Lucky-sama: This is what my fourth story right now?
Tensai-san: It is, although none of our stories are completed we wanted to post this one up anyways.
Lucky-sama: Yes that's right and becasue we have very little ideas on what the pairings are going to be we have decided to let our readers choose.
Tensai-san: It will be a Naruto Harem and possibly an OC Harem.
Lucky-sama: We don't own Naruto or bleach..yada...yada...yada..
Tensai-san: Enjoy our new story!
The pain, the throbbing pain in his chest. It wouldn't stop. Wearily Naruto stood up, it took him a minute to let the events from before sink in. The Akatsuki were gone, their dead bodies he could see clearly. But to his left, there lay Sasuke, also dead. Naruto reached out a tentative hand but found that his hand went through Sasuke. Remembering what the last Uchiha did for him, he lifted a hand and touched his now closed left eye.
Flashback:
"Don't cry dobe," Sasuke coughed up another gutful of blood.
"I'm not crying! Crying's for wimps!" Naruto protested weakly wiping away the visible tears with his free hand. The other hand lay crushed, beside him. He lay sprawled out beside his brother.
"Right," Sasuke managed to scoff, "I want to give you a gift, one to remember me by,"
"What?" Naruto was taken back, a gift at a time like this?
"Yeah, you still have a little chakra left right?" Sasuke coughed.
"Yeah, what do you want to do?" Naruto dragged his broken arm so it lay across his body, wincing as he did so.
"M-make *hack* a shadow clone," Naruto obeyed, using up the last amounts of chakra within his very body.
"Switch one of our eyes, *cough*"
"Why?!" Naruto froze completely, the clone on his knees.
"I'm the last * cough* Uchiha," Sasuke wheezed, "I want the *hack* Sharingan to live on,"
There were no more qustions as Naruto's clone removed their left eyes and switched them. As soon as that was done it disspelled.
"Goodbye *wheeze* brother," with that, Sasuke was dead.
Naruto screamed in pain as the newly implanted Sharingan eye turned into the Mangekyou Sharingan then faded. Slowly the pain ebbed away and then it was blank.
Flashback End
Turning his head he spotted himself, laying on the ground, a chain tying him to his body. Not knowing what the chain could do, he poked it...and resulted in a scream of pain coming from him. "Fact number one! Don't touch chain!" he mumbled to himself as he sat patiently and waited. And waited, and waited until finally a portal opened up behind him, startling him. Suddenly he realized, he was dead, dead and gone. There was so much he wanted to do, but it was gone. At least he would get to see Ojii-san, Teme, his parents and Ero-sennin.
"Where's the hollow Haku?" a man dressed in a black robes stepped out of the portal, a zanbatou hefted on his shoulder.
"Right about...there Zabuza-sama!" a girl with long black hair pointed suddenly, past Naruto.
Another portal opened and a large black thing stepped out. It had a white mask on with a nose that would put Pinnochio to shame.
"A Menos Grande?! I like this! And drop the sama," the man now identified as Zabuza grinned evilly underneath the bandages on his face.
Naruto looked at the thing they called a Menos Grande, at first he was gonna yell about how Zabuza and Haku got here but the Menos seemed much more important. Completely forgetting he was dead, he focused (read again FOCUSED!) chakra into his right hand into the all familiar and powerful move. With another moment's hesitation he propelled himself up to the hollow. As he did so, the chain snapped, but the feel of raw adrenaline blocked out all pain. He only felt the rush of excitement you could only get when you rush into a life or death battle.
"RASENSHURIKAN!" the old black void appeared as the move disintegrated parts of the hollow. The hollow retaliated by firing a cero at the airborn Naruto.
The blonde's eyes widened as he saw the blast of reiatsu coming at him, unable to retaliate, he held his arms out in front of him, hoping that something good would happen. And something did happen, it came in the form of a mask, Naruto felt the new mask on his face and barely felt the cero when he caught it. Ginning fiendishly, he simply threw the cero back at the Menos Grande and followed up with a few of his own red ceros.
"Na-ru-to? Is that you?" Zabuza's jaw almost hit the ground as he watched the blond land.
"Hm? Zabuza! And Haku too!" Naruto grinned as he walked over, the mask fading as he went.
"Who-what-where-when-why-how- You're dead?!" Zabuza managed to get out.
"Hehehe...yes I'm dead..." Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly.
"Managed to take down some of the best of the best huh brat?" Zabuza looked around at the dead bodies of the Akatsuki.
"You know it!" Naruto gave them his signature smile.
"We better do the Konso Zabuza," Haku waved and smiled lightly at Naruto.
"Right, stand still Naruto, I just need to stab you with ol' Kubikiri Houcho," Zabuza tapped his giant head cleaver.
"What no way! NO WAY AM I GONNA BE STABBED BY THAT THING!" Naruto backed away as Zabuza advanced threateningly.
"Zabuza, you might want to use your regular zapakuto instead of your shikai," Haku advised quickly, seeing Naruto's look of fear.
"Right," Zabuza sighed as he turned his zanbatou into a regular katana zanpakuto. Naruto gave Haku a silent mouthed thanks. In which Haku accepted with a nod.
"Gotcha! I'll see you in Rukongai later when I pick you up!" Zabuza waved as the blonde vanished in a flash of light. Turing to Haku he muttered, "What was his reiatsu level reading?"
"947," Haku replied with a shocked expression.
"That was odd," Naruto groaned and clutched his head in pain. His vision cleared slowly and his headache faded into the background. "Where am I?"
"You're in Rukongai Kit,"
"Kyuubi? I'm still stuck with you?" Naruto groaned.
"Hehe yes, we spent to long together and we've basically merged into one soul," Kyuubi chuckled sheepishly.
"That's nice to know, I'm stuck with you for all eternity. Whoa!" Naruto ducked as a guy wearing similar robes as Zabuza did came flying over his head.
"There seems to be a fight, I believe you know what to do," Kyuubi faded away, back into the depths of his mind, his laughter echoed throughout Naruto's head.
"Damn straight, where there's a fight, there's me!" Naruto crowed as he dove into the battle.
After knocking another one of those black robed guys out of the way, he scanned the throng of fighters. In the middle there was a guy about his age, easily twisting and weaving his way around blows. Naruto could easily tell that this guy was a master of taijutsu through the flawlessness in which the katas were preformed, how easily he stood balanced, and how unfazed he was when delievering a blow.
If anything, he learned as a shinobi you had to kill, it did not mean that you had to enjoy it, but you simply had to grit you teeth and get the job done without letting anything interfere, including your own emotions. This guy was trained to kill, he could probably kill unmercilessly and silently. No hesitation involved.
"Art of the Tiger: Striking Claws!" both hands were formed into Tiger claw fists and both were slammed into another black robed guy's guts.
"Heads up!" Naruto warned as he added a flying kick of his own to finish him off.
"Art of the Eagle: Hunting Talons!" the boy dove down wards, his hands outstretched and slashed at the eyes while Naruto swept his legs out from underneath him.
"Nice moves," Naruto grinned and extended his hand, "I'm Naruto Uzumaki by the way,"
"Thank-you, the name's Sen Rikiryou," Sen shook the extended hand.
"Where are you from? I'm from Konoha," Naruto walked down the street, ignoring all the whispers flying about.
"Well that's a first, most people never even heard of us shinobi's before. I'm from Kiri but I moved to one of the Monk Temple's in the Fire countries during the whole bloodline thing," Sen answered as they walked.
"There you guys are, I suppose the entire mess of shinigami's from back there was from you guys huh?" Zabuza appeared on in front of them.
"You know it Zabuza-sempai," Sen grinned.
"Wha-you know him?" Naruto was shocked.
"Of course, he's the one that took me to the Fire Temple in the first place," Sen shrugged, "Where's Haku?"
"She's getting the last few recruits in, there are quite a bunch of you," Zabuza said leading them into the gates of Seireitei.
"Zabuza, Sen-kun!" Haku appeared and gave Sen a bear-crushing hug.
"Can't *gasp* breath...Haku," Sen gasped.
"Oh, gomen!" Haku immeadietly released him and went over to bother Naruto instead.
"Who else is here?" Naruto asked Haku.
"Well I know Kimimaro Kagyu arrived recently, but alot of the dead ninja never passed through Soul Society, they simply went on to the next world," Haku mused.
"At least I'll be able see some people I know of," Naruto replied skeptically.
"Oi Haku! Where are the recruits?" Zabuza grumbled, "I can't see the others,"
"They're.." Haku turned around towards the shadows, "over there,"
Still grumbling, Zabuza stomped over, muttering about stupid runts taking up his time all day and grabbed two figures. "Stay where I can see you dammit!" A guy with red hair and a girl with black hair was set down ungracefully.
"We're heading towards the meeting room, where Yamamoto Sotaichou will explain somethings," Haku informed them as she opened a large door.
Inside was a large table and 14 important looking people sat around it.
"Ah, Zabuza-san you've found the rest of the recruits, Haku go call the rest of them in please," Yamamoto told them from behind his cane.
Haku nodded and dissapeared behind the large door once again. She returned a few minutes later with another group of presumably new recruits.
"You two may go," Yamamoto dissmissed them and they walked back out of the doors, but not before Haku could give Naruto a wink as she went.
"Alright, we have gathered you here because we have pressing matters to disscuss," Yamamoto was totally serious now. "You-"
Lucky-sama: We will post our new chapter after our next Team Demon chapter and our newly renamed Dead and Gone fanfic.
Tensai-san: Yes and you can vote who you want to be paired up with Naruto and our OCon our profile our tell us in a review.
Lucky-sama: This is our last post for 2008! *Sniffle*
Tensai-san: Yes, thanks for the great year everyone! And See you in 2009!