Welcome back to another story! This is a Bleach and Danny Phantom crossover fan fiction story that I am teaming up with Openminded15 (from ) to write. We do not own anything associated with the Bleach or Danny Phantom series and/or its characters. Please leave your comments and reviews telling us what you think. Thank you!

Key guide: "regular speech", 'thinking', *mental speech*, italics- ghosts/zanpakuto/spirits speaking, bold- hollows speaking, CAPS- attacks, (author notes/translations)

Chapter Five: explanations

As the two walked towards Kisuke's place, both were deep in thought. Danny could feel his hand that he shook Ichigo tingling. Both haven't spoken a word as they both felt that the explanations could wait until they got to where they were going. Soon both arrived at a relatively small looking shop that had an upper floor that contained the house. The sign above the door read "Urahara's". Ichigo took out a key chain from his pocket searching for his key to the door.
"I have to warn you, Kisuke may seem a bit weird. But at times he is very smart for what he does know." Ichigo stated. Danny nodded his head that he understood as Ichigo unlocked the door allowing the two to enter the shop. "Kisuke... I am back and I brought a friend." Ichigo yelled out in Japanese. Suddenly Kisuke appeared right behind Danny scaring the daylights out of the young teen when he placed his hand onto Danny's shoulder.
"Welcome to my shop. Please do come in." Kisuke stated in English. Danny just smiled nervously.
"Damn hat and clogs. Are you trying to scare him to death?" Ichigo growled still in Japanese.
"Ichigo... you may want to consider speaking in English. I don't think your friend can understand Japanese. Did you dispatch the hollow?" asked Kisuke in Japanese.
"Yeah about that... We need to talk." Ichigo stated as he didn't bother to switch to English as he quickly explained the situation to Kisuke. Kisuke opened up the fan before his face as he nodded his head. Danny tried to listen to what they were saying but he couldn't understand a single word. Then he remembered the Fenton Phones as he took them out of his book bag placing one into his ear. "I have no clue to what Danny is but, he tried to fight the hollow. It seems that his dad is the one responsible for the portal. Danny doesn't truly understand what is going on and what he is up against. Plus he was the only one whom could see me while I was in soul form." Ichigo stated.
"Why only could I see you and that hollow?" asked Danny. Kisuke turned towards Danny as he noticed a strange object in his ear.
"You can understand us?" asked Kisuke.
"Only when I am wearing this." answered Danny as he pointed to the Fenton Phones. "It is a device created by my parents that is supposed to filter out ghost noises. But when I traveled to your world I discovered that it can translate other languages." answered Danny. Kisuke just nodded his head that he understood.
"Then perhaps you can enlighten us to what you exactly are." Kisuke stated in English as he looked at Ichigo to do the same. "You can take those off now. Sorry but Ichigo is still having trouble adjusting to using English since it isn't his first language."
"No problem. Where should I begin?" asked Danny.
"From the beginning." answered Ichigo in English.

Danny explained about what happened when he was younger about the ghost portal that his parents built. The portal activated while Danny was inside as it changed him allowing him to become a half ghost or what they call a halfa. The only people who knew of his alter ego of Danny Phantom was his close friends Sam Manson and Tucker Foley, his family, and two ghosts. One was on his side as he was known as Clockwork. The other was an enemy as he was exactly the same as Danny, a halfa known as Vlad Masters also known as Vlad Plasmius. Danny explained how his dad created a new portal device that would allow them to go to other dimensions as he had a theory that there has to be ghosts in other worlds.

They listened to his story, not wanting to believe the crazy story, but they really have no choice seeing all of the evidence that brought him here.

"So because of you being 'half ghost, and half human' you're able to see anything spiritual go on?" Kisuke inferred. Danny nodded.

"That explains why you can see us in our soul form, and why you could sense the hollow around," Ichigo added.

"So, what exactly are you guys, and what are hollows?" Danny questioned.

"Allow me to explain," Kisuke said as he cleared his throat. "We are Shinigami, or what you would call 'Soul Reapers.' Our job in our world is to find lost souls that have recently died and bring them to the Soul Society." He paused to make sure Danny could follow along. "Hollows are the enemy. They consume those lost souls. It's our job to put a stop to them."

"So, the one we saw today was after someone's soul that had just died?"

Kisuke shrugged. "It could have been. Another possible theory is that since you are 'half ghost' they might have been after you since you have partially the same energy."

"Great." Danny sighed. "Another thing that wants me dead. Just add it to the list."

"That problem could be stopped if the portal was closed. There would be no way for them to get into this world without it," Kisuke stated.

"Is that all? Then I'll just go back to my house and shut it off! If it was that easy, I should have done that sooner." Danny said.

"I would turn it off, then destroy it to make sure that it never comes back on," Kisuke suggested.

Back in Danny's home, the ghost portal lies open. A familiar face comes crawling out of the green ecto-plasmic portal, and scans the environment with high tech binoculars. Everything seemed normal, until he spotted a new contraption that had been built since the last time he has wandered out of the Ghost Zone.

"What do we have here?" The ghost whispered as his binoculars scanned the new machine. The result came back, telling him that it was a made of ectoplasm, and looked like another portal.

Curious to where it went to, he closed his binoculars back into his robotic exo suit, and took a small peek into it. The portal lead to a vast world which he had never seen before. He wanted to investigate further, but feared being trapped in there by someone shutting it off while he is still in there. He thought over what to do, then thought up a perfect plan. He walked over to the switch that controls the device. He grabbed it, and pulled as hard as he could on it, until the handle broke off. He snickered to himself.

"Can't turn it off without the handle," He said as he tossed the handle into the Ghost Zone. He then proceeded into the portal, thinking of all the dastardly things he could do to wreak havoc in the new world.