In Black or In Orange Chapter 4: Comeuppance part 2, a bleach fanfic

In Black or In Orange

Chapter 3: Comeuppance. Part 2

Note: Sorry about that. Some formatting problems I had to fix...

Disclaimer: You know the drill, I don't own Naruto nor Bleach, capiche?

Outside Karakura High School…

It was already after school, and two figures can be seen walking down, chatting about things and such.

"So, you and your family are gonna come over tonight?" Ichigo asked Naruto.

"Yeah, though we might be late because mom's slightly working overtime. But she's gonna make it." Naruto replied.

Ichigo smirked, "Just be sure to bring the game I asked you, 'kay?"

Naruto just laughed, "Yeah… so I can kick your ass again!"

"Hey!" Ichigo said, grinning as he lightly punched Naruto's arm. Then, as they rounded he corner, they saw four figures skate-boarding down the street. But Ichigo suddenly stopped, and began to growl.

Naruto, upon noticing this, stopped and looked to the direction where Ichigo was glaring at, and upon seeing what Ichigo saw, frowned angrily. It wasn't for the fact that the four were skateboarding, Kami knows who would be angry at people skateboarding for no apparent reason, but for the fact that the four had dishonored a site where a girl had just recently died by knocking over a small vase of flowers in them. Cracking their knuckles, they stalked towards the four, a menacing look in their eyes.

We interrupt the following ass-kickery with this short omake.

Short Omake.

Sasuke, Sakura, and Kakashi sat on a mat, in a field of cherry blossom trees. Both Sasuke and Kakashi had on a dark blue yukata and an electric blue yukata, respectively, while Sakura had a red kimono with ornate flower designs on the front. All three were sipping tea.

"Ah," Kakashi sighed, "the tea is good."

"Yes it is," Sakura responded, taking another sip of her tea.

"…Hnh." Sasuke started, "I'm wearing a black lacy thong underneath my yukata."

Both Kakashi and Sakura spitted their drink in surprise at Ichigo, who was just passing by, effectively killing him.

"…"

All three stared, their eyes wide as saucers.

IN BLACK OR IN ORANGE WORST END!!! (Lol.)

"Geez, people really have no respect for the dead…" Ichigo said.

"Yeah. It's not right, dishonoring the ones who needs to be honored…" Naruto replied.

In front of them are the four skaters, various bruises and cuts on their faces as they lay in a large beaten pulpy mess. The both of them sighed, as they simultaneously turned around, to see a girl standing behind a telephone pole. The outline of her body was faded, and there was a broken chain in her chest.

"Sorry for using you as a reason to beat them up like that." Ichigo said as he scratched as he gave her a small smile.

"Yeah. Though we promise to bring you fresh flowers tomorrow." Naruto continued as he scratched the back of his head and grinned sheepishly.

The girl just shook her head. "Oh, it was no trouble at all. Though, I know you beat them up because of what they did to my memorial place…" She said.

"Sorry for the trouble…" Both Naruto and Ichigo said at the same time as they started to walk away. This caused the girl to giggle.

She then waved at both of them, "I'll see you tomorrow, nii-sans!"

Naruto waved back, a big grin on his face, while Ichigo just said, "Just hurry up and move on, you hear!"

The ghost of a girl just smiled as she faded, until as if she wasn't even there.

"She's a nice girl…" Naurto mumbled.

"Yeah…she just has to pass on…" Ichigo replied. Naruto then turned to Ichigo.

Neither Naruto nor Ichigo knew how they saw ghosts. Since they were both kids, they always had been able to see the unliving. At first, they both thought that they were going crazy, but over time, their families seemed to generally accept it as normal. (Or as a sign or puberty, their fathers would say. They always got their asses kicked for no reason for saying that though.)

"So, I'll see your family later?" Naruto said. Ichigo just nodded, "Alright! See ya!"

Ichigo just waved, then turned and went on his way. Naruto started towards his own way, and in no time, he arrived at his place. Apparently, he had just arrived at the same time as his sisters.

"Hey, brats." He said smugly, ruffling both their hairs, in which it was met with protest.

"HEY!!! They said at the same time, trying to swat Naruto's hand away, but to no avail.

"Shaddup…" He said, as he kept on smiling, "We need to get ready…"

"OH YEAH!" The twins shouted, and they instantly dashed up the stairs as soon as the door was open. "We get to go bother Karin-chan tonight!" There was a cheer from upstairs at the same time the sounds of clothes rustling. Naruto just chuckled as he went upstairs himself.

As he entered his room, the front door opened, and his father's blonde hair poked in, calling out, "YO! I'm home!!!"

"HI DAD!" The twins responded as they continued to look for/change their clothes.

"Hey, old man." Naruto called, since he was still halfway up the stairs.

Then Arashi had a looked that looked like he just remembered something, "OH YEAH! I STILL HAVE TO GET ISSHIN FOR THAT WRESTLING MATCH FROM LAST TIME!!!" With that, Arashi gently pushed (read: shoved) Naruto out of the way, and bounded up the stairs and into his and his wife's room.

Naruto just mumbled, all the while facedown on the stairs (He doesn't really get how he ended up like that, but he must've tripped or something…), "Why am I the only one that's normal in this family…?"

He then picked himself up from the floor and continued going up.

Moments later.

Naruto came out of the bathroom, wearing blue casual pants, and a white button-down shirt. He also wore a thin orange vest over the shirt. He yawned as he went to go grab some of his stuff; homework, the game Ichigo asked, etc. etc, and unceremoniously stuffed them into a small backpack.

"WE'RE READY!!" The twins shouted as they jumped out of their room the same time Naruto came out of his. Sei wore a dark red casual dress with a pink ribbon on her back. Mei wore a dark blue shirt, and blue denim pants.

"I'm ready!" Their dad called out as he came out of his room. The Mizukau younger generation just stared, sweat drops on the back of their heads.

"Dad?" Naruto asked.

"Yeah, son?" Arashi just smiled.

"…Dad, why are you wearing a business suit?" The twins finished for Naruto. True, Arashi was wearing a light gray business suit, complete with blue tie.

Arashi just smiled, "I have my reasons…" He chuckled.

The three younger Mizukaus just sweat dropped, as the three of them thought of the same thing, 'If it's because we're going to Ichigo's / Ichi-nii's place, it's gotta be something weird…'

Naruto just sighed, as he went down to the kitchen, getting the hotpot dish they were supposed to bring over, "Let's just go to Ichigo's place."

Later on, at the Kurosaki Residence.

There was a ring on the Kurosaki Residence's front door. All activity partially stopped as Ichigo went to answer the door. As he opened the door, it revealed the expected guests.

"Hey, Naruto." Ichigo smiled as he let the Mizukaus into his abode.

"Evening, Naru-nii, Sei-chan, Mei-chan!" Yuzu waved from the kitchen as she went about, stirring this, chopping this.

"Evening, Ichi-nii, Yu-chan…" The twins responded, and then called out to upstairs, "…KA-CHAN!!!" There was an audible groan that can be heard coming from Yuzu and Karin's room.

Naruto just deposited what he was carrying to the twins, "Just put this on the table, and help Yu-chan with whatever she's doing…" After he put the foodstuffs onto the twins' hands, and before anything else would happen, Naruto was suddenly fly-kicked on the head by his father, who stood dramatically on his melon.

"ISSHIN! I HAVE TO COME TO AVENGE MY DEFEAT FROM LAST TIME!" Arashi shouted. Suddenly, the lights dimmed as something unfurled. When the lights brightened, there hung a banner on the living room wall that said 'Welcome to the 39th Annual Kurosaki-Mizukau Dinner!' with stars and squiggly lines all over.

Suddenly the lights dimmed once again, and Isshin's voice sounded scary and ominous, which didn't really scare anyone, as they were somewhat used to it, "So… Mizukau Arashi …you have come… Now… FACE YOUR DEFEAT!" There was suddenly a spotlight that came from nowhere as it focused on a hooded figure. It had a long cape, and what looked like some kind of tight black spandex wrestling outfit with flames in it. The figure took off his hood, revealing Kurosaki Isshin.

Naruto just mumbled, still face down on the floor, "Plisgefofome." ("Please get off of me.)

"I SHALL TAKE BACK MY HONOR!" Arashi shouted as he put his hands on the chest area of his suit and promptly ripped it off, revealing a similar wrestling outfit, except for the flames, Arashi's outfit was black and had blue lightning streaking around it. He then cried a battle cry and fly kicked Isshin. But Isshin dodged and soon, he had head locked Arashi. But the Mizukau countered by kicking the Kurosaki's shin (Isshin's shin, lol.). They then started to tumble around the living room, wrestling like they were professionals (read: idiots).

Naruto, Ichigo, the twins, and Yuzu both sweat dropped, thinking at the same time, 'I knew that those two were going to do something weird tonight…'

Somewhere else…

A figure stood on top of a telephone pole that overlooked Karakura City.

"I sense Hollow… no… Hollows…" It said, then after a pause, added, "And two strong Reiatsu signatures…" Another pause before the figure continued, "It seems that the Hollows are attracted to those two strong Reiatsus… I better investigate." Beside it, a black butterfly fluttered about. The figure suddenly jumped towards the city

Karakura Park, near evening…

A couple was giggling as the two of them spouted romantic nonsense at each other.

"I love you!"

"No, I love you!"

"No, I wuv…!" They then both stopped as a sudden noised sounded behind them. It was the sound of earth being raised, or something was moving beneath the ground. Paling significantly, they both turned around and stared at the source of the noise.

At first there was nothing but the earth rumbling. But suddenly, a hand popped out from the ground. Then the rest of some figure started to come out.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!" The couple shouted as they ran away in fright.

The figure that emerged with the rest of the hand panted hard as he sat on his knees, pointedly the couple screaming about a zombie at the top of their voices. His hands were bruised and there were several cuts on his body. His short, spiky blood-red hair sagged a little from all the sweat due to the exertion. Large dark rings located themselves around his green, almost lifeless eyes, signifying his lack of sleep due to all the climbing he had to do for all these years. His clothes were so near tattered, he was surprised he still had pants on.

Finally, he was out of that hell. He had always thought he would end up somewhere far better after he stopped Shukaku when it was accidentally released due to his emotions over his death, but the demon just had to drag him down with him to Hell along with it...

But now, he was free. He actually thought for a moment that he was purposely let go by some higher power up there, but he didn't care. He was free. At that moment, his eyes suddenly filled with life, and he started to laugh gently as he lied on his back and enjoyed the cool, pleasant breeze that he hasn't felt for what felt like an eternity. One thing he will ever learn in hell: spending a lot of time in hell can really bring out the humanity in you. He laughed louder at the irony. But most of all, he laughed for his freedom. He laughed, because, after all those times in hell, he can finally laugh comfortably. Because he was free.

Sabaku no Gaara was free.

Unknown location.

A blonde girl with four ponytails, wearing a black yukata suddenly felt a presence behind her. She sighed as she turned around, looking at a similarly dressed figure, but his face was covered in strange face paint.

"What is it, Kankuro?" The girl asked.

Kankuro, the face painted male, just simply said, a small smile on his face, "There was a report of a strong Reiatsu signature coming from Earth, at the same area that Thirteenth Division's Kuchiki Rukia is investigating a small congregation of Hollows. Info from Twelfth Division, of course. The other two are unidentifiable; but a third one just emerged…from Hell. It's probably him."

The girl just gasped, as she stood up from her previous sitting position, "Is it really?"

Kankuro just sighed, "Yes, could be… Come on, let's better investigate."

The girl just gasped, "But we can't go to Earth without…"

But Kankuro just cut her off as he held up a piece of paper, smiling slyly "Special orders, Temari. From the Grand Commander himself. Why do you think I knew about the Reiatsu signatures in the first place? He also wants us to aid Kuchiki as much as possible while we conduct our own investigation though."

The girl, Temari, just smiled. "Come on. Let's go get our little brother." And they both walked away.

-EoC-

A/n: WOOOOOOOO!!!! THE PLOT THICKENS!!!! LIKE CHICKEN!!! HOW WILL THIS AFFECT EVERYTHING ELSE?!?!?!

No seriously, I think I just threw the whole story now, but I couldn't care less. If you noticed the OOC from certain characters, then you're not the only one. But, like a good series should, all will be revealed inconveniently while a few characters are in the middle of a fight scene. You know, when the hero thinks back on all the times he and so and so did this, punched someone senseless, kicked someone's balls for now reason at a soccer game, yadda yadda, etc etc, all the while he's facedown on the ground, with an opponent that was supposedly stronger than, but will be overcome by the hero by some stroke of power or something? Yeah, all will be revealed.

Do keep in mind that my updates are erratic. That, and inspiration has been hitting me… hard. So now I have this working, and I also have 3 to about 6 side projects. I won't be able to update this until after I post two the side projects I've been working on.

Oh and also… WHOOOOOOOOOO!!! OVER A THOUSAND HITS!!!

Ahem…

Chapter Preview:

"They thought seeing ghosts was enough, but when a white faced creature attacks them, how will Naruto and Ichigo get through this? What of Temari and Kankuro's investigation? And Gaara? And what's the deal with the girl with the bad drawings?"

Next time: Unkempt and Disordered.

Ooh ooh ooh! Omake!

Omake.

"Ah," Kakashi sighed, "the tea is good."

"Yes it is," Sakura responded, taking another sip of her tea.

"…Hnh." Sasuke started, "I'm wearing a black lacy thong underneath my yukata."

Both Kakashi and Sakura spitted their drink in surprise at Sosuke Aizen, who was just passing by, effectively killing him.

"…"

All three stared, their eyes wide as saucers. Suddenly, music started to fill the cherry blossom field, and random people and Shinigamis started to dance and drink and be merry like idiots. The three joined in. Pretty soon, everyone got piss drunk.

And several one-night stands happened that night. And no one would ever speak of it ever again...

IN BLACK OR IN ORANGE SLIGHTLY GOODER END!!! (Lol.)