A/N: Hi guys! Me here again! Just got a huge inspiration about Soul Society and Bleach all together. Here's another chapter. I hope you like it.
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Chapter 5: Urahara Naruto
"You… found this…" Tsunade whispered swallowing her surfacing tears. "You found this… in the real world?"
Jiraiya sat in front of her, a gloomy impression on his face. "I'm sorry." He whispered.
Shizune covered her mouth with her hand. "It can't be!"
"I'm sorry." Jiraiya whispered again. They all looked at small green jewel pendant that Jiraiya had brought with him. "Where we found it… there were much blood on the ground, tests proved that it was his… and we found several hollow reiatsu signatures fading from that area. I'm sorry."
"You should be!" Tsunade screamed suddenly and jumped up, hitting Jiraiya in to the face. Jiraiya flew outside of the house, crashing with a surrounding wall and fell on the ground. He didn't even try to get back up. "YOU KILLED MY SON!!! MY ONLY, SICKLY SON WHO YOU THOUGHT COULD HANDLE A MISSION IN THE REAL WORLD!!!" She kept screaming and crying uncontrollably. Retsu appeared next to her and hugged her gently. Tsunade started crying on her shoulder.
"Ane-san." She whispered comfortingly.
Isane and Shizune both witnessed this with sad eyes. Naruto had always been such a happy child. Running around wildly. They were adjutants of Senju sisters and had come very familiar with the boy. They considered him their own little brother. They could both remember him sitting on the porch, just outside of his room, smiling happily to the garden. That image fated… it would never happen again. Shizune stood up and walked to Jiraiya who still lied on the ground, blank expression on his face.
"You should leave." She whispered.
Quietly, Jiraiya stood up. "I'm sorry." He walked away.
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Rangiku was drowning herself into booze. "Naru-chan…" She whispered quietly before starting to sob. "Why… why didn't I just tell you when I had a chance? Why did you have to die?"
"Who are you?" The blond girl asked from the boy who was lying on the bed, inside the house. "Are you sick?"
The boy didn't reply but turned to his side, back towards her.
"Hey! That's rude!" Rangiku screamed angrily. "Your friends should tell you that that isn't nice!"
"I don't have any friends." Naruto whispered with low voice. "Go away."
Rangiku huffed and suddenly jumped inside. "No way!" She kicked Naruto to his back, surprising him. "Apologize!"
Naruto looked like he was going to cry. He was bullied outside his home, but now inside too? "N-no! I didn't do anything wrong!"
Rangikus eye twitched. "You were rude to a girl! That's wrong!"
"Ugly girl like you don't deserve anything better!"
"Why you…" Rangiku was about to hit when a thought came to her. "So, if I get to admit that I'm pretty, you will apologize?"
"That's not going to happen." Naruto muttered.
"Yes or no!" She screamed scaring him badly.
"Y-y-yes!"
Rangiku smirked triumphantly. "I will make you apologize no matter what! And then you have to admit that I'm a pretty girl!" She turned around smugly and walked away. "By the way, I'm Rangiku!"
"Naruto." The boy whispered dumbfounded.
"Why did you have to leave me?" She whispered tears running down her cheeks. "I couldn't even tell you how I felt." She whimpered. Next person who found her, found a woman passed out on the table, dozens of sake bottles rolling in her feet.
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Ise Nanao was busy. First she needed to file the reports of her squad's achievements, then she needed to look for some evidence in this case where she represent one of her subordinates, after that she should review archives for past century… "GET MOVING!!!" She screamed to her subordinates as they were slacking behind.
"B-but Fuku-taichou… we've been working for past two days! We… we need some sleep! Don't kill me!" He covered himself with his hands like a frightened child.
"FINE!!!" Nanao screamed but continued to read documents. "LEAVE ME ALONE!!! DON'T DISTURB ME!!!" She threw everyone out of the library.
Kyoraku Shunsui looked at his vice-captain with a gloom expression on his face. Ever since the news had reached her, she had covered herself in work, not allowing herself to think what had happened. Sighing darkly, he left the library where Nanao had suddenly found a need to rearrange it from the beginning.
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"How are you feeling?" Ukitake Juushiro asked from Jiraiya when they were drinking. "Losing a vice-captain is always hard."
Jiraiya gulped down his sake saucer. "Thanks for the efforts but I don't think I want to feel any better for a while."
"Don't be like that." Shunsui opened the door to the cabinet and sat next to them. "How is he doing?"
"He is going get blasted and then forget the whole mess. That's how he is doing." Jiraiya answered and took another gulp.
"That's pretty much it." Ukitake sweat dropped awkwardly.
"How was Nanao?"
"No change." Shunsui poured to himself some sake and sighed. "C'mon!" He smirked. "Let's drink and make asses out of ourselves. Remember when we were all back in the academy? We got drunk the night before graduation and when we woke up, we were in girl's dormitory, Ukitake was wearing (for some reason) nothing but girl's underwear, Jiraiya stark naked, wearing makeup and for some reason I had a wedding kimono on me. I'm still curious how those things happened…"
"You talked me into 'taking a one little drink." Ukitake blamed them, embarrassed blush on his face. "It wasn't my fault."
"I remember that I wanted to see that Kayano-senseis room…" Jiraiya muttered. "But it was you who suddenly suggested a drinking game!"
They all laughed to memories of their academy days and after.
This occasion wasn't the first time, Jiraiya had lost his vice-captain. After all, he had been a captain over two centuries. He had lost many, so many he wouldn't like to admit but it always stung hard when it happened. He was the old timer. He wasn't supposed to see the young ones die. Especially ones with so much potential as Naruto. They boys dream was very plausible. He sighed. Thinking about death and living all that, he poured some sake.
"I hope he enjoys himself… where ever he is." Jiraiya muttered and gulped again.
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"That shitty old man…" Naruto clenched his teeth and forced a smile. "Hi! I'm Naruto! Urahara Naruto! I live with my dad who owns a small shop downtown. Yoroshiku!"
"Hai!" Teacher clapped his hands. "I want every one of you to welcome Naruto-kun warmly to this class and help him to get started. Sit down next to Sado-kun over there!"
"Sado-kun?"
Gigantic teenager raised his hand and pointed towards the seat next to him. "Over here."
"Thanks!" Naruto walked through the class, followed by curious eyes. "So, Sado, right? You're huge!"
"Eeh… thanks. You're… blond." Sado answered lamely.
"That's right. I have my dad's hair color." Naruto ruffled his hair. He looked around. "So… what's the deal then?"
"Deal?"
"I mean, what's the…subject we are studying?" Then he added with a low mumble. "Yeah, that sounds like a person from a real world."
Sweat dropped Sado cleared his throat. "We're studying math."
"Oooh… like… one plus one equals two?"
"No. Slightly more complicated than that." Sado sweat dropped.
"Okay. I get it." Naruto leaned back when teacher started to explain… something.
Yasutora Sado glanced at the desk next to him. For the first time that he could remember, he could actually witness the sleeping process so fast forwarded. In two minutes, the new student was drooling on his desk, behind his book.
When the lunch began and the bell rang, his head snapped upwards. Sado couldn't believe Narutos luck. Teacher had ignored him the whole time and now that he sat there like he had never even flinched, he finally noted him. "Urahara-kun." Teacher looked at him. "How was your first class? Were you able to hang on?"
"Yeah. No problems." Chad sweat dropped
"Good, because I know it must be hard for a student to come change schools in middle of a semester especially right before their high school applications so if you need any help don't hesitate to turn on us for help, teacher or your fellow students. Sado-kun here is among top students of the school." With that he walked away.
"He seems nice." Naruto said brightly following Chad around.
"He is a great sensei." He admitted. "He can see through first impression unlike many other students or teachers."
After couple minute's being followed, he couldn't ignore it anymore. "Urahara-san, why are you following me?"
"Aren't you showing me around?"
"… sure."
So they walked all the way to the roof where, to Narutos amaze, a group of teenagers pluming each other. Or after a moment of watching, he realized that it was this one kid with orange hair doing all the pluming while others just tried to do something about it. Just when he was about to ask something about this scene from Sado, the giant boy rushed forward, swooping through the group, right behind this orange haired kid and punched one of the brats around him in to the face. These two stood back to back, taking their opponents one by one until they understood that this duo wouldn't go down today so they run, taking their wounded with them.
"So this place has time to rest and shows for entertainment." Naruto clapped his hands. "Really different from where I used to go to school."
"Chad, who's this guy?" The guy with orange hair. "Did he follow you?"
"This is Urahara Naruto-san." Sado did the honors. "He transferred to my class this morning. Urahara-san. This is Kurosaki Ichigo."
"Kurosaki?" Naruto repeated the name deep in thought. "Like I've heard that name somewhere before…"
"My family owns a clinic in this town." Ichigo explained and Naruto shrugged.
"Must be it. Anyway. So, why did you beat these kids? Stealing their money?"
"What? No!" Ichigo jumped up. "Who do you think I am? Those guys just always pick a fight with us all the time because we're so different. You should know, with that hair colour and style."
"My hair?" Naruto asked and touched his head. "I never thought about it because. It never was an issue back in the academy."
"Academy?" Ichigo asked.
"I mean school!" Naruto jumped and cleared his throat. "Anyway, nice to meet you!" He smiled widely. "Let's be friends!"
"Eeh… sure. Why not."
It was just then when one of the knocked out idiots finally could stand on his own. He watched as some new brat was making friends with Kurosaki and Sado. He decided to act. He picked up a pipe and voiced a war cry before charging at Narutos turned back.
"Watch out!" Both Sado and Ichigo tried to warn him but Naruto narrowed his eyes and reached for the insides of his shirt. With one smooth motion, he pulled out a normal looking fan, turned around, dodged the metal pipe easily and slapped the thug's neck hard, knocking him on his back and turned back to face Ichigo and Sado and 'sheeted' his fan back to his side.
"Amazing. You know Kendo or something?" Ichigo asked.
"I'm master in Iaido." Naruto scratched his head embarrassed of their amazed expressions and pulled the fan back and waved it nervously. "I used to practice with my sq- I mean school!" He laughed and looked around. "Is this a usual occurrence here?"
"Most students often give us hard time and pick fights so we just defend ourselves."
"Hoo." Naruto nodded understanding. "Have you ever tried talking to them?"
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After that day, Naruto started hang out with the two and quickly found himself also attacked by delinquents all the more often. And before he realized it, he was now part of a 'gang' called 'strongest trio'. His father was ecstatic. Urahara had smiled proudly and happily patted him on the head telling him how pleased he was. And then suddenly he changed his attitude and started ranting about dangers of the delinquent life and not taking his studies seriously and coming out late. It took a while to him to understand that Kisuke was doing his 'usual father-son moments'-act they had 'missed' in life and soon the rant died down and he started asking if they were going to 'take over the neighborhood' and should he start to prepare himself for angry parents coming to his house calling him a bad father. Naruto only shrugged.
"Your father's a really sounds a strange guy." Ichigo said while they were eating lunch. For once, they hadn't been called out so they could actually enjoy their lunch in the classroom. "Well, I still think he loses a fight of insanity with my dad."
Naruto shrugged. "Well, he's a good guy and best in what he does. He just tries to catch up with lost time."
"Lost time?" Chad asked curiously.
"Yeah. I mean after what happened with my mom and hi…" He cleared his throat quickly. "It's complicated so let's leave it that."
"Okay. So, our schools baseball team got its ass kicked in last game…"
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"So, how's life in a real life treating ya?" Hirako asked with uninterested voice and a half eaten biscuit in his mouth while browsing through a magazine. Naruto glanced at the pictures and drool started dropping from behind his mask. He was lonely. It had been a long time since the last time and he was getting excited more easily.
"You're open!" Lisa screamed and thrusted forward with her zanpakuto. Naruto pulled out his wakisashi, sealed form of Kinha and was only barely able to block the attack, or so he thought when Lisa's attack pierced his mask and shattered it in half. Naruto fell on his backside and panted quietly. "You allowed yourself to be distracted by mere magazine of naked girls in it. Are you a pervert?" She glared down to him.
"You're one to talk!" Naruto jumped back up angrily. "You're the one who keeps those magazines in the open and keeps reading them! It's not my fault that I'm feeling-"
"Horny?" Hirako suggested nonchalantly.
"Yeah, now that I think about it, it seems that no one of you gets any action around here. When was the last time any of you got… some?" Everyone tensed considerably but Naruto didn't notice so he continued. "I mean, you keep reading porn in the open," He said to Lisa. "you're just working out like a bulldozer," He glanced at Kensei who quickly took a step back from the punching bag he had hang for himself. "and you're seemed to have lost every reason to get up in the morning," He shot a look at Love who had been lying around lazily. "and Rose just keeps doing his hair like it's an orgasmic experience so I guess that okay…" He turned around to face him when the long, blond haired musician suddenly dropped his comp. He turned towards Hirako. "Don't let me even start about you." Then he looked towards the group of three, Mashiro, Hiyori and Hachi before turning away ignoring their shocked impressions. "I mean, I know it must be hard to live around the same faces for a century, but shouldn't you guys go out more? You know? Get some, relax some, and live some?"
Then he felt like a brick had just hit him on his head when Hiyori kicked him. "What about us you asshole!" She screamed and started stumping on him. "You think I can't have a sex life?"
"Or me?" Hachi said slowly. "I mean, I'm a good looking guy right, I could get some action if I wanted to. Right guys?" He looked at his friends to see that they were avoiding his gaze. Hachi had fallen to depression where others soon joined him.
Mashiro was the only one who didn't quite get what was going on but kept poking Narutos carcass with a finger.
It seemed that Naruto had just found a problem that no one even noticed existed before.
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"So, what should we do tonight?" Ichigo asked from Naruto as they walked down the street, while chatting with each other. Chad remained silent like always.
"Let's hit the… arcade…" He made sure he got it right.
"Nah, we go there every day!" Ichigo complained. "Let's do something different."
"But I wanna go to an arcade!" Naruto pouted like little kid. "C'mon!"
"No." Ichigo stated flatly.
"Please."
"No."
"Please!"
"No!"
Chad sighed quietly to himself as he continued to witness this childish bickering. "By the way, Naruto." He said suddenly and they stopped and both looked at him. "How did you do on your end of term exams so far?"
"What? What exam?" Naruto asked confused and took his thinking pose. This particular pose was reserved for those moments when he was thinking something important. Or thinking anything at all, his friends added in their minds. "Ooh that piece of paper where there was a lot of questions?"
"… yeah?" Chad gulped. It had become a clear habit of Narutos that he slept during classes. Even teachers noticed this and often had to reprimand him for being disrespectful and all. Chad was amazed if he even passed. Not being fencing to his new friend but he certainly didn't pass as a studious type. Meanwhile Naruto pulled out a piece of paper and showed it to them. "Here. What you think? Did I do good?"
Chad was prepared for some lame 'you did well but maybe you should start taking school a bit more seriously' talk when he noticed the results. The grade point average of all the tests so far was over 90%! And almost all the mistakes were only mere technicalities. He and Ichigo face faulted. "Seriously?" He whispered. "How?"
Naruto shrugged. "I don't know. Those things are just so easy." He shrugged and walked away leaving the two gawking at his test results.
"But he's not even wake most of the time!" Ichigo scream filled the street.
That day, Kisuke told Naruto that he had been summoned to his principal's office.
"What did he want? Am I in trouble?"
"Unfortunately, not." Kisuke sighed depressed. He had been so excited when he had been summoned to the principal's office for the first time. Ready to defend his son's behavior, telling that he had a hard time, mother problems and that there would be punishments delivered and he would straighten his son out, like a normal father of a delinquent. Imagine his disappointment when he comes to the office, where he talks with the principal and Narutos home-room-teacher and finds out that his son was a genius.
Well of course he was a genius if these were the standards. Seriously! Naruto had been home schooled by some of the best tutors in Seireitei of what money could buy for years! Tsunade had made sure of that. She had thought that he would stay out of trouble if he was busy keeping his nose in the books (that turned out so well) and of course she had prayed that he would find himself a life-calling somewhere else than becoming part of the Gotei 13. Well, both of those ideas failed but Narutos head was full of book-knowledge. Not that he ever used it.
Anyway, the principal had asked about Narutos circumstances which had made him to move into Karakura town, Kisuke was forced to make up a sad weepy story of a man who fell in love with a daughter of a rich and powerful family and how their love had been forbidden. How they had dated in secret but betrayal of his colleagues had forced him to leave. Then, years later, few months back a young boy is forced to live with him due circumstances he refused to talk about. A boy who's existence he hadn't even known before he was hugging him and calling him 'dad'. Urahara swept a tear from the corner of his eye and glanced around how everyone in the room already wept. He continued the story by telling how bad father he was for not knowing his existence and not being able to be there for him. How self-loathing he was and how everything was his fault. And then he ended his speech how he would make sure he would be there for his son for the rest of his life and would never let him go anywhere! For some reason principals secretary hugged him tightly so he could feel her well-sized breasts touching his own chest. Everyone cried. Expect Kisuke who was grinning happily.
Then, Kisuke had asked what they had wanted to talk about and noticed swiftly that the principal hid documents under other papers and waved his hands nonchalantly. He had seen that the papers were about Narutos transforming school into some prestigious genius school but his story had obviously made them forget such intensions because the principal promised that there was nothing to worry about and he should be proud of his son and give him some space and slack and he was sure to come around.
"So here I am, praised that my son is a genius and I should tell you to go off and have fun?" He huffed looking hurt. "When I get to ground you, huh? What kind of father am I if my son doesn't even get grounded?"
Naruto couldn't help but snicker when he listened to his father telling the story. "Don't worry dad, I will get into a fight with someone from the neighborhood so they will come and complain and you can ground me, okay?"
"You really would do that?" Kisuke asked again as his happy and excited himself. "You're the best son a man like me could ever hope for." He leaned to hug him over the table. "Come here son!"
"Get away from me you freak!" Naruto yelled and run out of the kitchen, holding his chopsticks and rice as he went. "No way I'm going to hug another man in my life!"
"Don't be shy my son! Come on, give you daddy a hug!" They run around the front yard all night long.
"What has gotten into Owner lately?" Jinta asked from the doorway. "Ever since that guy showed up, it has been one disaster after another."
"Please, Jinta-dono. Owner is just happy. And not tormenting us for once so take this chance to relax."
Jinta grunted something incomprehensible and walked back inside while Naruto tried to fend off his hug-sick father by throwing dishes at him. And when he run out of those, he started kicking him desperately.
--
"Seriously! That guy is crazy!" Naruto ranted in Vizard clubhouse. "Being disappointed that I'm called a genius (for once), wanting me to start trouble, being proud of me being a 'delinquent'! And middle of a dinner he start chasing after me, wanting to hug me! I'm serious! I need to do something about this! What you think?" He turned to face his audience. "Where is everybody?"
Hachi and Mashiro were only people who were in the hide out, now that he noticed to look around.
"They thought a little time outside wouldn't hurt them." Hachi explained sadly. "I… too went out but realized that something were just true so I came back to keep Mashiro-chan some company."
Naruto raised an eyebrow. "You mean, you tried to get some action and failed miserably so you stayed behind, on babysit duty."
Mashiro only sat on Hachis head bored. "Everyone left thinking I'm some little baby! It's not nice of them!" She pouted. "When I said I could get a boyfriend too, they just laughed! They are so mean." She pouted twice as hard. "I even got some human clothing for me." She said pointing at some red dress in front of her. "Mashiro wants a boyfriend too."
Naruto couldn't help but feel a little guilty. "Why don't we play some poker while we wait for them come home?" He suggested.
So they played and waited. First one to return was Love.
"Bitches." He muttered and opened a beer bottle. "I hate bitches like that!" He yelled into the emptiness of the room. "Who says it's lame to read manga in my age? Huh? Who's going to tell me that I can't enjoy the humor, the drama and action even if they are drawn as pictures? Huh? Who's going to…" He kept ranting to himself while sitting down into the group and taking some cards. "What are we playing?"
Next one to return was Lisa who seemed repulsed. She just sat into the circle and joined the game. When no one said or did anything but looked at her she grunted angrily. "I just asked some questions about sexual preferences and they ran away. Damn puritans!"
Then it was Kensei. He just sat down and gulped to their looks. "Good body, beautiful face, nice personality and there was definitely a spark."
"So… what did she need to satisfy you?" Love asked.
"It wasn't what she needed but what she had." He paled just from the thought.
Then it was Rose. He just sighed and smiled sadly. "It wouldn't work." He too joined the game.
Day started to change into a night but there was no sign of either Hiyori or Shinji.
"Maybe they actually got some?" Love suggested annoyed.
"I… don't think so." Naruto shrugged when everyone was looking at him questionably he just laughed and brushed them off. "I have only my doubts. Nothing more." And then, very Kisuke-like maneuver, he covered the lower half of his face.
Finally very pleased looking Shinji stepped down the stairs into the 'basement'. "Ooh! Look who's here? It's a bunch of 'singles´ isn't it? What's this? A singles poker night." He stretched his arms dramatically and yawned loudly. "Well, I better get to bed soon. All this action made me very tired."
"Yeah, I bet it did." Naruto muttered. "Worth of every yen. Right?"
Shinji paled. "I don't know what-"
"I saw you entering that bordello on my way here." Now everyone started laughing. "Didn't think much about it."
Shinji sighed disappointed and sat into the ring with others. "At least I got some."
"Bought doesn't count!" Love yelled angrily.
"Why not?"
After two hours of waiting, Hiyori walked down, humming happily. "How's that you losers? I got a date! With a boy who asked me out!"
Everyone laughed and ignored her. "I told you she would come back. You worried for nothing." Shinji said bored. "Ace high."
"But she has a tendency to attract attention. Nothing." Naruto folded his hand.
"Stop ignoring me! I got a date!"
"Sure you did." Lisa answered indifferently while folding his hand too.
"Believe me you assholes!" She started beating the group but no one believed her.
--
Outside the factory, very scared looking Asano Keigo was looking around. Some girl had just stopped him in a middle of a street saying 'you will do' and dragged him away. Now, after being practically robbed and kidnapped, he was waiting for what to do.
--
As these things happened, Senju Naruto, vice-captain of the third squad, 'bastard Senju', the next head of one of the great noble houses of Seiretei, boyfriend of Ise Nanao (?) and best friend of Matsumoto Rangiku (?). Boy who went to academy with Hyuuga Hinata and Nara Shikamaru. A man who grew up to be a master of Iaido, good sword man and excellent team leader, has a great talent in shunpo and stealth, had no kido control, often sickly, friendly with everyone, respected leader, dream of becoming the next captain-commander of Gotei 13 and always 'mamas little boy' to Tsunade, his mother, this man ceased to exist and was replaced with Urahara Naruto, the weird blond kid in school, the 'sword guy' in the 'strongest trio', the delinquent gang, a boy who lived with his father in his candy shop. The boy who got almost perfect answer rate even though never paying any attention during class. Kurosaki Ichigos and Yasutora "Chad" Sados friend. The boy who applied into the same high school as they did. Karakura High School.
So as months passed and the spring came, they all walked past the school gates, their bags over their shoulders, dressed in their new school uniforms. "This is high school, huh?" Ichigo muttered as they stood in front of the building.
"Yeah, I imagined it a bit different." Naruto admitted.
"How?"
"I guess I thought it would be… higher. You know? 'High School'."
Ichigo and Chad exchanged looks. Even if Naruto was some 'hidden genius' like their teacher liked to comment him, he lacked so much the normal 'common sense' you expected to find from a normal person. That is, if you could consider Naruto even slightly normal.
"This is it." Chad muttered as they looked at the board in the wall. Classes were placed in order. "We're all in class 1-3. Lucky?"
"Yeah. Amazing." Ichigo patted his friend's backs. "I was afraid you would be sent to some high class prestigious school far off but you end up in our class in our school. That is lucky, Naruto?"
"Yeah. Lucky." Or it might have been something to do with Kisuke using the memory modifier and making it possible. After all, delinquent gangs should stick together. "I think it might have something to do with us being delinquents."
"Wait just a minute!" Ichigo jumped back. "We," he signed Chad and himself. "weren't delinquents in the first place. We were just students who were picked on and fought back when necessary. Then you came along and more guys started challenging us and before we knew it, we were this stupid thing called 'strongest trio'."
Naruto slapped him with his fan painfully. "Don't point, its rude." He scolded.
"Ow!" Ichigo held his hand painfully. "Te…me…"
"Guys…" Chad interrupted them. "Maybe we should get inside. People are looking."
Naruto and Ichigo both looked around. It was true, they were being watched. Many students crept away from them, trying to act inconspicuous. They quickly stopped bickering, picket up their bags, Naruto stuck his fan inside his uniform and stepped inside.
"Well, well well." They all stopped as they recognized the voice. "Isn't it the 'The three dwarfs'."
"It's the strongest trio!" Naruto corrected him annoyed.
"Why do you care?" Ichigo asked.
"Well obviously I care what people think of me! I mean, imagine if I ask a girl out? Wouldn't it be kind of humoring if the first thing they asked was 'are you one of the three dwarfs'."
"You're asking a girl out? What about that amazing girlfriend you have… where ever is that you come from." Chad asked confused.
"Yeah, I thought about it and realized that, we didn't end in best terms and… and I haven't even heard of her for months now… it's complicated."
The bully just now started to feel ignored and decided to get some attention again. "Hey assholes! I'm talking here!"
"How was I supposed to know that my childhood friend might have hots for me?" Naruto asked, ignoring him completely. "I mean, it had been so long that I had long ago stopped of thinking her as a 'girl'."
Ichigo and Chad walked pass the bully like he was invincible. "That friend of yours, is she hot?"
Naruto shrugged. "I don't know. I mean, I've always thought of her as a best friend. I guess she is okay…" He shrugged again. Of course any men and most women, who knew Rangiku, would either beat him up or pass that as a joke. There was no way anyone would believe that Naruto thought her as an 'okay'. But that was true. He had never really seen Rangiku even though she was right in front of him. When most people saw big boobed blond and her flirtatious moves, Naruto only saw that same annoying little girl who had once invited his bedroom out of nowhere and started making demands.
The bully had enough and decided to charge at Ichigo. "We're gonna settle this once and for all!" He yelled a warcry which changed into a scream of pain when Ichigo punched him hard into the face.
"It seems that we can't go on without taking out these guys." Chad said slowly raising his fists. "We would prefer if you would just stand aside and let us pass."
"Not happening!" One goon taking place of the first one yelled. "We're going beat you guys down and claim the title of the strongest with that! YEHAA!!!"
"Heads up!" Ichigo yelled to Naruto who was still going on about his love life.
"I mean, she is beautiful, smart woman and she smiles like a sun (when that happens) but she is also paranoid and overly jealous…"
Next thing they knew, they were outside, in a middle of a front gate, surrounded by goons.
"… but she has always been a friend. Well, I have of course thought about the chance of us being an item, I mean I had my first fantasies about her. But then there was my crush to Sakura…"
"Will you shut up!?" Ichigo yelled suddenly. "I know you have women problems but can't you see that we're in a middle of something here!?"
Naruto blinked and looked around. First thing he knew, a complete stranger came and offered him his hand. "Kojima Mizuiro. Nice to meet you."
Naruto blinked again before starting to smile. "Of course. Nice to meet you two. I'm Naruto! Urahara Naruto! My dad owns a little candy shop downtown."
"Kurosaki Ichigo." Ichigo stepped forward. "And the big guy is Yasutora Sado. We call him 'Chad'."
Chad nodded politely.
"That's Asano Keigo." Mizuiro pointed at his currently stumped on friend who kept screaming for help. "He's a much better friend than I am and even smart even though he doesn't study much."
Naruto whistled while Ichigo looked impressed. "You're something else." He said.
"What?"
"I've never heard anyone complementing a friend to a total stranger like that before." He threw of his jacket. Mizuiro saw how Chad did the same while Naruto pulled out his fan. "Mizuiro, are you good with excuses?"
"As a matter of a fact, yes I am."
"Good, cause we're gonna need one pretty quick." Ichigo smirked as they all picked their targets. "We're going need an excuse of why we're not in the class on time!" They charged ahead.
And that was how the 'strongest trio' came to Karakura High and met Mizuiro and Keigo.
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Meanwhile, in soul society…
"You think that would work?" Aizen asked quietly from the dark figure. His room was filled dim, candle light.
"No. Even if we were able to draw him out, he would only re-disappear again." The figure leaned further away from the candle light.
"Would he truly try to hide that into his own son's soul?"
"I doubt it." The figure turned around. White haori was visible for a moment. "I don't think he would dare to do such thing for him. Not, when he clearly knows the wrath of his mother."
"So, we just have to wait for another chance." Aizen said calmly. He heard how sword was sheeted. "You still don't trust me?"
"Of course I do. I wouldn't be here if I didn't." The figure opened the door and walked out. "It's just a procedure to make sure you stay honest."
Chapter END