Well here is chapter 2 I don't know about you all, but I'm really excited about this story. So I'm thinking about pairs for the story and this is how they are going to work out I think. However I am willing to listen to input. 1st Ichigo x Halibel, 2nd Luffy x Nami, 3rd Zoro x Robin, 4th Ulquiorra x Orihime, 5th Rukia Renji of course most everything will be an insinuation when it comes to romance since there are so many couples, but that's not what the story is focused on.

Beyond this point is important material

So with that being said I'm going to add two people to Luffy's crew from his world just so that when they get to Saobody archipelago the numbers will be the same between both the one piece characters and the bleach characters. Thus saying I have already picked Bellamy as one of those to go, However I can't think of a second person so I'm going to have poll on who should end up with the straw hats before they reach Saobody.

So here are your choices

Sarquiss

Princess Vivi

Enel the god wannabe

Paulie from the Water Seven Arc

Fill in with your own OC or your own choice

So let me know who you guys want to see ride with the Straw Hats.

THOUGHT: HE'S MADE OF RUBBER

And on with chapter 2

CHAPTER 2

HERE THERE BE PIRATES

On an island in the Grand Line

"Hey Luffy what the hell do you think you're doing were supposed to be looking for a bird so that we can find our way south to the knock upstream thingy remember said Chopper as he looked to Luffy who was trying to capture a beetle on the ground.

After a few minutes though both noticed that there were tons of bugs all over the place, and that these bugs seemed more or less hostile towards them as they looked for the south bird so that they could get to the knock upstream the next day. The next moment though things got even worse as a large beehive fell down right in front of where they were standing.

"AAAAHHHH they both screamed as they looked started running away from the swarm of angry looking bees that was flying as fast as they could towards Luffy and chopper with major killing intent.

After a while of this happening to the Luffy and Chopper they both gave up and headed back to the clearing where they had both started out from with their companions the other members of Luffy's pirate crew the Straw Hat Pirates.

When they got there they saw that they were the only ones left who had yet to actually show back up. Walking into the clearing Luffy said "Well what happened to you guys did anyone get the bird?"

"No" replied Zoro who had been in a group with Robin.

"No" replied Nami who had been in a group with both Usopp and Zoro.

"Well we have to get one so who wants to go back in there with me?" Luffy asked.

All of a sudden they all heard the sound that had been haunting them the entire time they had been in the forest. Looking up they all saw the very bird they had been trying to catch, and by extension the very bird that had been foiling them in their attempts. Chopper who just happened to be a reindeer that had eaten the hito hito no mi (the human human fruit) and could now turn into a human thx to the powers it gave. Looking back to his companions he said "The bird asked if we found what we were hunting for?"

All of a sudden they all got a surprise when they saw two hands pop out of its side and start to wrap around the animal. In reaction to this event the entire crew turned to their newest crewmate Nico Robin. Smiling she said "All I need to do is see it and I can grab it." This of course was another ability given by the hana hana no mi or the bloom bloom fruit.

As the bird dropped from the tree Luffy smiled and said "Well at least we've got the bird now. Let's head back to the house with the diamond headed man and the monkeys." Just then however a shooting star flew right over the clearing that they were all sitting in at that moment. To add to everyone's amazement though another one went by, and then another, and then another, and even those were followed by more. The shooting stars continued to fly by amazing everyone until in the end 11 had flown by in total. "Wow that was amazing can you all believe this they looked and sounded like they were just barely over the tops of the trees I've never seen shooting stars so big!" Luffy exclaimed in a childlike wonder.

"Actually now that you mention it I really haven't ever heard of shooting stars being heard from space before." Nico Robin replied as she started to look thoughtful at the events that had just taken place. That is until a few seconds later an explosion was heard in the distance.

"AAAHHH THAT CAME FROM THE AROUND THE AREA WHERE THE GOING MERRY WAS DOCKED!" everyone except for Nico Robin yelled at the same time. And with that everyone started running back to where they had docked so that Cricket could start making the adjustments to their ship so that it wouldn't get destroyed by the knock upstream.

When they got there everyone noticed that it looked like whatever those shooting stars had been when they had touched down they had landed with enough force to leave some very deep craters in the ground. However this wasn't the worst part when they showed up they realized that not all of the shooting stars had landed on the ground, in fact only about 7 of them had landed on the ground while the rest had gone crashing through Cricket's house once, The Going Merry once knocking out a portion of the ship, and another two had gone through an all too familiar ship that looked like it had been either coming in to dock or just leaving.

Zoro looked over at Luffy and said "Hey doesn't that ship have the same symbol as those guys who attacked us earlier today Luffy?

"It sure does looks like it's about to sink too. Zoro, Sanji go see if there are any survivors and help them get off." Luffy commanded seeing the devastation around them. "Usopp, Nami, Robin, chopper you guys go take a look around for Cricket, and the monkey guys. We need them if we are going to make it to Sky Island."

With that said Luffy started walking for a tall tree a few yards away, and started climbing it. "Oi Luffy what are you doing?" asked Sanji as he saw Luffy start climbing.

Smiling as he looked their way Luffy said "getting a better grasp of the problem it looks like each one of those things had the power to destroy about ship each they must have been bombs, or lasers or something." As he finished his statement Luffy's eyes started to shine as if they too were going to shoot lasers at those around him. As he got up to the top of the tree though Luffy noticed that the craters looked funny staring at each one of the 7 smoking craters around the clearing Luffy realized that something wasn't right. Jumping down he started to run to the nearest crater to him only to see a figure getting out of the crater slowly as he walked over towards it. "Hey are you ok?" Luffy asked as he kept walking closer to the unknown thing.

"Ya ya I'm ok, but where the hell am I? One moment I was looking for my friends and the next I was flying through what looked like space. Damn my head hurts to!" he said as he stepped out of the smoke giving Luffy a good view of him for the first time.

"Wait" Luffy said "you're from space that's so cool! Space Guy join my crew right now."

"Crew what crew? And who are you anyways? Why the hell would I join your crew I have to go back home anyways we were in the middle of a war when I was shot away I have to get back otherwise Aizen will kill all of my friends." The other guy replied.

All of a sudden out of the fog of the crater next to the one Luffy was currently at walked another person. This one though had half a helmet and two green marks on his cheeks that went down from his eyes to the bottom of his face making it look like he was crying. As he walked up he said "Trash haven't you realized yet that all of your friends are here with you right now, look around us." Sure enough out of all the craters around them figures were getting out and starting to step forward towards where the felt that their friends were. Even out of the water walked four more people.

When they had all gathered together Luffy realized that they were starting to separate a little bit and being who he was Luffy's natural curiosity was starting to get to him, so he finally asked the people "So who are you guys and why did you all fall from the sky?"

One of the characters stepped forward this one was a rather regular looking man in green who as soon as he started to step forward had put a fan up to hide the lower half of his face and replied "I am Kisuke Urahara and my companions are Ichigo Kurosaki, he said pointing to the first one to get out of one of the craters, Renji Abarai he said pointing next to a man with long red hair and several tattoos, Rukia Kuchiki he said pointing to a small woman with black hair and purple eyes who stood next to Renji, Uryu Ishida he said pointing to a young man in glasses, Yasutoro Sado he said pointing to the largest person in the entire group, and Orihime Inoue he said as he finished pointing at a woman with long orange hair. Those beings over there are our enemies the arrancar who we don't know much about."

This seemed to be a bit of a touchy subject for the arrancar as they all seemed to bristle a little bit at his introduction of them. In response to this though the one who had come out second with the long green tear marks stepped up and said as he said "We are the arrancar the enemy of all shinigami he replied my name is Ulquiorra cifer, my friends are Coyote Starrk he said pointing to a man to his left who just looked bored with everything that was happening around him, Tia Halibel he said pointing to the only woman standing in their group, and finally Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez. Now that both of our groups have introduced ourselves I think that it may be time for you to give us your name in response Trash."

"Trash?" Luffy asked "I don't see any trash anywhere around here. Oh well you might want to get your eyes checked next time you go to see a doctor. As for who I am though well that's easy my name is Monkey D. Luffy captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, and the man who will be the next Pirate King."

As he said this everyone around him sweat dropped. Urahara finally said "Excuse me Luffy san, but did you just say that you were going to be the next king of the pirates?"

"Ya aren't pirates bad?" asked Renji as he looked at Luffy his hand unsuspectingly inching closer towards his Zanpakutou at his side.

"No said Luffy as he looked at him, most pirates are but there are some pirates that only fight other pirates and marines that attack them." Replied Luffy as he started looking around as if something was wrong "Hey did you all happen to see anybody as you came over here?" Luffy asked as he looked around "Cause my friend was supposed to be here working on our ship so that we can go to sky island."

"No we didn't." they each said as they too started looking around for the first time since getting to the place they were all at currently.

Finally after not seeing anybody else out amongst the smoke Luffy said "Huh I figured my crew would be back by now. How odd." He thought to himself quietly.

All of a sudden several people all started to run out of the fog towards Luffy who just watched them all carefully. Finally when they all got there and caught their breathes Luffy asked so how did it go find any survivors guys?"

"Actually we did." said Sanji as he dropped a guy at his captain's feet. "Hey isn't that, that Bellamy guy who didn't believe in dreams?" Luffy asked as he looked over at Zoro who had walked up with Sanji.

"Ya that's him alright; we found him on that ship sinking in the harbor. However the weird thing is we didn't find any of his crew when we got there it was just him weird right?" Zoro said.

"It can't be helped then take him to chopper, and tell him to make sure that he doesn't die." Turning back to the Arrancar and shinigami who had just stood there listening to what he had said "You guys have a lot of damage to fix after the small disaster you caused tonight he chuckled."

Their mouths all dropped open and they all sweat dropped except for Ulquiorra and Halibel. Finally Urahara asked Luffy "What are you talking about Luffy san?"

Looking at Urahara Luffy replied well to tell you the truth as you all landed one of you all punched a hole through my ship the Going Merry, another one of you blew a hole through one of my friend's houses, and still two more of you sunk the ship of the man you saw being pulled away by Sanji just a minute ago. To add to this you all are from space and won't have the money to pay for the damages."

As he finished saying this Nami waked up and screamed like a demon at the new people "WHAT YOU ALL DESTROYED OUR SHIP AND YOU DON'T HAVE A WAY TO PAY US BACK WE HAVE TO BE AT THE KNOCK UPSTREAM TOMORROW SO WE CAN GO TO SKY ISLAND ASSHOLES!"

Luffy looked over at Nami smiled and said "I've got a plan on how you can pay us back, if you all are willing to listen to it."

Urahara who just happened to be wilting under Nami's glare at that moment said Luffy san I would love to hear your plan. And if you would hurry up I would be even happier."

Luffy looked at them chuckled and said "Join my crew until we can find you a way home."

"No." said all of the arrancar at the same time without even thinking about it.

They were echoed by almost everyone in the other group as they said "No."

"AAAWWW why not?" Luffy whined as he looked out over the assembled group.

"Actually I think we should do it." said Urahara as he looked at Luffy pleadingly as he was still the one person that Nami seemed to be focusing her hatred on. "Think about it; we all need to get home and if none of you have noticed yet we're not as strong as we were back in Hueco Mundo. In fact if I'm being honest it's like someone left me with all of my abilities, but took away about eighty percent of my power, and I would bet that if we used our abilities they would come out equivalent to how much powers we have. Thus saying I think we should stay with someone who knows more about this world than we do."

"I agree." said Halibel stepping forward for the first time since they had gotten out of their craters. "When you put it that way I believe you may have a point." she said as she looked at Urahara.

This caught Ichigo by surprise since this was the first time he had ever seen Halibel. Looking at her Ichigo made a mental note to talk to her later. Man she's beautiful he thought as he looked at her.

"It doesn't matter if they join your crew or not unless we can get your boat ready for the knock upstream before daybreak." said Montblanc Cricket as he up to the group with several cuts all over his skin.

"What happened to you Diamond Head man?!" said Luffy as he looked at the state that Cricket was in.

"Well to tell you the truth you're talking to what happened to me." he replied as he looked at the people that had gotten out of the craters. "When they started falling from the sky me and the monkey boys all started running for the ocean to get in the water which we viewed as being safer than it was on land. We were right, but at the same time we never made it. One of these guys hit down in the middle of us when we were about twenty feet from the water's edge. It was like someone dropped a cannonball in the middle of us. You are now seeing the effects of the ensuing explosion. Anyways it's no big deal. If we use all of my guys we will be able to get the job done."

"Alright" said Luffy as he looked at everyone around him. "Sanji you stay with these guys see who wants to join the crew and answer their questions as best you can. Everyone else go help Diamond Head mister and the monkey guys go repair the ship and prepare it for the knock upstream."

"Where are you going?" asked Nami as she looked at Luffy leaving with a little concern in her eyes.

"Me I'm going to go check up on that Bellamy guy, he looked like he was hurt pretty bad earlier."

"WHAT!?" screamed Nami as she looked at Luffy who was still walking towards the house where chopper was looking after Bellamy who was the only one who was really hurt. "He's a jerk don't you remember him attacking you and Zoro for believing in sky island yesterday? Why on earth would you be worried about his wellbeing after what he did BAKA?!"

"Because he's strong enough to be in this crew he just needs to find his dreams again." Replied Luffy as he looked back over his shoulder to where Nami was standing; causing her to blush profusely despite the fact that she was just yelling at Luffy a moment ago. "Baka." She replied quietly to where even those around her could barely hear her as she went to do as her captain had commanded her.

As he walked into the house Luffy saw that Chopper was standing over by the table in his human point. "How's he doing?" Luffy asked as he saw Bellamy lying on the bed not moving.

"Well to tell you the truth he's not too badly injured; the only true injuries he's sustained are some fluid in his lungs from where he almost drowned, and a rather large cut running straight down his back where it looks like a large sword cut him at high speed." However overall I think he will recover fairly quickly, probably just a few days for the damage from the near drowning. As for the cut well despite its size it isn't nearly as deep as it looks. It probably just shocked him that he had been cut." Chopper told his captain as he looked on.

"Will he be up soon?" Luffy asked.

"Well as a matter of fact he should be up pretty soon. I'll call you when he's up however for now he needs his rest."

"Ok" said Luffy as he turned to leave. "just remember to call me when he wakes up, oh and he'll probably end up coming with us when we go to sky island do to the fact that we don't know where his crew is. That is if he doesn't wake up before we leave, so we'll prepare the medical bay for the ride to come." With that Luffy closed the door quietly so that he wouldn't wake Bellamy up.

It was about 8 the next morning when the boat was finished and Luffy was preparing his crew so that they could go to Sky Island.

"Alright guys this is it; the start of our next adventure, and let me tell you it should prove to be even more fun than our last one. After all it's not every day that one gets to go to an island floating in the sky. So guys go prepare yourselves for another fun day as part of the Straw Hat Pirates." Luffy said as he stood on the bow of the newly refurbished Going Merry.

As he finished speaking to those members of his crew that were present they all heard Nami say sarcastically "Ya taking down one of the seven warlords of the sea is fun." At this everyone heard a loud gasp and a heard something fall over.

Turning around they all saw Bellamy lying on the ground in the door where he had passed out on hearing what the Straw Hats had done on their last adventure.

"Ok Chopper take him and put him in the medical room. I'm gonna go see how Sanji is doing with the new guys and see how many of them are going to come with us."

"Luffy are you sure this is s-s-s-such a-a-a g-g-good i-i-idea" stuttered Usopp as he stared at the group on the far side of what was once the clearing where they had met Montblanc Cricket.

"Ya I'm sure" said Luffy as he walked over to where the other group was. "Ok have you all made your decisions yet?" Luffy asked as he walked up to the group.

"Well it's come to a bit of a draw on the subject." said the female arrancar named Halibel. "You see we a few of us seem to think the best course of action would be to just wait here and hope that the people we left behind come get us back. While the rest of us think that we should go with you and try to get some strength back along with trying to be active in trying to get back to our world."

"Why should we go with you?" asked the young Shinigami girl with black hair.

"Well for many reasons one being you'll have fun and never get bored, two is because you all have the potential to get stronger and I could use strong people who are fun like you all, three is because you'll eventually find what you're looking for since I plan on visiting everyplace in the world, since my navigator's dream is to make a map of the world, and finally if you go with someone else you'll never get as strong as with us, or even have the fun you would normally have with us since everyone else takes life way to serious." Luffy finished by chuckling.

Urahara stepped up and said "Well that settles it for me I'm going with you guys I have always enjoyed having a good time."

Halibel, Grimmjow, and Starrk all stepped up as he said this and said "We agree to go with you as well for different reasons." Said Halibel for all of them

They were soon followed by Ulquiorra who said I to will go with you since all of my companions have gone with you."

Ichigo walked up next and said "Well I'm with you too because you seem to be a good guy, and I don't think you're the kind of guy that would try to hurt us" and then in a whisper that only his companions could hear "not that I think that you are smart enough to hurt to many of us." There were a few quiet snickers at this, but for the most part that was one of the reasons why most had decided to join Luffy's crew in the first place.

As Ichigo started to walk away everyone who was left stepped up and the girl with the short black hair, who constantly stood next to the red headed man whose name Luffy thought he remembered was Renji, said "Ok well we kinda follow him so if he's with you, then we are with you too."

"YOSH" screamed Luffy as he pumped his fist in the air. "Ok well to tell you the truth we are leaving in just a few minutes and despite the fact that you all don't have much to your names you might want to grab what you have and prepare for some fun times ahead." As he finished this all of the people with Ichigo sweat dropped.

"Geez" said Ichigo as he started to walk towards the ship "just how childish is this new captain of ours?"

As Luffy got on the ship he heard a voice from behind calling his name. Turning around Luffy saw the Cricket walking up to them. Smiling he said "Diamond head mister what's up?"

"I just came to tell you to keep living your dreams no matter what happens, and just remember not to let anyone give you crap about it." said cricket as he looked at Luffy and his crew as they started to sail off with the monkey guys. "And realize that I'm rooting for you and your crew mates ok kid."

"Ok mister, we'll show you Sky Island exists, WE'LL PROVE IT'S EXISTANCE TO THE WHOLE WORLD!" Luffy finished his statement in a shout that everyone nearby could hear. His yell brought a smile to the old man's face as he looked up to where Luffy stood on the Going Merry smiling, and he whispered "Go get'em kid the world is yours for the taking."

As they sailed away though Ichigo walked up to Luffy and looking right into his face said "Captain Luffy sir I don't mean to sound rude or anything but did I hear you straight when I heard you say that you were going to prove that Sky Island existed?"

"Ya I said that." Luffy replied as he looked at Ichigo with a questioning look on his face. "Why do you ask?"

"Yes Ichigo I do believe an explanation is in place I'm pretty sure that what Luffy said was pretty obvious." said Urahara as he looked over to where Ichigo stood looking at Luffy in what could be explained as mild irritation, and just a little bit of fear.

"I bring this up because wouldn't that mean that this place may not exist at all in the first place." Ichigo replied not even turning to face Urahara or the gathering crowd that was now walking just a few feet behind them all to see what was happening.

"It's too late to turn back now Shinigami san" replied a cool voice from the deck above them, causing everyone to turn and look up to see who was talking to them. "When Captain san has made up his mind it's made up just ask anyone on this ship, it's weird, but it's like he gets whatever he wants. Which is my way of saying that even if you want to turn around now it's far too late since captain san wants to go see if it exists."

Ichigo turned back to Luffy and asked "Is what she said true you go about doing whatever you want even if it might hurt your friends?" the whole time he was asking this his hand was drawing his cleaver like sword from his back.

Oblivious to what might be about to happen to him Luffy said "Well I suppose that might be a way of describing what I do as the captain." As he finished Ichigo yelled and charged at Luffy who was more or less shocked at his reaction.

"Why would you do that to your friends?" Ichigo almost yelled as he charged straight at Luffy the question that was now on the minds of all of Ichigo's companions. Before Ichigo could strike Luffy down though Zoro appeared in front of him holding one of his swords above him blocking his downward stroke that would have cut Luffy in half from top to bottom.

"You never attack the captain, and just so you know despite the fact that Luffy seems to get us all in trouble the majority of the time he has never cost us anything before. In fact he has saved us all on more than one occasion when we have gotten ourselves into problems of our own. For the most part that's why most of us are on this ship sailing with him rather than dead. Me for example I was set to be executed for going against a marine's son by killing his pet wolf when it attacked a little girl. If Luffy had not shown up I would have been killed without knowing that I was going to die. Nami there" Zoro said pointing to the Navigator who was steering the ship, but at the same time listening to the events unfold before her. "her entire island was being held by pirates and forced to pay just for their lives, and Nami because of her skill in drawing maps was personally forced into the crew as a navigator. When Luffy showed up he took down the entire pirate crew almost single handedly. When Usopp's town was attacked by pirates Luffy had us help him keep the village safe despite the fact that we ourselves were pirates and could have just left well enough alone. And Sanji over there" Zoro said pointing out yet another one of his crew mates "he group on a restaurant ship and when it was attacked by one of the meanest pirates around he helped Sanji and the owner fight off a crew of one hundred pirates just so that they could keep their dingy little restaurant."

In the background Sanji screamed "DINGY LITTLE RESTAURANT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU CRAPPY MARIMO!?"

"SHUT UP STUPID COOK I'M NOT DONE HERE!" as he finished saying this Ichigo pulled his sword back and put it back on his back, and Zoro continued. "These are only of few of the stories that we have where Luffy has saved our lives and those are only some of the ones where he didn't cause a thing to happen it was mostly on us. I trust his judgment and so should you now that you're one of our nakama." Zoro finished.

Looking a little sheepish at his actions Ichigo turned towards where Luffy was standing facing out to sea "Sorry Luffy I guess I spoke out of turn" he said with a deep blush starting to creep onto his face. When Luffy didn't acknowledge his presence he continued on by saying "I'm also sorry for attacking you." Of course in classic Luffy fashion this was when everyone on the crew heard his snore and saw the snot bubble coming out of his nose. Urahara who had been watching the events open and close from behind his fan said "Well it seems our young captain was right when he said that things would never be boring on this ship." And with that he chuckled quietly to himself as he turned and walked away while several others continued to just stand and stare in awe at the fact that their new captain had fallen asleep in front of a charging Ichigo who was sweat dropping like crazy at the fact that he had apologized in front of all of his friends to a sleeping young man.

A little while later Luffy was seen messing with the bird from the night before which Ichigo and his friends had come to learn was called a south bird due to the fact that no matter what it always pointed south. When they had asked why they were following the directions of a bird. Nami had told them that they were on a sea called the Grand Line, and that in this particular sea compasses didn't work so they had to follow these things called log pose because they could follow the different magnetic fields between each island. And currently they were headed for a location that wasn't pointed out by their log pose. Luckily for them the place they were going was south. Thus they were using the south bird for navigation.

Everything seemed to be going good for everyone when there was a slight jolt in the boat looking out to where the monkey's ships were on both sides of their own ship Luffy said "Hey monkey guys what's going on?"

"Well to tell you the truth it probably means we're getting close." Replied Masira as he looked forward to see what was happening in front of where they were headed.

All of a sudden one of the men from Masira's screamed out for everyone to hear "DARK MASS ON THE HORIZON IT'S THE MILLINIUM-CUMULONIMBUS CLOUD."

"What time is it?" asked Masira as he walked up to the man who had called out. "Its only about 9:50 its far earlier than we originally thought" he replied.

When the lookout said this Shoujo turned to his men and said "everyone hurry get into position, GORILLA SCUBADIVERS GET INTO THE WATER NOW HE YELLED!"

As they all got into position Shoujo started wailing into his microphone just enough to cause everyone on the Straw Hats ship to realize that this was it, it was finally time for them to go to Sky Island. Some of the Straw Hats smiled at this while still others started to get even more nervous amongst those that got more nervous was Orihime who was just kind of quietly dealing with her anxiety without drawing to much attention to herself. However as fate would have it Ulquiorra her former jail keeper looked over just in time to see the worried expression on her face and walked over, and in his always neutral voice said "You do not need to be afraid if this attempt fails I will not let you die."

With that he turned to walk away only to stop when he heard Orihime ask "Why? Why would you choose to save me when there are so many people who are so much more useful than me?"

Without even looking over his shoulder Ulquiorra said "Because you are worth more than you think." And in a quieter voice than almost anyone else heard he whispered "Especially to me." However, what he hadn't realized was that Ichigo and Halibel were both standing closer than he had thought and both had heard what he had said. However, neither had the time to say anything either to each other or to Ulquiorra.

All of a sudden one of the divers jumped out of the water and yelled "10 o'clock huge waves found most likely a huge whirlpool."

Masira who had been listening jumped to the railing of his ship and yelled "THAT'S IT EVERYONE TURN YOUR SHIPS TO 10 O'CLOCK THE WHIRLPOOL IS THE SIGN FOR THE EXLOSION!"

As he yelled this out Halibel started to feel a little sick looking back the way they had come and for the first time "crap I hate whirlpools if I had known that this was how you knew where this knock upstream thing was then I would have said hell no to this entire journey. Unfortunately what she didn't realize was that she had shown some fear when she wasn't paying attention and Ichigo had noticed and decided to comfort her and possibly make a friend in the process. "Hey are you ok there?" he asked as he got close enough that no one else would hear what was said.

Realizing that he was saving her face by keeping this whole thing quiet she decided to not make a scene like, and said "No actually I'm so afraid of whirlpools that I can barely move right now she said. You know it's funny because I'm equated to a shark amongst the espada and yet I'm so afraid of this that the other espada would laugh at me just hearing those words come out of my mouth. Of course it probably makes you want to laugh to right?" she asked less because she wanted to know and more because she was sure that she had hit the nail on the head.

"No I'm not actually" he replied, causing her to look over at him in confusion. "You might find this funny but I believe that it makes more sense for you to be afraid of a whirlpool if you are equated to a shark, since a whirlpool is one of the few things that nothing in the sea can stand up to." Ichigo finished as he saw her eyes grow just a little softer as he finished his statement.

"Thanks" she said as she turned to walk away already feeling safer just from having talked to him.

"Halibel" Ichigo said as she walked away "don't worry if anything happens before this is over I'll help you out." Having said his piece to her he too turned and walked away.

As the ship got close to the whirlpool everyone started to get nervous and Nami shouted out "ALRIGHT NOW WHAT DO WE DO?"

In response the ships that were on both sides of the Going Merry just stopped at the edge of the whirlpool and Masira shouted across to her "KEEP HEADING INTO THE HEART OF THE WHIRLPOOL THAT'S WHERE THE KNOCK UPSTREAM WILL TAKE PLACE, AND REMEMBER WE'RE COUNTING ON YOU GUYS TO PROVE THAT THE MONTBLANCS ARE NOT LIARS."

Thus the Straw Hat Pirates were left on their own; and of course the worst possible thing happened at that moment. Bellamy finally woke up walking outside he looked around and said "What the hell is going on?"

Luffy jumped down in front of him and said simply "We're going to Sky Island, and you who we found just lying off of the cost are coming with us. Especially since there is no way to get you back to the others now."

"You're still going on about that whole Sky Island crap are you an idiot? You're going to get us killed you idiot!" Bellamy said.

"No I'm not besides you need to be taking it easy when these guys landed last night you were wounded quite badly."

This statement caught Orihime's attention and she said "Let me see the wound I can take care of it."

Both of the captains looked over to where Orihime stood and said together in shock "you can?"

Under both of their gazes Orihime started to wilt as she said "Well yes I'm actually q very good healer."

Luffy just jumped up and screamed "YOSH THAT'S SO COOL SHOW ME SHOW ME!" and as he finished he threw Bellamy onto the ground with enough force that Bellamy could do nothing, but show his surprise.

"You had that much strength in you and yet you wouldn't fight me or my men yesterday. Why not?"

Looking at him Luffy just smiled as he said "Oh that's simple I would have regretted beating you up when you don't even have a dream to live for." as he finished saying this both of them were caught off guard by an orange light closing over Bellamy's still form.

Luffy was about to say something about this when everyone noticed that the water around them had grown completely calm despite the fact that a moment ago it had been sending them in circles. "What happened?" asked Luffy as he looked around.

Nami was about to answer when a shout was heard and cut her off STRAW HAT LUFFY I'VE FINALLY CAUGHT UP TO YOU! I'VECOME TO TAKE YOUR HEAD SINCE IT'S WORTH 1OO MILLION BELI!" yelled Blackbeard as his ship sailed closer to Luffy's own.

A HUNDRED MILLION BELI WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT I ONLY HAVE A BOUNTY FOR A THIRTY MILLION BELI.

Back on his boat Blackbeard thought out loud to himself so you didn't know that you had a hundred million beli.

Then he held up two bounty posters and shouted "YA YOU HAVE a HUNDRED MILLION BELI ON YOUR HEAD AND PIRATE HUNTER RORONOAH ZORO HAS a BOUNTY OF 60 MILLION BELI."

Back on the Straw Hat's ship Usopp was looking through a pair of binoculars and said "It's true Luffy has a hundred million beli on his head and Zoro has sixty million beli on his head."

Walking over to and putting his hand around Usopp's shoulders Sanji said "Hey I have a bounty to right?"

Looking back over to see if Sanji had a bounty he said "No."

"Look again." said Sanji as he started to hold Usopp just a little tighter than necessary.

"Still nothing." said Usopp as he looked again just so Sanji would leave him alone.

In the background Luffy was jumping for joy at the news as Zoro just stood there and said "I'm not satisfied with that."

Bellamy simply stuttered out "B-b-both of you have higher bounties than I do. How did this happen?"

"Well" said Robin as she walked up to him as Orihime finished and walked away, "it was bound to happen when Luffy beat crocodile one of the Seven Warlords of the seas."

Behind all of this Ichigo and his companions just stood dumbfounded at the news until Ichigo ran up to Luffy and said how do you have a bounty worth millions?"

Luffy just smiled as he replied "Don't know."

Turning to Nami who was standing close by looking really happy for Luffy Ichigo said "How the hell did he get that high of a bounty being as goofy as he is?"

Looking at Ichigo in annoyance Nami was about to reply when everyone heard a rumble and saw the water levels start to rise. Instead of talking to Ichigo, Nami turned instead to everybody and yelled out "Hurry everyone grab onto something sturdy." For the most part everyone did just that, everyone that is except for Bellamy who was just sitting there in shock at the news that Luffy had a higher bounty than him.

All of a sudden the knock upstream really took off and blew the entire ship towards the sky. Blackbeard's ship on the other hand had not been prepared for the knock upstream and was blown to pieces instead of being launched into the air like the Going Merry."

As for the Straw Hats most were now holding onto anything they could just to keep from falling to their deaths however there were a few who had not been able to grab onto anything for one reason or another. The first of this group was Bellamy who had just sat there until the ship launched up into the sky and by the all he could do was watch as the entire length of the ship went flying by. Without realizing it Bellamy started shedding tears as he passed by Luffy who saw what had happened and immediately he jumped off of mast which he had been holding onto. Everyone started yelling after Luffy different things for the most part Nami Screaming for Luffy to come back, Zoro screaming for Luffy to stop being an idiot, and almost all of the new guys screaming for Luffy to grab onto something.

However they all realized it was too late as Luffy had just passed by the last part of the ship. That is until both Luffy and Bellamy shot back over to the mast of the ship when Luffy threw his hand back and wrapped it around said mast. They proceeded to hold onto the mast for dear life at that moment. Bellamy no longer crying simply looked at Luffy in wonder and asked "I'm your enemy why would you save me?"

Smiling Luffy said you can be a good guy you show all of the potential to be something great you just need to find your dreams again. Besides you're on my ship that makes you my nakama. At least for the until you decide to leave that is."

As the whole thing started Orihime had been trying to hold onto a section of the stair's railing so that she wouldn't fall, but do to her weak constitution as soon as the ship started to go vertical she started to lose her grip, and fall. That is until a strong hand wrapped around her and the railing holding her in place. Looking over her shoulder she saw that Ulquiorra was there holding her up smiling meekly she whispered so that only he heard "Thank you Ulquiorra kun." On hearing this Ulquiorra was so shocked that he to almost let go, realizing what was about to happen he immediately grabbed on tighter feeling his heart beat quicken a bit. He decided he would have the little raccoon doctor take a look at him when they reached their destination.

Not too long after that happened Nami said "We're starting to fall away from the knock upstream everyone. We need to unfurl the sails immediately so that we can use the wind to make this go faster." As she finished speaking everyone who could immediately started to go about doing as she had told them to.

As all of this was happening though Halibel had been doing the one thing you don't do when that high up, and one thing that she had never done before in her life. She looked down and had seen that they were literally riding a giant pillar of water into the sky. This brought on the one thing she had never happened before to her in her entire time she lost her grip and her consciousness and fell Ichigo seeing Halibel start to fall had done the only thing he could he had reached out and grabbed her as she passed by. This in turn caused him to lose his grip on the railing of the upper deck he had been holding onto and he to slipped and fell until he caught the railing with the toes of both his feet.

They stayed like that until Halibel woke up right before they entered the Sky Island Sea of clouds. At which point as they righted Ichigo had found he was just staring into Halibel's sea green eyes and without realizing what he said belted out "Wow your eyes are so beautiful. I think I might get lost in them." then Ichigo realized what he had said and his mouth fell open as Halibel simply lay there thinking how glad she was that her collar covered her face as her blush spread under her mask fragment.

Looking away quickly she said "Thank you for the compliment Kurosaki san, you saved my life and for that I thank you as well." Not knowing what else to do both Ichigo and Halibel started to head back to the rest of the crew.

When they got there they realized that everyone was celebrating, even Bellamy who had thought that Sky Island was nothing more than a story told to dreamers who had nothing more to do with their life other than dream, was happy to be there and wasn't holding back in the celebrations. All of a sudden Luffy stretched his arm up to the top of the ship grabbing every ones attention as he whipped himself to the bird's nest. Most of the new crewmen all stared at him and thought quietly to themselves how did he stretch his body like that? However, they were starting to accept the eccentricities of their new captain and believed it to have something to do with this new world they were in.

As he stood in front of the entire crew Luffy gave his incredibly large smile and Yelled "YOSH WE MADE IT TO SKY ISLAND!" causing everyone to cheer at their good fortune.

Back in Hueco Mundo

Down in his palace Aizen had summoned all of his remaining soldiers to him unfortunately for him that included Barragon, Yammy, and several low level arrancar along with Gin and Tousen since do to the fighting done that day most of his men had died it seemed. Well guys it seems that despite everything we have fought so hard for we won't have enough men to fight the soul reapers today unfortunately as many of you all probably felt four of our espada disappeared today while fighting a berserk Ichigo Kurosaki who had lost control of his powers. The weirdest part of this however is not that they disappeared, but that Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends all disappeared as well. This means that there may be a new enemy that we have not heard of before. We will need to recover our strength before we can continue on with our plan to beat the soul society.

"We will also need to find our missing companions if they are not already dead." continued Aizen as he looked out at the assembled arrancar.

Back in the Soul society

In the first division's barracks a captains meeting had been called. "So there you all have it." said the captain commander as he looked out at the assembled crowd "Many of the enemy's strongest players have all disappeared along with Ichigo Kurosaki, his friends, and sadly Urahara Kisuke. We will continue our war against Aizen and his forces however at the same time we would like for the twelfth division to look for an answer as to where all of our missing allies have gone."

"Now you are all dismissed!" said the captain commander.

As the last Captain left the old man said "You can come out now."

In response out of the shadows stepped three people he had not expected; Isshin Kurosaki, Yoruichi Shihoin, and Shinji Hirako. "Looking at them he said "What is it you all want?"

"We came to tell you that we to want to take place in finding all those that have been lost, and we will not take no for an answer." said Isshin as he looked the captain commander in the eye.

"Very Well former Captain Kurosaki, we will call you when we come up with something. In the meantime all you can do is help us keep Aizen in check by defend Karakura town." The captain commander replied as he looked out over the assembled people.

"We'll do it, but you had better not slack on this one sir." Isshin shot back just so the captain commander new that they weren't like Aizen they would make him pay if he didn't keep his word to them.

Alright here it is Chapter two I won't lie it wasn't as fun as chapter one, but that's only because I didn't have any action it was all simply the characters getting to know each other. I'm afraid that the next chapter will mostly be over the development of couples since I have so many of them and it's still quite away before we get to any major fighting.

Like I said at the beginning I really need to know who should be the final 11 character for the one piece side of this crew so if you all would shoot me a review or a pm on who it should be I would greatly appreciate it. So I guess that's all for now though.