Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach…but I do own Naruto…I wish…

Chapter 5

In the soul society…

Rukia Kuchiki made her way to her captain's office, wondering why she was called so suddenly. She was sure to wear her lieutenant's badge not because she wanted to show it off, but she wanted to be formal when in her captain's presence. Rukia paused in front of Captain Ukitake's door. She took a deep breath before opening it.

"Lieutenant Rukia Kuchiki reporting for duty!" said Rukia bowing respectfully. This made her captain laugh.

"Rukia you're always so formal…relax once in a while…" said Ukitake giving her a warm smile.

"I-I'm sorry captain" said Rukia giving another bow. Ukitake sighed, but he was patient. "You don't need to apologise Rukia."

Rukia blushed a little. Oh man! She screwed up again! Rukia just knew that if Ichigo was here he would have laughed his ass of, and teased her. "That fool" she muttered.

Ukitake blinked. "I'm sorry Rukia, did you say something?" Rukia furiously shook her head. "No sir! Please forget I said anything captain!"

It must have been my imagination, thought Ukitake. "Anyways, the reason that I called you here Rukia is because of a huge reiatsu disturbance down in the human world. The disturbance was so great that one thousand hollows appeared at the location."

Rukia blinked multiple times. "Did you say one thousand hollows sir?" She couldn't believe it.

"Yes, and oddly enough they were all taken care of in less than a minute. All the hollows disappeared before we were even notified of the situation."

Rukia was in deep thought. There was only one person in the human world that could do that. It was him, she thought, but she had to make sure.

"Um, captain, where did this happen? I mean do you have the location?"

Ukitake searched Rukia's eyes, and he sensed anxiety, and excitement. She looked like a kid waiting for their favourite cartoon

"It was in Karakura town…now Rukia, what we need you to do is…" Ukitake couldn't finish his sentence, because a loud, tattooed, red haired man interrupted them.

"Rukia! Did you hear! It's Ichi…" his sentence was muffled by Rukia's hand. Renji easily go it off. "What was that for!"

Rukia was enraged at her childhood friend Renji. "How dare you interrupt my meeting with Captain Ukitake!"

Renji slowly turned around to the grinning white haired man who seemed amused by all of this. "Well hello Renji, haven't seen you in awhile."

Renji bowed. "I'm sorry captain; I didn't know you haven't told her yet."

Ukitake smiled. "It's alright, actually why don't you explain it to her Renji."

Renji bowed again before turning to Rukia. "Well there's a huge reiatsu disturbance in Karakura, we don't know the source of it yet, but it's highly likely that's it that idiot. No doubt he can't control his powers yet. It's up to us to get the situation under control or else the whole town is going to be crawling with hollows."

Rukia nodded. "Even if he can take care of them down there, Karakura town is full of people with significant spirit energy. I doubt our substitute soul reaper can take care of all them. I guess we have no choice"

Rukia raised his eyebrows. "You make it sound as if your only doing this because it's your job…admit it, you're happy that you get to see him after all this time."

Rukia looked away, but Renji could still see the blush on her cheeks. "Idiot, our duties comes first."

Renji, and Ukitake exchanged glances, and sighed. "Whatever you say Rukia."

Back in Karakura town

Ichigo yawned. "I'm beat! I've never been this tired in awhile!"

Uryu smirked. "You were so cool just a moment ago, but now your back to your usual no good, lazy ways…" Ichigo was picking at his ear. "Sorry Uryu did you say something?" said Ichigo not even looking at the Quincy.

Orihime wasn't sure if she should be happy that Uryu, and Ichigo were fighting again just like last year, or if she should be concerned. As she watched Uryu, and Ichigo butting heads, she laughed, and chose to be happy.

"Ichigo…" Chad said in such a low voice that Ichigo almost didn't catch it. "Your still in you're…um whatever that form is…maybe you should change back in case more hollows come."

Ichigo thought about it. "Yeah I guess you're right, good idea Chad." Ichigo said, as he searched around for his body. Wait, did he even get out of his body? Ichigo looked around the dark alley, and panicked when he couldn't find his body. Oh shit, he thought, what if I died and I became a soul reaper forever! Do I have to move to the soul society now?

Uryu saw the panic in Ichigo's face. "What's wrong with you?" he asked without the slightest bit of concern.

Ichigo turned around to face his friends. "I can't find my body."

Uryu raised his eyebrows. He looked around as well, but couldn't find it. "Strange, have you tried your substitute soul reaper badge?" asked Uryu.

Ichigo never thought about it. "No, maybe I should give it a try."

Ichigo looked through his bag that he recklessly dropped on the ground a few moments ago. It was all dirty now. After a few seconds Ichigo finally found it. It's been awhile since Ichigo actually used it so some dust and debris has been collecting on it.

Ichigo looked at his friends before putting the badge close to his hearth. It felt cold, and it sent shivers up his spine. Suddenly, the black reiatsu cloaking him began to ooze into the badge. Ichigo felt it warm up, and it got so hot that he had to drop it. Ichigo yelped as he flapped his hand frantically. After he calmed down, Ichigo noticed that he was back in his school uniform.

Chad picked up the badge. Ichigo winced, thinking that Chad would burn his hand, but surprisingly Chad stayed calm. He tossed it back to Ichigo, and he noticed the burning intensity was gone replaced by welcoming warmth. Great, now he had a portable heater. As he was still admiring the heat emanating off of the badge he noticed a hearth beat coming from…the badge?

Ichigo freaked out. "What the hell? I could have sworn that thing just beat into my hand" yelled Ichigo rather loudly.

"Noisy as ever huh Ichigo?" said a familiar woman's voice.

"Shut up Rukia…" said Ichigo.

"Wow, you're more of an idiot than I thought" said the male beside her.

"Why don't you say that to my face Renji?" Ichigo retorted.

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"Oh my God!" Ichigo exclaimed as his mind finally processed what he just said.

Ichigo turned around, and smiled at the two figures clothed in black kimonos.

"Hey Ichigo…long time no see" said Rukia, who was trying to keep a straight face, but eventually let out a warm smile.

Ichigo's mouth dropped. "Rukia…"

Their eyes caught each other's glances, and stayed like that for awhile.

Eventually Renji cleared his throat making Ichigo and Rukia snap back to reality.

"Hey you orange haired punk, did you miss me?" asked Renji, winking at Ichigo.

"Not a chance in hell you bastard."

Yay! So everyone's reunited again! Thank you guys so much for your feedback with my questions for last time. They really helped, thanks! Now I have another question. Do you guys want an implied Ichigo\Rukia, or a more serious relationship between them? This fic isn't really meant to be a romance, but if enough people want it then I can make it happen.