I don't own Bleach. Tite Kubo does

Ch. 1

Darkness. That is all Naruto saw after he died. He, Naruto Uzumaki, the co-leader of the Shinobi alliance along with Gaara after the other kages died, won against Madara Uchiha in his fight for freedom, Naruto lost the will to live and died. But he could see Kakashi take Sasuke in a fight, and kill him. Now, the only thing that Naruto could do was wait. As he was waiting, a huge monster appeared in front of him. Naruto flipped backwards and formed the seal for shadow clone jutsu.

"What is going on?" yelled Naruto when he couldn't feel his chakra. Instead he just dodged the monster's attacks. Finally, Naruto got tired of it and ducked under an attack, before punching the monster in face, then grabbing onto the head and swing his feet around and hitting it on the side of his head. He continued using Taijutsu on it to keep it at bay. However, both the monster and Naruto stopped when a shoji door appeared and a tall man with black hair and Shihakusho.

"Hey Mr., what are you doing here? Get out of here before the monster kill you!" shouted Naruto before he dodged one of the monster's fists.

"My name is Kaien. Shiba Kaien, lieutenant of the thirteenth squad of the Gotei 13, and I am here to exorcise that monster behind you," said the man as he drew his blade. "Fall back." Naruto nodded and jumped away from the monster. "Hollow, your time is over. Hado #4: Byakurai!" Kaien pointed his index and middle finger at the hollow and shot a bolt of lightning at the beast, which was forced to dodge. Unfortunately, that was its downfall, as Kaien appeared and cut right through its mask, purifying it.

"Whoa," breathed Naruto as he watched Kaien defeat the hollow. Then Kaien turned to look at Naruto.

"Hey kid, what are you doing here? How long has it been since you died?" Naruto just shrugged.

"Don't know. About an hour at most." Kaien's eyes widened.

"You're kidding me. You've been dead only an hour, and already you have hollows after you. Man, Head Captain is not going to believe me," grumbled Kaien. "Oh well. Kid get over here. I need to send you to the soul society."

"Uh"-said Naruto before Kaien hit the butt of his katana on Naruto's forehead.

"See you later kid, and if you want to become powerful, then join the Gotei 13," said Kaien. Naruto nodded, before disappearing from the Elemental Nations.

|Soul Society: West Rukongai: District 1|

Naruto appeared in the Rukongai district and walked around. However, he immediately stopped in anger when he saw a boy a little younger than himself pay for something, and the shop owner just slam the money on the counter, instead of handing it to the boy. He walked over and said, "Hey, how come you just slammed the money on the counter, instead of handing the money to him?" The boy in question turned around to look at Naruto. He was about 4"1' with pale red hair that was tied into a short pony tail. He wore a ragged sleeveless shirt and baggy pants along with some worn out sandals.

"Because he's an abnormality," replied the shopkeeper before Naruto punched him in the face.

"Never say that again, or I'll kill you," said Naruto with a cold expression etched onto his face. Taku's eyes widened. He then walked over to Taku.

"Hey, what's up?" said Naruto as Taku started walking home.

"Why did you do that?" asked Taku. "Now the people will despise me even more."

"Well, it's because I hate people who look down upon others. I should know since that happened to me before," said Naruto. Taku's eyes softened. When they got back to the house, Taku saw Yohime. To Naruto, Yohime was a goddess. She had perfect creamy white skin, with no blemishes. He brown hair tied up in a ponytail only helped accent brown eyes. Right now she was wearing a hakama. The bottom was red, probably symbolizing that she was a girl. The top was white, with a symbol that Naruto didn't recognize. Naruto assumed it had to do with where she went to school.

"Hey little Taku," said Yohime, "Who's this?"

"My friend," said Taku before Naruto could say anything.

"Oh, well okay. Anyways, I got to meet Captain Aizen today. And someday, I'm going to be his Lieutenant." It was at this point that Naruto interrupted.

"Excuse me, but what is a Lieutenant?" asked Naruto.

"Why do you ask?"

"Well the person who send me here called himself the Lieutenant of the 13th squad of the Gotei 13."

"You mean Kaien Shiba? Well, that means you are the second-in-command of a squad. Why, do you want to join the Gotei 13?" asked Yohime.

"Yes. I want to gain the power to protect people," said Naruto, getting a laugh out of Yohime.

"Well, tomorrow is the start of the new year, so I can take you there to apply for the school year. But you need to learn how to control your spirit energy, or at least unlock it."

"How do I do that?" asked Naruto.

"Well, first you have to look for a sort of well of energy, and then pull out of it." Naruto nodded his thanks and then started to practice while Taku and Yohime talked. Suddenly, a huge column of spiritual energy erupted from Naruto, and it kept on growing. Instantly, soul reapers were on the scene. When they saw Naruto in a meditation pose and Yohime staring with wide eyes, they immediately knocked Naruto out cold.

"Academy student Yohime, explain yourself," said the leader of the squad.

"That kid asked how to unlock his spiritual energy since he wants to become a soul reaper. I just told him a few minutes ago, and then all of a sudden that pillar of spiritual energy appeared," said Yohime.

"Well, it looks like he passes. He will be a soul reaper. I'll go register him." The soul reaper disappeared. For the rest of the day, Yohime and Taku argued or played around. Meanwhile, Naruto stayed knocked out until the smell of food woke him up. He walked into the house to see Taku and Yohime eating rice with curry.

"Have any to share?" asked Naruto. Yohime nodded and pointed to his seat. "So what happened after I unlocked my spiritual energy?" asked Naruto.

"Well, you fell unconscious, but we couldn't wake you, so we decided to let you sleep. Well, I got you registered for Soul Reaper Academy. You start tomorrow," replied Yohime. The rest of the night was spent with Naruto asking questions, and Yohime and Taku answering them.

|Next Day|

Naruto entered the room to see nine other students in the room. In the front was who Naruto assumed was the instructor. He was wearing a standard Shihakusho that Naruto had seen many soul reapers wearing. Other than that he has brown hair with a military style haircut as well as a short goatee. "Alright!" yelled the instructor to the 10-person class. They were sitting in a classroom in the front row, as they were a very small class. "Welcome to the Advanced Soul Reaper Course. Today we will be forming your Zanpakutō. Even though normally you would be given a Asauchi, we are now doing things differently. It is now possible for you to obtain your Zanpakutō without it. It is all thanks to the ingenuity of Kisuke Urahara, the third seat of the second squad that this is possible. Now, I want each of you to grab a hold of the orb in front of you. When you pour your spiritual energy into it, it will push you to your mindscape. There you will find your Zanpakutō spirit. The orb will do the rest." All ten of the students grabbed onto the orb and started pouring their spiritual energy into it. Naruto opened his eyes and saw he was floating in the sky. All around him, Naruto could see different colored clouds. When Naruto went to touch the blue colored cloud, he instantly saw the memory of when he finally admitted to Sakura that he truly did not love her, and that it was a crush and only a crush. That is when he heard a thundering roar, and looked up to see three humongous dragons flying straight at him.

"Who are you?" asked Naruto.

"My name is," said the blue dragon. This particular dragon, while having blue scales, possessed yellow eyes.

"And my name is…" continued the white dragon. This particular dragon, despite having white scales also had different colored eyes. This dragon had sky-blue eyes.

"And my name is," finished the black dragon. Like all the previous dragons, this dragon also had different colored eyes. THe eyes were the color crimson.

"I couldn't hear you," said Naruto, "could you repeat that."

"It seems that you cannot hear us yet," said the white dragon.

"But we will aid you, no matter what," said the blue dragon. "We accept you as our wielder." Naruto was then forced back out of his mindscape and saw his classmates awakening. In his hands were three katana. The first had a white cloth covering the hilt, and a very light blue saya. The second had a dark blue cloth covering the hilt, and a yellow saya. The final one had a black cloth covering the hilt, and a red saya. When the instructor saw this, his eyes widened.

'So,' thought the instructor, 'he was powerful enough to form three Zanpakutō. He'll be a force to be reckoned with, once he learns how to use those swords together properly.' When all the students had woken up, and saw Naruto's blades, they were in shock.

"Well," said the instructor, "it's time for our first lesson. Come; let's go to the dojo. When they reached the dojo, they all lined up against the wall, with their swords in their sashes. "Our first lesson will be in Hakuda, art of hand-to-hand combat. Zanpakutō use is forbidden during Hakuda, so take off your Zanpakutō. " Every student leaned their Zanpakutō against the wall. "Now, let's have Naruto and Tetsu go first." Naruto and a tall brown-haired student with hair reaching the lower part of his neck walked up and took a stance. Naruto was in the Flying Hummingbird stance, the Taijutsu he learned from Kakashi, after Kakashi learned that he was the Fourths' son. "BEGIN!" Naruto charged at Tetsu, knocked away the punch from his left hand, jumped, using the arm as a support to dodge the right handed punch, then swung both his legs and kicked Tetsu in the side of his head, sending him flying into the wall.

"Stop," said the instructor, as Tetsu go up and was about to charge. "Uzumaki, where did you learn such powerful Taijutsu?"

"I learned that when I was still alive. I remember everything from my life."

"What was your profession?" asked the instructor.

"I hail from the Elemental Nations," said Naruto, causing the instructor's mouth to open, "And I was a ninja. I died immediately after I killed leader of the enemy faction during the war. That is why my hand-to-hand combat is good."

"I, see. Well, no matter. I'll just have to put you in a higher Hakuda class," said the instructor. "Now Hiraka and Zanka, you're up." While the other matches were happening, Naruto went over to Tetsu.

"Hey, I hope I didn't hurt you too much," said Naruto as he sat down beside Tetsu.

"Nah, that's okay. I lived in a bad place in the Rukongai, so it's nothing I can't handle. I just didn't expect it from you. Let's do this again sometime, okay?" Naruto nodded and bumped fists with Tetsu. Soon they were at the target range.

"Alright, I want you to launch Hado 4 at these targets. Begin!"

"Hado number 4: Byakurai!" shouted all ten students. Tetsu's bolt of lightning, just missed and almost hit the teacher. A lot of other bolts of lightning missed, but was close to the target. However, Naruto, was able to hit his target, and keep the bolt going to hit the wall, creating a huge hole in the wall.

"Uh, whoops?" said Naruto, as all the other students watched on in awe.

"Ma, ma," said the instructor, "I think I'm going to have to move you up to third, or even fourth year. You're just too good. But we'll decide that after you learn Shunpo and zanjutsu. Now let's go to the Shunpo track." They walked to a racetrack. Here, the teacher explained how to use Shunpo. "Alright, this is how we do Shunpo. First, you gather spiritual energy in your foot, and then take a single step. That is Shunpo. Covering the most distance, in the least amount of steps. Understood?" All of them nodded. "Then go." Naruto concentrated and began concentrating all his spiritual energy in his left foot. He then took a step, and pushed off, before reappearing at the 100 ft. mark. Tetsu was the closest to him at 75 ft. mark.

"Well, it certainly does look like you'll be going up a year," said the instructor. "Both you and Tetsu. You are outperforming everyone. Now, let's go to Zanjutsu practice."

|Training Hall|

"This training hall is where you practice Zanjutsu, whether or not you have a class here at the time. Naruto, how are you going to use all three of your swords?"

"Well, two in my hands, one in my mouth. It'll be interesting," said Naruto, "But as I have practice wielding kunai with my mouth, it should be easy transferring that skill to my sword."

"Very well. You and Tetsu will face off." Tetsu and Naruto stood exactly 5 ft. apart. Tetsu drew his sword from his black saya. Naruto drew the one from the light blue saya, and put it in his mouth. Then, he drew the one from the yellow saya, with his left hand, and the one from the red saya with his right hand (A).

"Let's go," said Naruto.

"Yes, lets," replied Tetsu. They both charged at each other, and started trading blows. Surprisingly, wielding Zanpakutō came naturally to Naruto. He was just going with the flow at the moment. Naruto had knocked Tetsu into the air, and was about to slash him in the stomach, when suddenly, Tetsu began to chant.

"The water flows, and the moonlight reflect on the surface of the pond, Genjutsu!" Naruto slashed at Tetsu, but Tetsu just disappeared into smoke. Naruto looked around and saw Tetsu behind him, looking like he was there but not there. And incidentally, there was still a slash on his chest, making it seem like his shoulders were disconnected from the rest of the body. "This is the power of my Zanpakutō. The power to create illusions!"

"Ha. If that's the best you can do, then you are out of luck," said Naruto, as he pulsed spiritual energy through his body, destroying the illusion. He acted like he was going for the illusion, and then slashed at the real Tetsu.

"What?" asked Tetsu. "How? How did you know where I was?"

"I've face illusions before. Yours was just not good enough. Besides, I know how to counter illusions. Against me, there is no illusion that can capture my mind." Naruto then sheathed his swords and offered his hand. Tetsu grabbed it, and they walked over to the instructor.

"Well, I guess I will have to move you up. Goodbye, Naruto, Tetsu."

|Next Day|

Naruto and Tetsu, who became fast friends, and also found that they were sharing the same dorm, walked into the year 6 soul reaper class.

"Are you two Naruto Uzumaki and Tetsu Shima?"

"Aye," said Naruto, "That be us."

"Well, you two can go sit in the back next Yohime," said the instructor. This instructor was similar to their previous instructor, only instead of a goatee and brown hair, he had a full beard and black hair.

"Hi Yohime," said Naruto as he sat down. He then pulled out his notebook and started taking notes on the different strategies. As he was writing, Yohime looked at him in awe. Only a day had passed since he started, and he's already moved up to year 6.

"…And that's the end of the lecture. Now, I have an announcement. Everyone will be paired up into groups of three, except for the two that just came in. You two will be a tag-team. Now, we will go into the real world to practice killing hollows understood. This mission will be a practice on dummy hollows, but you can still be killed. The teachers will be escorting you, but they will not be involved in the actual combat itself. Is that understood?"

"Yes, sensei!" yelled the entire class. "Well, then you are all dismissed for lunch. Uzumaki, Shima, stay behind." The entire class left, while Naruto and Tetsu packed their schoolbags and walked up to the instructor.

"You wanted to talk to us, sensei?"

"Yes. Naruto, I know that you use three blades, evidence by the three katana on you sash, but know that neither of you will receive special treatment. Is that understood?"

"Sensei," said Naruto, "With all due-respect, that was a given. But we understand what you are saying. May we go eat?"

"Yes you may," was the curt reply that the instructor gave. As they walked out, they saw Yohime waiting for them.

"Come on, Naruto, I'll show you the way to the cafeteria. You do need to eat after all. Yohime, Tetsu, and Naruto walked to the cafeteria. As they walked, Yohime and Naruto talked.

"So," said Yohime, "Are able to use all three of those swords at once?"

"Yeah. It's an easy task. It just comes naturally to me. But I'm not close to learning their names, unlike the guy next to me," said Naruto as he pointed to Tetsu.

"You mean, he's learned the name of his Zanpakutō already? He can use shikai?"

"Yeah," muttered Naruto. "Didn't stop me from winning that match yesterday though."

"Shut up," said Tetsu, "I'll kick your ass next time."

"I'm counting on it," said Naruto. Soon they were at the cafeteria. Naruto ordered Ramen, Tetsu ordered Udon, and Yohime ordered rice and curry. They sat down at a table. Then all of a sudden, a red haired teen with a tattoo on his neck sat down at the same table.

"Where were you Yohime?" asked the teen, completely ignoring Naruto and Tetsu, which was quite fine with them.

"Zen," replied Yohime, "I was leading the two new classmates to the cafeteria. They just started here, after all."

"Yeah I guess that makes sense," replied Zen. But when he looked at the two new guys, he saw they weren't even paying attention. "Hey, pay attention."

"Hm? Did you say something?" asked Naruto. Zen was about to jump when a voice said, "Zen, you shouldn't get angry at the new guy. After all, it's not his fault you're easy to anger." Akira Ishima sat down next to Tetsu. This new person had long brown hair, which he let run down to the small of his back. He also had a bang hanging right in the middle of his face. "Hi, I'm Akira Ishima, nice to meet you."

"I'm Uzumaki Naruto, and this guy is Shima Tetsu. Nice to meet you too." Kira nodded before going back to his meal. As they ate, Naruto noticed how they ate. Zen ate like a person who loves to fight. After all, he ate like Orochimaru and Kisame. Akira and Yohime ate like dignified warriors. They ate like Neji and Hinata respectively. After Tetsu and Naruto finished, they stood up.

"Want to have another sword fight?" asked Naruto as they went outside.

"Do you really have to ask?" asked Tetsu with a raised eyebrow. Naruto chuckled and replied, "I guess not." The two went back to the training hall for about thirty minutes, and fought. They were fighting each other for so long, that they lost track of time, so much so, that the instructor come to find them. When he saw them, he saw two experienced warriors fighting each other at full strength.

"Both of you, stop!" yelled the instructor. The two stopped their sword movements. Naruto's two swords were at Tetsu's neck. Tetsu's sword was crossed with Naruto's mouth sword.

"Draw?" asked Naruto.

"Yeah, let's just call it a draw. Besides, I think sensei is mad at us," replied Tetsu. The two turned around to see the instructor staring at them with ice-cold eyes.

"Hey, sensei," said a nervous Naruto. Suddenly out of nowhere, the instructor started clapping.

"That was a good practice match," said the sensei, "But next time, don't practice so long. Class started fifteen minutes ago. They are all at the target range. Let's go." The three walked towards the target range. Alright, there will be three rows of ten people. We will be practicing Hado number 33: Sokatsui. " Naruto and Tetsu were in the second row. When they stepped up, they both started chanting and pointed their right palms at the targets.

"Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon the sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws. Hado number 33: Sokatsui!" A huge blast of energy was formed in both of their hands, but right before it was about to be released, the balls of energy exploded, sending both of them flying into the wall behind them.

"Itai," muttered Naruto as he fell onto the ground. The rest of the class was staring in shock while Zen was doing a fist pump.

"Yes!" yelled Zen. "Now there are people who are as bad as me at Kido in our class!"

|Next Day|

Naruto was walking to the meeting place with Zen, Akira, Yohime, and Tetsu when they ran into a little girl. This particular girl had blue hair and looked like she was of nobility the way she carried herself. Zen walked up to her before hitting her in the butt with his Zanpakutō, which was wrapped in cloth.

"Ah," yelled the girl. She turned around to see Zen. "What was that for, you big jerk?"

"What are you doing lazing around, Suiko?"

"What are you talking about I'll, wait what's with all the equipment?" asked the newly named Suiko.

"We're going on another field excursion."

"Ok, and who's the kid?" she asked, pointing at Naruto.

"Oi," said Naruto, "I may be younger than you, but I've seen more than you have, kid."

"How dare you call me kid. I'm at least 100 years old. How old are you?"

"Sixteen, but I've been through a war, you haven't, so that makes you a kid. Let's go Zen, this pipsqueak is giving me a headache." The five friends just walked off leaving Rukia by herself. Soon they were at the meeting place.

"Alright, everyone, we will be going into the real world to practice on dummy hollows. Find your group members." In the end, Akira, Yohime, and Zen ended up with each other again, just like freshmen year. Naruto and Tetsu were together as well.

"Alright, time to enter the portal," said Naruto's instructor. He drew his Zanpakutō, and stabbed into it into the air in front of him, before turning the blade parallel to the ground, opening a senkaimon in the area. The three other instructors did the same thing as well. All the students walked through the portal into the real world.

"So this is the real world," said Naruto as he exited the senkaimon. "It sure is different from the Elemental Nations."

"Alright, everyone gather around. Each group will be assigned a location, and you will see the hollow waiting for you. Once it sees you, it will activate and start attacking and running. You are to defeat it. Understood?" said one of the instructors that Naruto didn't recognize.

"Yes, sensei!"

"Group duo," said Naruto's sensei, "Your target is in are D4. It is loaded onto your soul phones. Get going." Naruto and Tetsu nodded before running off, taking to the rooftops. They landed on the rooftop across from the rooftop that the hollow was waiting. Naruto and Tetsu drew their swords.

"You ready?" asked Tetsu. Naruto just nodded. "I'll go left, you go right. Go!" The two jumped across onto the building. When the hollow saw them, it tried to attack them. Naruto ducked under the punch, while Tetsu cut off its arm. Meanwhile, Naruto, cut off the legs. They then stabbed it in the head.

"That was anti-climatic," deadpanned Naruto, sheathing his katana.

"Yeah. Wonder if we can get another one," joked Tetsu, before they both felt the feeling of another hollow. A REAL hollow.

"You sense that?" asked Naruto. Tetsu nodded. "Let's go. Call the instructors. We need to go slow it down. The two jumped from rooftop to rooftop, going in the direction at the release of spiritual energy. While they jumped, Tetsu had called the instructor and told them of the situation.

"Naruto," warned Tetsu, "the teachers told us to back off."

"Well, then I'm going to get in a heap of trouble, because I am not listening to them. I won't let anyone die!" Naruto just continued to go in the direction, before he stopped. In front of him was a huge bipedal hollow with big muscles. Naruto unsheathed his blades and rushed at the hollow, but didn't get close, and was just pushed back. Naruto started using Shunpo, and appeared above the hollow, before he dived at the hollow. The hollow tried to knock him aside, but Naruto just used his sword to stab into the arm, and hold on. He then ran down the arm, and slashed at the mask of the hollow. Suddenly, the hollow collapsed thanks to Tetsu's Zanpakutō. Naruto slashed the neck and the sword, purifying it.

"Well, threat avoided," said Naruto, before 5 more hollows appeared.

"What? What's going on?" asked Tetsu.

"I don't know, but you better hope that the teachers get here soon, otherwise, we won't be living past today."

"Oh, hell no. I will live. I will live past this, if it's the last thing I do," growled Tetsu. The two sprung into action. However, no matter how hard Naruto fought, he kept getting put down. Finally one of the hollows crushed Naruto underneath his foot.

'No,' thought Naruto, 'I can't die here. I need to survive. I need to protect my friends!'

'Use us,' said the dragons, from Naruto's mindscape. His swords began to vibrate. 'Call our names!' Naruto's spiritual energy rocketed, and a pillar of energy rocketed into the air knocking the hollow of him. When he stood up, the spiritual energy surrounded Naruto in a calm and collected manner.

"Burn the from the depths of hell, Karyuinmaru (B)! Electrify the world, Rairyuinmaru (C)! Blow across the land, Kazeryuinmaru (D)! All three of the blades transformed. Rairyuinmaru's cutting edged turned a deep blue. Kazeryuinmaru's cutting edge turned into light blue edge. Karyuinmaru's cutting edge turned into a smoking red color. Then Naruto slashed two of his blades, sending lightning and fire dragon at two of the hollows, then swung his mouth sword and sent an invisible wind dragon to hit two hollows, leaving the one hollow that Tetsu was working on, before it died thanks to Tetsu's illusions.

"That was awesome!" yelled Tetsu as he rushed over to Naruto who was sheathing his swords.

"Yeah it was. I released my Zanpakutō. I can use shikai. Now all I have to do is master it." The three walked back and ran into the teachers, who were herding the students and rushing over to Naruto and Tetsu's previous location.

"You got away?" asked the instructors.

"No, we killed them. Where were you?"

"We just got through the barrier that was put up. Something stopped us from getting to you. Sorry," said Naruto's teacher. Naruto just nodded. They all packed up and went back to the Seireitei. As soon as they got back, Naruto went back to his dorm and crashed for the night.

A/N

(A) Think of Zoro from One Piece

(B) Fire Ring

(C) Lightning Ring

(D) Wind Ring

Beginning of my new story; elemental dragon of the Seireitei. As for how he got three Zanpakutō, well here's my reasoning. The wind and lightning Zanpakutō came from his own soul. The fire from Kyuubi's soul. I was originally going to have him only have the wind and lightning, but I think the fire from Kyuubi is interesting. What do you think?

~Airwatcher~