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"Did the radio work?"

Uryu raised an eyebrow at the scene in front of him, Orihime asking Aizen about his advances was pretty common, but every single time he couldn't help to felt dread; a part of him almost could picture that the madman would latch out and kill her.

"Yes, it's working splendidly . I have already figured out how to catch the right wavelength, it would help us the most to find a reishi concentrated place to build the portal"

Aizen answered smoothly, something akin to pride shining on his eyes and that was enough for Uryu fingers to carres the Quincy cross on his wrist. It was done below the table, but Aizen gazed him humorlessly as if he had seen the act.

"That's good!" Orihime didn't lost a beat "I read the book of summons that you lend me...and I found that a lot of footnotes talked about the Second Hokage, not only that, when checking the encyclopedia, there were a lot of references to him too... But when I searched on the library, there wasn't even a scroll from him"

Uryu had to give Orihime praise, she was pretty committed to be helpful in the plan to go back and would go to the library or bookstores in search for more information about the "jutsus", sadly, there was little to be found on the civilian market, so Grimmjow had snatched a few scrolls and books that Orihime and Uryu would have to read before bothering Aizen with them.

"Yes...it would look like we need to borrow more from the Ninja's library. A lot of the scrolls would be codified and have safe seals...only ninjas class S would have the passwords. Or the Hokage" Aizen said before resting his chin on his fist thinking on how to maneuver the whole issue.

"Perhaps Ichigo and Chad would become S class ninjas?" Orihime offered.

"As they aren't natives from there, it's to be expected they would require much more time, if not be forbidden outright. At maximum we will have access to chunin information"

Uryu tried to run diverse sceneries on his head, they really needed to know what they could about jutsu, studying it directly would take decades, Aizen and Uryu were smart and knew a lot about reiatsu and could recognize similar patterns, even use some concepts about the chakra in their world to understand Ninja's chakra, but the walls were still very tall.

"Tch, at this rate we can wait to the blond Gin to become Hokage…"

Uryu had to give Grimmjow a pointed look because the nonsensical idea. The kid, Naruto, even if creepy (freak riatsu) wasn't a schemer of caliber of the traitors, or a genius, in any form. The chances the kid was more a potential weapon than a leader to Konoha were big as far as Uryu was concerned.

He expected Aizen to dismiss the idea, but the madman chuckled and nodded.

"I have thought about it. The boy is well connected. His teacher was the Fourth Hokage student. But I doubt Naruto can become Hokage in the next ten years. And there is no guarantee he would be able to survive any war that happens on that time frame" Aizen smiled after saying those words, as if he was happy with the idea of the strange boy dying in a war.

Orihime just sighed, a small gesture of disagreement but she wasn't going to talk about it. There were things that Aizen did and thought that neither human wanted to know, there were probably crimes done at night that would make their skin crawl. But taking distance was impossible, they needed Aizen more than he did them, so both, Orihime and Uryu, had decided long ago not to ask.

Kon was having a bad day.

Pretending to be an assassin for hire was one of the worst things he had done in his life. But Ichigo wanted to talk with Aizen again. Probably he just wanted to see Orihime beautiful body.

"Who is the chick?" KillerB asked from his seat on the ground. At the side of Sado, even his sunglasses weren't enough to intimidate Kon or make him blush.

"A friend" Kon almost sung, after Rukia, Kon found Orihime to be the best girl. He wished to had been left at her side, to protect her from the likes of Aizen. The glasses-boy wasn't enough for a task of such importante.

"The healer?"

"Yup, the same!" Kon nodded happily before catching Sado posture and going back to be as quiet as Ichigo should be.

"You shouldn't make a girl wait" KillerB said with a big grin "Or it would be too late?"

Kon had to agree with the black man idea, making a girl wait would end up with a heartache. Rukia, he thought, surely suffered a lot when he was gone.

Either way, the lunch break was almost over, and the modified soul just wanted Ichigo to return soon. As much as he liked KillerB, he was still a murderer, someone that took precious lives for money, and wherever they were going, there would be a man wanting to change gold for blood.

Not even Rukia's memory would be enough to keep him from shivering when the time came. He hoped against hope that Chad would make up a lie to stall them until the next day or for Ichigo to return.

He missed home.

"In two weeks, we will have the chunin exam" said a man with sleepy gray eyes.

"How fast, it feels like yesterday when we had ours, doesn't it?" Asked a man with two lost teeth.

Ichigo listened from his seat in the roof. He remembered KillerB talking about that exam, but no one from their village would go for it was held in Konoha. The two places hated each other and there was enough bad blood that even his friend voice would take an edge when talking about the rival village.

"Want to fight! Ichigo!" Grimmjow jumped to the roof and the sound of his landing had "Sleepy eyes" going outside the window to give a harsh look around, but he was unable to see the two spirits.

"Cut it out, Grimmjow. I don't have time for that!" Ichigo stod up and in a flash made the run towards Uryu's riatsu. He was the nearest and he was probably the best source of information.

He found him inside an old traditional house, chanting words in German as he roamed the place.

After a few minutes, the Quincy stopped and looked at Ichigo's form with icy eyes. Before neither could say anything a boy entered the room and Ichigo had to do a double take.

The kid looked as the damned Uchiha.

"I'm beggining to think this is a sham" the boy said with sharp eyes "Give me a reason why I shouldn't bring this matter to the Hokage"

Uryu fixed his glasses and gave Ichigo a look of acknowledgment, as if he were patronizing the child by ignoring him.

"What, do you see a ghost" the boy crossed his arms and smirked, but Uryu surprised everyone when he smirked back.

"I do. A soul Reaper. He looks like he knows you"

That raised the kid black eyebrow, but he was obviously not believing him.

"I don't know that boy" Ichigo said as he pointed to the kid "He just looks like that Uchiha"

"That Uchiha?" Uryu asked, completely forgetting the kid "That's impossible, he said he was the last one"

Ichigo looked again at the little ninja, as if measuring him. It wasn't smart to talk in front of the kid, but there was an aching feeling on his bones, people's voices that wanted him to speak, to tell. Like if with his voice he could vanish the shadows.

"In the bingo books, they called him Itachi" as he said the name he felt prickles on his skin and his heart felt heavy. He felt.. betrayed?

Uryu paled and made a big intake of air, as if the name was a sore spout.

"Itachi..." Uryu closed his eyes in concentration "His eyes...they were red...he...I don't understand"

"What about Itachi" the boy whispered the name as if he feared to say it. With his pale face he looked much more vulnerable that a minute ago.

"Sasuke, Im afraid to say, but it looks like the lingering energies were in a lot of anguish when they died. That name worked as a trigger to them" Uryu said back to his composed self "Was he the one that did it?"

The kid, Sasuke, looked as someone that had been given a hit in the stomach, but he got back his words in record time and nodded "Yes, that man, did it. My brother did it"

Ichigo saw the red eyes again. But this time, there weren't two black dots in those pits of hell, instead, the pupil looked as a shiruken, and then, he felt warm blood on his throat. Wasn't he supposed to lead them to victory? Why did he? Why was everyone dead? He wanted his mother, but then, the masked man was on his window. He took his eyes, how would he see his wife again? He wanted his blood. Blood for blood.

And Ichigo was woken up with a strong punch on the arm. Uryu was looking at him with harshness, and the boy was breathing heavily on the wooden floor.

"Was that killer intent?" Sasuke asked fastly, a smile on his face "They want vengeance too!"

"Some do" Uryu said after cleaning his sweaty hand in his white pants "But, this" Uryu gestured to outside the window "It isn't just about Itachi. Or vengance... it's much more"

The boy wasn't happy with the answer, but he was listening every word with vicious interest.

Ichigo decided that it was time to go. He couldn't deal with visions of dead people nor their lingering feelings. He wasn't a child anymore, so he should had been able to stop events like that.

But, as he jumped outside the compound, he felt that the disgust was still roaming all his body. Older brothers should protect the youngest.

He missed his sisters.

Someone was kind to remind me that Itachi had a full Sharingan, and I was like "I know, but why would Itachi use all his powers against a Rockie ninja? That would be wasteful, wouldn't it.

Anyway, I will guess some people would have wanted an update, the follows say as much, even if there are zero reviews. Still, one of the two would happen: people will get feed with the new chapter and don't return or they will go to next chapter, hopeful to get to the end and close that fic in their lives.

All aside, thanks for reading and I hope someone is enjoying this even a little :-)