Warning:
This chapter will contain spoilers for the Arrancar war in bleach and it will also contain spoilers for the war in Naruto shippuden! You have been warned!
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or Bleach!
2 years later
Kakashi sighed as he and two genin, Haruno Sakura and Uchiha Sasuke walked away from the Hokage tower, their latest mission had not gone well.
At first Kakashi and his genin team had been assigned an average C-Rank mission to escort a bridge builder to the land of waves, it was a good mission for three rookie genin. Or it was supposed to be a good mission.
First they were attacked by two chunin ranked missing nin's from the hidden mist, they had questioned their client as to why there were Shinobi after him and he had told them the truth about what was currently going on in wave.
They decided to continue the mission, even though it had gone from a C-Rank to at least high B-Rank. Perhaps it had been a bad mistake to do that?
The mission went from high B-Rank to A-Rank when the demon of the mist, Momochi Zabuza showed up. It was in that fight that one of the genin on his team was killed, Kakashi only hoped that the third member could rest in peace, and not become one of those monsters that Naruto had told him and Hokage-Sama about...
Kakashi and the remaining two of his team, Sakura and Sasuke, managed to defeat the demon of the most as well as his assistant, although Sakura hadn't done much to help... Kakashi needed to change her attitude towards becoming a proper ninja.
After the mission they had headed back to Konoha and reported to the Hokage, Hiruzen hadn't been impressed when he got the report but he had let the incident slide.
And now, it was the middle of the day and Kakashi figured that they needed to do something not so ninja-ish. The copy ninja's stomach growled, a sign that he was hungry and by the sounds of it, so were his two genin.
"Now," the cyclops said, aiming to get the Uchiha and the Haruno's attention. "Let's see... We're all hungry, so let's go get something to eat!" Kakashi then proceeded to pull out his most special, precious, signed copy of 'Icha Icha Paradise' and he started to head in the direction that a certain Ramen bar was located in with his two genin following close behind.
Sakura just stared at the front of the place Kakashi-Sensei had decided to take both Sasuke-kun and herself for something to eat.
Ryokō no Tamashī - Traveling Souls
Her mother had told her about this place, she had said that a demon that the village had once killed had returned from hell to destroy the leaf while in the disguise of a ramen chef working at a Ramen Bar called Ryokō no Tamashī. She was told never to go anywhere near the place.
"Um, Kakashi-Sensei... My mother told me not to go near this place... because she said that there was a demon in there, so... Is there anywhere else we could... go?" The only reply the pink haired Kunoichi got form Kakashi-Sensei was him snapping his orange book shut in when seemed like half controlled rage.
Sasuke-kun was the one to reply to her.
"Hn, I've been here before. There isn't any demon or ghost or monster of any kind there, only an idiotic Ramen Chef and his assistant." Did... Did Sasuke-kun just say a full sentence to her?
Sakura squealed like a fangirl and followed the rest of we team into the Ramen Bar.
Sasuke rose an eyebrow at seeing the people who were in the ramen bar, or to be more precise, lack of people. There were only two people there, one of them was someone he was all to familiar with, a woman named Rin. She worked at the bar along with that blond haired idiot that would always bug him when he was down by the lake trying to get some time by himself. Although he did enjoy being around Naruto, even if he was annoying.
The other person -in all honesty- scared the living hell out of Sasuke.
The person was most likely of the male gender and he wore the same type of clothes as Rin but his had some kind of white cloak over it.
The clothing style was all fine with the last loyal Uchiha, it was like the two workers in the bar so Sasuke had to guess that it was the Bar's uniform of something like that.
It was the man's face that scared Sasuke half to death and, looking over at two remaining members of team 7, he could officially say that they were also frightened, Kakashi seemed to go on alert and Sakura looked like she wanted to make a run for it.
"I just don't understand why he won't become my test subject!"
"Captain Kurotsuchi, I don't believe that anyone would want to become your test subject." Sasuke took note of the things said in the conversation between Rin and the creepy man, now to be identified as Kurotsuchi.
"Now listen here you useless member of squad four! I'll..." All Rin did was give that smile and the man stopped what he was about to say and walked into a room at the back of the bar.
Rin's -Unohana-like- smile faded and she let out a sigh she hadn't known she had been holding in. Naruto had been ordered to go back to the soul society because something happened, she didn't know what but she knew that her blond haired friend would tell her if she asked or if it was important.
That had been this morning and he was due to get back in the evening but... for some reason the head captain had the brilliant idea of getting Mayuri Kurotsuchi to fill in for Naruto's duties as Ramen Chef for the day. It was only the middle of the day and any customer they got would run screaming.
It didn't affect Ryokō no Tamashī's reputation for the people in Konoha very much because the place wasn't very popular there due to their beliefs on 'the demon returning from hell'. The Soul Society on the other hand... Well, she doubted that there would be any customers today.
A cough and a 'Yo' pulled her out of her thinking. She looked over to see Kakashi, Sasuke and a pink haired girl she had never met last loyal Uchiha walked up to her and asked.
"Where's Naruto? And who was that other guy?" Rin blinked in confusion, how was she going to explain this?
If it was just Kakashi then the brown haired Shinigami would tell him the truth but, with two other people who had no knowledge of the Soul Society...?
It wouldn't be a good idea... How could she tell then without giving away anything important...? Aha!
"Well you see... Naruto hadn't been feeling well so he asked for the day off, that man you saw is an acquaintance of ours who wanted to help out with the Ramen Bar for the day... Although it hasn't turned out to well..." She hated lying, and lying to her former teammate was even worse, but she didn't want to get the three people in front of her involved in what she was sure to come.
It was like the calm before a storm, it left a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach.
Naruto sighed as he stood in the middle of the room where the captains meetings were held, taking note that Gin, Tosen, Aizen and Mayuri were missing... -and that it looked like Yama-Jiji still hadn't been able to get the rubber duck off his head.-
'They finally revealed themselves as traitors, huh? But what are their intentions?'
"Uzumaki Naruto, un-ranked member of squad six, I have called you here because we have a dire situation on in hands." A serious expression came onto the blond haired Shinigami's face and he said in an equally serious tone.
"This is about Aizen becoming a traitor to the soul society and the true ability of his Zanpakuto, correct?"
Every captain in the rooms eyes widened, even Yamamoto's eyes widened slightly and he banged his cane onto the ground.
"Explain how you already knew, Uzumaki." Naruto sighed, might as well tell the truth...
"Due to my circumstances from when I was alive and even now, I have been able to see through any and all illusions, Aizen's Zanpakuto has been useless against me the whole time. I noticed that he had been using illusions almost all of the time and that he was a traitor, although I didn't know to what extent." All of the captains kept quiet, silently taking in the information. Yama-Jiji looked both surprised and angry.
"What were your reasons for not informing us about this, Uzumaki?" The blond haired shinigami sighed.
"If I had informed you then you would not have believed me, just as you had not believed Urahara Kisuke when he told the truth one hundred and ten years ago..." 'Hmmmm? Yama-Jiji's anger is slowly going away?'
"I see. Uzumaki, there are only two people who have the ability to defeat Aizen. Yourself and the substitute shinigami known as Kurosaki Ichigo..." Alright, now Naruto was confused.
"I'm missing something here, can you please explain to me what exactly happened?" Byaku-Teme stepped forward.
"Two months ago Kuchiki Rukia had been sentenced to death on the orders that we had thought were central 46's because she saved a spiritually aware human from a hollow and gave that said human her shinigami powers, turning him into a substitute shinigami." There was a pause and Naruto's hand went for his sword in a moment of rage. 'THEY HAD SENTENCED RUKAI TO HER DEATH!?'
"Do not worry, Uzumaki. Rukia is just fine." That caused the blond haired shinigami to sigh in relief. "The substitute shinigami, who's name is Kurosaki Ichigo managed to save her at the last minute." He would have to thank that Kurosaki kid if he ever saw him.
Naruto continued to listen to Byakuya's report on how the events up to Aizen's betrayal, from the Hogyoku being taken out of Rukia to Byakuya protecting Rukia -Maybe he wasn't such a Teme after all...- to Aizen's actual betrayal along with Gin and Tosen to the Soul Society recently discovering their objective.
To create the Ōken - The Kings Key, in order to do this Aizen would not only need to destroy the town in the world of the living known as Katakura, but he would also need something else... Chakra, he would need a lot more chakra then spiritual pressure.
"So that is..." Naruto mumbled as realisation dawned on him. All of the captains eyes were now locked on him, they had all heard what he had mumbled. The blond haired shinigami decided that it would be best to explain.
"Yama-Jiji, you sent me to the Elemental Nations because it was becoming a part of the other four worlds much faster then it was supposed to be." The head captain nodded, showing that he wished for the blond Uzumaki to continue.
"Aizen must have been the cause... He needs chakra to complete his goal and, the only place that someone can get chakra is the Elemental Nations... But, if he drains all of the chakra from there, just like if he does something similar to Katakura, the elemental nations will cease to exist. We need to stop him as soon as possible!" Yama-Jiji sighed, something was wrong, something bad. He was acting as if things could get worse then they already had...
"There was one thing that Byakuya forgot to mention, all of the Uchiha clan that reside in the Soul Society left with Aizen, all except for one... One that I know you are friends with, Uchiha Mikoto."
Well, shit! Shit and shit! Not only did the Soul Society have Aizen and a bunch if Arrancar to deal with... But also all of the -dead- Uchiha except for Mikoto!? That shouldn't be something that Yama-Jiji should be worrying about... unless.
"Please tell me that they didn't break Uchiha Madara out of the maggots nest before they left."
All Yamamoto could do was shake his head, this was not good! Defiantly not good!
"Uzumaki, Madara is just as powerful as me, perhaps even more powerful. You would know that, since you and your mother were the ones to weaken him enough and were able to seal him into the maggots nest one hundred and seventy five years ago at the cost of Kushina's life." Naruto flinched a little at the mentioning of his mother "Thanks to you two he should never be able to fight again but, with Aizen on his side we need to be expecting the worst."
This was going to be troublesome, really -really- troublesome. Damn it! He needed to ask that Nara from his squad if there was a cure for the 'troublesome' illness thing...
"Sooooo, what do you want me to do...?" 'Oh kami, please don't make me a captain, please don't make me a captain!'
"Do not worry Uzumaki, we will not make you a captain... Yet." It was Unohana-Sama who said that, yup, it was official, she could read minds. "But... We do have an important job for you. Your ramen bar exists in a void that connects all five dimensions but you only let it connect the Soul Society and the Elemental Nations, we request that you open up the 'door' in the world of the living for it."
Naruto blinked in confusion and said the only thing he could.
"Huh?"
It was Soifon who spoke next.
"It would be beneficial to do so. So that if any of our forces from the world of the living were to need any assistance then instead of calling for backup in the Soul Society they would call you, it would be quicker that way."
Naruto sighed, he seemed to be doing that a lot lately. This was all so... so... troublesome! 'Damn it!'
"Alright, I'll do it. But where do you want it to be located?"
For some reason, all of the captains seemed to get either an evil glint in their eye or gain a look of sorrow directed towards him.
Yama-Jiji was the one who answered his question.
"We would like it to be an extension of Urahara Kisuke's shop."
Naruto blinked once, twice...
"YOU SADISTIC OLD MAN! THIS IS REVENGE FOR THE RUBBER DUCK, ISNT IT!?"
Finished! Can you imagine Mayuri working in a Ramen Bar?
I feel as though the plot is moving to fast... Meh.
This chapter was... Interesting for me to write. I had trouble writing the part with Sakura... She's my least favourite character, although I can't say I hate her. I'm probably more along the lines of "I won't bash a character unless it's required for the plot to develop" with her. Not sure if this story will have any bashing in it though!
Pairing? Still have no idea~ I'll just have to see how it ends up but, if anyone has a suggestion for it then it would be nice to know!
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