Ichigo Kurasaki walked through the forest looking at the trees. The wind blew through the leaves and branches making a howling sound. He turned his brown eyes to the ground and sighed. Each step was a long stride. He turned around to see his companion, Mayuri Kurotsuchi captain of squad 12, and sighed in disgust.

Mayuri looked up at the trees to find birds chirping and singing. He stopped to stare at the birds. He hummed in curiosity and cocked his head to the right. His black and white face paint covered his face and followed his every move. "Hmmmm interesting," he said scratching his head, "What do you think these creatures are?"

Ichigo stopped and turned around to Mayuri. "They are called birds, dumb-ass," he said scornfully, "Have you not seen one before?"

Mayuri glared over at Ichigo. He cocked his head back upright and narrowed his brow. The gold headdress that covered around his head shined in the sun. He looked down at the ground and walked past Ichigo. He looked up to find a huge red wall standing in his way. He put his hand on the wall and looked to the right. A hole in the wall caught his eye. He walked over to the hole and Ichigo followed. The air grew stale. The smell of the air grew into a perfume of blood. They both turned around to find the trees covered in red stains. Ichigo's eyes fixated on the trees, but Mayuri shrugged it off and looked back to the hole. He looked up and down it and cocked his head to the left. "Hmmmm this is a hole made by a fist. However, I have no idea what could have made it. Maybe a fist, or a cero. I have no idea."

A quick snap of a branch got Ichigo's attention. He turned to the right and grabbed his two handed sword with his left hand. The bandages on the handle began to dampen from the sweat of his hand. He turned to Mayuri to ask if he senses anything. Before he could do that, however, a knife flew past his face and onto the ground. He turned up and looked at a man in a green jacket with a kid in an orange sweat shirt on a tree branch. He scowled up at the two then turned his gaze to Mayuri, whom seemed have an interested look on his face.

Mayuri looked up the two on the tree with a smug on his face. Ichigo took out his sword and pointed it at the two shinobi. The one with white hair looked down at the two soul reapers with his right eye covered by his headband. His counterpart was a blonde haired boy wearing an orange jumpsuit. A feeling of bloodlust came from the boy. Ichigo felt it in an instant and turned to Mayuri. "Do you feel that?" he asked as his eyes grew big.

Mayuri looked at Ichigo and made a pfft sound from his lips. He cocked his head away from Ichigo. He looked at the boy and felt the same bloodlust. "Hey, boy," he called out rudely, "Are you craving to kill me boy?"

The boy in the orange jumpsuit scowled at Mayuri. The bloodlust still lingers in the air. Ichigo held on to his sword still pointing at the two men. His palms became clammy and full of sweat. His sword began to shake with fear.

The one with white haired man jumped down from the tree branch on to the ground. He landed on his feet still standing up right and peered at the two soul reapers. He started to walk toward them in a peaceful manner and spoke through his mask, "Hello, I am Kakashi Hatake. I believe you two are the ones here for our little monster issue?"

Ichigo looked confused and turned his head to the right. His eyes were full of confusion and wonder. How did he know? He lowered his sword to the ground. Mayuri looked as puzzled, if even more puzzled, than Ichigo. He stroked his gold plated chin piece thinking on what to do. He boy in the orange sweat shirt intrigued him with the ominous feeling coming off of him. He lifted his finger and stepped in front of Ichigo shoving him to the left. Ichigo gave him a look of utter surprise as Mayuri walked. "Maybe we are if your monster is a white hollow. If not, then the monster you are looking for is in that boy's body. I would gladly take him off your hands and dissect him for research."

The boy looked shocked and jumped down from the tree and ran at Mayuri with his fist up in the air. Mayuri only looked at the boy with distain. Before he could react, Kakashi put the boy in a head lock with what seemed a happy look on his face. His mask covered below his eye and his right eye was covered by his head band. The boy struggled and yelled, "Let me at 'em," multiple times. Mayuri was half tempted to cut the boy down, but was not sure how powerful his partner was. Ichigo walked up between the two and looked at Kakashi with the boy and back to Mayuri and back to Kakshi. "Do you know what this monster looks like?" he asks.

Kakashi looked at Ichigo and let the boy go. "Well for starters, this is Naruto," he says and lets the boy go, "Supposedly our monster a few meters tall and white skinned. He had blue markings around his neck, two horns growing from his forehead and one on his chin. The most pronounced part of him was the fact that he had a hole in the middle of his chest."

Ichigo looked at Mayuri. Mayuri had a face of death on his face. He turned around and started walking the way he came from. Ichigo chased after him and pulled him on the back of his coat. Mayuri looked at Ichigo and looked forward at the two. He pointed his index finger and said laughing, "You are done for. That my good friend is an adjucha class menos hollow. It would take us sometime to find it. That is in fact IF we decide to help you and your village."

Ichigo planted his head in his hands at the words the captain just said. Out of everything he could have said, he just insults the shinobi that way, he thought. He put his sword back into its holster on his back and turned his attention to Kakashi and Naruto. Kakashi still had the boy in his head lock. Naruto squirmed around in Kakashi's lock trying to get free. The two soul reapers looked in puzzlement and wondered why they are not offended.

The wind blew the leaves around the ground as the trees swayed with the wind. Birds chirped around the trees and flew high in the air. Naruto and Ichigo locked eye contact with each other even though Naruto was still in Kakashi's head lock. Kakashi let loose his hold on the boy and walked over to Mayuri. "Well it seems to me that you two have experience hunting down these monsters that you say we are hunting ourselves," he started, "If you woulnt mind if you cold help us with that?"

Ichigo looked at Mayurii and sighed. "I don't see why we shouldn't," he glanced at Mayuri's face, "unless you have an objection."

Mayuri looked at Ichigo and turned his head away from the group. "As long as I get to dissect the hollow, I regretfully agree."

Naruto glared at the man in the white kimono as the man glared back through his black and white face paint. Kakashi walked towards the wall and motioned his hand to follow/. The two soul reapers followed them to the gate and into the village.