(Konoha ninja academy)

Ichigo looked at the boy two rows down from him in the as he scrunched his face and furrowed his eyebrows his face turning red as he tried to understand what the teacher was saying and he just sighed. He didn't understand half the crap that the teacher told them either. What did the guy expect of them, fricken geniuses. All he understood was that he had chakra and he didn't know how to control it properly and that it poured out of him like an open tap running at half constantly.

His chakra pouring out was understandable, he was like a beacon in that sense. In his previous life though he wasn't sure ninjas existed which still continued to confuse him to this day, did he get moved to another dimension? Oh well, last thing he remembered was getting cero'd in the face stupidly trying to face off an adjuchas class hollow while saving a little ghost girl, at least he managed to see Ishida wipe it out before he died. Going against a hollow that powerful and being powerless happened to be one of the many stupid traits he still had with him, at least he knew his family was safe having died long before him and passed on. He'd lived a happy life and now just happened to be the spitting image he was in his previous life. Orange hair, brown eyes and a scowl on his face.

"All right class that's it for today, practicals will be done tomorrow meaning everyone will get to face each other. No one will be teasing others for their fights if they lose and come last." The teacher dressed in shinobi gear said snapping a book shut as he looked up to the class he taught revealing his face from behind the book to be that of a young man with light brown skin and a scar across his nose. His dark brown hair tied back in a ponytail cut off just a few centimetres above the base. "Class dismissed."

"Hai Iruka-sensei." The class responded as they hurriedly packed their stuff and all rushed to the door as though Christmas was here and nearly all of them tried to squeeze through the door at the same time. After the first student managed to escape the mass of bodies the others soon followed having realised yet again that it wouldn't work if they all tried to squeeze through at the same time. They were all young so it could be excused until they were a bit older.

The only ones to not have been a part of that group were a few individuals Iruka was sure would become great shinobi someday. They were Sasuke, who happened to be opening a window instead thinking that one day he would become like his great big brother Itachi Uchiha, a prodigious young teen with the ability to go far. And that was when Sasuke dropped out of the window from the third floor landing on his feet with a cry of pain, his knees buckling from the impact. Eh…he still had a bit to go before he was anywhere near his brother.

Next was Shikamaru Nara of the Nara clan. Most lazy ass clan any village could have. They wouldn't be anywhere without the women making their husbands get off their assess to do work. They tended to be extremely bright and intelligent people although they always thought that something was a total waste of time unless it had some great importance to it. In that case it could be left until later.

"What a drag." Shikamaru said sitting to his friend Choji. Shikamaru just sat there…and did nothing.

Choji Akimichi was a strange one. He didn't seem to quite have the concentration to do what he needed to do in class like Shikamaru. He tended to watch butterflies fly by and get easily distracted by them, much like Shikamaru was distracted by clouds. He was also the next head of the Akimichi clan, not one that should be watching butterflies to pass his time by…oh well. He seemed to know what to do though when it came to completing the task at hand.

Then there was Naruto. Not the sharpest tool in the toolbox but at least he tried. His brother being one of the top in the class encouraged that. He excelled in practical's so his academics could be somewhat excused for their rather low score. That ended putting him at about half way from the bottom…or was it half way from the top, no wait it was half way. When his brother tried to help him he accepted only for the academic part of things since he thought that wasn't part of being a true ninja. The practical's always ended up with Naruto in the dirt when facing him because of that.

Naruto's brother Ichigo was…he was strange. He was a prodigy in the arts of taijutsu and mastered the styles taught at the academy with relative ease remembering them for later, but then he rarely ever did use a style and settled for more of a street fighting way of doing things. Ninjutsu was a mystery to him, he failed to control chakra proficiently enough to initiate a jutsu properly just like Naruto but he was persistent and ended up quickly mastering several jutsu at breakneck pace greatly surprising the instructors at the academy. Chakra training was needed for the boy and that was obvious. He wasted so much everyday it was a mystery where all the energy came from, how much did he eat?

Naruto and Ichigo were both sons of the deceased fourth Hokage. He would have lived if not for some abnormality in Ichigo preventing the man from sealing half of the nine-tailed fox in the boy. It was sad really, the man Minato Namikaze and his wife Kushina Uzumaki might have lived if that hadn't happened. Now neither boy had parents to look after them.

That was all at the moment, all of the other children were childish as they should be except for a few shy people straying behind the large group, namely Hinata Hyuga of the Hyuga clan the next head as well. Extremely shy for someone who was supposed to take up such an important role in the future but nonetheless talented and extremely clumsy at the same time.

(Apartment complex)

"Hey Naruto, you need any help with your homework?" Ichigo asked his blond haired brother who just nodded tiredly as he did at the end of every day in academy. 'It hurt his head' as he liked to say often enough. "Yeah well don't expect much, I had a hard time understanding it as well." Ichigo said pulling out a set of apartment keys and slotted them in the keyhole to the room he and his brother lived in.

Damn it was small. The tiny apartment barely counted as a living space. The kitchen was well worn and probably past it's use by date but it still functioned well enough for Ichigo to teach himself how to cook a relatively good meal. He managed to burn them enough times to learn from his mistakes. Yuzu would probably still say what he made was an abomination but he still thought it tasted pretty good compared to what his cooking used to be like.

Ichigo set down his scrolls on his bed and picked up one before reading through it to mesmerize what he and Naruto were going to go through so he could help explain things even if he didn't completely understand what came out of his brothers mouth. He still caught the general gist of it after enough times of going through it. Naruto hated theory and only tried to do it so he could keep up with his more intelligent brother. Other times he'd just run around Konoha making pranks, the latest one having been the painting of the Hokage monuments. He still had to clean them off, but that could wait until morning when the weekend started and they didn't have academy to go to.

"Hey Ichigo." Naruto called from the kitchen, "Sure you don't want ramen." An immediate yes was his reply. "You sure, 'cause I think this is the last of i…" Naruto trailed off "aww, its gone bad and something's been eating it."

"Told you to put it somewhere more secure where the rats wouldn't find it." Ichigo said back to Naruto who wouldn't be any wiser that it was actually Ichigo that made them go bad.

"But you wouldn't let me put it in the fridge." Naruto whined.

"It's packaged food. It doesn't need to be in the fridge, besides it looks like your finally going to have a ramen free night." Ichigo heard Naruto huff at that.

(Some time later)

"So chataras-" Naruto stopped when Ichigo moved to correct him yet again.

"Chakra, not chatara." After having said that he motioned for Naruto to continue.

"So chat- chaaaaakraaaaa is this whatsa ma call it spirit energy and our physical energy combined." Naruto repeated after Ichigo having read it to him in simpler terms so that he could understand it better.

"Basically yes." Ichigo nodded in confirmation before looking at the clock. It was ten thirty. Probably time they went to sleep otherwise Naruto won't be awake in time to clean the Hokage monument. "It's time to stop for now, you need to be able to clean the monument by tomorrow if you don't want to be told to do more chores free of charge."

Naruto looked at the clock as well confirming that it was in fact time for them to go to bed. Ichigo used to never go to sleep straight away, he tossed and turned in his bed before falling asleep and then sometimes cried in his sleep. In the morning he'd wake up and pretend nothing had ever happened even though he'd been approached by Sarutobi the current hokage (having been pulled back into duty as the third after the fourth died) several times, the anbu having reported his sleeping patterns to the old man as they continued to watch over the two boys. However the sleeping patterns had long since stopped Ichigo no longer having these dreams that caused his reckless sleep. Naruto was the main observation target though as he was the one with the nine-tails sealed inside of him and needed protection from any enemies from other nations if they tried to take him.

Ichigo knew that they were there. He could sense their presence but never their chakra, god he sucked at sensing chakra. But then again no one really knew how to in the elemental nations except for the few rare gifted people with natural sensory abilities. Far less people than what he was accustomed to. It only made his job as being a ninja and stealth master all the easier as he had been slightly trained in the stealth force by recommendation of Yoruichi, well not really recommendation, more like she forced him to. For some reason he thought that the stealth commander had a crush on him of sorts when he arrived because he thought she wasn't training him quite the same as the rest of the squad. But then again it might be his imagination and Yoruichi asked her to.

"Night." Ichigo said to Naruto who in return said the same to Ichigo.

NOTE: Relatively short chapter as an introduction for this remake of the story. This chapter wasn't really supposed to go anywhere in particular apart from explaining who Ichigo is in this story, stating about whether his parents were alive or not. In this version Ichigo most likely won't retain his fullbring powers, soul reaper powers included. I don't really think it suits the Naruto verse even though his fullbring is the most ninja like weapon Ichigo has in bleach. He might retain his inner hollow however but either has yet to be still decided.

P.S I thought I'd put this one chapter up to see how you guys liked it. Please review and tell me how I could possibly make it better. Thanks