Help from a Stranger

Chapter 3: The New Girl

I do not own Naruto or Bleach

Italics for thoughts, zanpaktou

Bold for Hado

Rethinking pairings for Ichigo to maybe Tatsuki while Renji being paired with Rukia.

Naruto still has harem but a couple people have potential to be added.

I won't be writing about all of the early chapters of bleach like the parakeet chapter with Chad and slightly skipping over Sora story to a degree. I know they are important but for me it's dull writing them when they don't advance my plot.

XChapter StartX

Previously…

As Naruto walked home at night he was softly humming a small tune to himself, while Yoruichi was resting in his shoulder in cat form, her small head leaning against his neck like a pillow, another picture for the album. However, he stopped humming as he felt a pulse of reiatsu and sped off to find the source. In next to no time, Naruto was in front of the Kurosaki residence, where he saw a young petite looking woman leaning against a lamp post who had short dark hair.

The more impressive sight was that a student, Kurosaki Ichigo was dressed in the clothes of a Shinigami, holding a ridiculously large zanpaktou which he had used to kill a nearby hollow with ease. "Somehow, I think my life is going to get troublesome now with this… at least it's happening to him and not me. I pray Murphy's Law follows him instead of me for once." Naruto said shaking his head as he quickly vanished from the scene.

Makin it home, Naruto opened the door as Yoruichi stirred slightly "Ummm, Naruto-kun what was that feeling of reiatsu before?" she mumbled lifting her head a little only for Naruto to pet her head.

"Don't worry about it, I'll tell you in the morning just sleep for now Yoruichi-chan okay." he said as she gave a weak nod shutting her eyes.

"I bet she'll turn up at school tomorrow out of nowhere… if she does, I'll change the files a little to help out, since that spike of reiatsu came from her and transferred to Ichigo. Urgh, I'm here a week and this happens, mah, I'll manage like always." Naruto thought as he put Yoruichi on the bed and then got into his sleeping clothes before putting his head down to rest.

XBreakX

When next morning came Naruto and Yoruichi quickly got changed, Naruto did at least, before making his lunch and heading to school a little earlier, only to find a new folder on his desk, with young Rukia's information in it, alongside a small picture of a chibi Urahara.

"Subtly really doesn't agree with you Kisuke." Naruto said with a shake of his head opening the folder and looking through the information given about Rukia, but also the true information about her status as a Shinigami that Kisuke had slipped in for good measure.

'So a noble who was picked up off the street and raised to be a Shinigami, a seated level skill but held back by captain's request. Currently has had all her power transferred to Kurosaki Ichigo now substitute Shinigami. I wonder if I can fan a bit of fun with this info… maybe a bit of teasing too.' Naruto chuckled to himself at his plans, which Yoruichi took note of.

"If what you're planning sounds fun, I want in Naruto-kun." Naruto smiled at Yoruichi, scratching her behind her ears.

"Not unless you take your female form Yoruichi-chan, since I just plan on teasing the new girl, since she seems like a serious type from her file as does Ichigo so obviously they are perfect targets for it." She nodded in agreement her mind remembering Rukia's brother in law

"Her adoptive brother was the same, always too serious, barely ever had fun unless I made him by stealing his hair tie and running away." She laughed at the memories of 100 years ago. She always had enjoyed making the usually stoic noble chase her.

"Well, if I know anything something tells me we'll have to reveal ourselves at some point so you can join in at some point or tease any of the group that hangs round with Ichigo, it's obvious that his leaking reiatsu may affect the others when combined with my own leaking reserves," the cat hopped off his shoulder and onto his desk.

"I can wait a little then, just make sure they don't get used to your teasing before I get a chance to." Yoruichi held up her claws saying this not wanting to lose her own chance at teasing the girl and the orange haired teen, she did take pleasure in that hobby.

"Hehe, you could always just flash him, even I can tell the boy is a bit of a prude, probably doesn't even have any dirty magazines under his bed like most boys." Naruto said thinking how funny his reaction would be to the naked form of Yoruichi.

"Well, he's still pretty young by our standards so it can only be expected, but I'm sure we'll get a good laugh out of it when it happens." said Yoruichi as the two heard the bell ring.

XBreakX

A little later Naruto had requested that Rukia be sent to his office for a quick check-up under the presumption of confirming her file. When she arrived Naruto was greeted by a chirpy Rukia "Good morning sensei I was told you wanted to see me?" she said as Naruto offered her a seat while petting Yoruichi in his lap.

"I did and you can drop the attitude, I can tell fake emotions a mile off Rukia Kuchiki." Naruto said as the girl sighed before her shoulders slumped slightly clearly seeing that the sensei was probably not like others around the school.

"Well then in that case what do you want?" she asked with a serious expression on her face seeing as Naruto's eyes didn't lie.

"Just confirming a suspicion or two that's all… your address of residence oddly enough is the same as Kurosaki Ichigo's you too old friends hooking up after years apart?" he asked straight faced by mentally smirking as did Yoruichi seeing the girls face go red.

"Wh-Wh-Wha-what are you asking, I just happen to be staying at his house is all, we barely know each other." she defended herself not expecting the blonde sensei to ask her such a thing.

"Oh I see you're just having a bit of fun with the young Ichigo, did he pop your cherry?" he then asked making the girl sputter a response only for him to then start chuckling. "Sorry I'm only joking Rukia-san, I just though seeing your expression would help get that serious look off your face and it did" he said as the girl puffed her cheeks in annoyance.

"I could complain to the other staff members for that you know?" she asked him only for him to smile not showing any signs of worry at her threat.

"You can try, but it won't stick with the level of skill I have for the position. Besides I'll say I was just joking anyway and not meaning to offend a young girl like yourself. Anyway back to the main subject is there anything about you I should know if you end up in here Rukia-san?" he asked still smirking at the girl.

Oddly Rukia was reminded of Kisuke looking at the blonde sensei but also was curious as to her feeling a reiatsu signature form him, plus the sword on his desk as well seemed odd to her considering it was an odd thing to carry round. "I have a permit for that." said Naruto catching her staring at his sword.

"Oh sorry just an odd thing for a doctor to carry round is all sensei, but no what my file says should be everything you need to know." She explained as he nodded making a small memo in his notebook for a later arrangement.

"Very well, you can go then Rukia-san… take care of Ichigo in the time being I'm sure you being here means new things for him after the truck crashed into his house last night. Make sure he knows what he's getting into." he said as she paused stepping out of the room turning back only to see him smirking at her, but also the cat as well had a smirk on its face.

"I-I'll remember to, until next time sensei." she said closing the door behind her as she headed back to class, having a lot of question in her head about the doctor of Karakura High.

"That was cruel… well done." said Yoruichi in Naruto's lap having enjoyed the small amount of teasing he did to the girl before she left. She probably couldn't have done better unless it was a guy she was teasing but Naruto was pretty good on his own.

"I do my best but I'll have a clone or two keeping an eye on the pair to make sure they don't get into any trouble for the time being, something about that boy… reminds me of myself to a degree." Naruto said looking out the window and opening his senses to see if any new hollows had appeared.

"What do you mean?" Yoruichi asked curiously.

"I mean that things are going to start happening with Ichigo at the centre of it all, and more importantly trouble is going to start following him. The world always seems to pick someone at the centre of it all, think about it." he said to the cat before he felt something in his senses, something was clearly trying to hide itself from others.

He creates a clone to sit at the desk and sped away before Yoruichi could ask anything and leaving her confused with the clone. "Wha-what's going one Naruto-kun?" the cat asked the clone who looked at her petting her head.

"Boss is going to check something out, don't worry Yoruichi-chan." he told her not really relieving her worries as she noticed his sword was gone too.

XBreakX

"Whoever you are come out now, there's no use hiding your reiatsu from me I can still sense you both." said Naruto now in a nearby park in Karakura. From out of the trees came two figures came out, one was a spiky blond haired woman, the other a lazy looking brunette man both wearing white coats only the woman's collar covering her face.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Naruto asked his right hand on his sword's handle feeling a powerful reiatsu from both of them but more so from the man, it somewhat reminded him of Shikamaru due to the face at the skill he no doubt possessed.

Both drew out their swords the woman's more like a broadsword but being hollow, the man's being a simple katana. "My name is Tia Harribel, he is Coyote Stark we have been sent by our leader to offer an invitation to join his group. He received information of you entering this town and grew curious at your power signature," said the now named Harribel as she took up a stance against Naruto, Stark just holding his sword up.

"May I know the name of your leader Harribel-san?" Naruto asked as he slowly drew his own sword his reiatsu climbing more as he drew the blade.

"Sorry he doesn't wish to reveal himself outside of direct contact. But he did say we could test you to see if you would fit in our group. Though to be honest I'd rather not right now, I can already feel that you are pretty strong. Any chance you can just fight her and not me?" Stark asked Naruto as he raised an eyebrow and looked to the woman who sighed before nodding.

"Just don't interrupt and I will do so, I have some honour left in me after the war." he said as his sword flashed and became an extra-long 150cm chokuto with a dark blue hilt. "Seeing as you introduced yourselves I shall do the same. I am Uzumaki Naruto, The Last Soldier!" he said placing his hand on the floor and creating a barrier around that would hide their battle from all others, no sense worrying Yoruichi or the new kid to something they couldn't handle, the kid at least Yoruichi should be fine.

"Which war did you survive?" Harribel asked curious as Naruto smirked taking a stance with the long blade so that it was parallel to the ground, the edge facing the sky and the flat facing his opponent, in this case Harribel.

"All of them." he said as he intensified his presence "I am an eternal jailor for a beast that none know of, forever lost in time. I have walked this world thrice over in my life and I'd rather not be stopped when I have only just moved. So… come at me." he said his eyes becoming sharper than Harribel had ever seen from another human, Shinigami or hollow.

"Very well then prepare." she speed forward hoping to catch him with her superior speed raising her blade and charging it with a yellow collared reiatsu.

"Harribel, STOP! Dodge that swing!" Stark yelled seeing Naruto undeterred and beginning his swing but he could tell there was more to his attack than a single swing. Hearing her partner Harribel made a motion to dodge with sonido only to find Naruto still in front of her as he swung down.

She was barely able to block the blow from the sword and even then it cleaved straight through the metal and reached her skin and scratched the surface but only that due to her hierro. However she then felt another attack cut straight into her side and this one much deeper than the one she had blocked. She was sent skidding across the floor and held her side as she instantly began channelling reiatsu to start her regeneration but it would be slow since regeneration was not her speciality.

"Damn… overstepped the move. Still I'm surprised you weren't cut in two by that most being don't live after I use my Hiken. Then again I might have overstepped on purpose. Is that a good thing or is it a bad thing… probably a good thing." said Naruto shaking the blood from his sword, getting a strange look from Stark and a shocked one from Harribel.

"That attack… there was one swing but two… two attacks… how?" asked Harribel as Stark had now gone over to her side to cover her, he'd rather not lose a comrade right now.

"I met a strange samurai at a point in my life… he created a technique to cut down swallows. Why I never asked but since a swallow changes the direction of their flight if they sense a change in the flow of air he made this move so he could limit their escape and cut them down. It was well worth learning at the time." said Naruto smiling at the memory of the samurai in question.

"That sword of yours… it's not the same as the one before it flashed, you sent it somewhere." said Stark looking intently at the blade readying his reiatsu for a sudden attack if necessary.

"Hoe… you noticed did you, impressive not many see that part to the sword" Naruto said as he held out his sword and at the tip of the blade there appeared a ripple in the air. Naruto held the blade as the ripple passed over the blade the ripple giving off small sparkles of light before it reached the hilt to which it returned to its original form. "My zanpaktou is a key to the true power of the blade; I mastered it so it looks as though it simply changes form. You're the first to actually see that in some time, not even neko-chan spotted it." Naruto said giving a small laugh as he sheathed his blade.

"Thanks… aren't you going to finish us off?" Stark asked as Naruto shook his head at him confusing the espada slightly at how the strong stranger was seemingly letting them go, not that he wanted to look a gift horse in the mouth at the moment, without Lilinette here he couldn't go full force with his powers.

"I would if you were stupid mindless beats like the other hollows but you two actually have common sense so no. although it's strange I was aware Shinigami could gain Hollow abilities, I was unaware that it worked the other way, peculiar I must admit." Naruto said never having come across hollows like them before; they lacked the bloodlust and rage they tended to have usually and as such deserved to not be treated like mindless beasts.

He walked over toward them taking out a medical pack from a seal and sent a silent message to Stark that showed he meant no harm to which he moved away from Harribel still holding her side in pain. Moving her hand away she hissed in pain until he placed a hand on her side and channelled medical chakra into it to help the cells mend themselves back together. He then used the disinfectant over the wound and wiped the excess blood from her side. It was rather lucky that her outfit let him have easy access to her side.

"Seems as though you may need a little more practise in your skills Harribel-san," Naruto chuckled as the woman sent a glare at his head which he was unaffected by. He merely smiled at her but unlike her leader, his smile wasn't fake instead it expelled feelings of warmth which was odd to feel as a hollow.

"My, apologises for getting blood on your clothes but these things happen. And I'm afraid I'll have to reject the invitation from your leader. If I'm right your leader is someone I could never trust and would throw your lives away on a whim, so I apologise for all the trouble." he told her standing but not before placing a small kiss on her forehead surprising Stark making his mouth open in shock.

"I make it my business to offer my enemies a chance if I think they deserve it. When you see the truth come and find me, you and any who are smart like you two are welcome to join me, and I hope we meet again under better terms next time my lady." He said stepping away from the dark skinned woman now very thankful her collar and mask hid her bluish after the blond had kissed her something she had never experienced before.

"We may not be able to accept but thanks for the offer Uzumaki, until next we meet." said Stark snapping his fingers making a black portal open behind them and helping Harribel to her feet.

"Why do you offer us this chance?" Harribel asked him before she stepped through the garganta.

"Because, I can. Life is full of choices and this is mine right now so farewell" he vanished in a swirl of leaves leaving the two espada behind.

"Aizen-sama won't be pleased about this. The guy wants nothing to do with him and is much stronger than both of us. This will not be nice… Lilinette's gonna hit me for this." Stark groaned walking through while Harribel's mind considered the offer for her and her Fracion.

XBreakX

When Naruto returned to the school and dispelled his clone as he entered his office Yoruichi was looking a little miffed on his desk her tail swishing back and forth and her eyes telling Naruto to spill all to her. "Yo Yoruichi-chan, nothing to worry about, just a couple of spirits that wanted to greet me is all. Although I may have to speak to Kisuke about them." Naruto muttered as the cat seemed to glare a little for not being given all the information from Naruto.

"And you can't tell me because?" her male sounding voice asked the blonde who set his sword down on the side before sitting back down on his chair and giving it a quick spin.

"You'll just have to be patient Yoruichi-chan, my info is important, too important to be spoken aloud if you catch my drift." Naruto's eye glanced out the window and spotting the signs of a small garganta in the air just as it fully closed. 'Was that an eye?'

"Oh… very well then, I'll wait then." The cat sat on his lap as he petted her head, it surprised her just how acute his senses were. It seemed strange that with her own natural animal senses adding to her spiritual one alongside her own experience as a Shinigami captain she seemed to pick up things slower than Naruto. She chocked it up to him having a little more experience on his part.

"Good, now let's see if anyone comes to us for a check-up…" Naruto muttered opening his door and looking along the corridor not seeing anyone but definitely heard giggling at both ends. "If you aren't injured or ill please get back to classes!" he shouted as he heard the scrambling of feet as the girls began running away from being caught trying to sneak into the office.

"Ahh youth… so full of hormones they'll stalk a man like a lion does its prey. And scary as hell in some instances." Naruto chuckled thinking of the conventions he'd been to entertain himself as he travelled. If America did anything great it was certainly its comic book conventions.

"Girls like to play, I know I do. Although some like to be stalked or even taken care of but those are rarer really. Plus a girl looking for someone to take care of her must have had a pretty bad life or is really cute, but that's just my preferences." The cat shrugged its shoulders and Naruto blinked for a moment.

"Knew it…" was all he said as he made a mental note over girls when around Yoruichi and that hot women she knew she was probably friendly with if not to a more intimate fashion.

XBreakX

After school had finished Naruto began walking Orihime home, "So what are you buying for tonight Orihime-chan?" Naruto asked the girl his hands behind his head still wearing his lab coat since it looked good and cool on him, Yoruichi had agreed and had decided to go visit Kisuke to check up on the man and possibly torture him by reading one of his confiscated books in front of him.

"Um onion, banana, beef and gelatine, that sound good?" she asked back to the blonde who smiled.

"Sound great Orihime-chan. I'm happy that we ended up being neighbours and good friends so fast. Plus with our cooking style we can guarantee yummy meals every day." The girl jumped up with joy.

"~Yay!~" she cheered hearing him "I'm happy your my friend too Naruto-kun. With you around it's not as lonely at home after school," she said smiling as the two began to cross the road. Unfortunately one driver thought he could run a red light and keep accelerating toward the crossroads even though only a couple people were crossing.

When Naruto heard the noise he looked up to see the speeding car and grabbed Orihime holding her to his chest and turning his back to the car who seeing Naruto there slammed on the breaks coming to a stop but not before knocking Naruto and Orihime over to the side, although the two seemed to be jerked by something, catching the attention of many around them, including Ichigo, Rukia and Tatsuki who had been catching up after cleaning the room.

"Naruto! Orihime!" Tatsuki shouted at the two seeing them roll across the ground. She ran over before seeing the car speed off "Hey jerk-off come back here and take your punishment for that!" she shouted as Naruto opened his arms and saw that Orihime was grasping at his shirt.

"Hey Orihime-chan, it's alright now, we're safe," he said getting to his feet with a slight groan in pain from his back and legs. "Although I'm going to need a couple drugs after this… good thing I have a prescription notebook." He chuckled as Tatsuki, Ichigo and Rukia came over.

"Hey are you two alright?" she asked concerned for her friends. Naruto was a decent guy and looked after Orihime without any perverseness on his part, plus he was now a shield against Orihime's concoctions. Still the two had been hit pretty hard by the car.

"That was a hard crash there, do you need to go to a hospital Naruto-sensei?" Ichigo questioned before he saw Naruto stretch his back out realigning his bones, not that anyone could see.

"Nah, I can diagnose myself well enough I just need to see to these bruises forming on my and Orihime's legs here…" he said gesturing to his leg and Orihime's while Rukia's eyes narrowed at them in thought.

'That doesn't look like a mark from the car… it's more like a hallow attack,' she thought mentally before turning to Orihime.

"Orihime-san, are you okay?" she asked as the girl nodded.

"Er yes, Naruto-kun covered me from the car, so I'm not injured. Thanks Naruto-kun." She said a little nervous for his actions.

"I'd do it for any of my friends." He smiled as Orihime put on her own as she should. A sad face didn't suit an upbeat girl like her at all. "Okay now, come on and let's head to the store, see you later Tatsuki!" Naruto waved as he led Orihime away and toward the store before looking to his leg for a brief moment.

'That hallow… its signature has a similar feel to Orihime-chan. I'll have to be careful tonight it seems.' Naruto thought.

The two of them made it home and got inside, Orihime went to the freezer to get an ice pack for Naruto so as to relieve the pain, which had pretty much healed already but he needed to make his acting believable.

"Will I get to fight?" His sword asked, as Naruto mentally smirked.

"You already had a nice fight today, don't be greedy now," he said as the spirit chuckled.

"I'd hardly call you flirting with that female hallow a battle, it was over in one move. And don't think I didn't notice the fact you purposely overstepped the move' she said in a slight scolding tone.

"Nothing gets by you. Fine I admit I didn't fight properly, but in my defence those two seemed nice. Their aura weren't like most hollows or typically bad people. They were more like Haku, following someone who gave them some sort of peace." Naruto's memories of the girl sprung to mind and how similar the girl and the man's eyes were. The only difference was that Aizen was nothing like Zabuza.

"You and your soft heart… well I guess it wouldn't be you if you weren't like that." His spirit chuckled before the chuuging of a large bottle could be heard. "That presence from earlier will come after you know?"

"Yes I know, but that boy Ichigo… he's a Shinigami now so I'll let him deal with it. All I will do is protect Orihime-chan from what I believe is after her." Naruto replied back.

"Letting the boy grow then, fair enough I suppose."

"Plus if I'm right the hollow that helped push us when we nearly got run over is connected to Orihime. Ichigo will need to have the will to do what's right."

XBreakX

Later that night when Naruto, Tatsuki and Orihime were eating the hollow ended up attacking them. Naruto didn't use his sword as he felt Ichigo's spirit nearby and didn't want to reveal his powers too soon so played posom. He was worried for Orihime but when he saw that it was her brother that had now become a hollow he knew he couldn't help as it was now an issue for his friend and Ichigo.

The orange haired boy managed to fight off the hollow despite its relation to Orihime and eventually convinced her brother Sora to kill itself with the zanpaktou.

Orihime had been forced to forget the incident but Naruto could tell she had changed from the incident she now didn't look at her brother's shine with a smile of regret.

After that Naruto was contacted by Kisuke and he told where to find Shinji and his friends so creating a clone one morning and sending it off to work he followed the directions to the warehouse with snacks and such in hand.

"Yo, I was told where to find Shinji and his rag-tag friends!" Naruto shouted as he noticed a powerful field around the warehouse. A small patch opened by the door letting him head inside. Once he did though he found himself dodging a sandle aimed at his head.

"Oi who you calling a rag tag you dumb blonde?" a young voice called out sounding quite annoyed. Looking Naruto saw a short blode girl with pigtails, freckles and a sharp tooth sticking out of her top lip. Her katana was straped across her back and her face was also annoyed by the looks of it, she seemed to be trying to set his head on fire with her eyes.

"Aren't you blonde too… where's Shinji?" Naruto asked with a tilt of his head.

"Up here Naruto!" the toothy grinning man smiled from a small perch "I see you met the midget." Shinji then was subject to the sandle hitting him in the face. "OWW Hiyori what do you think you're doing you monkey!"

"Shut up you idiot, who is this fucker who you got Hachi to let in?" as she asked the question Lisa flashed next to Naruto and grasped his hands.

"Ah Naruto-kun you're here thank goodness I wanted to ask you something." Lisa said with her usual face but with an added smirk and somehow sparkling eyes as she gazed at him… the look of a fan of Icha, Icha.

"And what might that be Lisa-chan?" her answer was to grab his head unbutton a couple of her shirt and shove his head in her cleavage.

"Can we do the scene from chapter 35?" she asked sweetly as Naruto enjoyed the small comforts of being a writer.

"Hey stop smoothing him with your tits I want to beat his ass!" Hiyori shouted as Lisa patted his head.

"At least I have tits and no I have the author of Icha, Icha in my arms and I'll be damned if I don't see if he has the skills to back up his writing, come with me Naruto-kun." She said with a straight face letting him go she dragged the grinning Naruto only to be blocked by Rose and Love who held their books out to Naruto.

"We are not worthy, sign or books Naruto-sama." the two said in unison and Naruto's hand worked on auto pilot as he signed both books making the two vizard high fived in success.

"This whole thing is embarrassing." Muttered the white haired member of the vizard named Kensei while standing next to him was the green haired Mashiro. The books aren't that good."

"Says someone who can't see the beauty of Naruto-sama's writing. Lisa, please inform us if he has the bite to back up the bark." Love called as Lisa gave him a thumbs up in agreement.

"Is Lisa gonna make whoopee with Foxy-kun?" Mashiro asked referring to how Naruto's features gave him a slight fox appearance.

"She's trying to but I doubt Hiyori's gonna let her." True to Kensei's word Naruto had to get out of Lisa's grip and jump to the side to avoid the slash from the blonde Midget named Hiyori.

"Hey easy there, what did I do to deserve this kind of treatment?" Naruto asked unsheathing his own sword just in case; he never liked the rage filled eyes on a woman, especially ill-tempered one.

"Because you barge in here and in less than a minute get Lisa trying to bag and tag your ass. You haven't even told us why you came and I'll feeling frustrated so the new guys gets to be my stress reliever." She said charging forward to which Naruto blocked her overhead strike with one hand on his sword.

Naruto turned to Love and Rose "Is she always like this?" the both nodded while hugging their books and Lisa bringing out hers, seeing how she wasn't getting her nookie for a couple minutes now.

"Like what?"

"Scrappy" Was the word that came out of Naruto's mouth as he pushed back and flicked his wrist so that Hiyori skid back across the floor.

S-Scrappy… I am not scrappy. I am pissed, very pissed now. God your almost as bad as that lazy ass shop keeper." Let it be known that Hiyori had issues with her former captain and people who could keep their cool while she couldn't.

"Well I can see that, geez what did Kisuke ever… never mind I don't wanna know. Still I did come here for training so." His sword flashed and shifted into a long sword with a cross shaped guard and the blade looking incredibly sharp.

"Come and get some." He gestured with his free hand making the girl rush forward and go for a swipe going from bellow. Naruto blocked and forced the blade to the side before kicking Hiyori in the stomach.

"Shut up!" charging again Hiyori was blocked with ease. "God damn it stop blocking and fight!" Naruto just tilted his head in confusion.

"I am, just not taking an angry opponent seriously. If I do it ends and take care of your sword before it gets another cut." Naruto told her making her stop and look at her zanpaktou and seeing a small cut where Naruto had blocked her strike.

"What the hell, how did you do that?" she shouted moving her hand to her face. "You know what never mind I'm gonna make you fight properly or at least have the satisfaction of kicking your ass!" pulling her hand down forming a white mask that had a horn and sharp teeth.

"Oh so that's the mask you can pull… suits you." Naruto said jumping to avoid a cero blast from the girl. "Um Shinji is there a better place to fight the girl when she's like this?" he asked deflecting another blast using both hands on his sword cutting the beam in two down the middle, enjoying the shocked expressions.

The large pink haired man snapped his fingers creating a barrier around Naruto and Hiyori and making an opening in the floor that Naruto figured was the answer for the room problem so shot down it with Hiyori on his tail. Once down he found an area similar to the one under Kisuke's house.

"Hmm… he really does good work." Naruto mused as Hiyori held her sword out in front of her.

"Don't ignore me you idiot! Buttegire, Kubikiri Orochi!" she declared as her zanpaktou released shifting her blade into a large cleaver like blade with notches down the blade portion.

Naruto caught the blade between the notches "Hmm, better this form lets you strengthen your reiatsu better but your personality conflicts with the blade if the tsuba is any indication. You should talk with her more." Naruto said much like a teacher instructing his wayward student seeing the more feminine qualities of the blade.

"Oh and one more thing, when your good enough." Naruto closed his eyes as his whisker marks widened and seemed to add red colour under each. Opening his eyes revealed black sclera with golden eyes. "You don't need the mask anymore. Hado 1: Sho" pointing his finger he released a powerful thrust against Hiyori back and slamming into a nearby stone wall. She quickly got out and rushed back to clash with Naruto trading blows with each other, Hiyori unsuccessfully being able to push him back at all when they crossed swords.

By now everyone had followed the two down the stairs and felt the shift in pressure from Naruto and noticed his eyes. "He can hollowfy, without a mask?" Questioned Rose surprised by this news.

"First I heard of it I mean is this guy a broken character or something?" Shinji asked aloud. "And he hasn't even called out the name of his zanpaktou, yet it's changed which means he probably has bankai. What's next breathing fire."

As if kami was fucking with Shinji, Naruto opened his mouth to breath put black flames at Hiyori. She released a cero to defend and sustained the blast and made a fire go around her instead of directly on her. "He's not taking her seriously, is he?" Rose asked allowed and Love nodded as did Kensei.

"No, the expression on his face doesn't show distress at all. He's not worried one bit by the looks of it and he might even be trying to teach Hiyori a lesson." Kensei mused getting a nod from Love who adjusted his shades.

"I know, he could have finished this in two or three moves. Maybe one now that he hollowfied as well… wonder how he does it." Love questioned as they got comfortable on the surrounding rocks, aside from Hachi who was in charge of the barrier.

Hiyori let out a breath at the heavy amount of reiatsu she'd needed to divert the black flames. It seemed they had properties similar to cero but it was more fluid that what she and the others fired. She'd compare it to some of Rose's techniques. "Hmm not bad, but lacking in finesse. Then again that describes you quite well." Naruto's hollowfied voice came out with a throaty chuckle before he shifted his blade into a wooden kendo sword that had no guard on it. The second he did he swung catching Hiyori at her torso knocking the breath out her lungs, she never even saw it coming when she used shunpo.

"If this were still a blade you'd be missing your legs. Learn to control your rage gaki otherwise you're better off dead." Lifting his leg at a nighty degree angle Naruto slammed it down on Hiyori's back making a huge crater in the ground from the strength he used. He knew she could take it but he made sure it hurt due to how she needed to learn. One look in her eyes told him how she would fight and if what Shinji, Kisuke and Tessai had told him was right she'd have died fighting Aizen by him playing on her emotions.

When the dust cloud cleared from the kick Hachi lowered the barrier feeling that Hiyori was done and her mask dissipated. He moved to the crater where Naruto stood sheathing his sword in its sealed state "She has cracked ribs with a couple puncturing her lung, multiple fractors on her leg bones and damaged spine, do you need to heal her or should i?" Naruto asked holding up his hand as it glowed with medical chakra.

"I can deal with it but thank you for offering, and thank you for going easy on her." Hachi bowed his head as he made the small orange barrier to begin healing the now unconscious Hiyori.

"I was like her once, with someone like Aizen around it's better to make her learn the consequence of fighting without controlling her emotions. Plus my sword wanted another fight for the day." Naruto said getting out of the crater and patting down his doctors coat from the dirt.

As he walked back other to the others he released his hollow transformation. "So what do you think?" he asked as the white haired Kensei came ver.

"Good fight, I'd like to put myself against you at some point, it'll be nice to face a new opponent after 100 years. I'm Kensei Magamura." Naruto shook the hand that was offered to him.

"Pleasure I can tell you. My zanpaktou will enjoy going against yours its wind isn't it?" he asked getting a nod.

"Yes, but how can you tell?" Naruto pointed to his ears.

"Good listener, get to my age and you can hear things you don't expect to. Then again I doubt many humans reach past 2000 and gain access to something most do when they die." Naruto mused with the tilt of his head at the group and watched as the green haired one in the white jumpsuit came over and stared at Naruto.

He swore he heard the 'Jiiii' noise from her before she reached and stroked his whisker marks with her hand making a shiver go up his spine. "Hey don't touch, I'm ticklish." He said pushing her hand away lightly.

"Awww but they look cute. I'm Mashiro by the way Foxy-kun" she giggled as she tried reaching for his cheeks only to be batted away.

"No they're sensitive and only certain people get to touch." He told her as she puffed up her cheeks at being denied her whisker petting.

"Fine." She huffed sitting down on her ass as if in protest.

"Ignore her, she doesn't grow up." Kensei advised remembering the days she was his lieutenant, it was a migraine waiting to happen.

"I see… well then, lunch anyone?" he asked getting nods making him unseal a scroll full of food for the group.

"Ohhh good spread, you should come round more often." Shinji commented seeing the roast chicken next to the fajita wraps and salsa.

"Well I do need to get up to speed with hollow techniques I suppose. The black flame is the best I can do so far as I don't have any teachers and the whole situation was only explained some time ago." He said taking one of the bowls of ramen for himself.

"To be honest we don't know too much about hollow abilities, best we do is cero and amplify some of our techniques from our zanpaktou." Naruto's shoulder slumped.

"Well that sucks doesn't it? Oh well training with Neko-chan will have to do plus learning kido is pretty fun. Wonder what would happen if I combined with jutsu… file that later for experimenting." Naruto muttered to himself as he felt something soft on his back. "Hey Lisa-chan."

"I still want to practise that chapter but for now I'll wait and see about getting what I need for a couple others. Hmm you brought ramen… and it's still hot?" she questioned smelling the broth.

"I have seals which keep things suspended in the state I store them, it's great when travelling or planning tactics as I have a technique which is perfect." He told her slurping up some more noodles but with her snagging the ends and attempting some Lady and the tramp action with Naruto.

He bit his noodles and gave Lisa a small smile and wink as he denied her his lips… teasing could be so much fun with beautiful women, gave them the view from the other side.

XBreakX

Around the same time in Seireitei the members of squad twelve research and development department were still reviewing the strange power signatures that they had picked up in Karakura town a few days ago. The 3rd seat Akon had been overseeing the data collection and review but was a little frustrated by the fluctuating signature they had a sample of.

The lieutenant Nemu Kurotsuchi came behind the man and tapped him on the shoulder. "Mayuri-sama wishes to know what information you can offer from the spirit signatures." She told him with her blank face and gentle tone.

"Sigh… the first one appears to be a strong hollow signature ranging from a 3rd seat to low captain level, but the twin signatures didn't seem to be fighting, merely scouting if I am guessing right. The second signature… it's a Plus but the conflicting energies in its signature don't make any sense." he brought up the file on the screen showing the outline with four different graphs showing th different powers.

"These four act together at the same time, one is Shinigami level but a conclusive reading couldn't be obtained in time. But the flash registered at lieutenant level but for an instant so it could be wrong. In my honest opinion this is either an anomaly on the readings due to recent activity or… something R&D has never encountered before." he transferred the data to a portable memory device and handed it to Nemu. "Please give, my apologise to Taicho, for my lack of significant data."

Nemu took the device and placed it inside her Shinigami robes and nodded her head. "I will do so." She left and headed immediately to her father/creator's office and headed inside and bowed low. "Mayuri-sama 3rd seat Akon has given his finding on this." she handed him the device and he inserted in into his main monitor and brought the data on screen."

The creepy looking scientist of squad 12 looked over the data with a growing grin. "Hmmm, interesting I'll need to cross reference some of this to see if there is anything in the records for a power signature like this and maybe if such a person can be created." He looked to his creation holding his hands up "Imagine the possibilities of having soldiers with integrated powers, the implications…" the man started typing away on his keyboard to try and extraporlate information from the data.

Nemu though having not being told not to say anything repeated the information regarding the spirit signatures at the lieutenants meetings which of course got attention from a number of the captains which lead to sotaicho Yamamoto calling the captains together for a meeting.

When all 13 captains were called together Yamamoto slammed his cane against the floor drawing everyone's attention. "I have this meeting together due to a recent discovery from Kurotsuchi-taicho, speak now to the other captains." He ordered in his wise but tough voice.

"I'd prefer if I had been allowed to study the data for more time. But it seems my lieutenant couldn't keep her mouth shut, stupid girl. Regardless rather recently our scanners looking over Shinigami Rukia Kuchki current assigned town, Karakura Town we picked up strange energy readings. There were three signatures two of which had both Shinigami and hollow powers which could be a result of the betrayer Kisuke Urahara." Some of the captains frowned remembering the nice captain who had been accused and convicted of crimes against the seireitei. It went unnoticed the tiny twitch of the lip that came upon the glasses wearing captain, Aizen Sosuke.

"Anyway the second signature which is more important, the second had hollow, Shinigami, Quincy and a unknown energy source inside him, all mixing and in harmony with each other. It should also be noted that this signature is a Plus and on a flash reading was at lieutenant level reiatsu." There were a couple gasps across the room hearing an impossibility as human that was alive having access to the powers of three factions as well and a unknown one.

"Is this human to be a perceived threat?" asked the young captain of squad ten Toshiro Hitsugaiya. His small stature certainly stood out at the captain meeting but he was a captain nonetheless, he only wished his lieutenant could be as serious as him.

"I have no way of knowing of such a thing therefore I request to send someone to gather information at a closer range. I'd suggest sending a lieutenant due to the initial reading and offer my own if Sotaicho allows it." the painted faced captain offered with others considering their options.

"Sotaicho, I argue sending Kurotsuchi-fuktaicho. She may be influenced by her captain to capture the unknown person who we know nothing about and may not be a threat." Said the captain of squad five Aizen, a member of the squad 12 would not do well in Karakura with his plans.

"You know… I second that. Don't want this guy or gal to be running after we try and crack him open…" Said the fix faced captain Gin Ichimaru.

"Hmmm perhaps my lieutanent could be sent out as whatever this signature belongs to may be just a wandering soul that has been altered." The soft voice of Unohana Retsu, captain of squad 4 spoke out.

"Unohana may be right, but to go alone may nto be best, Nanoa-chan could go with her." This suggestion came from the bearded captain wearing a pink kimono over his robes, Shunsui Kyoraku, captain of squad 8. His suggestion may have an alterier motive as he wanted to relax in his office without constant nagging or confiscation of sake.

Each captain gave their input on their lieutenants except squad 11 due to obvious reasons and eventually Yamamoto heard enough and slammed his cane down. "Enough, I have made my decision… for this mission to the human world to investigate this possible new being I will send the lieutenant of squad 10 Rangiku Matsumoto. Hitsugaiya-Taicho, you will inform her the parameters of her mission before she leaves to investigate the matter, is that understood?"

Yes Sotaicho-sama, I will do as ordered and send her as quickly as I can." The young captain replied both a little happy at his temporary reprieve from his lieutenant and also worrying that she may act as her usual self and forget her mission once on earth.

Meanwhile in the squad 10 barracks, a busty blond lying on the couch in the captaisn office sneezed and also felt a shudder. "Hmmm… I feel like something good will be happening soon. Yeah for me, wait why is there a draft?" looking down she found her generous chest had fallen out of her robes at some point. "Not again."

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