Now then Ichigo is going to get her shinigami power back a different way because she doesn't have a chain of fate.
Chapter 5
Last time
"Y-you l-love me." Asked with shock.
"Yes I love you Ichi-chan I have since middle school." He said biting his lip.
"Than if you truly love me Naru-kun return my powers so you don't have to be afraid of losing me." Ichigo said looking Naruto in the eye.
Now back to the story
"Why do you what your power back so badly?" Naruto asked.
"So I can save Rukia." Ichigo said.
"Why would you go so far to save some one you only met a month ago?" Naruto asked wanting to know her true reason before restoring her powers.
"She gave me her powers so I could save my family that night. So I will do what ever it takes to save here." Ichigo said with determination as she let him go.
"Very well request granted." Naruto said making Ichigo look at him confused.
"What." She said.
"I said request granted." Naruto said with a smile as he put a hand on Ichigo's shoulder and vanished in a yellow flash.
"Where'd they go?" Isshin asked looking at the spot that Naruto and his daughter were once in.
"Naruto probable took her to the underground training room." Kisuke said shrugging his shoulders as he got up and motioned for them to follow him out of the room.
The underground training room
When Naruto and Ichigo arrived in the room Naruto could tell that Ichigo was confused to where they were as well as to how they got there in the first place so the first ten minutes Naruto was telling her how where they were and how they got there.
"All right Ichi-chan since you don't have a chain of fate the only way to get your shinigami powers back is very simple." Naruto said with a smile as he held up his hand and formed a ball of reiatsu.
"Naruto what's that?" Ichigo asked looking at the ball of energy that formed in Naruto's hand.
"This Ichi-chan is called reiatsu." Naruto said hold it out in front of him. "Now than place your hand on it and the restoration of her powers shall begin." Naruto said.
"Are you sure it will work." Ichigo asked carefully putting her hand forward.
"Hey come on trust me Ichigo." Naruto said still having his smile. "Beside from a letter my mom left me she went through the same thing your going to do." Naruto said.
"If you're sure!" Ichigo says touching the ball of reiatsu. The moment she touched the ball it was absorbed into her.
"Sorry Ichi-chan." Naruto said making Ichigo look at him confused until a hole appeared beneath her and was sent falling to the bottom. "Bakudo #99 restrict." He said slamming his hands together as white fabric shot down at Ichigo and tied her arms behind her back.
Down in the hole
"What the fuck Naruto get me out of here." Ichigo shouted as she stood up and glared at Naruto only for white fabric to bind her hands behind her back. "What the fuck Naruto!" Ichigo shouted again.
"If you want out then regain your shinigami powers Ichigo that ball of reiatsu that was absorbed into you acts like a chain of fate you have three days to get your powers or you will turn into a hollow." She heard Naruto shout to her making her eye go wide at what she heard not realizing that he was lying to her about turning into a hollow.
"When I get out of here I'm going to kill him." Ichigo said to her self.
Up with Naruto"This is the only way to get them back the reiatsu ball was just a little help she must do the rest on her own." Naruto said to himself as Kisuke and the others came up behind him.
"Hey where's Ichigo." Kisuke said.
"Just look in the hole." Naruto said standing up as the other walked over to the hole and looked down to see Ichigo trying to run up the side of the hole.
"Why is she down there and why did you use Bakudo #99 restrict on her." Kisuke asked.
"Because the way I'm restoring her shinigami power is similar to the shattered shaft without the effect of us having to kill her." Naruto said.
"What do you mean similar to the shattered shaft?" Kisuke asked.
"Because the only way to get out is to enter her inner world and get her Zanpakuto and that could take any where from two days to a week." Naruto said walking away from the hole. "Not to mention that she'll gain a mask but for some reason I have a feeling she'll gain the mask first which in turn will force her into her inner world." Naruto thought to himself. "Hey Kisuke." Naruto said making Kisuke look at him.
"Yeah." Kisuke said as his hat lifted up a little showing his right eye.
"Where's Yoruichi-chan." Naruto asked.
"Don't know." Kisuke said shrugging his shoulders. "Why do you ask?" Kisuke asked pulling out his fan once again.
"Needed to talk to her." Naruto said as a male's voice spoke up.
"What do you want with little old me?" A voice asked as a black cat landed on Naruto's shoulder.
"Speak her name and she shall come." Naruto said with a chuckle as the other looked at him with raised eyebrows besides Kisuke, Tessai, and Masaki.
"Naruto that's a cat!" Naruko says looking at the cat on Naruto's shoulder. "I think brother's loosing his mind." Naruko thought.
"She's no ordinary cat Naruko." Naruto told his sister. "Isn't that right Yoruichi-chan." Naruto says scratching the cat's head.
"A little lower Naruto-kun." The cat now know as Yoruichi said making everyone besides three people go wide eyed and slack jawed as the cat spoke.
"D-d-did t-t-that c-c-cat j-j-just s-s-speak!" Yuzu says with a stuttered.
"Yes she did." Naruto said still scratching Yoruichi on the head.
"B-but t-t-that's I-I-impossible c-c-cat's c-c-can't s-s-speak!" Karin says with a stutter just like her sister.
"I'm not an every day house cat." Yoruichi said jumping off Naruto's shoulder. "So what did you want to talk about Naruto-kun?" Yoruichi asked turning around to face Naruto.
"I want you to come with Ichi-chan and me when we go to Seireitei." Naruto said.
"And why should I." Yoruichi asked.
"Well for starters it would be a good chance to see your little bee again." Naruto said with a chuckle. "And with you there it should be very easy to get Kukaku to help us." Naruto said knowing how hard it could be to get her to do anything for anyone even when it to help a shinigami.
"True Kukaku can be stubborn on something's." Yoruichi said nodding her head. "Especial since she'll have to help a shinigami this time." Yoruichi says getting a nod from Naruto.
"So will you join us?" Naruto asked.
"Of course!" Yoruichi says with a grin as Naruto nodded and looked over to Kisuke.
"Yeah Kisuke." Naruto shouted getting said shop owner's attention.
"Yes." Kisuke answered back.
"How's Ichi-chan doing?" Naruto asked.
"Well she got the right attitude but there's something wrong." Kisuke said as he looked into the hole.
"What." Naruto asked knowing already what was going on.
"Well it looks like she's going under hollowfication." Kisuke said looking back at Naruto.
"So the mask is forming already." Naruto said aloud getting everyone attention.
"Naruto what do mean by the mask is forming already." Isshin asked wanting to know what Naruto was talking about and what was happening to his daughter.
"Well in ruff terms your daughter is gaining the powers of a hollow though the mask is forming much fast then I thought it would." Naruto said as putting his hand up to stop anyone from talking. "And no she isn't going under a full hollowfication she's only getting a mask." Naruto said as he walked over to the hole and looked down at Ichigo to see half of the girls face covered in white goo.
In the hole with Ichigo"What the hell is this?" Ichigo shouted as her face was covered in white goo that was coming out of her out of her mouth. "Wait Naruto said I had three day to find my shinigami powers or I would become a hollow but it's only be what like two hours at the most." Ichigo thought as the goo started to take a solid form on her face.
"I will get through this!" she thought in determination. I will not die here I will survive this I will save my friend. Ichigo said as she struggled to get her feet. I will not die do you hear me nothing will stop me I will live. Ichigo shouted as she heard a voice come from behind her.
Inner world
"Is that the all the resolve you have Ichigo?" The voice asked. "I was expecting more from you Ichigo." The voice continued to say as Ichigo focused her eyes and saw that she was standing on a blue skyscraper that seemed to be on its side. Looking around she noticed other skyscrapers that seem to be the same way. When she turned towards the voice see seen an old man standing on a flagpole. He's a lean-built, and stoic middle-aged man. He has pale skin, with high cheekbones, and stubble, he has long ragged black hair with brown highlights. His attire consists of a tattered white dress shirt with an upturned collar and cuffs, black pants, low-heeled boots, and a long, amorphous black overcoat with a burgundy highlight that flares out into ragged ends. He wears brown-tinted, semi-transparent wraparound sunglasses.
"Who are you?" Ichigo asked.
"I am your Zanpakuto but you can call me Zangetsu." The man said.
"Come again I could hear you." Ichigo said looking up at Zangetsu
"It seems that you are not ready to learn my name." Zangetsu said as everything changed making Ichigo fall as the building started to crumble away and turn in to boxes. "Right now you must focus Ichigo for in one of these boxes you shall find me." The voice of Zangetsu said as Ichigo nodded and started looking around at the boxes that were falling.
"How the hell am I supposed to find the right box?" Ichigo thought as she looked at all the boxes that were falling around her until remembered something that Naruto and the Quincy told here.
"Shinigami have a red spirit ribbon." The voices of Naruto and the Quincy echoed in her head.
"Of course!" Ichigo says closing her eyes to concentrate on finding the right box it took no more than a minute for her to find the correct box she quickly rushed over to it. When she opened it she noticed the hilt of her old sword she took a few second to look around when she heard the old man voice again.
"What are you doing? Pull it out!" the voice shouted making her pull it out once she had that when things went black.
Outside her mind
"Naruto you have to stop her before she becomes a hollow." Kisuke said looking down at Ichigo who was currently struggling against the Bakudo spell that was binding her arm behind her back.
"She'll be fine Kisuke." Naruto said Ichigo broke the spell and jumped out of the hole in an explosion of power. When she landed outside of the hole, Naruto was smiling since Ichigo had reclaimed her shinigami powers but also had enough control to draw her Zanpakuto, which was broken and smashed the mask with it pommel. While the others had no idea what just happened while Kisuke was thinking.
"So he wanted her to gain an inner hollow." Kisuke thought as he looked at Ichigo who was now currently making her way over to Naruto.
"Congratulations Ichi-chan you're now a shinigami again." Naruto said only for Ichigo to smash his face in with the pommel of her Zanpakuto.
"Yes, and now I'm going to kill you Naruto! So, prepare yourself." Ichigo snarled as Naruto just stared at her and chuckled.
"You may have gotten your shinigami powers back, but I'm afraid that the same can't be said for your Zanpakuto." Naruto said rolling up his left sleeve showing that he had some kind of tattoo on it. "Now than Kekkei Genkai isn't the right blade to face you with." Naruto said before he bite his thumb and wiped the blood on the tattoo. "Release." He muttered as puff of smoke came from the tattoo. When the smoke cleared they noticed Naruto was holding a blade in his right hand, just think Kisuke Benihime in her cane state but with a regular handle.
With the others"What the he has two Zanpakuto's." Naruko asked with wide eyes.
"I have no clue princess Naruko." Kisuke said looking at the blade.
"Actually he does." Masaki said getting the attention of the others.
"So then that blade is a Zanpakuto." Isshin asked his wife.
"Yes and her name is Tsukihime." Masaki said as she looked over to Kisuke. "She's the sister sword to Kisuke's Zanpakuto Benihime!" Masaki says making Kisuke look down at his cane.
"She's right Kisuke." A voice said to Kisuke.
"Benihime." Kisuke said shocked since Benihime rarely talks to him.
"Yes it's me Kisuke, and what Masaki-san is true Tsukihime is my sister." Benihime said to her master.
"It's true Benihime just said so herself." Kisuke said as he looked back over to Naruto and Ichigo, which the later was running for her life as Naruto chased after her swinging like a mad man.
Back over with Naruto and Ichigo"Come on Ichi-chan turn and face me." Naruto shouted chasing after Ichigo while swing his blade.
"And give you a chance to hit me with that's kids toy no thank you." Ichigo shouted as she tried to stay a step ahead of Naruto.
"You shouldn't insult someone like that Ichi-chan." Naruto said as his reiatsu spiked a little. "Illuminate the night sky! Tsukihime." Naruto shouted as his blade made a drastic change, it was now a sleek, medium-sized sword. The hilts grip, which has a gentle white decorative wrapping bending forward at the end with a pommel shaped to look overlapped three time and a silver tail dangling from it base. Instead of a tsuba, there is a U-shaped guard covering three inches of the pure white blade, with a crescent moon design. At the base of the guard is a silver string wrapped thrice around the hilt with a three-loop bow on the backside. It remained straight somewhat of a short size with the tip ending in a slanted razor-like edge.
"Wait why am I running." Ichigo said as she turned around to block Naruto Zanpakuto only for the blade to go right through hers like it was butter.
"That Zanpakuto is worthless Ichigo, a true Zanpakuto shouldn't break that easily." Naruto said swing his blade again destroying the rest of the blade and cutting the tsuba on a diagonal.
Ichigo watched with wide eyes as Naruto destroyed the remainder of her blade only leaving only the hilt in her hand. The only thing she could do now was run and that what she did until she heard a voice call out to her.
"Why do you run Ichigo?" A voice asked. Why are you running away Ichigo! Turn around and face your fear." The voice says again as Zangetsu appears in front of her.
"Old man"
"Do not run! You must turn around and face him." Zangetsu said making Ichigo stop in her tracks.
"What are you doing Ichi-chan." Naruto said to him self when he noticed that Ichigo had stopped running and took a stance as her reiatsu flared up around her.
"Good Ichigo now say my name." Zangetsu shouted.
"Pierce the heavens! Zangetsu." Ichigo shouted as a cloud of dust pick up around her. When the dust cleared Ichigo was kneeling on the ground with her hand on the hilt of her Zanpakuto, which was an oversized cleaver with no tsuba, or a proper hilt, it was about as tall as Ichigo her self. "You may want to try and dodge this Naruto!" Ichigo says standing up and lifting her Zanpakuto above her head before swinging in down as reiatsu in the shape of a crescent moon was released from the tip of the blade and collided with Naruto creating a huge dust cloud.
"Luckily I had the Getsumen Misutoshirudo." Naruto said as the dust settled showing that he had up some kind of sliver shield protecting him while Ichigo and fallen to the ground asleep.
"Naruto are you ok." He heard Naruko say as he turned to see his sister running over to him while the others went to Ichigo.
"I'm fine Naruko." Naruto said as he released Tsukihime into his left arm.
"Are you sure Naruto?" She asked only fro her brother to walk away.
"Don't worry Naruko I'm fine." Naruto said turning his head back to look at his sister. "Now come on let's go and see if Ichigo's ok." Naruto said as he turned his head forward and continued to walk over to Ichigo.
A week laterIt had been a week since Ichigo got her powers back while also learning the name of her Zanpakuto. But what confused Ichigo was that everyone in school had forgotten about Rukia all except Orihime and Chad who both knew what was going on thanks to Yoruichi. Both had said that they would help save Rukia. That's why we find Orihime, Chad and fifteen year old boy by the name of Uryu Ishida a Quincy who was going for some stupid reason of his own standing in front of Kisuke who had just gotten done explain how they were going to get in to Seireitei which was by a modified Senkaimon that Kisuke was standing in front of.
"All right you four listen carefully." Kisuke said getting their attention. "You have four minutes to get through." Kisuke said making Ichigo speak up.
"Four minutes." Ichigo said looking at Kisuke.
"Yes! That's all the time I could get you." Kisuke said opening the Senkaimon. "Good luck." He said as the four of them took off in to the gate with Yoruichi sitting on Ichigo's shoulder.
In Seireitei"All right this should be the spot where they should drop in." Naruto said looking up into the sky. Unlike other time's when Naruto was in his shinigami form this time he had both Zanpakuto's strapped to his left hip while still wearing the same white hakama with a black sash and a ragged white jacket with an upturned collar. He still left the jacket open leaving his muscular chest exposed and this time the Shiki Fujin on his stomach that held the Kyuubi was showing.
"Are you sure Naruto?" Naruko asked her brother. While she had her hair in the same pigtails she was now wearing a variation of the outfit that Naruto was wearing the jacket had a high collar that covered the lower part of her face downward, while stopping just a little blow her large DD-cup breasts leaving her stomach uncovered. The jacket had a zipper running along its entire length that is opened from the bottom upwards. The jacket's sleeves completely envelop her arms, while her pants were the same as Naruto's.
"Of course I am." Naruto said still looking up as a hole in the sky opened up shooting out four people and a cat from what had looked like an explosion. See told you. Naruto said to his sister as the five objects crash right into the ground behind them.
"Must you always be right?" Naruko asked as her brother turned around to look at the five who just crashed into the ground.
"Yes!" Naruto says walking up to the group as Yoruichi hit Orihime in the eye and started lecturing her about how stupid she was for using her powers when she said not to. "So how was the flight everyone?" Naruto asked making everyone look up at him with confusion beside Ichigo.
"Naruto how did you get here?" Orihime asked as she nursed her eye.
"I took short cut." Naruto said shrugging his shoulders.
"You're a shinigami?" Uryu asked as he replaced his cape.
"Yes and no." Naruto said confusing them. "Yes I am a shinigami, but no I don't work for Seireitei." Naruto said. "Now get the fuck up we got thing to do." Naruto said as he noticed Ichigo running towards the entranace.
"Ichigo you fool stop." Naruto shouted to her but it was too late as the answer came in the arrival of a literal giant of a man. The man wore a Shinigami shihakusho, a red hat with tassels, and armor on his left arm.
"Who goes there? I am Jidanbo, the gatekeeper, and I have the duty of keeping people who don't belong out of the Seireitei."
(Same as canon)
Now while Ichigo and Jidanbo were fighting Naruto and Yoruichi were asking and elderly soul if he knew where the local fire works expert Kukaku Shiba was. When they heard the defeated voice of Jidanbo.
"Captain Ichimaru! What are you doing here?" Jidanbo asked looking at said captain now the shinigami named Ichimaru was a fairly tall man with silver hair, squinted eyes, and a fox like grin on his face. Of course his answer was to slice off one of the gatekeeper's arms.
"Jidanbo, you poor fool, being a gatekeeper means that when you lose, the result is death." Ichimaru said only for him to freeze when he caught the eyes of Naruto who had ran over to Ichigo but it didn't last long due to the gate slamming to the ground. While Orihime got to work on fixing the gatekeepers arm, Naruto and the others had gone back to the elderly soul who had info on Kukaku Shiba.
Five minutes laterOnce the group had gotten the info from the old man, someone literally crashed into the room rolling across the floor. "Huh, what's going on? And why is there a boar here?" Ichigo asked as she looked from the figure rather large boar with a red ribbon tied on top of it.
"Thrown off by Bonnie once again." The apparent boar rider spoke getting to his feet.
"Hey old man, it's been a long time." The man said offering a two fingers salute and thankfully not the rude one.
"Ganju, what are you doing here? You should leave now!" the old man told Ganju who looked up at the man.
"It may have been some time since I have been here but come on is that any way to greet an old friend. What would your gues…" Ganju's sentence was cut off as he spotted Naruto, Ichigo, and Yoruichi in her cat form. "Would someone explain why there's a stinking shinigami here?" Ganju said looking at Ichigo while taking off a pair of sunglasses. Naruto just shook his head at how his soon to be brother-in-law was acting.
"What did you just say?" Ichigo asked quietly as Ganju stomped over.
"What, your ears not working? I asked why is there a stinking shinigami here." Ganju lightly tapped the side of Ichigo's face as he spoke in a condescending tone, and of course Ichigo's response was to punch Ganju in the face.
"Don't you know who I am?" Ganju asked getting up.
"No." The said group besides three people.
"Don't wanna know." Ichigo said in a bored tone.
Which of course made Ganju furious at the loss of recognition and he started to proclaim many ridiculous titles for himself, which ended at "Number 1 shinigami hater of the West Rukongai." Which of course Ichigo just ignored him making Ganju retaliate by punching her in the face. Of course that little action led the two of them to having a little scuffle in the streets while Naruto was just standing off to the side shaking his head.
"Ladies and gentlemen my idiot of a brother-in-law!" Naruto says shaking his head as his sister spoke up.
"Brother-in-law?" Naruko questioned.
Yes and don't worry I'll explain after everything is over. Naruto said watch the two go at each others throat while Yoruichi had thanked the elder for the information and a place to stay, but before things got to out of hand an alarm tied to the back of one of Ganju's friends went off showing that it was 9pm. He quickly called his boar and rode away with his friends while shouting back to Ichigo.
"You stay right there Dandelion head. I'll be back tomorrow to finish this." Ganju shouted as he rode off on his boar which pissed off Ichigo and left the others sighing in relief.
There's chapter five my original thought was to make this chapter end the day that they use Kukaku's flower crane cannon to break through the shield of Seireitei but I decided to end it here since the I'm going to explain by I called Ganju, Naruto soon to be brother-in-law in the next chapter and yes that means that Kukaku Shiba is apart of Naruto's harem. Now eight have been chosen and these are the ones. Naruko, Mashiro, Unohana, Soi-Fon, Rangiku, Kasumi (female Kyuubi), Kukaku, Female Ichigo. The top three for the poll that I put up early will be added as well of my choosing from the one of the one's that didn't make it. Also Naruto has two Zanpakuto he just carries Kekkei Genkai with him all the time while his other one is in a seal on his left arm. Now as for how Ichigo got her powers back I made it kind of similar to the shattered shaft by using Bakudo #99 part 1 as well as the hole and Naruto attacking Ichigo so she could get her true Zanpakuto.