Holy shit, three consecutive updates! Damn, I'm on a roll here. But then again, I have, like, absolutely nothing to with my three-day weekend so…

I highly doubt I'm going to be able to update frequently like this, though, so enjoy it while it lasts. I might update tomorrow, but if not, then next weekend.

Also, I changed Kenshin's release command in Chapitre Cinq to a more appropriate one.

Now…

SpeeDemon: Like I said last chapter, just pretend that Kenshin's story took place in ancient Japan, with obvious AU elements. And with how the afterlife is currently in the story, I'm pretty much just BSing right now, but in a slightly more sophisticated way. Who knows how it was before Soul Society was formed? I have no idea, so I'm just assuming that there were just little villages and towns before; the predecessors to the Rukongai.

Trife: Er… I think I'm going to do a time skip in a chapter or two. I'm far too lazy to detail their progress, but there'll be flashbacks and others. So you can expect the founding to be in a few chapters, yeah. For now, I'm just focusing on their Zanpakuto.

Moving on…in this Chapitre, Naruto and Yamamoto's Zanpakuto are contacted. Plus the revelation of Naruto's last two bodies!

[edited: 10/19/09, 4/5/10]

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"Okay, this is weird…" Yamamoto muttered.

Internally, he retracted that statement. This was beyond weird. In fact, though he had spent most of his life so far in that time-dilation seal with just Naruto, he rated this as breaking out of his weird-shit-o-meter.

Once he was pulled deeper into his meditative trance, he had entered some freaky backwards world. It would have looked nice, as it was a pleasant little forest, but the color was inverted. Everything green was colored red, and brown had become black, so it looked like something out of those horror comics he'd come across shortly after coming out of that seal before leaving for Konoha.

And the sky was just flat out creepy. It seemed to be nighttime in this mental world, but instead of a moon, there was a giant wide-open eye that seemed to be constantly watching him.

Damn, he didn't even have any mental issues and this is what his inner world looked like? Maybe he really was messed up on some internal level.

"Shit, I think I have issues if this place looks like this…" he muttered, glancing around.

"Not exactly," somebody said from behind him. "But I don't mind it. It's actually quite interesting here."

Yamamoto gave no reaction. He merely sighed and tilted his head to the side. He spotted a large, majestic-looking red bird that seemed to be on fired. The flames didn't harm it, but instead, they seemed to wrap around it and create intricate designs that lasted for a few seconds.

"You're the manifestation of my Zanpakuto, I take it?" he asked rhetorically, fully turning to face the creature.

"That is correct," the bird answered in an amused tone. It hopped off the branch it was perching on and swooped down to hover in front of him.

Yamamoto eyed the avian intently. "So your element, if Kenshin-san was speaking the truth about types, is fire, then."

The bird dipped its head. "That is correct, yes. I am now your Zanpakuto." It tilted its head slightly and appeared to smirk, if a bird could smirk. "And I feel you are ready to fight me to earn my name."

"Huh? Your name?"

Without warning, the bird opened its beak and flames accumulated in it quickly before it was projected at the man.

"What the hell!?" Yamamoto cried, ducking and rolling into an offensive stance. In his hands, he grasped a sword he had never seen before. It was a standard-looking katana with a royal purple hilt and a circular hand guard. "Eh? Where'd this come from?"

"That's me," the bird answered calmly. "That is to say, the sword is my manifestation in the physical world. Now that I am yours, it can appear outside and in here as well. Now, focus!" With that, it threw another fireball at its wielder.

"Oh man, the first thing my own Zanpakuto does is attack me. Friggin' great," Yamamoto groused to himself as he dodged yet another fireball. He brought his sword up to block and was surprised to find that the sword cut the ball in half.

"I'm terribly afraid that you'll have to do better than that!" his Zanpakuto crowed mockingly, beating its wings.

Yamamoto scowled and jumped up, trying to slash at the creature.

"I wonder if Naruto-sama is having this much trouble?" he mused as the avian evaded the attack and opened its beak again.

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Naruto was falling.

He had no idea as to why he was falling, but that was moot at this point.

It felt like he'd been in freefall for hours, so he took out a certain orange book and decided to read it.

It was a legacy of his best teacher, which made it all the more special. It was actually extremely well written, he'd discovered when he was twenty. The plot was dynamic and had a nice flow to it, and the dialogue was excellent. The sex-scenes, while intense, were far from mindless with the participants having deep emotional attachments with each other. No wonder the original Kakashi had worshipped the book.

Thoughts about the book fled his mind as he abruptly landed on his ass at practically mach one speeds.

"Ow! Son of a…" he groaned and he popped his rear out of the self-made hole in the ground. Patting himself off, he mumbled something underneath his breath and sighed as he stuck the book back into the folds of his cloak.

Naruto looked up to observe his surroundings and he quirked an eyebrow in mild surprise. "Somehow, this doesn't shock me," he said aloud.

Below him, the original Konoha lay sprawled out in the ancient format of his time. Apparently, he'd landed on his mind's depiction of the past Hokages' faces. Naruto smiled slightly when he saw his father and pseudo-grandmother's faces, along with Sarutobi-jiji.

He jumped down from the mountain and landed lightly on his feet at its base. There were no people, of course, but he thought that his other selves would have been in here with him.

After walking aimlessly through the village, letting its familiar scenery wash upon him, he spotted his favorite ramen stand and smiled in reminiscence as he walked into it and reclined on one of the stools.

"Damn, I missed this place," he muttered wistfully.

"We know," two voices said from behind him.

Naruto whipped around to see two very familiar figures. Or at least they looked familiar to him.

"What the…" His eyes widened. "You're my Zanpakuto, aren't you?"

The two nodded as one. "Yes we are, Naruto-kun." They smiled sadly at him.

"It's been a while, hasn't it?" the female one asked.

Naruto narrowed his eyes. "'A while'? You look familiar, but…" He paused and studied them intently. "I don't think I've ever seen you before."

The male chuckled. "Why, Naruto-kun, I'm offended. You use our bodies every day and you don't remember us? Perhaps if we separated, then you'd recall us."

In the blink of an eye, two became six, and Naruto's eyes widened again and he gaped in shock. "W-what!?"

Standing in front of him were the original inhabitants of his six other bodies. Tsunade, Kakashi, Anko, Sakura…and then the other two.

Smiling sadly at him with tears in her eyes, the woman gave him a hug.

"I've missed talking to you, Naruto-kun…" she mumbled from his shoulder, the others watching with warm smiles.

"H-Hinata…" Naruto choked out a sob, wrapping his arms tightly around her slender body. "I've missed you…so much…"

She reluctantly released him and looked into his eyes. "You don't have to feel guilty about using my body, Naruto-kun."

Naruto weakly smiled. "I know, but…I feel guilty for just possessing it…not in that way!" he quickly shouted, a blush creeping on his face.

The other spirits laughed at his statement, much to Naruto's further embarrassment.

Tsunade shook her head and grinned. "Nah, gaki, don't bother with guilt. We all know it wasn't your fault."

"But…!" Naruto weakly protested.

Hinata shushed him with a finger against his lips and shook her head.

"Yeah, all that guilt stuff is crap anyway. I'd kick your ass if it was your fault in the first place!" Anko crowed, pumping her fist in the air.

The only other man besides Kakashi and Naruto added his opinion. "Yes, Uzumaki, so you should have no qualms about your 'technique' as you call it."

Naruto laughed, wiping tears as he patted the man affectionately on the shoulder. "Gaara, only you would say that."

Gaara merely smiled in his usually way with a quirk of his lips.

Kakashi spoke up then. "I also like how you 'developed' alternate personalities based on us. It's rather interesting, actually," he mused to himself.

Naruto frowned. "It was the only way to cope once I saw you guys die…" He looked at them. "Which reminds me…why are you guys in my head anyway?"

Sakura, who'd been quiet, answered him with a slight grimace. "When we…died…your soul expanded itself and anchored our souls to you. We've been with you ever since then."

Tsunade tapped her chin. "That might be the reason why our former bodies have such similar personalities to ours, when you created them."

Anko grinned cheekily. "Yeah, but nothing can beat the original Mitarashi Anko!" she exclaimed.

Hinata giggled at her antics and turned back to Naruto. "Exactly," the purple-eyed woman murmured. "So you have no need to feel sorrow, Naruto-kun."

Naruto sighed before grinning at them. "Alright then. You guys changed my mind…but when we met a few minutes ago, what was that?" he asked inquisitively.

All of them eyed each other. "Well…in becoming part of your soul, our own souls have become…incomplete, in a way."

"Huh? What do you mean?"

Tsunade frowned. "Well, I lied before. When you created those personalities, we sent part of our souls to the bodies to help you cope with our loss. So in becoming split in two, we were left incomplete. But not enough to become hollows, like Kenshin-san explained."

The current Kyubi nodded slightly as the picture became clearer to him. "Oh. I see. So in becoming separated, your souls were drawn to complete their selves, so you all merged into one being. Or two beings, actually. Why is that?"

Kakashi eye-smiled at him. "Well, you wouldn't want me to become part girl, would you, Naruto-kun?" he teased creepily.

The rest of them shuddered in revulsion, even Gaara. "No! Definitely not!" Naruto all but shouted, crossing his arms for effect.

After they settled down again, he continued. "So, it's like yin and yang then? Male and female? That's why you become two separate beings instead of becoming one?"

"Yeah, pretty much," Sakura admitted, scratching her cheek.

"And in becoming part of my soul, you guys are now my Zanpakuto?" he asked.

Hinata nodded her head. "Yes. So we can always be here for you, Naruto-kun."

He grinned at them all. "Damn, this is cool. But if there are two of you, when merged to form my Zanpakuto, does that mean I have two different Zanpakuto?"

"Yep," Anko smirked. "That should be no trouble for you, Immortal Hokage."

Naruto laughed. "Hey, can you just merge on a whim? I mean, like, can you do it automatically?"

Instead of speaking, the six were once again replaced by two, answering his question.

Now that he had a closer look at them, the woman was somehow a perfect conglomeration of all four kunoichi. She had light purple hair with pink highlights, but her bangs were Tsunade's blonde color which looked good on her for some reason. Her eyes were azure blue, the same color as his, yet reflected Hinata's presence with the lack of pupils. Her face and much of her body resembled Anko and Tsunade's, with the Jonin's lithe form, and the Godaime Hokage's large breasts. Her clothing was…provocative, to say the least, which told of Anko's influence. They consisted of a fishnet undershirt – with no bra underneath – and a blue low cut, long sleeved shirt over it. She also wore a short dark blue skirt with black skin-tight leggings underneath, and standard open-toed sandals.

The man, on the other hand, had a much more tame appearance, having less people to merge with. He looked more like Kakashi, with that damn mask still on, but his hair was mainly red with silver highlights and his single visible eye was green, making an interesting effect. His clothes reflected Gaara's influence, though, with black pants and a shirt with Kakashi's vest on top. Gaara's gourd was also present, strapped around his shoulder.

"How's this, Naruto-kun?" the woman asked mischievously, tilting her hips and pushing her breasts out.

Naruto scoffed playfully. "I've been alive two thousand years. Like that's gonna effect me…" he trailed off. "I don't even know your names, do I?"

He noticed both of them falter slightly at his comment. "No, you don't," the man said.

The female sighed and pouted. "The normal way to learn our names is to defeat us and prove your worth." She perked up. "But there's no need to harm our Naru-kun!" she exclaimed, wrapping her arms around the blonde.

Naruto sweatdropped heavily. The female Zanpakuto seemed to have Hinata's extreme dedication to him, Anko's…more questionable quirks, most likely Tsunade's insightfulness and leadership, and hopefully Sakura's calmer side. If the male Zanpakuto turned out to be anything like Kakashi, or even Gaara, he knew there would be some interesting times ahead for him.

Speaking of which, the man coughed into his hand and deadpanned, "I'm pretty sure that we don't need to kill Naruto-kun with your breasts."

She giggled and released him, to his slight relief. "So," he started, "Are you going to tell me your names then?

The man nodded and the woman pumped her fist in the air, echoing Anko just a few moments ago. "Absolutely!"

"Our names are…"

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Give me some suggestions for names, people; I suck at names!

In fact, here's a carrot – review or PM me some suggestions and I'll do my best to post another update ASAP. Make sure they're Japanese, or at least Spanish, though, to fit with the Bleach theme. You can suggest release commands, too, if you'd like.

But anyway, I hope you guys liked this Chapitre.

It was going to be hard as hell to write another six people into the fic, so I had them merge into two to simplify things and make it interesting. I also have no idea what Ryujin Jakka's manifestation looks or acts like, so I figured a level-headed phoenix would do the trick.

I know Hinata and Gaara are a little cliché, but Hinata is one of my favorite characters. HinaNaru FTW! Not that there'll be any romance in this fic, considering that I suck at writing sappy scenes. And Gaara just kicks ass with his sand, plain and simple. I got one review suggesting Inuzuka Hana and Sai a while back, and I considered it. But I'm not familiar enough with either character to write anything with them, sadly.

Next chapter: Naruto's two Zanpakuto revealed!

And as always, constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated. Although "Great Job!", "Update soon!" and "lmao" are pretty cool too, yeah.