Naruto: Shinigami of the Kyubiakuma
by gorutovssageta
I do not own anything but the story itself and the character's I make
As Ichigo awoke from his slumber, the first thing the Substitute Shinigami realized was that he had survived Byakuya's attack, somehow. The second was that he wasn't inside his home or a hospital, but the Urahara Shop.
"What the hell am I doing here?" Ichigo wondered as he examined the room. "How did I survive that attack? I felt so numb when that Shinigami attacked me... and why couldn't I see it? It was like the pain registered to me after the fact..."
"That, Kurosaki Ichigo, was a Flash Step," Yoruichi explained as she appeared by the door frame. "That was what you were thinking of right? The Flash Step is an advanced technique that Captain level Shinigami use, some faster than other's. Your opponent was Kuchiki Byakuya, one of my old student's. He, along with Soi Fon of Squad 2 and Uzumaki Naruto, have mastered the Flash Step technique in the Soul Society. With a bit of training, you as well can join the rank's of those who can use a true Flash Step."
"Naruto, what happen to Naruto?" Ichigo asked frantically as Yoruichi motioned for the Shinigami to calm down. "Is he alright? Did he survive? What happen to Rukia?"
"Rukia has returned to the Soul Society with Byakuya and Renji," Yoruichi explained. "Naruto has been treated, but has not awoke yet. You are lucky yourself, surviving such an attack."
"I'm not worried about me, we need to go save Rukia!" Ichigo shouted as he pulled the cover's from his body. The Substitute Shinigami tried to get out of bed, but was met with a tremendous amount of pain as he did.
"You have not recovered fully, it wouldn't be smart to run off half cocked," Yoruichi stated as Kisuke entered the room.
"Well, look who's awake," Kisuke greeted as he stood at the door frame beside Yoruichi. "So, how's my favorite patient?"
"Look, enough game's alright!" Ichigo roared. "I'm not in the mood, I need to go rescue Rukia from execution! Now, tell me where Naruto is so we can get going!"
"I'm afraid I can't do that..." Kisuke responded as Ichigo growled angrily. "You see, if I let you go to the Soul Society now, it would be suicide. One, you aren't even a Shinigami anymore. Two, even if you were you'd still be killed as soon as you stepped foot on the soil at the level you were at."
"What do you mean, I'm not a Shinigami anymore?" Ichigo asked as Yoruichi and Kisuke exchanged look's.
"Well, your Soul Chain, which is the base of your Shinigami abilities was severed, meaning the immediate lost of your power," Yoruichi explained. "You are now just a normal human, nothing more nothing less."
Ichigo opened his mouth to speak, but as much as he tried he could not find the word's to speak.
"So, you're telling me I can't save my friend?" Ichigo asked as Kisuke smiled in response.
"Now, did I say that Mr. Kurosaki?" Kisuke answered as he sat on the foot of Ichigo's bed. "As a matter of fact, I do have a way to return your Shinigami power back to you. But... it will be intense. Pain beyond imagination intense. Are you willing to give up everything to save Kuchiki Rukia?"
"I'll do whatever it take's to save a friend," Ichigo responded with sheer confidence as Yoruichi and Kisuke smiled in unison. "But what about Naruto? Where is he at?"
"Naruto is with some friend's, but he'll return soon," Kisuke answered as Ichigo gave him a confused glance.
As Naruto awoke, he was greeted by Hiyori and Kensei, Kensei knocking the blond Shinigami upside the head as he opened his eye's.
"Ow! What the hell was that for?" Naruto asked as Shinji looked over at the Shinigami and sighed.
"That was because you're an idiot," Shinji answered. "Did you think you were going to defeat a Captain while you can't even use your Bankai because of your Hollow? You were more foolish than I gave you credit for..."
"I don't have time for this, I need to rescue Rukia!" Naruto exclaimed as he rose up from his bed. "Damn, why would Rukia do that? Why would she surrender herself like that so they wouldn't take me? I just don't understand..."
"Let me explain this to you in a way even you'll understand," Shinji explained. "Kuchiki Rukia has accepted her fate, now it is time for you to accept your own. We have remained in the shadow's of the World of the Living for too long now, while he has made movement in the Soul Society. Naruto, we will train you to gain control of your Hollow. But, in return, you will fight with us against the Soul Society. By us, I mean the Visored, Urahara Kisuke..."
"You people are plotting against the Soul Society?" Naruto interrupted as he glanced up at the individual's before him with an astounded look. "I won't do it! Just because I don't agree with the Soul Society's decision at this time, it doesn't change the fact that good people live there. I won't endanger them!"
"So how do you plan to rescue Rukia then?" Kensei asked as a cynical grin slithered onto his face. "Do you plan to polietly ask for her back? Do you truly feel that you'll succeed if you do that? Or have you even thought about how you're going to get her back?"
"You shouldn't throw rock's if you live in a glass house," Shinji quoted. "Do you know the meaning of that sentence Naruto? It mean's if you truly want to save Rukia, you must do whatever you must to do so. You do not enter the lion's den's without knowing you have what it take's to defeat the lion."
"I won't join you in your crusade, I'll find my own way to control the Hollow inside me," Naruto answered firmly as he struggled to stand. "You people are all criminal's, and I want nothing to do with you. Tell that to Urahara too. And you're all supposed to be former Shinigami..."
"So where will you go Naruto?" Shinji asked as Naruto's knee's buckled slightly. "Are you supposed to return back to the Soul Society? They just sent a Captain to retrieve you, but instead the Captain supposedly executed you. Do you think these people care about your fate? They don't give a damn about what happened to you! And you stick up for these corrupt bastard's? I'm not trying to come off as a freedom fighter, but I'm no fool. We were all told to be executed by the Shinigami when we were turned into this! No one was sparred, and we were slated for death! All because one man who is still to this day pulling the wool over their eye's..."
"And who is this mysterious man?" Naruto asked, slightly rolling his eye's.
"I can explain that to you!" a voice exclaimed as Kisuke, Ichigo, Yoruichi, Tessai, Chad, Uryu, Orihime and Minato appeared inside the area via a cloud of smoke.
"Dad? Yoruichi-sensei? Ichigo!" Naruto shouted as a still injured Ichigo gave Naruto a two finger salute while leaning on a cane. "Uryu, Orihime, and Chad too? What's going on here?"
"We're here to explain to all of you what has and will be going on," Yoruichi explained as her and Kisuke stood side by side.
"The reason why we want to stage an assault against the Soul Society is... because of a mysterious organization known as the Akatsuki," Kisuke continued. "The Akatsuki is a group of individual's who either fled from the Soul Society in exile or is actively in the rank's of the Soul Society. The leader is assumed to be an individual who most of us have had advanced interaction's with in the past... Sosuke Aizen."
"Sosuke Aizen isn't a traitor, he's one of the most respected Shinigami in the Soul Society!" Naruto exclaimed. "He wouldn't betray his people, unlike all of you!"
"How wrong you are, my naive friend," Shinji remarked with a dark expression clouding his usually cheerful face, recollecting all the terror that Aizen bestowed upon the Visored. "Our little "group" was established due to the bastard. He experimented upon us, and most likely you as well Naruto."
"Captain Aizen would never do such a damn thing!" Naruto spat as Yoruichi stepped forth, taking a glance at the exasperated Shinigami's face.
"If I told you this is true, would you doubt me as well Naruto?" Yoruichi questioned, causing the Shinigami to open his mouth to speak, but close it almost instantly.
"I... would believe you Yoruichi-sensei," Naruto answered as Yoruichi sat down at the foot of his bed. "But, I just don't understand why Aizen would do such a thing when he's alway's been such a top notch guy. I would never imagine he would be the leader of a group of Shinigami that's planning to defy the Soul Society."
"Defy isn't the word, the Akatsuki are planning to eradicate the Soul Society," Minato remarked. "These are not your ordinary Shinigami. These are Captain class Shinigami, some even reach beyond that limit. One that has been identified as a member was Orochimaru, Aizen's first lieutenant when he became a captain. Orochimaru was a sick, twisted fiend that tried to extract the spiritual pressure from Shinigami in order to increase his own."
"How was he able to do that?" Naruto asked.
"His zanpakuto, Kuchinawanoken has the ability to drain the spiritual power of it's opponent and use it against them," Minato explained. "Very deadly if you're not careful. Orochimaru was also a scientist, rivaling even Kisuke in his studie's. He experimented upon other fellow Shinigami, then mysteriously disappeared when he was being convicted of his crime's."
"So, that mean's a member of the Akatsuki must have set him free?" Naruto asked as Minato nodded in response. "How is this going on under the old man's watch?"
"The Captain-Commander can only be aware of so much," Minato responded. "But it is not him, it's someone in the Central 46 that is pulling the string's behind the scene's. Someone in the Central 46 is a member of the Akatsuki, and need's to be discovered in order to find out more information about the Akatsuki."
"So... you expect to attack the Central 46 Chamber's now?" Naruto questioned as he buried his face inside his palm's. "This is crazy... how can you sit here and expect me to just throw away everything I was raised to believe in? The Soul Society is a place of peace, not war. I'm a Shinigami..."
"You are a criminal, you defied the Soul Society by refusing to return with Kuchiki Byakuya," Kensei reminded the blond Shinigami. "Now you will be hunted like a dog by the Executive Militia squad, who will be accompanied by their captain..."
"Soi Fon..." Naruto murmured as an image of the fiesty captain surfaced inside his mind. "She'll be itching to find me. I don't know why that girl hate's me so much..."
"Soi Fon hate's you?" Yoruichi asked as a chuckle escaped from her mouth. "I doubt that Soi Fon hate's you Naruto. The last time I remembered, Soi Fon had great respect for you."
"For my entire Shinigami career, Soi Fon has been spying on me, plus trying to get me from my position as third seat!" Naruto exclaimed. "If that's respect... wait, when did me and Soi Fon know each other before I became a Shinigami?"
"You... don't remember Soi Fon being your sparring partner when I trained you?" Yoruichi asked as Naruto held his forehead, a throbbing pain beginning to occur. "Soi Fon was there from the beginning... you and her were sparring partner's... and friend's. Do you remember anything from the day I disappeared Naruto?"
"I-I... my head is killing me," Naruto stammered as lost memorie's swirled throughout his mind. "S-Stop it! What's going on with me? W-Why am I seeing these thing's?"
An image of Hiro and Aizen standing before him surfaced in his mind, Hiro's creepy grin haunting the boy's mind. Aizen brushed his hair back with a grin, Naruto beginning to choke in real life as the sensation of a liquid crawling from his mouth and his eyelid's filled the Shinigami with fear. As Naruto looked up in his image, he was staring at a red and white Hollow mask covering his face, a white mist emerging from the corner of the mask.
"NO!" Naruto roared as he opened his eye's, a bead of sweat rolling down his forehead As this occurred, some of his spiritual power leaked inside the room.
"I-I remember everything now... It's like it was all a bad dream... but it was real. I-It was Aizen! He is the one who made me into this Hollow! But I think Kyubiakuma reversed the effect's of the Hollow by sealing it's power into herself. She... saved me."
"Only a zanpakuto as powerful as Kyubiakuma would be able to perform a feat of that magnitude," Kisuke remarked. "You're lucky Naruto. Now you understand, why we must do this. We must assault the Soul Society in order to save it."
"Naruto, we won't be joining all of you, but you're one of us," Hiyori spoke up. "Though I don't like you much. So we'll train you, then you'll join the other's in the Soul Society when your ready."
"Wait, so what's Uryu, Orihime, and Chad doing here?" Naruto questioned. "Don't tell me..."
"Orihime and Chad have their own abilities that will prove to be useful when we siege the Soul Society," Yoruichi explained. "Uryu as well, being a Quincy."
"But what about Rukia?" Naruto asked. "I need to save Rukia at all cost. I'll help you, but Rukia get's rescued first."
"We place that at top priority as well, due to the circumstance's that you and Rukia were to be executed under," Kisuke answered. "Something isn't right, and I think the Akatsuki want Rukia and you dead for a certain reason. I have a strange feeling why, but I can't confirm it yet."
"Then we should..." Naruto started before the entire room was surrounded by member's of Squad 2's militia, Soi Fon and Hyuga Neji standing before the group.
"Well, a coupe de tat against the Soul Society, featuring some of the biggest dropout's in Soul Society history," Soi Fon announced with a smug grin across her face. "Look's like all of the most wanted list has joined us here. Don't try to escape, I'm sending reinforcement's now. It's too bad Uzumaki Naruto allowed himself to spike his spiritual pressure while I happened to be nearby. I would have never known this was occurring." Soi Fon chuckled as her eye's scanned the room of people, her eye's stopping as they reached Yoruichi, who was staring at Soi Fon with her usual care free look.
"You've gotten stronger Soi Fon," Yoruichi greeted as Soi Fon's smile curled up into an angry snarl, seeing her former sensei for the first time in so long.
Soi Fon took aim at Yoruichi, unsheathing her sword to attack her former master, She was intercepted by Naruto, who clashed blade's with the Squad 2 captain as she advanced at Yoruichi.
"Have you lost your mind, attacking Yoruichi-sensei?" Naruto shouted as he struggled to hold Soi Fon back, who was staring eye to eye with the blond Shinigami now.
"You trained this filth in the art of shunpo?" Soi Fon spat as she broke free from the stand-off, doing a back flip to readjust herself. "All of you criminal's are under arrest, make a barrier around the area! No one escape's here, no one! Neji, help isolate these vermin while I take her on."
"No, I'm your opponent Soi Fon!" Naruto roared as he held his zanpakuto up at the captain's haori. "I will not let you attack Yoruichi-sensei without getting past me!"
"Then you'll die a painful death Uzumaki Naruto!" Soi Fon hissed as she advanced toward Naruto.
Meanwhile, a sinister meeting was occurring in the far depth's of a forbidden place.
"It's been a while since we've met up like this Aizen, what's the meaning of this?" a voice asked as Aizen and Sasuke stepped forth.
"Don't tell me that fool Madara has been active again," another voice sighed as Aizen remained silent.
"As you all know, Rukia Kuchiki has been brought into custody by Kuchiki Byakuya, but failed to bring in Uzumaki Naruto, who is presumed dead," Aizen explained as Sasuke glanced over at Aizen at the mentioing of Naruto. "But he is not dead, his spiritual pressure was just sensed in the World of the Living not even a few moment's ago. As you know, Rukia is in possession of the Akatsuki's first treasure, while Naruto is in possession of the second. If we were to obtain these treasure's, we would have the ablility to slay the Spirit King where he rest his head. The ultimate zanpakuto... the blade of Ten Tail's, which the wielder will be bestowed with enough spiritual pressure to kill two Spirit King's. But as the Akatsuki, we cannot allow Madara to accomplish his own deed's, so it has now become time to make our motive's clear. We shall weaken the Soul Society, then pierce it when it's in it's weakest state. But this will take time, for now we only make our presence known."
"So, what shall we do about Uzumaki?" a voice asked.
"Patience Kuchiki, we don't need any unwanted attention yet," Aizen responded. "Now, on to our other point of attention. As you know, our little "experiment" is going quite well, due to a new member of our team. I'd like to officially christen him as a new member of the Akatsuki now." As Sasuke looked up, a shadow figure was coming into view, the figure becoming more and more familiar as the light shown on his face.
"Welcoming... Uchiha Itachi," Aizen announced as Itachi looked at Sasuke, who looked back at Itachi with a shocked glance. "The Akatsuki shall be forever... dismissed."
The match between two bitter rival's, Soi Fon vs. Naruto! The Akatsuki make their move! Itachi enter's the fold! Can Naruto and the team escape? Find out next chapter!
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