustrated. Raising her hands she waved away the videos, replacing it with a diagram that appeared showed various versions of a planet lined next to each other in an infinite line.
"Every world is kept separate from each other, lying on different planes of existence. However, due to the increase of power and points of interest in the dimensions, the universes are growing closer together." As she brought her hands together the versions of the planets grew closer together. "With our power we can keep your dimensions from collapsing into each other, but we can't keep them completely separate, particularly those with a high concentration of power, and soon connections between your dimensions will form, allowing beings to cross between them." The queen brought her hands together collapsing the hologram, and bringing everyone's eyes back to her. "To keep interdimensional war from breaking out in the confusion, we deemed it necessary to bring the leaders together in a peace summit."
Qrow eyed the queen suspiciously, but said nothing, taking another swig from his flask.
"Who exactly is we, your majesty?" Questioned Kakashi, Naruto nodding next to him. "Who exactly are you all?"
Jeanne d'Arc smiled proudly at the question. "Our world, the Kingdom of Shounen, has no parallel dimensions that mirror ours, as such, our world does not lie on the same plane of existence as yours. We are Heroic Spirits, beings that exist separately from the plane of existence that your dimensions lay. We are, in layman's terms, the purest forms of people who appear commonly across the multitude of dimensions, always tied to important events."
"Can you give an example?" Elizabeth asked, confused.
The queen smiled, gesturing to Saber who stood stoically in the corner of the room. "Saber here is the incarnation of the hero Arthur Pendragon, someone who I think you know personally, Elizabeth-hime."
A shocked look slowly spread across the Elizabeth's face as she looked at Saber. "No way," she muttered to herself, "So Saber-san and Arthur-san are..."
"In fact many of you and your allies are incarnations of our heroic spirits, though the connection is not as simple as us being the same person."
"What of the many citizens of your kingdom?" Meliodas chimed in.
The queen grimaced slightly, "Sometimes, entire dimensions will end their existence. On rare instances when we're allowed to interfere we can act as a safe haven. Our citizens now are descendants of those whose dimension's were destroyed.
With these hard revelations, an awkward silence filled the room. Something Jeanne wasn't quite ready for.
"Umm.." she sweat slightly at the somber expressions that decorated the room. "Ahh, don't worry. It only happens VERY rarely and-"
"About this summit," Erza stated raising her armoured hand and interrupting the queen's ramblings. "The message said something about a tournament, can you please explicate the details of that please?"
"Ohh," Goku perked up at the mention of the tournament, "Yeah, let's talk about that,"
The queen beamed at Erza, seemingly thankful at the change of subject, and practically skipped back behind her desk and sat down. "Yes! This is the part I'm most excited for!" The queen shifted through her desk a bit before tossing a stack of papers haphazardly on the desk.
'She's not very organized is she?' Thought the gathered men and women.
"Ah! Here it is!" Jeanne shouted excitedly before clearing her throat and reading the paper aloud. "The purpose of the Solstice Summit Tournament is to promote good faith and cooperation among new allies. The tournament will be a team style format, not quite unlike the Grand Magical Games, Erza-san."
Erza blinked at suddenly being addressed, "Will we be choosing or teams then?"
The queen shook her head, "Teams have already been randomly selected. There will be ten teams of ten. The tournament will consist of each team sending in representatives to participate in various combat based events. The amount of representatives could vary from round to round and the winners of each round will win points for their teams. The team with the most points at the end wins! Does everyone understand so far?"
The room gave some nods save for Roy Mustang, who had one concern. "Forgive me if I'm wrong, your majesty. But does the solstice refer to the Summer solstice? If so then that would have just passed last week, am I wrong?"
"The queen hummed a bit, a knowing look on her face. "You'd be partially right Mustang-dono. It may have just passed in your world, but every dimension runs on a slightly different timeline. Ours is no exception. We are now in what most of you know as the end of winter, though as you can plainly see, our weather patterns are a bit on the tropical side."
"But wouldn't that make the solstice a few months from now?" Sinbad questioned from the end of the table. "Why not just have it now?"
"Very observant, Jotaro-san. Indeed the Summer solstice is exactly 4 months and one week away." The blonde queen spread her hands outward in a grand fashion. "In order to promote the spread of culture and techniques, everyone will be given 4 months to train under teachers from other worlds. Each team will be assigned two mentors, who will teach and aid the teams in their training. During this time dimensional borders will be open and you can freely travel between them for resources and training. That being said the borders and laws within each dimension still apply, so do try your best to not start any international disputes." She finished with a cute smile, undercutting her point a little bit.
"Who exactly will these "mentors" be?" Kurapika questioned.
The queen simply smiled and winked. "That's a surprise," a reply that Kurapika simply sighed at.
"That being said," the beautiful queen continued leaning back in her chair, "You're free to seek out assistance from your teammates, roommates, or just train by yourself. And I believe that's all the info on the teams. Everyone will receive a time and location for their first team meeting. Now," the queen leaned forward in her chair, "let's begin the discussion of this treaty."
Several hours had passed since Ichigo had gone into the meeting room, and needless to say Renji was...tired of waiting.
"Ugggh! How much longer are they going to take?!" Renji shouted as he paced back and forth in front of Hisagi, who was calmly reading a book while sitting against the building near it's entrance.
"It's a peace summit Renji," Hisagi said as he calmly turned a page in his book. "It's gonna take a while do make an interdimensional treaty."
"Yeah but it's already been 6 hours!" Renji shouted, "I get antsy just waiting around."
Hisagi sighed at his long time friend's antics before closing his book and standing up. "They're done,"
"Fucking finally," Renji let out as he joined Hisagi by the door as people began to file out of it.
"Jeez, Sabo, that took forever,"
"Do peace meetings usually take that long Kakashi-sensei?"
Hisagi and Renji waited a couple minutes until Ichigo, Rukia and Tier walked out of the hall, stretching some of their stiff limbs.
"Ah, Ichigo!" Renji called out as the group walked towards him and Hisagi. "How'd it go?"
"Ughh I'll let you know the details later," Ichigo said as he stretched his back a bit. "But overall it went pretty well. There definitely shouldn't be any interdimensional war happening any time soon."
Renji let out a sigh of relief, "And here I thought you were gonna fuck it up Kurosaki,"
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"See what I mean?" Renji said, getting a laugh out of the group, save for Tier, who stood there stocic as ever.
"Anyways," Ichigo said regaining his composure, "the one thing that has me suspicious is this tournament thing. I'm not against the whole thing but the reasoning doesn't make much sense."
"Indeed," Tier agreed, "The whole situation seems a bit contrived,"
"Well, either way we have to go along with it for now," Rukia added, "At the very least no harm can come from some training right?" But even as she said it, the feeling that they were somehow being set up was palpable.
"In any case," Ichigo started, "We're gonna be separated a lot more from now on." A statement that made Rukia and surprisingly Tier a bit melancholy. She was quite enjoying the limited time she had spent with the orange haired captain, which was already a step in the right direction for most of her allies under that man.
"Be careful. If anything goes wrong, prioritize escape, and meet back here. There are too many unknown factors, don't engage in battle unless absolutely necessary. We've already tested, you should be able to open Senkaimon and Garganta, so if you can, escape back home. Understood?"
The group just stared blankly at Ichigo save for Halibel who was confused by their reaction.
"What?" Ichigo stared back, confused.
"I've just never heard you sound so responsible, Strawberry-san," Rukia said reaching up to put her hand on Ichigo's forehead, "If you keep using your brain like that, you're gonna get a fever."
"Get off me!" Ichigo said smacking Rukia's hand away, blushing slightly. "I'm a Captain now, so I'm responsible for all of you, more so than usual."
Rukia and Renji smiled at their long time friend's new show of responsibility.
Slightly bashful at the attention, Ichigo changed the subject. "Anyways, Rukia's gonna go make the report. In the meantime, I'm gonna take Tier-san clothes shopping. I'll see you guys later." Renji raised an eyebrow at Ichigo's words but said nothing as he watched the Captain walk away with the Espada behind him, watching as the two took up idle conversation as they headed back into town.
"Is it me," Renji started to Rukia and Hisagi, "Or do those two seem pretty close?"
"What?!" Rukia exclaimed, perhaps a little louder than necessary, something that did not go unnoticed by the two Lieutenants. "You're crazy, Ichigo is just a nice guy! He even bought me clothes when I was first in the Human World," she finished with a smug look on her face. Hisagi and Renji exchanged knowing looks.
"Ohhh?" Renji said smugly leaning over Rukia, "Since when did it become a competition? If I didn't know any better, I'd say you have a crush on a certain strawberry headed soul reaper. Eh Rukia?"
Rukia intelligently responded by blushing wildly and sputtering incoherently and her lifelong friend, prompting the red head to burst out in laughter.
"Hahahaha, you really have it bad for him don't -OW!"
Renji's teasing was ceremoniously interrupted by a hard kick to his shin courtesy of a blushing raven haired captain.
"What the hell Rukia?!" The lieutenant shout indignantly as he doubled over his shin.
"Stick up your ass Renji!" Rukia yelled, "I've gotta go do my report," With that she turned her nose up and shunpo'd away. Hisagi, who had watched the whole exchange, knelt down next to Renji, a rare smirk on his face. "Nice job, pineapple head,"
"Whatever Hisagi, all it did was confirm what I already thought," Renji finished with a smirk of his own, "This is definitely going to be interesting,"
The next day:
"It looks like this is the right place," Ichigo muttered to himself as he stepped into the clearing. When Ichigo had returned to his room the night before there was an envelope waiting on his desk, providing precise directions to his team's designated meeting area. The paper had led him to a forest on the north outskirts of kingdom. Ichigo had been walking for almost an hour before finally reaching a large clearing . It was at least 2 miles around, with a large wooden building in the center. A large lake could be seen in the the distance, next to a few cleared out sparring arenas with spectating areas.
The young shinigami, seeing no one else around, made his way towards the building and knocked on the door.
"Coming," Came a smug voice from the other side of the door.
'Wait...' Ichigo thought to himself, a feeling of dread falling over him as the door opened, 'I know that voice...'
"My my, Kurosaki-kun, what a present surprise,"
The man standing before Ichigo was someone he knew all too well, and certainly wasn't expecting to see here.
"Urahara?!" Ichigo exclaimed in disbelief, "What are you doing here?"
"Your words wound me," the shopkeeper said in mock hurt, covering his face with his signature fan. "You sound like you're not happy to see me."
"Don't play games with me hat'n'clogs!" Ichigo shouted grabbing Kisuke by the shirt, "Answer my question,"
"So aggressive," Kisuke teased before pulling himself away from his former student. "I'll explain in a little bit, Kurosaki-kun. But right now it's time for you to meet your team." Kisuke finished before turning heel into the building. "Follow me,"
"My...team?" Ichigo hesitated before following the shopkeeper into the building. It was similar to an expensive cabin with large spacious rooms and wooden furniture. There was a set of stairs leading to an upper floor. Ichigo followed Kisuke passed by an expansive, fully stocked kitchen near a large dining room area.
"Right in here, my star pupil." Kisuke said opening a door to the room in the back, revealing a downward staircase. Ichigo, albeit hesitantly, followed his former teacher down the stairs.
"Everyone," Kisuke announced as he reached the bottom, "this is Ichigo Kurosaki, please try hard to get along with him." He finished with a coy smile. Ichigo, following a few steps into the room, immediately was taken aback at the size of the room itself.
It was very spacious, seemingly the largest room in the house. It was a large entertainment with a 110 inch television mounted on the right wall, with various gaming systems on a wooden console below it. Opposite the T.V. was a long, dark blue, crescent shaped couch with white throw pillows. In the back of the room there was a full bar, with a granite countertop, wooden stools, and a bartender's area behind the countertop. A bookshelf was along the left wall, completely lined full of books near a small table with a few chairs around it. The room also already have eight occupants in it, all of which were staring directly at him.
"Uhhh...nice to meet you all," the young captain greeted only to be met with silence. Until a someone decided to break the silence.
"Hey! You're cute!" Shouted a tall blonde woman, merely inches from his face. "Do you have a girlfriend?"
Ichigo, despite having experience with more...forward woman like Rangiku and Yoruichi, was taken aback at the sudden question. "Uhh..." He muttered hesitantly, "Not at the moment,"
"Hmmm..." The woman thought aloud, "Wanna go out for a drink sometime?"
"Uhh, I'm not old enough to drink," Ichigo said nervously, deflecting the real question of a date.
"Neither am I!" The woman enthusiastically exclaimed, "But that never stopped me from-OW" The blonde woman was interrupted by a hand pulling hard on her ear.
"Yang-san! That's enough teasing," The owner of the hand had long, flowing white hair that curled at the ends, framing her heart shaped face. She wore a sleeveless, dark blue dress with white frills, bringing out her sapphire eyes.
"Mira-chan!" The newly introduced Yang whined, rubbing her sore ear. "I was just introducing myself,"
'Mira-chan' just sighed at her friend's antics before turning to the orange haired shinigami with a sweet smile. "Sorry about that," the young woman apologized, before holding out her hand. "My name is Mirajane Strauss, a mage of the Fairy Tail. It's nice to meet you."
'Fairy Tail?' thinking back to the scarlet haired woman from the representatives meeting. 'So she's a friend of that Erza woman,' Ichigo relaxed slightly at the first seemingly normal person he's met since...
...well it's been a long time since he met anyone 'normal'.
Ichigo, shaking her hand, introduced himself. "My name is Ichigo Kurosaki, and likewise." He said before turning to look at the other woman. "And you are...?"
The blonde woman bounced back up to Ichigo to introduce herself as well. Allowing Ichigo to actually get a good look at her. She looked around the same age as Mirajane and himself.
"Hiya!" The woman said giving the shinigami a two fingered salute and a wink, her other hand on her hip. "My name is Yang Xiao Long, I'm Mirajane's roommate. I'm a Huntress."
Like Mirajane she was fair skinned but with lilac eyes and bright, golden blonde hair. She wore an orange tank top under an form fitting brown jacket with two long tails in the back and rolled up sleeves. She had matching brown knee high boots and long brown gloves that stopped just before her elbows. This allowed to Ichigo to see that her right arm was a prosthetic. Noticing Ichigo eye balling her prosthetic, she pulled her jacket sleeve down a bit to cover it, and gave Ichigo a nervous laugh. Realizing his error, he quickly went to apologize, only to be cut off be Yang herself.
"Anyway!" Yang interrupted, wanting to avoid the topic of her arm, "That's a pretty wicked sword you got there," Eyeing the large cleaver on Ichigo's back. "You know how to use that thing?"
Ichigo actually perked up a bit. He had a lot of pride in Zangetsu, and enjoyed when people complimented him. "Yeah," he said, "I like think I'm pretty good with it," He said giving the girl a confidant smirk.
"Interesting," Yang cooed at the shinigami, "You know any hand-to-hand?"
"You could say I dable," Ichigo said smugly, thinking back to his fight with Yoruichi not too long ago, causing a slight competitive spark to light in Yang's eyes.
"Really?" Yang said, her aura beginning to glow slightly, "Maybe we can have a match to- HEY!" The huntress was once again interrupted by her roommate, who was currently dragging her away by he jacket, despite the many protests from her hostage.
"I think you've caused Ichigo-san enough stress for now, Yang-san," The white haired mage turned to Ichigo as she walked away, "It was very nice to meet ou Ichigo-san, I look forward to being teammates with you," And with that she dragged Yang back to the couch and began to scold her on how to properly introduce herself, to which the blonde bombshell simply pouted.
'They seem pretty close,' Ichigo thought to himself in amusement as he watched the two women.
Ichigo looked around the room at the rest of his new "teammates." While Mira berated Yang on the couch, Ichigo noticed purple haired child laying on the floor, a remote in his hand, flipping through the T.V. channels. At the bar, a man with light blue hair and a long red trench coat and a woman with a white fur coat and dark green hair sat on opposite ends, completely ignoring the other person's existence as the woman quietly sipping on a glass or brandy, an annoyed look on her face, while the man was happily chugging some cheap looking ale. At the book shelf, 3 teens of a similar age were sitting around the table chatting about something he couldn't make out. Ichigo decided to take his chances at the bar and moved to sit between them. Deciding to try his luck with the woman first.
"Hey," He said as he went to sit down, "I'm-" Ichigo was cut off just as he was about to sit down, he found himself unable to move, as if something was holding him in place.
'I-I can't move,' Ichigo thought to himself as he strained to move his body, 'what's going on?'
"Who gave you permission to sit so close to me, let alone speak to me?"
While Ichigo couldn't move his head to look, he could shift his eyes. The woman to his right was glaring at him with jade green eyes. She wore a dark green, form fitting dress under her fur coat, showing off her curvaceous figure.
"Huh!?" Ichigo exclaimed to the woman, "Are you the reason I can't move?"
The woman nodded, "My psychic powers are keeping you from moving, don't think to hard about it. A brute like you couldn't possibly wrap your brain around it."
Ichigo's eyebrows twitched in annoyance as the woman glared at him. He closed his eyes and focused on the spiritual energy in the room, and noticed a strange energy connecting the woman to him. The young soul reaper tried flaring his spiritual energy towards the connection to which the connection causing it to strain. Ichigo tried this again, except this time he raised his spiritual pressure to a little over a lieutenant level, which caused the connection to instantly break, allowing his body to relax.
"What? Impossible! How did you break my hold of you?" The woman exclaimed feeling her psychic hold broken by a heavy pressure. Fubuki sweat a little as she watched the man take a seat next to her, causing a holographic menu screen to pop in front of him.
"Oh wow," Ichigo thought aloud as his eyes scrolled the hologram, which was similar to the one the queen had used earlier. The soul reaper scrolled past the alcoholic section and selected a lemonade. As soon as he selected his order a opening opened up in the countertop and a glass of lemonade with a fresh lemon slice and sugar along the rim rose up. Which Ichigo contently sipped on as the woman continued to shout at him.
"Hey!" The woman called out, "How dare you ignore me, Fubuki, the Blizzard of Hell!"
Ichigo sighed as she continued to rant, and shot the woman an annoyed look. "I thought you didn't want me to talk to you?" He said with a bit of smugness. To which Fubuki grew a flustered shade of red and began to sputter something only to be cut off by laughter from the other end of the bar.
"Hahahaha!" The man laughed, "He got ya there greeny," The man was tall and muscular, having a similar build to Ichigo. He wore dark red long coat which showed off his muscular chest, along with red leather pants. The man's face was animalistic with sharp teeth and slanted, scarlet eyes with spiky, sky blue hair.
"Greeny?!" Fubuki glared at the blue haired man across the bar, "Who do you think you're talking to?"
"Don't take her too seriously, man." The man said scooting one seat over towards Ichigo, "She thinks very highly of herself." He finished as he guzzled down another glass of ale. "Whoooo! That's some good shit."
"Why you little-" Fubuki fumed before pointing at the man, causing him to glow slightly with her psychic powers before being sent flying upwards into the ceiling, leaving him cratered for a second before he fell back onto the bar.
"What the hell are doing!?" Ichigo turned a heel on the woman who looked more annoyed than anything, and had returned to sipping on her drink.
"Relax, carrot-top," She said looking into her glass, "He's fine. I couldn't hurt him if I wanted to." She muttered to herself with a slight pout.
"Jeeez lady, you really don't know how to take a joke." Ichigo swung his head around to see the man that had been embedded into the ceiling was back to sitting at the bar without a scratch on him. "You spilled my drink,"
"It's your own fault, bastard," Fubuki yelled back before taking the last sip of her drink, turning heel and walking away from the two muttering to herself angrily.
Ichigo and the other man just watched her storm off, before the blue haired man turned towards the soul reaper. "Don't worry about her, she's just gotta stick up her ass. The name's Ban, strawberry," The man introduced himself pointing his thumb towards his chest.
"Ichigo," The soul reaper responded, "Ichigo Kurosak..." Ichigo trailed off a bit as he watched Ban down another glass of alcohol, seemingly not listening. From there the two talked for a bit about their respective worlds and shared a few stories.
"So that Meliodas guy is you captain?" Ichigo questioned.
"Yup," Ban said rubbing the scar on his neck. "He's the strongest man I've ever met, at least in my own universe."
'So Meliodas is the strongest from his world?' Ichigo thought to himself, 'I'll have to remember to be on the lookout for him,'
"That being said, you seem pretty strong I-chi-go-san" Ban slurred a bit, singing the last part in a childlike manner, "You wanna fight some time?"
"Uhhhh..." Ichigo sweat a little bit, getting some Kenpachi vibes from his new comrad, only to be saved as he noticed one of the teens by the bookshelf waving at him to come over. "I'll take you up on that later Ban, I gotta go," And with that, Ichigo hurriedly stood up and headed towards the bookshelf.
The three teens gathered were significantly younger than himself, looking to be first years, or maybe even middle schoolers. He recognized one as Tsuna, the mafia kid from the representatives meeting. The other two were new. One wore a blue jumpsuit with white boots and a yellow belt. His hair was longer, ending just above his chin and was half white and half red. His most defining feature was the burn scar over his left eye. The other who had called him over had short black hair with a blue ski jacket with white leopard fur lining on the hood along with a pair of blue jeans. Slung across his back was a baseball bat in a black sleeve. Tsuna was currently nervously talking to the black haired boy as the boy with the scar quietly read a book.
"Yamamoto-kun, I told you he looks dangerou-EHHH!" The boy shouted as he noticed that Ichigo had made his way over a quickly hid behind his friend, who flashed Ichigo a bright smile.
"Hey! The black haired kid exclaimed with a wave. "I'm Yamamoto Takeshi, I really like you're sword." The boy turned to the other two. "This is my good friend Tsuna, we go to school together. And this is our new friend Todoroki. He's training to be a superhero. Isn't that cool?"
"Hello," Todoroki quietly greeted with a nod before going back to his reading.
"H-h-h-h-h-hello Ichigo-san, It's good to see you a-again," Tsuna stuttered out, nervous at the intimidating man in front of him.
Ichigo nodded at Todoroki and thanked Yamamoto before turning to Tsuna. "It's good to see you as well Sawada-san. I'm glad to see you making friends, you seemed really nervous in the representatives meeting."
Ichigo flinched a little bit as he watched Tsuna slump into a depression. "Yeah.." The young Mafia boss sulked.
"Ah sorry," Ichigo said as he took a seat with the group, "I didn't mean anything by it, I realize it can be a lot of pressure for someone your age."
"I know," Tsuna cried out a bit, "This is too much for a high schooler to handle,"
"Hey," Ichigo stated causing Tsuna to perk up a bit, "If you were chosen as your representative, that means that you were the best person for the job. It's impressive that someone your age was chosen. Have some faith in yourself." Tsuna mood visibly became better at Ichigo's words.
"Yeah Tsuna!" Yamamoto encouraged, "That's what I've been telling you," The boy then turned back to Ichigo, a childlike excitement in his eye. "Anyways, Kurosaki-san. That's an amazing sword, what sword style do you use?"
'Sword style?' Ichigo thought to himself. Before he was able to answer the young swordsman's question, a loud gong rang throughout the room, drawing their attention. The source of the sound was none other than Kisuke standing in front of the television, a small gong one hand and a tiny hammer in the other.
"Attention everyone," The shopkeeper called out, "Please come over to the couch so we can begin our first team meeting," With that everyone in the room filed onto the large couch, with the purple haired child sitting on the floor and Fubuki standing off to the side. Ichigo, sat between Yang, who was shooting him some side glances but said nothing, and Ban who was looked bored at the idea of a meeting.
Kisuke grinned at the group before waving his fan in front of his face. "Hello everyone, My name is Kisuke Urahara, I'm but a humble shopkeeper. And I will be one of your team's mentors for the next few months."
'One of the mentors?' Ichigo thought to himself.
"It will be our job to get you as strong as possible within the next 4 months. We have been given full permission to access the multiverse for resources, training and travel. Beginning today we will be putting you through rigorous training and team building exercises!" He finished with a smile.
"Who is this "we" you keep referring to?" Ban asked begrudgingly, to which the shopkeeper widened his grin behind his fan.
"He should be here any moment," the shopkeeper answered with a bemused smile, "he's well known for being late from what I here,"
"Well well well, Urahara-san. Saying mean things behind my back are you?" Coming down the stairs was a man that Ichigo recognized. It was the current Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village, Kakashi Hatake. He was reading a green book with a picture of a woman in a bikini on it.
"My apologies, Hatake-san," Kisuke responded in an equally smug voice, "I was just explaining that we will be teaching these young men and women. Anything to say?"
The man looked around the room, looking at every member of the team with his one eye. "Well, my first impressions of you guys," He paused to think of the right words, "I hate you,"
Everyone soured at the shinobi's word while Kisuke stifled a laugh.
"Alright," Kisuke started, "now that everyone is here, we can begin-"
"Hey teach," Yang interrupted, raising her hand.
"Ahhh, yes Yang-san," Kisuke said, pointing his fan at the blonde girl.
"How come we only have nine people?" She questioned with a confused look on her face, "Aren't there supposed to be ten of us?"
"That is correct Yang-san," Kakashi said not looking up from his book, "It appears that our final member is even later than I am,"
"Which leads us to our first bit of training!" Kisuke said excitedly. "Yang-san, Kurosaki-kun. You're first bit of training is to find our mysterious tenth member. Everyone else will stay here and begin training!"
"Whaat?" Yang whined, "Why do we have to go run errands while you guys get to do all the fun stuff?"
"Yeah, what the hell Hat'N'Clogs?"
"No arguing, Kurosaki-kun," Urahara scolded, "I figure your spiritual awareness would help you find him quickly. And I'm sending Yang-san because of your poor social skills."
Ichigo just sighed, something he seemed to be doing a lot recently, and stood up. "There's no use in arguing with him, let's just get this over with,"
"Ugghh fine," Yang reluctantly agreed standing up and moving towards the exit.
"Here's a picture of him," Kisuke stated giving Yang an envelope. "Once you two bring him here, the three of you can begin training.
With that, the two headed upstairs and out the door. Yang looked the picture up and down as they headed into the forest. "How the hell are we supposed to find this guy,"
Ichigo thought for a bit. "Well, I don't sense any spiritual pressure near us, so I don't think he's in the forest. Why don't we head back to the castle and see if any of the representatives there recognize him."
"Good call," Yang said, before donning an annoyed look. "But seriously, why do you think he's so late?"
"Who knows?" Ichigo said with a slight chuckle at the girls face., he had to admit that Yang was cute, especially when she was mad. "Maybe he got lost?" A thought that Yang took a nice laugh at.
"Ha! What kind of person would get lost with the directions they gave us?"
At the same time a few miles east of the kingdom, a man stood at the top of a mountain. He had 3 swords strapped to his side, a green gi, and green turf hair. Next to hima small goat began to chew on his pants.
"Where the hell am I supposed to go?" Zoro asked out loud.
"Bahhhhh" the goat bleed in response.
"Get the hell off of me!"
HOLY SHIT I'M FINALLY DONE
I know I said I'd have this out at the beginning of January but the track season hit me like a fucking bus. This chapter also turned out OD long, over 11k words, so that's part of the reason it ended up taking so long. Originally it was gonna end after the meeting. But I didn't just wanna dump a bunch of exposition with no fun stuff. So I decided to give you guys some more.
Anyways! Next chapter you guys will meet the rest of the teams. I don't think it'll be as long so hopefully it will come out sooner rather than later. Thanks for being so patient.
A side note, that's it for the girls interested in Ichigo. I still haven't decided on pairings for him or if he's gonna get a harem, but I will begin expanding on other pairing I have in mind so keep a lookout for that. :)
Also those were all the universes being represented in this arc. So if their world was not represented in the summit, don't expect to see them in this arc, except for one surprise that I think you'll all love. That being said, they may still appear after the tournament arc, so if you're looking for Black Clover or YuYu Hakusho, don't give up hope :). I based which got in off of the poll, and RWBY, Soul Eater, and Toriko were the at the top, so I threw in them and a few other of the higher placing shows. It gave me an excuse to finally watch RWBY and I loved it so thanks for that. Next poll that will go up will most likely be pairing or Omake related. So be on the lookout for that.
Also I'm STILL looking for a beta reader, so please dm me if you're interested. This story has a lot of characters so I wanna make sure I do everyone justice.
Alright that's all for now! Leave a review to let me know what you think!
Thanks for reading!
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