Bleach and Naruto belongs to Tite Kubo and Masashi Kishimoto
And none of the characters or places belong to me.
Author note: to be completely honest I haven't thought of the future of the story but I will have to mention some retcons I will not explain in the story itself, for example, .1-Black Zetsu: I will introduce him as a character but he will not be the mastermind of everything that has ever happened, that's just dumb, history was made from choices, not from a mama's boy.2-Naruto/Naruko: even though he/she is not listed as a character in this story, he/she will play an important role, I just haven't decided yet if it will be Naruto or Naruko that will appear in the story. though I'm thinking of using she.3-Sakura: nothing against her but I'm thinking of not making her appear, a different chain of events by making Zetsu retcon, some things have to change, and I don't think she has a lot to offer as a character. now, thanks for reading, hope you enjoy.
Chapter 1
Something new
It was a new day in Konohagakure, the sun was just beginning to rise, and no ninja of the village had the chance of sleep, granted they were accustomed to keep on going without sleep, it was a considerable effort to stay focused after last night's proceedings.
The Kyuubi had reappeared, and it destroyed half of the village and killed many ninjas and civilians, this fact weighed on the mind of everyone, giving a gloomy atmosphere to the place.
Many ninjas were helping to find people or the corpses that were found in most cases.
People squashed like bugs, parents protecting children that died of asphyxia, unable to breathe.
One ninja in such a job was none other than Uchiha Shisui.
even if his orders were to keep a low profile, when had he listened to his superior's orders over his own heart?
Maybe he was one of the ninjas that saved most people that day.
Officially at least.
His Sharingan was too sharp to ignore the blank masks that happened unto some of the surviving children.
The only place now left to look for, and the place where most people were for looking survivors in, was the hospital.
Shisui didn't think he would find anyone alive in there, more the great number of people looking for their family, but something told him that he should look for someone, anyone.
He knew that his mind was playing tricks on him, the Kyuubi was a terrifying creature, but the fourth Hokage killed it at last.
In the midst of thinking, and with his Sharingan activated to look for small details, aside from training, of course, he was pretty sure 3 tomoe wasn't the end of it, he saw a flicker of movement down in at least 3 floors worth of rubble.
He immediately sprung to action.
"Hey!, I found someone!"
That shout pierced through the gloomy faces of many that were looking around, hope igniting in their hearts that they would find someone they knew.
And after some minutes of scavenging around, careful not to make the rubble cave-in itself, he saw it.
Big green eyes with slit pupils opening and tiny pale hands going to his face accompanied in a yawn was a baby, that must have just been born, for it was really, really small.
With utmost carefulness he ripped someone else's shirt, accompanied with a shout of indignation, and proceeded to wrap the baby in the cloth bringing him close to give him body heat, it was a wonder how the baby had survived the whole night in the place.
It could only be a miracle the baby was alive, and he now had to think of where to go for someone to check if he was alright.
With a shudder, he decided to go to his clan to request some help dealing with the baby.
'How the hell am I going to explain why I took a baby during Anbu patrolling?'
He had rescued some children, but a baby was new grounds for him, and he already was speeding to the clan grounds so he couldn't dump the responsibility to someone else.
Once he entered the land given to the Uchiha, he went to give a report to Fugaku, if he was already there, why not just kill 2 birds with one stone.
Give his report about the dealings in Anbu, while having the excuse of leaving a baby in the care of someone with experience, it was good to be anonymous in Anbu.
So he entered to the Clan Leader's house and noticed a 7-year-old kid with a baby in his arms.
He stared, a plan that started as a joke gaining more ground in his tired mind.
"How the times have changed, in my times a kid played around with his friends instead of recklessly having sons at such a young age"
He said closing one eye, and hiding the cloth with a baby behind him as if hiding a present.
The kid meanwhile got flustered by the ridiculousness of the man's statement and heatedly got up with his little brother carefully held in his arms.
"Wha- I'm not Sasuke's father, I'm just taking care of him until mom comes back!"
"Oh? so you're his babysitter then?"
The kid the carefully nodding, a feeling in his gut telling him he should've stood silent.
"I guess so"
Said the kid confused by the question.
Then as if it was the most normal thing in the world, the man took something small from his back and gave it to him, the absurdity of what he thought the 'gift' was numbing him enough to hold Sasuke in one arm and receiving the definitely 'not a baby' from the man that he could never predict would become one day his best friend.
"Ok, then, I leave him to you, take care of him okay? bye, babysitter-chan~"
and as the man disappeared in a Shunshin, he resigned himself to taking care of the new baby, at the very least.
"Sasuke, say hi to our new friend"
Sasuke now had some baby company to distract himself.
'this must be the weirdest series of events I will bear witness during my life, I swear if something more ridiculous were to pass he would go on testing his skills in every Uchiha he saw, it was the blood, he knew, every Uchiha had a weird series of events surrounding him.'
Ulquiorra watched in amazement the view in front of him.
At first, he was confused as to why everything was so dark, he even thought he died again.
Then that man came and picked him up, enveloped him in other guy's shirt, and it was puzzling him to no end the marvels of feeling.
For the first time since he could remember he felt something, he was freezing, and now he felt something unexplainable by being held by the arms of the man, it was hard to explain but it felt warm, his insides were telling him he was safe.
The man then started running at a speed he was certain no human should be able to, but then again, his only interaction with humans so far were children, the woman, and the boy he tried to break at the time.
And thinking back on it, breaking that man ended up backfiring.
In the end, the one broken, in half, was him.
now that he was able to see, he saw with amazement a 'natural' blue sky, then there was the green in his surroundings, it was so colorful that he wanted to just explore every bit of it.
But he couldn't, he didn't have the strength to pull himself free of the man's vice-like (gentle) grip.
It definitively wasn't because he liked feeling the warmth...
For a short moment he fell asleep for a little time, it was scary how even thinking was a process that demanded so much energy he had to sleep for a while.
Then in a moment, everything changed.
The warmth disappeared suddenly, and it felt as if everything was upside down.
He heard some noises, but he couldn't understand anything out of it, there was something that he could identify, it vexed him greatly that he couldn't understand because he needed to know.
If Aizen could ever read his mind, he would have found an even greater motivation to keep his loyalty, now that he thought about it, who had won?
Kurosaki Ichigo with his unbreakable convictions or Aizen with his search for perfection?
He was pretty sure Ichigo had won, if not for he was sure the Shinigami took a new power out of his ass.
He wasn't bitter with his defeat, in fact, it gave him this opportunity to comprehend, but killing a man 3 times for the same man to kill him in the end.
Indeed Aizen had lost, he was sure of it, if Ichigo could bring feelings to a personification of Void, Aizen was child's play, with the Hougyoku in the middle of th-
Everything changed again.
He was suddenly in smaller arms, that somehow brought him more warmth than the man.
He looked up to the new face, a kid.
The kid said something to the other baby, that he just now noticed.
And in the middle of the day, and not for the last time with a curious mind as the cause of it, Ulquiorra was out of energy fast asleep.
The new year in his life was a plethora of new experiences, drinking milk for the first time from the mother of the other baby to keep his body working.
Basically 'eating', was a concept completely new to him.
As a hollow, he was different, he killed not to eat but to survive not being eaten in the sands of Hueco Mundo.
Born without a mouth, trying to understand without a heart, he never ate anyone, the state he was born in, was the state Aizen found him in, a white hollow contrasting the dark world of the eternal night he was born in.
Not this time.
This time he had a heart, and he would give everything to nurture this heart that puzzled him so much, that was his.
and with him being given to the orphanage, 3 years passed in the blink of an eye.
And that's it for now, I'm starting this fic, as a means to add to the small list of fics with Ulquiorra as a proper character, I hope I'm doing this fine, I want to introduce to Ulquiorra the concept of heart and how he will react to it alongside the storm of events that is Naruto.