Edited as of 12th April 2015

Uncle Fishcake – Chapter 4

Accepting the Truth

Naruto stared and stared at the short dark haired girl that was currently hugging his leg happily as if he had just given her the greatest gift in the world. Though the thing was, Naruto had no idea just what he had done to get this sort of reaction, he had already tried shaking the girl off of his leg, but she wouldn't let go, muttering something about how she would pay back her new idol or something like that, the fuck if he knew what she was talking about.

"Okay Rukia, I can understand if you were hugging my leg happily if I was offering you a place because you were homeless, because your powers are needed to take you back to Soul Society." Naruto started, his eyebrow twitching slightly. "But I don't see how giving you pyjamas with bunny rabbits on them mean that I have suddenly become a second god to you!" Naruto snapped angrily, shaking his leg wildly, though Rukia was still not letting go, crying happily as she wore her brand new pyjamas.

"I love bunny rabbits," Rukia muttered happily, still not letting go, much to Naruto's annoyance. "I will treasure this moment for the rest of my life."

"..." Naruto glared at Rukia angrily, wishing that she would just let go of him already. He looked up at the sky, wondering just what he had done to deserve this punishment, was it because of the fact that he messed with Isshin? Or was it because he spied on his family from a window pulling pranks on his little brother from a distance? Seriously, he knew that if Isshin saw this, he would be laughing his ass off, while Masaki would be saying how cute it was, though Ichigo would have a heart attack because of the fact it was Rukia hugging his leg happily, while Yuzu and Karin... he didn't know, possibly jealous or something.

"Can you please let go of my leg, Rukia?" Naruto hissed angrily, merely moments away from beating the holy crap out of this girl... or at least forcing her to read one of his books, non-stop, until she read it all.

"As you wish Naruto-sama," Rukia smiled happily as she let go of him. Naruto's face transformed into an expression of horror.

'No! Not 'Naruto-sama'! I tried for centuries to stop people from calling me that... or at least just let them die out! She can't be a fan girl, she can't!' Naruto thought, wanting nothing more than to go ahead and cry.

"Rukia, you're really to go and do anything for me?" Naruto asked slowly, as a devious idea came to mind, something that would get rid of a potential slave, and piss off his nephew and potentially his brother.

"Yes Naruto-sama," Rukia gushed happily, causing Naruto to grimace to himself.

"Okay, first off, do not call me Naruto-sama that just pisses me off, two don't gush over me like that, seeing you act like a fan girl scares me." Naruto listed off quickly, causing the girl to quickly nod twice. 'She's good at listening, as far as I can see.' "Third, you need to stick with Ichigo so he can perform your Shinigami duties, am I correct?" Rukia nodded again. "Right, you are going to enrol into the school that I work at, and Ichigo attends, I should be able to get you enrolled easily and..." Rukia suddenly held up some paperwork, making Naruto blink slightly.

"I'm not the first Shinigami who's enrolled into Karakura high school." Rukia answered simply, making Naruto sweat drop slightly.

'Wouldn't it have been easily just to say that beforehand?' Naruto thought, sounding annoyed.

"Yeah, and you're going to introduce yourself to his family after you persuade him to allow you to stay at your place." Naruto told the short girl, who gave him a slightly confused look.

"How am I meant to persuade him to do that? He'll probably be scared shitless when he sees me." Rukia told the blond, who smiled knowingly at the powerless shinigami.

"Rukia, I have more ways than one to get what I want, and I know just how we can persuade Ichigo and his family, mostly his family though to allow you to stay with them." Naruto told the girl.

Ichigo stared at the massive hole that was currently visible for all to see, but yet, yet everyone else didn't seem to remember being attacked by the Hollow last night at all, almost like they had had their memories of the event erased or something. This line of thought made Ichigo frown in concentration, especially after what he last remembered before falling unconscious the night before. That pitying expression written over his uncle's face as everything went black.

'You poor bastard,' Naruto had uttered, mouthed almost, but Ichigo had somehow managed to catch it, or a reason that he didn't even know. However, Ichigo was also concerned about the Shinigami, Rukia... or something anyway. Shit, he was always bad with names.

'I wonder if she's gone back to Soul Society, or whatever the Shinigami calls home.' Ichigo thought to himself curiously, wondering what he should be thinking right now.

However, for now he would have to concentrate on helping out around the house, his family did need his help after all.

Karakura High School was full of activity as the students made their way into their classes, though for the case with Naruto, well, he was currently leading Rukia to the location of her new class, the same as Ichigo's. Rukia had made sure to do this, so that she could be with Ichigo in case a Hollow appeared and it need the orange haired teenager to stop it, not that Ichigo knew of the situation he was going to find himself in or anything, yet.

Naruto couldn't help but smirk darkly at the thought of Ichigo's reaction to seeing Rukia. He knew that it would be beautiful. Shame that he wasn't going to be there to see it however, though now that Rukia had stopped being so... clingy to his leg, he could see her determination to succeed in helping souls pass on to Soul Society, something that he could admire in a way.

"Alright Rukia, before you start being a member of this class, we need to go over some rules as to how you behave." Naruto started, just before she was going to enter the classroom. "First of all, you will need to keep up the act that you are simply a normal human girl, now I know that this may be hard for you, so I have written down notes, in a book." Naruto told the girl, before he handed it over to her. The book in question just happened to be worth over 1000 pages long and with quite a few pictures for helpful illustrations. Naruto, throughout all of his years of living in the planet had come to understand the way that the human mind worked, everything about it was within that book. "Everything you need to know about the human mind and what they think is... 'normal' is within those books, however for now, all you need to do is to introduce yourself to the class nice and politely in a cheerful way, something which I know that you can do, because you Shinigami are pretty much just like us humans, your minds work the same, the gears turn in the same way."

"What are you talking about?" Rukia asked, looking perplexed by what the blond was saying.

"What I'm saying is... that you know what you've got to do in order to get Ichigo to listen to you, I am saying this, because I know that I can trust you." Naruto declared to the short Shinigami, before he rubbed the top of her head with a slight grin on his face. "I look forward to hearing from you soon."

"Eh?" Rukia looked slightly confused by what Naruto had said, but then decided that she would just go along with it anyway. It wasn't like she had anything to lose or anything was it now?

If anyone had been looking up at the roof, they would have noticed something really strange, even by their standards. Naruto Uzumaki was sitting on the rooftops holding a telescope and looking through, while snickering as he watched Ichigo interacting with his class, yes he knew that it was weird, but was having fun.

"I can't believe he freaked out so badly when he spotted Rukia." Naruto smirked, though there was something about his face a few moments later. "Though I wonder what she put on her hand to get such a horrified reaction." Naruto mused, before he spotted what was written on the shinigami's hand. "She actually wrote 'Say something and I will kill you," on her own hand, man that is just pure gold," Naruto laughed as he understood the reason for Ichigo's expression. "Wait a second... does the fact that I spy on my nephew mean that I'm weird?" Naruto asked himself.

"To normal humans it does." A familiar demonic voice made itself known.

"Hey Kurama, haven't heard from you in a while now, how are you?" Naruto asked the demon within his body.

"I don't have anything to do... how can I feel different from yesterday?" Kurama grumbled, sounding annoyed as he did so.

"Well, you're not in your cage, like it was before we teamed up to take down Madara, oh so many years ago." Naruto pointed out, causing the demon to chuckle darkly. Of course he remembered that day, it was so wonderful. "Let's keep an eye on my nephew shall we?"

"What about getting Rukia a place at your brother's house?" Kurama reminded the blond, who froze in his tracks.

"Shit, I knew I forgot about something."

"Where are we going?" Rukia asked Ichigo as he led her from the school, to a place which had no activity except for themselves. "Leading me to such an empty place, what dost thou intend of me?"

"Stop that weird way of talking!" Ichigo demanded rudely, clearly he wasn't in the best of moods.

"Weird? How rude, is it not good for someone who learned in one day?" Rukia asked the orange-haired boy bluntly.

"Shut up! Just explain what's going on!" Ichigo demanded.

"Explain?"

"Yeah! Isn't your job over!? Why are you in my class? Didn't you go back to that Soul Society place!?" Ichigo asked several questions at once, while trying not to lose his calm.

"You fool!" Rukia crossed her eyes. "Only Shinigami can return to Soul Society, right now, I am not able to return there." Rukia declared to the teenager.

"Huh? What do you..." Ichigo was confused, it was clear on his face.

"Because I lost my Shinigami powers," Rukia declared, causing a look of surprise to find its way onto Ichigo's face.

"But I'm no longer a Shinigami! Where did this 'Shinigami power' go?" Ichigo asked the Shinigami or the powerless Shinigami anyway.

"Inside of you, it's not in your body but your soul that has become Shinigami." Rukia explained to the stunned teenager. "Anyway, last night I had almost all my powers taken by you! I have but barely any abilities left, I'm even forced to be in this artificial body!" Rukia declared, though this only caused Ichigo to look extremely confused by the term. "It is we Shinigami's other body, to be used in emergency situations. A weakened Shinigami enters it to wait for his powers to recover." Rukia explained after seeing that the human was completely lost.

"So this body is so? Human form," Ichigo tested out the term out loud, understandably being confused by the situation.

"Yes, weakened Shinigami are targets for Hollows, so we act like a human." Rukia told the orange haired boy, who nodded slowly, after reading Naruto's books (he had loved the first one as a child), it really wasn't too hard to believe something as much as he hated to say it, especially after seeing all of the spirits now that he thought of it.

'So that's why the other guys in my class could see her...' Ichigo mused over this logically, there was still the fact that Naruto had seen him as a Shinigami, who he knew shouldn't have been able to, but yet what the blond had mouthed to him made a bit of an impact, even if he didn't want to admit it. "So... what does this weakened Shinigami want with me?" Ichigo asked finally.

"That's it! Until my powers return, you will take over my Shinigami duties!" Rukia declared, causing a look of disbelief to find its way onto Ichigo's features, he couldn't even find the proper words to form what he was currently thinking.

"Of course, you're the one that has the Shinigami powers now. I will assist you of course." Rukia told him. "Also, you have no right to refuse since you were..." Rukia was suddenly interrupted.

"I REFUSE!" Ichigo snapped, holding his hands out as if he was holding out a sign with a giant "X" in front of him.

Rukia was understandably stunned. Well, at least to her it was understandable anyway.

"What?" Rukia couldn't figure out just why Ichigo had literally refused such an offer.

"I said I refuse! I'm not fighting those monsters ever again." Ichigo declared dismissively, as if he quite simply didn't care.

"Wait! You... yesterday..." Rukia blurted out in disbelief, trying to figure out just what was going on, though she couldn't see it, a blond haired man sitting on the roofs above them didn't look too surprised.

"Yesterday I was only able to fight... because my family was in danger." Ichigo admitted to the Shinigami, before he turned his head to her. "I ain't fighting monsters like that for total strangers! I'm not that nice of a person!" Ichigo admitted freely. "Sorry if I disappointed you!"

'Rukia shouldn't be too surprised. I did tell her myself that it was a good possibility after all that this could be his reaction.' Naruto thought as he twirled a kunai around his finger, though this kunai had a note attached to it. However, when he spotted Rukia putting on some kind of glove, he paused in mid-action, where he was about to throw his kunai in between the arguing duo. 'What is she going to do with that?' Naruto's eyes widen in surprise as he watched Rukia hit Ichigo on his chin with her palm... to literally push his soul out of his body.

"My soul's been removed!"

"Wow. That was unexpected." Naruto mused to himself as he watched the duo (after Ichigo had calmed down) make their way out of the school. Ichigo seemed somewhat annoyed with the situation that he found himself in. "Not that I can blame him or anything, I like having my soul in my body still."

"What are you going to do with the body?" Kurama asked his host, who looked at the soulless body of Ichigo Kurosaki.

"Well, I can't just leave it here. That would just cause some unnecessary panic." Naruto pointed out as he jumped from the roof he was standing on, frowning at how easy it was for him to keep a close watch without either Ichigo or Rukia spotting him. "However, at the same time, I can't take it with me to their location, that would cause the public to get worried about seeing someone carrying a practically dead body on their shoulders."

"So you're going to take it to your office then?" Kurama realized.

"Exactly, if I'm seen with the body, hopefully not too many questions will be asked, and if I am asked questions, I will be able to clear up some unnecessary trouble." Naruto confirmed as he picked up his nephew's body, frowning at the carelessness on both Rukia's and Ichigo's part to just leave the body like Ichigo had been knocked out cold by someone.

"So, why are you really here, Cao Cao?" That was the question that I found myself asking the man, who had arrived in Luoyang with his trusted lieutenants, Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan, his cousins. I knew that this question would do nothing but suspicions thrown my way from Cao Cao, but I had to know from the man himself.

Besides, if he was as selfish as Dong Zhou, then I would just make sure that the man would die before he caused too much damage. There was already too many rabid dogs plaguing the world as it was. At some point they needed to be put down for the good of everyone else in the land, even if it wasn't the method that I preferred myself.

"Dong Zhou is a tyrant, I would have thought that you'd know that from your past experiences with the man." Cao Cao shot in my direction, which couldn't stop me from smirking in delight, this man truly was intelligent enough to see through my little games.

"It's nice to know that there are some intelligent people still living in this world. Zhang Jiao might have been someone who was causing people to die unnecessarily, but at least he was trying to do it for the people, though perhaps not in the way that he should have done so." I shrugged, causing Xiahou Dun to grip his weapon tightly.

"You would praise such a man?!" He seemed rather angry with what I was implying, but I suppose that was understandable, especially since a lot of people did die because of the actions of the man, though he wasn't the blame of the who events, it was truly the fault of the corrupted Eunuchs, who were desperately trying to hold onto power that they didn't even deserve in the first place.

"Even if Zhang Jiao's method were wrong, what he was speaking wasn't exactly a lie. The system was corrupt and needed to be changed for the corruption to come to an end." I told the man, who snarled in annoyance. Really, it was if I was pulling the man's strings in a way that infuriated him to no end. Did hearing the truth really hurt him that much, or was it something else that made him so upset?

"You have a reason for being here, do you not?" Cao Cao interrupted me and perhaps stopping Xiahou Dun from lashing out at me. The man truly was able to see what I was wanted if he was challenged enough to do so.

"That I do, though I have a feeling that you know what I want." I admitted, shrugging carelessly at the man.

"You want Dong Zhou dead, just like I do." Cao Cao knew just what such a tyrant like Dong Zhou would do to the land, the suffering he would cause just for his selfish desires. It was good to know that there were men like him that still cared enough about the future, even if I could tell that this man was perhaps driven by a ruthless ambition that would stop at nothing to get what he wanted.

Sometimes, people had to do rather unpleasant things to get what they wanted.

Naruto had been writing down some notes for future references when he felt one of his clones dispel, giving him the information about his nephew and the Shinigami that he had taken in.

"So he accepted her offer... but only because he wants to pay back his debt to Rukia for saving his life and his family." Naruto mused as he took in what he had learnt. "No... that doesn't seem like the whole truth, maybe he is also doing this because he finally has something that he can use to protect everyone with, including me."

And you wish that you had a friend like me!

Protecting you until the end!

Bet that you wish that you could see

That nothing else was broken at the bend!

Naruto blinked.

"The fuck is my phone going off now?" Naruto reached into his jacket, trying to pull the phone out before it went into voicemail. He was luckily enough able to pull it off. However, he wasn't sure that was a good thing when he realized who was calling him.

"Yo Naruto! You never mentioned that my son had become a Shinigami!" Isshin's voice came over the phone, causing Naruto to stare at his phone with a ticked off expression.

"Okay, what the fuck is wrong with you Isshin? Since when did you find out about Ichigo becoming a Shinigami?" Naruto demanded angrily.

"You sent both Masaki and I a text message about it." Isshin told Naruto bluntly, causing Naruto to blink.

"I did?"

"Late last night, you mentioned about having a powerless Shinigami over at your house and that she had given Ichigo her powers." Isshin told his brother seriously, causing Naruto's eyes to widen in surprise.

"For the love of... seriously... I don't remember doing that." Naruto admitted weakly. Did he really become that out of touch? There seriously was something wrong with him right now. Naruto made sure that he was to get rid of his rustiness. It was as if someone was making him weak for a plot or something.

He needed to do better than this.

"Well, this didn't go too well." I found myself muttering under my breath.

I had followed the warlord to the meeting room, using a transformation jutsu to turn myself into a spider, attaching myself to Cao Cao's cape. Once the warlord had gotten to the throne room, I detached myself from the lord's cape and proceeded to attach myself onto the ceiling, where I turned back to myself normal self, using a cloudless henge and a camouflage jutsu to keep myself hidden.

Yet somehow Dong Zhou what Cao Cao had been planning, so the warlord hadn't been expecting to be knocked out as soon as he entered the room. Yet, Dong Zhou had found himself wanting to gloat, so waited for the man to regain his consciousness, pinned down by two men holding staffs behind the back of his neck.

There he was, sitting at his throne, Dong Zhuo. He looked more like a monster than a man, the bloated tyrant, whose beard made him look even uglier than I thought possible, just helped create the hideous look that made many people consider him a monster. Though while he looked like a monster and his egotistical attitude and his ruthless tyrannical rein made him seem like a monster, I knew that he nothing more than a coward that would hide behind his men before taking anyone head on.

However, it was there that I realized that there might be a slight complication to my little plan, Lu Bu and Diao Chan were in the room, with Lu Bu standing as a bodyguard for Dong Zhou, while Diao Chan was standing there being… eye candy for most part.

Dong Zhou stared at the small blade that had been prepared by Cao Cao and unsheathed it, throwing the sheath to the ground without a care in a world. He shared a glance with Diao Chan, before he turned to the man on the ground.

"Hah! You fool, Cao Cao! I don't know who put you up to this, but you were mad to think you could kill me!" Dong Zhou gloated, before he threw the blade carelessly to Cao Cao, where it proceeded to land right by his hands. "You pathetic worm! Only those who wield true strength can claim any stake in this land of chaos!"

It took some effect, but after a few attempts of trying, Cao Cao found himself being able to stare Dong Zhou in the eye.

"Strength, you say?" Cao Cao questioned, before he was forced down by the soldiers forcing him down for a brief moment. "Then know this. It is with just such strength, that one day I shall strike you down!" Cao Cao vowed, before he was able to grab hold of one of the staffs and proceed to knock out both of the men who had been holding him down moments before. In one last effort to kill the tyrant, Cao Cao proceeded to throw his staff in Dong Zhou's direction like a javelin, only for Lu Bu to parry it easily

It just happened to be at this moment, that Cao Cao made his escape, with soldiers chasing after him.

"Time to make myself known," I frowned to myself, before I cancelled the camouflage jutsu and dropped from the ceiling, wielding both of my twin swords, spinning as I did so, taking out at least half of the men storming into the room from the fall alone. I jumped back, doing a back flip in midair, before I landed next to a stunned Cao Cao. I turned to the warlord.

"You looked like you might have needed some help."

He looked surprised for a moment more, before more men proceeded to charge in our direction. We shared a look and proceeded to rush away once more.

Outside the throne room, waited Xiahou Dun and Xiahou Yuan. They looked rather surprised to see myself running away from a legion with Cao Cao, but it didn't stop Xiahou Yuan from aiming his bow in our direction and taking out at least six men behind us. Xiahou Dun proceeded to give Cao Cao his main blade, before both he and Xiahou Yuan joined us in running away.

"You see, this is what happens." I wasn't sure if Xiahou Dun was referring to Cao Cao's plan of assassinating Dong Zhou, or me being here with them, but it didn't stop us from running away.

"For now we run! Till I have strength, until our time comes!" Cao Cao told him in response. "We're leaving Luoyang immediately! Xiahou Dun, Xiahou Yuan… Do not stop for anything!" Cao Cao ordered his two lieutenants, who gave me a quick glance.

"Don't worry about me, I'll cover off your escape." I told them, sparing a glance at the oncoming Lu Bu, who was rushing down the stairs chasing after us. I came to a stop, and faced the adopted son of Dong Zhou, unable to keep myself from grinning in excitement. "I'll keep Lu Bu at bay, so don't worry about anything other than getting yourselves out of here, got it?"

"Wait! You never did tell me your name. Just who are you, to go ahead and help us like this?" Cao Cao questioned me, to whom I spared a quick glance.

"My name is Naruto Namikaze, and you will see me again one day, that much I will guarantee!" I grinned at him. "That's a promise, and I don't break my promises. So do your part and make sure you survive for me to find you again one day. This land needs someone like you after all." Cao Cao looked rather surprised by my words, as if he realized what I was implying. Still, he nodded and proceeded to take off with his cousins. It wasn't too much longer that I had to wait for the man who claimed to be the greatest warrior the world had ever seen, for he charged down towards me, only to stare where Cao Cao and his lieutenants had fled to. He turned to me instead.

"I am Lu Bu. You must be the one helping the fleeing rat." Lu Bu announced who he was, before making a declaration, pointing at me.

"And you must be the brute who has far too much time on his hands. What's the matter? Is your little dancer not giving you enough of her time?" I taunted the man, grinning in anticipation.

"If it's a fight that you want, then it's a fight that you will get!" Lu Bu roared, as he charged at me with a surprising amount of speed for someone of his build. Still, it wasn't enough to get through my defences as I used my twin swords to block an extremely powerful blow made by Lu Bu with his halberd. The mighty warrior smirked at me.

"Do you really think that you have a chance to beat me?" He questioned my will to fight.

"If you're asking me that question, then you really don't know that much about my fighting style at all!" I grinned in excitement, despite the situation. This was so exciting, the rush just felt incredible. "I know that I am going to win, because I won't give up until I either do so, or have put a dent into your pride and ego!"

It was night time in Karakura Town and some singing could be heard from a crossing at the traffics lights. The green man was shining and the traffic lights were red.

"Raa is Raa from Ramen. Shi is Shiniqawa Sushi's Shi." Orihime was singing as she crossed the road. "Now let's sing..."

She cut herself off when she noticed a car that was speeding towards her at high speeds. Her eyes were wide with fear, like a deer staring at the headlights. She was going to be hit, she was going to be hit, she was going to be...

"LOOK OUT!"

Suddenly Orihime found herself being barged across the road, causing the car to miss her, but hit the person who had pushed her out of the path of the speeding driver. However, the person who had been hit by the car burst into a cloud of smoke, signalling that it had been a clone of someone, but there was only one person who could make clones all over the place.

"Fucking hell that really hurts!" Naruto roared loudly as he rolled around the floor, writhing around in agony as he clutched his ribs in a desperate attempt to get rid of the pain, even if it was nothing more than phantom pain. Tears leaked out of his eyes from the sheer pain alone, he hated to know just what would have happened had it even hit his adopted daughter.

Either way, he needed to make sure that Orihime was protected, even if he had to do it behind her back.

Still, there was a matter of where Rukia was going to be staying. She needed to be staying near to Ichigo so she could end up alerting him whenever a Hollow was near so he could turn into his Shinigami mode. Plus Isshin knew of the said mode anyway.

There was one quick and easy choice.

"You want me to take in a Shinigami?" Isshin asked with a look of bewilderment as he stared at his blond haired brother, while Masaki looked on in surprise. Naruto sat across them both at the dinner table during lunch. Naruto had used his Shunshin to get to the Kurosaki household without getting spotted by anybody. It was also training in stealth as well.

"Yes, I have already had her over at my home for the last two nights, however, it wouldn't do for Ichigo to be separated from her at the moment, especially when you consider the fact that he doesn't know how to sense Reiatsu." Naruto explained to his brother, who frowned in thought.

"Even so, where will she be sleeping?" Isshin prompted his older brother, who froze in mid-thought, a sheepishly expression finding its way over his features.

"No idea." Isshin face-vaulted at that, where had his hopes for his brother gone?

"I thought you had this all planned out!" Isshin shouted, while Naruto scratched the back of his head lazily.

"When was all of that decided?" Naruto asked, while Masaki sweat-dropped.

"When you approached us about the idea," Masaki pointed out bluntly, causing Naruto to blink at that one. There seemed to be something wrong with this situation.

"Isn't it troubling to you that Ichigo is a Shinigami, Masaki?" Naruto asked his sister-in-law, who nodded.

"It is troubling to me, but at the same time, I am comfortable with this, because not only will Isshin be able to help him out when he gets asked, you will always be using your clones to keep an eye on everything in Karakura Town." Masaki explained, causing the blond to twitch slightly.

"My clone patrol is not perfect, even I know that much, Ichigo wouldn't be in this situation if it was." Naruto admitted, sounding disappointed with what had happened to his nephew under his watch. "I need to perfect it somehow, make it so that any of my clones could use a summoning jutsu to summon me to the sight of the incident, instead of me just finding out what's going on through their memories." Naruto pointed out. "Besides, it only takes one hit to dispel them."

"We were talking about your Shinigami, Naruto." Isshin interrupted suddenly, causing both his wife and his brother to look his way.

"Right, she's a bit of a midget, and I mean a midget." Naruto announced, causing Isshin to cough in order to cover up the laugh that almost burst out when he pictured his son being bossed around by a midget of a Shinigami. "She could probably fit in his cupboard."

"Let's not tell Ichigo, but tell Yuzu and Karin." Isshin offered with a sly expression over his features, something that Naruto gained as well after a few moments, as he realized what his brother had in store.

"You're going to prank my oldest child again, aren't you?" Masaki sighed. This seemed to be a regular occasion nowadays.

"Yes." The brothers had no shame in admitted the truth.

Naruto smirked as he knocked on the door to the Kurosaki clinic. He had made sure that Ichigo had been distracted by Keigo today, so he could take Rukia to the home of the teenager that had her powers within him. The Shinigami looked confused.

"Why are we here, Naruto-sama?" Rukia asked him, causing the blond to sigh. This seemed to be a habit that didn't seem to be going anytime soon, and she seemed to have taken this into account a few days ago as well.

"Other people call you Naruto-sama, so I want to call you Naruto-sama." Rukia frowned at the blond, who stared blankly at the girl standing in front of him.

"Rukia, some of those people are idiots, you shouldn't take any notice of them." Naruto pointed out bluntly.

"I don't care. I like the title, Naruto-sama."

"Stop it."

"No way, Naruto-sama," Rukia was not moving, causing the blond to wonder what the hell he did to deserve this.

"Just knock on the door and we'll do the introductions." Naruto frowned.

Amazingly enough, Rukia had ended up convincing Masaki and Isshin that she could sleep in the cupboard in Ichigo's room, even Karin seemed to get along with Rukia, but only after she told the other girl to get rid of the act. Yuzu was just a nice girl in general. Karin and Yuzu had kept quiet about Rukia, because Naruto had promised them presents if they kept their lips sealed, essentially bribing them into silence.

"Have you got the camera ready?" Naruto asked Isshin, as he walked into the room where his younger brother was watching the recording of his son in his bedroom.

"Wait for it." Isshin whispered, before a muffled beeping sound could be heard from the camera's audio.

"What this, at this hour?" Ichigo sounded confused as he turned to the direction of his cupboard, where Rukia was currently staying in. "Yuzu or Karin are you playing video games or something? Geez... Oh. It stopped."

"ICHIGO!"

Naruto and Isshin started to roar in laughter as they heard Ichigo scream in disbelief at seeing literally Rukia come out of the closet. They paused in their laughter when a Hollow appeared from Ichigo's bed, with only Rukia's reactions keeping Ichigo alive.

The Hollow had the appeared of a Naga, there was a black pattern on top of its tail and its Hollow hole was in the centre of its chest.

"Go for the head!" Rukia had shouted.

"I know!"

Ichigo had sliced at the Hollow mask, only for the mask to be clipped slightly, not enough to destroy the beast, but enough to damage its mask.

"He got away... We're going after him!" Rukia declared.

"Wait! What's going on? That was Inoue's big brother!"

"Naruto..." Isshin had started to speak, only to cut himself off, when he realized that he no longer needed to speak.

Naruto had already gone, to save his adopted daughter, Orihime Inoue.

Chapter 4 is completed.

First of all, sorry for the long wait, I have not been expecting myself to be taking almost 8 months to write a new chapter, I assure you.

Honestly, I'm not even sure if I am going to be giving Naruto a pairing for this story, hell, I'm not even sure what I'm going to do from here either.

Apart from plots of doom, haunting everything I do.

The Chinese flashbacks are not just flashbacks in ancient history or for the Dynasty Warriors games, they are bits and pieces of Naruto's past, which will include what potentially build him into what he became today.

Don't like what you see, then don't fucking read it and bitch to somebody who cares, because I don't.

If you don't like the idea that I'm going through the manga plot or something, don't worry, because after several chapters I will be going off for a bit to write my own original stuff, not that I haven't been attempting to do already.

Sorry if it's not that obvious.

Omake - My Godfather is a Super Pervert

"Oi, Ichigo, what would you do if I told you that I knew of a man that used to peek at women at hot springs, and used to call himself a super pervert?" Naruto asked his nephew, who gave him a strange look. "And was the man who got me into writing."

"Bullshit, no way, I don't believe you." Ichigo told his uncle bluntly.

"Well guess what, I was telling the truth! He was my godfather! He is even responsible for giving me my name." Naruto declared happily, causing Ichigo's jaw to drop slightly.

"What kind of crap is that? If that's true, then how are you not a pervert?" Ichigo asked his uncle, who paled slightly, before leaning in and whispering into the teenager's ear.

"Because women are scary." Naruto announced.

"What the hell do you -"

"Naruto-sama! Thank you for the book the other day! It was so wonderful of you to make sure that it has a bunny rabbit protection case!"

"Rukia! Ichigo, please get her off of me, I'm losing feeling in my leg ... I'm losing feeling in my leg!"

Until next time, goodbye and goodnight.