Ichigo Kurosaki woke up with someone shaking his shoulders.

"Wake up jackass, I'm in a hurry!"

Ichigo opened his eyes to see Hitsugaya looking at him like a disappointed and angry father. Except he still looked like a kid, so if Hitsugaya intended that to make Ichigo afraid, he was destined to fail to the start.

Ichigo looked around and a house he didn't recognize. But there were some portraits around the room. He could recognize the blond man from last night in some of them.

"Jeez, that wasn't a dream".

"No, I wished it was." answered the captain.

Ichigo turned to Hitsugaya.

"So why you are here?"

"The entire Soul Society and even your home town was sucked inside this place. Apparently this is some crazy alternate Earth. The shinigamis here don't even seem to be human."

Ichigo was trying to think what exactly "non-human" meant. Komamura couldn't have been a human in other life.

"You saw them?"

"Shinigamis and people like Orihime can see them, but normal ones, no."

"Normal people...Wait, Orihime is here? It wasn't an hallucination that I saw her last night?"

"She was in the Soul Society, remember?"

"Oh. yeah"

Hitsugaya grunted. What the hell is wrong with him?

"So." asked Ichigo. "How we ended here? I mean, what brought us here?"

"Mayuri and Unohana saw some weird masked man with Hollow limbs. Did you saw him too?"

"Yeah, I think he tried to attack me. He never hit me though. I was pushed away. So, he was the responsible?"

"We don't have any other clue until now." answered the young captain.

"And we know how to find him?" asked the orange-haired teenager.

"We do have a clue. There are people with red eyes and special powers like this masked man around here, but they negate any association with him. They are called The Uchiha Clan or something."

"So we are stuck on a dead end here?"

"Well, I didn't like the idea, but captain-commander already said Mayuri has authorization to investigate this people's powers behind the local authorities' backs. We think they're hiding something."

A painful silence between the two started and lasted for a few seconds.

"So, what do I do now?"asked Ichigo.

Hitsugaya practically expected Ichigo to disobey him after the Winter War, so for several times he reaffirmed his orders like an insecure boyfriend.

"Stay on this home while waiting for new orders, ok Kurosaki? Don't move. Don't make any suspicious move, don't try to look outside, if anyone else that's not a shinigami try to make questions you don't give them any answers that may offer some clue to them, do you understand? Don't move. We're working under the assumption this people brought us here to eviscerate our bodies and use them as weapons, got it? Don't move. If it is possible, stay immobile for the next 100 years, get it? Don't. Move."

Ichigo didn't like that the possibility that what Hitsugaya was implying was true, but it made more sense the more he thinked about it. Specially since the masked man was at least part-Hollow.

"Who are this 'people'?"

"Ninjas. They're ninjas. I'm not kidding. There's a ninja village around here, they call it Leaf. They're warriors, they're armed. There's normal civilians around here, it looks like a normal city, but if the masked man is indeeed a ninja like them, we have to be on guard for any possible attack."

Hitsugaya turned around and seemed like he was going to leave the house, but Ichigo still had one more question.

"Ahn, captain, why I am on this house?"

Hitsugaya turned his face around.

"Orihime saved the redhead woman that lives here yesterday. She is called Kushina. She said she wanted to thank you for saving her baby. We let her do that because she was very insistent about it. She seems to having giving birth very recently, I don't think she's a threat".

Ichigo looked at his own stomach. He remembered the giant monster that was somehow sucked inside his body. He looks at his arms and notices weird marks on it. Hitsugaya also notices them.

"What are these marks? Are you sure that wasn't the masked guy that did this to you?"

"I dunno, I dunno." answers Ichigo.

"Well, I will report it to the other captains and maybe call the Kidou Corps to check that. Our priority right now is to take care of the humans of Karakura. If we don't find a way to get out of here fast, there will be a lot of trouble."

Ichigo followed Hitsgaya to the door.

"What happens if we don't find a way to go back soon?" asked the orange-haired boy as the captain opened the door.

"Well, we have swords and an army, but no food to feed the humans. What you think we will do?"

Ichigo couldn't believe in what Hitsugaya was implying.

"We're gonna fight these people for resources?"

"I was thinking in joining the army and use human money to pay the food but, hey, I bet Zaraki would love the opportunity to cut down hundreds of ninjas."

Ichigo imagined the idea. It scared him. Thinking of Zaraki in any way scared him. He bet that if Zaraki was a woman he would be as much or even more scary.

"Well Ichigo, see you soon. Sooner or later, I bet that guy will try to attack you again. There must be some reasoninng behind it, and not a simple one. He did knew our name, right?"

"Yes, he did."

"So he know you in some level. We will need to investigate that as well."

Hiitsugaya closed the door.

Ichigo hadn't seen Kushina yet. He guessed she was probably in one of the rooms, probably taking care of the baby. Ichigo struggled to remember the baby's name, but once that the name came, he also remembered the mysterious message given to him: protect Naruko Uzumaki.

"I don't think I will leave this world so soon", that was what Ichigo thought. If he needed to protect this kid, he probably was going to stay. Even if everyone else from his world left...

Ichigo decided to talk to Kushina. He wasn't sure about talking to her about the black-haired teenager, but he had questions about that thing on his stomach.

Also, he had to know Naruko. Everything indicated that she would be very important in his life from now on.

Ichigo followed the sounds of a lullaby. The song was nothing like the one his mom used, but he recognized a lullaby when he heard one.

He slowly opened the door to the couple's room.

"Ah, you woke up. Don't be afraid, you can enter. We need to talk."

Ichigo completely opened the door but he saw something he didn't exactly waited for.

Kushina was breastfeeding the little Naruko.

Her breasts were big, very big. And he couldn't takes his eyes off them. They seduced him with their size, their format, and the milk leaking from lactating nipples.

Kushina smiled seeing the growing boner from the teenager.

"Do you feel comfortable?"