Naruto: Sasuke Uchiha Returns from Soul Society

She glanced in the direction of Hueco Mundo, then at Sasuke. "Although the reason for the imbalance of souls has been found, I still don't understand what Aizen is trying to do."

"So, I've made up my mind."

She paused, a sly smile playing on her lips. "Take me back with you."

"Huh?" Even Sasuke was taken aback when he heard this.

"It's very simple."

Yoruichi shrugged, a matter-of-fact expression on her face. "Just tell Aizen that during our battle, I was impressed by your strength and decided to abandon the darkness and follow you."

"So, what do you think of this script? It's pretty good, isn't it?"

Sasuke fell silent. Looking into Yoruichi's excited eyes, his first thought was that it was absurd.

He was about to retort almost immediately, saying that the plan was full of flaws and that with Aizen's cunning, how could he possibly believe such a clumsy performance?

However, he swallowed the words back down his throat.

As for Aizen...

Perhaps he really will believe it.

Or perhaps he simply doesn't care whether it's true or false.

Sasuke's gaze swept over Yoruichi almost imperceptibly.

Even so, that would be far too dangerous.

That palace was a true den of dragons and tigers.

"I refuse." Sasuke's voice was cold and decisive.

"Huh? Why?"

"There's no reason." Sasuke didn't want to explain any further. He had his own considerations, but he wouldn't say them aloud.

He has made a decision: Yoruichi cannot be allowed to get involved in any deeper danger.

Having figured this out, Sasuke no longer hesitated.

A strange crimson and a frenzied golden hue flashed in the depths of his eyes.

A pale, white, bony mask instantly covered his handsome, cold right cheek.

"Hey! You bastard..." Yoruichi's expression changed instantly.

However, it was too late.

"Sizzle—!"

With a sharp sound as space was torn apart, Sasuke's figure left an afterimage in his original position and appeared in front of Soi Fon dozens of meters away.

Soi Fon didn't even have time to react before she felt the back of her combat suit being grabbed.

Then, in the next instant, he appeared in front of Yoruichi.

Immediately afterwards, she saw the boy wearing a half-pale mask raise his other hand.

The hand wasn't holding a knife; it simply slashed forward horizontally.

He forcefully tore a dark crack open in the space in front of him.

On the other side of the crack, there was a completely different landscape, full of the presence of the living.

It is Karakura Town.

"Damn it... let me go!" Soi Fon's reason finally returned, and she struggled violently, instinctively raising the short sword in her hand to stab Sasuke.

Sasuke ignored her struggles and threw her petite body toward the crack.

"--team leader!!!"

With a mournful cry, Omaeda Norichiyo plunged headfirst into the closing crack without even thinking.

"..."

After doing all this, Sasuke slowly turned around.

The half-mask on his face quietly disappeared, and his heterochromatic eyes returned to pure black.

He glanced at the woman with her arms crossed not far away, tilted his head slightly, and gave a silent signal.

Your turn.

Yoruichi looked at Sasuke, then at the spatial rift, and sighed helplessly.

"Ugh......"

She rubbed her throbbing temples. "What an annoying brat."

She took a step, walking step by step towards that void.

However, just as she was about to cross the crack and her figure was about to be swallowed by the darkness, she stopped without warning.

Yoruichi slowly turned around, a sly smile on her face.

"I told you, Sasuke, cats hold grudges."

The moment she finished speaking, her figure transformed into a purple afterimage, grabbing Sasuke's arm and dragging him into the dissipating darkness, leaving him in a daze.

"..."

In the distance, Heribel looked at the vanished spatial rift, a hint of confusion flashing in her eyes, but she quickly regained her composure.

In her view, although the woman named Yoruichi was quite strong, there was still an insurmountable gap between her and Sasuke-sama.

Sasuke-sama was taken away by her, presumably... he had his own reasons for it.

As Helibel thought this, her worries dissipated.

She turned around and looked at her weakened companions.

"Let's go back first."

...........

At the same time, a pitch-black crack appeared out of nowhere in the sky above Karakura Town, as if it had been forcibly torn open by an invisible hand.

It is currently twisting violently.

Before long, a petite black figure fell awkwardly from the unstable spatial passage.

"hateful......"

Soi Fon felt a dizzying, weightless sensation wash over her. Instinctively, she tried to activate her spiritual power, attempting to use spiritual particles to create a foothold and stabilize herself, as she always did.

However, the immense burden of Bankai had already depleted her physical strength and spiritual pressure to an extremely dangerous level.

She tried to adjust her posture in mid-air, urging her remaining spiritual power, in an attempt to step back onto the ground made of spiritual particles.

But that power was too weak; the spiritual particles had just condensed beneath her feet when they collapsed with a roar.

She gritted her teeth, a hint of helplessness appearing in her eyes.

The wind whistled in my ears, cutting through the clouds, and the outline of the streets on the ground rapidly magnified in my field of vision.

Finally, her gaze settled on a two-story shop that looked somewhat dilapidated.

Urahara Store...

It's that bastard's shop!

"Bang—Crack—Boom!"

A series of dull yet crisp loud noises.

The wooden roof of the Urahara store shattered instantly, as if struck by a heavy hammer.

Tiles, sawdust, and soot exploded inwards under a powerful impact.

Inside the shop, Kisuke Urahara sat listlessly on the tatami mats, idly fanning himself, seemingly lost in thought.

"Ok?"

He heard a strange noise coming from above and lazily raised his head.

The next instant, a petite black figure pierced through the ceiling, carrying with it a cloud of dust and wood chips, and crashed heavily onto the tatami mat in front of him with a "bang".

"..."

Kisuke Urahara paused slightly in his fan-waving motion.

He looked at the figure sprawled on the ground, then looked up at the huge hole in the roof and the sunlight streaming through it.

A moment later, he snapped the fan shut, tapped his palm lightly with the fan ribs, and gave a smug smile, his voice laced with just the right amount of surprise.

"Oh my, isn't this Captain Soi Fon?"

"What a rare guest!"

He slowly squatted down, poked the motionless figure lying on the ground with his fan, and spoke with concern.

"Did you come all the way from Hueco Mundo just to inspect the quality of the roof beams of my little shop?"

"The roof of my little shop... I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money to fix it."

"..."

His reply was a series of heavy, suppressed breaths filled with anger.

Soi Fon struggled to prop herself up, gritting her teeth tightly.

"Damn Uchiha brat, I'll do it myself..."

Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Kisuke Urahara's light, airy voice.

"Oh dear, it seems Captain Soi Fon's journey in Hueco Mundo isn't very pleasant?"

Kisuke Urahara looked at her tattered combat suit and the various wounds on her body, shook his head, and sighed, "How did she manage to get herself into such a sorry state?"

These words struck Soi Fon hard on her already taut nerves.

"You bastard..."

Soi Fon abruptly raised her head, her eyes fixed on Kisuke Urahara. "Stop making sarcastic remarks!"

She tried to get up from the ground, but after a futile struggle, she collapsed back down.