Okay listen up there will be a character in here that's dead in Bleach, but they will not be the same person. I 'm going off theory of everyone has a twin in different universes. So hopefully I won't confused anyone if I do Sorry.
Warnings: Yaoi, this and that.
Disclaimer: I don't own any character or plot from Naruto or Bleach.
Two days after Ichigos escape things have somewhat settled down. In the Hokage's office things are not so settle, sitting in front of the Hokage was a very important mission's scroll. If there was ever a time that Sarutobi wish that paper work ended up in ashes this was one of those times. Taking hold of his pipe and blowing out puffs of smoke, he summons a three ANBU.
"I need you to go and find these three for me?" he hands each their own scrolls, "You are to tell them to come here immediately." He says in a serious tone.
"Hai" came three different voices.
Turing back to the window he takes more puffs of his pipe before one of the people he has been waiting for jumps thru the window.
"You know that there is a door, right Jiraiya?" not looking at the white hair man standing behind him.
"Where is the fun in that?' came a grinning answer, before he turns serious. "I'm assumed that you needed me for a mission?"
"Yes, this is a troublesome one." Sighing as he sits down in his chair finally looking at his old student, "This would normally be a low ranked mission but a complication has pop up."
"Oh?"
"Look at this photo and tell me what you see." Sliding a file across the desk. "See the resemblance to a certain young man."
"Yes, yes I do." Flipping thru the folder before looking back at the old man, "So what's the complication? I mean just have a chuunin or jounin transform into the client and that's that."
"Yes that would be easiest, but-
"But?"
"But the client just so happen to see Ichigo with Minato walking around the village yesterday and he has been insistent that Ichigo be a stand in for his son and heir." Said Sarutobi as he was leaning back into his chair and sighing again.
"Ichigo isn't a ninja nor is he a citizen of the village, we don't have the authority to order him to go out and risk his life for complete strangers." Jiraiya said crossing his arms in frustration. "So who else are you sending?"
"Well there is you, Minato, and Sakumo. If we can get Ichigo to agree then him as well."
"Are you serious? Can we really send this boy out to work for a village that he is not even connected to and can we even trust him not to be a liability? The kid can fight I'll give him that, but he has only gone up against ninjas with orders not to kill him. It's a completely different story outside of the village."
"Yes I'm aware."
An awkward silence fills the room. Neither wanting to think of the many things that can go wrong. Jiraiya tries several times to come up with more reasons that Ichigo should stay in the village but each was a weak reason.
"How are you going to convince Minato to let him join the mission?"
Knowing of the over possessiveness and protective nature that the blond had towards the orange hair teen. They can already tell that just getting Minato to let him leave the village will be a headache on it own.
"Mmm, that's the question"
Before he could open his mouth, they are interrupted by a knock at the door.
"Enter" shouted Sarutobi
Entering the office was the spikey blond hair teen they were just talking about.
"You summoning me Hokage?" asked Minato
"Ah Minato, we were just talking about you and Ichigo." Smiled the Hokage wanting to have the blond be relax as much as possible.
Seeing that the blond was waiting the two older men first got settle in their own way before Sarutobi lace his fingers in a steeple looking serious and hoping that this works.
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Storming through the center of the village, mentally calling a certain blond many names under the sun, with a scowl in place, Ichigo Kurosaki; substitute soul reaper; and mate to Minato Namikaze was trying very hard not to kill said man when he found him. Finally be able to leave the house after Minato had taken his leftover shirts, and what really piss him off was that Minato after that pleasurable last round of sex had put a pug in his ass so that he kept his bulge, forcing him to stay inside for that last day and a half. Shivering at the thought of how good it felt when Minato had cooed and rub his bulging stomach and the following haze it created left Ichigo dizzy.
Snapping out of the memory he hadn't realized that he had stop in the middle of the road and was being given weird looks from the villagers. Acting like he didn't notice them, Ichigo continue to walk mumbling every now and then. So caught up in his head that Ichigo doesn't see the back of the person he slams into causing the person in front of him to stumble forward and him to fall onto his butt.
"Sorry about that, we shouldn't have block the road." Came the voice of the man he ran into
"No it was my fault I wasn't looking where I was going." Looking up from the ground and staring at the silver hair man and boy with a mask covering half his face. "Sorry about that."
"No problem at all, no harm no-
"Except your pride." Cut in the boy. "A full fledge jounin and you had a civilian sneak up on you."
"Ahhahaha" the man laugh nervously then looked back at Ichigo, "Ah but we are being a bit rude. I'm Sakumo Hatake and this is my son Kakashi."
"Oh Ichigo Kurosaki," standing up and dusting the dirt off of his barrowed pants before holding out his hand to shake the older mans.
"I don't think I've heard of that name before." Sakumo said not really acting like he was serious but Ichigo can tell that he didn't trust him.
"Yeah Minato sort of kidnap me from my teachers, but I did come willingly and we uh… are um… well…" leaving his sentience to drop off and hoping that the man got the idea Ichigo was finding the dirt far more interesting than the surprised look on Sakumo's face.
"What you're saying is that you are this Minatos uke. Right?" Kakashi again chimed in
The blush that Ichigo had rivaled any reds in the market place, add in that a kid had figured out what Ichigo meant from just a few little words. 'smart brat' Ichigo thought as he tried not to give away that Kakashi was right nor was he going acknowledge the sudden feeling of death glares from almost all the women in the market. 'Could've been quieter about it though' again trying not to shiver as the glares intensified.
"Kakashi" Sakumo said as he place a hand on his sons shoulder, "Why don't you go on to the academy, I think Ichigo needs some help in finding Minato since he's new here."
"Fine" Kakashi turns on his heel and walks away without any other word to his father.
"Sorry about that he can be blunt." Said a sheepish Sakumo, "come we can talk elsewhere."
Steering Ichigo further down the road and towards a small park overlooking a river they sat down and let the silence hang.
"So, Minato sort of kidnap you but you came willingly and your lovers. Correct" breaking the silence with the obvious statement that Ichigo had said earlier.
"Yeah that about sums it up." Thinking over everything before a thought pops in his head Ichigo looks into Sakumo's eyes and takes a breath, "Hatake san-
"You can call me Sakumo if you wish."
"Alright, Sakumo have you ever had to make a difficult choice that you lost either way?"
"Mmm, that is a hard one to answer." Scratching his chin in thought, "well to tell the truth no I can say that I haven't had to make any choices like that."
Looking at the orange hair teen the silver hair jounin could see that Ichigo's thoughts, when not on Minato, where in turmoil. Knowing that whatever decision that the teen had was throwing him for a loop that Sakumo wouldn't wish on any kid civilian or otherwise.
"Want to talk about it, it might help you come to an answer." He offer
"Yeah thanks." Came a grateful reply, "before I came here I was preparing for a war with a man who has a god complex and I had just faced some of his elite soldiers, I had my ass handed to me." Pausing for a bit to see if the man had any questions before moving on, " when I met Minato we were both trap in some weird ass barrier and then stuff happen then one of my teachers came to take me back, then Minato outdid her and brought me here." another pause, "I know that eventually that my teachers and or my father will come to get me, but I don't know if I want to go back, I know that I'll most likely have to go back cause I can't leave that Eco mantic to roam free and I know I can't just disappear on my sisters like that…I don't know what I want to do or how to choose right."
Thinking on how to best answer the teen Sakumo's thoughts are interrupted by a voice above them.
"Well that's easy, you go home and fight in your war."
Nearly jumping out of the bench he sat on, Ichigo looks around looking for whoever spoke, while Sakumo looks up into the nearby trees.
"Kakashi didn't I tell you to go to the academy?" giving his son an exasperated sigh before waving the boy down to join them.
"There's nothing there that they can teach me." Saying it like it was something that was always a repeated answer. "Besides I'm nearly ready to graduate so why do I have to continue to go?"
"Son-
Only to stop as a swirl of leaves reviles an Anbu with a mission scroll. Taking the scroll giving it a quick read, the jounin nods to the ANBU, who vanishes, then stands up to look at his son.
"Since you won't go back how about you show Ichigo around mmm," giving his now grumbling son a smile while patting his head, "I have to go see the Hokage and then I'll see you later."
Before leaving Sakumo looks back to Ichigo. "I may not know the right answer to your question, but I think you've already know it you are just over thinking it." Giving the teen a smile before vanishing in a swirl of leaves. Leaving the two boys alone.
"Come on let's get this over with." Kakashi grumble out then walked away quickly before Ichigo could say anything.
'This brat acts too much like Uryuu' Ichigo thought as his followed the annoyed boy. 'Yeah we are not going to get along.'
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"Alright, now that we have discuss the pros and cons of this I have to say that there is no reason to not let Ichigo on this mission, it's beneficial if he is allow to participate." Jiraiya concluded.
"But-
"Now Minato, you know that this may be the only way we can get this done. If the client wants it, it would be bad if we were to refuse a high pay job." Sarutobi added.
"But-
"not to mention that the young man is getting a bit of cabin fever staying isolated in your apartment." Chimed in the newly arrived Sakumo, "I found him wondering the village looking to be very distracted with his thoughts of you."
Sighing that maybe the old men in the room might be right, Minato slumps forward at his defeat at keeping the orangette in the village. Wishing that they had ended up in Ichigos world instead of his, but then they might been better off still in that barrier. Sighing again he looks back to the three men watching him like it was still had a choice in this.
"Fine, but I'll be the one to tell him." Giving each a stern look, "where did you leave him Hatake san?"
"Ah, he's with Kakashi wondering the village." Having to think a bit about it, "I felt that it would be better that both were supervise by each other."
Nodding, Minato heads to the window and is about to jump out when a thought struck him.
"How about we include Kakashi in the mission?" getting a round a surprised looks, "well if I can't stay in the same area to guard Ichigo when he is disguised then why not someone who no one would expect to be a ninja."
Mentally laughing at the still shock faces, Minato jumps out the window and heads to the two people that he needs. Landing on a roof, he scans the area trying to find the mop of orange or silver hair. Brought out of his search by a crashing sound not too far away then hearing a familiar shout, Minato quickly leaps across the roof tops to a park to find that Ichigo had Kakashi in a head lock. Both were covered in dust and both had a few scrapes from rolling around in the dirt.
"Ahem" getting the attention of both boys, "while this is fun to watch I need the both of you to come with me back to the Hokage's office." Giving them a smile that promise that he want be keeping this incident quiet.
As they walked back, Minato took his time in explaining the mission to the two boys. Kakashi looked quite happy if you could see through that mask. Ichigo, was just glad that he would be getting out of the village and he voiced his question about the reason.
"So why have me join this mission? I'm not a ninja or anything so why?"
"Well, how about you wait and see." Smiling at the frown on his lovers face Minato throws his arm around Ichigos shoulders and steers him down the road.
Arriving back at the office only to find that a few more people had been added since he had left. Along with Jiraiya, Sakumo, and the Hokage there was a portly man covered in fine silk and a smaller dark hair teen both facing away from the door.
Getting the Hokages attention and closing the door to insure privacy, Minato took to staying in the background until he was needed.
"Ah, Minato Ichigo thank you for coming." Said Sarutobi having the two new people focus their attention to the two teens that had entered. "Ichigo I asked for you to be here because I have a favor to ask."
"Uh ok" said Ichigo not really paying attention. He was more focus on the dark haired teen in front of him. 'It's like looking in a mirror' he thought. The teen in front of him could past as his twin except while he had orange hair and brown eyes this guy had black hair and blue-green eyes and seem to have a constant smile. 'I wonder if this is what Kukaku's older brother looked like,' he was brought out of his thoughts by a hand on his shoulder.
"Ichigo it's not polite to stare." Whispered Minato
Feeling a little embarrasses at being caught, Ichigo look back to the old man behind the desk.
"We need you to stand in for Kaien Shiba here." Pointing to the other teen, "While another team escorts him to the land of Snow."
Not hearing anything from Ichigo, Sarutobi watched the teen as a variety of thoughts and feelings race across his face before settling on a look of confusion.
"Shiba san has had many assassination attempts on him and this trip to snow is important to the land of fire." Now giving all of the people on the room a serious look, "We need someone to pretend to be him while another group get him to the Land of Snow for an important meeting."
"I understand, but-
"You won't be alone," the Hokage assured the now nervous teen, "There will be two ninjas with you just in case."
Still unsure, but not to the point that he felt like refusing Ichigo only nods a positive he does see the irony at the fact in this world there is a clan of Shibas'. He just hope that this bunch isn't as crazy as the one back in Soul Society. As he thinks this he's incased in a bone crushing hug. Out of reflex he punches the one hugging him only to feel air and comes face to face with his mirror image. Kaien giving only a smile and a laugh before turning back to his shocked partner.
"I like this one, can we keep him after this?"
Hearing a low growl from the blond the portly man shakes his head then tells his young ward to go out and explore before turning to the Hokage to discuss business.
Seeing that he had to go ahead to leave Kaien grabs a stun Ichigo and starts to head out the door only to be stop by the orangette digging his fingers in the door jam.
"Don't make me go with this crazy dude Minato. Please" Ichigo pleaded giving his blond lover his best puppy eyes.
But before anybody could do anything Kaien gives one good tug that sends both teens rolling to the floor and down the hall. The action causing all the room to sweat drop. Before deciding to ignore the shouts and crashes going on outside.
"Ok back to the mission." Getting everyone in the room to turn back to the old man. "Minato and Jiraiya will be taking Kaien thru the short cut to the land of Snow, while Sakumo and Kakashi will be escorting Ichigo the long way hopefully drawing all eyes to him."
"Why have us like that? Shouldn't the Jiraiya I be with Ichigo and Hatake san be with the real Kaien?" Minato cut in, "And is that all being sent? We are going to be spread thin."
"There is a possibility that someone in the Shiba household is a spy and might know that the one in the caravan is an imposture while the real one is off on another route. The less who know the better."
"So now that the post are done lets deal with the details."
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Being drag around by a version of himself acting like his dad was not on any of Ichigos fun list. Especially, when the person in front of him had an iron grip on his arm.
"Oh this is going to be fun I never had a twin before well we have to do some changes but after that we'll be twins and I get to dress you up teach you how to act oh this is great!" talking a mile a minute and hardly needing to stop for air, Kaien didn't even seem out of breath with the way he was fast walking towards the inn they were staying at.
Ichigo had tuned out whatever Kaien had gone on about until they had reach the room that the other teen was staying in. He was pushed onto a bed and had his chin grab by an old woman who was turning it side to side up and down before nodding once and left before coming back with several bowls.
Ichigo could see that one bowl had some kind of white liquid and the other had black liquid. But understood with the two were being mixed together. 'Hair dye' he thought, 'but what's the other for?' before he could think on further, his attention was brought back to Kaien who had gone quiet with a serious air.
"Ichigo," he started, "I have to be honest with you. I'm not really going to the Land of Snow for a meeting for the Land of Fire. I'm only going to meet up with my wife."
Getting a puzzle look from the orange hair teen Kaien sighs before leaning back to stare up at the ceiling.
"I met my lovely wife two years back, my father disapproved but I fell hard for her. We married in secret and decided to run away together, but I can't just disappear without a trace now can't I." turning onto his side a prop up by his elbow Kaien looks directly into Ichigos eyes, "I love her and I want to be with her so in order to make that happen I had paid people to help me but that only gave assassins openings and my father to get more overbearing. So I needed something else then this meeting came up and I volunteered for it. I plan on disappearing when the ninjas escorting me leave to return back to their village. I hadn't meant for anyone else to get involved, but you got pulled in and I'm sorry for that."
Ichigo listen and couldn't help but think of a story that he had read the sounding too much like this but couldn't remember what the name was. But he understood and he wanted to help.
"So having me filling in for you puts a kink in your plans." He asked
"Not really, oh yes you being here I didn't plan on but I don't see how you can hurt my plans unless you wanted to come with us with your blond lover?" Kaien jokingly teased. Seeing the red blush spreading across the orange teen's face he wanted to tease him some more but his servant whispered that the preparations were done.
"Now before we go any further we have to make you look the part." He said waving to the women behind him. Who now had the bowl of hair dye come closer. "First we will dye your hair then we dress you up."
Ichigo sat still as the old woman drape a towel around his shoulders and started to go thru his hair brushing on the black dye. An hour later found him with his head in a bowl of water, he found out what the other white stuff was, having any excess dye washed out before Kaien rubbing his hair dry. With the exception of his eyes and Ichigos scowl, the two teens had come closer to actually looking like twins.
"Now we have to find what outfit works best with you." Beaming again as waves upon waves of clothes start to pile in, "We're about the same height so these should fit. And here's the head wraps and jewelry and—
Ichigo was stun to the point of quickly and quietly moving to the door only to be grab be the many servants and pulled back into the room. The other residents of the inn heard yells and screams every now and then so they ignored it.
The next morning at the north gate of the village an anxious Minato was pacing the width of the gate. Ichigo hadn't come home last night and it took two Jiraiya to keep him from storming the inn where he was last seen at. Stopping his pacing when two silhouettes appeared, he had to restrained himself to run over to his lover checking and checking again to make sure that nothing was done to him. His jaw dropping at the sight of the two teens that now looked like twins. Kaien had dress down since he would be going through rough country while Ichigo was dress to neighs covered in jewels and gold and shades of blue. A head wrap keeping his eyes shadowed so no one would be able to see the different color.
Shaking out of his shock Minato tried his best to ignore the now black hair teen as Ichigo left with Sakumo, Kakashi, and the caravan. While him, Jiraiya, and the now disguise Kaien left by the west gate. For the rest of the day his mind was filled with how Ichigo looked covered in all that finery.
'I wonder if they would let him keep it.' Was a recurring thought, 'it would be fun to peel all that off slowly.'
To the North of him, walking along side Kakashi, Ichigo felt a shiver then sneezed.
"Bless you."
"Thanks" he said as he rub his nose, 'Someone must be talking about me.'
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Chapter End
Hope you like this one. I was kind of stuck but I finally finished it. Yes I know that I may have made Sakumo really out if character but I needed him to be different from what was portrayed on the manga or whatever.
Thank you and please review.