Chapter 2

'Namikaze… I know that name…' Hinata thought to herself, looking closely at the woman something felt familiar but Hinata couldn't place it. Her attention was quickly brought to the chain coming out of her chest, lost in thought Hinata found her hosts staring.
"Oh, I am Hinata Hyuga" She said, nervously as she still could not shake the feeling that she knew this woman somehow.
"Hyuga? So you are from the leaf village too?" Kushina asked, rather excited. Before Hinata could answer she was signalled by Kisuke to wait.

"If you don't mind, I think it best I bring you all up to speed before we begin any other discussion." He said, unusually seriously for his character something his allies were alarmed at. He turned his attention to his allies now, and began explaining the origin of their guests.
"A few hours ago, there was an explosion in the precipice world large enough that blasted a hole into this world, from which Miss Hinata fell. The explosion however, did not originate from our reality."
"Our reality? You mean soul society?" Orihime asked, chad again began staring at Hinata as Orihime spoke because of their similar voice.
"No, allow me to explain." Kisuke took a pen and paper from under his and drew three overlapping circles. " Our reality is divided by three planes which intersect which each other, the living world, the spirit world and the precipice world connecting the two." Kisuke pointed to the circle which represent to each plane, with the circle representing the precipice world being smaller than the other two. He then drew a line next to this diagram and drew another two circles joined at the circumference on the other side of it.

"Now, according the readings that Captain Kurotsuchi has sent me, the explosion came from another reality, the one from which Miss Hinata and Miss Kushina originate." He paused here, allowing the sudden shock to sink in. The living realm in the recent century had been obsessed with life in worlds beyond their own, of aliens and here they found themselves in the room with two of them. Both of them looked just like them, with the exception of the seemingly natural red hair and the white eyes. Hinata felt sudden on edge, like she needed to defend herself from the fearful looks her hosts were now giving her. Kushina had similar misgivings, but was more curious about the chain from her chest and why Hinata lacked one.

"Now, unlike our own reality their reality is divided into two planes a living realm and a spirit realm but without something similar to our precipice world travel between the two is seemingly rare and unusual. Also unlike our reality there is no cycle of rebirth, so everyone who has ever died remains in the spirit world indefinitely. Now, while the hole in our reality exists physically in the precipice world there are invisible cracks over all the planes in both realities causing an infinite number of their souls to pour into our reality."
"Wait Kisuke, when I caught Hinata ordinary humans were able to see her, so how can she be a soul?" Ichigo interrupted, with a greatly confused tone in his voice out of his friends he seemed to be the one struggiling with the concepts in play the most.
"That's because, unlike Miss Kushina or the other souls we've found, Hinata is alive." Hinata was the most shocked person this time, as she turned to Kushina.
"So you're…."
"Dead, yes." She said, saddened.

"Miss Hinata, if you could tell me how you ended up in our reality it could give a clue to stopping the collision of our realities."

*48 hours ago*

"Hinata, Kiba, Shino. Have any of you heard the myths regarding a being known as the whisperer?" asked Kakashi Hatake, the sixth hokage. The hokage was the leader of their home, the hidden leaf village Kakashi had only recently taken the position but he was well respected and very few, if any, questioned his judgement. The three ninja infront of him shook their heads, looking at each other as they did so.
"The whisperer is a story dating further back than the hidden villages themselves, of a voice that whispers into the ears of men manipulating them into doing its bidding. The second ninja war was started under the belief that this was used as a cover story in order for a hidden stone ninja to manipulate on of the fire damiyo's guards into assassinating the damiyo himself."
"You're telling us this because you think there may be some truth to the myth, correct?" Shino, one of Hinata's team mates asked, although it seemed more like a statement to all those present.
"Spot on as always, Shino. As you all know while he still does not live in the village Sasuke has renewed his loyalty to the village and has been watching for threats to the village and the shinobi union from the outside. He recently discovered that in the last few years there has been a sharp increase in these rumour and believes he has found a pattern to them." He signalled his aid to hand the three ninja a file of which she was carrying three.
"Sasuke recently sent me a messenger hawk with information on three men he believes are hearing the whisperer and you are each to track and observe on of them, Sasuke himself will be tracking a fourth one. All of you should leave as quickly as soon as you are ready."