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Naruto stood within his inner world, while in reality he sat cross legged in the Dangai. The purple fleshy walls completely still, the train like Cleaner halted somewhere down the line. All of these abnormalities were the result of the Reio's interference with the Dangai. Everyone else who might have gone through the Dangai that day would find themselves unable to enter a Senkaimon, or even open a Garganta leading to the Dangai. Naturally this caused a bit of a panic within the Soul Society, but when the Reio came himself to reassure everyone that it was intentional, and thus crisis was averted.
Naruto's inner world was a copy of Konoha, just more technologically advanced, with strange towers and cables linking them together. Naruto was standing on the side of a round tower firing six hellish-orange Cero's in six separate directions, without moving a muscle or even making a gesture.
"Well, looks like I have that mastered too. What to do, I have about thirty Dangai-minutes left before I can finally return to the Shinobi world. I think I'll just sit, and relax." said the person in question before he jumped off the building and landed on thin air before sitting down and waiting midair.
The thing about the Dangai is, time flows differently there. One hour in the Waking Realms is equivalent to one month in the Dangai. Naruto has spent pretty much an entire Waking day in the Dangai, meaning that he has been training nonstop for two years.
Two. Years.
Now, if you were training nonstop for even one year, alone, you would probably start to go insane. At the very least you would start talking to yourself on a daily basis. That's exactly what Naruto did, but he didn't think himself insane until he started talking back. For some reason he never felt hungry anymore.
Anyway, he had learned a lot from the Hollows he had eaten, and one thing he learned was that Zanpakutou had spirits, and that when he tore off his mask, he would gain a Zanpakutou.
Well, needless to say, it was vastly disappointing when he became an Arrancar and realized that (Although he was more powerful now even without using Resurrecion) the Zanpakutou of an Arrancar was merely a seal on it's true powers. There was no spirit, even if there was a soul.
So he continued to train, mastering every Hollow technique that he knew of(And after he devoured a Vasto Lorde, that was quite a bit) to perfection. He could now spar with himself using soul splitting to create five more copies of him. He could charge and fire six Ceros simultaneously within a second.
Why was it always six? Every time he mastered something he could at most produce six of whatever it was.
Oh well, that'd be enough to deal with anyone short of a Biju so he shouldn't be worried about improving it further.
Naruto stood, already bored, as he put his hands in his pockets. He was five-nine, and wearing an inverted Shihakusho, black on the inside and white on the outside. He carried a katana on his hip that sported a Waloon style basket-hilt rather than a traditional tsuba. On his face were six white bone fragments that covered up his whisker marks, and they extended to the back of his neck where they connected with a black and white collar made of some type of metal the fragments were strange, however, in that they flowed with his facial expressions instead of standing rigid like you would expect bone to be.
"Che, i never got to test out my Fullbring's capabilities when I was in the living world. Those dumbasses better have kept my body alive or i might just use Gonzui on the whole damn village. After getting all of my friends out of there of course." He said as he waited. And waited. And waited.
Finally he left his inner world and went to one of the fleshy walls of the Dangai, before testing to see if he could open a Garganta. It worked. Yes! He could finally go home!
He stepped trough the Garganta and was met with the glaring fake sunlight of the training area in Kisuke's basement. He almost couldn't believe it. The last two years was merely a single day here in the Shinobi World.
He noticed that he couldn't see a ladder anywhere, and he didn't want to try to find it again, so he used a simpler method of getting attention. He pulsed his Reiatsu a bit, and was rewarded when he saw a hole open up in what appeared to be the sky.
He saw Kisuke poke his head in before yelling, "Oi, you trying to kill the civilians or what?" He flash-stepped into the room right in front of Naruto who saw the ladder appear before Jiraiya came sliding down it like a madman laughing the whole way. The toad Sannin ran over and gave Naruto a giant hug while spinning him around before he dropped him and started shouting, "Where the hell have you been?! I was worried about you! Plus we had to lie to your friends and say that we're going on a mission. Well, we are, but thats not the poi-" Jiraiya was cut off by the bitchslap of the century as he flew into a rock.
"QUIT YELLING IN MY DAMN EAR YOU OLD BASTARD!" Naruto screamed before calming down. He looked to Urahara, "I guess I forgot how goddamn annoying he can be at times. Thank Ichigo, Ywach or whoever the hell the Reio is anymore because it's been a long ass time since I've talked to anyone at all."
"Yes i imagine a week would be a long time for somebody as hyper as you." said Jiraiya as he stood up with a red handprint on his face.
"A week! Hahahahahahaha! A week! I could handle a fucking week. Try two goddamn years!" Naruto yelled.
Both Jiraiya and Kisuke were confused. Jiraiya was the one that spoke up, "Naruto, you've been gone for a week, not even that yet, it's still morning."
Naruto laughed, "Oh don't get me wrong, it's been a week for you. The Reio decided he was going to lock me in the Dangai to train for an entire day. That's why I grew, why I'm an Arrancar, and why I have such piss poor language now."
Kisuke was shocked, "Wait, you saw the Reio, you saw Ichigo? Naruto, he hasn't been seen in over two hundred years, and now you are saying you not only saw him, but talked to him? While it certainly would explain why the Dangai was locked down today, I find it a little hard to believe that you saw him. I need proof. What did his eyes look like?"
Naruto grimaced, "They were freaky, like they were black with a white sideways hourglass inside them."
Kisuke closed his eyes, "So you did see him. Naruto, you need to know, that thing is an omnipresent tragedy. I knew Ichigo personally, he actually started out as a simple human. A civilian. He didn't even have chakra. Then he became a Shinigami to protect his family and town. I'm not going to give you the whole story but he was there when Ywach,the Quincy King absorbed the previous Reio. He fought Ywach and, using a combination of his Hollow and Quincy powers, absorbed him in turn. But Ichigo was still a human, and a young one at that. His mind, and that of the original Reio, Ywach, and his Hollow, shattered. What you see is a combination of the four identities. Making him into something that wasn't remotely human anymore. That's why he is able to travel amongst and freely control the worlds. He is a true God now.
Naruto and Jiraiya were silent before Naruto spoke, "He said he had a plan for me. He said i already made my choice as to my fate first when i was someone named Asura, then as someone named Hashirama. I don't know about you, but i only know about one person named Hashirama. Senju Hashirama. The Shodai Hokage."
Kisuke nodded, as well as Jiraiya. Hashirama is a very unique name. Not many people have it.
Naruto suddenly clapped his hands, "Alright, enough deep thinking bullshit. Time to get to work. Kisuke, do you have any way to age my real body to fit me? I didn't train for two years straight just to have to relearn how to walk."
"Sure, I'll get right on it."
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