"Naruto-sama, I have the reports that you wanted," said Nemu as she handed him a few documents.

"Thank you," said Naruto before taking the documents and looking through them.

Nemu had been his lieutenant for the past century since he had released her from the containment tube she was in and she is very efficient at her job. Naruto doubted Mayuri knew how helpful she really was as he probably ignored any of her input, but Naruto on the other hand encourage her input. The woman was very insightful when it came to giving him constructive criticism on his projects and even helped him see things from a different perspective. Of course, it took him awhile to get her to give her opinion as she had been taught by Mayuri to merely be silent while he worked.

The only problem he saw with Nemu was that she seemed to be very protective of him. It was a trait that had developed about six years after he made her his lieutenant and she started to learn that he would not punish her if she spoke her mind along with finally forgiving him for killing her father. Due to this protectiveness, she seemed to have developed an instant dislike for Unohana whom he was close to. She didn't show her dislike openly, but Naruto could tell by the slight narrowing of her eyes whenever he went out to visit Unohana, or Unohana came to see him, that she didn't much care for the older woman. This didn't bother him as long as Nemu was smart enough not to attack Unohana because if she did then he would probably kill her.

"Yamamoto-taicho has sent you this," said Nemu before pulling out a small note for him to read. Naruto put the documents he was looking over down on the nearest table, before accepting the note and reading it.

"Hmm, it seems there is going to be a meeting about the missing shinigami from the thirteenth division," frowned Naruto, as this was a waste of his time. He believed her name was Rukia and Byakuya had adopted her into the Kuchiki family about a hundred years ago.

"Would you like me to send a hell butterfly saying that you are busy?" asked Nemu. She knew how her taicho hated going to those meetings because he found them pointless.

"No, it wouldn't look good if I missed a meeting concerning a member from one of the four noble families," said Naruto with a shake of his head. He tossed the note into the air and used a weak kido spell to burn it.

"Nemu-san, please go check to see whether or not this Kuchiki's zanpakuto is still active or not. I have a feeling that she isn't quite as dead as they are saying," said Naruto. The twelfth division was not only responsible for the technology of Soul Society, but regulating the use of limiters and portals that shinigami used.

"Hai Naruto-sama," bowed Nemu before disappearing with a small displacement of wind.

'It seems Aizen-san will finally get the Orb of Distortion if Urahara-sempai was as foolish as I believe,' thought Naruto with a contemplative look in his eyes.

Karakura Town

"Why are you still following me around?" grumbled Ichigo as he glared at the short girl wearing a plain school uniform. Ichigo was a local high school student that was able to see ghosts and shinigami, but due to a recent attack on his family, he had ended up taking the powers of a shinigami from the girl right next to him.

Her name was Rukia Kuchiki, and ever since Ichigo had ended up taking all of her powers, she had been living with him and making sure he did his job as a shinigami in her place. The two seemed to have a very violent relationship as Rukia was always beating up on Ichigo for being lazy or just plain stupid in her opinion. Ichigo couldn't stand the girl because she was always dragging him around to save some soul or beat a hollow and it pissed him off.

"I am here to make sure you continue to do your job so stop your damn complaining," glared Rukia.

"Hn, whatever, but that doesn't explain why you have been living in my closest," glared Ichigo right back at the hundred year old girl.

"It is the only way I can make sure to get you on time when a hollow strikes," retorted Rukia with a tick on her forehead.

"Yeah right, you're just one weird ass girl," replied Ichigo with a smirk, before grumbling in anger when Rukia hit him over the head. He didn't get to say anything when a familiar beeping sound went off and Rukia pulled out her hollow detector.

"Come on, it is time to get to work," said Rukia as she put on her glove and slammed her hand into Ichigo's head.

"I hate when you do that," grumbled Ichigo as he was now wearing a standard shinigami uniform and his body was now lying unconscious on the ground.

"Let's go," said Rukia as she hid his body before leading to where the Hollow was located.

Fifth Division

Naruto was calmly sipping on some tea and he sat down before Aizen and Gin. They were speaking of the new development that has occurred with the missing Kuchiki girl.

"What have you found out so far?" asked Gin with his snake-like grin that was always present on his face.

Naruto had never liked the Third Division captain because he seemed to take joy in doing such pointless acts that served no point to but to annoy him. Gin also liked to joke about Naruto's compassion for the Fourth division captain. If it weren't for Aizen, Naruto would have succeeded in killing Gin about twenty years ago when he caught the man bothering Unohana. The fool learned the hard way that just because Naruto was the youngest captain in Soul Society, being 160 years of age, didn't mean he was the weakest.

"I have located the girl and she is currently in a town called Karakura Town. She possesses the Orb of Distortion as her spiritual powers have not returned to her since she gave him to that boy," said Naruto calmly.

"Hmm, I sense there is something more," said Aizen with a knowing look in his eyes.

"Yes, this town seems to a spiritual epicenter as there are several humans with some latent power and the boy who took the Kuchiki's girl powers has an abnormal amount of spiritual power. It is my theory that these humans will start to exhibit special abilities from being exposed to the boy's new shinigami powers," explained Naruto.

"Meh, a bunch of humans is no reason for concern," smiled Gin.

"I have to agree with Gin-san, these humans are no cause of concern. I will allow the Kuchiki girl to stay in this town for a bit longer before I influence the Council 46 to order for her immediate retrieval," smiled Aizen.

'Fools, underestimating power in any form is what will you get killed,' thought Naruto as he kept a neutral expression on his face.

Break

"Ken-chan, do you know where you are going?" asked Yachiru with a cute smile. The Eleventh division captain looked over at the little girl on his shoulder with a bored expression before replying to her question.

"Not a clue," replied Kenpachi, causing Yachiru to giggle. She was about to say something more when she felt a familiar spiritual power and looked up to see the captain of the 12th division walking towards them with his lieutenant behind him.

"Fishcake-kun," yelled Yachiru cheerfully as she waved over at the 12th division captain.

"Yachiru-san, Zaraki-san," greeted Naruto with a nod of his head. Kenpachi grinned at the 12th division captain with a bloodthirsty look in his eyes.

"Well, if it isn't the science brat, you finally ready to fight with me?" grinned Kenpachi as he raised his sword on his shoulders. Naruto looked at the man impassively because he had been trying to get him to fight him for years, even going so far as to openly attack him at any chance he got.

"I have told you before I do not fight for the simple thrill of fighting," said Naruto as he signaled for Nemu to get away from the area. Nemu bowed slightly before using shunpo and appeared on top of one of the many buildings about thirty feet away.

"What better reason is there to fight?" laughed Kenpachi before slamming his sword down at Naruto. When the large dust cloud disappeared, Naruto was nowhere in sight, and Kenpachi just grinned as he glanced over to the right to see his opponent standing on the wall calmly.

"Ha-ha, you have gotten even faster then the last time we met," grinned Kenpachi as he turned to face Naruto.

"No, I merely heard your bells and was easily able to anticipate your moves," stated Naruto simply before disappearing again as Kenpachi appeared behind him and destroyed the wall when he missed cutting Naruto in half.

"Still using that same lame excuse?" laughed Kenpachi.

"It is not an excuse, but merely a fact. My hearing is far better then any other shinigami and no matter how fast you are, I am able to hear the slight movement of those bells," replied Naruto as he stood on top of a building across from Kenpachi. Naruto wasn't lying because his sense of hearing, touch, and smell had been amplified due to some experiments he performed on himself to improve his senses while working on a few experiments. He didn't bother to worry about increasing his sight because he was trying to learn to fight without relying on his vision especially when he learned of what Aizen's zanpakuto could do. They made be allies now, but that could change in the future and Naruto wanted to be prepared.

"If it is so easy to predict my movements then why don't you stay and fight me? I am sure it would be so easy for you to beat me with such advanced hearing," taunted Kenpachi as he pointed his sword at Naruto.

"Yeah, fight Kenny-chan," yelled Yachiru as she cheered them on with a cute smile.

"I am sure we will find ourselves engaged in combat soon enough, but not today. Have a good day Yachiru-san, Zaraki-san," nodded Naruto before disappearing via shunpo.

"Ha-ha, you better put up one hell of a fight for making me wait," grinned Kenpachi as he watched Naruto disappear and knew that he was long gone. Yachiru appeared on his shoulder with a cute pout on her face.

"I'm sorry Ken-chan, I thought Fishcake-chan would finally let you have some fun," pouted Yachiru. Kenpachi didn't say anything before continuing in the direction he was headed in before he ran into Naruto.

Gotei 13 Meeting

"I have just received a message from Council 46 and they have ordered that the Kuchiki Rukia be brought in to answer for her crime of giving her powers to a human," said Yamamoto as he spoke to the captains gathered in front of him.

"What about the human she gave her powers to?" asked Naruto.

"Whoever goes to pick up Kuchiki Rukia will tell the boy that he is not to use his shinigami powers again or we will remove them from him permanently," answered Yamamoto. All the captains knew that the only way to remove a shinigami's powers was to kill him, and Naruto knew the compassionate boy would be killed before even given the chance to truly live life.

'Our job is not to interfere in the affairs of those of the living yet we kill a boy for protecting his family through use of gaining shinigami powers,' thought Naruto as he tuned out the rest of the conversation. He was about to refocus on what was going on when he started to have a memory from his past life.

Memory

"Ni-san, I am scared," shivered a little girl with long red hair and beautiful sky blue eyes that matched Naruto's own pair. She looked to be no older then three or four and it was easily to tell she was frightened.

"Leave us alone," growled Naruto as he stood front of the girl protectively as a bunch of villagers that were glaring at them both with hate-filled eyes surrounded them.

"Is time to die you little demons, we will finish what the Fourth Hokage started," yelled the ringleader.

Naruto watched as the villagers grew closer and the girl behind started to cry loudly. He clenched his hands angrily as he refused to allow these villagers harm one of the two people he loved.

'They hate us, so I will show them how much I hate them,' thought Naruto as his eyes turned black and his body started to glow with green and black power. The villagers stopped their forward movement as they saw what was happening to the boy, but before they could run in fear, power exploded off the boy and destroyed everything within a twenty foot radius. The only thing that was unharmed was the small girl whole kept screaming for her Ni-san even as her mother showed up and tried to comfort her.

End of Memory

Naruto placed a hand on his head before removing it slowly. He didn't know what happened, but something told him that it was related to his past. Before he could go over what happened, the memory started to fade from his mind, and soon he couldn't recall what it is he just saw. This caused him to frown slight, but soon dismissed it as unimportant and paid attention to the rest of the meeting.