I bet a lot of you are gonna kill me for posting this new story instead of "Die Once, Live Again? What the Hell?"

Srry, I have writers block on that one. Lets go with this for now...lol...

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In the world, there were the countries that all had their famous ninja villages. However, there was another "ninja" village, but it was casted from the circle. No one that was not a ninja ventured near it, the chakra pressure was almost crushing. And even then, shinobi and kunoichi alike did not set foot anywhere inside the village. This village, which invoked the very principle of fear into all people, was called "Tamagakure no Sato" Village Hidden in the Souls. No one on the outside of the walls knew why.

On the outside of the walled village was a town, quite more civilized than within, named Karakura Town - it was the village where travelers stopped by, and it was protected by Tama. The people here remained oblivious to anything inside the society, but in all honesty they didn't even care, either. On occasion, Shinigami material - shinigami being the term used to call a soldier in the village military - would pop up in the humble little town, and a Shinigami would appear to take them into the military.

Within the walls, the town looked larger than two of the Great Ninja Villages put together. There was an inner wall, and an outer wall.

The outer walls were dubbed Rukongai, where villagers lived humbly or in poverty - the politics did not intervene within them. Everyone acted on their own terms, and rarely did they see any of the Shinigami. However, they would, on occasion, create riots, due to being angered that Shinigami have the better life.

On this side of the divide, one would normally find stealing, domestic violence, but in secluded parts only. These parts are where those who looked for battle and thirsted for battle traveled, if only to get a taste of the fever of violence. In most other parts the community was whole, for the children played, the adults chattered, and a sense of unity held Rukongai together.

In the inner wall lived those who were part of the village military, the Gotei 13, and the entire society within those walls was dubbed Seireitei. Everyone had two kinds of clothing in the Gotei 13, and the coloring was mandatory.

The formal robes, required for ceremonial practices, meetings, funerals, weddings, or any other thing related, were a simple shihakusho. The captains wore a haori, the only thing that they could customize about it being the sleeves or accessories they donned in addition to it. What could be worn in addition to these robes were limited. The vice-captains too had a mild choice of wearing color customizable articles in addition to the black robes.

However, the second set of robes were customizable to the extent that they only had to be black, and the captains still had to had some translated version of a haori.

At all times, every shinobi in Seireitei had to have their hitai-ate, which simply had a the signature diamond symbol of the Gotei 13.

The reason why the other Ninja villages avoided contact with this misfit ninja village was for the reason of the rumors that many infants born in the village were born with a demon, and if they had and could control that demon, they were gifted a hunk of metal that would warp into a sword if their power was deemed worthy that would allow them to channel that power and put into the military.

Little did the other villages know that their beliefs on this society were one-hundred percent true, and that soon they would be active as a Great Shinobi Village...

"Hitsugaya-taichou." There was a boy, appearing no older than 10, looked to the village leader, and elder, the Reikage, and also the leader of the village military, the Sotaichou, Yamamoto Genryuusai. This boy was unique in his appearance, for he had white hair remained pure as the snow no matter what happened to it, and his teal eyes stayed as cold as ice regardless of the situation.

Currently, he donned his second set of robes, his being knee-length shorts with thigh-high ninja sandals, black, and an equally tank-shirt with a high collar that covered his neck and a small portion of his chin, and a white open vest with the Insignia of 10 on the back over it.

"Yes, Sotaichou?"

"As a military captain I give this mission to no other than you alone to be its captain." He stiffened at the formal greeting, signaling that the mission would by no means be easy, or short.

"Don your informal robes in this situation; you must be suited for warm weather and rough terrain. You will be patrolling the borders around Konoha, for sources have spoken that Aizen is plotting something concerning the area. You will be choosing two other high-ranking officials, taichou or fukutaichou I care not, and will be posing as a "genin team" in order to infiltrate Konoha for the Chuunin Exams. Keep your eyes open, your mission is to observe. And the Bureau of Technology managed to acquire these passes allowing you entry into the village for these exams. Also, we agreed to send one of our medics to supervise the games, should anything happen, and so by default Yamada Hanatarou will be traveling with you."

"Yes, sotaichou." He said. Then, he stood. "Sotaichou, should we also choose someone to fill the pose of "jounin"?"

"Your vice captain will be filling that role." He twitched inwardly.

"...Yes...Sotaichou." With that, he turned. "Shall I take my leave?"

"Be off with you. But first, you must give Matsumoto-fukutaichou this vest - otherwise it will seem suspicious." Hitsugaya nodded, and shunpo'ed from the sight to his division. Shunpo was a great creation of the Tama researching facility, which was under the control of the Twelfth Division of the Gotei 13. The advances in chakra manipulation within the Gotei 13 were also highly rumored and feared outside of their walls.

In fact, the truth was their advances were so great that they even managed to travel into advances and manipulation of death energy, reiryoku. And so, a standard "Shinigami", the title given for a soldier in the Gotei 13, regardless of rank, would have a massive knowledge of elemental and shape manipulating ninjutsu while also knowing many "Kido", jutsu created using incantations and molding reiryoku. Currently he now stood in front of his office, his eye involuntarily twitching at the sound of loud snoring coming from within, and realized with a steadily boiling anger that his fukutaichou had fallen asleep yet again, most likely glaring down at the evil beast she considered to be the mountain of paperwork.

"Matsumoto!" Said woman jumped, squealing slightly as she quickly put her hands in front of her breasts before staring wildly at Hitsugaya. She had strawberry blond hair and baby-blue eyes, and wore her informal robes - a black mini-skirt with white-short shorts underneath, ninja boots that reached mid-thigh, mesh stockings, a long-sleeved mesh shirt under a short tank top that had a low neckline and did not cover her stomach.

"Taichou! You startled me! They almost spilled out!" He groaned at the implication and rubbed his eye-ridge.

"Good thing they didn't...And now, you're going on a mission with me, Kuchiki-fukutaichou and Kurosaki-taichou."

"Why do I have to? Haineko is still not cooperating with me!" She whined. He growled, his eyes flashing red for a moment as her eyes flashed yellow in return - however, they both returned to their normal state soon enough.

"I'll have Hyorinmaru kick her ass then, just get up and let's go! We have to be at Konoha ASAP!" Now her face brightened.

"We get to see the outside world now?" He nodded. "YAY!! We never get missions like this! All we get are the bloody recon missions..."

"However, you need to wear this or people will get suspicious." He handed her the green short vest - it was formatted especially for her, apparently - and she slipped it on with ease. With that, the two shunpo'ed away and found the others - There was Kurosaki Ichigo, the captain replacing their enemy, Aizen, in the Fifth Division, a resident of Karakura born with the moon demon Zangetsu and cursed with but surviving the "Hollow Illness", with the Inner Hollow Hichigo. He had black Capri styled-pants, black ninja-sandals, a black T-shirt with a white zipped vest (it resembles Shippuuden Gaara's vest) with the insignia 5 on it.

Then, there was Rukia Kuchiki, who replaced one Momo Hinamori due to her mental instability as Vice Captain of the Fifth Division, part of one of the noble families, and born with the snow demon Sode No Shirayuki. She wore a white fabric wrapped around her hips, her shoulder having the vice-captain badge for 5 wrapped around it, a black kimono-like shirt that had long sleeves that only barely showed her finger-tips, black shorts underneath that only reached mid-thigh and shinobi heels.

They soon found that Hanatarou was already waiting for them. The young medic was completely ready, carrying his medical supplies and a rather well-sized bag at his side. He had his hitai-ate wrapped around his head, tilted to face the right a little more and had a shirt with an average collar-length, and sleeve length was to his elbows. He had bandaged his lower arms but wore black fingerless gloves over his bandages. He also had similar shorts to Hitsugaya, but average short ninja sandals.

And now having the entire group, they instantly vanished; there was no need to use the gates, and so there were none visible to the human eye - they only opened when a shinigami or a gate-guard opened them. But for now, their travels would be swift and easy enough, shunpo was a grace given from God to lighten the burdens of traveling for them.

At least, it would be swift and easy until they arrived in Konoha. That is when the real trouble would begin, from survival, to alliances, to petty missions, to dealing with traitors, enemies and the concept of war.

Hitsugaya promptly ignored the reminiscent feeling of ominous doom in his stomach and carried on.