This is probably the time where I apologize about the absurd amount of time between updates… its too bad that I'm not.
And this will be where I place a disclaimer telling you something everyone already knows.
Also this will be the place where I'll tell you I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by switching to Geico… its too good thing I didn't get car insurance to begin with, I don't have a car.
So lets just get to work, shall we.
Crossing Dimensions Chapter: Five
=Four in the Afternoon=
Naruto let out a slurred sigh. He slammed his fifth bottle of hard sake down on the table. He shook his head to relieve himself of the slight buzz it gave him.
He slapped his arm around Kisuke's shoulder and let out a boisterous laugh. "Beat that." he said loudly.
The other blonde let out a laugh as he slammed his own bottle on the table. "I already did." he drunkenly smirked as the current bottle joined five others.
The young shinobi drunkenly counted the bottles before he chuckled. "Oh will you look at that." he said offhandedly as he looked around the table. He noticed, near Sasuke, was full bottles of sake he was supposed to drink. "Why you no drink Sasuke?" the whiskered blonde asked, slurring a little.
Sasuke scoffed as he brushed his hand through his hair. "I would rather have my wits for when I fight." he simply said before taking a gulp of water.
At the mention of the fight Naruto perked up a little. "Oh yeah, I'm supposed to fight Yoruichi." the young blonde whispered glancing at the cat lapping at a bowl of sake. "See Sasuke, even the cat's drinking. You lightweight!" the blonde yelled snatching one of his bottles, before downing it quickly. "Now we're tied." he said looking at Kisuke, only to see him slam down his seven bottle.
"Keep up blondie." Kisuke said before coughing a little.
Naruto glared at the older blonde before he threw his empty bottle of sake at his head. It shattered right against the man's forehead, with blood quickly flowing out of the wound. Kisuke comically thrashed on the floor in pain as he held his head.
Naruto wildly laughed, joining the other blonde in the floor, whilst holding his sides. Even Yoruichi was chuckling a little in the corner, still reluctant to transform into her human form.
This went on for two minutes before Sasuke cleared his throat. "Where are we supposed to fight?"
Kisuke quickly sat up with bandaged magically appearing on his forehead, in an 'x' like fashion. "That reminds me…" he said standing to his feet as if he hadn't been drinking a few minutes ago. "…follow me downstairs to my special room." he said walking to the corner of the room and opening a hidden latch on the floor. Yoruichi was not far behind him.
The two leaf ninja rose an eyebrow at the two shinigami, not expecting a special room. "There's a downstairs?" Naruto asked with Sasuke shrugging his shoulders.
~CD~CD~CD~CD~CD~
The shinobi basked in the amazement of the open spaced room underneath the small and simple shop above. Any doubt about the man being a scientist was thrown out the window. Because only a scientist could create something like this underneath a city.
"Wow this is amazing." Naruto said looking at the nearly cloudless sky.
Kisuke nodded his head in appreciation. "Thanks, initially the first took years to complete. This one, only a few months."
"And before you ask, yes, he has another." Yoruichi said leaping off of Kisuke's shoulder before going in the opposite direction. "Let's go Naruto, we'll need a lot of distance between us if we want to fight safely."
All Naruto could do was nod and follow the feline.
Sasuke and Kisuke watched the two leave in complete silence…. Well almost complete. The soft moaning of both of the inebriated blondes filled the air.
Kisuke was swaying from side to side, moving at a slow pace. "Do you really expect me to fight a drunken man? I'll have better chances fighting Kurosaki." Sasuke muttered whilst unsealing his Kusanagi. "So are we gonna do this o-"
The Uchiha was cut off when a gust of wind rushed by his head before he heard the sound of crashing boulders behind him. "Huh, I must be more buzzed than I thought. I was sure that would have cut some of your hair." Kisuke mused scratching the side of his head with his unsheathed cane sword.
The cane, at first glance, looked to be an ordinary cane. But now it was obvious it wasn't. The hooked handle was the only part of the cane that remained, a long silvery blade replaced the rest of the cane.
Sasuke reached up to the side of his head and removed the loose pieces of hair that were cut off. 'I cant believe I didn't sense the attack. There was no intent for me to sense. How is that even possible?' he thought in alarm.
"Oh it seems I did get some. Well that makes me feel better." Kisuke said while Sasuke was still wondering just how strong the man was.
The raven haired Uchiha narrowed his eyes and steeled his determination. "No matter how strong you are, I wont back down." he said, his Sharingan spinning widely as he charged the blonde.
~CD~CD~CD~CD~CD~
Naruto glanced back as his friend's fight started. He looked back at the feline in front of him and flashed a small smile. "Well I'm not going to fight a cat…" he said taking his shirt off. "As a human." he added as his chest grew golden colored fur.
His chest, along with the rest of his body grew the fur while his entire body structure shifted into a new shape. Moments later, the transformation was completed, replacing the previous human with a two foot, two tailed, fox.
"I hope your strong in that form." the male voice of Yoruichi spoke, as her claws slowly emerged from her paws.
Naruto's ears twitched a few times, as well did his dual tails, with the ends of them being a pure white. His slitted, golden eyes, gazed around the area in front of him, also wary that the black, foot tall, feline was preparing to attack. He sniffed the air, absolutely loving how clean the air was, compared to outside.
His dual tails stiffened as Yoruichi pounced with unbelievable speed.
=With Ichigo=
"Kurosaki what are you waiting for? Leave that body of yours, or do you need to ask your Shinigami lapdog for permission?" he asked, loathing the word shinigami.
Said orange haired teen glared daggers at the glasses wearing boy. It only registered to him, moments after the boy finished, that he didn't need Rukia at all. He dug around his pack for the item needed for his transformation. He smirked when he removed a stuffed toy lion, named Kon.
Kon couldn't even complain about the rough handling, as his throat was immediately stuffed with Ichigo's arm.
Uryu Ishida, the glasses wearing teen watched in silence as Ichigo removed a pill from the toy's throat, and proceeded to swallow it himself.
A second passed before his Shinigami form burst from his body. Said body didn't say anything, except gather Ichigo's things and run away.
"Protect my family!" he yelled at the Mod-Soul before pointing his sword at Uryu. "You wanted to see my Shinigami form, well here it is. Now lets fight." carrot top said before a thought came to mind. "Where's your weapon?" he all but growled at his opponent.
Uryu scoffed, "You don't think I would actually waste my time fighting you." he said smugly while digging into his pocket.
That comment nearly made Ichigo snap, but he regained his composure, only to unconsciously leak some Spiritual Pressure.
The mysterious Uryu's eyes widened a little, as he felt the pressure bare down on him. It took him a while but he shook off the feeling of the unfocused pressure. He removed his hand from his pocket, revealing a small, coin shaped, disk. "With this bait, we'll have a contest of who could eliminate the most Hollow. The one with the most kills in the next twenty-four hours will be the victor. Get ready Shinigami." he said, not even giving Ichigo a chance to retort, before the bait was broken.
Nearly immediately a roar was heard nearby. And just as fast, Uyru rose his arm, as a bow made of pure Reishi appeared in his hand, centered from a small cross attached to Uryu's bracelet. He pulled back the spiritual string, as an arrow materialized in its rightful place. And then the teen let it go, sending it soaring through the air, straight into the appearing Hollow's mask, destroying it. "One…" he smirked as all that happened in the span of a second.
=S & K Swordfight=
"Its not surprising you're a well developed fighter. You have my respect Sasuke-san." Kisuke said with a bow, his cane sword currently stabbed into the ground and standing on its own. One of his hands were on his hat, preventing it from falling to the floor.
Sasuke took the gesture to be mocking feint to catch him off guard. Though it did get him a little angry, "Chidori no Yari!" he suddenly said thrusting his free arm forward, as a bolt of lightning shot at Kisuke.
The blonde moved really quickly, and easily batted the bolt aside. Sasuke anticipated this and was already beside the cane wielder. He thrust his blade for the tenth time since the fight started, and just like the other times, it was parried.
Kisuke spent around the Uchiha and also slashed at his back. His efforts bore fruit, sadly the cut only damaged a lone rock.
Sasuke appeared right in front of Kisuke with his sword poised to stab through his chin. Sasuke narrowed his eyes when his blade quickly slid into the man's throat. 'Something doesn't seem right.' he thought.
"Maa maa, that was close." Kisuke said from behind the raven haired shinobi. "You have to be careful with that weapon, you could kill someone." the pale blonde said letting out a small laugh at his joke. "So, can I have my hat back?" Kisuke asked making Sasuke look back to see that, the man's hat was impaled onto Kusanagi.
Sasuke scoffed, swinging the hat off of his sword and towards Kisuke. "I guess you have your own version of a Kawarimi." he thought out loud.
The shop owner smiled as he put his hat back on his head, though he was a little sad that it had a hole in it. "I guess it's my turn to go on the offensive." Kisuke said as the smile vanished from his face and his eyes steeled themselves.
Sasuke's heart nearly stopped as the Killer Intent directed at him sent him to a flashback to when he first experienced it with Orochimaru. He noticed the man's eyes and he realized the man was completely serious now. 'This is what I've been waiting for.' he thought as he got over the pressure on his person and also sent some at the man, who own gave a small smile.
A crash in the background was all that was needed as the serious swordfight began.
=Canine vs. Feline=
Naruto's fox body collided with a large rock as Yoruichi's nimble body flipped and landed onto said body. "Come on Naruto-kun, I thought you would have avoided that. I don't want to mar that beautiful golden coat of your's any more." the deep voice pierced through Naruto's keen ears.
Naruto growled as he peeled himself out of the vertical crater. He landed on his four feet and his tails twitched from side to side. "Apologies, I was just surprised that's all. Please, let us continue this." he said making the feline narrow her eyes in suspicion.
She had all rights to be suspicious as not even a second after saying that, Naruto disappeared from her sight in a puff of smoke.
Her eyes widened and she checked everywhere, even up. But she couldn't see him. She hissed when Naruto's bigger body landed on top of hers. Naruto dug his claws into the rock, trapping the feline's limbs from escaping.
"Come on Yoruichi, aren't you tired of that form. I know I am. So do us both a favor and change. Fighting in this form is alien to me." Naruto admitted while he released a small whine to help persuade the sensitive side of the woman.
"If I don't that, you wouldn't want to get off of me." she said not being conceited at all, it was just a hardcore fact.
All in all, it was very weird for Naruto to be having this kind of talk with a male voiced cat. And while the golden fox was thinking of this, he didn't notice the dark feline below him begin to glow. When he did, it was too late.
Yoruichi quickly grew twice his size, promptly pushing the fox of her back.
Naruto was going to end up on his back, with the speed he was pushed off Yoruichi. So with a bit of twisting, he succeeded in righting himself to land on his four paws.
Now he was facing an, even larger, feline that he didn't feel like fighting. He released a sigh as his tails twitched with anticipation. The black cat purred as she circled the golden fox.
This went on for a few seconds and at the sound of an explosion, she pounced.
Naruto countered this with a quick hop out of reach and promptly opened his maw. He quickly collected a ball of Reishi and fired it at his much larger target. It was launched with surprising precision and even more surprising speed.
Unfortunately in Yoruichi's surprise she batted the energy ball away with even knowing that it worked in her favor. The resulting explosion was what caused her to flash a toothy grin.
Naruto's eyes widened at that and he growled in frustration. "That's not even fair." he said as one of his ears drooped in sadness.
Yoruichi used that opportunity to immediately dash towards the saddened fox. She didn't see canine smirk as fire lit the dual tails. He swung the tails, just as the feline pounced.
She was too close to the twin balls of fire to twist out of the way, and plus she was too big to accomplish that anyway. So she did the one of the only options in her playbook.
She shrunk to glide between the balls of fire. Naruto's smirked quickly turned to a frown, and to make things worse, her extended paw caught on fire.
Naruto couldn't do anything, except get a fire enhanced paw slap. With Yoruichi's renewed small stature, the attack didn't cause any kind of intense damage.
But like the saying says, 'Big things come in small packages.' With that thought in mind, Naruto was still sent a meter and a half across the rocky area. He slid along the ground and seen his blood drip from his cheek and onto the floor. He glared at the small feline before the wound closed up, thanks to his demonic energy. He growled before a bright golden light surrounded him. Three extra tails sprouted behind him and he began to grow. It wasn't even a full minute later when he reached the cap, a full fifteen feet of Fox Power.
Yoruichi stared in amazement, she couldn't get that big if she wanted to. She knew this part of the fight was going to be troublesome. And with her knowledge, just because something got big, didn't mean that it got any slower. Her theory was correct when Naruto quickly swiped his giant paw and it impacted her body. It was then sent further away from Kisuke and Sasuke's fight.
=Swordfight=
Sasuke continued to backpedal while blocking each of Kisuke's powerful strikes. He felt his back come in contact with a boulder and quickly ducked and rolled out of the way of Kisuke's thrust.
The raven haired shinobi rolled onto his feet just in time to see Kisuke leap onto the rock and rip his sword from the boulder, while simultaneously launching himself straight at the avenger.
Sasuke barely had time to raise his sword and block the attack. He was surprise that the man was pushing him so far, causing him to slide. "Okiro - Benihime." (Awaken - Crimson Princess) he said causing his sword to take a sleek, medium sized form. The hilt was wrapped in black tape and bent forward at the end with the pommel shapped to look overlapped three times and a crimson tassel dangling from its base. Instead of a tsube, there was a U-shaped guard covering three inches of the blade, with a flower petal design. At the base of the guard, there was a red string wrapped three times, around the hilt, with a three-loop bow on the back side and a folded paper decoration on the front side. The blade itself, was black with a silver edge and was far thicker than the cane-sealed state. It remained straight and slim with its short size, but instead of being tapered to a point, the tip ended with a slanted razor edge. "Nake, Benihime." (Sing, Crimson Princess)
The area around the connected blades started glowing red at a rapid pace. Sasuke couldn't even disconnect before a strong, crimson colored, energy blast rocket the Uchiha with destructive properties.
It was at that moment that Kisuke finally touched down on the earth. The entirety of Benihime was fuming causing Kisuke to lightly wave the smoke off. "Sorry about that, Benihime isn't the nice type."
=Hollow Contest=
Ichigo swung his sword in a wide, horizontal arc, slicing through three Hollow masks simultaneously. He mentally counted his fingers for a new number, "That makes twenty-four." he yelled at the neighboring Quincy.
Said Quincy released his arrow and watched it go through four Hollows, that were coincidentally aligned. Uryu smirked, "Thirty-seven." he said, not even looking at Ichigo.
The orange haired teen growled in annoyance as he jumped in front of a group and proceeded to hack and slash his way through, nearly losing count. "Thirty-two." he muttered before sprinting towards another Hollow, only to see it get hit with an arrow. "Stop stealing my kills!" he yelled in frustration.
"Thirty-eight." was his only response, which only made him angrier.
Ichigo growled again, while he parried a Hollow's claw to the side and vertically bisected it for his thirty-third kill. "Why the hell are you endangering the entire city for a petty grudge?" Ichigo questioned the arrow user.
Uryu scoffed in smug pride, "There's no way the town's in danger, since I'm here. Fourty-one." he said killing another Hollow to prove his statement.
=With Chad=
Yasutora Sado was simply running from whatever was behind him causing the thudding footsteps and causing the earth to get crushed under its weight. He couldn't see anything at all, but he knew it was chasing him.
He's been running for a few minutes, thankful that he was now in an unpopulated part of the city. He looked back, he didn't know why, and wasn't surprised he couldn't see it. But judging from the distance between him and the footprints, he knew it was getting closer.
To make his situation worse he ended up running straight into someone. Feeling himself tipping over, he wrapped his arms around the body, just as he fell to the floor. He rolled for a while before he ended on his back. He uncovered his arms to see a surprised Karin. "Your Ichigo's sister." he said calmly, like he wasn't being chased by a giant apparition he couldn't see.
But just because he couldn't see it, doesn't mean that Karin couldn't see it. She stammered for a few seconds before she spoke clearly. "What is that thing?" she said, her pupils shrunk in fear and sweat began to gather on her brow.
Chad rose an eyebrow in wonder, "You could see it?" he plainly questioned. All Karin could do was shockingly and slowly nod her head. "Good, I need you to be my eyes." he said before she began to scream, causing him to scoop her up and roll out of the way, just in time to avoid being part of a giant footprint.
=With Orihime=
Orihime looked on, in shock, at the giant purple colored octopus looking monster floating in the air. She was currently at school with her friends doing, after-school activities, when she sensed this thing.
"Ah, it seems you can see me. That pleases me… I love it when my food sees me." she said with a demented cackle. The female Hollow looked around at all of Orihime's classmates, who were beginning to run towards the girl. Her head was then covered with bumps, before seed like projectiles were fired and impacted each of Orihime's classmates, save for Tatsuki.
"Luckily for you, I don't like fighting. So I'll have your friends do it for me." the Hollow said as each of the infected classmates stood to their feet and started slowly walking towards Orihime.
Tatsuki quickly stood in front of Orihime, prepared to protect her. "I don't know what's wrong with you guys, but none of you are going to hurt Orihime." Tatsuki said before putting her karate skills to use, by punching and kicking her classmates away from Orihime.
It was as the last student fell that Tatsuki felt a hand on her shoulder. She turned to see Chizuru, who began squeezing said shoulder with uncommon strength. Tatsuki shrieks in pain at the squeeze and reverse kicks Chizuru out of her grip. She searched and found Orihime surrounded by the group of previously fallen students.
She was about to run to help, before she was surprisingly hit by one of the seed projectiles in her left shoulder. She groaned as her step faltered a bit and she dropped to a knee.
Seeing her friend get hit, forced Orihime to utilize the small bit of her own karate skills. She soon knocked her classmates out, before she apologetically bowed to them continuously. "Sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to." she continued to say, before she ran to check on her best friend. "Are you alright Tatsuki-chan?"
She was surprised when Tatsuki punched her in the stomach. Orihime doubled over, while stumbling back in pain. Tears prickled at the corner of her eyes at her best friend's attack.
Orihime also didn't like to fight, so when Tatsuki charged at her, she simply blocked the strikes to the best of her abilities. Though, during the onslaught she noticed that the only limb attacking her was the left arm, the same limb that was hit. She narrowed her eyes and quickly pushed Tatsuki away.
The walnut-haired teen panted in exertion while the monster hovered slightly above her best friend. "This girls performance was pathetic, lets fix that." the monster thought out loud, while wrapper her tentacles around the short haired girl and squeezed hard.
Tatsuki's piercing scream knocked Orihime out of her tired state. "Tatsuki-chan!" she yelled before seeing Tatsuki take a large bite out of the closest tentacle, now able to see it in front of her.
Now it was the Hollow's turn to scream, and squeeze harder, which only made Tatsuki tighten her bite. The monster unraveled the girl from her grasp and tossed her near Orihime. Though, Tatsuki's bite was so hard on the tentacle that she removed a piece of it, that went she hit the ground, was promptly swallowed. This caused her to lose consciousness.
Orihime gasped and crouched beside her friend, seeing the tears on her cheeks. The wind picked up around her as her hairpins started glowing. "I'm sorry Tatsuki, I wasn't any help. But no more…" she said as a flash of light surrounded her.
When it died down, six small fairy looking creatures were seen flying around her, "I will not forgive those who hurt Tatsuki." she said with conviction.
=Back To Chad=
Chad stared at his disfigured right arm in alarm. In the middle of his conflict it transformed, much to his and Karin's surprise. He opened and clinched his Brazo Derecha de Gigante (Right Arm of the Giant) repeatedly, getting a feel of his awakened power.
His entire arm was black, save for a thick magenta line going down the middle of his arm while being outlined thin white line. This pattern was also on the underside of his arm. The armor like material covered his entire arm, even up to his shoulder. Said shoulder armor, fanned out to extend vertically to match his height. Though there was a large indentation about the size of the strip of magenta going down his arm. There were also two wing-like protrusions jutting out on both sides of his wrists.
His clenched his fist and nodded his head, as if the armor told him something. "My hands are meant for protecting. Don't worry Ichigo's sister, I'll protect you now, with my new power." he said running towards the giant monster before thrusting his fist forward, unwillingly launching a stream of deadly energy that obliterated the monster.
A thick gorge was created in front of the gentle giant as he looked at his smoking fist in surprise… again. He turned to face Karin and flashed her a thumbs up, with Karin doing the same. He stood there for a second before tipping over and falling on the floor, exhausted.
Karin held her hand in the air, awkwardly before the adrenaline also left her body and she promptly fainted.
A minute later Ururu was seen walking on the field with a shy face. She looked at the area and saw the destruction the fight caused. She walked to Karin and Chad and picked each of them up, showing impressive strength. After she got them both settled she promptly vanished.
=With Rukia=
The petite Soul Reaper shrieked in surprise as she thrust her palms at the nearest Hollo. "Hado #33 - Sokatsui." (Way of Destruction #33 - Blue Fire, Crash Down) A bright blue light surrounded her palms, before it was fired, only killing that Hollow because of the close proximity. 'Damn, how come I'm not regaining my strength.' the woman thought before turning around and running.
She continued to look back, not surprised that the Hollows were closing on her. From what she could deduce, there was about three, maybe four Hollows behind her.
Instincts told her to roll out of the way and she listened to them. Now she was on her back and a Hollow was right over her. "End of the line buddy." Rukia said extending her palms again and firing the same Kido.
The Hollow screamed in pain. Rukia silently cursed as it only seemed to weaken it and cause a smokescreen. The raven haired girl put the smoke to good use and hightailed it out of there. 'I have to find Ichigo or Urahara. I don't think I can keep this up for long.' she thought in despair.
"It's the last inning, bottom of the ninth and the bases are loaded. Next up to the plate, Jinta Hanakari, here comes a JINTA HOMERUN!" the short red headed kid said before slamming his giant club down on the closest Hollow, quickly destroying it.
Rukia didn't know how happy she was to see the annoying red head right now. "Finally reinforcements. Do you know what's causing all these Hollows to appear so suddenly?" she asked the kid.
"I don't have a clue." Jinta said before swinging his club and destroying another Hollow, leaving only two more as the majority was converging into one spot. "I was just instructed by Tessai to assist you in staying alive and I'm doing my job." he said jumping to the left, bouncing off a building and using the speed he was moving to enhance his attack. The Hollow didn't stand a chance.
"Tessai? What the hell is Urahara doing?" she questioned as the last Hollow appeared behind her. She narrowly dodged its claw attack and watched as Jinta destroyed that Hollow as well.
The kid shrugged his shoulders. "The last time I seen him, he was drinking with some blonde guy, a stranger, and a small cat."
"WHAT!? HE'S DRINKING DURING AN INVASION!?" she yelled completely ticked off before she started stomping towards Urahara's Shop.
Jinta stared at the retreating woman with a perplexed look on his face. It took a minute before realization struck him. He widened his eyes, "Oh shit."
=Naruto v Yoruichi=
Naruto grinned as he once again caught Yoruichi, this time only using a single paw to keep her down. He was applying just enough pressure to keep her under his paw, without a chance for her to escape or accidentally get crushed. Even though she was on her back, she couldn't do any kind of damage to him with her miniscule set of claws. His five tails swayed happily behind him as he laid his body down and lowered his head enough to get on Yoruichi's level. "So now that we are don't playing this game of cat and fox, can we switch to our human forms." Naruto said after his instincts guided him throughout the fight, after all, using his fox form was still new.
Again Yoruichi struggled under his paw. She did it for two whole minutes before she conceded in defeat. "Fine we'll switch. If you wanted to see my human form so bad, all you had to do was ask." she said as she began to glow.
Naruto looked at her glowing figure with a blank face before he too began to glow.
The two animals' body structure shifted to that of a human in the span of a full minute. The whole thing was amazing, too bad no one was there to see.
When the light died down, two human bodies were seen, one on top of the other. Naruto stared down at the now dark skinned, purple haired goddess. Her large ample breast were moving slightly, because of her breathing, and one of his hands were on her toned stomach.
Naruto returned his eyes back up to her golden set of orbs, just like cat form had. "I knew you were a girl, but damn, you're too beautiful to walk around as a cat." Naruto said moving to completely straddle her form as he was equally naked.
She put her palms on his chest, getting a feel of his toned muscles in her human form. "I knew you wouldn't want to get off me. And as much as I would like to engage in the act of hot and sweaty sex, I transformed to fight." she said pushing him clear off of her, showing a surprising amount of strength.
Naruto righted himself in the air and landed on his feet. "Of course." he said as a two shadow clones were created, which immediately transformed into two pairs of black cargo pants, one of them being skin tight. "Don't want to fight naked do we?" he said tossing her the skin tight pair.
She caught the clothing with a straight face, her long purple hair flowing freely down her back. "Are you sure you don't want me to have a shirt, Mr. Distracted?" she said with a smirk while putting the pants on. Naruto took a few seconds to understand what she said while watching her breast swaying from side to side. A bit of drool escaped his mouth as she fully put the pants on.
She turned around showing Naruto her ass, distracting him more, before she vanished. She appeared behind Naruto and roundhouse kicked him right in the middle of the back. This time, he was sent tumbling across the area and closer to the swordfight."
=Swordfight=
Sasuke had to resort to his Mangekyou to keep up with Kisuke newfound power. Kisuke sure was surprised when black fire shot out of Sasuke's eye, but he effectively countered with a simple shield.
But still Sasuke was again, being forced back by the pale blonde. Sasuke grunted as he muttered, "Chidori Nagashi." (Thousand Birds Current)
Kisuke immediately felt the surge of lightning enter his body and quickly slashed Sasuke off of Benihime, who was now screaming for Sasuke's blood. "Damn, now Benihime-chan is pissed." Kisuke said slowly and softly rubbing his companion to try and calm her down, but it was a futile attempt. "The only way to survive now, is to have her gain respect for you." Kisuke told the avenger. "Fine some way to get stronger, before I have to kill you to appease my hime." he added using Shunpo (Flash Step) to appear behind the avenger and slashing at the back of his head.
Even with his Mangekyou activated Sasuke only witnessed the initial step before the man was gone. Pure instinct saved his life as he quickly ducked and mule kicked the man further back.
At least that's what he thought happened as simply grabbed his ankle and threw him through a bolder. "I know I don't have to give you a speech about how to properly fight. Its just that you're fighting a superior opponent, its not my fault." he said before swinging Benihime. "Nake, Benihime."
The explosion shook the area, causing a large plume of smoke to rise in the air. Seconds ticked by with nothing happening. Kisuke stood silently, Benihime resting on his shoulder, ready to continue the fight at any moment. He narrowed his eyes at the smoke, sensing Sasuke's Reiatsu slowly raising, before it exploded outwards.
The smoke was immediately blown away as a new avenger was seen. His skin was now dark grey, a large four pointed star was carved between his eyes, vertically, and horizontally across the bridge of his nose. His sclera were black and his Eternal Mangekyou Sharingan (Pagan Star) was glaring daggers at the shop keeper.
Two large, hand shaped, bat like wings sprouted from his back. His finger nails lengthened to make claws and his sword, along with his entire body, was crackling with violet electricity.
Kisuke widened his eyes, the avenger's Reiatsu was measuring just barely at a Captain's level. He extended Benihime in front of him and smiled at her, now because she was giddy with anticipation. "Lets do this." he said raising her above his head as his own Reiatsu rose and exceeded his opponents.
Sasuke dashed, gliding along the air, before he vanished. Kisuke widened his eyes a little as Sasuke's speed was reminiscent with a slight booming sound. But he was still cautious as he blocked the boy's head-on attack. His eyes widened a little more as more power than anticipated was added to the strike.
He was sent towards a boulder, but he simply landed on it and jumped in the air, just as the boulder was destroyed by a flaming dragon.
Sasuke's wings flapped a few times before he took flight after the pale blonde. "You're not getting away from me that easily. Chidori Senbon." he said swinging his sword in an arc.
Hundreds of electrical senbons were fired at Kisuke, who simply Shunpo'd away. Sasuke, too, vanished with his own booming sound accompanying him.
It was clear that Sasuke wanted Kisuke dead for his obvious strength, or maybe he was envisioning Naruto in the pale blonde's place, seeing as how they were alike.
=Naruto v Yoruichi=
Naruto was stuck dodging the quickest set of punches in his life. Yoruichi didn't look it, but she was wicked fast. She vanished from his sight and his eyes widened when he felt fingers tapping his shoulder.
He didn't even get a chance to turn before he was kicked, again, this time in the ribs. It seemed that, even though, she now had a shirt on, he wasn't fast enough to keep up with her.
He grunted when he slid on his hands and feet for the last five meters of the previous twenty meters he traveled. "Fast, strong, smart, and beautiful… I am way over my head." the blonde joked softly.
"Luckily, you're just my type." Yoruichi said draping her arms around his neck, pressing her clothed assets against his, still, bare back. She was now wearing a skin tight, backless and equally, sleeveless, shirt.
"Oh thank Kami." he muttered before his eyes widened a bit as he promptly swiped his claws behind him, hitting nothing but air. He growled at her retreating giggles. "Stop doing that." he growled louder as that had been the fourth time she did that, six if you count when she was topless.
The woman was about to say something when the area was flooded with Sasuke and Kisuke's Reiatsu. "It looks like they're getting really serious. Should we break it up?" Naruto said looking in the distance, also smelling blood in their direction, but who's he didn't know.
"Nah, Kisuke wont let anyone die." she responded also sensing another individual entering the modified room. "We have a visitor, since Kisuke is obviously occupied, its up to us to see what Rukia wants." she said vanishing, with Naruto not far behind, though he was a little peeved that his fight was stopped.
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Rukia noticed nobody was present in the store, save for Ururu, who just laid Chad's body on a mat to rest on. The raven haired death God rose her eyebrow at the weird liquid material that sizzled off his arm.
Seconds later Tessai appeared with an injured and sleeping, Orihime and Tatsuki under his left and right arms, respectively. He too laid the ladies on a mat before he stood to his feet. "Can I help you Rukia-san?" the tall man asked bending down to Rukia's height.
The girl shrieked at the closeness and took a few steps back in her fear. "Where's Urahara at?" she asked her fear overshadowing her anger.
Tessai smiled before rising to his full height. "Kisuke-sama is… exercising at the moment. Would you like to see?" Tessai said walking in the back and grabbing the secret door, prepared to open it if Rukia accepted the offer.
Rukia looked down at the latch Tessai was holding with a faint blush on her cheeks. "If she accepted, she would see a man, many many years her senior training with sweat glistening his body. But if she declined she wouldn't be able to give him a piece of her mind for completely ignoring a horde of Hollows attacking the town. She weighed the pros and cons before nodding her head.
As soon as she entered the underground room she was overwhelmed by the vast amount of spiritual pressure filling the room. It lightened up greatly when two figures appeared in front of her. "Naruto-san? Yoruichi-sama!?" Rukia said, knowing the woman from stories during her earlier years as a Soul Reaper. "What are you two doing here?"
Naruto scoffed, "The more important question is what are you doing here?" he said crossing his arms. Rukia blushed deeply while looking at his toned chest. Naruto snapped his fingers repeatedly, "Hello, Rukia I'm up here." he said bringing her eyes back up to his.
"Um what?" she said blinking a few times. Naruto groaned and rolled his eyes, ready to scream in anger. "Oh, I just wanted to bring to your attention that the town was under attack by some Hollows." she simply said.
Naruto shrugged his shoulders, "Okay, carrot top could handle a few Hollow."
"A few hundred? Him and the Quincy are being overwhelmed at the moment." she told them as she had passed the duo on the way here. "Sure they killed most of them, but they're on their last legs."
Naruto blinked a few times before he and Yoruichi shared a look. "Oh, umm, go stop their fight, I'm going to assist Kurosaki." he told the woman who simply nodded before they both vanished.
Rukia was left, once again, overwhelmed by the vast amount of amount of Reiatsu filling the air.
=Hollow Invasion=
The apparent contest had been going on for about three hours now, with the two competitors showing signs of fatigue. Uryu poised an arrow, the energy flickered in and out before he grunted and it stayed on and he fired. "One hundred and twelve." he panted in exhaustion.
Ichigo grinned as he slashed through two Hollows and stabbed his sword through another. "One hundred and twenty seven." he looked at the fatigued Quincy. "Focus Quincy, or you're going to die!" he said running and stabbing a Hollow who was about to attack the teen from behind.
He pressed his back against Uryu's. "We have to protect each other or we're both going to die."
This small act seemed to reinvigorate the Quincy as he tightened his grip on his energy bow, pulled the string and fired off another arrow that killed two Hollow. "If we're going to die, lets take as much as these bastards as we can." he told the grinning substitute shinigami.
They would have resumed their defense against the Hollows but they all started disintegrating. When they weren't surrounded anymore, Naruto appeared looking a little bored. He stabbed his sword into the ground and leaned on it a bit. "I was told you had hundreds of Hollow ganging up on you, not fifty measly bastards." he said releasing a bored sigh. "Hey Uryu, so you're this apparent Quincy I was told about? Its not surprising." he said turning his head to look at the giant crack in the sky.
Three large masks poked through the hole and roared. Naruto rose an eyebrow at the power coming from those three. 'Interesting.' he thought shouldering his sword.
Sasuke landed next to him, his appearance back to normal. "What the hell is that?" he questioned also mad that his fight was stopped.
Naruto looked at Sasuke, not surprised to see cuts adorning his shirtless body. "I don't even know."
"It's a Menos Grande. Hundreds of, far smaller, hollows are gathered together to make those giant monsters. Not much is known about them other than that, but they almost never venture into the human world unless there's a very high concentration of Reiatsu… like here, with you three." she said including Ichigo into the mix.
Speaking of the orange haired teen, he spoke up. "Who the hell are you?" he questioned with his usual confused zeal.
"None of your business." Naruto growled pointed his sword at Ichigo, who gulped at the tip of the blade, nearly touching the tip of his nose.
"Calm down Naruto-kun. Just handle these Menos, since you three attracted them. I'll be watching you with Urahara." she said vanishing with a flash step.
Naruto sighed as the three Menos fully entered this world and roared their triumph. "Alright I guess I'll destroy mine first and go see how hime-chan is coping with all of this." he said taking a deep breath as he prepared for his attack. 'Chichi no Jikan no Ikari.' (Wrath of Father Time) he thought as he vanished from his spot.
A split second later he returned on one of his knees panting from exhaustion. A Menos roared before it started becoming distorted and it vanished from their eyes. "Their skin is extremely tough, way tougher than I expected." Naruto said between pants. 'Hundreds of Hollows indeed.' he thought as halfway through his attack, some Hollows broke free and tried to attack him, before they died. 'Thank Kami for wind chakra.' he thought before he slowly started making his way to where he sensed Orihime was at. "You could handle the rest right teme?"
Sasuke didn't verbally answer him, but he did nod, to which Naruto didn't even see. But Naruto took his silence as a yes, though sensing something was bothering the raven haired shinobi. 'I'll find out later.' Naruto thought before body flickering out of the area.
Sasuke stared down his Menos, while also wondering just how Naruto did what he just did. Even with his Eternal Mangekyou activated he didn't see anything at all. He scoffed as his hand started crackling with electricity. 'I don't need a big technique to kill these things.' he thought extending his hand. "Raiton: Kaminari Saji to Haki." (Lightning Surge and Destroy) he said as five streams of lightning arched their way towards the Menos.
It converged at the monster's head, destroying it, before striking down with speed akin to a natural lightning bolt. The bolt was still inside the monster's body when it arched downward. The resulting explosion was confined within the Menos' body, scattering blood everywhere, before it too vanished.
Sasuke turned around and started walking away. "Your turn Kurosaki." he said completely ignoring Uryu, who simply watched two of his mysterious classmates destroy two Menos with unknown abilities.
Ichigo turned to see Uryu with his eyes wide, "Focus stupid, its just like any other Hollow. Simply destroy the head and we win." Ichigo said telling Uryu his plan of action, to simply cut it down until they head was their level and kill it that way.
The glasses wearing teen looked at his classmate with a straight face. "Are you serious? Didn't you hear blondy, their skill is incredibly tough. Your plan will take forever!" he said as red light covered the area. "That's time we don't have." Uryu added while back up a little in cautious fear.
"Its getting ready to fire a Cero, (Zero) you need to get out of there." Rukia said from yards away, surprising Ichigo.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Ichigo said while still looking at the concentrated ball of crimson energy. He didn't wait for a response as he bent his knees in preparation for his attack. He jumped high into the air, just as the Menos fired its Cero, pushing the teen back to the earth, with enough force to cause a meter wide crater.
It would have been larger if Ichigo wasn't using all his power to keep the Menos from destroying this part of the town. His eyes were wide with disbelief at the amount of power behind the ongoing attack, it didn't seem like it was going to end.
He didn't notice, but his Zanpakto was vibrating. Ichigo grunted as he exerted more power and slowly began to rise to his full height. His Reiatsu started slowly rising with his stature, shocking everyone around him. His body started glowing blue, contrasting the crimson all around him. A moment later his power started pushing the Cero off of him and he used that opportunity to slash his Zanpakto upwards, sending a stream of energy that cut into the Menos.
It roared in pain, its mask cracking a bit. It slowly started retreated, more mask fragments breaking off. With the adrenaline still in Ichigo, he narrowed his eyes at the retreating Menos and jumped towards it. "You're not leaving this world alive!" he yelled as he arrived at its head. He swung his Zanpakto again, causing another surge of energy to finish the Menos off, before it could completely leave through its portal back to wherever it came from.
With nothing controlling it now, the portal quickly closed, and Ichigo dropped back down to the earth. Just like with Naruto, Ichigo was left exhausted on his knees. "Those things are tough." he muttered stabbing his Zanpakto into the ground, and strained to rise to his feet. He promptly collapsed as his Zanpakto started screaming in, what seemed like pain.
By that time Rukia was crouched next to him in worry. "He over exerted his Zanpakto. If he doesn't get rid of the excess energy flowing through it, its going to explode." she said before Uryu ran up with an idea. He stepped on the sword, prepared for the energy that was going to flow into him. Unfortunately for him, he wasn't prepared for the flood of energy that nearly overwhelmed him immediately.
His bow flared to life, ten times the normal size. "You're not going to explode on my watch Kurosaki. You have to stay alive so we can have our rematch, this time without Hollows." he unnaturally joked, as he continued to fire arrow after arrow into the arrow. His plan to transfer the excess power from Ichigo's sword into his bow, and to use that energy was working without a hitch. A few more minutes of this and everything will return to normal.
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Naruto turned his head to see arrow after arrow being fired into the air. He really didn't think carrot top was going to defeat his Menos the way he did, but it happened. He returned his gaze back onto Orihime, who too was watching the events. She had seen when he destroyed his Menos and was surprised out of her mind.
"So you, along with Sasuke, are ninjas with incredible techniques that are from another dimension." she said slowly making sure she got it right. "So, you're not aliens sent to enslave our planet?" she said with a small pout.
Naruto chuckled as he wrapped an arm around her waist. "Yup, ninjas… not aliens. I'm sorry that I didn't tell yo-" Naruto said before Orihime shut him up with a kiss.
The chaste kiss only lasted a few seconds. "I cant be mad at you. I never asked you about your past." she said chastely kissing him again.
Nearby Chad and a recently conscious Tatsuki were still watching the arrows being fired into the sky. Tatsuki turned towards Urahara and Yoruichi. "This is what I don't get, so everybody here has some kind of power, but what about me? What's my power?"
Urahara nodded, having anticipated her question. "That's something I'm not sure of. Tessai informed me that you ingested Hollow flesh, that's something I have no idea what the outcome could be. A human has never done that, thus the possibilities could be endless. But you'll most likely gain the power of a Hollow, what kind of power, is unknown."
Sasuke chose that moment to drop down from the air, after having killed a few winged Hollows. His eyes angrily glared at Kisuke, though they had a hint of respect for the man's superior strength. Of course he'll never admit that particular feeling, mentally telling himself that he had to get stronger by any means necessary and fight with the man again.
His eyes stayed on the smiling man for a few more seconds before turning his attention to Tatsuki. When his eyes hit her, his features unconsciously softened due to her own angry and annoyed gaze. "Okay, I know you're mad, but its not my fault. You just never asked the right questions."
That only seemed to irritate the girl further. "I asked you during the tournament how you got strong."
Sasuke nodded, remembering the question, "Yes, but you never asked why I had to train in the first place."
Tatsuki stood with her mouth agape, resembling a fish in all likeness.
The previous stream of sky blue colored arrows ceased, telling the group that Uryu had safely rid Ichigo of his excess Reiryoku. "Lets go take Ichigo home…" the group heard Naruto talking to Orihime. "After that, we'll go to your house and you can show me your powers." he said to Orihime, to which she just giggled and nodded in anticipation.
"I would also like to see what kind of spiritual prowess you have." Sasuke told Tatsuki, to which she too nodded, also wondering what her power might be, also wondering why she wasn't freaking out the way she thought she should have been. The duo started walking away, fully intent on figuring out each other's abilities.
Naruto and Orihime also started walking away. "Hey, you want to experience something cool? Get on my back." the blonde offered crouching.
Orihime gave Naruto a cautious look, not sure what he wanted to do. It took a while, before she pressed herself against his back, while wrapping her arms around his neck.
Naruto stood up, holding her legs with his arms. "Brace yourself." he said before taking off into the air. The sounds of Orihime's excited wails permeated through the air, even with their ever growing distance.
That left Urahara, Yoruichi, and Chad. "Well I guess that only leaves you. I'll train you, maybe Naruto and I could train the two of you together. It only makes sense to train rookies together." Yoruichi offered to the tall tanned teen.
Chad simply grunted, to which the purple haired goddess took as a yes.
"And being who I am, I'll simply gauge all of your growing strengths and analyze your potential weaknesses. After all, you and the two other girls are now apart of Karakura town's defense team. There's no telling how strong the Hollows could get, and we need you three to know how to utilize your abilities at the drop of a dime." Kisuke said, lazily twirling his cane while he was retreated.
"But first, we need to know if you're truly up to the task?" Yoruichi asked.
Chad lowered his head and looked at his hands. "These hands are meant to protect. If fate has deemed me worthy of the task, who am I to deny?" the boy said that with his usual gruff, yet monotonous, voice.
Yoruichi's eyes confusingly wandered around the area, before returning to his giant frame. "I'll take that as a yes, meet at Urahara's shop in the morning for the start of your training. Right now you need to rest." she said intent on following Naruto to Orihime's house and also learning of the girl's special powers.
A/N: I'm sorry but I have to end it right here. I know I said I was going to include more, but I obviously decided against it. I've just been on this chapter for so long that I absolutely have to just end it here and give you readers a new chapter.
With that I'm out, don't forget to review. Give ideas if you want, you never know, I might consider adding them in future chapters.