Left for Dead

by Ashera fanfics

Rather than leaving her in the Seireitei, Aizen took Hinamori into the Hueco Mundo. He experimented on her with hollowification before doing it with Tousen. When she proved to be a failed experiment from his point of view, he ordered Gin to throw her away. She drifts away to the border of Kumo, Bee helps her control her hollow by restraining her and she helps in the Akatsuki arc.

A/N: Bleach/Naruto crossover. AU Bleach where Hinamori Momo has been left for dead by Aizen after he tried to make her his first experiment with hollowification, right before Kaname Tousen, if we count the Vizards as failures because he didn't have the Hougyoku at the time.

Hinamori drifted into the Hueco Mundo and crossed into another world, where there are no shinigami, a world of shinobi. Aizen's broken toy will change the shinobi world. The shinobi world will change Hinamori Momo.

The explosive Zanpakuto's wielder will meet a world of challenges, of cruelty and finally be powerful enough to change the world and make it a better place. Jiraya's dream might become a reality, but not thanks to him…

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Chapter 1: A soul adrift

Hinamori got stabbed by the man she idolized. She woke up several times in great pain, just conscious enough to feel the pain and see Aizen watch her suffering. Something was trying to take over her mind and body. It was strong and voracious, trying to eat everything that was left of her.

"She's a failure. Throw her away, Gin-kun. I don't need more failures than I already have."

"Yes, Aizen-sama."

She felt carried and then left to fall indefinitely. She lost and regained consciousness multiple times before her fall stopped. The voracious thing trying to eat her from the inside also calmed down at that moment. She drifted away, barely remembering the feel of two strong arms lifting her and placing her on the person's back. A short sight of mountains covered by clouds. A brief view of high walls over the clouds…

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…A white ceiling. She tried to stand on her elbows but felt a sudden pain radiating through her body and the voracious eater started trying to take over her mind and body once more. She remembered Aizen's words. 'She's a failure. […] I don't need more failures than I already have.' So her idol had stabbed her, experimented on her, made her live through immense pain and left her for dead because she was a disappointment to his expectations.

For some time, she felt empty inside. She had no goal anymore, her whole world had just been stomped and disrespected by her hero. Then came wrath. How could he be so cruel, treat her like a Guinea pig and throw her away when his lab experiment didn't pay off? She wanted to kill him, to rip his heart from his ribcage and destroy it with her Zanpakuto. Finally, as she started to be able to use her brain enough to think more clearly, she realized that Aizen had hollowified her, that the devourer trying to eat her soul and steal her body was her hollow self. At this point, she thought that she could simply find a way to overpower or control her hollow. After all, if he had attempted it, he probably expected her to end up controlling this hollowification.

When she understood that, Hinamori Momo decided to gather all of her will and hope. All of her anger and power. All of her darkness and all of her light. She pulled everything she had in her and confronted that hollow trying to overpower her. She fought it for a long time, she couldn't tell how long it lasted, but certainly more than one day at the very least. She was just pushing against it for as long as she needed.

When she finally felt the resistance of the hollow disappear, her exhaustion was so intense that everything in her mind became dark. She completely blacked out.

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The second time she woke up, instead of a white ceiling, she was looking at the sky. She tried to move and felt her body restrained. She looked at her limbs and noticed a strange, foreign energy keeping them from moving. She looked around and found the source of this energy. A dark skinned man with platinum blond braided hair was holding her with these energy tentacles. He moved to look at her, noticing that she had woken up.

"Yo, stranger holding a beast!

You wake up but there's no feast!

Are you back to your senses?

Cuz' my bro wants some answers!"

Hinamori wondered who this man was, what he did to restrain her and why he was talking like that.

"Hello Mister, would you happen to know where I am? I don't remember anything from the last couple days, I think…"

"You're in Kumo, village of the cloud,

I brought you out, cuz' you were too loud."

"Well, I think I managed to win against the monster trying to replace me, I don't think it was too funny on the outside…sorry…"

"You destroyed your hospital room,

And went out to cause a big boom.

I knocked that thing out and took you

Cuz' I didn'wanna kill you.

We don't even know who you are,

Let's not cause a fourth ninja war."

"Okay…wait, ninja? As in people wearing black clothes hiding their identity and spying and assassinating other humans?"

"Hey! Ninjas are not just that!

We're more like mercenaries,

We get hired for missions,

We can use varied techniques."

"But…how can you even see me? I'm a shinigami, you shouldn't be able to see me unless you're dead…"

"Guess your camouflage is down,

Cuz' I see you right from dawn."

"What kind of energy did you use to restrain me?"

"Don'tell me you don't know chakra,

That's academy knowledge nah…"

"Chakra? So this isn't reiatsu? That's why it felt so strange…"

"What is reiatsu, little Miss?

I don't think that's something I'd miss."

"Reiatsu is spiritual energy. I'm a soul, and I'm accompanying the souls of the dead to the Soul Society and purifying hollows, the wandering souls who fell for their negative emotions and became dangerous ghosts that hunt souls."

"So you're like an angel?

Cuz you sure look like one…Crap! It didn't rhyme!"

"Uh…yeah, sort of…and since we're all souls, the living are supposed to be unable to see us, unless they have high spiritual power."

"I ain't much spiritual,

But I can see you gal.

Let's go see my bro,

He sure wanna know."

"Could you please remove my restraints? I'm not going to vanish, if you managed to keep me from moving in the first place."

The man laughed as if she had said the funniest joke he'd ever heard.

"I'll release you when my bro A

Decides that you're not a threat hey!"

"My name is Hinamori Momo, what's your name?"

"The name is Bee,

For Killer Bee."

"Just like Soi Fon Taichou, well, she's more of a wasp than a bee, but the colors are the same and you both have a sting."

"Is that Soi Fon your boss?

Cuz' you just called her that…I need to write new rhymes, I can't find more rhymes on the go…"

"Soi Fon is the Captain of another Division. My Captain betrayed everyone, stabbed me and used me as a test experiment. He threw me away after estimating that I was a failure. Now I'm in a world I've never seen or heard of and I'm tied by a man with weird abilities that I don't understand. I could try to break out, but I don't know the extent of your power, how dangerous it is out there and I don't know how much power I can use without losing myself again. I'm all for diplomacy."

"Killer Bee, the best Jinchuuriki,

In Kumo I'm the best shinobi.

Don't tell my bro I said that,

He certainly won't like that."

"So most people are weaker than you? Are you strong in this world or just in your country?"

"I'm an S rank shinobi,

Everyone knows it hi hi."

"So you're one of the strongest people in the world?"

"Pretty much oh yeah baby!

I'm no pushover girly!"

"I'm one hundred forty years old, kid, don't dare calling me girly."

He looked at her funny.

"In the Soul Society, we age slower than here. The Captain Commander is more than a thousand years old and he looks like an old man but the others captains are around two hundred fifty to five hundred years old and they look like young to middle aged people."

Bee looked like he couldn't believe it.

"The damn village is younger than you!

Why doesn't age catch up to you?"

"Because we're already dead, Mister Bee. Our bodies aren't living bodies. They're made of spiritual energy."

"Then why'd you age?"

"I don't know, I'm not from the scientific department. I guess souls get reincarnated or disappear at some point, when they're in peace…"

He nodded in agreement and they arrived in front of the gates. Kumo, a village in the clouds, had big walls and looked as militarized as the Seireitei. Maybe she would feel at home in this place, despite all the weirdness of her situation…

Bee ran towards the highest tower and the people around seemed to worship him, or not far from that.

"Are you a Captain, Mister Bee?"

"I'm a jounin, a master ninja. I lead my own team of genin, beginner ninjas. I can't tell more until…hey! How is it that I'm not rapping with you?"

"Maybe because you can't say everything in rhymes? It's hard to talk about everything while thinking of rhymes for every sentence."

He looked like he was now sulking, but he jumped and landed on the edge of the window of the tower.

"Hey bro look! She's awake!"

"Bee! Shut up! I don't want to hear your rhymes!" replied a giant mass of muscle of the same skin and hair tones. "You girl! Who are you and why are you here? Are you a spy?"

"Hello, I'm Hinamori Momo, Vice-Captain of the Fifth Division of the Seireitei. I'm a shinigami and you shouldn't be able to see me because you're alive and I'm dead."

"What the fuck? I knew Konoha shinobi were crazy, but that's another level of craziness!"

"What's Konoha? Is that a rival country?"

"We're at peace for now with Konoha but ninjas can't trust each other. We could be at war at any time. So, seriously, who're you, girl?"

"Don't call me girl, I'm certainly three times older than you at the very least. I'd appreciate some respect, Mister Bro."

"Huh? My name's A, not Bro. It's that dumbass Bee who calls me bro all the time."

"Is everyone in this village called after alphabetical letters? That's weird."

"Not everyone, no. And don't say that we're weird just because we like simple names!"

"By the way, I already answered your question, I won't repeat my identity."

"And what are you doin' here, shinigami my ass!"

"I was betrayed by my Captain, who stabbed me and used me as a lab rat for his experiments before throwing me when he decided that I was a failure."

"So you're one of Orochimaru's experiments? Do you have any useful intel on him?"

"I don't know who you're talking about. My Captain's name is Aizen Sousuke, not Orochimaru."

"Stop your bullshit girl, I'm gonna get angry and crush you if you don't stop that crap!"

"Then listen to my answers. I come from a different world, it's weird enough that we speak the same language, of course that's the only thing we have in common."

"Why don't we have Yamanaka like Konoha? They'd be able to read her mind and tell me what I want to know…"

"Maybe I can help you another way, if you explain me the situation, I could offer a hand? I'm stuck here anyway and you didn't kill me although your best ninja has been restraining me during my struggle with my hollow."

"What's a hollow?"

"A hollow is a soul that becomes corrupted by negative emotions and transforms into a monster. My ex-Captain seemed to be experimenting on forced hollowification of shinigami to create more powerful beings."

"And you're a hollow?"

"No, he tried to make me…fuse with my hollow or something like that in order to make me more powerful."

"Like the curse mark, but the power comes from inside you rather than outside…and how did you deal with it?"

"I managed to push back my hollow before it could take over my soul. It could resurface if I get too injured."

"She's like me, bro!"

"Yeah, from what I understand you girl are like Jinchuuriki, you have to keep control over the monster inside you."

"Hey, Gyuuki's a fine one!

I made friends with him man!"

"I highly doubt I could become friends with my hollow, it's pure negative emotions. All I can hope to do is to control it enough to draw more power from it, and even that is unknown of."

"If we could hold you for however long it takes you to dominate this monster, could you control it and help the village against its' enemies?" asked A.

"Maybe, but I have never heard of anyone accomplishing it. It might be impossible."

"You dunno if you don'try!

Nobody before me tried!"

"Bee is the first Jinchuuriki to have a symbiotic relationship with his Bijuu, a creature made of pure chakra. He's nearly as powerful as me and he's the strongest Jinchuuriki alive. If he could reach full control over his chakra beast that could destroy our village by itself, then you should be able to control your own monster with his help, don't you think?"

"I…can try, but there is no guarantee that it will work at all…I don't even know if I will ever be able to fight at my maximum ever again without being overtaken by it…"

"Let's make a deal, you try your best to control that hollow of yours, we help you, and when you manage to control it, you help us in return. Is that good?"

"Yes, Mister A."

"Call me Lord Raikage, girl."

"Then call me Hinamori. I'm not a teenager. I'm one hundred and forty years old."

"Crap, you're three and a half times older than me! Then I'll call you old woman."

Hinamori clenched her fists and her teeth ground.

"If you want me to call you Lord Raikage, you'll have to earn my respect first, and it's far from done."

"Bee, your new mission will be to help her with her problem. If you can't keep teaching your genin, then I'll assign them another jounin."

"It's fine bro, I can do both!

Cuz' I'm strong like a mammoth!"

"That's an A-rank mission, Bee. Use your advance payment to tend to her needs. And keep her in your place until she's stabilized. We don't need more mass destruction in the village."

"Alright, bro!

Let's go, Momo!"

"It's still Hinamori for you."

Bee jumped through the window and his tentacles pulled her in his trail. She would have to drill some sense and manners into this idiot if she wanted to have a half-decent stay in Kumo…

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Three years later.

Hinamori was sparring with Team Samui, Bee's trainees. She had given a hand in their training after her hollow had been stabilized and she had gotten control over it.

Karui was triggered by some stupid reflection from Omoi and attacked too recklessly. Hinamori used a shunpo to get to the right distance and…

"Bakudou no kyuu: Geki!"

Karui and Omoi, at equal distance from her on the two opposite sides of the shinigami, were completely immobilized.

Samui threw kunai at her.

"Hadou no Sanju-ichi: Shakkahou!"

A red laser beam shot from her hand, disintegrating the kunai. Samui used the Kidou to block Hinamori's sight and try to sneak attack her. She attacked her neck…only for the ex-Vice-Captain to shunpo behind her and catch her in the same immobilizing spell as the other two from her team.

"I wish we could learn the shunpo," commented Samui. "It's way more practical than the shunshin, easy to use in combat and you can even travel long distances with it without overexerting yourself…"

"I can always kill you if you want to become a shinigami," said Hinamori on a light tone with a nice smile on her face.

"No thank you. I'm fine, maybe when I'm dead I'll try to find you and become one."

"I would be glad to be your master, Samui."

"Can you release us, please? Karui is going to start bitching again if you keep us bound for too long, like last time. And I don't want to hear Omoi's stupid what ifs all night long."

"Of course, my little Samui. Anything for you."

Hinamori released them and they went back to Kumo, dusting off their clothes. Bee chuckled.

"You always remind them they're far from the top, Hinamori!"

In the last three years, Hinamori had managed to control her hollowification and to unlock her bankai, the final stage of her Zanpakuto – her katana made of spiritual energy. With these combined, she had challenged Bee in a duel. She asked him to bet his rapping if he lost against whatever he wanted if she lost. Pushed by Gyuuki, Bee had agreed, confident in his abilities. If she lost she would have to learn to rap, since she tried to get him to stop in the first place. She won the fight and Bee was limited to one rap per day since then.

"Well, should I remind you that you're not at the top anymore, Bee? I blew up my growth rate in the last three years, but you barely made any progress yourself. Should I remind you that we received a letter from Konoha and Suna telling us that the Akatsuki was targeting the Jinchuuriki? Oh, and Yugito is catching up to you despite her beast being way weaker than yours. It seems like she has more drive than you."

"Well, she's coming from the bottom, of course she wants to rise to the top. What's the point to continue improving when you've reached the top? I'm the most fearsome swordsman in the Elemental Nations and I'm the best Jinchuuriki with the second most powerful Bijuu. No sane man would try to come at me, not even in pairs."

"The Akatsuki don't look like sane men to me. If anything, one of them was able to single-handedly defeat Gaara, the Fifth Kazekage, user of the sand magnet kekkei genkai and One Tailed Beast Shukaku. We don't even know if Konoha managed to kill this member of not. He uses explosions and could destroy any village with his techniques."

"But we have A, Yugito, you and me here. No one can beat everyone of us. And I'm not allowed to leave the village anyway, we can't even train at our maximum here in the village because it would destroy it."

"I know you try to leave each time you find an opening, Bee. If you leave the village and the Akatsuki captures you when you're alone, you know it won't be that good for Kumo. And I'm not even a Kumo ninja, or a ninja at all. You shouldn't rely on me so much."

"You've earned the trust of Kumo, milady. Of course the village relies on you in these troubled times."

"I've been assigned to guarding Yugito, I can't keep you two safe at the same time and defend the village if someone of the same caliber as this bomber appears. Stop acting like a spoiled child and take your responsibilities. If you went missing, Lord Raikage would lose his mind."

"Well, since you're like that, I guess you won't be okay to have dinner with me tonight…"

"Of course not. I'm your friend, Bee. If you don't listen to my warnings, don't even ask me to have a drink with you or anything. I won't follow you anywhere except to the training grounds to train you. You're a good swordsmen, but your ninjutsu could get better and your genjutsu is plain bad. You would fall under Aizen's illusions before even seeing his shikai."

"Yeah, yeah, Aizen Aizen Aizen. Stop speaking about him all the time, it's like you're still in love with him. Guys don't like their date to talk about their ex all the time, you know?"

"Hey, I got over it a long time ago, okay? And I'm not your date, unless you want me to give you blue balls again? Remember…"

"Please no! It's okay Mistress Hinamori! No more Bankin, please! No more ice all over my body inside the Bankin restraint! Last time it took me three days to recover my body temperature after you restrained me like that for twenty-four hours!"

"Then be a good boy and listen to mommy, okay Bee?"

"Yes Hinamori! Anything but that!"

She patted his head like a child's as he was sweating heavily from the memories.

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A/N: This fiction is a side project, not a main one. It will be short. Basically Hinamori reached Captain level in three years thanks to her bankai, her newfound confidence and independent mindset and with her hollowification she's strong enough to rival Bee and actually win in a duel (so she's stronger than Sasuke when he fought Bee and nearly died in the process and she stomps the zombie duo thanks to her great versatility, basically she's as strong as Kakashi if he used even 10% of his stolen jutsu and had a tailed beast with good control over it in his body, or at least the chakra necessary to keep using powerful techniques like a Jinchuuriki or an Akatsuki member).

And she's not reached her peak yet, because she's only been training for three years, including the time necessary to control her hollow powers. But since it's Akatsuki time, there's no time for training anymore. Also, since she's a new variable in the story, the events will change. Since Hidan and Kakuzu are going to lose without getting Yugito, they won't be able to kill the monks and Asuma in Fire Country. Other members will have to take on the tasks of bringing the Kumo Jinchuuriki and Naruto. A major hedgehog under Pain's foot and he sadly forgot to put security boots before trying to stomp it.

I won't spoil her bankai, first because I want to leave it for you to discover, second because I haven't thought about it yet so I don't know what it could be myself, knowing she has a fire type Zanpakuto and her shikai is fireballs that explode. I don't want to make her a copy of Deidara or another bomber or of Soi Fon's absurd and out of character bankai Jakkuhou Raikoben, AKA the nuclear bombzooka. Her hollowification will be a full body transformation like an Arrancar or Tousen.