Chapter 48 - Help Request and....

Ren then took a look at the new released form of Senbonzakura it didn't shatter in thousands pieces, the blade was the same as ever the only thing that changed was that the color of the blade was light pink and that now there was a nice graceful fruity floral fragrance where fruity top notes of apple and cherry.

Then all of sudden Ren heard the sound in the background, it was some rock drums and soon came the electric guitar and after 30 seconds came a female voice.

"♪Ooohh! Oohhh!/Oooooh! Uhoooooyeah!♪" hearing this strangely familiar tone Ren starts looking around trying in vain to find the point of origin.

Meanwhile the music goes on "♪If you wanna see some action/Gotta be the center of attraction/Make sure that they/Got their eyes on you/Like the face that you/See on every magazine♪"

Then he notice that in the place of Senbonzakura there was a fairly tall, lean-built young man with peach skin and brown eyes and spiky orange hair he wear a long-sleeved, ankle-length black coat with red lining, which is closed at his chest and left to flare out into ragged ends and has in hand a daito (Japanese long sword) with a black blade instead, the cross guard has four prongs bent out to form the shape of the manji.

'What the....did I sniff some Hashirama made herbs?' thought Ren stunned by what was in front of him

And as the music continues "♪Be the focus of attention/Be the name that/Everyone must mention/Come out from the shadows/It's your time/'Cause tonight is the night/For everyone to see♪" the young man use a Shunpo and he appear right next to Ren swinging his sword with such a force that even if he was able to block it with his Zanpakuto, sends Ren tumbling on the floor.

With a trembling arm Ren decide to reseal Senbonzakura and then "Chire (Scatter), Senbonzakura" and the blade in his hand scatter in thousands of piece 'Why the fuck Ichigo Kurosaki is in front of me!?!? That hit was real so it isn't an illusion?!A what the hell is going on with this music?!?'.

Meanwhile as Ichigo raise his sword high the music goes on a crescendo "♪It's natural/You know that/This is where you gotta be/It must be your destiny/Sensational/And you believe that/This is what you've waited for and/It's you that they all adore/So baby♪"

Then Ichigo while swinging downward scream " Getsuga Tenshō (Moon Fang)!" and a blast of black with a red outline energy move toward Ren at fast speed while leaving a deep trench in the ground.

Seeing the attack coming and that he won't be able to evade it in time, Ren use all the tiny blades to create a shield and soon clash against the Getsuga Tenshō for a few second.

Next the music reach the climax "♪Now you feel like number one/Shining bright for everyone/Living out your fantasy/ the/Brightest star for all to see/Now you feel like number one/Shining bright for everyone/Living out your fantasy/ you're the/Brightest star there's ever been♪" and Ichigo attack overwhelm Ren defence and leaves a deep cut on Ren body almost cutting him in two.

And the next second everything is silent and all the damage on Ren was gone, still confused Ren looks around a soon finds Senbonzakura right next to him with holding a copy of herself in her released(Yin) form.

Then she smiled at Ren and said "As you can see this is my other power Ren-dono, it is a perfect illusion, I think that Yakumo-dono may have affected us in some way, but before you get to excited our is different from the complete hypnosis of Aizen Sosuke-san, the activation condition is to smell the scent that Senbonzakura release, and to get out of the illusion one just has to stop smelling it, by either getting away from the scent range that is of 2.5 km from you or stop breathing, and while we can create a perfect illusion that fools all the senses and make even feel the pains,but the illusion cause no damage to the bodies"

Then after that Ren once again start sparring with Senbonzakura while he tries to master his other Shikai this goes on for 3 days but was interrupted by two Jigokucho coming at the same time, one was from his sensei, who told him to come back as Tsunade-sama decided to return to the village to become the Fifth Hokage, the other was unexpectedly from Haku, in the scroll he said that he and Zabusa were contacted by an ANBU of Kiri Hunter-nin corps to discuss about a possible attack against the Fourth Mizukage, Yagura Karatachi who, as Ao found out, it seem he is controlled by a powerful genjutsu, Zabusa agreed to meet with him but Haku is worried that it could be a trap and asked for support.

'Now what to do with this? I want to help them, maybe after this I can also recruit them for my team....ok time for the plan "the plot doesn't need my help"!' so Ren decide to clean himself up and then went back to the village.

Then soon he went to the Konoha Academy where he asked for a meeting with the new Hokage, and soon he was granted one, so he kept going towards the Hokage office, on his ways to the office he met with a fair-skinned woman of average height and slender build with onyx eyes and jet-black shoulder-length straight hair with bangs that cover her ears and frame her face.

She is in a long bluish-black kimono with white trimmings, held closed by a white obi, and open-toed sandals with low heels and in her hands she has a pile of scrolls with some falling on the ground.

She is Kato Shizune, Tsunade apprendice, seeing her in difficulty Ren chose to help her "Hey! Wait, some scroll have fallen..." and then he went to take'em off the ground and noticed that they were all medical scroll 'So she is studying to help Rock Lee' the he says "Let me help you transporting these"

And Shizune replies and give him some other scroll from the pile "Oh! thank you for your help I have to bring these to Tsunade-sama in the Hokage office is it a problem? By the way my name is Kato Shizune" and Ren "How rude of me! Sorry my name is Haruno Ren, nice to make your acquaintance, and it isn't a problem I was going there myself".

Soon the both reached the office and once inside what greeted their sight was a slender woman of curvaceous frame with above-average height and noticeably large breasts, fair-skinned with brown eyes and straight blonde hair that parts above her forehead, and wears a grass-green haori with the kanji for "gamble" on the back, inside a red circle, underneath she wears a grey, kimono-style blouse with no sleeves, held closed by a broad, dark bluish-grey obi that matches her pants.

Her blouse is closed quite low, revealing her sizeable cleavage. She wears open-toed, strappy black sandals with high heels. She has red nail polish on both her fingernails and toenails and uses a soft pink lipstick.

She was focusing on a pile of medical scrolls, and she is none other then Tsunade Senju, who then looked at the comers and said totally ignoring Ren "You are finally here Shizune! You can take these scrolls on my left back thay are useless now" and Shizune after putting down the scroll in her hands "Hai, Tsunade-sama" took the other pile and went out,

And now Tsunade finally notice Ren and ask "And who are you?" and Ren lightly bow and says "Nice to meet you Fifth Hokage-sama, my name is Haruno Ren a genin under Gekko Hayate, I'm here to request for my retirement from the ninja duty and become once again a civilians"