I DON'T OWN NARUTO OR BLEACH.

NOTE TO SELF, NEVER MAKE PROMISES YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO KEEP.

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Kakashi and the captains followed Kisuke down the halls of the squad 12 HQ, the silver haired ninja was lost in his thoughts 'my universe has stopped? Then what's happened to Konoha? To Minato-sensei, to Kushina, to Gai, to Lord Third, to everyone? Just let them be alright.'

Yoruichi moved closer to Kakashi snapping him out of his thoughts "are you okay silver? You look a little distracted."

"I'm fine...just worried about my universe" he responded.

"Well, Kisuke said that he could get you back without having to wait a hundred years right?" she asked trying to reassure him.

"We'll see" they followed the blonde captain to a large door.

"This is something that I've been working on for a while now" Kisuke grinned opening the door to reveal a large lab inside was a strange man with blue hair, black and white make-up.

"Kurotsuchi how's the project going? Was the test a success?" Kisuke asked the odd-looking man.

'Why is there a clown working in a laboratory?' Kakashi thought to himself looking around the room.

"The test was a complete success captain, just one last test and it should be ready" Mayuri answered.

"Oh yeah, Kakashi, this is my third seat, Mayuri Kurotsuchi" Kisuke noticed Kakashi's confused expression after seeing the strange man.

Kakashi began to feel a little unnerved by the look in the strange man's eye, the look reminded him of one he had been given by Orochimaru when he got his sharingan from Obito, though apart from the strange appearance he couldn't see why he felt they were similar.

"This is the boy were using the project on?" Kurotsuchi asked Kisuke.

"Yep" Kisuke nodded.

"Are you sure he will be strong enough?" Kurotsuchi looked skeptical that Kakashi was worth all the fuss people were making...maybe a few experiments on him would change his mind.

"What does he mean strong enough Kisuke?" Yoruichi asked before Kakashi had the chance.

"Yeah, I'm getting pretty sick of this, can you just tell us what this 'project' of yours is?" Kensei questioned having grown tired of Kisuke hiding whatever it was he was talking about.

"I think it's time I showed you..." Kisuke gave a nod to Kurotsuchi who took a white cloth off of a tall box shaped object "...the stasis chamber" the object was revealed to be a tall metallic box with a lot of tubes and wires attached to it and a small glass window on the door.

"…This is the thing that's supposed to take me home? It's a box!" Kakashi almost shouted.

"It's not a box! It's a cryogenic stasis chamber" Kisuke corrected.

"I don't know what that is" Kakashi deadpanned.

"*Sigh* a stasis chamber freezes whatever enters it in a single point in time, meaning that a person inside wouldn't age" Kisuke explained.

"So all you have to do is wait for your universe to restart and then we can send you back, simple enough?" Kurotsuchi asked.

"I-Is it really that simple?" Kakashi watched the 'stasis chamber'.

"Well not entirely, a recurring problem in the creation of the stasis chamber has been a sort of 'age-lag' as captain Urahara would call it" Kurotsuchi answered for Kisuke.

"Age-lag?" Shinji asked, confused.

"An age-lag is a phenomenon in which a living organism, in this case a human, has been put into stasis. Let's say they go one hundred years in the future and then leave the chamber, after some time has passed all of the missed years will catch up and the person will age one hundred years all at once" Kisuke finished.

"It's the reason this project is going to take a bit more time to finish" Kurotsuchi explained.

"How much more time?" Kakashi turned to the blue-haired soul reaper.

"A month at the very most, but more than likely it will only be a week or so" Kurotsuchi answered.

The silver-haired ninja was taken aback "a-a month?!" He shouted.

"At the most" Kisuke corrected "as Kurotsuchi said it will more likely be around a week."

"Fine…" Kakashi turned to leave the lab "…thanks for your help Kisuke" he put his hands in his pockets and walked out the door.

The captains watched him leave before beginning to talk amongst themselves "I feel bad for the kid, he really wants to get back to his world" Shinji started.

"Wouldn't you?" Ukitake asked.

"Of course I would" Shinji answered

"Hey did he tell any of you anything about himself when we all went out drinking last night?" Shunsui questioned looking around before only receiving a round of nos.

"I think the person who would know best is Yoruichi I mean you've been around him pretty much since the time he arrived here" Shinji stated before looking around when he got no reply "where did she go?!"

"She followed Kakashi after he left" Kensei answered.

"!" Unohana went to leave "if you'll excuse me I have to go now" leaving the room a bit quicker than she meant to.

"…IS IT THE MASK?!" Shunsui shouted.

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WELL, THERE IT IS, CHAPTER 7, SORRY IT'S OUT LATER THAN I SAID BUT HEY, AT LEAST IT'S NOT TOO LATE.

THANKS FOR READING, 'TILL NEXT TIME.