here is the third chapter. I was on a holiday, and i know i took a lot, lot, lot time, but it's finally here. So enjoy!
DISCLAIMER : i do not own Naruto, nor Bleach.
"Aito wasn't here today as well." said Mao "The master was really angry today and will be even more if he is not there next time as well."
"Old man said that he had very important work." Said Sachyo
"He doesn't have any work." Said Maruko "he just doesn't like the things we do so he avoids the meetings."
"And you don't need to be so fond of him, Sachyo" said Chiyo "he plays you around." Sachyo wanted to argue because he knew that Aito was not that kind of man but he kept quiet as he was afraid of the outcome of his speaking.
"Whatever, I'll just have to inform him of the risk of 'he´ coming out if he doesn't come next time."
"You're right." said Mao "let's proceed to our next target. Which place is it this time?"
"We're targeting the most important one," replied Maruko "the Karakura town"
The hollow screeched in pain and vanished as the orange-haired shinigami cleansed it. "You guys just keep on coming." He said as his substitute shinigami badge started ringing on detecting another hollow nearby. He fled to that place, but saw it getting cleansed before he could reach it.
A raven haired shinigami set foot on the ground and looked up at Ichigo.
"You are supposed to be cleansing hollows but now I see that you're slacking off at your work." She scolded him.
"What are you doing here?" asked Ichigo regaining his usual expression. "Weren't you supposed to be back in soul society?"
"I was sent here to inform you." Rukia replied, and didn't bother to continue explanation even though Ichigo gave her a confused expression.
"Inform me about what?" asked Ichigo and she continued.
"As you may have noticed, there has been a sudden increase in the number of hollows." Ichigo nodded and Rukia continued. "So, the soul society has asked help from humans who call themselves 'ninjas' to cleanse the hollows till their number decreases."
"And?" asked Ichigo as he could see nothing that was concerned to him in the explanation.
"And so the soul society thought that you should be informed as they think they might need your help anytime." She turned away from him "though I think it would be better if you don't help." She smirked.
There was another hollow signal and the hollow informer now started screeching as it had never before.
"What's-?" Ichigo was interrupted as they felt a sharp crack in the sky and vast energy from within it. "Could this be-?"
"What is the needed amount?" asked Maruko simply and Seigo replied "the population's high so we'll need about one whole group of summoned hollows and tell Sachyo to create 3 specialized ones for now."
"You heard him, Sachyo" Maruko commanded and the boy nodded earnestly. They had come to the mid world where a whole lot of negative energy was available and so he wouldn't have any problem in summoning hollows, but he'd still get tired to create 3.
"Hurry up!" shouted Chiyo "you know the door to the living world is already open."
"Okay." Said Sachyo and started.
"Sir, there are reports of intense amount of spiritual pressure and sudden attack of a group of hollows from the Karakura town." reported Ukitake. "The reports are from Kuchiki Rukia from my squad."
"Please explain the ninja briefly of what they have to do and send them to the living world." ordered the captain-commander.
"But they are unaware-" started Ukitake but was interrupted. "This is merely a test for them." Captain-commander said and Ukitake nodded.
Elsewhere, the lieutenants had decided to visit their guests and so were all over their house, looking more like they had come out of their curiosity.
Naruto entered the room he found better suited to himself.
"Naruto!" shouted Ino as she entered the room after him, closely followed by tenten "get out! This is the girls' room." Then she noticed that the presence of two other people in the room who seemed hurried after they saw the three of them came. One was the lieutenant of 9th squad as far as they could remember.
"He's so cool." Tenten thought "exactly my type!" she decided. The other was lieutenant of 3th squad.
"We're sorry." said Hisagi at once. "We didn't know this was the girl's room." Tenten was going to say that it was okay but Ino spoke up first.
"Okay, no problem" and looked at Naruto who had now gone and settled in one of the beds. "He looks like he has no intension of going" Ino said and tenten walked up to Naruto just before Hinata entered the room and Hisagi and Kira decided to leave even though they wanted to wait and see what happens to Naruto .
Outside, the scene was even more humorous. Renji was sitting on the sofa as though it was his own, eating the chips he had seen on the table. Ikkaku was checking out a bottle he saw in one of the bags. "What is this?" he thought as Shika spotted Renji.
"Don't," he told him. "Or Chouji won't forget this." But Renji didn't think it was that important and continued. "Your choice" Shika said, and went over to where Neji and Yumichika were. They didn't seem to be in a good mood.
"You sure are an eligible leader, a little good-looking and all but," Yumichika was saying "definitely no comparison to me!" he added proudly. Neji sure was pissed off but straightened up saying, "I don't care about looks, its ability that matters."
"Hey, don't touch that." Said Sakura noticing Ikkaku, but it was too late. The ink inside all came pouring down and formed natural ropes, as Ikkaku jumped to his feet shouting, "Snakes appeared!"
"Hey, where is Naruto?" lee was looking for Naruto desperately. "He had promised me to train with me later."
"I never said that!" said Naruto as he was thrown out of the room, arriving together with Hisagi and Kira. "Oh, I thought that you'd come out if I challenge you."
"Hey, has anyone seen Neji?" asked Tenten as she followed Naruto outside.
"He was here just a second ago." said Sai "I don't know where he disappeared to. And why do I see my ink lying all over the room?" he said with a sweet smile that made Ikkaku sure that he was pissed.
"Everyone!" they heard Neji's voice and turned to see him enter the room closely followed by the 8th squad lieutenant, Nanao. "There's a call from the society saying we have to go to the living world. There was a sudden appearance of a group of hollows and we will be told how to defeat them on our way. So hurry up."
Tenten commented, "Don't talk as if you are dead, mentioning the 'living world' " and Lee said "Finally, A real challenge." "Why so quickly…?"Shika thought as Neji spoke up once more "lee, Hinata, go and call Kiba and Shino back. Be near the gate in 2 minutes. "Roger!" said Lee and Hinata together and departed, the others as well as Neji followed Nanao.
All the ninjas were assembled in front of the gates in a couple of minutes. Ukitake, Kyoraku and Nanao were also present with a couple of lower rank Shinigami from the 13th squad. "You have to destroy the hollows in a way that they seem to be dead and vanish." Explained Ukitake and them added, "That's all the information I was allowed to give you."
"Thank you for your help." Said Neji and turned to face the door. "We'll be leaving then."
"This is your first time so I was told not to pass you through the precipice world. So I have arranged you to enter through the way the hell butterfly create."
"Thank you for your co-operation." Neji replied. "So now…"
The door opened before their eyes and the 6 people entered. "Sachyo." Called Maruko as the boy came in front and commanded the dark energy he felt to move forward.
"Good thing you came in time, Aito." Said Mao "we had been given orders not to go to the living world with even a single member missing."
"I know." Aito said simply.
A group of hollows that Sachyo had summoned moved forward and spread throughout the city. The three he had created remained beside him though. "Order them when the time comes." Seigo told him.
In the other part of the town, Ichigo and Rukia felt the sky tear and knew that a Garganta had been opened somewhere. The hollow-signal went crazy as the two shinigami felt a sudden increase in negative spiritual pressure.
"Are they coming in through the Garganta?" Rukia remarked.
"I don't think so." replied Ichigo and dashed towards the area where he sensed dense spiritual pressure. There was another shockwave and as Ichigo faced a hollow, he saw another door open above him. But this time it was the door from the Soul Society. Out came a number of people he had never seen before and nor were they Shinigami, Ichigo could not see any black Kimonos.
"Maybe they're-" Rukia started but stopped with the heaped landing of then ninjas.
"Is this that hollow thing that old man was talking about?" asked a fat guy. "Yes, there seem to be no other possible enemies." replied a sharp haired guy with thin eyes. His hairstyle resembled that of Renji's thought Ichigo.
"Who're you?" asked Ichigo. There were 11 of them. They all stood up and turned to face the one who questioned, so that everyone was in clear view.
"We're…" they said "ninjas."
"We're here to help" said Neji. "So please step aside and let us do the fighting for now."
"Let them be, Ichigo." Said Rukia before Ichigo could say anything. "They probably haven't been told anything in order to test them. Let's not interfere and step aside." Ichigo didn't say anything but did as she said. Neji nodded and looked in front, now concentrating on his opponent.
"Why do I think we have someone missing?" said Ino, pissed off and Sakura realized her missing teammate. "NARUTO!"
There he was, standing proudly on the top of the hollow. "Come back down here, quick!" called tenten but all he did was grin in reply.
"Is he a fool?" pressed Rukia but didn't take any action.
"What are you up to now?" said Neji as he could tell that Naruto had no intension of coming down. Meanwhile, Shika had started his train of thoughts and didn't say anything.
"Just wait and see what I have planned for this time." Naruto said.
"You didn't even know about anything about this not long ago." Kiba remarked.
Ignoring what the others had said, Naruto took out a shuriken and began concentrating all his chakra into the tip of the weapon. All he needed was a sharp wind chakra and this unknown enemy would be defeated. But before he could do anything, the hollow attacked the opponents in front of him and Naruto almost lost his balance, but he managed to hit the hollow's chest, just beside its hole.
"Hey, this monster has a hole in his heart!" he shouted surprised as what he said caught the others attention as well. Anyway, there was no time to think about it, as the hollow, hardly affected by Naruto's attack, caught the falling Naruto by the leg and raised a hand to punch him.
Sakura stepped in the battle now, running forward. She gathered her chakra in her fist and exploded it as she punched. This created an impact big enough to throw the hollow off its feet and Naruto got off.
"Thanks, Sakura-chan." He said and he landed beside just said"You never listen."
Tenten ran forward and took out the windmill shuriken. She threw it at the hollow and cut off its arm. The hollow screeched out in pain. Neji looked at Shika to see if he was prepared yet. He had been thinking for a while, observing the hollow.
"What I don't understand is the hole in the chest!" Shika thought.
They felt a very heavy spiritual pressure behind their backs. The ninjas turned to see their new company. It was a boy dressed in white, holding a spiritual bow. Neji immediately turned his eyes into byakugan to look deeper into this guy's spirit. Ishida noticed the observing eyes on him and looked at the group in front of him. But he didn't say anything, and was just about to shoot his arrow when a hand blocked his path.
Shika put his hand in front of the pointing arrow and said, "Please let us complete our mission." He looked at Neji and told him.
"I've figured out the hollow's weakness." Ishida lowered his bow and Ichigo and Rukia listened carefully. "All our attacks are pointed toward either its brain or heart. As Naruto said before, he had a hole in place of heart and so the only target becomes its head. And though it's normal to defend the head, the hollow keeps on sacrificing his other body parts in order to protect the front side of his head."Neji nodded, he had thought of this too.
"That means," Shika continued "its mask!"
"Got it." said Neji but before he could do anything, Naruto ran forward
. "All I have to do is blast off his mask right?" he asked looking back.
"That Naruto" Neji sighed.
"You're right." Shika replied. Naruto created a shadow clone and put out his right hand. The clone created a rasengan in his hands and burst out. Naruto jumped up, before the hollow, so that he was right in front of his face.
"Rasengan!" he shouted as the attack hit the hollow straight on its mask. The hollow started dissolving in the air as Naruto landed on the ground and grinned broadly,
"I did it!"
A/N: so guys, this was the third chapter, the fourth will be coming soon... so please review and let me know about your opinions! :)
