Hey, here is the fourth chapter! I know it took a lot of time, but my exams are going on so...pls excuse me!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Bleach or Naruto

do i seriously have to write this before every chapter?


Naruto landed on the ground and grinned broadly, "I did it!"

"Not you idiot, we did it" corrected Sakura and Naruto smiled. "Okay," Shika turned to Ichigo and Rukia who had now been joined by Ishida. "what was that hole in his chest?" he came straight to the point.

"When a hollow's heart is carves out by the hole in their chests, the lost heart becomes it's mask." Rukia explained shortly and Shika nodded in understanding.

"Who carves out its heart?" asked Chouji puzzled.

"It…uh….gets carved out by itself when a soul becomes a hollow." Rukia replied but before anyone could say anything more, Ichigo's substitute soul reaper badge began to scream.

"Hey, your phone is ringing." Lee thought necessary to Inform Ichigo.

"There are more." Ichigo said ignoring Lee's comment. "Spread all over the town."

"Let's split up." Neji said without wasting a moment. "Ignoring them for long may put the lives of people in danger."

The ninja nodded and so did the Shinigami, confused but agreeing.

"I'll be going south." Ishida said at once.

"There are many of us so I'll send some to accompany you." Neji confirmed and Ishida left after nodding.

"I'll go check Yuzu and Karin." Ichigo said and Rukia nodded as he too, took off.

Rukia turned to the ninja and Shino spoke up "Why did he go to those two?"

"His sisters have a High spiritual pressure," Rukia explained, expecting them to understand that Yuzu and Karin were his 'sisters', which most did. "And Hollows are generally attracted to high pressure, so that area will-"

"Be most supposedly attacked." Shika completed and looked at Neji questioningly who nodded. "Ino, come with me." He said looking at his teammate who immediately started towards him while Neji Looked at Shino and Lee.

"Okay, got it." said Lee as he and Shino joined the team. "I'm going too." Naruto stated, without leaving any scope of disagreement. Team Shika departed as well, and now Neji divided the rest into two groups.

"Sakura, Chouji, Kiba and Hinata follow the glasses-guy south." Neji told them and they all left at once while Rukia chuckled at Ishida's commonly-used-pet-name. "We should go too." Neji said looking at his team, which consisted of Tenten, Sai and Rukia. And they left as well.


"The energy is coming rapidly." Said Maruko as the team was in the living world, gathering energy from the hollows they had sent.

"More hollows are being formed rapidly, and energy consumption has increased." Sachyo informed, as he could sense the happenings in the town. But he did not inform them about the other happenings that he noticed. "Whatever happens now, it will be for the best" he remembered Aito saying. 'maybe this is what he meant by whatever' he thought.

"Good going, at this rate, Master's plan will be accomplished." Mao said and laughed. "All the power will be ours!"

"I'm not actually sure that the master will actually give us anything once he attains the power." Chiyo said bitterly

"I've already told you not to speak about our master this way." Maruko scolded her while Chiyo simply frowned. She knew that none of them really liked or believed in the Master, they were just afraid.

"Whatever, just get it over with quickly." Seigo said, and everyone followed, by concentrating on the Karakura town. They had to get the hollows to eat as much souls as possible. They needed that Energy to satisfy their master's plan. And they didn't have enough time.

"If we don't finish this in time, "Seigo continued, "He might awaken.


"Hey, can you smell him?" Sakura asked Kiba as they followed the direction Ishida had taken.

"Not yet.' Kiba replied, sniffing intensely.

"Byakugan!"Hinata said as her eyes turned to byakugan, and she could see up ahead. "I can see two hollows on the right and more where we are headed." She told them.

"Let's split up," Sakura said and the rest nodded.

"I and Hinata will go right and you follow the spirit-user." Kiba said as he received a nod from Sakura and Chouji and left with Hinata. Before leaving, Kiba added "he's up ahead, I can smell him now."

"Looks like he has stopped to fight hollows on the way." Chouji said after they had given Kiba a nod and the other two had disappeared.

"Then we'll have to give him a hand." Sakura replied.


Ichigo reached his home to find Yuzu. She couldn't see him so there was no point in asking about his father and Karin.

'Dad will be safe.' He thought to himself making Karin his top priority. He left off to her football field where she usually hung out.


"I'll look after that one, you fight these." Rukia told as they were confronted by a group of hollows and one just attacked them.

"Okay" Sai simply said and took out his beast scroll.

"Super beast imitation drawing!" he said as he drew tigers on his scroll and immediately ink tigers jumped out. They attacked one of the hollows and it began to screech in pain. Then he ran forward while taking out some shuriken and then jumped up in the air and cleanly cut the hollow's mask.

Meanwhile, Rukia had finished off her hollow and now looked at how quickly the ninja had adapted to the fighting style.

"And they do amazing techniques" she thought. Next up was Tenten who had no problem in fighting her opponent hollow as well. She took out a scroll and threw it high up in the sly. Then she disappeared and appeared in the sky, at a place till where the scroll had opened. She put her hand on the scroll and a weapon appeared.

She shot it towards the hollow but her hollow was smart, he dodged it and turned to grin at Tenten.

Just when Rukia was starting to gain interest in the match, she was disturbed by a swift movement behind her back and turned to see Sai pushing the hollow's hand away.

"I don't think we have enough time to see each other." He said clearly pointing towards the other hollows present there.

"Thank you." Rukia said and cut off the mask of the hollow that had attacked her. Sai nodded and left to fight another one.


"Hey, when are we going to reach?" Naruto asked, bored. They were running along the streets of the Karakira town, which were thankfully deserted.

"Let's split up.' Lee stated. Shika was shocked but Naruto seemed to be agreeing. "Then I'll go this way." Shino said pointing to his left, as they could see some hollows there. Shika nodded and Naruto and Lee joined Shino.

"I hope the people are safe." Shika sighed.


"Karin!" Ichigo shouted but it was no use. He couldn't see her anywhere and she wasn't even repling. "Where did she go?" he thought to himself.

"Kurosaki-kun?" a soft voice was heard and Ichigo turned to see Orihime coming his way.

"Inoue." He said

"Are you looking for someone?" she asked pointing to his hands which were on his mouth a few moments ago. "Should I help?

"No, you just go back to apartment." He said worried that she might get attacked. She smiled at his worry and was going to turn back to return when she saw something behind him.

"Kurosaki-kun!" she shouted as he turned to see a hollow so close that it might almost be above him. He took Orihime and quickly ran. "It came so fast that I remember seeing it at a distance before I called out to you." Orihime told him and he understood why he hadn't sensed it. He kept her down and barely had time to turn when the hollow was there again.

"What's wrong with you?" Ichigo muttered as he raised his sword and was about to hit the mask when the hollow disappeared. Ichigo landed safely on the ground to see Orihime's back toward himself with her shield out.

"What? Did anything happen?" he asked but he didn't reply. She didn't want to tell him that the hollow had attacked, but he saw her arm bleeding and understood.


"Are you done?" asked Kiba as he and Akamaru finished off a hollow and turned to see Hinata.

"Almost done." She said "eight trigrams, 32 palms." she started off at her hollow and hit the 32 palms. The hollow fell to the ground and disappeared.

"Why did it go even though you didn't hit its mask?" asked Kiba, confused that Shika had been wrong. Hinata didn't reply, she was confused as well. "Kiba-kun" she said seeing a few hollows further away behind him.

"Let's go" he said following her gaze.


Ishida threw a shower of arrows on the hollows in front of him and they disappeared. He turned to see another one coming and was about to dodge this one when a girl came between them and punched it away.

Sakura turned and smiled at Ishida who muttered a thanks to her. He would have been able to defeat it himself, he just need to get away first!

Chouji landed on the ground and started near the hollow. The hollow got up on it's feet and laughed at Chouji who was walking towards him.

"What will you do, Fatso?" he asked not aware that he would regret saying that later.

Chouji immediately took in air and got enlarged. Ishida was watching eagerly even though he couldn't listen. Chouji bounced up in the air and had started rolling till he reached back on the ground. He rolled in one place for some time and when he had gotten up enough pace, moved forward.

He had such great speed and force that he hollow was thrown off its feet and when it fell down completely, Chouji stopped rolling and jumped up high in the sky. When the hollow opened its eyes, it could the fat boy coming down on its face and Chouji hit the mask so hard that the hollow disappeared..

Ishida moved his glasses in his usual style, and looked away deciding to concentrate on the hollows in front of him. they suddenly seemed less in number. "The girl must have finished them off" he thought to himself. But it still seemed wrong. He had been fighting this group for so long now, but they never ended.

He had seen a garganta open a while ago and there was a sudden increase in the regular hollows. Then when he had come at a place he could sense great spiritual pressure, he had found these ninja, Kurosaki and Kuchiki. And then It felt like there was a continuous back up for these hollows as they never seemed to end.

But now the hollow supply had been stopped somehow because they had decrease in number.

"I must look for the garganta" he thought to himself looking at the two ninja in front of him. "But it would be rude to simply leave the hollows up to them." So he decided to finish off the hollows here and then go searching for the garganta and it's opener. He took out his bow and again showered the hollows with spiritual arrows.


Smiling broader than the hollow was, Tenten began to repeat summoning weapons and throwing them at the hollow with a very high speed.

The grin was cleanly wiped off the hollow's face as down came a shower of big, sharp weapons, all perfectly aimed for his mask. Within the next few moments, the hollow had disappeared and Tenten was safely standing on the ground, looking for another opponent.

Neji had also started his fight now. He couldn't use his Hyuga techniques to fight an only-spirit creature, or to break it's mask. He had to do something else, but he didn't have time to think now. A hollow's hand came running down on Neji as he dodged it and flew up.

"Air Palm!" he shouted as the hollow was met with an incredible blow. The hollow blew off but disappeared. He turned to Rukia questioningly and didn't need to say anything.

"What you did would kill off the hollow." she said attracting the attention of Sai and Tenten as well.

"When you cut off a hollow's mask, burial is done and he goes to soul society. But when you attack the hollow's body with a high spiritual power, it vanishes and goes, to what they call heaven."

"But aren't hollows supposed to be killed." Tenten argued. "Why do we have to save them then?"

"Hollows are the bad spiritual forms. It is not said anywhere that a hollow will always be of souls which were bad a human. It is not in there control once they become a hollow."

The ninja seemed to understand now, but she proceeded. "a hollow is only cleansed when it his cut by a Zanpakuto, namely, a shinigami sword. But when anyone else cuts off its mask, it will proceed to the soul society to be cleansed by the Shinigami." She finished off and cut a hollow which had come to attack her.


"The power suddenly seems to have decreased." said Mao suspiciously.

"Are the hollows increasing or decreasing?" Maruko asked angrily

"Decreasing." Sachyo told her. Whatever he wanted to do, he ended up telling the truth, he absolutely couldn't lie to his mother.

"Then shouldn't we summon some more?" asked Chiyo surprised at the answer.

"I can't do that."Sachyo said. Of course he couldn't, he didn't have enough energy to just sense the whole town after summoning and even creating hollow, still he was standing somehow.

"No we can't" Seigo told her. "If he ends up before completing the process, we might have to pay highly."

"Yes." admitted Maruko "let's leave for now. We'll return when his energy is back."


"Damn it" Ichigo thought to himself. "I have to look for Karin as well." He looked around him but the hollow was nowhere to be found.

"I think you should go look for Karin-chan."Orihime said almost reading his mind. "I'll handle this hollow." And on seeing the disagreeing look on Ichigo 's face, added "that's the least I can do for you."

That was enough to give him will to fight. When a friend like Inoue had asked to fight for his spite, he could fight with full force. He closed his eyes and concentrated on sensing the hollow's reatsu. He found it standing still before himself, but before he could open his eyes, he felt another hollow reatsu following a familiar one.

"Karin!" he shouted opening his eyes, forgetting all about his own hollow. The hollow hit him hard and he fell to the ground.

Orihime turned to him and was beside him in an instant. But she turned round as she felt Ichigo's sister's reatsu behind. Before she could decide what to do next, the hollow was above her and was about to hit her, when Ichigo intervened.

Karin was running rapidly. She had felt this before, this kind of feeling, the feeling of being followed by a creature. Last time there had been Chad who had come and saved her from this thing. She couldn't see it clearly, and turned to see how far she could. She didn't understand what it was; it was neither a ghost nor a living thing.

The hollow was waiting for this chance, a chance for her to stop so that he could hit her.

Ichigo pushed off the hollow's hand he was blocking, and ran off toward his sister but the hollow stopped him in his tracks. Orihime intended to do the same but she knew it was fruitless as she couldn't reach in time. The hollow there brought down its arm upon Karin, she couldn't move.

"Karin!" Ichigo shouted desperately. The hollow was about to hit Karin when she took a aback roll and escaped safely. The hollow was shocked, but so was Karin. The hollow brought it's hand down once more, but this time Karin jumped upside-down and kicked back the hollow's hand.

What was going on?

"Shadow possession jutsu: successful!"


So, this was chapter four. Hope you enjoyed and please Review! :)