Zrocker119: This is something that I've been wanting to do for a long time, but never had the stones to do...until now that is!

-Summary-

Four years of fighting a hopless war is enough to break anybody. With their world on the brink of destruction, Kisuke reconstructs a long forgotten project. Dimensional Travel. With the machine finished, and the hopes a new life he sends the few remaining survivors through the portal. Two of those survivors end up in the outskirts Konoha shortly after the Kyuubi attack.

'What the hell happened here. More importantly, why does this baby have an evil presence inside of him?'

PS. some character will be OOC

"Normal spreech"

'thoughts'

~Zanpakuto/Tailed Beasts~

-START-

Three hooded figures dressed in black cloaks could be seen running through the remains of destroyed buildings. It was almost hard to believe that these ruins are what's left of Karakura Town. Four years of war was long enough to change things.

Using the fallen buildings as cover, the three moved carefully to avoid detection. After several minutes of moving like this they came to the burnt remains of a house.

The leading figure bent down and grabbed a handful of ash.

The second figure pace a hand on the firsts shoulder. "Ichigo." Said a feminine voice full of concern.

"I'm fine Hime." Letting the remains of his home fall between his fingers, the man identified as Ichigo brushed away some debris. Pressing his palm to the floor Ichigo allowed a miniscule amount of energy flow through his finger tips. The floor glowed for a second before it faded away, revealing a set of stairs that went into the ground.

"We need to hurry, Someone might've sensed that." Nodding the two quickly followed Ichigo. The entrance closed behind them. Going deeper they came to a large room.

"Your late Kurosaki." Growled one of the people.

"We had to be careful otherwise Yhwach would find us." Ichigo responed looking at the man with cold eyes. "Or did you want me to bring him and his army down on us, Grimmjow?"

The former Sexta Espada sent a crazed smile at his rival/friend. He still hated the orange haird soul reaper, but after four years of fighting alongside one another, the hate between them had toned down substantially. To the point where they could have a conversation without killing each other that is.

"You can remove your cloaks." The other arrancar in the room spoke. "Kisuke said that this room will hide our powers."

"Thanks for informing us Nel." Ichigo thanked the former Tres, as he and his companions removed their heavy cloaks, revealing the other two to be Orihime and Chad. All of them looked like they hadn't slept for days.

"Any idea why Kisuke called us here?" Nel and Grimmjow shrugged.

"The crazy bastard wouldn't tell us anything." Nel hit Grimmjow on the head. Nursing a new bump Grimmjow continued. "All he said was that it has something to do with his invention."

Ichigo groaned. "Unless it's a super weapon that can wipe out all are enemies, I don't think it'll be of much use."

After he absorbed the Spirit King, Yhwach had gotten too powerful for them to kill. The only reason they got as far as they did was because he was curious to see how well they'd do against his forces. Even with his new Zangetsu's, Ichigo didn't stand a chance. Ishida ended up sacrificing himself to make sure that they could live to fight another day.

That had been four years ago. After countless battles, their forces had dwindled to those that stood in this room. Kenpachi went into a blood rage after finding out that Yachiru had been killed. He died shortly afterword, but not before taking several hundred quincy and arrancar with him.

Renji and Byakuya went out a similar way when Rukia was killed by one of Yhwach's Sternritter. That was the one time Ichigo had seen either of the two cry.

One of the first things Yhwach did with his new found, godly powers, was wipe Karakura town off the face of the Earth. Along with his father, sisters and all of his human friends. Ichigo lost it. That moment of rage was the closest they ever came to killing that bastard. The fully hollowfied Ichigo was able to permanently scar his body, but that was all the damage he could do.

After that close call Yhwach quit holding back and almost killed Ichigo. They lost Toshiro and Rangiku that day saving his ass. After that they were fighting a loosing war. Every little victory was mard by them loosing their friends. Three years into the war, those that remained went into hiding, only taking out small groups of Yhwach's forces.

The only thing that kept Ichigo from breaking completely, was the orange haired beauty that now stood by him. During the time before the war had completely turned south, she had finally found the courage to confess her feelings for him. What happened between them that night, was easily one of the greatest things that ever happened to him.

Ichigo and Orihime now wore to a ring on their hand. Both had at one point belonged to his parents. It may not have been an official marriage, the war wouldn't allow them to have one. But they didn't care. They put the rings on and called themselves a couple.

"It's good to see that you all made it." Kisuke said coming from a different room.

"This is all!?" Ichigo looked at the six of them.

Kisuke hung his head. "I'm afraid so." If the rest of them hadn't slept for days, then Kisuke looked like he hadn't for months. His hair was messier then usual and he had dark bags under his eyes. Heck his bags had bags. "Follow me please." None of them argued as they followed him into the room he came from.

Entering the back room they all looked at the machine that occupied the center. It was a large ring with with several light bulbs going around the outer edges, that stopped at the platform it sat on.

"What is this Geta-boshi?" Ichigo thought it looked like a teleporter from a cheap syfy movie.

"This is a dimentional teleporter." Kisuke hit some buttons and fliped a switch. The lights turned on and a black swirling circle appeared in the center of the ring. A younger Ichigo would've facepalmed at this, but that Ichigo was long gone. The war having all but destroyed that part of him.

"And we're gonna do what with it." Kisuke sighed. Ichigo wasn't going to like this part.

"We're all going to use it to get out of here." Faster than any of then could blink, Kisuke was being help up by his collar.

"WE CAN'T JUST LEAVE!" Feeling a hand on his shoulder, Ichigo looked back to see Orihime looking at him, a pleading look in her eyes. He slowly set Kisuke down.

Kisuke continued like nothing happened. "We lost this war the moment Yhwach became a god. Even in your hollowfied rage, all you could do was scar him. Since you lost your human body, you no longer have the benefits of your rapid growth rate. Before you might have been able to beat him with a few months of intense training, but now it would take decades for you to even stand a chance."

"They're monitoring the Dangai so that's not an option. The only thing we can do now is make sure that we survive. At least that way, we can ensure that everyone's deaths won't be for nothing." Hitting another button the swirling circle grew until it encompased the whole area of the ring. "Only two people can go at a time. I can send us all to the same world, but I can't guarantee that we'll all end up at the same place."

The five looked between each other. "Grimmjow, you and Nel go first."

"You just want us to be the guinea pigs." Grimmjow muttered. "Don't you go dying on me Kurosaki! We still haven't settled things between us."

Ichigo clasped Grimmjow's arm. "Wouldn't even dream about it." Grimmjow cackled madly.

"Be careful Nel." Orihime said hugging the green haired arrancar. Nel nods hugging her back, then hugging Ichigo.

"You keep her safe." She whispered to Ichigo.

"I will."

Finished with their goodbyes, Nel and Grimmjow stood in front of the portal.

"I'd hold each others hand," Kisuke added, "Just incase." Grimmjow mutters something but held her hand none the less. Stepping into the portal they disappeared from the world.

"Alright, married couple next!" Kisuke smiled as the two instantly held hands. 'I wish you were alive to see them Isshin.'

"See you on the other side...Kisuke." Much to his annoyance, Kisuke pulled out his fan and coved his face.

"If I didn't know any better, I'd say you're worried about little old me." Ichigo didn't hesitate to punch him in the face. "Sure thing Ichigo." Kisuke pushed them through before Ichigo could get another shot off.

He turned to Chad, who stared back like he knew something. "You're not coming, are you." It wasn't a question.

"Don't you worry about me, Sado-kun. You get going now. I'll follow shortly." Chad nodded, holding out his hand. After Kisuke shook it he followed after the others.

Kisuke looked at the portal for what felt like hours, but in reality it was only a few seconds. What he faild to mention to the others was that, once the machine turned on, it would light up their position like a beacon. Smiling sadly he cut the machine in half. To insure that it could never be used again, he hit it with a hado spell. He then destroyed all of his research about it, going as far to erase his memory. Everything he had on the project was destroyed.

Now nobody could follow them. "I hope you all get the peace that you deserve." With Benihime in his grip, Kisuke went outside to meet his fate. He's taking as many of these bastards out as he could.

When you think of dimentional travel, you probably picture youself flying between different planes of existence. See the imessurable number of world's go flying by. Well it was nothing like that!

All Ichigo knew was that one moment, him and Orihime were underneath his house, and the next they were laying on the ground surounded by trees. No flashing lights or colors or anything like that. They were just there.

"You OK Orihime?" Ichigo asked sitting up.

"A little dizzy." She took his offered hand, helping her stand. "Can you sense the others?"

Closing his eyes for a moment, Ichigo muttered. "Pesquisa." In an instant, Ichigo could sense every form of life for several miles in every direction. He shook his head. "No, they're too far away." He pointed in a direction. "I sensed a large amount of energy not too far in that direction. It felt like spiritual pressure, but a little different. Might be a town."

"Let's hope that people can see you." Ichigo nodded in agreement. Holding onto her Ichigo used shunpo until he saw a giant wall. From their they walked the rest of the way. During this time they both noticed that the air was very rich with reishi. This helped them solify their theory that the people that lived there could see him.

Izumo sighed as he guarded the entrance to the village. Standing on the opposite side of the massive gate was his best friend and partner, Kotetsu. It had only been a few days since the Kyuubi attack and things had yet to settle down. Things wouldn't for awhile.

His musings were interrupted by two people approaching the gate. He raised a brow at them.

One is a rather tall, scowling young man with waist length orange hair(Ichigo's hair while hollowfied). He wore black samurai robes with scaled armor on his shoulders, that crossed over his chest, and a white cloak with black markings around his waist. Izumo could see a sword strapped at his side and a handle sticking over his shoulder. Izumo looked at him wearily. This guy has the look of a veteran.

Kotetsu on the other hand was looking at the chick next to the scowling man. She wore civilian clothes. Her hair is burnt orange and waist length. He would've admired her rather, curvaceous figure a bit longer, but the guy sent him a glare. Did his eyes change color?

Izumo made them stop. "Anything I can help you with?"

"Could you tell us where we are." Izumo and Kotetsu looked at each other before looking at the two strangely.

"You've never heard of Konoha."

"We're from a rather isolated village." Ichigo lied saying that Karakura was a village. "We don't get out much."

Izumo nodded in understanding. It wasn't all that strange for people to rarely leave the village they were born in.

"Well you picked a bad time to come here. The village is a mess after the attack a few days ago."

"Sorry to hear that." Ichigo said honestly. "Is there somewhere we can stay for the night?"

"We aren't really taking people in with the way the village is." Izumo rubbed his chin. "But if you talk to the Hokage he might be able to work something out."

"Than you." The woman said. Nodding Izumo let them through the gate.

"Hey Izumo." He looked over at his friend to see him grinning. "Think I got a shot with her?"

"They're married idiot." That wiped the grin off his face. "Didn't you see their rings?" Kotetsu scratched his neck sheepishly. That would be a no.

Walking through Konoha, Ichigo and Orihime could see the destruction left over from this attack the guy at the gate mentioned. Homes and businesses were destroyed. People all around are trying to rebuild what was lost.

"Hey Orihime." Ichigo stopped realizing something. "We never asked where this Hokage is."

"Let's just ask someone." Ichigo nodded and tried doing jsut that, but whenever he went to ask, the person would walk away. "Have you tried not scowling?"

"You know I can't do anything about that." Ichigo deadpanned making Orihime giggle. After several more failed attempts He was about ready to hit something.

"Can I help you?" A young boy asked. He had jet-black hair pulled back in a short ponytail.

"Yes can you tell us where we can find the Hokage?" Orihime asked kindly.

The boy pointed down the street. "Just keep following the street. It's the large building at the end." The two thanked him and moved along.

"What are you doing Itachi?" The boy saw his mother approaching him.

"Just giving some people directions." Itachi said walking back to her. Mikoto smiled at her son while rocking Sasuke a bit.

'He's such a kind boy.'

Now with their destination in sight, Ichigo and Orihime resumed walking. He could see people giving him strange looks but ignored them. That was until he saw some guys eyeing his wife. Those brave enough to do so were quickly burnt on the spot from Ichigo's intense glare, figuratively of course.

As they passed by what looked like a hospital Orhime stopped.

She felt Ichigo put his hand on her shoulder. "Everything OK?"

"You feel that right?" Ichigo nodded. There's a large amount of energy emitting from the hospital. It was filled with nothing but blood lust and malice. Kind of like Zangetsu before Ichigo found out he was his Zanpakuto.

~Fuck you Kingy.~ Speak of the devil and he shall appear.

'Where have you been?' Ichigo heard him scoff.

~Someone had to make sure that nothing in you head got fucked up. Dimensional travel shouldn't be taken lightly.~

~He has a point Ichigo.~ Oldman Zangetsu said cutting in. ~We have know idea if you two were affected by the jump.~

'Have you found anything wrong?'

~Not yet/No.~ Both spirits said at the same time.

'Let me know if you do.' Ichigo ended his inner discussion. He saw Orihime looking at him. "Zangetsus." She nodded.

"How about you go talk to the Hokage and I'll see what the sorce of the energy is?" She rolled her eyes at his concerned look. "I can take care of my self Ichi-kun."

"What?" Ichigo asked. "I'm not allowed to worry about you?"

"I'll raise my spiritual pressure if anything happens. We both know how fast you are." Ichigo just sighed. There's know changing her mind once it was made up.

"Fine, but if I think somethings wrong." Orihime stopped him with a kiss.

"I'll be fine." She entered the hospital.

Ichigo shook his head and resumed walking. He had a Hokage to talk to.

Seeing so many injured people inside, Orihime had to stop herself from helping them. She had know idea how they would react to her powers of rejection. She could see doctors and nurses healing people with some kind of green mist, but she wasn't taking any chances.

Shaking her head she moved on. She was getting closer to the large sorce of energy. Stopping at a room Orhime could sense that it was coming from inside. She looked through the window and was shocked by what she saw. Inside are dozens of babies. Concentrating harder she could detect the malice energy coming from one of them.

Close to the window, in one of the tubs, was a baby boy. He a full head of blonde hair and three whisker marks on his cheeks. As if he knew he was being watched, he woke up and looked at her with big, round blue eyes. He gave her a toothless smile and held out his arms.

Orihime smiled. 'He's absolutly adorable. I can't believe that he's the sorce of the such dark energy.' The door to the room opened and a nurse came out.

"Excuse me!" Orihime called stopping her. "Why are all these babies here."

The nurse smiled saddly. "All of these children's parents died during the Kyuubi attack a few days ago. They're going to be sent to the orphanage latter today." Orihime noted that she mentioned something called the Kyuubi and filed it away from latter

Orihime looked back at the baby boy and smiled. She and Ichigo always wanted to have a family. What better way to start a new life. "Is it OK if I adopted one now? My husband and I have wanted a child of our own for some time now, but circunstances kept us from having one."

The nurse looked at the boy. "If it were any other child, then the answer would be yes. The Hokage said he knew that childs parents and wanted to be informed if anyone wanted to adopt him."

Orihimes smile broadened. "I'm in luck then! My husband's talking with the Hokage right now."

"ACHOO!"

~Bless you.~ Ichigo thanked both Zanpakuto. Someone must be talking about him. Entering the large building, Ichigo walked straight up to the desk.

A rather cute young woman sat behind it. "Can I help you sir?"

"I was told by the guy's at the gate to come see the Hokage." The woman flipped through a book.

"You're in luck." She closed the book. "He just got finished with a meeting. Go up the stairs until you reach the top floor and it'll be the set of double doors." Ichigo started to leave. "I'm gonna have to ask you to leave your swords down here." He looked at her dryly. "I don't make the rules, I just follow them." He grumbled but set his swords down, much to his Zanpakutos outrage.

"Make sure no one touches them please." Otherwise someone was going to loose a hand. She nodded. "Thank you." Ichigo headed up stairs. Like she said there's a pair a double doors. He knocked and waited for a response.

"Come in." Said a tired voice. Ichigo does and is greeted by an olderman.

"You look like you've seen better days." Ichigo said without thinking. Everything seemed to freeze as the oldman stared at him in dissbelief.

Ichigo was ready to run, but the oldman bursted out in laughter. "Glad to see that I'm not the only one that thinks so." Ichigo let out a sigh of relief. He really didn't want to piss off the leader of a whole village on his first day being in this world. "Please have a seat."

"I'd prefer to stand." He ment no disrespect and the oldman saw that.

"How can I help you young man?"

"My names Ichigo Kurosaki." He introduced himself. "The guys at the gate said I should talk to you about getting a place to stay, and I was hoping that you can tell me about Konoha. My wife and I aren't from around here."

The oldman raised a brow. "Well Kurosaki-san","Ichigo", "...Ichigo my name is Hiruzen Sarutobi and I would be happy to tell you about Konoha." Sarutobi reached under his desk and pulled out a bottle of sake. "I hope you don't mind, it's been a long day for me." He said poring a glass.

Ichigo shook his head. "I won't tell if you don't." Sarutobi decided that he liked this man.

"Now what would-" Sarutobi was interrupted by a teen with spiky grey hair appeared in a swirl of leaves.

"Hokage-sama, I came to report that-." Kakashi found himself on the floor, a large black blade at his throat. Ichigo was suddenly surrounded by six shinobi wearing animal masks, all with kunai drawn.

Ichigo blinked as if he just realized what he was doing. He sheathed his swords and held up his hands. "Sorry...reflex." Everyone sweat dropped.

Sarutobi had a hard time believing what he just witnessed. Kakashi was their best anbu, and this stranger took him down and passes it off as reflex! here did those swords even come from!? "Stand down and return to your posts." The anbu nodded and disappeared from sight. "What were you saying Kakashi?"

Kakashi looked at Ichigo with his lone eye warily. "I came to update you about Naruto."

The oldman was on his feet faster than Ichigo thought possible for someone his age. "Did something happen, is he alright!?"

"I'm not sure." Kakashi admitted. "A woman with orange hair said that she wanted to adopt him. She's was told to talk to you."

SMACK!

The two looked over to see Ichigo facepalming. "Ummm, are you OK?" Kakashi asked hesitantly.

"The woman your talking about is my wife." He said surprising the two. "She stopped by the hospital to check something."

"Check what exactly?" Sarutobi's expression was full of suspicion. Ichigo was about to say something when the doors opened and Orihime walked in. Snuggled in her arms, wrapped in a blue blanket, is a sleeping Naruto.

"Hey Ichi-kun." She greeted kissing his cheek and standing next to him.

"Hime, why do you have a baby..." Ichigo trails off as he felt the evil energy. He looked at the sleeping child. "Oh...that's why."

"Would you please explain what's going on!?" Sarutobi was completely confused about what they were talking about.

Orihime shushed him. "Please keep it down, I just got him to fall asleep."

Kakashi was shocked. Did this woman not know who she just shushed.

"Sorry." Sarutobi apologized making Kakashi faceplant.

"Are you the Hokage?" Orihime asked showing that she actually didn't know who he is. Sarutobi nodded. "Can you please tell me about the Kyuubi?"

That was the last thing he expected her to ask. "Kakashi, close the door." Once that was done he continued. "What do you know about the Kyuubi?"

"Only that it's responsible for the destruction of the village." Orihime looked down at Naruto. "And that it was sealed inside of him."

Ichigo planted his fist into him palm like they just solved the answer to a riddle. "That would explain the sisnster energy that we've been sensing from him."

"You can sense it." This is the first time Sarutobi ever heard of this happening. "How is that possible?"

"What I want to know," Ichigo looked at him, "is why this kid has something like that sealed inside of him. I may not know much about it but the energy were feeling is full of nothing but hate." Sarutobi and Kakashi were still trying to wrap their mind around the fact that these two could sense the Kyuubi.

Sarutobi sighed. "Please have a seat. It's quite the lengthy story to tell." They took their seats. "First I'll start with the tailed beast."

Having finished his story, Sarutobi watched the two that sat across from him with a calculative gaze. Here's what he knew.

Ichigo is a former shinobi, or something close to one. His clothing and swords suggested that he's a samurai. No civilian, heck some shinobi don't have reflexes like the ones he demonstrated. The way he stood also proved this. At no point during their short conversation from before was he not prepared to defend himself. He also showed no fear when he was surrounded. He's either powerful or cocky. Sarutobi was betting on the former.

The woman, Orihime, was an even bigger mystery. He knew nothing except that she could sense the Kyuubi along with her husband.

These two were mysteries. Sarutobi didn't like mysteries.

Naruto made cooing noises interrupting his thoughts. looking up at Orihime, Noruto held out his hands. Grabbing a fistful of her hair, he started chewing on it. Orihime just giggled.

"I think he likes you." Ichigo's lips turned upward slightly.

But even with all of his suspicions, seeing them like this, Sarutobi could tell that they are good people. "Knowing that this child is the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi, are you still willing to adopt him?"

Ichigo let out chuckle. "I think we're more than capable of handling a demon." Kakashi and Sarutobi were shocked to see his left eye become black with a yellow iris for a second. "I have some experience with them myself."

"Ichigo." He turned to see Orihime holding out Naruto. Carefully holding him, as if Ichigo was afraid of hurting him, he started rocking Naruto. The boy cooed cutely.

Kakashi looked at his Hokage. Sarutobi nodded. "If you are going to take care of Naruto, you'll need a place to live and a source of income. After seeing you take down one of our best shinobi, I have good reason to make you one yourself Ichigo."

Ichigo looked up from the baby in his arms and tilts his head. "What's a shinobi?"

CRASH!

Everyone, including the anbu listening in, faceplanted at his question.

Ichigo suddenly tenses up and gave Naruto back to Orihime.

Right when he did the doors were thrown open. A man with his head wrapped in bandages, one arm in a sling, and a cane walked in.

"What is the meaning of this Sarutobi?" The man asked looking at them, more specifically the Jinchuuriki among them.

Sarutobi did his best to keep the annoyance out of his voice. "I was just talking to these fine people about adopting young Naruto."

"You would give the jinchuuriki to these strangers." Danzo shook his head. "Let me raise the boy. He would be much better off being trained by me than those fools that work at the academy." He turned to Orihime. "Give me the child so that he can become the greatest weapon in the entire village."

"What do you think Naruto? Want to go with cyclops here?" Ichigo asked the baby getting a gurgle in response. "Thought so. He says no thanks." Kakashi bit back a snicker. Sarutobi looked amused as well.

"Are you so foolish that-"

"Enough!" Ichigo didn't shout, but the message was clear. Everyones legs almost buckled from the sudden increase of pressure. "You see this baby as nothing but a tool to be used." Ichigo glared Danzo down, his eye shifting color. "Come near my family again and, I-will-kill-you." The pressure let up. "Get the picture?"

Danzo glared at him but Ichigo wouldn't back off. "This isn't over." Danzo turned and left.

"Asshole." Ichigo muttered. Orihime hit him on the head. "What?"

"Language." She gestured to Naruto who was looking at him curiously.

"Shi-crap." Ichigo corrected making Sarutobi and Kakashi laugh.

Opening the door to the apartment that the Hokage provided for them, Ichigo let out a sigh. One day in a new world and they already had a baby. Let it never be said that he didn't work fast.

Looking around he notice that the apartment was already stocked with the necessities. A couch, love seat and a chair made up the furniture. A kitchen table and some chairs. Two bedrooms, one having a crib in it already.

"I'll put him in bed." Orihime went into one of the rooms.

Ichigo looked out the window and made the 'I'm watching you' gesture before going to bed as well. Today's event just took it out of him. He was going to need his rest as his test for becoming a shinobi was tomorrow. He was also able to make a deal with Sarutobi that he would keep an ear out for anybody that matched the description of their friends.

Kakashi in his Anbu uniform shivered slightly from his spot on the adjacent roof. Ichigo had clearly known that he was there. Yeah, Naruto is in good hands.

-END-