Author's Note: I do not own Bleach or Naruto. I'd make a lot of money if I did though, huh?

It has been awhile, but as I promised Kimi, I have updated over winter break. I WAS planning to put it up the VERY last day, but I changed my mind. I MIGHT get another one up before then, or at least I was planning, but working with all the characters I have now is a lot of work and thinking..... just read it. You'll see my problem. xP

Sasakibe came to pick up Gaara and the others and take them to the Soul Reaper Academy. He briefly went over that the training would be extensive since it was only three days and that the ninjas must respect their teachers-- no matter how they may act, they are very skilled and knowledgeable. Yes, the white-haired lieutenant thought to himself, better to give them that advice now since they will be working with those three.

The group entered the academy and Sasakibe lead them down a long hallway and turned to stop at a doorway. He opened it and inside stood a woman and two men. The woman was very… jiggly, and had long wavy strawberry-blonde hair, while one man was completely bald and the other had funny eyelashes.

"Meet your instructors, Matsumoto-san, squad ten's lieutenant, Ikkaku-san, squad eleven's third seat, and Yumichika-san, squad eleven's fifth seat." Sasakibe gestured toward each one as he said the names. "Now, I hate to leave you all, but I must go." And with that, he shun-poed away.

Matsumoto instantly walked up and teased them all. "My my," she said to Kakashi, "aren't we mysterious with that mask over your face." She smiled. She called Sasuke cute, Naruto loud, and Sakura pinky, and when she got up to Tsunade, who was already glaring to warn her not to make a comment, she squealed in delight as she looked at her chest, "I have a breast-buddy! Finally someone who has the same bra size as meeee!" She gave Tsunade an unexpected hug. Tsunade, not knowing what to do—no one hugs the Hokage out of no where-- stood there for a moment, and remembering to respect her instructors, asked Matsumoto to let her go. Matsumoto, a little disappointed, replied "Awww. I guess maybe you're a little shy..."

Naruto, already angry at the lady for calling him loud, finally spoke, "Ha! Granny Tsunade... shy? That's a laugh!"

Matsumoto stood confused. "Granny? You mean to say that this woman here is older than she looks?"

"You bet. She uses ninja techniques to hide her true age. Your buddy is as old as dirt...." Naruto was then punched on the top of the head by Tsunade.

"You'll have to excuse him, he's loud, as you say."

Matsumoto ran up to give Tsunade another hug. "We have yet another thing in common! Our beauty does not truly show our age, which is excellent!"

"You hide your true age as well?" Tsunade asked, interested.

"Well here in the Soul Society, we don't age as normal people when you become a soul reaper. I'm actually really old compared to you all." Matsumoto explained.

"Really? I may begin to like it here after all. Thank you, Matsumoto-san. I'm Tsunade, the Fifth Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village."

"Oh, please, we are breast buddies. Please call me Rangiku." Rangiku smiled.

The instant friendship conversation was interrupted by none other than Ikkaku. "Cut the peppy crap, Rangiku. We have to teach these weaklings some stuff about battling hollows and arrancars." He stood with his sword already pulled out and held it casually over his back.

"You don't have to be so rude, Ikkaku. I bet they like me better already."

"Rangiku, I do believe that you forgot to take beauty into consideration." said Yumichika. "They like me the best because I am the most beautiful one here." He held his hand to his chest as he admired himself.

"Are you saying that I am not beautiful?" Matsumoto snapped.

"You are something to look at, but you do not beat this quality of beauty."

"Would you two shut up? I just said these weaklings need to learn--"

Ikkaku was cut off by the loud one. "Who are you calling a weakling, BALDY? I'm gonna become the next Hokage!!" Naruto screamed as he ran for Ikkaku with a kunai in his hand.

"Baldy? Why I outta..." he pulled out his zanpakuto and put it up to guard Naruto's kunai. "So Blondie, you want a fight? You know, we fight to the death in the 11th division."

As Naruto picked up another Kunai from is pocket and was going to go for the bald head, Kakashi poofed over and grabbed him. "I'm sorry, we don't mean to cause so much trouble, but Naruto is just a little sensitive when it comes to his strength...."

Sasuke laughed. "A little?"

Naruto now became enraged at Sasuke for making fun of him. "SASUKE!" Tsunade told Sasuke to shut up and not tempt him anymore.

Ikkaku replied, "Oh, I really don't mind. A good fight is just what I need right now."

"Come on, Kakashi-sensei, let me go! I can take this guy!"

"Naruto, please, this is your mission-- to learn from these guys. It doesn't help you to complete your mission if you kill the man, and if you cannot complete a mission as simple as this, how can you become the next Hokage?"

Making Naruto realize this, Kakashi put him down as he sat and sulked over it. Thankfully a Hokage reference will calm him down almost every time, thought Kakashi.

"Enough of this bickering!" Matsumoto commanded. "You know, I am the one in charge here, you two are just hired help."

"Watch it, Rangiku, we aren't that far behind you in rank." snapped Ikkaku.

"Anyway," she said as she ignored Ikkaku, "We didn't get all of your names. I know you are Tsunade, but what about the rest of you?"

"I'm Kakashi. It's nice to meet you, Matsumoto-san."

"Sakura Haruno. It's a pleasure to meet you all.

"Sasuke Uchiha."

"Gaara."

"You two are the men of few words, aren't you?" Matsumoto said to Sasuke and Gaara. They didn't reply.

Naruto stood with a pout still on his face. "What about you?"

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki! And I'm gonna be the next Hokage!"

"I have a feeling you use that line in every introduction." Naruto stood shocked. How did she know that?

"Well, now that we all know each other, it's time to start the training." She clapped her hands. "Time for saké!"

"Rangiku, we haven't done anything yet!" Ikkaku exclaimed.

"I know, but all these introductions were tiring! I need a drink!"

"Not now, I still need to fight Blondie first. So train him."

"But—"

"Rangiku-san, it might be nice to have a drink, but maybe we should have some training before hand," Tsunade said. As much as she wanted to have a drink, she realized she has to train as much as she can so she can return to the Hidden Leaf as soon as possible. Then I can have all the drinks I want.

"Oh, fine, if you insist. I think it may be better if we move from this room. We don't need to learn to write," she gestured to all the desks. "Perhaps the training room. Follow me." She led all of them off from the room down the hall to a much larger room with blank white walls. "We'll start here."

Back to the world where Hitsugaya and the others were located, Shizune lead the soul reapers to a hot spring. She soon found a white-haired older man sitting and peeking through the walls of the ladies hot spring. Shizune cleared her throat. The man turned around surprised and stood straight up. "Oh, Shizune! I was just researching for my next novel! See, I have my notes right… uh…" he fumbled around in his pockets for some paper, "right here!"

"Jiraya-sama, as much as I'd like to yell, I won't. Consider this a favor. Now you owe me back."

"What's your point?" Jiraya turned to look at the people carrying swords behind her. He realized it must have something to do with them.

"The Hokage and Team Kakashi have gone missing and the village is at a shortage of ninjas. Please accompany these people right here," she gestured toward them, "on a mission. I have been ordered to do it, but I have to find Lady Tsunade. They are part of the disappearance of the Hokage and team Kakashi, but have been deemed trustworthy because it was all an accident. The Elders have ordered them to help out with the missions as long as someone is there to supervise them. Otherwise they will be imprisoned and it wasn't their fault."

"Well," he scratched the back of his head. "Can't say I want to, I do need to research, but I guess I should help the village every now and then….."

"Thank you, Jiraya-Sama." Shizune bowed and left them with the white haired sage.

Author's Note Part 2: It's so hard to have Matsumoto, Ikkaku, Yumichika, Naruto, and Sasuke in the same room. Everything you say could start an argument of it all. Ugh. Why did I do this to myself?

Gaara only said his name. -cry- BUT "Sasakibe came to pick up Gaara and the others" makes me very happy. ;D

""Sasuke Uchiha." "Gaara." "You two are the men of few words, aren't you?" Matsumoto said to Sasuke and Gaara. They didn't reply." ** This made me laugh really hard when I wrote this. I don't know if you found it funny, but I seriously laughed for about five minutes. xxD Come on, few words and they didn't reply? .................I have a werid logic.... o.0

I wasn't really happy where I left Naruto's group, just in a blank training room, but I didn't want to push it too far-- this is the longest chapter I've ever done at 1,500+ words. Also, I don't really recall the Academy having a training room, so I'm making one up.

As for the small part including Jiraya, I just wanted to put it in this chapter because it was when they are supposed to meet their instructors, to match the title of the chapter. I was planning to only have Jiraya train them a little like I'm having the Academy do, but the Elders seemed too strict to me to just let them train and be off. Plus, they might need someone along the way. Naruto's group has Hat-and-Clogs for that. :)

"Back to the world where Hitsugaya and the others were located" should make Kimi very happy. ;D And all other Shiro fans.