Title: Love is a Shadow
Author: FriendlyBitchplz
Summary: She knows she has to. He knows she doesn't want to. He's using her as bait. She wants to free him. But when he's released, it's tough to find the real him. IchiRuki
The Creature is Free
Souske Aizen had been dead for at least 3 months now. School was about over in Karakura. All was at peace. Except for the new goth girl they had gotten in class 3 weeks ago. Her name was Akira Hitomi. She was as pale as a ghost with short black hair. Her eyes were as black as coal. What really sucked was that she sat next to Ichigo in Social Studies. Everyday she gave him an icey cold stare.
3 weeks ago
"I wonder what she looks like."
"I hope she's just as pretty as Orihime!"
"Oh shut up Chizuru!"
The new girl walked in the room with her text book in her hand. She scared nearly the whole the class. Even the teacher, Mrs. Ochi, was a little frightened. "Hello," She said coldy. "My name is Hitomi. Akira Hitomi. I look forward to meeting you all." Her eyes were set on Ichigo as if she was about to bite his face off.
Mrs. Ochi stood next to her. "Well, miss Hitomi, why don't you sit in the seat next to Orihime. I'm sure you both will get along great." Mrs. Ochi tried to hide her fear. Akira sat next to Orihime but didn't take her eyes off Ichigo. 'Her eyes don't leave Ichigo as if he was her pray.' Orihime thought.
End of flashback
Ichigo kept his face buried in his text book. He didn't want to look at Akira who was giving him the same cold look she gave him every day. As soon as the bell wrang Ichigo grabbed his stuff and ran out of the room.
"KUROSAKI-KUN!"
Ichigo turned around to see Orihime waving at him and Rukia just walking with her. Orihime ran to catch up to him. "Where are you going? You rushed out of the class room as soon as you could." Orihime asked. Ichigo didn't answer. Rukia finally caught up to them. "It's probably because Akira keeps on staring at him. And speaking of which, Ichigo, Urahara and Yoruichi need to see you, it's about 3 months ago." After saying that Rukia just walked on ahead leaving Ichigo behind who stopped in his tracks. '3 months ago…?" he thought.
Ichigo arrived at Urahara's shop as Rukia told him to. "ITSYGOOOO!!" The next thing he knew he was glomped on by a familiar former espada, Nel. "I missed you so much Itsygo!!" Nel cried. Ichigo just patted her head. "Well it's great to see you too Nel." Ichigo responded sounding a little scared. How did Nel get out of the Hueco Mundo?
"Ah, Ichigo. I see you finally made it." Urahara and Yoruichi finally walked into the room. "Well yeah, what about 3 months ago?"
Yoruichi sat down in her cat form. "You do recall Souske Aizen, don't you?" Ichigo felt like Yoruichi was trying to make him feel and sound stupid. "What kind of a question is that!? Of course I remember Aizen…the stupid bastard." Ichigo murmured the last part to himself.
"Yeah, well, he's alive." Urahara just blurted it out loosing his patience. Ichigo sat there in shock. Yoruichi slapped Urahara in the back of the head. "Moron. Anyways, Urahara and I travled to Hueco Mundo to see what Aizen has been up to and we found Nel being chased by an arrancar. Apparently he's planning on making another army of espada, but that's our guess, we don't know for sure."
Nel had a worried look as she looked up to Ichigo. "I…Itsyo?" Ichigo didn't speak for a moment. He was lost in his thoughts. Is Aizen going to try and kidnap Orhime again?
"Mr. Kisuke, Lady Shihouin, Jinta is being mean to Ururu again."
Ichigo stared at the little girl at the side door. She had blond dirty blond pigtails and hazel eyes. There were faint freckles on her face and she was holding a broom in hond hand. She wore a green tank top with a turtle neck and a salmon pink skirt that dropped just a few inches above her ankles. "Ah I almost forgot. Ichigo, this is Fumiko Morita. She's going to be with us for a while. She's quite the expert on the Hueco Mundo.
The little girl put on a big smile. "It's nice to meet you! Kisuke-sama and Yoruichi-sama told me a lot about you Kurosaki-kun!" She had a high pitched voice and she sounded like a very sweet girl. A little too sweet. Ichigo just stared at her. How did a little girl like her no so much about the Hueco Mundo.
It wasn't long till they heard Ururu's shriek. "I'm going to stop the bickering before Tessai does." Yoruichi stated getting up. Fumiko sat next to Ichigo. Nel hid behind him. Nel knew what Fumiko was up to, or assumed she was up to no good. Ichigo had to agree. Fumiko did look like she was up to no good.
"Anyways, you're going to have to keep Fumiko close to you. She could really come in handy. She may look weak but she has the fighting ability to even beat a captain in a fair fight." And for once Urahara knew what he was talking about. Fumiko was very scrawny and petite. She didn't look like much. Plus she was very pale.
--6 hours later--
"So this little girl is going to help us find out what Aizen is up to? I find that very hard to believe." Rukia judged. Ichigo just rolled his eyes and continued his math homework. Fumiko was look around Ichigo's room. Unlike Seena, Fumiko found it very interesting. "So this is what a teenaged boys room is like?" Fumiko started. "I figured a boy like you would have pictures of girls up on the wall." Ichigo had a normal reaction, shocked. Rukia could see a little bit of red on his face. She couldn't help but give a slight giggle.
Fumiko finally spotted Kon reading a perverted girl magazine. She grabbed him by his tail. "HEY! PUT ME DOWN YOU PUNY PIECE OF CRAP!" He shouted. Fumiko threw him the window. "I've heard of you! You're that perverted stuffed toy!" she shouted. Ichigo covered his ears to block out the yelling. 'Can't a guy do his homework in silence?' He thought in his mind. RinRin popped out from the closet
"Can't a girl read in silence!?" She shouted. Kon got up. "A girl can, but hell knows what you are!" He joked and began to laugh. That got him a kick in the face. Fumiko began to laugh and gave RinRin a highfive. "That's right! Use girls gotta stick together! Right Rukia?" She asked turning towards the raven haired girl. "Huh? What? Oh definetley." Rukia wasn't really paying attention. She was caught up in her Chappy drawings.
Fumiko walked over to Ichigo. "So is that all you do when you're not fighting hollows? Doing your homework?" She asked. Ichigo didn't respond. Fumiko got bored waiting for an answer and began to walk around the room again. She finally stopped next to his desk. She bent down. "You play?" She asked looking back at Ichigo.
Ichigo faced her. "Play what?"
"The guitar."
"Huh? Em…not much anymore."
"Are you any good?"
"I dunno."
"Has anybody ever heard you play?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Because I haven't played since I was 13."
"When was that?"
"…….3 years ago, dumb ass."
"Can
we hear you play?"
"No."
"Why?"
"Don't wanna."
"Why?"
"Because I would like to get my homework done."
"Why?"
"Because I don't feel like failing!"
"Why?"
Ichigo was beginning to get agitated with all of her questions. Fumiko smiled in victory like she wanted to get him agitated.
It wasn't long till Fumiko fell asleep. Rukia was still drawing her chappy pictures. Rain began to fall and thunder began to crash hard. Ichigo had finished his homework hours ago. Now he was just reading random manga. Rukia dropped her pencil and stood up. "Ichigo," She started. Ichigo looked towards her. "What is it?"
"Do you hear that?"
Ichigo sat up and listend carefully. "I don't hear anything."
"Just listen carfully."
Ichigo did just that. He couldn't hear anything. However he did feel a powerful aura. Then he heard a strange voice in his head.
Kill her,
Kill her now while you still have the chance!
Kill her now!
Ichigo covered his ears. Rukia looked over at him. "Ichigo? Are you okay?" she asked. Ichigo took his hands off his ears. "Yeah….i'm fine." He lied. He was still hearing that voice in his head and he had a sharp pain in his stomach. Drops of sweat fell from his face. Rukia walked towards him. "Ichigo?" She reached out her hand towards. He grabbed her arm immediatley.
She could hear that evil laugh of his inner hollow come slightly out of his mouth. His grip became tighter until it finally made her yelp out in pain. Fumiko opened her eyes and sat up. "Rukia! Ichigo, what are you doing?!" Her reply was laugh of Ichigo's inner hollow. "Ichigo's not here right now, little girls." Was his cold reply. "He won't be for a while." He grabbed Rukia by her neck with his free hand and threw her out the window.
When Rukia hit the ground she let out a yelp of pain. She was now bleeding all over her hands. Fumiko stood in shock. She grabbed his hand and bit him. "Gah! Get off of me you little brat!" He used what force he had in his gigai to push her off into the desk. He got out of his body and jumped out the window. Rukia got up with what force she had and got out of her gigai.
"Ichigo, snap out of it!" She shouted. Her reply was the frightening laugh she had heard not long ago. She had to admit, she was scared. Scared of Ichigo. No. It's wasn't Ichigo. It was his hollow. The ryoka human boy she had fallen in love with was gone. Trapped inside his own body. She had no choice. If was truly gone at that moment she had to fight him. She pulled Shirayuki and charged at him.
Ichigo (or his hollow) stopped laughing and pulled out Zangetsu.
"SODE NO SHIRAYUKI!"
He used Zangetsu to block the attack and began with the horrid laugh again. "You're slow!" Came his response.
Fumiko looked out the window. 'Ichigo and Rukia are fighting? Is that I was supposed to be waiting for?' She thought.
"Gah!" Rukia coughed up blood after Ichigo had attacked her with Zangetsu. She started to breath heavily. Ichigo walked towards her. "You're weak soul reaper! You're afraid to fight me! You're nothing but a coward." He grabbed her by the neck again and threw her half way across the street.
Rukia couldn't get up. As Ichigo walked towards her she thought she was going to die. But she was wrong.
"Roar, ZABIMARU!"
Ichigo was hit by a familiar red headed shinigami. Lieutenant of squad 6; Abarai Renji. "Geez Ichigo, I knew you couldn't control the damn guy but I didn't know you'd attack someone you really cared about." Rukia gave a faint smile. For once she was happy to see Renji. Ichigo jumped up and charged at him.
"Zabimaru, Roar!"
"Getsuga Tenshou!"
The two attacks clashed creating a great explosion. It was loud enough it almost woke up all of Karakura. But it definetley woke up Yoruichi. "What the hell…" she said (of course she was in her cat form). She got up and started running towards the Kurosaki house hold.
As the smoke cleared up Renji walked towards Rukia. "You okay?" He asked. Rukia nodded slightly and turned her head towards Ichigo. "Is he?" She asked silently. All she heard was the evil laugh of his hollow. Renji and Rukia were both in shock. How was he still possessed?
"You're weak soul reaper!" His laughter and mocking was cut off by a sword being pierce through his chest. He was stabbed by his own father, Issin Kurosaki.
"That's enough…Ogichi."
I know, such a cliff hanger, and Ichigo's hollow has many names, Hichigo, Ogichi, ect. I just like using Ogihichi.
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