Major spoiler in this one for ppl who aren't on the latest of the bleach manga! Also, for the person who disagreed with zaraki being here, I mean come on; you just can't resist putting him in here! Also, I think personally that he's funny…. Come on… anyone? silence never mind.

"It seems like it's another successful job done for Aizen-taichou…"

Tousen watched as the sky began to shut around him. "Ah, well that ain't no good. Tousen! You ain't making this sound so happy!" Tousen turned his blind eyes onto his companion, Ichimaru Gin. (AN: I'm SO sorry… I'm not very familiar with gin's character except that he's psychotic) "… that is the road of justice." Gin's smile didn't decrease. "Is that really…" His smile broadened as he looked to the scene of Konoha below, just before the sky closed completely. "I do 'ope they ain't gonna be rejecting our gift none…"

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Sasuke was pissed off/annoyed. He was annoyed, because a certain petite GIRL shinigami had defeated the Hollow FOR him. He was pissed off because he had nearly broken his arm TRYING to defeat the Hollow. Yes, it was wise not to talk to Sasuke right now.

Sakura meanwhile, was healing her minor wounds. She had succeeded in making giant craters all around Konoha, but had really defeated only one Hollow. She looked at the dozing shinigami, Matsumoto, who had defeated a number of them with ease. How can they defeat them so easily? She stared at the sword that was attached to Matsumoto's waist. Could it have anything to do with those swords? Sakura noticed Matsumoto was already almost asleep now (AN: im sorry to all those matsumoto lovers that all she does is sleep it's just that im not that comfortable with matsumoto. SORRY!). Sakura was tempted to observe the sword more carefully, meaning that she wanted to grab it and swing it around for a bit. Her hand twitched. No, she shouldn't because it wasn't right… you don't touch someone's weapon when they're asleep, only when they give you permission.

"Do you want to see our zanpakutous?"

Sakura jumped, startled. Rukia was smiling at her, holding out her sword to Sakura. Sakura looked down at the long sword with its red hilt and beautifully carved guard pointed to her. She smiled back gratefully. "Thank you."

Sakura marveled at the skill of the maker. It was truly lovely. Sakura looked at Rukia again, her hand itching to pull the sword out. "May… I?" Rukia blinked, then smiled again. "Of course, but not all the way." Sakura nodded and pulled about an inch or two of it out. It was so polished that she could see her own reflection. "It's beautiful…" Sakura turned it this way and that, even observing the sheath.

"Its name is Sode no Shirayuki." (AN: major spoiler here for ppl who haven't read the recent chapters of the manga)

Sakura blinked. "Pardon?" Rukia blinked, also surprised. "Its name… my zanpakutou's name." Sakura looked at the sword again. They gave swords names? "I… see." Sakura handed Rukia back her zanpakutous. And they call them 'soul slayers'… why though? Are these specially designed swords for shinigami only?

She turned her attention to Sasuke, not having anything else to look at (AN: LOL). He was brooding. Was this particular defeat that much for him? (AN: geesh… Sakura keeps asking redundant questions)

Sasuke's flashback

Sasuke cursed silently. His sharingan could help him predict the movements of these Hollows, but they didn't help much in the key to their defeat. The most he had done so far was dodging. He skidded to a halt and performed a few quick hand seals.

"Katon Goukakyuu no Jutsu!"

He smirked as the Hollow was surrounded by fire. Let's see that get through his fire. And he did see it go through the fire.

If he wasn't so uptight, Sasuke would have openly gaped. The fire had done hardly any harm. Oh sure, he had burnt it badly, so that it looked like it had been in a giant barbecue. Oh sure, it was limping badly, but the point was, IT WASN'T DEAD. He cursed again, dodging an oddly shaped tentacle. It had just barely missed his arm.

"Hadou 31: Shakkahou!"

A blast of miniscule (in Sasuke's opinion) size hit the Hollow on the side, causing it to turn around to its new attacker. Rukia stood her ground poised and ready for another round of fire. The Hollow hissed. 'How dare you…' Sasuke raised his eyebrow. It speaks, he thought. The Hollow let loose its set of tentacles, causing Rukia to jump to avoid. However, she was still in her original position.

"Hadou 31! Shakkahou!"

This time, it hit the Hollow on its mask. With a cry of rage, it disappeared from where it stood. Sasuke punched the ground (AN: yes this is Sasuke over-angsting, if that word exists). He couldn't defeat it, but this girl could! It dug into his conscious. He had to train even harder. To make it even worse the girl came to him, with a look only guys could have after they defeated someone else's opponent.

"You okay?"

End of Flashback

In fact, Sasuke was sure that he couldn't suffer a more embarrassing defeat. It was humiliating. Even more so then the fact that he was with Orochimaru. His nails dug into the couch, and by the sound of it, he had squeezed the springs to death with his other hand. "Ano… Sasuke-kun, are you hurt?" Sasuke looked at Sakura as if she had interrupted him from the most important thing on earth. "No." Sakura looked down. "Oh."

The door opened to admit Naruto, Renji, and Ichigo, who had left to get some lunch. Naruto was looking extremely satisfied, so Sakura guessed that he had had ramen. Renji and Ichigo looked pretty happy too. Well, ramen could satisfy anyone to a point. Matsumoto yawned for the millionth time that day. "Taichou is still not back?" Renji shook his head. Matsumoto resumed half lying half sitting on the couch. But her mind wasn't as relaxed as she was. I have to tell him… I sensed Gin's reiatsu before… She sighed. Why had he left? Why had he chosen to help Gin? Of course, she didn't pretend she knew everything about him, but at least she had thought that he was loyal to Soul Society. "Baka…"

"Who is it this time Matsumoto?"

Matsumoto yelped and jumped up, causing her ample 'assets' to jump with her. She caught them just before they could expose themselves. (AN: Yes, just like that time in episode 63) "Taichou! Don't do that! They could have gone out!"

Hitsugaya raised his eyebrow (AN: there's a lot of eyebrow raising, isn't there? LoL). "Who?" Matsumoto pointed to her chest without shame. "My boobs…" Hitsugaya sighed. "Well not my fault. If you hadn't been dozing, you would have sensed me." Hitsugaya proceeded to talk with the rest of the group. "Abarai. Kurosaki. Kuchiki. They're here." Right on cue, the door to Tsunade's waiting room opened.

The first one to come in was none other than the 13th division captain. "Ukitake-taichou!" Rukia exclaimed, obviously surprised. The captain smiled. "How are you Kuchiki?" The next was Kyouraku Shunsui, accompanied by his 'Nanao-chan'. "Eh? Kyouraku-taichou!" Shunsui took off his straw hat. "Abarai-fukutaichou! Not happy to see me?" Abarai just mumbled something about being happy to see him. He was just glad to see that his royal stick-up his ass highness Kuchiki-taichou wasn't here. He shuddered being under his cold command all the way over HERE too.

"HEY! FREAKY EYEBROWS IS HERE TOO!"

Yes, it was Kusajika Yachiru, the terror of the 11th division. "YOU!" Ichigo pointed. Yachiru just stared back in her cute innocent way. "THAT MEANS THAT-"

"Ichigo… I see that you are well."

Ichigo turned around slowly to the door. The maniac smiled devilishly to him. "Then let us fight!" Ichigo blanched as the giant captain lunged at him, his zanpakutou ready. It was to our orange-haired shinigami's relief that Hitsugaya jumped in between.

"No fighting."

Zaraki jumped back, not expecting the little captain to jump between. "Then I'll just fight you too!" He started running to Hitsugaya while Sakura looked on, horrified. They can't fight here! But she needn't worry. Hitsugaya just smirked his cocky way. Then in a flash, he was poised and ready to do kidou. "Bakudou 75: Gochuu Tekan!" Surprised, Zaraki fell onto his back with his limbs bound.

"The hell!" Zaraki struggled, but could not come lose "Damn brat!" He crawled around pathetically like a snail. Hitsugaya snorted. He couldn't even see such a simple binding spell coming and he called himself a captain. Yachiru immediately came over. "Ah! Ken-chan! Are you okay?" She turned to the young captain and blew a raspberry. "Shorty captain is mean!" Short! Speak for yourself… Hitsugaya thought. Kyouraku just sighed. "Ah well… I think you should unbind him Hitsugaya-kun… We can't really have a diplomatic talk with this Hokage with him cursing like this." Hitsugaya remained stoic. "After he stops swearing." which was his way of saying never. Ukitake laughed awkwardly. "Well it better be soon! Because I think she's coming." Through the entire racket, Ukitake had heard the click of high heels coming to the waiting door. Tsunade opened the door angrily, surveying the damage done by Renji and Ichigo from before, and the current one done by Zaraki. "WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?"

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"As before, we apologize for the damage. We'll be paying for the repairs and replacements of course." Ukitake said. Tsunade merely sat at her desk, looking annoyed. "That is fine Ukitake-taichou. I'm sure they didn't mean it…" She glared at Renji and Ichigo, then at Zaraki. "Well, Tsunade-sama, have our earlier representatives explained the situation already?" Tsunade nodded. "They did, but I think we need some more background history." Ukitake smiled in understanding. "Of course."

Rukia's hand shot up. "I could do it taichou. I've done it before with Ichigo." She had already prepared a notebook and markers. "I don't think you should Rukia. I mean, your bad drawings just confused me the first time you did it." Ichigo responded. Rukia's notebook was immediately plastered onto Ichigo's head. The consequences of telling the truth. Ukitake chose to ignore this little conversation and looked around for a suitable candidate. Finding none, he chose himself. He cleared his throat. "Hm… to start, Hollows are… impure souls." Hitsugaya interrupted Ukitake. "We've already covered this with them Ukitake-taichou." Ukitake blinked. "Oh. I see." He paused for a moment, trying to decide where to start. Then he began again. "So you see we might suspect that this has to do with Aizen Sousu-"

"Ano… Ukitake-taichou." Ukitake turned to Rukia. "That's too far ahead…" Ukitake blinked again. "Oh. I see." He contemplated again, and decided where to start. "Well then, we're from a place called Soul Society-" He was interrupted again. "Ukitake-taichou," Renji said, "that's already been said." Ukitake this time didn't even say anything.

"Currently, we've suffered a big crisis due to the betrayal of-"

"That's too far."

"Soul Society is a bit of a military org-"

"Already been said."

"Along with Aizen, Ichima-"

"Too far ahead." (insert background of confused shinobi here)

Ukitake paused. "How about one of the first shinigami that came here explain it?" All of them nudged Hitsugaya. "Ah… well… just when the ryoka had come to rescue Kuchiki here, we realized that Aizen was a traitor, along with Ichimaru and Tousen. He was really allying with the Hollows, planning to take over the two worlds. So, now with the attacks done on the village here, we suspect it's all his work." The shinobi all acknowledged this new information. Ukitake had a sweat drop on his head. He was only missing the fact that the ryoka had rescued Kuchiki! And they had all badgered him, saying he was too far ahead! He was only one fact too far! He sighed. Ah, the trials of being a late comer.

Kyaouraku just patted his friend's back. "Ah… not your fault Jyoushirou, we're just getting old." Ukitake smiled. "Perhaps we are."

With more random loud conversations and 'repairing' of the waiting room at the request of Hitsugaya, the shinigami were shown to their quarters. They were all to stay in a local hotel close to the Hokage's office. Ah, the damage they could do to such an innocent building…

The office door shut with bang, compliments of Renji. Tsunade flinched. One day, she would punch a hole into that shinigami's skull. She didn't give a damn if it was politically correct or not. It was important that she got her own share of comfort too. She put her feet up on her desk casually. All these events occurring were just an excuse for a GIANT Konoha-sized headache. She thought back to when it all started, only a week ago.

Tsunade's flashback

All the strange creatures had been defeated with minimal casualties. Also, all of shinobi had only sustained minor injuries. Tsunade was relieved. She stood up from healing a chuunin with a twisted ankle. It was really a miracle that they could all defeat them, even if they were at a disadvantage.

Sakura immediately came up to her teacher, reporting the number of casualties and the number of treatments made. Tsunade nodded and thanked her. She paused to think about how much their great strength had helped them. The monsters didn't die right away after getting hit, but it did affect them.

"Tsunade-sama!" She turned to Gai, who was holding something in his hand. She observed the object. She recognized it as the material the monsters' masks were made of. She touched it, then drew back, sensing an uneasy aura from it. "Should we keep it?" Tsunade nodded. "Of course. This is valuable resource to us." Gai disappeared with a poof, leaving to give the research group this new information (AN: I have no idea if a research group exists. It's purely my imagination)

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After clearing up all the political and technical things, Tsunade reveled in the warm tea on her desk. Finally, a break from all the uproar. She only hoped that it was a minor project of Orochimaru's gone wrong, or an experiment of the Akatsuki. She took a deep drinking from the cup. Milk tea could do wonders.

But, it seemed like the day wasn't done tormenting her. Right where her door had stood, it was replaced by a traditional Japanese door (AN: I forgot what they're called ). It opened, emitting a bright light into the office. 'If this is a punishment from gambling… I'm sorry. Partially' she thought. Instead of some demon as she had expected, she stared as a few black moths flew out. 'Moths…?'

Of course, that wasn't the end of the show. Two figures came into the view. The first was a long white haired man, thought he himself only looked to be at the most thirty. The next was an old man, lacking hair at the top, but certainly not down at his chin. He had even decorated his beard with purple ribbons. Now that was just odd to Tsunade.

The first one to come through smiled. "Ohayo Hokage. We're here to discuss about the Hollows." Tsunade just stared. 'Give me a break…'

End of flashback

Of course, the meeting had proven useful, giving her the history of Soul Society and Hollows. Now her job was to gather all shinobi in Konoha and discuss this new turn of events. Maybe even contact the Sand. She frowned. She had just given herself more paperwork. She should learn to stop doing that.

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"So it's all ready I assume."

Aizen sat on his throne, surrounded by his arrancar. Gin smiled (tell me of a time when he WASN'T smiling). "Of course taichou. You shouldn'ta expect less from us! Ain't that right Tousen?" Tousen just grunted. Gin sighed. "You ain't any fun." Aizen smirked. "That is good then…" he toyed with a certain mechanism in his hand. "It's just a matter of me pushing the button." He smiled, reaching a level of beyond sinister that Gin's could not.

"I hope they like surprises…"

I hope you guys liked that little ukitake crisis :) I know that was just evil but its too fun! Anyways REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW! Even though this chapter was done quite quickly, feed back! Also, to some other unsatisfied ppl who think that the shinobi are too weak, don't worry, they'll show their real stuff too! And the shinigami get to show off their zanpakutous in the chapters to come