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'Thoughts'

Chapter 3:

With the golden shine in her eyes, the goddess has turned all 10 Espada, plus Lilynette, into a pure golden energy, which then started to fuse together, forming a golden ball.

At first, the ball was quite big, being several meters in diameter, but as the minutes passed, the ball was shrinking in size, while at the same time, was apparently increasing its density, considering that the floor below the ball was cracking from the pressure. Along with the shrinking of the ball, there were also sparks of electricity rolling over the ball.

All in all, the picture looks and feels quite scary, and would have made every human and low class deity, shiver in fear from the ominous feeling the ball was exuding.

Once the ball was down to about two meters in diameter, it stopped shrinking, but the electricity around grew more powerful, while at the same time, cracks started to appear all over the ball.

While this was happening, the goddess was calmly standing few meters away from the ball, and looking at it, waiting for the fusion to finish, so that she can see what will come out, as even she is unsure how Naruto will look like after the fusion. One thing she knows for sure, though, is that he will be looking at least slightly different then he used to be, before his death.

It took five minutes for the fusion to be over, and once it was, the ball of golden energy burst into golden light, leaving behind a being of incredible power.

The goddess cast a look at the new Naruto, and couldn't help herself as he gained a small red hue on her cheeks.

Newly reborn Naruto is a tall, muscular man with light blonde spiky hair and dark blue eyes. He is around 190cm tall, and about 90kg. He wears a black shirt which he keeps partially unzipped around his chest area, along with black pants, black boots and two white belts around his waist, with his Zanpakutō sheathed on his left side along his top belt, while on both sides of his lower belt, he has two gun holsters, with two guns in them. He wears white jacket, the same kind as the one worn by Grimmjow. He has a Van Dyke style beard, and, unlike the original Naruto, he no longer has whisker marks on his cheeks, but instead, has two black lines on his cheeks, with the top line, being the shortest, is connected to the black pigments around his eyes. Finally, while at that time, Naruto should be around 15 or 16 years old, this new Naruto looks to be around 20 years old. (Basically, it's a combination of Grimmjow's hairstyle and attire from 1000-years blood war, along with Naruto's Baryon Mode face markings, except fox ears and the pigments around his eyes don't go upward, and are only around his eyes and below.)

Naruto looked at himself as much as he could, without a mirror, and whistled. "Damn. I really look good, don't I? And this power I feel. It's… incredible."

The goddess smiled when she saw Naruto's reaction, and said. "Well, you are a combination of 10 Espada. Of course you are powerful. I'd say that right now, you are about as powerful as, Aizen was, after he completely fused with Hōgyoku."

"Really?" Naruto questioned as he looked at the goddess, who nodded in confirmation.

"Yes. Which means, that at your current power, you could be considered a third most powerful being in your old world. Aizen is your equal, while the two more powerful ones are, Ichigo Kurosaki, in his transcended form, and the founder of Quincy.

Naruto was surprised by this. Especially because Ichigo wasn't that powerful the last time one of his Espada forms saw him, which was when Zaraki and Byakuya showed up to take on Yammy. This, suggested to him that more time has passed since the death of Espada and their appearance in the heavenly realm, then he though.

"How much time has passed since the death of Espada and their appearance here?" Naruto asked.

"Quite a bit, actually," the goddess said. "Time passes differently in between different dimensions. For you, it has been many millennia since the death of the original Naruto, but in your old world, only three years has passed. It's the same with this realm.

"It's been about two years since the death of all Espada, and since then, many things have happened in that world, starting with Aizen's defeat at the hands of Ichigo Kurosaki and Kisuke Urahara, and his imprisonment after that.

"But never mind that now, since that world is no longer important to you, as you are not going back there."

Naruto listened to what the goddess was saying and couldn't help himself but show a large grin on his face. He was unbelievably happy because of what happened to Aizen. It's probably because of how much some of his previous forms, like Barragan, for example, hated the damned Shinigami. Then again, Ulquiorra did respect Aizen, along with some others, but majority of the 10 Espada, hated Aizen.

The goddess saw the grin on Naruto's face, and smiled a little, while also shaking her head. "Before I send you back, there is one other thing I must tell you."

This drew Naruto's attention, so he was all ears.

"I will be sending you back into your old world," the goddess said, but Naruto already knew that. Instead of interrupting her with a question, he waited to hear what else she has to say. "But I will also be sending you back in time. You will appear in that world, on the same day of Naruto's execution, though you will not appear in Konoha, but somewhere else."

Naruto looked at her with a confused look on her face. "Why?"

"I'm assuming you mean, why am I sending you back in time, instead of just sending you at the current time?" The goddess questioned, and Naruto nodded.

"That's because I'm hoping that you will actually save the EN from total destruction, and sending you back, will give you more time to do that, and save some people who didn't deserve to die."

Naruto looked at the goddess with narrowed eyes for a little while, before he shook his head. "Do as you wish. But I wouldn't get my hopes to high. I hate nearly every human being in the EN, and I doubt I'll do much to save them."

"You say that now," the goddess said with a slight smile on her face. "But when you find yourself in a situation where you have to choose between saving an innocent life, or watching them die, then your resolve will be truly tested and then you will see that you are not as cold-blooded and murderous as you might believe."

Naruto decided to change the subject and asked. "Tell me about my powers. I feel different then I felt when I was human, but I also don't feel like a Hollow, either. So what am I right now?"

The goddess thought about Naruto's question for a moment, before she said. "Technically, you are a human/hollow hybrid." She saw a confused look on Naruto's face, so she explained better.

"As you have probably noticed by now, you no longer have a hollow hole, nor the remnants of the hollow mask," Naruto nodded. "That means that you are not a pure hollow. You are more like Ichigo Kurosaki and the other Visored's, yet still not the same, since they are Shinigami and Human, with hollow infection. You are a human with inherited hollow power."

Naruto thought about it for a minute, before it came to him. "So, basically, I'm like a product of one parent being human, and the other a pure hollow?"

The goddess nodded with a smile. "That's the best way to explain it."

Naruto looked at his hands for a few moments, and then asked. "So which powers do I have? I can feel bother Chakra and Reiryoku, but which of the powers I had as Espada, do I still have?"

The goddess shrugged. "Pretty much all of them except Resurrección. You are not a full Arrancar class hollow, but a hybrid, which means you don't have Resurrección. On top of that, you have your full power at your disposal, with none of it sealed inside of the sword or anywhere else, which means there is no need for a Resurrección. Of course, you can power-up, by releasing more of your Reiryoku."

Naruto rose his eyebrows in confusion, before he cast a look at his sword, which reminded him too much of Ichigo's Bankai sword, though different colored and was inside of a sheath. He also cast a look at the two pistols. "Then what's up with these weapons? Where did they come from and why do I have them?"

"Remember when I was showing you the day of your execution," the goddess question, and Naruto scowled, as he was reminded of that. He didn't answer, but the goddess knew he remembered, so she continued. "You saw how after you soul broke, the neckless which Tsunade gave you also broke into 10 pieces," Naruto nodded, as he remembered seeing that as well, though he didn't know why that happened. "Well, the neckless broke into 10 pieces, just like your soul, and those pieces basically joined with pieces of your soul. Over time, they would become Zanpakutō's, each Espada was carrying."

Naruto's eyes widened. "You mean to tell me, that the weapons Espada were using for so long… were made out of a pieces of a… neckless?"

The goddess nodded. "That neckless meant a lot to you, just like Tsunade did. Even though you didn't have it for too long, there was still a bond, which is why the neckless broke after your death, and the pieces tied themselves with your soul pieces."

Naruto shook his head. "This is getting ridiculous, and really hard to believe," he said.

"It might be a little bit hard to believe," the goddess said. "But it's the truth.

"But anyway. Now that you are fused back together, all the weapons Espada had, fused as well, but not into a neckless or into one weapon, but instead, into two different weapons. A sword, made out of five pieces of the neckless. And the two sibling guns, made from the other five pieces. The reason they became a sword and a gun, is because all of the Espada were using swords, before they go into Resurrección. It is something in common with all of them, which means that of all the weapons it could have turned into, you have the most experience with swords, unlike with, scythes and axes, which were only used by two parts of your soul.

"The guns were also only used by Starrk, but he was the strongest of Espada, not counting Yammy's Resurrección form, so you have more skills with guns, then with scythe and axe.

"Do you understand now?" She asked at the end of her explanation.

"Yes, I understand," Naruto said, while looking at his weapons. "But why the sword looks like Ichigo Kurosaki's Bankai blade, only white instead of black?"

"Honestly… I have no idea," the goddess said, making Naruto face fault.

"How can you not know," Naruto asked? "Weren't you the one who fused me and my weapons?"

"Yes," she said. "I did fuse you. But it wasn't me who decided which weapons you are to have, nor was I who decided what they will look like.

"Maybe the sword looks like that, because Espada who fought against Ichigo, found it to be interesting, so your subconscious made it like that."

Naruto thought about it, and realized that it might be the case. Ichigo has fought more Espada than anyone else, and two Espada were defeated by him, so it is possible that those parts of him wanted to have a blade similar to the one they lost to.

Naruto sighed. "Now what?"

"As I said. Now I will send you back in time, to the same day you originally died, but to a place a little away from Konoha." The goddess said.

"Why that particular place," Naruto asked? "Wherever it is."

"There is someone there, who will die, unless you save her," the goddess said, and Naruto groaned.

"Again with this saving stuff," he said, while shaking his head. Naruto then looked at the goddess and asked. "Why do you want me to save this person?"

"Because she is your family." The goddess said, and Naruto's eyes went wide in disbelief. "The original you always wanted a family, and while you are very different now then you were back then, I know that deep down, you still want family and someone to be there for you, and not always be alone."

Naruto was quiet. He was standing there in the heavenly realm, thinking about everything he heard from the goddess ever since she brought Espada to her realm, and everything he learned after she fused them all to recreate him.

It is clear to him that she wants him to save the EN that much is obvious, otherwise, she wouldn't have even bothered to recreate him and send him back.

Now, while he is thankful that the goddess was giving him a new chance in life, Naruto couldn't just let go of everything that he has been through while he was living in the EN. All the loneliness, pain, suffering. It was too much, and he wants revenge, but the goddess wants him to save those fools who live in the EN.

So basically, Naruto doesn't know what to do, especially now, that he knows that he has at least one member of his family still alive, and that, whoever she is, will die… unless he saves her.

Naruto groaned and thought in his head. 'Fuck!'

XXX

Naruto's Zanpakutō looks exactly like Ichigo's incomplete Tensa Zangetsu, only pure white, instead of pure black.

As for the guns, they are Starrk's guns from Bleach Brave Souls. Starrk has a, Hōgyoku-empowered Resurrección form there, just like all the other Espada, and the guns are based on those guns.

Swords and guns are the only weapons Naruto will be using, even though he knows how to use scythes and axes as well.

Finally, imagine that Naruto in this story is voiced by D.C Douglas, as I find his original English dub voice to be annoying, especially since it's female voice.