He laid there, a boy with spiky yellow hair, and three whiskers on each side of his face, unconscious, the transfer of worlds is hard on the body, but this boy had a power known as chakra.

The boy felt a poking at his face. His face twitched at the final poke and the boy finally sat up.

"Hey! Quit that will you!" He looked up to see another person, crouching over him, with a curious look on his face, a boy with pink hair, a striped scarf.

"Sorry," he said without a bit of sympathy in his voice, he sounded more excited than anything, "but I had to make sure you weren't dead. My name is Natsu! Natsu Dragoneel!"

"Oh," the other boy said, a little thrown off by how polite the other boy was, "Well my name is Naruto Uzumaki, I'm from the village hidden in the…" He stopped, trying to remember. Village hidden in the… I… I can't remember, he thought. Natsu, still crouched next to Naruto, waited for him to finish.

"Sorry," he continued "I can't… "

"Remember." Natsu finished for him. Naruto shot him a questioning glance.

"Yeah, I can't remember much either." He stood up started to scratch the back of his head, "it looks like the more you try to think about your past, the more clogged your memories become, oh well," he said like it was an everyday issue. How can this be so casual about a situation like this? Naruto thought. Natsu offered Naruto a hand. Naruto took and Natsu pulled him up on his feet.

"Hey uh… we should probably get out of this forest, don't ya think?"

It wasn't till now that Naruto realized it, but he was in a forest. He looked around and saw nothing but trees for miles. Naruto naughted his head with a determined look on his face. "Alright let's get going!" Natsu said excitedly.

They began to walk, not sure where they were going, but continued to walk. Natsu walked very casually, but Naruto walked stiffly, he felt as if something was wrong. Something in the air just didn't feel right.

You must be the one to unite them. He stopped and turned looking in every direction.

"Hey, uh, did you hear that?"

Natsu stopped and turned to Naruto, "Huh? Hear what?"

Naruto decided to dismiss it as his imagination, "Nothing. Let's… just keep going." They continued walking.

Miles away in a mountainous region two warriors clashed. The first was named Ichigo Kurosaki, a substitute Shinigami, the other was a rouge ninja from the village Hidden in the leafs. He bears the Uchiha crest symbol. His name, Sasuke Uchiha. Ichigo was waiting for Sasuke to make the next move, while trying to catch his breath. He stood there; Sasuke seemed as if he was having no trouble at all. Swinging his sword Zangetsu was not as easy as he let on. The big bulky sword was powerful though, and Ichigo really had not begun to take the battle seriously yet. Though he was quite impressed and somewhat fearful at the fact of how strong his opponent. Damn, what's with this guy, Ichigo thought, He not showing the slightest bit of exhaustion… or the slightest bit of emotion.

"Is this all you got?" Sasuke said arrogantly, "how disappointing. How very… disappointing." A sadistic smile arose from his face. "Vanish." In an instant he was gone from the spot in which he was standing and was behind Ichigo. Oh no! The instant Sasuke almost made contact with Ichigo, he flash stepped away. Ugh, that was a little too close for comfort. He managed to catch his breath and then smiled.

"To answer your question, no this isn't my full power. Let me show you my… Bankai!"

Sasuke seemed intrigued. Ichigo began to charge his reiatsu. It radiated off him. The wind around him began to whip around violently. Hmm.. what's this? Sasuke thought. The reiatsu stopped and Ichigo pointed his sword in Sasuke's direction and the wrapping around his sword wrapped around his arm.

"Ban…kai!" A beam of reiatsu erupted from his sword like a raging river and was heading in Sasuke's direction. He merely leaned to his left to avoid the blast. After it had stopped, Dust was everywhere and it had impaired Sasuke's vision. He couldn't see a foot in front of him. In a moment, it had all cleared to reveal Ichigo with a new sword; a black Katana, and a change of clothes.

"Tensa Zangetsu." He said with a confident smile.

"…That's it? Heh, I should've known that it be something as small as that," He said with an arrogant tone, "Be gone."

In instant, he moved in front of Ichigo. He slashed at him, and Ichigo blocked it effortlessly. A look of surprise lit up on Sasuke's face. He started swigging his sword at high speed, slashing and hacking, but Ichigo, still having no trouble parried and blocked with no effort. Sasuke had slashed at him, but Ichigo had disappeared. Sasuke looked in every direction.

"Tch… where is he?" He said almost with a tone of panic.

"Up here!" He looked up to see Ichigo with a black energy with a red outline wrapped around his sword.

"Getsuga Tenshou!" He swung his sword and the black energy came off in like a blade like shape and headed toward Sasuke. It had almost made contact but he managed to jump out of the way last second. It hit the ground with tremendous force. Ichigo came down and landed across from Sasuke.

"Damn, I thought I had you fer sure." Ichigo said with a disappointed tone.

"This is taking too long. I need to defeat him to get my memories back if what he told me was true." He said with an impatient tone.

"Who is he?" Ichigo asked curiously.

"That doesn't matter; you won't be alive long enough anyway."

He put his hands together and began weaving hand signs.

"Fire style: Fireball justu!" A ball of fire erupted from his mouth and was coming at Ichigo. He jumped over it watching the ball of fire go under him. Still in the air, he looked and saw Sasuke with a ball of lighting in his hand, and he was swinging it toward Ichigo. Time slowed and Ichigo knew he was about to meet death. He wasn't going to be able to stop it.

I'm not gonna make it!

In an instant Naruto was in front of Ichigo with a sphere of spiraling Chakra

"Rasengan!" Naruto had jumped in front of Ichigo and had clashed with his Rasengan of spiraling chakra against Sasuke's piercing chidori. They collided for a bit and then bounced off and then they both jumped back.

"Whoa, thanks, I would've been a goner if it weren't for you." Ichigo said. Naruto was lined up next to Ichigo on his left. Natsu had come to and lined up next to Ichigo on his right.

"It's no problem," Naruto said still focused on Sasuke. Ichigo had examined Natsu for a moment and decided he was also a good guy. But Naruto was completely focused on Sasuke and Sasuke was completely focused on Naruto.

"You…" Sasuke said, knowing that he had a connection to this person, "Who are you?"

To be continued…