I tried fixing the paragraphing and spacing.

Also first chapter done only on computer. Hope it has better grammar and spelling than other chapter.
I don't own Bleach or Naruto.

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"I figured it out!" Mayuri exclaimed, staring at an oversized computer screen in his dark lab. Nemu had been walking in at the moment carrying a large stack of papers.

"Figured what out?" Nemu inquired.

Mayuri turned to her with a big grin on his face, "Remember that outbreak of souls whose reiatsu was an anomaly in the Rukongai about 150 years ago?" Nemu nodded, "Well, I all of them joined the Gotei 13 about 45 years after they arrived. When Urahara was still taichou he took reiatsu samples from all of them but was exiled before he got a chance to study them. I never really got around to looking at them until just a few days ago. The attack on Karakura by that hollow was very significant. The reiatsu left behind that hollow looked very familiar to me, so I checked it out. Apparently that hollow had the exact same type of reiatsu as those souls." By now Nemu was studying the information presented on the screen, "This gave me the perfect opportunity to study, and what do you know, they were all identical. This made me curious so I dug deeper and made a major breakthrough. Reiatsu only utilizes the spiritual energy created by us. This other reiatsu actually combines spiritual energy as well as Reishi absorbed from the air. But the balancing is improper so that's why we still recognize their energy as reiatsu instead of something different. I just found out that they aren't trying to absorb the Reishi, they are actually attempting to gather energy produced by their bodies. Since they have no physical bodies they aren't able to draw physical energy and are trying to compensate with Reishi."

Nemu continued to look at Mayuri, "We should inform them of this matter right now."

Mayuri nodded, "We should, but we can't. They are all in Karakura right now. Why don't you go Nemu, hand this document to Uchiha-taichou. He should understand everything."

Nemu nodded and took the paper.

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"I found him."

All ears perked up at those words. All the shinigami were currently engaged in combat but were able to hear those words as clear as a bell. Every shinigami knew what that meant. Hewas here. The now Vasto Lorde, Uzumaki Naruto.

Determined faces were now shown. They had to take care of their targets before they could assist their taichou in combat.

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"Get off me!" Grimmjow shoved Naruto to the ground, "I don't even know who the hell you are!"

"How many freakin' times do I have to tell you, my name is Uzumaki Naruto. Nobody has that bad of a memory." Naruto answered.

"That's not what I meant, you retard. I know who you are, but what are doing here and why are you here?" Grimmjow asked.

"You never listen, do you? I told at least 3 times already, Aizen sent me to retrieve you." Naruto asked, rubbing his head where he was hit.

Grimmjow regarded him skeptically, "Aizen sent you? Last I heard, only a higher ranked Espada was allowed to this kind of stuff."

Naruto growled and was going to retort when a small cero was shot at him. Making a split second decision, he jumped up. However, this left him vulnerable to another cero, which hit him dead on. Leaving burn marks on his torso, the cero disappeared, showing a defeated Naruto on the ground. Grimmjow looked on in surprise. Sasuke smirked.

This one killed a shinigami and left 2 taichous mortally wounded as well as many others. Impossible, this loser can't do anything.

"I was expecting more from a hollow that made the Gotei 13 mobilize a task force." Sasuke laughed, tomoe spinning around before vanishing and reforming themselves into his zanpakuto. He walked over to the body, and kicked it. To surprise, he kicked nothing but smoke as the body went up in smoke. Once the smoke cleared the body was gone.

"What the hell just happened?"

Sasuke heard snickering just behind him. Angling his head so he could see, he saw Naruto not 6 inches behind him, "As a shinigami you should know that some hollows have special abilities. Well, me, hehe, I've got quite a few of those abilities."

Sasuke jumped out of the way of a horizontal slash from Naruto's outstretched hands.

"Copy: Sharingan."

His shikai activated again, Sasuke was able to perceive the battle much easier. He saw the hollow jump towards him, he saw the formation of reiatsu withing the hollow's body, but was unable to see anything when he was suddenly smacked into the ground. Looking up, he saw Grimmjow sitting on top of him. Sasuke berated himself for turning a blind eye upon another powerful opponent. What he wouldn't give for the Neji's Unmei no Byakugan at that moment. He was expecting the hollow to come down and attack him while he was restricted by Grimmjow, so he braced himself. What he wasn't expecting, was for Naruto to stop all activities and start speaking with Grimmjow, "Get out of here Grimmjow, this is my fight. You had your chance and you lost."

Grimmjow took offense at the statement, "I did not lose, I was temporarily knocked down."

Naruto sighed, "Fine, you didn't lose, but this is still my fight. You should be getting back to Las Noches anyways."

Grimmjow angrily muttered to himself, but opened a Garganta and stepped through.

Returning his focus to the now standing Sasuke, he asked, "Your eyes are red. Is that your shikai, or what?"

Sasuke nodded, "Yeah, this is my shikai."

"I saw what you did to Grimmjow. It seems like your shikai's ability is to imitate another person's abilities."

Amazed that he could figure it out so quick, Sasuke nodded, "How did you figure that out? Never mind. Now that you know one ability of my shikai, why don't you tell me how you did that smoke thing earlier?"

Naruto grinned, "Now why should I do that?"

Sasuke frowned. This hollow was not being cooperative. Oh well, this hollow did not stand a chance against him, though.
Using shunpo, Sasuke appeared next to Naruto, and punched him. To his surprise, this Naruto also went up in a cloud of smoke.

"Wha-" Before he could finish forming the words, he got the wind knocked out of him by a punch to the stomach. Only barely comprehending everything, he saw the tail dart out form the shadows and grabbed it before it could grab him. Landing on both feet, he tugged the tail over his shoulder and brought Naruto down on the pavement. Before he hit the ground, Naruto grabbed two lampposts with his tails and suspended himself in midair. Using a third tail, he smacked Sasuke and sent him flying while tugging his caught tail away simultaneously. Completely free now, Naruto dropped to the ground and charged up a cero in his mouth. Seeing the cero fired at him, Sasuke righted himself in the air and dodged to the side. Using another of his copied techniques, he condensed reishi into his palm. Grabbing the yellow ball of reishi with his other hand he pulled, stretching it out. Now he held a yellow whip with an explosive ball of reishi on the end. He swung his new weapon at Naruto. Naruto jumped over the ball before it struck him. Sasuke smirked, the ball started glowing. Naruto looked down in surprise as the ball exploded right underneath him. Naruto landed on his back about 3 meters from he was. It was a small explosion, but it hurt like hell. Standing up, Naruto found that he couldn't balance himself and fell to the ground. Realization struck him, that ball wasn't just an ordinary bomb, it was more like a concussion grenade. Naruto's vision became blurry, the next thing he knew, he was up against a wall continuously being punched and kicked by Sasuke. Sasuke wasn't giving him a chance to get his bearings. Doing the only thing he could do, Naruto let out a dense wave of reiatsu and knocked Sasuke to the ground.

When Sasuke got up, he was forced to duck under a punch. Because of his sharingan he was able to correctly deduce that Naruto would try to knee him in the face. Leaning backwards, Sasuke dodged the incoming attack, but seemed to lose his footing. Looking down, he saw a tail wrapped around his right foot. Sasuke was pulled into the air and held upside down. The tail let go of him, allowing him to fall on his head. However, as he was falling, Naruto shot a close range cero at him. Having no other choice, Sasuke muttered a few words.

"Ban-kai: Mangekyou Sharingan!"

"Susano'o!"

The cero went off and caused a miniature explosion. Naruto jumped back in time to dodge an arrow that embedded itself in the ground where Naruto had been standing not a second ago. Naruto looked as the dust cleared and saw the the biggest purple humanoid monster he had ever seen in his life. Inside the monster stood the man he had been fighting, Sasuke. Naruto was going to attack again when Sauke asked a question, "Tell me this before I kill you. You said you were under Aizen's command, so how come you aren't one of the Arrancar?"

"You want to know why I'm not an Arrancar. It's quite simple really. There's no big explanation, no tragic backstory, in fact, I actually don't really have a reason to not become an Arrancar. But if I did have to say something, it would be that I believe there is no shortcut to power. It's something you have to earn, not just take. Plus, I don't really want to be any more like you despicable shinigami. But you people are delicious, though."

Sasuke made a strange nasal noise as he fell to his knees. Blood started pouring down his eyes. Naruto watched on soaking in every detail. It seemed that great power came at a great price. This man's zanpakuto didn't seem to like him very much.

Struggling to pull himself to his feet, Sasuke separated his fingers so he could see Naruto with his left eye.

"Amaterasu!"

Naruto looked on in curiosity but only managed to get away in time from the black flames that spontaneously exploded in front of him. The flames collided with the asphalt and the asphalt began burning. Naruto blinked twice, "What the hell? How do does that burn? That's impossible!"

Sasuke let a small smirk tug at his lips, "Not for Amaterasu."

Seeing the danger of this man's bankai, Naruto backflipped a couple more meters away. Those black flames seemed to burn just about everything. As long as he could keep shooting those it would be difficult for Naruto to get near him. Wanting to test his theory, Naruto started building up as much reishi in his mask as he could. Sasuke's eyes widened as the reiatsu in the atmosphere skyrocketed. He needed to stop this hollow. Setting off another torrent of Amaterasu, Sasuke realized he was too late. The hollow shot out a cero that could easily dwarf one of the Espada's in raw reiatsu. As the cero collided with Amaterasu, the black fire began to eat away the cero, leaving nothing but thin air. Sasuke smiled triumphantly. He had never tried burning anything other than materialistic objects before, but now he realized he could burn literally anything.

"Just as I thought," remarked Naruto, "That black fire can burn even reishi." Naruto blurred from sight.

Sasuke frowned. What did the hollow mean? He spoke as if he had been expecting Amaterasu to burn the cero. Odd. However, Sasuke no longer time to think as the hollow appeared and ran a hand straight through his gut. Damn it! In his battle using Amaterasu, he had carelessly let down the Susano'o.

Beneath his fox mask, Naruto smirked. He finally had this vexing taichou in his grasp. Suddenly everything began distorting. Sasuke's head twisted around 180 degrees and began melting into a strange liquid. Naruto stepped back, he was still in the same environment however everything was now colored either black, white, or red. Naruto began frantically looking around. What was going on? He didn't know. A voice started booming and seemed to come from everywhere. It held the same sound as the taichou's voice.

"Let me tell you about the third power of Mangekyou Sharingan. You already encountered Amaterasu and Susano'o. But this is the one I manifested and mastered first: Tsukuyomi. I have the ability to control time and space within here."

At that moment 100 Sasukes appeared. They all pulled out their zanpakuto and charged at him. Naruto tried to dodge but found himself unable to move. There wasn't anything restraining him and he didn't feel tied down but he still wasn't able to move. All the Sasukes arrived and stabbed their zanpakuto through Naruto's chest. Naruto felt unbelievable pain. But didn't die like he expected to. He just stood there with 100 zanpakuto struck throughout his body. This continued on for what seemed like an eternity. But it ended abruptly. Everything shimmered and returned to normal. The sun was peeking over the horizon. Sasuke stood right across from him, severely bleeding from his right arm. Seeing his opportunity to attack, Naruto attempted to charge but only succeeded in falling flat on his face.

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Gaara had been searching for the powerful source of reiatsu throughout this Japan country. It didn't feel anything at all like any of the Arrancar, in fact, it felt more like Chiyiko than anything else. Despite this, his bodyguards continued arguing that there was the possibility of this being one of Aizen's traps. Although Gaara did think this was possible, he wanted to verify if this was Chiyiko or not. He had not actually seen her die, he only assumed she died. What if she had survived and had come to a place like this for safety.

But as he came closer and closer to the source of reiatsu, he sensed that there were shinigami around the area. Quite powerful ones, too. But he was so close, so close he could almost taste it. No matter how his bodyguards protested, he would continue on. He went against his better judgement and that's where he found a battleground.

There was a hollow more powerful than him and a shinigami who had taichou level reiatsu. Normally he would've just left and not interfered. But this time was different. That hollow's reiatsu somewhat resembled Chiyiko and he felt the need the need to help him.

The hollow was in some sort of trance that seemed to be induced by the shinigami. When the shinigami wasn't looking, he gathered up some sand in his fingertips and fired them off at the shinigami's chest. The shinigami moved a little, though, and the sand bullets deeply embedded themselves humerus of the shinigami's arm.

The shinigami stumbled backwards for a few moments, clutching his right arm in pain looking around for what hit him. The hollow's trance seemed to break and he fell forward. Gaara jumped and landed next to the hollow and supported him. The hollow looked up at him and asked, "Who are you?"

Gaara continued looking at the shinigami, making sure he wouldn't attack while he answered, "I am Gaara. The current leader of the resistance against Aizen."

The hollow seemed to consider this for a few moments before a devious grin spread across his mask, "Thanks for helping me out, but this is my battle, " he tried to get up and stumbled for a few moments before balancing himself, "By the way, I'm Uzumaki Naruto, a soldier of Aizen's." Gaara slightly gasped at the last part of his reply.

Sasuke looked on as the second hollow appeared. This one was clearly a Vasto Lorde also, or close to it. He cursed under his breath as the fox-hollow got to his feet. His Tsukuyomi should've made him immobile. Then again, it was cut short by the arrival of the second hollow; it still wasn't as powerful as he wanted it to be. But Sasuke seriously hoped the raccoon-hollow wouldn't interfere any further. He had enough trouble with just one hollow, but a second one was too much.

That was when Sasuke saw something odd, the hollow he was currently fighting had nine tails. This itself was uncommon but not impossible. But the second hollow had one tail. This was more normal but there was something about the tails that made Sasuke uneasy. He had feeling that both hollows were related in one way or another just by seeing the tails, but he still couldn't put his finger on it.

It was around this time that Naruto noticed it also, but his reaction was very different. The moment he saw it, his head began flooding with memories. Not full memories, just little snippets here and there.

He was overlooking a large city from some type of balcony. It was sunny day and pretty warm. He was sitting on some steps and on his right sat a boy who looked suspiciously like the shinigami he was currently fighting. On the boys right sat a girl with long, bright, pink hair and red clothing. It front of them stood a man with white hair and headband covering his left eye. He was leaning against the railing.

The white haired man started asking a few questions, "OK...Let's begin with some introductions."

The pink-haired girl asked, "What do you want to know?"

The man shrugged, "How about...Your likes, dislikes, dreams for the future, hobbies, stuff like that."

The boy whose body Naruto was possessing began speaking of its own accord, "Hey hey, why don't you introduce yourself first?"

The girl agreed, "Yeah...you look suspicious."

The man answered, "Ohh...me? My name is Hatake Kak-"

It was around here the memory began getting blurry and switched over to another one.

Again, he possessed the body of the same boy. He was lying on the ground and was attempting to crawl towards a boy with red hair and the kanji for love on his forehead, who was lying on his back. The boy seemed afraid of him and shouted, "D-Don't come closer!"

But still he kept crawling and spoke out to him, "Being alone...Being incomplete. What you must feel, What your pain must be, I understand that." He kept crawling, "But for the people that are precious to me, to be able to...For the people who are precious to me, if you are hurting them, and if you are trying to kill them, I will stop you."

The other boy was shocked, "What? Until now, for the sake of other people, you've..." he let it hang.

Naruto's body continued, "Because they rescued me from the hell of being alone. They acknowledged my existence. That's why they are all the most important."

This memory cut off also. By now Naruto was on the ground clutching his head in pain. He fell to his knees and let out a frustrated scream. He felt more memories were coming but was cut off by a punch to the face.

Sasuke had seen his chance. Both hollows were distracted and so, with much difficulty, activated Susano'o and gave both of them and almighty punch to the face. He used the last bit of his energy in this attack and fell to the ground exhausted. He was lucky that it was at this time that most of the other shinigami chose to show up. Seeing their leader in shambles, Neji decided to take charge and began giving orders to heal their taichou and surround the hollows.

The situation with Naruto and Gaara was much different though. That punch was a serious one. And due to Naruto's weakened state, the left half of his mask shattered. Gaara recieved the stronger of the two punches and all of his mask broke apart except for the bandit mask around his eyes. Unconscious, both fell to the ground. A few of the shinigami approached the hollows and drew their zanpakuto. Ready to execute the duo, they were blown back by an invisible force.

A large, dragon shaped hollow appeared and surrounded the Naruto and Gaara with its body. Wyn landed in the semi-circle created by Hankou, the dragon hollow. Although Hankou drove the shinigami back through intimidation with her size, she wasn't very strong. It wouldn't take the shinigami long to figure that out. He had to work quickly. He was horrified at the damage done to Gaara, but again, he had to work quickly. He scooped up Gaara and placed him on Hankou's back. He debated over whether to take the other hollow, but decided to, just in case. When both hollows were loaded on, Hankou shot a cero to distract the shinigami and flew off.

The shinigami were in such a daze, they didn't even see the law enforcement officers arrive.

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It wasn't long after that Nemu arrived. By this time Sasuke had gained his senses. The letter handed to him contained information so valuable, he wouldn't dare even let his lieutenant, Momo, read it.

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Fixed some mistakes at 1:21 AM on July 2nd, 2012.

Because it is mainly Americans who read this story, I'm not sure if I should use the American system instead of Metric(Yards instead of Meters). I'll set up a poll or leave your choice in a review. But only if you want to, you don't have to. Anyways, thank you for reading.