Hello, everyone! I'm back with a brand new story, and this category has pushed me away since so many fics aren't really that interesting, they're poorly written, and so few actually make them real crossovers, or what I consider them real crossover. So for this one, all I ask is that you keep an open mind with this one. That is all that I ask, so enjoy :)

Prologue: Alone

He woke up all of a sudden in the dead of night. His head hurt like hell, and he groaned as he slowly got up, the sky was bright with stars and the moon. He looked around to get a better view of his surroundings, as his throat was dry and his stomach was growling like no tomorrow. This sucked...like bad...

"Ok, where the hell am I? I know that I'm not dead, and that's a fact, so what gives? Am I home?" He was hoping to get a response from his friends inside his gut, but instead he got zippo...which sucked. He needed to find out why, but first came the necessities.

The boy named Naruto started to gather up the natural energy around him and his eyes changed that of a cross shaped pupil with gold colored eyes. Though when he did, he noticed that it wasn't as potent as it usually was. Rather it was thinner than usual, odd...

Though now that he finally got his Senjutsu up even though it took a little longer than usual, he was able to make out several life signatures, human ones at that, though they felt rather weaker than usual, about a kilometer behind him, "Alrighty then, now I know where to go get something to eat...well...hopefully..."

As Naruto was about to make his way to where the people where. He decided to try and see if he could get an aerial view of where he was, maybe a good picture of what country he was in. Going against his better judgement more so often than usual, so he decided to just say fuck it all and went into his Six Paths Mode and float for a bit to get a better view of where he was heading towards.

He was actually in awe of what he saw, "Woooaaahhh...", a massive compound that was practically two to three times the size of the Leaf Village. It was surrounded by a large wall for whatever reason illuminated with several small lights throughout the compound as it had a large flat plateau up above in the center with large towers and spires within an inner compound, "Oh, shit. Someone probably saw me." This just donned in him as odds are, someone was up in those towers keeping watch over the place, at least that's what he would do if this was a military installation.

Naruto flew down to the ground and deactivated his Six Paths Mode, and tried his luck at just running towards the town he saw at the edge of the place.

Naruto started to slow down a bit not wanting to bring too much attention to himself, so he walked his way towards several building hoping to find a ramen stand that was still open late, judging by the many windows and doors closed and blacked out houses. As he kept walking he saw a young petite girl wearing a yellow kimono without any sandals or shoes running past him, "Woah! Hey, warning next time?!" Naruto shouted out towards the girl, but she didn't acknowledge him since she just kept running on to where ever. "Ehh, whatever. Stupid girl..."

Now, Naruto sometimes didn't know better, but he sure as hell does sometimes and was prepared for many situations...except for the one...he would be in this for a long time.

As he continued walking in the direction the girl had come from, he heard a light snoozing down to his left on the ground, and what he saw and was imagining right now, made him speechless.

He saw a tiny little baby wrapped up to the brim in sheets and just snoozing away, but eventually that cute little snoozing started to turn into whimpering. Naruto scooped the baby up and tried to rock it as he saw the moms back in the village would do when their own babies where about to cry. Luckily he was able to get the baby to calm down a bit, though now he was wondering about the babies family. "Hey little guy, where's you're family?"

As Naruto started to coddle the baby a bit, he saw that there was an etching in the sheets, "Your name's Rukia. Oh, little girl then...my bad there, hehe..."

As he started to chuckle a bit to himself, it seemed that the baby girl, who he now knew was named Rukia started to wake up. She opened her eyes and simply stared at him with small amount of happiness going off of the little smile she gave him.

Naruto looked into those bright purple eyes and saw such cuteness in them. "Aaaaawwwww...you're sooooo cuuuuuute..." He was making a little puppy dog face in sadness at the fact that this little baby was left out in the cold. Who the hell would do something so cruel?!

Eventually baby Rukia tried to grab at the left side of his face, though he knew what she was trying to grasp at. His newly minted Rinnegan. He had obtained it during his fight against Sasuke in their continuation of their first fight 4 years ago at the Valley of the End. He guessed that Super Gramps Sage had given him some sort of edge against Sasuke once they sealed Kaguya away, and as they began their fight he suddenly felt like he was siphoning away Sasuke's Yin Chakra, and now he had his eyes to boot...but afterwards, he couldn't remember for some reason...he'd figure it out later.

Naruto decided to slip his head band over his left eye like Kakashi-sensei would, and baby Rukia stopped trying to fiddle with his left eye. But that didn't stop her from trying to rub his whisker marks on his cheeks. He smiled at her and let baby Rukia play with his cheeks to her heart's content. "Well, I guess I can look after you for a while." Naruto looked around and decided to try and find a place to crash for the night and see what they could grab to eat.

No ramen stands, damn well that sucks...but then again he kinda doubted that she'd be able to eat and appreciate the glory of ramen. He'd show her one day when she was old enough to understand.

He finally found what looked like a hotel of sorts with the lights still on, a candle in the window by the looks of it, and decided to see if he could bullshit his way into a free night here.

And judging from the way the place looked, even the surrounding buildings, "This whole town is a dump, who'd be able to live in these conditions? Even I had better places to go to back home at the Leaf Village." It seemed that odds are the owner would probably be desperate for someone to stay in here, and hopefully they were a bleeding heart as an added bonus.

Naruto opened up the door slowly and stepped inside, where he saw to his left was a desk clerk or from he could guess was the clerk of the hotel. He saw that it was a woman probably in her mid thirties who was taking care of a few papers on the desk. Yeah, that crap sucked, and he had a feeling that he'd be doing a lot of it when he became Hokage.

He cleared his throat to grab the clerks attention, "Umm, excuse me miss."

The clerk was caught off guard by Naruto's voice going off of her jumping a bit from the desk with her papers flying around from the man made burst of wind, "Gyah! Oh, sorry sir. I don't get many people around 3 AM in the morning." She started to collect the scattered papers from behind her desk and got them into a pile, "So, can I get you a room for you..." then she glanced at baby Rukia whom Naruto was holding in his arms close to him, "...and your, uh daughter there?"

Naruto looked down towards baby Rukia and saw that she was trying to play with his whisker marks smiling a bit and cooing, "Y-yeah, my daughter." He was about to rebuke and say that she wasn't his daughter, but he wasn't sure if he should say that he just found her in the street, no telling what would happen to her.

He was able to sweet talk the clerk into letting them sleep in a room for the night for free since he didn't know if his money would even be of any worth here, and as an added bonus the woman was nice enough to give them some food for him and Rukia to eat for the night. Thank whatever deity was out there for making bleeding hearts.

He wasn't full at all but it gave him something for the night, and now he was feeding Rukia with a bottle at the moment on their bed. She was pretty wide awake at the moment despite it being really late in the night.

"I get the feeling you're gonna be a night owl in the future." Naruto took the bottle out of Rukia's mouth to give her some time to breath since she just gulped down half the thing in just a minute, she was hungry just as much as he was. Then again, he did go two whole days without food or water and fought almost nonstop, so he was probably feeling like hell right now.

But she was a baby, and only a couple of months old from the way she looked. Most newborns couldn't really smile or much less open their eyes so early in their lives. "Alright so, I'm currently taking care of a baby after pretty much going up against a god...never thought I'd be doing something like this so early in my life." Rukia had finally gulped down the last of the bottle and started getting heavy eyes, Naruto knew that she had to burp since they couldn't really do it so early in their lives, they had to have help so he placed her up to his shoulder and started to pat her on the back to help her get a few burps out of her system.

"I know that I just found you, and you're already kinda attached to me. And I know that I'm not your dad...but, I can be whatever you want me to be." Still no burp from Rukia. "I mean, I could be your brother...your cousin...uncle...or like that woman said, your dad."

That's when he got a burp from Rukia. "Oh, well I guess that's the answer then." Even though he wasn't too big on this so soon, he wasn't going to abandon this baby girl.

No way in hell.

Tomorrow morning he'd try to see where he was, and try to find a better place to live in, there was no way he could raise, or at least try to raise a baby girl in a place that looked this run down.

He stopped patting Rukia and looked at her to see that she was already back to sleep. "She's sooooo cuuuute like this..." He whispers to himself. He got the bed situated for the two of them as he took a single pillow for himself and left two others for Rukia to have as walls of protection in case he rolled over on her or she rolled over the side of the bed. Soon, the two of them fell to sleep into the night. Though, he couldn't shake this feeling, that something dark would be on the horizon...

The morning following, Naruto got up and saw that Rukia was still asleep, so he decided to see what info he could get for wherever he was at. He gently lifted Rukia up without waking her, knowing that she'd cry like no tomorrow if she did, and walked back towards where the desk clerk was at last night and saw that she had fallen asleep on the desk with a bit of drool coming out of her mouth. "Uhmm, excuse me. Miss?"

The woman snorted a bit in surprise that she had fallen asleep at her desk, "Oh, yes, yes. Sorry about that. How can help you, young man?"

"Yeah, umm, where exactly am I? Or where is this place? Is it somewhere in the Land of Fire? Or the Land of Lightning?" Naruto looked at the woman and saw that she was giving him a look that was asking him, 'Where the hell are those places? What have you been smoking? Do you have two heads? Is the sky pink instead with flying pigs? Have you come from a place where you burp you fart and vice-versa?'

Yeah...not a very good sign.

"I've never heard of those places before, I came from Kyoto in Japan before I died in 1765. We're in the Soul Society and this is the 78th district, Hanging Dog in the Rukongai." Now Naruto knew where he was, and the fact that the woman said she 'died', made him rather skeptical and a little scared at the same time.

He sure as hell knew that he wasn't dead, that was for damn sure! Fuck death!

So, he decided to get to the bottom of this little lack of info problem. "Oh, umm sorry I kinda recently died too, so I don't really know where I came to." He played along with whatever this woman was acting with, maybe he'd get some straight answers.

He listened to the woman's explanations about the Soul Society, the Rukon District, and the way they were structured. When people die in the World of the Living as it was called, their souls came to the Soul Society with the help of a 'Shinigami' to ferry them over. And that they all lived in the Sereitei in the middle of the Soul Society, the massive compound that Naruto had seen when he first got here.

He only knew of one Shinigami, and he sure as hell knew that he didn't look human since he saw the memory that his mother had shown him, but whatever.

After thanking the woman again for letting them stay the night and grab some food, she was also nice enough to give him a baby back strap that she used to have for her own children to carry Rukia wherever he went so he had his arms for use. Naruto decided to try and make his way to this Sereitei and see if he could maybe sneak a peek into the place. See what gave these so called Shinigami the power, and right to do what they pleased.

Apparently a vast majority of the Shinigami looked down upon people in the Rukon District, and considered them trash and treated them like dirt. They only were concerned with themselves and their jobs. Well if this Soul Society was supposed to be Heaven, then why the hell weren't the Shinigami trying to make it just that?

The way these people were living were pathetic, if anything from what he remembered from what Pervy Sage had taught him on their three year training trip, they were still stuck at least in times before the Era of Warring States when only the Nobles lived in peace and comfort, while the commoners lived in poverty and strife.

Rich are getting richer, while the poor just keep getting poorer. "This is wrong..." It was all he said about the system. Back home the Nobles, or at least the ones he knew, particularly the Hyugas actually cared about the commoners and about their future somewhat. Although it was mostly towards the Leaf Village, and not as much towards the outside towns within the Land of Fire.

Naruto arrived out into an open field and saw the majestic view of the Sereitei, despite having upstarts in the place, it was a beautiful sight to see. He saw that another town, prolly a better one at that since he saw that the town was rather lively. He heard Rukia starting to wake up a bit and felt that she was getting her hands out to move around a bit.

It must seriously suck to have no movement at all in those blankets.

"Well, I think this looks like a nice place to settle down for a while." Naruto turned to Rukia nestled up on his back. "What do you think?" She cooed a bit when he talked to her, she liked it from what he could tell. "Yeah, you're right. It's nice, although I think we should probably keep our distance from the Shinigami around the place. Don't want any suspicion right now." Rukia started playing with his hair at the back of his head for a bit as he made his way into the new town.

It definitely was a huge step up from Hanging Dog that was for sure. He walked around into the marketplace from the looks of it as merchants were getting everything set since it was still the morning.

Hanging Dog had rats scurrying about in the streets and garbage was piled up. Here, people's porches were swept up, cats and dogs hanging around the windows looking well groomed. The smell was decent. Now he just needed to find a place to make for the two of them with his Wood Style, and out of sight since he doubted these people were able to do Ninjutsu going by what that woman told him about where she came from.

"Alright, let's see if we can find a nice little place out of sight to live in." Naruto walked around the place and saw kids playing ball with one another, women washing clothes, and men fixing up furniture and houses. "Just like home..."

A smile graced Naruto's face and liked what he saw, but then he started to sniff the air a bit and started selling something bad, "What the hell is that smell?" And things went from bad to worse as Rukia started to cry a bit, he took Rukia off of the back strap and tried to calm her down a bit, "Whoa, whoa, hey, hey it's alright. Uhh...look at my..."

That's when he got a good whiff of the air, and knew the source of said smell. "Oh, shit..."

Yup, she did just that. Greeeeaaattttt...

"Oh...you have crappy diaper...fantastic..." Naruto deadpanned. He looked around to see if he could find someplace to take care of her business. He could make use of some of the spare clothes that he had sealed away in one of his scrolls.

He found a nice hill back away from prying eyes and saw that this was actually the perfect place to make a house. "Ok, watch this little trick Rukia."

Naruto went through the handsigns in quick secession: Snake ➡ Rat ➡ Ox ➡ Ram ➡ Snake. "Wood Style: Four Pillar House Jutsu."

A large two story house spouted from the ground all of a sudden, with a little Rukia squealing in excitement, despite having a dirty diaper. "Yeah, kinda figured you'd like that."

Naruto slid the door open and stepped inside to see that the house was in good condition and he got some of his stuff unpacked that he could care less for at the time.

He took Rukia off of his back and prepared for probably the worst self given D-Rank mission of all time: Changing a Diaper.

Naruto unsealed one of his spare clothes sets and ripped one of his undershirts to get together. He unsealed some gauze from his medkit to wipe her and wrap his undershirt for a makeshift diaper.

"There. All better!" He had large smile on his face at his somewhat success, Rukia grabbed his cheeks and started squeezing them a bit for fun, she squealed in happiness, 'Suck it women! I rock at this shit!'

"Ok, let's go see if we can't go use some of this gold in Gama-chan, maybe they would take gold here at least since I saw some back in the marketplace." They needed beds and pillows for the night, food could be gathered at another market with Shadow Clones.

Naruto took Rukia and placed her back into his strap and they left their new house. He ran back to the marketplace to see if he could maybe use his gold in some way, he saw a furniture merchant and approached the man, "Excuse me buddy, is there any chance you're able to take this kind of gold?"

The merchant looked at the gold that Naruto had pulled out of his Gama-Chan and decided to give it a look over real quick, and then gave him a thumbs up, "Hey gold is gold. I take what I can get, how much do you have?"

Naruto took out a bit more out of Gama-chan and saw that the merchant had stars in his eyes. "Will this be enough for whatever I want?" He gambled. A lot. More so than Granny Tsunade or Pervy Sage would, and here his mom told him not to gamble. Hell, it made him a lot of money every now and then, more so than when he got paid after missions.

"Hell kid, you could probably buy out the whole lot from most of the other merchants with all that gold! Take what you want!" He motioned to the various furniture's that he had behind him in his shop. Naruto stepped through the open doorway and looked at the selection of things that he had. There were some that had some good craftsmanship and others were rather ordinary, so not wanting to spend too much, he simply picked out a bed and looked for a crib for Rukia. And after grabbing those things, he picked out a table, some chairs and some other necessities for the two of them.

Some of the women thought that he was rather attractive going by the blushes he saw on their faces, along with hearing the words, 'cute, handsome, hot, and sexy baby daddy', whatever that meant...

Now he knew why Sasuke really left the village...fangirls and stalkers, the worst enemy imaginable.

He finally got what he wanted and asked the merchant if he could come back for his beds later, so that he could go get some food, and make some Shadow Clones in disguise to buy some other things.

He had spent so much time today feeding Rukia when she was hungry and let her play with his hair. She would try to bite it and he felt the drool on his head, forcing him to wipe it off, least to say, he had a good day so far.

He had been out all day and nightfall soon fell, he was able to grab some food that would last him and Rukia a few months after disguising his Shadow Clones, he got everything situated for his time here.

"Well, I think that just about covers everything." Naruto looked around the small house to see that things were where he had his Shadow Clones placed in the right place.

He heard took Rukia off of his back and took out some clothes for her that he bought for her back in one of the marketplaces. It was a purple little mini-kimono made for just about everything and was just her size. "Man, I got lucky finding this for you, gotta be a lot more comfy for ya I'm than those old sheets."

"Goo..." Rukia cooed at Naruto wanting to play with his whiskers again, one last time before she dozed off. She started to yawn and her eyes became heavy, hinting to Naruto that it was time for her to head to bed. "Alrighty then, guess you gotta hit the hay..."

'...while I see if I can scope out that Sereitei...'

"I know that you can't really understand me, but I like to pretend that you do though, it helps me out a bit since I can't really talk to someone else right now." Naruto walked over to her room and decided to pull out his favorite and his dad's favorite book: The Tale of the Utterly Gutsy Ninja.

Jiraiya's first book.

It didn't sell well back home when it first released, but here, it could get some major money. Even those smut books of his and he had all ten of the books:

Icha Icha Paradise

Icha Icha Violence

Icha Icha Tactics

Icha Icha Strap

Icha Icha Pooltime

Icha Icha Maelstrom (The one that he unknowingly wrote)

Icha Icha Emotion

Icha Icha Dynamic

Ero Ero Paradigm

Ero Ero Install

He never read them of course, he only had them for sentimental value overall. Maybe he could build a Ramen stand somewhere in town to further support himself and Rukia. Well thoughts for another time.

He sat Rukia down into her crib and pulled her covers over her body leaving her heavy eyes staring at him.

"This was book was written by my Godfather, and it became not only my dad's favorite books, but also mine. And maybe someday, it'll be your favorite too."

"Bwuah." Rukia lifted her little hand up to try and grasp Naruto's. He put his hand down to let her hold onto one of his fingers with her tiny hands, it started to comfort her, and help her go to sleep. "Alright let me start at the beginning..."

-One Hour Later-

"...I will find a way to break this cycle of hatred...no matter what..." Naruto looked down to see that Rukia had fallen asleep and now was snoozing away. He lifted his finger out of her grasp and let it silently drop to the crib, and shut the door to her room, blowing out the candle, and let sleep in peace. "Goodnight, Rukia Uzumaki."

It had a nice ring to it.

Naruto now made a Shadow Clone to keep an eye on the place, after all...he still needed to see these Shinigami for himself.

Well, now I was kinda stumped on how to write this out, but I was able to get some other things thought out, but I wanted to save those ideas for future chapters.

Now, Naruto has landed in the Soul Society. How? That will be explained in the future. Will he get a Zanpakuto? No. That has been overused the fuck out of, and I do not like it, and it serves no purpose in my story. Is he dead? No, he's not dead, don't worry about that.

Now, why did Naruto decide to take care of Baby Rukia? Well, he himself practically grew up on the streets and had to endure a very long amount of time without any parental love and guidance, he saw a bit of himself in Rukia. Plus, he likes cute things, and he just couldn't help himself but pick her up and hug her. No Naruto is no a lolicon, he just likes cute things.

Anyway, Naruto has landed about 150 years before the main Bleach storyline begins, so he'll interact with some people before hand, who they are, I really can't say, but I hope that I can do them justice. Anyways, keep an open mind with this story, please. That is all that I ask. Anyways, please continue to fav, follow, read, and review (No Flames please, as they will be deleted).