Tadda! Here's the new chapter. Sorry for delay, I was about to upload it in a week but took 2-3 days more including a week. Not used to upload a chapter in a week, but will try to do next one. And thanks for that error, obviously Nel was Espada no.3. So I've updated it, thanks for that. I Have questions to ask you but in the end.

Till then, enjoy it!

Chapter 2 – Hours of Darkness

"It's a Hollow!" You said astonishingly.

"Hollow! Here…but how?" Nel thought shockingly.

"There is he! From the sky!" You said pointing towards sky.

"Hollow…What's that? And what's this chakra…" blonde said still grabbing the glass.

"Huh…'Chakra'?" Both outsiders questioned at that.

Naruto watched their blank-confused faces and knew what he wants to say next.

"I mean this spiritual pressure…What's this pressure I am feeling right now?"

"Huh…" Nel widen her eyes with that because she didn't expect that Naruto can sense this pressure.

"Naruto, for now forget about it! We will tell you this later! For now, know this that it's our enemy" voice came from that little fox.

Nel don't know what to do because her real powers won't return for a while and is trying to think what she should do!

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…"
Suddenly an explosion takes place nearby.

"Here it is!" You said.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…"

"You! Take me and that Hollow outside the village," Nel ordered her.

"Wakata!"

"If me and Hollow is going to fight in this place, there will be massive destruction…" thought Nel while clenching her fists.

"Naruto, you stay here!" Nel ordered him.

"Huh…No! I can't! I have to fight him!" Naruto denied her while standing slowly on his feet.

"No…you can't! It's not a bully fight or something…You have to stay here!" Nel yelled back.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…"

"He's coming closer…" You said in between.

"I can't! I have to fight him to…to….to save my village and my people!" Naruto said little depressed.

"No, you can't!" She replied with her closed eyes.

"Let's go You!"

"Huh…but…"

"NOW!"
"Wait…I want to…" Naruto tried to stop them but she immediately teleported that Hollow, Nel and herself outside the village in the deep forest but the place was little opened.

"Huh…"
"Well-well, what a surprise!"

"His reiatsu is little higher than my now! I barely can defeat him…"

Hollow take a good look on her head and was light frightened.

"Wait-a-minute! You must be Arrancar or Espada"

"Espada no. 3 Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck!" She said not even wasting any second.

"Ahh…Espada…How low of you? Espada having low reiatsu than any Hollow…" Hollow said with a little smirk.

"That's a long story! You don't have to listen to me…" She said while returning smile.

"You know…I am hungry, so can't wait for you and…"

"Huh…"
"I have to do this anyway…" Nel readied herself in fighting stance.

It was chilling outside, fog was there but not much dense. So Hollows and their categories can use their reiatsu to stand against low temperature as well as high.

Nel suddenly vanishes from his sight, not using Sonido because of her powers. She attacks Hollow from side, punching him on his Hollow mask.

"Hmm…" Hollow smirked at that attack.

"What!" Nel sounded little astonished and…

"DHOOOSHHHHHHH….."
A punch came from Hollow to her but she blocked it with cross arms and skidded back with great force.

"Nel-sama! Are you alright?" You questioned her.

"Yes…I am fine…" Nel replied.

In second, Hollow was out from her eyes.

"Huh…" She widen her eyes a little and immediately sensed his attack but was little late to respond and got kicked at her left rib and flashed back onto trees.

"Huh…seriously, is this the power of an Espada!" He chuckled at that.

Nel gritted his teeth and immediately rush towards him little faster than before, get behinds him and tried to punch him on his back head but apparently he dodged it by tilting his head little right and kicked her back but she was already gone from his back. Hollow was little amazed at that and was punched from side and with that he was drifted back and end up on a tree branch.

"Hmm…faster than before," black said while scrubbing his blood from his mouth.

Nel again rushes to him in a blink of eye,

"Huh…Not this time…" black said.

Nel was completely vanished into air and was finding the right chance to attack on the other hand hollow was standing still on the ground, sensing her with a smirk.

"SPLASHHHH!"

Blood was dripping down from the body,

"KHAHHH….."
"Huh…"

"You're lot weaker than me…it's just a miracle than you've touched me you lowly 'Espada'…"

Without a delay Nel jumped back and was drop down on her knees to ground and was supporting her left arm which is badly injured from his Zanpakutou which is splashed at her arm.

"Hmm…Hahahaha…"

Hollow immediately got in front of her and grabbed her by neck and lifted her from earth and was squeezing her neck tightly,

"What a waste?"

Then immediately throws her to a distant tree in which Nel was thrown at a great force, breaching tree after tree and ends up on a tree branch at last.

"Aah…"
"Nel-sama…Are you okay? You're badly injured…" You asked her worriedly.

"I a-am f-fin-e, I…"

"Nel-sama, you have to fall back, you're losing your consciousness!"

"No! I can't, I j-just h-have to do-i-it…" Nel struggled with every last word while panting heavily in pain.

"Huh…" Nel immediately sensed his attack just a second before.

"SPLASHHHH!"

"Hmm…missed it!" Hollow said with an evil smirk on his face.
"Hey Espadaaaaa….Where are you?"

"Hmm…That was close!" Nel said while panting.

"Nel-sama…please listen to me…In this state, you'll die"

"N-noh, huh…hu..I..h…j-ju-st…c-can'thhhhuhhuuuhhhh…" With her every struggle, she losing consciousness and her eyes was closing gradually inch by inch.

"Come-on, get up Nel, You have to fight back…" thinking in last seconds of her consciousness.
"Getup Nel, com-on, move yourself!"
"getup-getup…getup"

"GET-UP!" In her last second of her sight.

"Hey-come-one, are you just that weak…beaten up by a hollow."

"Huh…" Nel knows that familiar voice and starts opening her eyes slowly but got blurry vision.

"Its…I know this voice, but where…." In her thoughts.

"Where-where…"

"It's…It's Naruto" she thought instantly while seeing him perfectly in front of him.

"Ahhan…Uzumaki Naruto is here…Dattebayo!" Naruto said with a foxy grin and while raising his punch in air.

You was happy to see him as she wanted someone to save Nel and somehow she believes in Naruto.

"Huh…Naruto..." Nel again mumbled in surprised that he actually came.

"You jerk! Why you come here? You're just gonna kill yourself" She yelled at him.

"Huh…" Naruto stepped back comically.

"Is that how you greet your hero that has come to save you!" Naruto protested back.

"You've…you don't know what you have dig yourself into?" Nel said lowly with closed eyes.

"Don't worry! I take care of this…" blonde said with his live spirit and enthusiasm.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…."

"Huh…" Nel again widen her eyes at that horrific roar of that Hollow.

From distance Naruto glared at that Hollow.

"It's comin…Naruto, you have to go from here, please go!" while raising her voice in the end.

While giving her comforting and assuring smile, "Trust me…" and when Nel sees directly into his blue oceanic eyes, she does not want to trust Naruto for this thing but somehow in her heart she trusts him and didn't say anything further.

"You, take care of her…" with that leaves.

"Well-well, who are you? A hero came to save her girlfriend…" with an evil smirk.

While returning a smile, "Hmm…you don't have to worry about that…"

"Hmmm…that much confidence….umm…let's see what you got..." Hollow said while taunting him to come…

"Hmm…let's see…does my new technique works here?" before closing his eyes and makes hand seal…

"Huh…what's he's doing?"

For some time, Naruto stayed in that position, smirked little and opens his eye instantly.

"Kage-Bunshi-no-Jutsu!"

Smoke appears with a puff and when smoke cleared, lot of same looking Naruto was standing in front of Hollow.

"Six…han…so that's how I can go up far for now…" Naruto thought while seeing his clones.
"Hmm...still not recovered fully, that certainly drown me into exhaustion state…that's why Six clones."

"Hmm…that's a tricky technique…" black said.

Naruto immediately dashed towards him along with his clones charging him with fists and kicks but all his effort was futile against him.

Nel and You got there and hide themselves behind one of the trees seeing them.

Naruto again make some clones and charged towards him.

"Huh…What is that? So many Naruto's!" Nel said astonishingly with ample eyes, "Yeah, I've saw one of his technique before, but no questioning here! He will tell us later" You said while healing Nel from her powers.

"Huh…" Nel was still watching him constantly without blinking an eye.

"Is that all got, attacking me with same harmless attacks," while blowing all of his clones and finally at giving a final blow at the real one on his limb and then grabbing through his neck, "Kid! I thought that you will be interesting but you're boring me…" Hollow instantly pierced his claw into his chest not wanting to kill him that early.

"Khah…huhhhhhhhhhh…" Naruto panted while coughing lot of blood.

"Huh…NARUTO!" Nel shouted his name from distance and widen her eyes in horror.

"Hmmm…well-well, looks like your girl is worrying for you…" black said while glancing at Nel.
"Hey…you're not dying now, until I kill her first…" and continues to laugh while blonde was panting.

"Huh…" Naruto smiled at him while lifting his face to look him in his eyes, "Who said that I am dying now…" Hollow was confused at his words, "Huh?"

"PUFF!"

"What?" immediately the person he was grabbing gets dispersed into thin air leaving a smoke, "Again that stupid!" Hollow turn backwards but his reaction was too slow to see behind.

"DHOOOOSSH!"

"Ahh…." Naruto punched him with enormous force,

"What? How did he do that?" Nel said again little shockingly and little happily to see him again back on his feet.

"Don't know! But it's truly amazing…" You said with an involuntary grin on her face.

Hollow was going to be thrown with a great force something caught, at his feet.

Two Naruto clones hold up his legs and then third clone gives a knee thrust on his mid region in which he gets exerted towards forward, grabbing his harmed region and immediately same clone somersault backwards, using his hands to support his body on the ground and then kicks him on his lower chin which tosses him upwards,

Nel was continuously watching Naruto and was really overwhelm that Naruto was this strong and really capable for it.

And the last two clones throw Naruto upwards towards their rival, rising slightly upwards from him.

"Ahh…" Hollow growled in pain at blonde.

Naruto smirked at him in midair, "UZUMAKI BARRAGE!" Naruto yelled and giving a last forward somersaulted kick towards him, "AAHH!" which dugs him in the earth.

In a couple of seconds, all clones were starting to puff out leaving real one behind.

"How did he do that, he's truly amazing…" Nel thought and watches further.

"Is it over?" both said simultaneously.

"Khahh" panting a lot from pain and standing up gradually, "Well…huh…kidhhh…you..arehh…interestinghhh…!" giving him an evil smirk with a glare.

"Huh!" Naruto watched him in horror with broad eyes.

"What? What do think? That how I survived that attack…"

Naruto gritted his teeth and again readied himself for next round but he was not sure for another round.

When Nel and You get the clear view from distance, they also shocked to see the evil ones again.

Hollow immediately dashed towards Naruto, not giving him a chance to play another trick or get away, piercing him on his left shoulder, "Ahh…" Naruto screamed in pain while the blood was dripping down along his arm on the grassy ground.

"Well-well, let's test you…"

Hollow starts punching him onto his front region, giving fatal blows to his chest, stomach and ribs and screaming with every blow he was going through.

And then throwed him onto Nel's side.

"N-Naruto…" Nel rushed towards him.
"Are you alright?" Naruto…." Nel questioned him worriedly.

"Ahh…I am fine…this is nothing!" blonde replied with smile and with one eye closed and other half opened in pain.

Nel was literally amazed at him, showing this confidence and giving a smile while going through a severe pain as for her and also anyone, this age was of playing, smiling, doing childish things but this kid has control over himself and his emotions in pain.

"So, is there any way to defeat that Hollow?" blonde questioned her while sitting up, supporting his shoulder from pain.

Nel look towards Hollow and thinks for a minute while closing her eyes in the end.

"Yes, there is!" She replied back with a serious look on her face.

"So, what is it?"

"This way is really dangerous…if it works then you will kill him easily, but!"

"But…?"

"But if it fails you'll die within a second" after opening her eyes. With that Naruto gulped at that with a serious and undefined look on his face.

"Are you kidding me?"

"No…" while looking at Hollow again.

"Nel-sama, you're not going to do that! Are you?" You said with little astonished look.

"I am…" Nel said with a slight grin on her face.

For a moment both were paused.

Nel after breaking silence, "But I seriously recommend you not to…"

"How will it work?"

"Huh…" while widening her eyes.

"You heard me lady!"

Nel was totally amazed by the kid, she actually just wants to start conversation with kid that what's going on? How does he do that making so many his clones?

"You're sure…"

"I am…"

Nel closed her eyes and took a deep breath,

"Naruto…prepare yourself! You are going to be a Shinigami!" Nel said while giving a serious and stern look to blonde.

"I am…What?" Naruto just didn't believe her words on that that he's actually going to become a soul reaper.

"I said that you're going to become a Shinigami!"

Naruto starts wondering what's it about to become a soul reaper, how he looks in their uniform? Blah-blah….blah. Nel immediately punch on his head, "Snap out of it!"

"Are you ready or not?" She said rudely.

"Yes, so what will I do?" Naruto said with a serious look again.

"Hmm…it's just simple process…You have to pierce my Zanpakutou through your heart…" she stated.

"Zan-pa-ku….What?" Naruto said confusingly.

"Huh…" while dropping her face dropped down in a comical way, "I mean my sword…"

"Your sword…"

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…."

"It's comin….not much time." You stated while looking towards hollow.

"Naruto…not much time, explain everything later on, only you need to know that you have to pierce this sword through your heart,"

"What! Penetrating the sword through my heart…What the Hell? I don't wanna die yet!" Naruto said in comical way but with little seriously.

"Hell No! You're not going to die…"

"But piercing it thr…."

"Naruto, Do you want to kill him or not!" She exclaimed at him.

"Yes I will…" Naruto said after all.

"Good!" while looking at her pet, "You!"

"I know…" You immediately showed Nel's Zanpakutou in front of them with her power.

"Whoa!" Naruto was amazed to see that.

"Naruto, only remember that you have to stab it through your heart, nothing to do anything else."

"Are you sure Nel-sama?"

"No, but I want to trust this…" she said after looking blonde.

"He's coming…" You said while looking at the Hollow.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…."
"I am coming for you…"

Naruto immediately stands in front of Nel before holding the Zanpakutou in his hands, pointed towards his thumping heart and Nel also was holding Zanpakutou in her one hand. Naruto slowly swallowed to digest this scenario, "This is insane."

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…..Here I am…"

"Naruto we didn't have time anymore, just do it!" Naruto again gulped at that and was readying himself for this.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…."

"NARUTO!"

Immediately Naruto pierce the sword in his skin and then touching his beating heart, "Khah…" the moment sword penetrates into Naruto's heart, light scatters and Naruto's whole body vanished into that light. Nel and her fox also amazed at the scene and whereas the Hollow, he also stepped back from the intensity of light stopping him to step forwards.

After a couple of moments, sounds of screaming starts coming.

"What happen?" Nel questioned bit worriedly.

"Don't ask me!"

"Huh…Naruto, what happen? Are you ok?"

"Aahhhhhhh….."

"Is he going to die?" she questioned to herself thinking that it will be all her fault if that happens. It's just how weak am I! Not even dismissing a Hollow of that level, and making a small blonde kid a Shinigami to just kill one Hollow. It will be my fault! I can't forgive myself that I just want to make a kid a Shinigami to just finish…or it's just I don't want to die? And that kid dies here. Is that I am afraid of dying now? All of her thoughts was just drowning her in but immediately snapped out of it when a burst of light takes place and completely vanishes.

"Am I Shinigami now?" Naruto questioned her while looking at his palms and his body.

"…looks like it doesn't work…." Nel said after looking at him and still trying to find some transformation.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…"

"Huh…" Naruto turn backwards,

"Kage-Bunshi-no-jutsu!"

Again charging at Hollow but within a moment he instantly puffed them out and finally came to real. First punched him from right, then left and then kicked him at his stomach, but seconds before getting kicked, Naruto felt something inside him and blew off from there, crashing trees after trees.

"Huh…that hurts!" Naruto panted after coming in rest.

"What's that I just felt?"
"…probably my imagination…" blonde sighed while again starts running, making shadow clones.

"Huh…Why I have to repeat myself…same trick won't work against me!" Hollow exclaimed at last and readied himself for his next move.

Naruto was charging at him with his clones and he even didn't reached at his rival, suddenly all his clones puffed out.

"Khah…" blood spilled out from Naruto's body and dripped on ground, targeted on the stomach.

"Narutoooooo!" Nel shouted from distance.

Whole one big claw was pierced into his body. "Huh…pretty tough of you….but farewell kid…sweet dreams are coming to you" and with that he started laughing. Pulling out his claw instantly, giving him an uppercut, raised little and finally giving him a damn forced kick, throwing him at remarkable speed in projectile.

"No!" Nel shouted.

Naruto flew away from there and then crashed in trees.

Nel charged at Hollow in rage by first punching him from back but apparently he countered it by pulling her fist in same momentum and charged that punch on the ground and then slashing her one arm with his claw.

"Aahhh…." She panted in pain after getting slashed by him.

"Nel-sama!"

"Well-well….what should we do next…"

"You know it's a pleasure that I've encounter you in between…"

"Huh…" while forgetting about her pain and widening her eyes.

"What do you mean?"

"You know, I'm hungry since a long time and had no satisfied feast till now, well I'm sensing too much reiatsu from this dimension and as a matter of fact, you've showed up…"

Taking advantage of the busy conversation, Nel straight away kicked him and right away got away from him hiding in the forest.

"Huh…you still think that you can escape from me…"

"Huh…" still astonished. It means that Nnoitra haven't sent him for me, he's on his own. But the question is why he was here? He says he's sensing too much spiritual pressure from here, means… in her thoughts.

"Well…you didn't even listen to me fully, I was going to tell you the most important part but you stopped me at the peak…"

"The thing is, you know that brat who was protecting you earlier, I came for him cause he's the one with the higher spiritual pressure in this realm. In past, I've been trying to penetrate into this realm but couldn't as it was out of my reach or you can say it has barrier which was protecting, so from yesterday, the barrier was kinda…lose or it may be broken, so I was expecting lately that it was you who've come to this place yesterday…Am I right? Haha…but the most important thing is that,"

Nel's eyes widened at that moment as she couldn't believe that Naruto has highest pressure and that Hollow came here to devour the soul of that blonde kid. Her thoughts were interrupted when she felt someone behind her and widened her eyes, "I've got the honor of fighting and killing a lowly Espada..."

"THHEEESSSHHHHHHHHHH!"

Nel crashed down on couple of trees, it's like she had enough of this and wanted to end this as soon as possible but couldn't and was losing grip on herself. Somehow in her mind, she was feeling guilty, for coming to this place, disturbing their peace and for this entire nuisance she had created. At the moment she wants to die but on the other hand she didn't want to die yet.

"So I will kill you first and take that brat…"

When Nel was laying on the ground facing towards earth, struggling to stand up but in a moment Hollow came and fiercely kicked her in her side stomach, flew few meters away from the devil. "Prepare yourself lady, you're about to let go your problems from now on…" He came nearer with a simple walk.

"Any last wish lady!" he asked with a smirk.

With her depressed face looking downwards she didn't respond to that.

"Huh…ha…haa…haahaa….aaa…"

"THEN DIE!" Hollow slowly pulled his claw back and starts thrusting his claw with all his force, Nel lifted her face up and saw his claw first going backwards then forcing it towards her. Nel grew her eyes wide with each milli-second the gap was closing.

"SPASHH!"

Nel closed her eyes at that moment.

Hollow shocked at the moment, "Huh! What?"

"Well-well, looks like I'm just in time to catch you lady!"

Nel was already prepared to die but for another couple of seconds she doesn't even feel the claw touching her body. Nel opens her eye and saw Hollow with claw pointed at her, mere inches away from her and saw another person who grabbed that claw with his bare hands and other hand holding his Zanpakutou, no…it's hers it is Nel's Zanpakutou…blood was dripping down from his hand holding claw as the claw slashed his hand slightly. No! he's a man with a little familiar looks from behind, only hair can seen and it was blonde and a minor side face was seeing, it's…those whiskers…

"Back-off!" innovative flesh said with a serious tone.

"Huh?"

Without wasting another second in repeating his words, he immediately slashed his arm from birth and sliced it from the body. "Aahh…..aahhh...my…arm….." He screamed in pain and modestly stepped back from them.

"Huh…" Nel immediately recognized the man in the kimono and called his name in surprise, "Naruto…" while trailing her voice in the end.

"Hmm…" he turned back and gave foxy grin to her, in which she was melted from inside a reddish thing started to form on her cheeks as the question was Naruto was grown up from before, not fully adult but in teen, you can say age of his was 16-17.

"You know! This outfit is coooooll…." while looking at his own dress. Naruto was looking seriously amazing as his facial features grown from before, yet he was looking cute and those whisker marks of his is really adorning. His blue oceanic eyes were really electrifying in the first sight and those sun-kissed spikes of his were really striking. Nel was drowned in her own thoughts but a question framed in her mind that why Naruto is half grown in teen? She was expecting Naruto to be fully grown but this was something unusual and interrupted by blonde's voice.

"Is this what Shinigami look like?"

She only nodded at that.

"Looks like you've hurt…here…you will feel better in a minute," Naruto extended her arm to touch her and heal her but this was poles apart and Naruto also amazed at that, "Huh…this is unlike, it didn't happen before," while seeing his hand, "Is this the limitation of being a soul reaper or it's just a can't do it right now? Have to figure out later!"

"What happen?"

"Nothing it's just I'm not used to…tell you later, You take care of her!" she nodded at that.

"Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr…" he was still in pain cursing the blonde kid for his arm.

"I'll kill you!"

Blonde team took a glimpse at the coming figure, while Naruto only smirked at him and when Hollow approached to attack from his other arm straight away to the blonde, Naruto dodged that attack simply and strongly, then proceeded on and kicked him in his body's mid region (Not that region) and flew him away crashing in trees.

"Huh…" astonished both master and puppet at the sight they were seeing that he kicked so strongly and effortlessly.

"Whoa!" Naruto was also amazed at his new-fangled powers and smirked at that.

"You've lousy brat! I will kill you…" he struggled to stand up on his knees and again moves to attack him.

"Hmm…let's test speed!" Naruto mumbled slowly and dashed towards him in a blink of eye.

"Is he using Shunpo?" Nel questioned in amazement.

"No I don't think so!"

"That's what I think! It's pure and genuine speed!"

Moment Hollow starts moving he was startled by the sight and a voice behind his back. "Hey where are you going?" Hollow turned backwards but Naruto didn't give another second to turn and instantly sliced him from behind, again flashed towards forward, punched him in the chest and then makes a double axe hands and blows him downwards with enormous power.

"DHEEEESSSHHHHHHH!"

Whole area was covered by dust, nothing was visible by team resting at back.

"What happen?" emerald thought while covering her eyes from dust and seeing the scenario.

Immediately Naruto came to them.

"Whoa! It's really great," blonde said little maturely.

"Are you alright?" blonde said worriedly.

"Yes…" that's all she could manage to tell seeing his face right now that was worrying about her.

"Nel-sama…are you really alright?"

"Hmm…" Nel glared at her.

"Ok-ok!"

"Khah…huhhh…" while panting, he struggled to stand up but didn't stand up, only half.

"Huh…" all look towards him.

He only panted and rested his body for some minute.

"Huh…What's he waiting for?"

"Is he planning on something?"

"Naruto, finish him before he do something!" she ordered him as she didn't want any more trouble.

"Huh?"

"Finish him! He's doing something!"

Naruto didn't respond to her words and keeps on seeing him.

"Naruto! Are you listening to me?"

"I am, but let's wait for a minute!" she widened her eyes at this.

"What? Are you out of your mind! Moment ago, death was just mere inches away from us…so just finish him already!"

Nel didn't know what's he's thinking at that moment. Does he believe in himself? Or it is another thing?

"Now you'll die!" Hollow yelled in pain and smirked little. Waited little more and then rushed to Naruto.

"Huh…Naruto…" Nel trailed off while calling his name but couldn't say anything further as she saw Naruto was smirking at him.

Hollow was just blurting towards him and made his first appearance to attack him directly pointing the claw directly towards him tip-toed.

"SPLASH!"

"Khah…huh…" black coughed blood on the ground while panting.

"How…?"

Naruto didn't answer his words, he just gave a glare at him and smirked little.

"You…." Naruto didn't gave him another second and sliced his front body diagonally and with that attack he was numbed, his body sliced in two parts, blood splashed downwards and then turning into dust, dissolving in thin air completely.

"Naruto…!"

Nel was amazed at him, as this kid is giving one after other surprises to her.

Naruto turned back and watched her politely, giving her same warm and gentle smile to her.

Nel blushed at that, and was going to faint at that moment but a little flash occurred in front of her and she immediately snapped out of it.

After that flash the person standing in front of her was reversed into his original ones.

"What happen?" she questioned.

"Don't know…" Naruto replied while looking at his body and then at his palms.

Again giving her foxy grin while scratching his back head but something caught him, right now he was feeling different, little dizzy, eyes curled upwards and the only thing he was hearing and seeing was of Nel and You calling his name and his sight was going blurry and blacking out.

"Naruto…"

"Naruto…"

"Naru…"

"Na…"

Around two hours later:-

Naruto was still unconscious but he can hear something, it's like someone's voice was trailing off while calling him, it was something really unusual for him as it never happened before. Though, after sometime it stopped calling his name but hears some other voice in a couple of seconds.

"Naruto!"

"Naruto…"

"Naruto…Are you alright?"

Naruto somehow find little uncomfortable at his current situation. Gradually opened his eyes, and was still hearing that fainting voice that was calling his name. Naruto slowly observed his surroundings, he found that he was lying in some warm and comfortable place. He gently opened his eyes, blinking multiple times to get his desired vision.

"Naruto…"

After getting his vision, "Where am I?"

"You're in your home…" she replied gently.

"What happened?"

"You just fainted on the ground before than…"

Naruto gradually sits up using his elbow, drank some water and saw Nel's wounds and bruises.

"Oh…you're still in that condition…let me have your hand…" he requested politely.

She didn't know what he's up to, she just lend her hand to him.

Moment Naruto grabbed her hand, Nel immediately snapped in and was much comfortable as his hand was warm and soft and she was cold and numb with outer climate. Waited for couple of seconds but Nel was confused that he's doing. In a minute, all her Injuries were healed. She widened her eyes at that what Naruto had just done it.

Looking at all her previous injuries spots, "How you've done it?"

"Nothing, it's just trick…"

She simply stared at him.

After a minute, "Are you alright?" she asked gently with a smile.

"Hmm…yup!"

"Are you seriously alright?"

"Ahhan!"

"Then start answering my questions…" asked instantly in serious tone and expression.

"Huh…" in comical way.

"What was that trick of clones?"

"Umm…It's just clone summoning jutsu…umm…like clones are of different types…shadow, water, lightning, and I think some extra are also there, not pretty sure. And phrase jutsu…it's like…like simply it states technique…"

After he completely, You also spoke in between, "Yeah that's when I first saw him doing that thing when he was carrying us to the home…"

"Okh…." Nel slowly digested that information.

"How you know that? Are you from somewhere else?"

"Lady! First of all I am born in this place, this is my birth place…second most important, this dimension consist of Ninjas…of different levels, i.e. Genin-the lowest level, Chunin-the middle level, Jonin-the higher level and lastly the Kage-the highest level and superior to all of it, which rules the nation or village and that's what my dream is. Yes, there are some other levels besides this but these are the main ones. And now I am currently a genin."

They only nodded at this, "So any question in this?"

"No…"

"Good!"

"Aa...one minute I have one…"

"Hmm…."

"What's all about that techniques? Like clone ones!" You asked tenderly.

"Hmm…another boring lecture" in a comical way.

While crossing his arms and in comical serious expression, "In this also, we have different types of this, Firstly…Ninjutsu…like my technique…using chakra of my bo…" Naruto saw them only staring at him expressionless.

"You don't know the meaning of 'Chakra', do you?"

"No…"

"Huh…"
"Chakra…means spiritual energy, like yours reiatsu…"

They immediately nodded at that.

"So Ninjutsu…using spiritual energy of my body, and if chakra depleted in my body, I die…"

They continued nodding at what he was saying now…

"Then Genjutsu…it is related with illusionary techniques, also used from body chakra…Then comes your Taijutsu…it consists of only physical attacks, not any chakra in this…"

"Ok…"
"And why you have the most chakra in yourself?" Nel questioned again.

"Don't know…"

"Hmm…"
"And what was that technique you used to heal me just now?"

"Hmm… interesting question…" while smirking a little with closed eyes and then opening again, "let's just say that this is the technique only I can use…no one else, well medic ninja can use cause they trained in that and then using their chakra to heal others. This is just like that…only I have that potential…"

"Hmm…"

"Anymore questions!" Naruto asked sternly.

"Many! But forgetting now…"

"Hmm…now it's your turn…" blonde said with a smirk.

"Huh…"

"What's that thing, Hollow?"

"It is a human which loses his/her heart after death in certain period of time. It is always hungry, wanting to devour the soul of living or deceased humans. Can be recognized, wearing white mask on face and skull and a hole in their body which resembles that they don't have heart. And mostly attacks on the person with the high spiritual pressure."

"Hmm…I thought Espadas are the powerful evil ones. So how's that you're, you know what I mean?"

"Huh…" Nel was astonished that how does he knows about Espadas and how does he know she is Espada.

"I told him yesterday!" You answered her.

After listening to her answer, Nel sighed and was satisfied at that.

"It's because being in the top position, we consist of intelligence, like you humans…That's why we're the most strongest ones…" she replied gently.

"You are Espada, I mean like evil ones, so how can you make me a Shinigami, you know they always purify souls and they…I mean…you both races are rivals…so the question is how can you make me a shinigami! I mean…I heard creature can make what they in the same… So I meant to be a Hollow or Espada…"

"Hmm…good question but that I also don't understand fully…for now, understand that I only learned it somewhere."

"Ok…so last one…"

"How you come to this realm? I mean in weakened state, not even in shape to defeat that Hollow? What causes you to come here?"

Nel take deep breath, calmly closed her eyes and after a long pause, "You know, we're Espadas consist of intelligence other than any other of Hollows…So I don't know what causes people to fight other with no reason in it only want to prove that…" she gritted her teeth in between them, "that they are more powerful than others. You know that's the most animalistic thing that I've seen…" again after a long pause, "Espada no.5 Nnoitra Gilga he's the one with that thing, thought that I, I mean females are not stronger than males in this world."

"That's bullshit!" Naruto exclaimed in between.

"He made the plan to kill me and will be killed in that last fatal attack he was going to make but with the help of You, she teleported us here in time and I survived with your help."

"But aren't you the powerful than him, cause you're 3?"

"Yup! But he tricked me…"

"Hmm…"

After a little pause, "That's a really long night…and it's a lot to digest that easily…God my head is drowning…need tea!" blonde requested her.

She only nodded at that, "I prefer milk!" puppet replied.

Naruto gazed at Nel after You's answer.

"Hehe…she's exhausted!" Nel grinned at him.

"Hmm…looks like I am exhausted too!"

"Kage-Bunshi-no-jutsu!" while making some hand seals, with a puff a clone appeared in front of them.

"Please make some tea…"

"Hai!"

"Better than yesterday!"

"Hmm…a question I've memorized again…That why Naruto is in his teens, when he was in Shinigami?" she questioned herself.

"Hmm…what does that mean?" blonde questioned confusedly.

"I've read somewhere that when a person is transformed into Shinigami, he/she also transforms their age and personality to their fresh adult ones, if a child of 8 or 10 years or if and old hag is transformed into Shinigami, the outcomes of both are to be transformed into their adult age. But in your case, your teen not an adult, and that's something strange."

In a minute, Tea came and drank slowly.

"Good! It's truly comfortable in this temperature." Nel flustered with a grin.

"Let's sleep…tomorrow will be hard day…" putted glass beside table and with that he started sleeping while taking blanket without thinking about emerald that where she will sleep.

In the Morning:-

Naruto woke up first, opens his eye but this time it took him one or two second to get his vision as room was mostly in darkness. Window was shut and covered by white translucent curtain and through that only little of light came and scatters away minutely. Today, it was very frosty climate and sun was hidden behind clouds. But it took Naruto more than a minute to notice his surroundings. He was warm under the blanket but yet he can feel presence of someone in his bed too.

Someone was also in bed with blonde. Naruto was still facing away from bed in which he was asleep and he felt that someone was touching slightly from back and afterwards he noticed the soft snoring of that person.

He turned back to see that person and…

"Whoa! You've…" blonde widened his eyes to see that emerald looking girl mere inches away from his face, still sleeping.

To be continued…

So, how do you like it! It's a bit complicated about being a shinigami rather than becoming a hollow. I like this chapter but gradually improve in fighting scenes and explain each and everything slowly, till then be patient. Here are the questions:-

Some readers don't like the name of Nel's puppet i.e. 'You'. So should I do something about it?

I have some pairings in my mind and I want your opinion in that. I have two ideas, i.e. first one is Naruto x Nel, second is Naruto x Hinata and Nel with other Espada (That's a surprise). So which would you like?

So, how do you like this chapter? Hope I impress you. So please review it! And ask anything you want to? I will be there. And for those readers who questioned me last time. I didn't answer to them timely cause I was busy with home things, you know home stuff and was really tired this week. So now I answer to them and you also. Again sorry for any grammatical errors and please review it and your opinions and will try to upload next chapter in a week, sorry for this! So till then…

^_^ Ja ne!

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