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"Hmm…."- Black Zetsu
"Hmm…"- Dream/Flashback

Chapter 3:
The Third pt. I

"Naruto-nii-chan….."

Naruto sent one of the last remaining genin in the village an emotionless look as he stood directly in front of him underneath the now destroyed village of Konoha.

"Konohamaru."

Sarutobi Konohamaru looked at the person that he had once considered his idol with shaking eyes, both of his hands turning into fists at his sides. Behind him, both of his best friends and fellow teammate members stood with shaking legs.

They were currently in a huge chamber to where the civilian populace of Konoha had been evacuated to. The said civilians were currently cowering in the background. But with the other passage that led to the exit of the chamber on the other side being blocked by both Anko and Fuka, they had nowhere to go to.

Kushina who stood on Naruto's left glanced at him, wondering if he would hesitate here. From what she had seen of his memories, the young Sarutobi in front of them had been one of his first true friends.

Despite knowing the situation he was in, Konohamaru stood his ground.

"We won't let you harm these people," he stated through gritted teeth.

"Oh?" Kushina raised an eyebrow at hearing this. She had to give props to the young genin. Where other older shinobi would have cowered in this situation, he stood his ground.

Naruto for his part sent him an amused grin. "And what makes you think that you can stop me? After all, your friends don't seem to share your view."

And he wasn't just talking about Moegi and Udon either. Present in the evacuation chamber were many other genin spread all throughout the massive crowd of civilians. Of course, Naruto had no clue as to who they were exactly, nor did he care for that matter.

Both knowing this and not blaming his teammates for feeling fear, Konohamaru merely clenched his fists as he looked directly at Naruto's eyes, some of his nervousness present in his own eyes along with something else: anger. Anger for everything that Naruto had done. For destroying the place that was his home. Of course, the young Sarutobi knew that he couldn't do anything about it, but that still didn't stop him from hating the person in front of him or showing it for that fact.

Seeing all of this, Naruto sighed as he ran a hand through his silver locks. With everything now set and done as well as with the power that he felt radiating through him, he had calmed down significantly. Naruto had a feeling that this would happen when everything had been completed. That he would feel no drive any longer.

'Heh, there's some truth to the fact that revenge really leaves you with nothing in the end….' he thought with a small grin.

Looking at Konohamaru once more, Naruto crossed his arms in front of his chest. "Everything's over now, Konohamaru. There's no need for you to be doing what you're doing. It's pointless."

"It's not pointless!" was the immediate response from the genin. Taking a breath in, Konohamaru looked at Naruto with a cold gaze, similar to the one that Naruto had worn earlier in the day. "I admit that I don't know why you're doing this, and it's more than likely that you had your reasons. But….this place was still my home! Even now! The buildings and structures may be gone, but not the feelings of those that lived here! And as long as they remain, I won't stop trying to fulfill my own duty!"

Next to Naruto, Kushina actually let a small smile appear on her face. If none of this had ever occurred, the young boy in front of her could have been something in the future. Of that, she had no doubt. It reminded her of how Naruto had been in the past.

Naruto merely let out one final sigh before he turned his back towards the young boy. He had no desire to listen to something like that. Not now. Not ever. Especially about this place. Despite that, a small amount of his respect was given to the the young genin. Even though he didn't agree with him, the mere fact that he was ready to give down his life for his belief….it was admirable.

'And stupid….'

Without anymore words, Naruto merely walked towards the passage in front of him that let out back to the surface, Kushina right at his side. The redhead spared the young Sarutobi one final glance before facing forward. On the other side, both Anko and Fuka took this as their cue to also get out of there.

Konohamaru swallowed a lump on his throat as he watched Naruto walk away. Why wasn't he killing them? Wasn't that the whole reason that he even came down here for? Or was it something else?

The answer came not a second later as black spheres were suddenly shot out from Naruto's back and towards them.

Behind him, both Moegi and Udon let out a scream as they watched the spheres coming towards them, an act which was mirrored by the rest of the genin present and the civilians as well.

But Konohamaru merely closed his eyes, accepting what was going to happen. It wasn't like he could do anything to stop it either. What would the point in resisting be when he already knew the outcome? Not only that, but despite what he had said, he knew that Konoha no longer existed. It was gone, taking part of his heart along with it.

Naruto also closed his eyes as he heard the mini bijuu bombs blow up behind him, causing for a cave in to start to occur. Wrapping his arm around Kushina's waist, they both disappeared in a dark flash.

Naruto didn't look back even once.

'Another one….'

Opening his eyes, Naruto found himself staring at the shapes of the white clouds in the sky from the window of within one of the private jets that Fuka owned. It was the same one that they had used previously. Behind them, they left quite a mess that they had not been able to stop. Mainly, the assassination of the king.

With that, things were sure to become a hell hole once again. Well, it wasn't like some parts of the world weren't a hell hole already, but that was beside the point. How long would it take? Naruto wasn't sure yet.

Next to him on his right, a sleeping Kushina was currently leaning next to him as she silently snored. In front of them, an awake Fuka was also gazing out of the window through her right.

The atmosphere was solemn for one reason: Anko was now dead. And they couldn't do anything to bring her back. Without the Shinigami and his jutsu, they were now basically mortals again. So they couldn't aged. That didn't mean that they couldn't be killed, Anko being the prime example. Especially with the arrival of the unknown.

Fuka had taken it the hardest amongst them. She and Anko had become quite literally sisters in all but blood throughout the years. Knowing that she was now dead….it left a huge impact on the attractive redhead, not to mention a deep hole in her heart.

But there was something else: the desire to payback the person responsible for it, mainly the old man. Well, he wasn't an old man anymore. That was for sure. Who knew what he really was.

Naruto merely stared at her for a few more moments before closing his eyes, knowing that there wasn't anything that he could say right now that would be helpful. Fuka simply needed her space right now.

"You know it wasn't your fault."

Opening his eyes, Naruto looked at Kushina to find her awake as well as the one who had just spoken.

Leaning away from him and looking at Fuka, Kushina crossed her arms in front of her. "It's not like Fuka blames you for it either. Am I right?"

Fuka sighed as she turned to look at them, mainly at Naruto. "Yeah, she's right. You shouldn't really handle all of the blame by yourself, Naruto. It wasn't like we knew what was going to take place back there. It was just mainly speculations on our part. None of us were cautious enough. But now we know what we're dealing with. At the very least a chunk of it if what you told us was true."

Mainly the power that that Violet girl possessed. It was extremely dangerous, plain and simple.

"You don't have to tell me that twice…."

Kushina sighed. "But our biggest concern is as to what to do now. We have no leads as to where they could have headed. And with Anko gone, we've now lost our biggest intelligence network."

Naruto shook his head at that. "Don't be so sure. I've done my share of things as well in the world, you know."

Fuka raised an eyebrow. "Oh? And what would that be?"

"I think that he means us."

Fuka let out a small shriek as Zetsu appeared on top of them on the jet's main room's ceiling.

"How long have you been there for?" asked Kushina with a curious tone.

"Since you left the capital." It was White Zetsu that answered.

Fuka sent them a glare. "Don't. Ever. Do. That. Again."

White Zetsu grinned. "Scary."

Fuka's hair began to move as a response causing for the the grin on White Zetsu's face to disappear. He didn't want to get maul. Even he wasn't that stupid.

All the while, Kushina merely watched, quite amused by all of this.

Naruto for his part simply sighed before looking at Black Zetsu. "All right. Since we're all here, I think it's time that you told me what you found."

Kushina looked at Naruto with a raised eyebrow as she heard this. "I didn't know that you were looking for something."

Naruto shook his head. "I wasn't. It was more like rumors, really. Quite a lot of them in fact."

Now even Fuka was interested. "Rumors?"

Naruto nodded as he leaned back on his chair. "Yeah. There's been quite a lot of activity in Japan this past year. Not normal activity at least."

Kushina folded her arms in front of her again. "And by 'normal,' you mean what exactly?"

"Human."

Kushina's eyes widened slightly at this. "So you mean to tell me that-"

"Supernatural," interrupted Naruto before he shrugged. "Well, what the world today would consider supernatural anyways. To us, it would just be normal. But that was in the past."

Kushina brought both of her hands to rub her forehead, feeling a headache coming. "All right. I'm starting to understand."

Fuka looked at Zetsu. "So? Naruto told you to look into these rumors. And you found….?"

White Zetsu grinned again. "It wasn't just the rumors. It was also the rise of this new and unknown organization which we now know is being used by this…..unknown being."

No one present needed any further explanation as to who the 'unknown being' was.

Fuka looked on impatiently now. "And?"

Black Zetsu answered. "It's called 'The Watch.' I'm not certain as to what that means exactly, but that's the name. They're well spread out throughout the whole world. There's no doubt that they're the ones that pulled this off under the guidance of the…..unknown."

White Zetsu carried on. "As well as this Violet girl. She's probably working right under for this guy. For what purpose? Well, Naruto already gave you the answer to that."

It was just simply to start another war. But not a regular one. A nuclear war. And with how things had gone in Saudi Arabia, they might have had just accomplished that.

Kushina looked at Naruto. "So all this time you knew the existence of this organization and never told me why…..?"

Naruto sighed. "Because there were too many gaps. I didn't know anything. Hell, I don't think anyone knows much about it. That is why I asked for Zetsu to look into it since Anko already had her hands full. I also didn't know that it was being run by the same person that we're looking for."

"Just like you, he's done a pretty good job of letting no one know who's running the place. Well, anyone on the outside that is."

Naruto looked at Black Zetsu with a frown but didn't reply.

Fuka let out a groan. "All right. So that leaves us with what exactly? Just that we know that he's got his own multimillion corporation backing him up. That's great." She said the last part with some sarcasm before she added, "And the rumors?"

White Zetsu looked at her. "The rumors also tie with the organization, not that we knew it at the time. It was only recently that we found this out."

"What are the rumors about exactly?" asked Kushina.

Zetsu was silent until Black Zetsu finally answered, "It ties with the fact as to why the Shinigami won't cooperate with Naruto anymore."

Naruto's eyes did snap open at this. With everything that had taken place in Riyadh, there really hadn't been much time to talk. So this was as much of a surprise to him as to the other two redheads.

Fuka narrowed her eyes. "Just what exactly is going on in Japan right now?"

Violet sighed as she threw her arms behind her after having placed down a beauty magazine on the small glass table in front of her. It would take a few more hours for them to arrive to Tokyo. But boredom was killing her. Fast.

After having met Naruto in person for the first time as well as having giving him her first kiss, she was eager to see him again. But she knew that this wasn't exactly a good thing. Too much eagerness could screw everything up. Especially with what they had to do now.

'Damn Shinigami…..'

Really, the god of death was just being a pain in the ass now. But in all honestly, it seemed that it really wasn't the god of death's fault as to what was currently happening. It was a human. A human trying to play at being something that he was not. But the worst part was as to who or more specifically what was backing him.

Violet closed her eyes.

'He's the third….'

That was the worst part in all of this. Violet herself had never considered this possibility. Hell, in all of the futures that could have had occurred, this one never showed up! It could only mean the interference of one being….and the consequences that came with that weren't exactly good either. Violet could see why The Watcher would be annoyed by this.

Speaking of him, he was currently sitting next to her with his arms crossed in front of his chest and his eyes closed. Violet doubted that he was sleeping. But who knew? Having a human form probably made him acquire several new human habits.

Violet smirked at the thought. Now that was something that she knew that he would not like. Not in the slightest.

Naruto sighed to himself as he followed behind both Kushina and Fuka through the airport in Tokyo. They had just arrived a few minutes ago, but now was not the time to be taking things easy. Not with how the first confrontation had gone. Especially how they lost Anko. They need to move fast.

But something else was troubling him. Bringing his right hand in front of his face, Naruto could only sigh again as he brought it right back down. Was the old man right? Was he now just a mere shadow of what he had once been? A mere shell?

With how much time had passed, Naruto vaguely remembered how he had been in the past. But one thing was still printed in his mind: the faces of every single person that had sacrificed themselves that day. And not just people either. The bijuu themselves as well.

Naruto grinned slightly. 'Kurama would probably bitch me out for the way that I've been acting…..'

Even though he had come to terms with this, Naruto found it difficult in trying to change. Why should he? Was there any point? Anything that he wanted to accomplish anymore?

Looking at Kushina's back, Naruto knew that there was something that she wanted the most in the world. But that was something that he really didn't think that he was ready for. Really, he was just being pathetic now. How long had it been? Thousands of years, and yet he still couldn't get over his problems. That just wasn't right.

'I'm acting just like a coward.'

Case and point right there. He was running away from whatever problems that he still had, something that he knew that he would never have done in the past. So why should he do it now? And he did have a goal now. That goal was to put a certain asshole in his place as well as a certain little purple haired bitch. Yeah, he liked the sound of that.

This was the first moment in which the old Naruto began to make his way back to the surface, ready to come back and stay once and for all.

Kushina didn't know why, but she suddenly felt a sudden change in the atmosphere, something which Fuka also noticed. But they both just pushed it aside as to them just being simply on edge.

"All right. So let's go over what we know already."

Naruto placed both of his hands in front of him as Kushina began their meeting. The last three remaining Uzumaki and shinobi in the whole world were currently in the Uzumaki Inc. tower in Naruto's office. Fuka was currently sitting on top of Naruto's desk while dangling her legs in an almost bored manner while Kushina sat on the other side next to Naruto's chair with her legs one over the other with said silver haired Uzumaki sitting on his chair.

"This organization, The Watch, is known for being a corporation similar to Uzumaki Inc.," began Kushina.

Fuka carried with, "The only difference being that they have been suspected of doing illegal business on the side. Except that with no evidence, the claims have never been proven up to now."

"But not to us," stated Naruto as he leaned back on his leather chair. "With what happened in Riyadh as well as to the fact that we now know that the Violet girl and the old man own it thanks to Zetsu, it is safe to say that they really are in the illegal aspects of this business."

Kushina nodded. "Yes. But exposing them is not our concern."

Naruto smirked. "Of course not. Our goal is to kill them, of course."

Both Kushina and Fuka shared a look for a moment before placing whatever was on their mind in the back for the time being.

"This now brings us to the rumors that Zetsu also investigated," said Kushina before pausing.

This was the tricky part. How they had missed this was beyond incredulous, especially her and Naruto since they were the ones living in Tokyo.

Naruto frowned, remembering what Zetsu had told them. It was….troubling to say the least. Everything also now made sense as to why the Shinigami was also backing down. Put simply: his world was in deep shit.

"There's no doubt that this…whoever or whatever the hell he is will also be here looking into this himself," stated Fuka after a few moments of silence.

Kushina nodded in agreement. "Yes, if what Zetsu said is true that is."

The Watch had been observing the confrontations here in Japan, mainly Tokyo, for the past months. Hell, for the past year. According to Zetsu, it had been about seventeen months since the last conflict took place. The only problem was that a new one was brewing. The Shinigami's world was split as a result. As to what the Shinigami was going to stop this...well, that was still unknown.

Of course, Naruto knew that it wasn't just because of this that the Shinigami had quit offering his assistance to him. There was something else to it. But he didn't know what that was. Well, not yet at least. Soon he would know. But seventeen months….what had he been doing in the past year, anyways?

Fuka chuckled humorlessly. "We really are pathetic, aren't we? To think that we didn't notice any of this, especially in our own doorstep…."

Kushina shook her head. "It's not really your fault. It's mostly me and Naruto since we're the ones that live here."

That much was true. Anko had been mainly in America while Fuka was...well, everywhere really. Just not simply in Tokyo like Kushina and Naruto. Naruto more so since Kushina did travel to other countries for meetings and such since Naruto didn't bother to do it himself. Or show his face to anyone for that matter.

Naruto sighed as he ran a hand through his silver hair. Now he remembered. He didn't do shit. Just like ever since he built this damn company. All he did was sit at his beach house the whole time. His clones took care of most of the work. No, not most. All of it. The only reason that he ever even showed up was because of Kushina. Not to mention that he'd been repressing his powers for a while now, trying not to see or deal with anything at all. It was plain pathetic in all honesty.

Kushina closed her eyes. "We've simply become regular humans, I guess. To them, nothing has changed either." That was the plain truth.

Naruto suddenly stood up from his chair, an annoyed look on his face.. "Well, fuck that. I've had it with this. It's time for us to get back on the scene. We might have had lost in Riyadh, but that was only the beginning. It's time for our counterattack which begins here and now."

Both Kushina and Fuka looked at Naruto like he'd grown a second head. Just what the hell? This wasn't the Naruto that had been with them for the past several thousand of years now. He sounded like the old one…..

Kushina felt a small glimmer of hope in her heart that that was the case.

Naruto then walked around his desk and towards the exit of his office.

Kushina looked at his retreating back with a raised eyebrow. "Where are you going? We aren't finished here yet!"

"I need fresh air," was the response that she received.

Fuka turned to look at her fellow redhead after the door had closed. "Is it just me, or did he sound like the old Naruto for just a moment there?"

Kushina merely nodded, turning her head the other way so that Fuka couldn't see the smile on her face a second later.

In the next moment, the last member of their group appeared on the ceiling of Naruto's office.

"It seems that the brat might be making his return real soon."

Fuka nodded as she looked up. "Yeah. So? What brings you around here?"

White Zetsu didn't grin this time. "Our targets have arrived."

Both redheads looked up at Zetsu after hearing this.

Kushina smirked. "Is that so? It seems that you were right after all, Zetsu."

Black Zetsu looked indifferent. "Of course we were right. Why shouldn't we be?"

'That's something that Kyuubi would have said,' thought Kushina with a small smile, thinking of the nine tailed fox before it disappeared. There were things that they needed to get done.

Fuka raised an eyebrow. "Well? What exactly are they here for again? I mean, things aren't going down here right now. So why would they-"

"I don't know."

"We haven't figured that out just yet."

Kushina sighed as she looked out towards the city through the glass windows. How many things had taken place and yet, she had been oblivious to them. Too caught up in her work, acting like a regular human being. Well, she supposed that that was what she really wanted now. To become a regular woman as well as a mother once more. But it seemed that circumstances were going to make that impossible for her at the moment. But circumstances were also bringing the old Naruto back as well. She supposed that she could consider that a fair trade.

For now, though, they needed to figure out what exactly it was that the old man and the Violet girl were looking for. And who knew? Maybe they could put an end to this sooner than expected.

Naruto was currently berating himself as he walked aimlessly through a random street in the city of Tokyo. He didn't really know where he was going, not that it mattered. He just needed to get his thoughts together, mainly as to how much of a failure he had become.

Seriously, it was too pathetic that it wasn't even funny. Just what the hell had happened to him? And it only took him thousand of years to realize this as well. That was even more pathetic in his opinion. He could now see why that old bastard had traded him off. Of course, that still didn't mean that he was going to follow through with what the old bastard wanted. No, far from it. Naruto was planning on shoving a bijuu bomb so far up the bastard's ass that he would never be able to take a dump again. It didn't matter if the old bastard did or didn't at the moment. If he ever wanted to in the future, he wouldn't be able to.

As for the girl….well, she was hot. But she was also a bitch. Then again, so was Kushina. But he wasn't about to cheat on her either. Well, he had kind of done so in the past, but with her consent in a sense. Not to mention the fact that the Violet girl obviously thought that she was superior than him. And that was something that Naruto would need to rectify soon. The next time that they met, things wouldn't go the same. Especially now that he knew what she was capable of.

His train of thoughts were cut off as a man wearing a purple track suit roughly bumped into him. Not only that, but there was also an orange colored hair teen right behind him as well as a black haired one.

"Give me back my bag, asshole!"

From that alone and having seen the bag that the purple track suit wearing individual held, Naruto knew that he was a thief in an instant. Not exactly knowing why, Naruto was soon running side by side with the orange haired teen. It was probably to just to blow off some steam. Something that he did notice though, which was that the teen next to him could keep up with him. But he filed that for later.

The man in the purple track suit soon felt himself be pulled back roughly by two hands on both of his shoulders, and coming face to face with a pair of fists that each belonged to a different person.

Stumbling back a couple of steps due to the impact of the punches, the man then pulled out a knife, an enraged look on his bleeding face.

Seeing this, the orange haired teen was in front of him in an instant, his hand on the man's shoulder once more, pulling the man forward as a result. Using this to his advantage, Naruto was quick to appear in front of the man, bringing his knee forward which came in rough contact with the man's face. The end result was the purple track suit wearing individual falling to the ground on his back, clearly knocked out.

The unnamed teen calmly walked up to pick the bag with the black haired one having just arrived at the spot, his mouth wide open in shock.

"Woah…."

Naruto for his part was merely staring at the teen, clearly surprised to have met someone with incredible physical abilities.

"I appreciated the help," said the orange haired teen as he picked up the bag before walking up to give it back to its owner.

Naruto narrowed his eyes slightly. "You…..what's your name exactly?"

The teen raised an orange colored eyebrow at the question as he handed the bag back to the black haired person.

Finally he shrugged and answered with, "Ichigo. My name is Kurosaki Ichigo."

Yo

I'm currently kicking back here in a lavished hotel. Like, holy damn. Room service is like...I don't have the right word to describe it. But anyways, my reason for posting this earlier than planned is simple: yes, it's now become officially a crossover. After much discussion and thought, I decided that it would be for the best even though I had said no previously.

That being said, I am not a Bleach fan. Well, not a hardcore fan that is. I'm not saying that the show is bad. I haven't watched enough of it to state my opinion on it. Due to this, I am calling out to you, readers, if you could assist me with this. Any info will be appreciated at the start of this Arc of the show which you must all know which one it is. Of course, I'm also going to do my own research on the anime.

You also might be asking yourselves as to why I even did this if I don't watch Bleach….well, for one it fits nice with the plot of the story as well as to the fact that a lot of you asked me for it. So here it is. I'll try my best to do it to the best of my abilities. We'll just see how it goes. If it goes great, or if I fail epically. You be the judge of that.

Whatever. That's for future reference. With that, I sign off. I don't know when I'll be back though, so yeah. Time to go back to just merely kicking back and ordering myself craps amount of desserts. Wish me luck.