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Naruto,Kakashi, Sakura

Naruto frowned watching the huge demon beast's claw coming down on his head. Kakashi's figure had disappeared from his peripheral vision and he had no choice but to assume his sensei and teammates had moved out of the way before they could be crushed. Activating what little form of nine-tail power he had left, his body took on an orange glow, arms flying up to catch the huge paw of the two tails cat before it could crush him. Sweat trickling down his forehead, he looked back, giving a more than idiotic smile to Kakashi and Guy, who stared at him with bewildered looks. Beside him eight-tailed host and a friend of Naruto's, Bee, was smashing his way through several other angry demons. Everybody seemed to be doing well.

Distracted by his demonic companion, the blonde haired boy failed to asses the second flaming blue paw aiming for his body. Head snapping back just in time to see it, he let out a distressed call,

"Eh! Idiot you looked away!" He berated himself, sure to get crushed by the one of those way to big toes. Just in the nick of time, he heard the shout of a familiar jutsu, followed by a barrage of lightening. The Chidori, executed by Kakashi. The silver haired man gave his student a reassuring thumbs up as the threatening blue limb of the cat fell away form them.

"Hm, I guess you're not that old Sensei." Naruto joke, earning him a less than amused look from Kakashi.

"Right, well why don't we finish--"

He was cut short by a slow, but increasing rumble. "Ack!" Naruto shouted, as a blinding bright white light surrounded him and his sensei. He felt like his body was being ripped a part by the light in an unpleasant way. Besides him, Kakashi grabbed his student's arm, getting ready to pull them both out. The light was faster. Both quickly found themselves absorbed into it.

And the next thing they new, they were falling Right onto the hard ground. Snapping up Naruto's eyes searched his surrounding. To his amazement, they were no where near the battlefield. Instead, they were surrounded by a lush forest. Birds seemed to be singing everywhere. The sky was a bright blue color, filled with lazy pure white clouds. The atmosphere was wayyy to happy.

"Naruto!" Spinning around 360 he found himself face to face with Sakura.

"Sakura-chan! What are you doing here?"

"What am I doing here? What are you doing here!? Where the hell are we?"

Kakashi, who had already rose from his fall murmured something under his breath before saying, "It looks like we have no choice but to explore."

"Great!" Naruto said, "This'll be just like old times." Happy as he was, Kakashi and Sakura both let out nervous chuckles. Being together didn't mean they were safe. Far from it. They had absolutely no idea where they were.

Ichigo, Ikumi, Rukia

Ichigo carefully and quietly climbed up the stairs to his boss's house...or store. Whichever way you viewed it. It was really both. Rukia, in her shinigami form, shadowed him. Obviously, no one but himself could see her.

"Eh, Ichigo, why are we going to your bosses's place?"

"To tell her I'm leaving a for little while. She get's worried whenever I stop coming to work." Ichigo was to be going to Hueco Mundo in just a few hours. And, since that strange and dangerous brainwashing incident, he had resolved to inform Ikumi of wherever he was going and used this as an excuse to check up on her. She seemed to realize this, and had scolded him over many times. But, if his opponents were going to target his family and friends, including her, he would have to keep an eye on her. It worried him to know that he would have to leave her, his friends, and sisters behind. They would be unprotected, though hopefully Soul Society would enlist someone to look over them.

Tersely, her rung her doorbell, waiting for her to answer. When she did, the door nearly smacked his face away. She was constantly forgetting to get the door fixed. He had little doubt in his mind that she would be sued for it. Rukia observed her carefully as she answered the door. Ikumi obviously couldn't see her.

"She's got a body like Orihime." Sweatdropping, but ignoring Rukia, he waved, almost shyly to his boss. Since their little moment, when she had boob hugged him, he had found himself increasingly shy when people brought up anything that had to do with the female body.

"Hey, Ikumi-San."

"Ichigo, are you coming here to check up on me again."

"No, actually, I came to tell you I have an emergency, and I've got to take a few days off."

She gave him a soft look, making Ichigo feel like a child again, and then said. "Alright, do what you have to do."

Just as he nodded, a light engulfed them, sending them careening down to the ground. Ichigo blanked out for a moment, and when he opened his eyes, was greeted by the worried faces of Ikumi and Rukia. One of them, he assumed Ikumi, put her hand behind his back as he sat up. Everything was wrong. The world was beautiful. But devoid of any humans but them.

"Are you both alright?" Ikumi asked.

"Yeah..." Ichigo said, rubbing the back of his head. Wait. Both?

"You can see her?" he asked, pointing a rude finger at Rukia. Both females nodded, and Ichigo found his head spinning. Where were they?