Don't be angry with me but I skipped the Gin and Naruto fight for a reason. Anyways the beginning might not make to much sense right now, but bare with me. If you haven't already checked out my new story, then you should definitely do so and tell me what you think.
Kisuke Urahara was not easily impressed, being the former captain of the twelfth division and the head of the research and development division. He was a man hailed for being a genius among the Gotei 13.
He had been approached by an Arrancar two weeks ago, Minato Namikaze's son if he wasn't mistaken. The boy had come in and told him one of the most ridiculous plans he had ever heard. This was one of the many reasons he decided to go along and help, it was just crazy enough that it might actually work. He had watched the short fight between Minato's and Isshin's boys.
The moment Naruto severed Ichigo's soul sleep, completely rendering Ichigo as nothing but a normal soul, he made his move. Appearing down before the broken boy he carefully picked him up bridal style and using shun-po appeared inside of his home.
All that had occurred almost a month ago, and Naruto had yet to arrive and discharge him of his tiring job as a teacher. An explosion brought him out of his thoughts as a giant beam of reiatsu tore through a cliff, splitting it in half.
"Very good Ichigo. Your speed and execution of the technique has greatly improved, but your body is still a little too slow to even have a chance of keeping up with a captains." The exiled shinigami commented, his eyes shadowed by the hat atop his head.
"Haha, come on hat and clogs I feel like I could take all of Soul Society right now." Ichigo said taking steady gasps as he powered up for another attack against the poor mountain.
"It's rather confusing considering…" Urahara paused, his eyes looking off into the distance. "Ichigo continue…I'll be back in just a moment."
Ichigo eyed the exiled shinigami strangely, as he walked to the dungeons entrance. Shrugging he turned his attention back onto training with his shikai.
As he reached the inside of his shop, he wasn't surprised in the least by the man waiting for him. His guest was wearing a skin-tight suit that covered most of his legs and stomach, but seemed to end right where his pectorals started, which were covered in armour. The armour covering his pectorals was white and right below and in-between those, on his sternum, was a black diamond. His ribs were also covered by white armour, closer to the skin than the other two portions. On his shoulders, connected to the chest armour by fishnet, were black protrusions. They covered his shoulders and most of his upper arm. The fishnet went across his arms and led to the white bracers he had on his forearms. His mask covered nearly all of his head and a metal plate with four red eyes on it covering his forehead, eyes and nose. Two thin strips of his mask ended just below his chin. There were bumps in the mask where a human's ears would be that had black stripes running along them. He had two swords on his back, one had a grip with a black diamond pattern with white wrapping, while the other had a white diamond pattern with black wrapping. The one with white diamond patterned grip had a circular guard, while the other had a rectangular guard.
"Well, this certainly is a surprise. Nice get up by the way, did you happen to pick it up at the thrift store down the street?" He asked as he eyed the man.
"The boy is not improving fast enough." Kisuke shrugged nonchalantly at the man's comment.
"You expect too much from him. He's probably around a lieutenant's power now, if you expected captain material it's going to take a few more weeks…Naruto Uzumaki." Kisuke Urahara spoke his eyes twinkling from beneath his hat.
Naruto scoffed. The front of his mask dissolving, revealing his face. "I trusted you with his training, because he recommended you. Maybe I placed too much faith in my fathers judgement." He said, leaning against a wall, his arms crossed across his chest.
"Or maybe he thought too highly of you…Kisuke Urahara." Again, Kisuke shrugged, brushing off the hollows comments.
"Appearances had to be kept, do you have any idea how hard it's been to make everyone think Ichigo Kurosaki is still living his normal life?" Kisuke replied as the young soul scowled.
"Does it look like I care? The plan does not involve his previous life, the moment he decided to face me alone that day sealed his fate." Naruto growled.
Kisuke eyed the Arrancar, his eyes narrowing, at the information his guest revealed concerning the young teens fate.
"If you're having second thoughts about our agreement, then back out now, Urahara, and I will finish the boy's training myself." Naruto glared at the sullen ex-shinigami as the man held his face down, looking at the wooden floor.
"No!" Kisuke finally said after a minute of silence. "Three days. In three days, he'll be ready."
Nodding Naruto turned to leave, and walked gracefully to the wooden door marking the entrance. Urahara watched him go each step and as the Arrancar reached the door, he called out, "Don't you think its time you forgave him?"
Naruto stood silent for a moment before responding. "Betrayal does not go unpunished. He is lucky to still be alive."
"Minato was only doing what he thought was right."
"I'll have Aizen's plans by the end of the week."
He paused and glanced back at the blonde haired shinigami. "Three days Kisuke."
He strolled out leaving Urahara to his own thoughts as he pondered the probability of the hollows plans to actually succeed. Indeed if he could discover when Aizen planned to move for the Hogyoku then the success rate would drastically increase. It surprised the former captain how Aizen could be fooled when his Zanpaktuo was an illusion based blade, but he wasn't about to complain about their fortune at having someone who could physically change themselves.
Grabbing onto the railing Kisuke smirked as the entire foundation of his house shook. "It would seem Ichigo's finally perfected his shikai abilities, well…you'll have to excuse me Minato." Kisuke said eyeing the shinigami captain that now suddenly stood beside him. "Time to take his training to the next level."
"Thank you Kisuke." Minato whispered, before also leaving the shaking building.
"I wouldn't thank me just yet old friend." He muttered as he descended back down into the dungeon.
Aizen rested his head on his hand, his elbow balanced on the arm of the massive throne he sat upon. His calm eyes were drawn to his chambers doors, a slight smile breaking across his face as none other then his right hand man Gin Ichimaru entered.
Aizen waited patiently as his accomplice made his way towards his throne. He didn't so much as blink until the silver haired man was standing directly in front of him.
"So…" He started but paused as he stared of into nothingness. "How is our old friend… Gin."
Gin's usual wide grin was on his face. The fox like eyes were closed and his hands were concealed beneath his robes.
"Alive." He spoke swiftly. Aizen's eyes slid to the side and focused on the grinning shinigami.
"Really, that's interesting, I expected at least one of you to die." Aizen commented offhandedly as he stared expectantly at his silver haired subordinate.
Gin switched his weight, taking the weight off of his left foot in favour of his right.
"Sorry to disappoint you." Aizen smirked at the childishness Gin always managed to display.
"Indeed." Aizen's smile stretched wider as a thought occurred to him. A very pleasing idea that would soon add to his powers and create his army of Arrancar.
"What exactly are you planning this time?" Gin questioned, knowing the look on the others face all to well.
"Now that Soul Society has found the location of the missing Kuchiki, all of our plotting will finally be put into action. My army of Arrancar will soon be born, and our utopia will be but an arms distance away." Aizen replied a smirk tugging at his lips.
"A world ruled by justice and peace." said a monotone voice.
"Yeah, whatever you say Kaname-kun." Gin said mockingly. Tousen Kaname leaned against a wall to his right. His blind eyes seemingly staring at nothing.
"Someone as corrupted as you could not possibly perceive the meaning of these two words." Tousen told him blankly from the corner of the room he stood.
"I'm just a tad bit curious is all." Gin said. "about how you can think of yourself as being so righteous when you betrayed your own captain, and murdered comrades who had fought along side of you since the academy."
"For peace to reign some lives are needed sacrifices." Tousen spoke before briskly turning and leaving.
"Well that's certainly a very peculiar thought Kaname-kun?" Gin said as he followed him out of the room taunting the man and his beliefs the entire time.
Aizen's gaze returned to staring blankly at nothing as he roamed over his thoughts, and plans to become the King.
The reptillian-esque figure was bald except for three tiny strands of hair sticking up near the middle of its head.
"We must wait for brother…to arrive before we begin." Kakashi contemplated on whether to ask for his brother's name, but decided against when another presence made itself known.
"Brother, look, the puny man has finally arrived." The large creature said pointing at Kakashi with his chubby arms. Kakashi turned and looked at the lizards supposed brother and was shocked with what he saw, It was young male, tall and strong. The youth carried a long staff with an oddly shaped blade at the end. He was also elaborately dressed with crimson eyes and 3 shards of a jewel embedded in his forehead.
"Yes I can see that..." Again Kakashi noticed that he could not hear what there names were.
"Excuse me but...um...you're both my Zanpakuto spirits?" Kakashi said pointing between the young teen and grotesque lizard man. "and you're brothers?" Both nodded and then turned to each other.
"Great, brother...we're being wielded by an idiot." The lizard like man said earning a chuckle from his brother.
"Though I must say your hair is very beautiful." The same creature said as he ran a hand over his smooth bald head.
"My hair?" He questioned, as he eyed the creature through his one eye. "I'd be willing to give you some of this luscious hair, if you tell me your name."
The lizard mans mouth opened to speak but closed just as quickly when his brother glared at him.
"You will have to earn the right to learn our names and use us in battle, weakling." The more human looking of the two spat.
"But, brother, he makes such a generous offer how can I refuse?" The lizard like man said moving closer to Kakashi ever so slowly.
"What a disgrace you are, Manten. If you weren't family, I would have killed you long ago." Manten flinched at his brothers harsh voice, full of cruel intentions and malice.
"Brother…Please, forgive me." He said pleadingly.
"So your name is Manten eh?" Both brothers looked at Kakashi dumbfounded as he continued to roll the lizard mans name around his tongue.
"Kind of a dumb name, if you ask me." He said after a bit of thought. Manten, who had been turning to talk to his brother, froze. He slowly turned around and looked at Kakashi once again.
"Dumb, you say?" He questioned, a cloud beginning to form beneath his feet.
"Yeah, when you think about it your name is just man and ten put together, I mean your name might as well be tenman, that better suits you." Pausing Kakashi scratched his chin in thought. "Actually that describes your roundness perfectly." He said none the wiser to the hot headed Zanpakuto spirit planning his death.
"How dare you call me fat!" Manten shouted.
Kakashi's attention was brought back to the younger of the two siblings when a bright light caught his attention.
His eyes widened considerably, taking notice to a giant beam of lightening heading straight for him. He managed to roll to the side avoiding being incinerated by the blast. Kakashi glanced back at Manten and saw another flash of lightening spewing from his mouth.
The older brother laid down deciding to let the two have there fun. "Manten, remember not to kill the puny human." He sneered.
Manten paused with his onslaught of lightening blasts. "I won't An-chan."
Three hours later, when Manten had finally run out of steam and fell asleep, Kakashi approached the older sibling warily stepping around the snoring giant.
"I think you've been here long enough human." The unknown zanpaktuo spirit stated, still laying on the ground gazing at the sky.
"I'd happily leave once you tell me your name An-chan." Kakashi replied with his famous eye smile.
Grumbling the Zanpaktuo spirit sat up and glared at the shinigami. "You may have been able to learn Manten's name but I am far more superior to him. Soon enough human you shall be blessed to achieve the right to use my powers." He growled. "For now be happy with what you have acquired and be glad you still breath."
With that An-chan laid back down, closing his eyes, he embraced the sweetness of sleep.
Kakashi, not seeing anymore progress being made today, shut his eyes and concentrated on leaving the same way he entered.
"Hahahaha…you actually said that to your Zanpaktuo." Jiraiya let out a loud hefty laugh as he downed another bottle of sake.
Sighing Kakashi also drank another sip from his own bottle of sake. "Unfortunately, Manten, the fat bastard, tried to kill me relentlessly for hours."
Jiraiya spilt sake as another round of laughter erupted from the sealing master. "Oh god, I love sake." He purred to the bottle in his hand.
Both Kakashi and Jiraiya's expressions became serious when a hell butterfly flew to their table. After a moment of silence the butterfly continued on flying off to the where the sixth division is situated.
"So-Taicho has ordered us to report to the first division for a mission briefing." Kakashi furrowed his eyebrows as he spoke.
Both the fukutaicho and fourth seat of the third division stood up from there seats and reluctantly left the bottles of alcohol on the table.
"Just our luck to be called in for duty on our only day off this year." Jiraiya grumbled vehemently.
"I know what you mean." The silver haired shinigami said. "Some days I wish we had ended up in Kyoraku-taicho's division."
Fake anime tears began to rapidly pour from Jiraiya's eyes as he sniffled. "That man is the best damn Taicho in this forsaken place."
Kakashi quirked his eyebrows and stared at his white haired friend strangely. "Why is that?"
Jiraiya's whole attitude changed as he started hopping up and down on one foot, while doing a stupid pose with his left arm outstretched in front of him. "He's able to appreciate the finer aspects of being deceased." He said ending his silly pose and continuing on to the first division.
"Which are…?" Kakashi said still standing in the same spot he had stood though-out the entire spectacle.
Jiraiya glanced back at him, smirking and giving a thumbs up. "Women, Sake, laziness, and my limited edition Icha Icha afterlife series." The toad sannin shouted loudly and proudly.
Kakashi's eyes widened and he began gasping as he stared unbelievingly at the old pervert.
"Icha Icha afterlife." He said salivating. "such a thing exists?"
With a crooked grin plastered on his face, Jiraiya beckoned Kakashi forth with his fingers. In a trance, the lieutenant of the third division stumbled to Jiraiya's side. Leaning down Jiraiya wrapped his arm around his fuku-taicho's shoulder.
"Just imagine the potential within this place Kakashi, my friend." He whispered to the stunned shinigami. "Yes, my new series Icha Icha afterlife is ten times more amazingly erotic as the rest of my written collections. For you, my dearest friend, it will become available in six months at all BOOK RETAILERS IN SEIREITEI!" Jiraiya ended by shouting, and then using shun-po to escape.
Kakashi was frozen in shock as he just stared at the spot where Jiraiya used to be. A book came out of nowhere and smashed into his face, shaking him out of his daze. Looking down it was a picture of the author of Icha Icha afterlife burning down the book store.
Horrified, Kakashi hurried after Jiraiya's energy and tracked him down to the first division. Heading immediately to the So-Taicho's office he made it inside at the same time as Renji Abarai, lieutenant of the sixth division.
Brown eyes that could melt steel with there intensity glared at each of the shinigami present.
"Renji Abarai, Kakashi Hatake, and Jiraiya Monotagari. All three of you have been summoned here for a special task." The captain commander spoke, as all three seated shinigami listened intently.
"You three have been chosen with the purpose of finding and securing the safe return of fugitive Rukia Kuchiki, from Karakura Town." The leader of the Gotei 13 concluded.
First person to guess who Kakashi's Zanpaktuo spirits are, gets a homebaked chocolate chip cookie.