I'm sorry for the wait, but I've been really distracted since the last update. I think I'll go back to Seals of Forgotten Time after this chapter. I haven't updated that story in a very long time.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach or Naruto, those titles belong to their respective owners… those bastards.
Crossing Dimensions Chapter: Four
=A Week Later=
Naruto sighed as he waited for Sasuke by his dojo. He was wearing a white shirt and black pants with black and white shoes. His blonde hair had grown a little and was now passed his shoulder blade with the top remaining as spiky as ever, and two short bangs framing the upper section of his face. He and Tatsuki had left with the other karate students to go to the tournament a couple of days ago.
School was nearly out and he was bored. The occasional Hollow did nothing to alleviate the tension from a week ago. Which brings him to another topic, Yoruichi. He wanted to see her real form but she's been holding out on him. He remembered how he begged the night before but it wasn't enough to work.
'But today is going to be different.' Naruto had learned that with his demonic powers he was able to transform into a fox as well. Which if he thought about it, wasn't really surprising since it would be embarrassing for the new Fox Boss if he wasn't even able to transform into a fox.
That brings him to the latest of his findings. He could still summon foxes. Since the summoning plane was already trans-dimensional, the link was still functional between the two. He was just unable to reverse summon himself to his own dimension because there wasn't a single fox summoner there.
Naruto dropped from the roof of the dojo and a small explosion of dust surrounded him as his feet met the dirt road. He looked to his right to see a pair of piercing red slitted eyes. He smiled as he noticed one of the twins he had recently summoned. "Kisara-chan what do you think of the new place?" he asked as a knee high, three tailed, kitsune emerged from the shadow of the alley.
Her fur was deep orange and had small hints of red. More fur surrounded her four ankles and those were colored deep red that matched the tips of her three tails. The orange ears on the top of her head twitched constantly from the constant noise of the urban area.
"It certainly is… crowded." she spoke after a moment not sure that was the right word.
Naruto chuckled as he petted the kitsune. Her true size was only a little bigger than this, but it made no difference to Naruto how big she was. "Yeah it really is. Its so diverse compared to the Elemental Nations. It makes me glad that I've calmed down in committing pranks, because I would never get caught…" Naruto said as a mischievous grin began splitting his face in two as his mind began piecing together multiple antics.
Kisara grinned as she watched Naruto gain an evil gleam in his eyes. "Did you really think you could suppress your need to prank for so long. Its in your blood. Now, enlighten us about what's on your mind." Naruto and Kisara heard from behind the female fox.
Behind said fox was another similar colored fox. This one was male and its voice was filled with mischievous intent. "Hey Kisuke, you came at the perfect time." Naruto said staring at the male fox's razor sharp teeth.
"I know." he said smugly as he joined the two.
"I've got a great idea, but I'm going to need you two to do it. Our target already doesn't like me. And plus its always essential to have an alibi." Naruto said as he immediately began to tell the two about his ingenious and yet simple plan.
Halfway across the city a man shivered as he sat in his office.
=Three Hours Later=
Naruto smiled as he looked at the camera in the movie theatre. He made sure that it caught him before and after the movie, for appearances sake. He looked at his walnut haired companion that was currently clutching to his right arm and smiled at her. He hadn't really paid attention to the movie as it had been Inoue's choice, but he did enjoy the girls company.
"Thanks for taking me to see the movie Naruto, I had the best time ever." she said hugging him tightly. As the tight hug proceeded, the blonde began to loose feeling in his arm and he was getting unnerved.
"No problem Hime-chan, now can you lighten up? Your cutting off my circulation." Naruto said as Inoue blushed and lessened the hold she had over his arm.
The blonde sighed as he felt the blood renew its flowing, unobstructed. "My favorite part of the movie was when…" Orihime started saying as Naruto space out and just listened to the sounds of the area. The sounds of cars passing by, bits and pieces of conversations nearby, and lastly the sound of Orihime's voice.
He smiled at the excited girl. "Hey Hime-chan, lets go see if Sasuke and Tatsuki are back."
Orihime gasped as if she had forgotten about them and the tournament they had embarked on. She nodded and they began their short journey to where the Dojo resided, which was about twenty minutes away.
The entire way there they chatted about anything, mostly how the movie was. This is what Sasuke and Tatsuki came up upon. "Hey guys, you're looking at the number one women's champion." Tatsuki said proudly as she bounded towards the duo.
Orihime cheered and the two celebrated in their womanly ways, laughing and bouncing cheerfully.
Naruto looked to Sasuke to see him with a bored visage. "Oh come on Sasuke, they couldn't have been that bad."
The look the Uchiha gave him was confirming enough. "It was a complete waste of time. You had to fight until your opponent was knocked out… and in my case they were short fights. They weren't entertaining at all."
The blonde patted him on the back, "That's pretty sad. Now that I think about it, why did you even enter if you knew it was going to be like that?" Naruto didn't even know why he asked that question, because it was pretty much apparent what his reason was. "Ooh I know, you can fight carrot top. After he felt our reiatsu a week ago he's been antsy around us."
This got Sasuke's attention as the subject of last week came to mind. "That reminds me, did Yoruichi find a way to take us to the Soul Society?"
The blonde shook his head, "The most she's said was to chill." Naruto said putting his head down as that was the only thing she said for another question as well. "I agree with her though, starting Monday is the last week of school. After that we can disappear with no questions asked."
Sasuke nodded as that was the bright side to this world. They get the entire summer off, until the next school year started. "So what happened after the while I was gone?"
A grin split across Naruto's face. "So yesterday was another weird day. There was this weird guy that had a spirit show and he was doing an episode in Karakura town."
Sasuke rolled his eyes and looked around. "Well of course it was here, how else would you see it?" Sasuke asked mockingly as he noticed that the girls were nowhere to be found. "Where'd the girls go?"
Naruto shrugged his shoulders and they began walking down the street. "Now back to the story…" Naruto said as he told the Uchiha about everything that occurred during the night show. How it was like a big thing nationwide and how mostly everyone loved it. Then he went on about how the host guy, Don Kononji, basically created a Hollow from a bound spirit that was at the haunted hospital.
That surprised Sasuke, "He created a Hollow? How the hell did he do that?" he asked with a looked of pure surprised on his face.
Naruto shrugged as it hadn't been explained to him yet, "I have no idea, but get this, Ichigo got jumped by a bunch of security guards because he was trying to stop the madman." Naruto said laughing before he finished the story about when they fought in the hospital and finally the hospital roof. "I don't fully know the details because I was with Hime-chan." Naruto said as they arrived near a bookstore.
Naruto stopped Sasuke from saying something by heading inside the bookstore. "Hold up I got to check my money situation." the blonde said leaving Sasuke out on the streets.
The Uchiha sighed as he noticed that they were at an adult bookstore and a picture of the orange book was in the window. "Stupid idiot, bringing that smut to this dimension."
"That's not nice, Naruto-sama worked hard to publish Icha Icha Paradise." a female voice said behind Sasuke.
The Uchiha looked behind him to see a pair of twelve year olds. One was male, the other female. They looked exactly the same, sans the eyes. The female had red eyes while the male had orange eyes. That through him for a loop as that was uncanny colors for humans to have. "You two aren't exactly human are you?" he asked slowly, after a couple of minutes of staring.
The two shook their heads. The female was wearing a red shirt and a black skirt with a pair of black shoes, and a pair of white knee high socks. And the male was also wearing a red shirt and black shorts with black shoes. "Hi I'm Kisara." the girl said smiling as her long crimson hair fell down her back with three ponytails.
"And I'm Kisuke." the boy said showing a feral smile that revealed his enlarged canines.
Sasuke looked at the duo, studying them for any hints. It came as a shocker when he noticed that they were kitsunes. "How the hell did the loser summon you two?" Sasuke thought out loud.
"That's a conversation reserved for private surroundings." the blonde said exiting the store with a briefcase in hand. "Can you believe this is the tips I got from publishing the book. It seems perverts in this dimension are more open with their perverseness. They really love my sensei's work. He would have been a king here." Naruto said the last one softly as memories of his sensei flooded his mind.
Sasuke resisted the urge to shove a second Chidori through the blonde's chest as he spaced out. Instead he opted to just smack him in the back of the head. "Focus loser. Are you going to tell me how you were able to summon or not?" the avenger asked with a tick mark forming on his head. The blonde always knew a way to bring out his anger.
"Wait jeez." Naruto said rubbing his head as he turned his head to look at the twins. "Why are you guys so young?" he asked before shaking his head. "It doesn't matter, how was your mission?" he said grinning widely.
The two saluted and stood at attention. "It went off without a hitch." they said in unison.
"Wait, what mission?" Sasuke asked curious.
"Sorry Sasuke, the less people to know about this, the better." the blonde said jokingly.
Again the avenger smacked Naruto in the head. "Alright, lets go home. I'll tell you there, I need to put this money up anyway." Naruto muttered rubbing his head as he headed in the direction of their shared apartment.
~CD~CD~CD~CD~CD~
About ten minutes later a large group of thugs surrounded the two. "Hey you blondie, what do you got in that briefcase?" one of the twelve thugs said loudly.
Naruto turned his head to look at the one that talked. Seconds of silence passed before a look of remembrance flashed in the blonde's mind. "Oh hey I remember you, your one of those weak ass thugs from a month ago. How've you been doing? I see the doctors did a good job in healing you." Naruto said smugly as a viscous grin split his face.
Sasuke had been looking at Naruto for an explanation when he noticed the grin. 'Uh oh, the loser's demonic bloodlust is leaking.' Sasuke thought in alarm.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!" he said as he pull out a pair of pocket knives.
The blonde took a deep breath as he ran his free hand through his hair. "You heard what I said. Fortunately for you, I don't really feel up to fight your weaklings right now. I'm kind of holding something important right now." Naruto said as he looked down at the twins. "Hey I know, how about you two?" he asked the duo.
"I'd thought you would never ask." Kisuke said as his feral grin spread across his twelve year old face.
Kisara was different in her acceptance. She simply nodded and softly smiled.
The blonde above them noticed their nails sharpening for the battle to come. "Don't kill them. Just beat them up."
They nodded reluctantly before their claws shortened. "Fine, which ones do you want Kisara?"
"I'll take the six on the left you take the six on the right." she replied.
Naruto yawned forcing the twins to start the beating. Seconds passed and each of them already dropped a thug. Not even a minutes passed before the rest of the thugs dropped. After the last thug thudded against the ground the twins appeared in front of him. "That was too easy." Kisuke said wiping his knuckles on his shorts, to remove some of the blood from when he broke one of the thug's nose.
Naruto nodded as he began walking away. "I know, that's why I didn't want to fight. It would serve no purpose." he said hearing them follow him, with Sasuke grunting in agreement.
~CD~CD~CD~CD~CD~
Ten minutes later they appeared at the apartment. Naruto went straight to the kitchen and began the process of making him a sandwich, while a clone took the briefcase to his room. "Now that we're here, you two tell Sasuke about the mission."
Kisuke smiled as he stood in front of Sasuke. "This mission wasn't complex as your thinking, it was pretty simple. All we did was prank the principle. We rigged his office, in different places. So that if he sets it off, he'll get splattered with paint of different colors."
"But first we had to get him out of the office, because when we got there he was in there doing some paperwork. So with a few well designed illusions he was sent out of the office. I made him think his pants were on fire and then he was suddenly covered in bird poop. So I'm guessing he went to the locker room to take a shower, and that's when we got to work." Kisara said jumping in.
Sasuke looked at the two and then finally to Naruto who had just taken a bite out of his completed sandwich. "Are you serious? Pranks? I thought you would have stopped doing those?" Sasuke said sighing as he plopped onto the couch.
Naruto smiled into his sandwich. "What made you think I would stop pranking?" he asked as silence followed for some odd minutes.
Sasuke shook his head, rose to his feet and walked to his room. All without saying a word
The twins watched silently. They looked at each other and smiled. "I think its time for us to go." they said in unison before disappearing in a puff of smoke.
The blonde looked at the puff of smoke and then to the closed door of his roommate. He wiped his mouth of the breadcrumbs and drunk from a bottle of water. 'Wow, what was that all about?' Naruto thought before he decided to train somewhere. He had to keep his skills sharp somehow.
He went to his room and changed clothes. Now he wore grey pants with a grey, form fitting, muscle shirt that showed his tattooed arms, and regular white shoes. He unsealed his unique sword shunshined out of his room, to the roof of the apartment building. He broadened his senses and checked the surrounding area for possible training spots. This served as another factor as he was checking on where the most spiritual pressure was located, so he could be as far away as he could.
He immediately noticed Ichigo's reiatsu, which he didn't even have to concentrate for. 'Carrot top's going to have problems if he doesn't learn how to conceal his power. Other signatures were very faint, but still above average. He noticed them to be, Rukia, Uryu, who was the most reserved of classmates, Chad, Orihime, Tatsuki, Karin, and even Yuzu. The last two were small in actually power, but he knew they were still faintly aware. Strangely he thought he would be able to sense Yoruichi, but he wasn't sensing anything from her.
He had to really concentrate and noticed there were two unrecognizable signatures near the edge of town. 'Hmm, who are these people? I'll forgo training for now and scout that location.' he thought as he hopped from roof to roof all the way across town.
Minutes passed before he landed on a roof directly looking over a shop in the middle of a dirt road. 'This is… peculiar.' Naruto thought slowly. He said that because in front of the shop were two preteens that were sweeping the road. Well one was sweeping the other was pretending his broom was a baseball bat.
"Jinta, Urahara-sama told us to sweep the road." the small timid girl said. She has black long hair styled in two ponytails. Her cheeks were marked with what seemed like a permanent blush. She wore a white shirt with a pink skirt with white sandals. She immediately reminded Naruto of Hinata with how softly she spoke.
"Don't tell me what to do Ururu." Jinta said as he started grinding his knuckles against the girl's head. Jinta was a small boy with red hair. He wore a white shirt and blue shorts with blue and white shoes.
The blonde watched for another minute before he sighed and rose to his feet. Suddenly he felt a strange aura surround the girl before she vanished. 'Huh, where'd she go?' Naruto thought before he noticed she was suspended behind him preparing to kick his head off.
The blonde yelped in surprised as he immediately substituted himself with a cinder block. He watched as time slowed, he regretted switching with a cinder block. But when he seen that she had kicked it to dust he gulped.
She hadn't even landed before she dashed at Naruto, preparing a punch. The blonde blocked the punch with his open hand, before wrapping her little hand with his own. He grunted as the force from the punch sent a shockwave behind him. 'She's strong.' he said as he threw her over him.
He comically shook his hand to relieve the pain. "Okay, lets continue." he said not having to wait long as she again launched off an invisible surface and punched the building where he was a second ago. "Okay she's super strong." he said as he noticed the little boy from before behind him with a giant metallic bat.
"Time for the Jinta Homerun!" he said swinging the bat and connecting. Fortunately he only hit a puff of smoke. "What, more smoke?" he said landing on a destroyed piece of roof.
Naruto appeared on the dirt road scratching his head. "Can I ask why you two are attacking me?" he said and retrieved no reply from the girl or boy. "Okay, no answer." he said cracking his knuckles.
He was surprised when a giant man appeared behind Ururu and Jinta and held them by the collar of their shirts. "Apologies stranger. I only just noticed you were being attacked." the giant man said. He had lightly tanned skin and cornrows in his hair. He also had a weird mustache that was connected to his sideburns. He wore a large blue apron over a tight white muscle shirt and regular blue pants. "Say your sorry and get back to work." he told the two.
The blonde watched closely and noticed that the boy was sweating profusely, whilst the girl's eyes regained their shine and she started acting timid again. 'Weird.' he thought before smiling at the tall man. "Oh it was my fault in the first place." Naruto said chuckling.
Seconds later his shoulders were being tightly gripped by the man, who was crying profusely. "Oh what a humble spirit you are."
"Okay Guy, I mean mister." Naruto muttered as he tried to pry the man's hands off of him. "Your breaking my bones." Naruto murmured as the man let go.
"Oh sorry, please come inside. Are you here for Urahara-sama?" the man said ushering the blonde into the shop.
"Who?" Naruto muttered softly.
The tall man must have heard because he cleared his throat. "How rude of me, I hadn't even introduced myself. My name is Tessai Tsukabishi. The two you just had the pleasure of meeting outside was Jinta and Ururu. Our boss's name-"
At that moment an opening door revealed a tall man. With the addition of being maybe an inch or two taller than the Uzumaki, he was leanly built. He had lazy gray eyes and his, nearly pale, blonde hair was a complete mess, even under that white and green striped hat. Bits of hair lined the man's chin and Naruto also noticed that the hair strangely framed the man's face, from the regular position of framing strands to actually between his eyes.
For an attire he was wearing a dark green shirt and pants and over that was a large black coat that resembled his Kage cloak. For footwear, a pair of geta clogs, not unlike his late sensei's. lastly he was carrying a cane, but showed no visible signs of being handicap.
But the weirdest thing about him, and Tessai, was that he couldn't feel any kind of energy. the blonde didn't voice his thoughts, he thought it better to just pool in all the knowledge he knew about Soul Reapers, because it was obvious that was what this man was. He was just too different to be a human.
Seconds passed and he couldn't come up with anything similar to this.
The man released a huge smile, "Hello customer, my name is Kisuke Urahara, what can I do you for? I have lots of stuff here. How about candy, you look like somebody with a sweet tooth? Maybe reading will interest you? I have one of the best books ever published. Its an adult book so don't tell your folks." he whispered to Naruto before quickly taking out a familiar orange book.
The blonde had been wide eyed with the sudden bombardment of questions, but with the book he couldn't stop of short chuckle from escaping his lips. That chuckled evolved into to full blown laughter, the blonde couldn't help himself. "I'm sorry Kisuke-san, I'll have to decline the offer of the book."
A look of pure comedic confusion appeared on Kisuke's face. "WHAT! Why not, it's the best adult book I've had the pleasure of reading in all my life." the pale blonde said shoving the book in the face of the darker colored blonde.
The sudden attack to his face surprised Naruto and he shielded said face with his hands. "I'm declining because I wrote it." he flat out said thankful that the assault stopped. He lowered his hands to see Kisuke staring at him with disbelief clear in his eyes. "My name is Naruto Uzumaki. Pleased to make your acquaintance." the blue eyed blonde said bowing slightly.
Surprised silence permeated the area before a loud, because of the situation, clearing of the throat could be heard.
The occupants looked down to see the black cat named Yoruichi. "I told you who he was, but you still found it surprising." the manly voice pierced through the pale blonde's ears.
"So that's where you've disappeared to Yoruichi-chan." Naruto said with a smile as he watched the woman in cat form hop onto the nearest counter. "I was wondering where had run off to." Naruto said leaning against a rack that had an assortment of different genre of books.
Yoruichi stayed silent for a moment and busied herself with licking her paw. "Sorry if worried you, but I was unaware that you would worry in the first place."
Naruto scoffed. "Who said anything about wondering I just wanted to see you human form."
That comment cost him a scratch that left him with four identical and bloody marks across his face. He yelped in pain and crashed to the floor, holding his face and rolling around screaming multiple apologies at the evil cat.
Tessai rushed to the tanned blonde with a medical kit. A minute of thrashing around, Tessai had managed to completely wrap the blonde's head in bandaging. With that the thrashing grew in desperation as it was clear that Naruto couldn't breath.
"AHH!" Tessai yelled as Naruto went limp. He quickly tore the bandaging off and checked for a heart beat. It was faint and returning to normal.
At that point Naruto rose and gasped for breath, the scratches on his face completely healed. "What the hell was that for?" Naruto said coughing into his hand, rising to his feet in the process.
"I apologize for Tessai's behavior Naruto-sama, he's a little eccentric." Kisuke finally spoke bowing to Naruto. "Please sit in here and we'll discuss the purpose of your visit to my fair shop." Kisuke said turning and walking through the sliding door.
Naruto stood there for a few seconds, pondering what just happened. Naruto stared at his back with a raised eyebrow. "I might not know him, but I know he doesn't act like this."
"He considers you Kami now, because you wrote a smut novel that his perverted mind took to a liking." Yoruichi said hopping off the counter and walking to room.
The blonde nodded as that seemed like the most logical explanation. 'Well it could get worse… or better, or something.' Naruto thought lazily as he walked into the room and sat Indian style.
"So words through the grapevine tells me that you would like to go to the Soul Society to test your skills in this new world you now find yourself in." the pale blonde said surprising Naruto with his sudden bluntness. "I may have a way to accomplish what your looking for."
Naruto studied what was told to him with analyzing thought. "So you have a way?" he asked slowly. "I was led to believe that the only way there would be death."
Kisuke nodded, "In a sense, yes, that would be the only way."
"But your saying there's another way?" Naruto questioned again.
"YES! There's another way. Now quit asking the same question and allow him to explain it." Yoruichi hissed in annoyance.
The whiskered blonde nonchalantly waved her off. Which caused him another scratch, this time across his palm. "Stop doing that." he yelped holding his hand.
"Of course you know, nothing in life is free. Everything comes at a price, this information is no different." Kisuke said.
Naruto mirthfully chuckled and clapped his hands. "So what is it you want in return? Money, information about my abilities, or my history?" Naruto said with a large smile splitting his face, for he knew the man didn't want any of those in return.
A perverted grin dominated Kisuke's face. I want the next five installments of Icha Icha before they're released to the public." he said giggling like a schoolgirl.
"Done." Naruto said extending his hand for a shake, which Kisuke completed with overwhelming giddiness.
"Now before we begin this business, where's your companion Sasuke-san at? This concerns him as well." Kisuke said as his eyes lost their delight and became sharp and serious.
To follow suit Naruto lost the cheerfulness in his attitude as well. He nodded and made a sealless shadow clone to get Sasuke. "He'll be here shortly." the shinobi said closing his eyes to slip into a meditative state.
=Shinobi Apartment=
Sasuke grunted as his right eye twitched. He was staring at himself in the mirror with his Mangekyou activated. It was hard work, but during their stay their, he's been trying to master the use of Tsukuyomi. Having Itachi's eyes helped with the process, but it wasn't good enough.
Itachi was so proficient with the technique, he could torture somebody for three days, while only seconds passed in the real world. With as much training as he had, he increased the time from four hours to ten in his created world, while several minutes passed in the real world. It was frustrating and thus he set out to fight his brother in his created world. He's been at it for about two hours, in his world.
~CD~CD~CD~CD~CD~
Sasuke panted in exhaustion as he sat against the trunk of a large tree. He's been fighting the apparition of his brother for the past two hours and the older Uchiha had just knocked the wind out of him. Luckily he was able to escape in time to gather himself and wait for a second wind to fill his lungs.
Although to be honest, this was about the fifth wind he's had to wait for. He knew his brother was strong, but this was ridiculous, 'I guess being a ghostlike creation has its advantages.' the young Uchiha thought. This Itachi didn't have to worry about the disadvantages of the flesh, like exhaustion.
Of course he could still be touched, its just that he's not real. But other than super high stamina, it was still the same Itachi. But because of the high level of stamina it was extremely hard to find a flaw in his fighting style. 'Its like he's in the prime of his prime.' Sasuke thought as he felt the temperature rising.
He vanished a second before the tree exploded in a shower of black fire and charred wooden shrapnel. "We've been fighting for hours Sasuke and your still ready to fight. I'm proud of you. Its too bad this is an illusion." Sasuke heard from all around him as a flock of ravens appeared around him.
'Genjutsu, but when?' Sasuke thought as he quickly tried to dispel the technique. Sadly it failed, leading Sasuke to believe that he was never put in a Genjutsu. Unfortunately his shock lead him to being grabbed by the giant hand of his brother's Susanoo. "Damn word feint." Sasuke yelped in anger and agony as he was slammed through multiple trees.
It would have continued if he hadn't activated his Susanoo. Who, with extreme difficulty, managed to release Sasuke from Itachi's grip. "Impressive Sasuke. Shall we continue?"
Sasuke smirked as he held the left side of his head. His free hand lit up in a surge of electricity. "We shall!" he yelled swinging his arm in an arc. "Chidori no Senbon!" Sasuke yelled as dozens of electricity charged senbons flew towards Itachi.
Itachi closed his eyes and took a deep breath. He quickly opened his eyes and clapped his hands. "Futon: Daitoppa (Great Breakthrough)." he muttered and much to Sasuke's chagrin the pure wind force, veered the senbon off course and also managed to uproot a few trees. It made him regret the decision to stick to the remain secured on his tree, because now some trees were headed straight for him.
The resulting crash sounded throughout the entire area. Itachi remained standing on his tree branch watching the pile. He felt the surge of energy, meaning that Susanoo was activated in time. So he wasn't surprised when an arrow was shot from within the pile of wood.
He was completely surprised by the sheer speed of the arrow, and only barely evaded the projectile. With that he went through another set of hand seals. "Katon: Okina Hono no Taika (Great Flame Conflagration)." multiple giant balls of fire were spewed out of Itachi's mouth.
Sasuke didn't know which would win, but he didn't want to doubt his Susanoo. So he quickly pushed the trees off of him and revealed his Susanoo. It was in its complete form. It was deep purple in color and had two layers of armor. It looked demonic, thanks to the sharp and jagged rows of teeth that were shown. Also the armor seemed to be covered with bits of Amaterasu flames.
The young Uchiha covered Susanoo's three arms in more Amaterasu flames and his knees buckled due to his chakra reserves nearly being depleted by the decision. He wobbled for a second, which was enough time for the balls of fire to reach him.
The first and second explosions seemed to get him focused enough to have all three arms acting like a second shield.
But Itachi wasn't giving up and had been spewing countless balls of fire. They decreased in size, but not by much, but they've also increased in quantity.
After minutes the elder Uchiha finished off with a dual blast of Amaterasu flames. After that he stared listlessly into the burning flames almost uninterested in them.
"I was wondering when you were going to stop with that Itachi." Sasuke said from a few meters behind Itachi.
The elder Uchiha chuckled as he slowly turned his head. "I see you escaped Sasuke, but uninjured you did not." he said staring at the burned shirt that was burned on Sasuke's entire right side. "You need work on your Susanoo, if your defense couldn't withstand my fire, how do you know it wont protect you from whatever the Shinigamis are going to have up there sleeve?"
Sasuke scoffed as he tore the remains of his white gi and reached for the Kusanagi kept secured through his large purple rope belt. He slowly unsheathed it and lit it in a flash of electrifying lightning. "I'll handle whatever they have to throw at me when the time comes for us to face. They should be worried about what I'll do to them." he said as he thrust his sword at Itachi. "Chidori Eisou (Thousand Bird Sharp Spear)."
The beam of lightning surged toward Itachi at blistering speeds. Unfortunately the attack missed by a mere margin of an inch.
Itachi anticipated the next attack, thanks to his Sharingan, and managed to fall off the tree just when Sasuke swung the beam of lightning. Though Itachi escaped it's wrath, four thick trees were sliced like a hot knife would butter. "Damn." Sasuke muttered as he canceled the technique. He watched as the top of the sliced trees slide down into the forest.
He would have gave chase but the entire world went black. At first he thought it was a Genjutsu from Itachi but he denied that accusation when he felt himself being pulled out of his Tsukuyomi world.
~CD~CD~CD~CD~CD~
The clone of Naruto stood giggling behind Sasuke as both of it's hands covered the Uchiha's Mangekyou eyes. Sensing danger the clone removed his hands and hopped back, before the Uchiha swiped his arm in an arc and his hand covered in lightning. "Whoa easy there buddy, you almost hit me." the blonde said between giggles.
"What the hells wrong with you dobe, you should know by now what'll happen if you interrupt my training." Sasuke said with his Sharingan eyes reverting to their normal three tomoe appearance, and proceeded to spin in anger.
Naruto cocked his head to the left as he noticed Sasuke was slightly sweating and trying to calm his breathing. He smiled brightly as he rubbed the back of his head. "Sorry Sasuke-san, you must have been have the fight of your life. You might want to wipe yourself with a towel, you were sweating into my hands." Naruto said wiping said hands on his pants leg.
The avenger turned red in anger as his tomoes started spinning more fervently. "State your business clone, before I destroy you prematurely." Sasuke threatened as intense pressure filled the room.
The clone of the blonde kage became confused about how Sasuke's reiatsu affected him this much. His knees didn't buckle, but he felt immobilized from the waist down. 'This is strange, why do I feel weaker. Is it because I'm a clone or is it because of Sasuke? I'll inform the boss when I dispel.' "The boss wants you to appear at his location. He's waiting for you, so he can become informed about the Soul Society situation." the blonde clone finished smiling as he dispelled into a puff of smoke.
With the clone gone Sasuke let out a breath he didn't know he was holding. Now panting he rose to his full height, his legs feeling like jelly beneath him. He held his head in anguish as he realized that Itachi did more damage than he had originally thought. He drunk from a nearby water bottle and felt a little relieved at liquid.
The Uchiha sighed as he removed his white shirt and replaced it with a blue one. "Now where is the dobe at?" Sasuke thought out loud. He multi tasked, with finding the blonde's signature and putting his shoes on. "Ah, there he is." Sasuke muttered as he shunshined out of the apartment.
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The blonde mentally stiffened at the memory his clone brought to him. 'Hmm, this is interesting. Are clones durable in this world as they were in the previous? I never noticed it before, mostly because I was too busy to think about it. Now's not the time to test this theory.' Naruto thought opening his eyes.
He found Yoruichi sitting on his lap with her tail swaying in front of his chest. She was currently talking to Kisuke about recent events. Things Naruto's been through, which led Naruto to believe that he had been followed and that irked him. He and Sasuke were the only ninja in this universe… 'But there was that one guy, and he said something about being in a stealth force. So maybe we're not the only ones. Whatever we're special.' Naruto thought as he poked Yoruichi's ear in boredom.
From that point on he listened quietly as Yoruichi changed the subject to Ichigo. Minutes passed and she finished what new information she had to say about Ichigo. "The kid knows how to listen to his instincts, but when it comes down to actually knowing how to fight with his oversized sword I'll give him a thumbs down." the feline said.
Kisuke nodded slowly. "Indeed. I feel the same way. If it came down to it, he would easily be defeated by Ururu…"
"I'm sensing a but here." Yoruichi said as she felt Naruto poke her ear for the thirteenth time… fourteenth.
"But you cant deny the fact that he's progressing faster than I would have expected. I'll say he could defeat a, uhhh, a seated Soul Reaper from twenty to about fifteen. His brute force would be the key component in the fight." Kisuke said as he properly gauged the orange haired teen's skills or lack of.
"Um, this may be a little off topic but how come I cant sense you even though I'm looking straight at you?" Naruto asked out of nowhere as he poked the feline's ear again.
"I would like to know that as well." a voice said revealing Sasuke and Tessai, who bowed and closed the door. "Imagine my confusion when I noticed Naruto over here was in a room by himself. But now that I'm here, he's not. What the hell?" Sasuke said still a little mad that his training was interrupted.
Seconds passed before Kisuke started chuckling. This chuckling soon turned into full blown laughter.
The whiskered blonde didn't know what to do except cower in the corner. He didn't know what was so funny, but he was starting to fear the pale blonde in front of him. "There's a simple reason for that. It's a special creation of mine. I'm sure you know what a Gigai is from Rukia or maybe from Yoruichi?" Kisuke asked prompting the two to nod.
"Yes I remember such a conversation occurred not long after we made our decision to head to the Soul Society to fight stronger enemies." Naruto said with a serious visage.
"Ah, but do you know that the Shinigamis aren't your enemies. Senseless fighting would be useless. What would be the reason to take a trip to the Soul Society and bring meaningless havoc on their community?" Kisuke questioned the two.
This visibly shocked Naruto as he lowered his head in shame. "I never looked at it that way." he muttered. 'Ero-sensei would Rasengan me to death if he knew I was trying to destroy peace, especially in the way I was planning.' Naruto thought wanting to smack himself in the head.
Sasuke on the other hand felt differently. "Senseless - Useless - Meaningless." Sasuke scoffed arrogantly. "Those words mean nothing to an Elite Uchiha such as myself. And your wrong they would have meaning, they will have the honor to fight such a force as the Sharingan." Sasuke said as it was made known that he had yet to deactivate his bloodline, which was spinning furiously.
Naruto was looking shocked, as were the others. "Kami Sasuke, you have more pent up frustration than I thought." Naruto said as a dark chuckle came from the Uchiha. He turned his attention to the others and chuckled softly. "I'm sorry he's kind of angry at not being able to fight somebody strong… and not me." he added sheepishly as he rubbed his head.
Kisuke rubbed his chin in thought as he thought of a possible solution for the outcome. A light bulb went off above him as he thought of the perfect solution. "I'll fight him." he said shocking the three. "Yeah, if he wants to fight someone this scientist will be the perfect candidate." he said laughing as a fan appeared out of nowhere and he began fanning himself with it in a comical manner. "And you Naruto could fight Yoruichi. So you can sate your own urge and wouldn't have to fight in the Soul Society." he added between chuckles.
"That sounds perfect. Naruto has been wanting to see my human form since we met." Yoruichi said from her spot on a pillow.
This shocked Kisuke, "What he hasn't seen it yet? You've been torturing him haven't you?"
"You know I have." the male voiced feline replied.
"You do know, once you show him he's not going to want to see you as a cat ever again." Kisuke said with a perverted giggle.
"Speaking from experience Kisuke?" the feline replied with a chuckle.
By this time Sasuke had calmed down and raised an eyebrow at the two. He leaned over to Naruto and said, "And your positive that's a woman in disguise?" he asked in a whisper.
"It may be hard for you to believe but I do. Call it animal instincts or something." the foxy blonde whispered back.
The Uchiha shook his head at the blonde and sat normally. "So when are we going to fight?"
Kisuke and Yoruichi stopped talking and the pale blonde smiled. He had forgotten he had a job to do as the two teen's informer. "Hold up, nobody's going to fight until we finish this meeting." Kisuke said waving his fan. "Now back to the issue with you not being able to sense our Reiatsu. The reason you or any other spiritually aware individual cant is because this isn't your ordinary, everyday, Gigai. This Gigai completely masks the spiritual energy of the wearer. It may just be my greatest creation." Kisuke spoke with pure pride. He nodded his head as he made a large batch for himself, Yourichi, Tessai and a group of individuals that were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
"The last scientist I knew did some fucked up things, what makes you any different?" Sasuke questioned with his red eyes peering into Kisuke's soul.
The pale blonde cocked his head in confusion, before he smiled. "Because I'm not evil." he said plainly.
Sasuke glared at the hat wearing individual for the next five minutes. Nothing in that amount of time led him to believe that he was lying. He nodded, having accepted the answer.
"Good now we seem to have strayed far off course to the real reason you two are here. So without further delay, let me tell you how I could transport you two to the Soul Society. Now remember, I'm only telling you, it doesn't mean I'm going to actually perform it for you." he said as his eyes gained a serious glint, forcing them to regain their own.
"The Soul Society is no different from here anyway, no reason to go there, until its your time." Yoruichi commented.
Kisuke nodded and proceed to tell the duo all about his ingenious way to create a portal called a Garganta that could allow humans entry into the Soul Society with the help of Reishihenkanki (Spirit Exchangers) which turned solid matter into Reishi. He then went on to say that to do all of that would take ten days anyway.
Of course the amount of time needed to prepare was astounding to the two shinobi. "Ten days, Kami/Damn that's long." Naruto and Sasuke said, respectively.
Kisuke nodded that the vast amount of time needed, provided the necessary rejection to the idea of going to the Soul Society and breaching the Seireitei. "Indeed it is." Kisuke said rising to his feet. "Now who wants to share a drink of sake with me before we fight?" the shop keeper said waving his fan in front of his face. From the tone of his voice, it seems like he was joking in the process.
But Naruto didn't take it like a joke. "Oh thank Kami, I haven't had something to drink in months. I hope you have a lot because I'm about to indulge myself to make up for lost time." the whiskered blonde said patting Kisuke on the back.
"What the hell dobe, you drink?" Sasuke said before Kisuke could say that he was playing with the offer.
Naruto chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head. "You have no idea." 'I've learned a couple things from my surrogate parents. Obviously from Ero-sensei, I got perverted and developed a taste for business. But from my time learning how to lead from Baa-chan, I got some serious bad habits, that thankfully I learned to suppress a little. Now I love gambling and with my good luck it comes in handy, and I love to drink. I never get drunk out of my mind because of my condition, but it too comes in handy when someone thinks I am.' Naruto thought with an foxy grin. "Sometimes work is stressing and drinking helps alleviate said stress. On the plus side it helps to dull pain, by just a little." he said looking at the feline licking her paws. 'I think I'm going to need it.' he thought.
Sasuke shook his head as he was well informed by Orochimaru of the other two Sannin and to avoid them at all costs, even Tsunade who was a medic, with the strength of a thousand men. Sasuke didn't know if he was exaggerating about that, as he has never really met her, met her, but the times he has seen her she was around the hospital. He was even aware that she had healed him when Itachi had put him in a Tsukiyomi. Back when the blonde was still an idiot obsessed with Sakura.
The avenger sighed as he thought about the simple past. The other occupants stared at him with confusion on their faces. "So about that drink?" Naruto asked patting the hat wearing man on the back for the second time.
A/N: Its better to skip the drinking scene and head straight to when their ready to fight. Plus I'm sorry for the long wait and it was not nice to hit you with a cliffhanger, if you can call this one.
So let me list the things to expect next chapter…. You got the fights between Naruto vs. Yoruichi and Sasuke vs. Kisuke. The mysterious Quincy finally makes his appearance after being mentioned above. Hoards of hollow invade Karakura Town. The above average of spiritually aware gains their abilities and learns the truth about everything. And finally the mysterious encounter with two strong individuals that leads to the disappearance of Rukia and the near death occurrence of Ichigo.
Woo There's a lot to look forward to. So if your exhausted of my little filler sequence stay tuned for the next chapter of Crossing Dimensions.
Jay is out this hizzy