Okay I have a few chapters back. In my opinion this is not my best work but that's mainly because I couldn't be assed to write out every single scene from the manga exactly as they are in detail. So I included the important bits and I'm going t0 let your minds fill in the rest of it. Hey im a lazy git, so sue me. And you'll probably get sick of all the scene shifts quickly.

Disclaimer: I don't own squat. Still.

Naruto cackled as he watched the results of his latest prank. He did smaller pranks in between his bigger ones just to keep things lively. Of course he made sure to put his usual insignia in the form of a sticker just above the targets door. Today's prank was a simple but effective one, which involved a trip wire and a paddling pool of blue paint. The night before he'd hidden out in the house of a family who were watching Smurfs. Ahh the perks of being invisible. Free movies, free peep shows, pretty much free everything. Except Ramen. He refused to steal Ramen. That would just piss of the gods. Anyway the Smurf film had given some major inspiration, and as expected the unsuspecting home owner tripped over the wire the second he stepped from his house and landed in a paddling pool of blue paint. Naruto cackled away merrily at the sight of the sputtering owner who was floundering around in the paint having momentarily forgotten he could stand up, until Naruto stopped suddenly. His body went rigged like a corpse, his eyes widened and his pupils dilated. A shiver started at his ankles and started working its way up the rest of him until even the individual strands of his hair were shivering. He didn't even notice the loud roars and cries of hollows that were suddenly pouring into Karakura town. The only thing he could fathom was the smell. A smell so strong it hit his senses like a bulldozer, and all of a sudden he found his mouth watering. Without a word he dropped from the tree and shot of down the road, following his nose towards the smell.

"DAMNT!" yelled Ichigo as he cut through yet another hollow. "I'm going to kick that Bastard Uryu's ass!"

He didn't have time to continue his monologue though as he had to dodge a swipe from a hollow that had snuck up behind him before spinning around and swiping his oversized Zanpaktou through the Hollows mask.

"Karin should be getting out of school right now. I can't let her get caught up in all this."

He let out a war cry as he charged another hollow, fully aware of another five who had appeared on the roof tops around him.

"BOOM!"

The sound of the impact of Chad's fist connecting with the Hollow could actually be heard by the living five blocks away as the monster was sent flying backwards crashing to the ground in a cloud of Dust. Chad stood with his now armoured fist stretched out before him.

"Urn, hey big guy," called Ichigo's little sister Karin from behind him. "What happened to your arm?"

He was prevented from answering though when a large guttural roar interrupted him, causing both Chad and Karin to look over at the Hollow that Chad had just nailed. It was getting up, albeit with a missing arm.

"It's still not.." muttered Karin in disbelief. The Hollow started to charge at them, its large powerful legs letting it move with a speed you wouldn't suspect considering his size. Chad gave a grunt and started charging as well. But he never got past starting.

"Get the hell out the way!" came a voice to the right of them. This caused all three of them, Hollow included to look to their right, just in time to see a boy with a blond mop of hair and wearing a brown cloak to come charging down at them with the Hollow directly in his path.

"MOVE!"

The boy gave no other warning before leaping into the air and rocketing at the hollow with his foot extended out in front of him. He didn't even slow down when he made contact with the Hollow, the Hollow's head exploding into a shower of blood as the blond ploughed through. He landed on his feet and shot of again, leaving a dissolving hollow in his wake.

"Was that… was that Naruto?" asked Karin in disbelief.

Chad just shrugged.

Ishida was starting to get worried. There were two reasons for this. The first was that he was starting to run on empty. His fingers were starting to bleed, and some of the hollows were starting to take multiple arrows to take them down. He'd almost failed to save three people. The second reason was the ridiculously strong Hollow that he could feel running around seemingly randomly. But it was going in his general direction.

"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea," he muttered to himself as he let of another arrow, watching it pierce the mask of a rhino shaped hollow but failing to kill it.

Orihime was unnaturally calm about seeing the six fairies dancing around in front of her. But hey she'd seen stranger things. In her head mostly but still. Plus there was a huge Octopus squid thingy staring her down? However she decided that these fairies needed some kind of direction.

"Fairies, flying fairies are talking to me," she cried, throwing her arms up in some weird manner.

One of the fairies seemed to approve of this.

"Hmmph, nice reaction, very nice." She said approvingly. "But you're wrong, we're not fairies."

'Yes you are,' thought Orihime.

"We are the power of your soul. Awakened by something you responded too. We are-"

Clap!

"Hey!" screamed the fairy, trapped between Orihime's clapped hands. "Just because you didn't get the explanation doesn't mean you have to capture me. No one can see us anyway."

Orihime paused for a moment.

"Really?" she asked in a disappointed tone.

"Really!" The fairy shouted back. "What were you planning on taking us to show and tell?"

Then the fairy seemed to pause and think back on her previous statement.

"Although a few people like Ichigo Kurosaki might be able to see us."

"Ichigo? Why?"

"You know why," answered the Fairy mysteriously. "Because we were born because of him."

"Huh?"

Any more of the conversation was interrupted by a different fairy dressed in a black jumpsuit and white scarf covering the lower half of her face.

"There's no time for introductions," he yelled. "All you really need to know woman, is how to use us."

'He's small, but bossy.' Thought Orihime.

Now the other fairies decided to but in.

"Our job is to shield and reject!" they shouted. "And to activate us you need to use your heart and kotodama, or spirit chant!"

Of course this just served to further confuse Orihime.

Meanwhile the Hollow was preparing to strike. It was just about to launch its attack when a voice made itself known.

"Move it, move it, move it, move it, MOVE IT!"

This attracting the attention of everyone present when they turned to saw a Blond boy in a brown cloak hurtling towards them. Apparently the hollow was in his way and he was not willing to divert his course. Proven when rather than going around the hollow he spun when he reached her and landed a round house kick straight to its mask, destroying it and sending the hollow flying. It had already half disintegrated before crashing into a building. The blond meanwhile didn't even slow down.

Orihime and her fairies just watched as the boy continued running eventually disappearing from sight.

"Well okay then," said the black clad fairy, his shoulders slumping. The original fairy came back over to Orihime.

"How about we just teach you how to heal Tatsuki for now? She asked.

"Really, yay!"

"Damnit, there are too many hollows. My strength is beginning to fade," muttered Ishida under his breath. Plus that really strong signature was getting closer and closer.

He began moving, seeking out more hollows and ignoring the pain in his fingers. He eventually came upon Rukia failing to destroy a Hollow with her Kido. He gave deep breath before prepping his bow again and firing a volley of arrows into the hollow. Rukia turned around to face him, while he lowered his bow.

"I suppose I should say, nice to meet you. This is the first time we've spoken one on one, Rukia Kuchiki."

Ichigo was not expecting to find Uryu with Rukia and Kon but hey it saved him some time.

"I finally found you, Uryu," said Ichigo, attracting everyone's attention. "I'd love to mike you cry right now, but first I got to pulverise this guy."

Ichigo reached out, and grabbed hold of Kon.

"KON WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!" Ichigo roared, his head seeming to grow three sizes as he yelled.

"What are you getting mad at me for, save me for after you beat up him," Kon yelled back, pointing to a flabbergasted Ishida.

"SHUT UP, I HAD TO RUN ALL OVER TOWN BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T BRING RUKIA'S THINGAMAJIG!"

"YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY! RUNNINGS A GREAT WAY TO RELIEVE STRESS!"

"I DON'T HAVE ANY STRESS!"

"THEN WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS FROWING!"

"DIDN'T YOU DEDICATE YOUR MIND, BODY AND SOUL TO RUKIA! YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIND HER EASY IN THAT CASE RIGHT!"

"I DID! I COULD FIND HER JUST BY HER SMELL!"

"HEY!," cried Rukia "I DO NOT SMELL!"

"That's enough, I am your enemy, this is no time for bickering," said Ishida.

"I never said it was a bad smell. It's a heavenly smell, see?" sniff sniff.

"FOOL, STOP! Hey, stop or I'll…"

THWACK

"AH MY NOSE, I THINK SHE BROKE MY NOSE!"

"HEY RUKIA THAT'S MY BODY, THINK BEFORE YOU PUNCH!"

"Um," said Ishida, trying to get attention.

"DON' YELL AT HER ICHIGO, IT'S MY FAULT! IF YOU WANNA HIT SOMEON HIT ME!"

THWACK.

"SHEESH, I DIDN'T MEAN IT!"

"THEN YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID IT!"

"THAT'S ENOUGH ICHIGO KUROSAKI, I AM YOUR OPPONENT!" roared Ishida before firing off an arrow.

But Ichigo blocked it with ease.

'He's fast,' thought Ishida.

"You're right, this is between you and me," answered Ichigo. "So stop with the contest. You and me, let's go right here!"

Crack

Ishida stiffened as Ichigo continued to yell at him. Rukia and Kon though noticed the same thing Ishida did. There was a giant crack in the sky. And the hollows were heading right for it.

[Time Skip]

Things had gone downhill. Rukia had told Ichigo about the Quincies but it turns out Ishida was more upset about the death of his grandfather.

Ichigo had then solved Ishida's problem using the only method that had been proved to work for any problem. By punching it. It was after that though that the problems started. Or rather the problem, singular. But this problem just happened to be the size of a sky scraper. The problems name was Menos Grande.

Rukia was in shock as she saw the giant creature lumbering through the crack in the sky, and a feeling of hopelessness began to settle in the pit of her stomach.

"How are we supposed to fight that," whispered Ishida, as a bead of sweat worked its way down his face.

"Hee hee."

Ishida heard Ichigo's laughter and turned to face him.

"What's so funny?"

"It's pointless to think about how to fight that thing." Answered Ichigo to Ishida's confusion. "To beat that guy… WE JUST HAVE TO CUT, CUT AND CUT SOME MORE! COME ON URYU!"

And without another word Ichigo sped over, leaving a completely dumbstruck Ishida behind.

Ichigo managed to nick it's ankle before he was toe bunted away.

"Are you alright Ichigo," asked Ishida, uncertain if he should feel concern for his rival or not.

"Well what do you know I'm actually not dead," answered Ichigo as he stood up and suted himself off, completely oblivious to the blood leaking from his skull.

"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING, HOW DID YOU EXPECT TO BEAT IT LIKE THAT!" Yelled Ishida when he figured out that Ichigo was… more or less fine.

"Well I figured if I started cutting at his feet I'd eventually get to his head," answered Ichigo,

"Were you dropped on your head as a child? Get up we need a new plan," barked out Ishida as he grabbed onto Ichigo's sword. He was not expecting his bow to triple in size the second he grabbed the thing though.

This eventually led to Rukia trying to hold in her sniggers of laughter as Ichigo had his sword tied to Ishida's head in order to supercharge his bow.

"This is stupid," remarked Ichigo.

"Hey I'm not happy that I have to team up with a shinigami either."

While they were distracted arguing, and separating their weapons so they could argue, the Menos began to charge something in its started of small but soon red flecks of energy began to gravitate towards it mouth, forming a dark crimson orb. Rukia noticed this and her eyes widened in fear.

"A cero…" she said in disbelief. "You two, move it!"

Now noticing the attack Ishida began to instruct Ichigo to put the sword back, not noticing the orange haired shinigami had already run off. The Menos discharged the Cero and Ichigo brought up his blade. The beam hit the blade but Ichigo didn't budge. This continued for a while, Ichigo not budging an inch as the beam continued hammering away at him with extreme force. Ishida could barely believe what he was seeing.

"If Ichigo's energy is always on full," he thought, thinking back to their earlier argument and Ichigo's revalation that he never controls his spirit energy, "then if he were to ever block it off, then the energy would build up. And if he were to release that energy…"

Ichigo gave a roar before swinging his blasé upwards. The result was instantaneous. He cut straight through the beam, reducing it to particles of energy before continuing on and cutting straight into the giant from its hip to its shoulder. The cut didn't go straight through but it was pretty deep, and black blood began spraying from the wound, drenching the area directly in front of them.

"Oh, gross," muttered Ichigo, trying to wipe of the blood.

The creature gave a loud groan that rattled the surrounding rooftops and gained the attention of everyone present. It began moving backwards into the giant portal it had opened in the sky. Ishida couldn't believe it. The menos was running away.

But then he remembered something else. Another hollow signature in the area. The one that had been running around earlier. It was here.

"BACK THE FUCK AWAY FROM MY RAMEN DATTEBYO!"

While Ishida, Ichigo and Rukia were left reeling from the loud statement that was just made, a blond in brown rags suddenly appeared out of nowhere, at face level with the Menos. He brought his hand back and a blue orb spiralled into existence in his palm. He slammed the orb forwards into the Menos just below his mask, the orb burying itself deep into the creature. There was a second where nothing happened but then…

The Menos let out a roar as a large crater appeared on the monster from the point of impact, groove marks appearing in a spiral formation inside the crater. The bottom half of the Menos mask disintegrated inside of the crater and the giant Menos, after giving one last roar of pain began to fall backwards through the hole in the sky and out of sight. Whether it survived the attack or not nobody knew.

The blond seemed to be propelled backwards after he launched his attack, and landed in front of the group. Naruto, for that's who the blond obviously was turned to face them all with a large grin plastered on his face, before it suddenly turned into one full of determination as he pointed an accusing finger at Ishida.

"You, where's my Ramen!"

Ishida let he jaw drop. This was… a hollow right? It felt like a hollow but…

"Don't try to hide it from me I can smell it. Hell I can feel it, like the air has been saturate with the most heavenly smelling Ramen I have ever felt slash smelt."

Ishida of course had no clue what Naruto was talking about, but Rukia had come up with a theory.

"Is he talking about the hollow bait?" she whispered to herself, just loud enough for the other two to hear.

"Hollow bait does not smell like Ramen," Ishida said, pushing his glasses further up his nose.

"Not to a normal hollow, but you never know with this guy," answered Rukia. "He seems to mention Ramen each time we bump into him. If Hollow bait feels and smells different for each Hollow depending on their own preferred taste then it may actually smell like Ramen to him."

Ishida frowned.

"Hollow's don't eat Ramen," he said.

"This one does," countered Ichigo. "My sister buys it for him sometimes. Which reminds me this guy owes my sister like, a bucketful of yen. Karin said he eats like thirty bowls a sitting."

"Hey look," said Naruto impatiently from where was standing, arms crossed and tapping his foot of the floor. "I can hear you guys talking and all, but I ain't seeing no Ramen. So how about you bring it out, or I beat it out of you."

Ichigo stepped forward. "Let me deal with this. Karin said you have to be sensitive with him when it comes to Ramen."

He stepped closer to Naruto, who had stopped tapping his foot and was waiting patiently to hear what Ichigo had to say.

"Hey shithead. We ain't got no Raman. And you ain't getting any till you pay my little sister back for every single bowel she brought you. Which according to her numbers in the hundreds."

Rukia and Ishida were slack jawed. This was what he considered sensitive?

Suddenly they all heard a grinding noise. It took them a moment to realise it was coming from Naruto. He was grinding his teeth together.

"No ramen…" he muttered, his hair shadowing his eyes. "You're telling me there's no- ramen."

Ichigo took a step back. He could feel Naruto's killing intent rising. Maybe he hadn't handled that properly.

"DON'T LIE TO ME DATTEBYO! I CAN SMELL IT!"

Ichigo didn't even have enough time to blink before Naruto's fist slammed into his face. Ichigo had just enough time to realize that this was the first time that Natuo had used his hands in a fight before his head smashed into the ground.

"Ichigo," Rukia called out. She'd seen him hit the ground and she knew he'd be feeling that for a while. Ishida had a far more practical response, readying his bow and docking an arrow. He never got a chance to fire it though since Naruto's fist was suddenly buried in his stomach.

"You," hissed Naruto, his eyes practically trying to glare Ishida to death. You're the one with the ramen."

Ishida's only response was to cough up some blood.

"Bakudo number four, Hainawa!" Rukia yelled, calling up yellow ropes to try and bind Naruto. But he moved and she ended up binding Ishida instead, who stumbled and fell down to the ground. She heard the crack as his glasses broke. She also felt a tug as Naruto appeared behind her, grabbing her by her collar and throwing her over to Ichigo who caught her.

"What's going on," he asked her as he set her down on her feet. "He's not normally this violent."

"I think it's the hollow bait," answered Rukia warily as she watched Naruto go back to tormenting Ishida. "It's making him act strange."

A white blur shot passed her, which turned out to be Ishida. Naruto had frown him like a missle straight at Ichigo, taking him down. Ichigo growled as he got up, hoisting Ishida to his feet aswell.

"Damnit Ishida, you've doomed us all!"

Ishida didn't respond. He was too busy jumping out the way as Naruto rammed into Ichigo.

"Give me my Ramen!" he roared like a madman. He grabbed Ichigo's head and smashed him into the ground. Then he pulled Ichigo back by his collar and pulled his fist back.

'Damnit he's too strong,' thought Ichigo, as he watched Naruto rear back a fist. It was glowing with an eerie red colour. Somehow he could just tell that this was going to hurt a lot. 'Is this really how I go? After everything I've been through, everything I've sworn to protect, am I really going to get killed by Naruto in a ramen rage?'

Naruto's fist descended.

"Oi Naruto you big idiot!"

And then it stopped about two inches from Ichigo's face. Both boys turned to their right to spot Ichigo's savior. His eyes widened exponentially when he spotted his little sister Karin. But that wasn't all. She was carrying five bowls in plastic wrappings, and behind her Chad was standing with four very full looking bags.

"What the hell are you doing?" she asked with a raised eyebrow, looking between her brother and Naruto. "Put my idiot brother down, we got a present for ya."

Naruto blinked before doing as he was told. He let go of Ichigo's robe and let him fall to the floor with an 'umpth'.

"Is that…" Naruto began, his mouth already salivating. He could actually smell the Ramen and he was already wandering over to Karin with his mouth watering.

"Yeah, Chad thought we should get you something as a thanks for helping us out earlier. I suggested Ramen since that's the only thing you seem to like."

Chad nodded from behind.

Naruto actually had tears in his eyes. He began to wipe them on the bandages on his arm before suddenly lunging forward and grabbing Karin and Chad in a hug.

"You guys are the best!" he cried happily. "Even you big guy. I don't know who you are but I can already tell you must be some kind of saint, placed on this earth by the gods themselves."

"Hey get of me!" yelled Karin struggling from inside the hug.

Meanwhile Rukia had unbound Ishida and helped Ichigo to his feet although he was none too steady. The three of them stood just staring at the spectacle before them as the unstoppable beserker had been tamed by the sweet scent of Ramen. They watched how Naruto disengaged from the hug, somehow with all the Ramen bowls now balanced in his arms. With stars in his eyes he set the bowls down carefully, like new born babies. And then he pulled a pair of red chopsticks from seemingly nowhere and created a brand new spectacle as he tore into the ramen, eating at a speed no human could possibly match. Roughly ten minutes later all twenty five bowls of Ramen were empty and Naruto gave a satisfied burp. Karin herself had her arms crossed and a smirk on her face. She gave a nod before turning on her heel and walking off.

"He's a spiritual entity," said Ishida, although he didn't sound so sure. "So how can he eat physical food?"

Ichigo gave a shrug. "Well spiritual entities can interact with the physical world. So they should be able to stomach it too."

Ishida nodded his head.

"Yes but it shouldn't actually provide them with any nutrition."

Naruto, having heard their conversation decided to jump in.

"Ramen is the food of the gods," he declared happily. "And gods are a spiritual entity. If Ramen can feed a god it can feed a Hollow too. Believe it!"

Ichigo blinked a few times.

"Believe it, or Dattebyo? Can you stick to just one verbal tick?."

A distance away Kisuke Uruhara had watched the entire spectacle. He'd shown up around the same time as the Menos, but decided not to intervene. The Hollow interested him greatly. It was completely different to every other Hollow or even Arrancer that he'd ever seen before. Although it obviously gave off a feeling of being a hollow, there was nothing malefic or even evil about it. Even when it had gone into what can only be called a ramen induced berserk rage, it had the feeling of a righteous fury. From Ramen apparently. The Hollow must actually worship the stuff. But what was even more interesting is that the Hollow seemed to have some severe limits on its power. If those limits were taken off, he actually shouldered to think. None the less he smiled before flicking open his favourite paper fan.

"My, my. How interesting," he said in a sly tone. "Come on, we're heading back."

He turned to face Tessai, Jinta and Ururu before walking past them. A minute later they all turned to follow him.

Okay guys that concludes this chapter. Next chapter is a bit more serious and has a little twist I'm hoping that none of you see coming. As far as Naruto's pairing goes a lot of you say either Nel or Harribel. Yoruichi and Soi Fon have been mentioned and one or two people thought Hiyori. My step Brother said Unohana since then she can beat him up if he does somet stupid, heal him then beat him up again. Somone else had the same idea too. Well it's a moot point for now. Naruto won't have a pairing for a while either way although I now have a poll up with plenty of choices. You get two votes too, so if you can't decide you don't have too. Just look at my profile page to vote. Okay I'm done, over and out.