Note: This story is taking place after naruto's fight with pain, before the five kage summit arc.
Disclaimer: I do not own naruto or bleach, and believe me, I wish I did.
i want to thank kiki30501 for helping me with the story, especially correcting my grammar and improving the literature, thanks man
Somewhere in Konoha village
It was a bright sunny day in the village. The repair of the damage caused by pain was nearly complete, and all around the village people were working hard to rebuild shops and houses, rearranging stocks of items on shop shelves, or helping moving furniture into newly built houses. But one shinobi wasn't participating in the repairs, he was on his way to the temporary hokage office, to receive a mission from the hokage, he had blonde hair and blue eyes, and his reorganization mark, the lines on his face gave in his identity, for there was only one shinobi in Konoha village that looked like that, and his name was no other then Naruto Uzumaki.
Naruto walked into the Hokage's office, to find out team kakashi were waiting for him already. "Where have you been naruto? Even Kakashi sensei got here before you did. And that says something." sakura mentioned to naruto… "ahem", all in the room looked towards the source of the voice, Tsunade, who sat by her desk.
"Now that naruto is here, I can give you the details of the mission. As you know, there are different lands around us, like the land of iron, or the land of the waves and so on and so on. But, beyond these lands, lay a sea, what is beyond that sea is unknown, or at least it no longer is, this morning a group of three young people entered the village." at that moment, shizune entered the room, with another three people, two guys and a girl. One of the guys had red hair, and a weird looking tattoo on his forehead, the girl was shorter than the guys, and looked about 15, the third guy looked about the same age, which had orange spiky hair, you might say it was a bit similar to naruto's hair, the orange spiky haired guy talked: "My name is Ichigo Kurosaki, 15 years old, substitute shinigami." he said, after he finished presenting himself, the girl did the same. "my name is Rukia Kuchiki; I am a shinigami, a sould reaper from the 13 court guard squads of the seritei, we came here as a part of our mission, see, a few hundred years ago, a captain of the 13 court guard squads was sent here as part of an expedition squad, when we just discovered these lands, when they got here, the squad was attacked by a massive monster, and they were almost completely wiped out. The captain and his lieutenant survived, and managed to get back to the boat, the captain then decided to stay to hold off the monster, giving the lieutenant a chance to escape. The lieutenant made it back, and reported the events of the expedition, and now, after more than three hundred years have passed, the captains decided it was safe enough to send another squad, so seritei decided to send us here to explore the land. In our wildest dream we never imagined this land was populated by humans." she said as her voice was trembling with excitement.
Suddenly Tsunade spoke: "Now, about your mission, team kakashi" tsunade turned to the group of shinobi "you are to return with these... Shinigami back to the seritei, and to negotiate with their leaders. Also, while you are there, try learning from them as much as you can, and assist them in any way you can. For the importance of the mission, it is now ranked as an A-class mission, you are to departure as soon as the sun rises tomorrow. Good luck… Kakashi and Yamato, please stay here for a second." tsunade added, while the rest of team kakashi, and the group of soul reapers left the room.
"What is it, lady hokage?" Kakashi asked. "as may have or have not guessed, the beast and the captain the girl was talking about are no other than the ten-tails and the sage of the six paths." Tsunade explained, and after a second or two continued "if we can figure out more about them, it will be an extraordinary discovery for the history of this land, and may uncover the true secret of the tailed beasts, and the reason they exist" she stated, shocking both yamato and kakashi. "and one more thing" she added, "watch naruto closely, lately he is losing control of the kyuubi, and the seal Minato used to seal the kyuubi is weakening. This is a critical mission. I didn't tell the others, but this mission is so critical it was actually ranked as an S-class mission. It has to succed at all costs. that's all." and with that, the two men left the office.
'I wish I could tell them what the girl told me' Tsunade thought to herself. Earlier that day rukia came to the office to talk to the hokage privately. Tsunade was amazed when rukia explained about the hollows, creatures that eat humans for fun, and the recent betrayal of Sosuke Aizen, and asked tsunade for help, that was the real reason why she sent such a large team for a negotiation mission, this was not just a normal negotiation mission, it was a rescue mission, as a friend of Ichigo, the spiked hair kid, was abducted by that Sosuke Aizen, and they were desperate to save her.
'good luck Naruto, here start your journey to Hueco Mundo' she thought to herself, before resuming her paper work.