Ok Leon here with another fic for my awesome readers; this one is something I cooked up after a burst of inspiration. I think you'll all like this one I got real creative here, and also I do not own Fairy Tail or Bleach etc etc. well anyway let's begin shall we….
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Leon Kirigaya presents…
Bleach Reloaded
Arc 1:
The Substitute and the blond Shinigami
The Faithful Encounter
It was a regular day like any other in Karakura Town. The sun was setting symbolizing the end of that day as night is almost upon the town. And on a certain street in one of the residential areas a group of people can be seen; a small group of five delinquents and a High School student with bright orange hair, dressed in the uniform of Karakura High. One of said delinquents was currently lying face down on the ground as the other four were standing; one in front of him and the other three behind, all glaring at the teen that had just made one of their friends his bitch.
The one up front spoke up, displeasure clear in his voice. "You got a death wish kid? Nobody jumps one of my boys for no reason and lives to tell about it."
The orange haired teen just stood there casually with a bored expression, staring at the apparent ring leader in front of him with his hand at the back of his head. "Hmmm." was his simple reply.
"That's all you're gonna say?!" the leader exclaimed, raising his right hand with his fist clenched, ready to give the teen a piece of his mind.
However before he could do so the teen countered by lifting up his right leg and planting the bottom of his foot, shoes and all, square in the leaders face sending him straight to the ground which the teen then continued to repeatedly step in the leader's back. Over where the other three are they were currently cowering in fear.
"Lil Yama's down, we gotta help 'em!"
"Are you crazy?"
"No way I'm takin' on that psycho."
Looking back at the scene the teen repeatedly stomped on the back of the leader's head breaking up the ground sending his face further into the paved street, the muffled groans of pain the only thing coming from him.
Looking back up at the other three the teen balls his right hand into a fist in front of him. "Now listen up you idiots! You see that?!" he questioned as he pointed over to the small vase turned over on the ground by a pole with the flowers and water spilling out.
Following where he pointed the three spotted the vase, making sure they see it the teen spoke again drawing their attention back to him.
"First question; wha' do ya think that is? You, the one in the middle, answer!" he shouted again causing the three to shake more looking between each other, the one he asked for pointing at himself.
"You talkin' to me?" he gulped. "Well I guess somebody left those flowers for some kid that died here."
As soon as he finished the teen planted his foot in his face sending him to the ground like their leader.
"Correct!"
"Wait chill out!" pleaded the one on the left.
"Now the next question." The teen began. "That vase, why is it knocked over on it's side?"
The one on the right was the one to answer, "I uh, I guess one of us knocked it over when we were skate boardin' through here. We didn't-"
Before he could even finish the teen kicked both him and the other one across their faces sending them flying a few feet from him.
"You guys catch on fast. Now go and apologize or else the next time the flowers will be for you!" he exclaimed in warning, his face showing pure anger with his eyes mostly white.
Screaming like a bunch of bitches the group all flew up and scrambled away, yelping in fear and shouting."We're sorry!"
With them gone the teen sighed, looking back at the pole where a little girl appeared. Dressed in a red and white top along with a pair of white shorts, the base of a chain visible at her chest and her body can faintly be seen as she has passed on into the afterlife.
She looked at the teen with a smile on her face. "Thanks for helping me Mr."
He walked over to her and bent down to take up the vase, "Don't mention it. Those basterds deserved it anyway."
Setting it back up he told the little girl he'd be back tomorrow with some flowers for her, which she smiled and then faded away. As the teen walked home he felt as if he was being watched, by then the sun had set and it was dark out.
"Hi. I'm Ichigo Kurosaki, sixteen years old. I go to Karakura High, and I'm not sure why but for a while now I've been able to see the spirits of those who have passed away."
As he made a right he entered his small yard, opening and closing the gate behind him he made his way to the front door of his house, which is also a small clinic. As he stepped in and closed the door, he was unaware of a blond girl that looked around his age, which was standing on a roof top a couple houses away. Said blond had her eyes on young Ichigo, after a few more seconds she disappeared with a slight sound. No trace of her left behind.
Entering the Kurosaki house hold, there was a loud crash followed by loud shouting. What was all the noise about? Well Ichigo also has the craziest father in existence. This nut job chooses to attack his son whenever the boy does something wrong. This man is named Isshin Kurosaki, he may appear to be a total dumb ass but he has a few secrets that you wouldn't even believe, he is also more involved with the supernatural than his son and two daughters even think.
"Ahh. What the hell was that for!?" An upside down Ichigo exclaimed, throwing himself back up to glare at his father.
Said man just smirked, "That, my dear son was for coming home so late, plus you're late for dinner again!"
"Ah come on! I mean I'm a high school student. 7 o clock is way too early of a curfew for me. Plus I was out tryin' to help a kid's spirit pass on!"
"SILENCE!" Isshin shouted. "Oh so it's the ghost fault now is it?"
The two started fighting again as always, meanwhile the two girls just ignored them and continued eating. On the left is Yuzu Kurosaki, she goes to middle school and is basically the mother of the house. Since she does most of the cleaning, and cooks most of the time as well. She inherited their mothers hair, dark orange, cut short with a little flower clip on the left side. Yuzu's currently dressed in a white top with some flower designs and white cargo shorts. She looked every bit of the little angel she is.
On the right is Karin Kurosaki, also in middle school but she is a little older than her sister. She got their father Isshin's hair, which is black, two long bangs framing the sides of her face and head, while the back was combed down. She had a bored, as ever, look on her face as she ate. Wearing a black T and black shorts, whereas Yuzu is bright and fully of joy, Karin is like the opposite of her. Being more neutral in her attitude towards almost everything, and doesn't care much about a lot of things.
Back over with the fighting son and father, Ichigo finally managed to knock Isshin down for the count. Going over to sit at the dinner table, he sat down and started eating while Isshin laid there unmoving.
Karin spoke up breaking the silence, "Hey Ichigo, I think you really did some damage this time." She said neutrally, that same bored and uncaring look on her face as she pointed at their father.
"Nah. Just give 'em a second." Ichigo replied. As soon as he did Isshin flew up from the ground like nothing happened, giving his son a thumbs up.
"Nice job son!" Isshin exclaimed.
"See?"
Karin just grunted in response as Isshin decided to walk off and go talk all manner of stuff to the gigantic poster of their mom and his wife, Masaki, which was passed up on the wall for all to see.
"Dad sure likes doing that." Yuzu spoke up finally, looking over at her father worriedly.
Karin followed her gaze, "Yeah, and it's damn annoying."
Ichigo grunted in agreement before getting up and heading to his room. Walking in and closing the door he threw his bag on the chair and flung himself down on his bed, letting out a loud sigh as he did so.
'This feeling… I can feel some kinda presence out there. But what is it? And why can I sense it?' he thought to himself. 'Being able to see spirits isn't really normal. And its only recently since I started seeing them…'
Suddenly he heard a loud roaring sound out in the distance, "What the hell was that?" he wondered aloud as he got up to look outside his window.
Meanwhile out further in Karakura town a lizard looking creature could be seen rushing forward, seemingly chasing after something. It had a white skull head with eyes that glowed yellow and a mouth filled with teeth. The creature also had a hole through its chest, nothing there to be seen.
With a flash of yellow and the sound of metal cutting through bone, the creature howled in pain before fading away as it had been slain. The same blond girl from earlier landed on the ground gracefully, making little to no sound, she looked around and sighed.
"Well that's another one down. This is so tiring sometimes, just how many of them are out there." She leaped away in the night sky, reluctantly continuing her patrol.
Morning came and Ichigo could be seen sleeping soundly in his bed, but then he opened his eyes suddenly, something was telling him that he should get up and run. Looking straight up he was met with the bottom of his father's feet, as Isshin dived down at Ichigo from the ceiling an alarming speed.
"GOOOOOD MOOORNIIING ICHIGOOOO!"
CRASH!
Ichigo had managed to escape just in time, he caught Isshin and threw him on the ground then stepped on his back repeatedly.
"What the hell is wrong with you!?" he asked his maniacal father.
Isshin groaned and tried to stand, "Just waking my son up in the morning. Is that so wrong?" he managed to get out.
"That's no way to wake someone up while they're just lying there sleeping!"
"Oh yeah!? Well that's my way of doin' it!"
Groaning in annoyance he picked Isshin up and threw him out of his room and slammed the door shut.
Downstairs Karin and Yuzu were at the dinner table, Yuzu had just prepared breakfast for them all.
Karin looked up, "Sounds like dad's at it again."
"Yup. I've already gotten use to all the noise in the mornings, but Ichigo on the other hand… well he really hates it."
Karin grunted, "You got that right."
After a few minutes, and more of Isshin trying to catch Ichigo off guard, said teen came downstairs dressed in his uniform, stopping to tell his sisters morning and grabbing a slice of bread he headed out the door. Saying a muffled later as he locked the door.
As Ichigo walked to school he made a short detour and went back to where the spirit of the little girl resided, placing the flowers in the vase he called out to her but got no response. Shrugging he started back towards his main destination, as he reached to a more busy area of Karakura town everything was as it should be.
Suddenly there was a loud crash and a small explosion. Everyone went in a panic, running away from the area to get to safety, as Ichigo made to follow their move he froze in fear as a large creature of some kind rounded the corner and made eye contact with him. The beast had two long claws in front that looked more like blades made for slicing through anything, the head and face being mostly white with green eyes and a gaping mouth. The rest of the bests' body had a centipede look to it.
It narrowed its eyes and rushed forward, going after the easy prey that was Ichigo. Just before it reached him, he jumped out of the way and tried using a piece of steel he found to hit the monster, this however, had no effect. The beast swung with its right claw and almost sliced the teen's head off. Ichigo decided to make a run for it and turned around running like hell away from the creature, now chasing him down.
He wasn't fast enough though, and the beast was almost upon him. But just before it could touch him, someone else jumped into its path. Drawing her sword she sliced the creature right through the head, going straight down until her feet hit the ground and the monster cried in agony as it faded away into nothing.
Ichigo was dumbstruck, in front of his very eyes some girl had appeared seemingly out of nowhere and cut that monster down like it was nothing. The girl had long blond hair, reaching down mid back held in a ponytail by a dark blue ribbon. Her attire, to his surprise was that of a classic kimono looking robe, straight black with a bit of white around the neck area and a white sash around her waist. The blond swung her sword to the side to whip off some blood on the blade, then she sheathed it and started walking off. But not before casting a glance to the orange haired teen before she disappeared, Ichigo called out to her but found that she was already gone.
At this point people started pouring in, looking at all the debris fallen all over the place, along with a damaged building. Putting what just happened to the back of his mind, Ichigo turned and started walking towards school.
The school day went as normal as always for the teen, a few periods, lunch, a few more and then it was the end of the day and the students were released to head on home. For some they headed to extra classes and others went to clubs. Ichigo made it back home with no encounters, but for some reason, he felt that that was going to change. And soon.
Laying on his bed he couldn't help but think about what happened today, the run in with that monster, almost getting killed, and then being saved by that blond girl wielding a sword. Who was she? Some skilled kendo club member who had gotten ahold of a real sword and decided to play hero? Or was she another spirit that somehow had such abilities?
Ichigo knew little about spirits, but he did know that they couldn't touch anything from the world of the living. Let alone be running around with swords and slaying monsters.
Then again he could be going insane and is seeing things…. Nah that's not it, everything that happened there today was definitely real. Thinking back he can remember that no one else had taken notice of the creature, the same goes for the blond sword wielder.
His thoughts were interrupted as a loud roar echoed through the skies, that's not good, it sounded close. A little too close for comfort. Then that's when there was a loud crash and the house started shaking, suddenly a huge hand came plowing through his room wall, springing from his bed he looked out the hole made and felt his heart rate increase greatly.
Standing outside his house was one, no two very big creatures that had the same holes through their chest. They narrowed their eyes at him and, one of them did something that he never expected, it spoke in English, something that shocked the teen.
"We finally found you. You little runt." The creature growled as it reached in trying to grab the teen, Ichigo made a run for it to get away and ran out his room door and down stairs.
Where Karin and Yuzu were seen on the ground, seems the earlier crash sound was the kitchen wall which the two girls were standing right next to. And it looks as though Isshin wasn't home, just freaking perfect. He had no time to rush over to them as another hand tore through his house and tried to grab him.
Dashing to the left he dodged and went to go grab his sisters, picking them up he made a run for it again, this time outside. Making a right turn he ran as fast as he could while carrying his sisters, behind him the two creatures were chasing his tail. And as if by some miracle, Ichigo's eyes caught a blur of blond hair and he felt relief as he knew that the one he was saved by earlier, had come to his rescue again. This time saving not only him, but his sisters as well.
Drawing her sword the blond slashed at the creature's hand, cutting it clean off. The monster howled in pain and disappeared to recover. Jumping back to avoid an attack, she leaped up again slicing at the beast. She didn't get a kill strike but she dealt enough damage for the creature to retreat. Landing back on the ground she kept her guard up and turned towards Ichigo, who had stopped running to watch his savior in action.
She gave him a small smile and spoke up, "You should get as far away as you can you know. Those things will be coming back soon to finish what they started."
He nodded and turned around to continue running, behind him he heard the roaring and howling as the monsters came back. He looked back and say her going at it. Jumping, spinning, twirling. She looked as though she were doing a ballet routine. However she made a mistake in her moves and lost focus, taking this chance one of the creatures swung its claw at her and it connected right in her back. Screaming out in pain she fell back to the ground as blood from her back left the wound in a small spray and her sword fell from her hands.
This isn't good, she's trouble. Big trouble. Ichigo couldn't let this happen, he had to go save her before those two things kill her. Stopping next to a yard he placed Karin and Yuzu against a wall where they wouldn't be seen and raced back towards the fight. The blond turned around and braced herself up on her elbow, reaching for her sword she grabbed it and held it n defense as the two beasts made their way to her.
"AHHHHHH!" Was all she heard as the orange haired teen rushed into the fight on top speed.
'What the hell is he doing!?' she thought.
The two monsters were distracted slightly by the battle cry Ichigo had made, though not as fierce as it could be, it was good enough. He skidded to a stop and grabbed the blond, picking her up bridal style he made a run for it once more.
"HEY! PUT ME DOWN!" the blond exclaimed.
"No way!" he replied, still running like hell.
"You idiot! You can't outrun them, your just going to get yourself killed!" she tried to get out of his grip. "Put me down and get out of here!"
Ichigo didn't respond, instead making a few turns to get away quicker. This failed as the creatures kept up the chase. The blond saw that this was futile and decided to get out of the teens grasp and try her best to fight. She used her free hand to hit a pressure point on his body and he tripped and fell, landing on top of her.
Getting up and rubbing his head he looked up at her, "Hey what gives!?"
"Stop complaining and go. I can fight now." She pushed him to the side and started standing up, "My wound has already started to heal."
True to her words the wound on her back had truly looked to be healed somewhat. Ichigo asked her if she were sure and she nodded, he gave her a single nod and stepped away. As the two reached them the blond started fighting them with all her skills put in, she had to win, she just had to. A single mistake could mean death here.
Ichigo stood a good distance away watching her, she was skilled, her graceful sword dance from earlier could attest to this. However, she was already wounded and she was now showing signs of fatigue. She wasn't gonna last for much longer. What Ichigo heard next made his blood run cold. Two more sources of roars came from behind him and to his right, looking towards the source he froze as he saw two more of those creatures, with different appearances, heading their way.
"Oh shit!" he exclaimed as he realized they were heading right where the fight between the three were happening.
Suddenly the blond found herself surrounded on all sides, as if on some que they all lunged at her. Swinging and slashing their claws at the girl as she tried her best to maneuver around them and make strikes when she got the chance. She was fighting gallantly but she suffered too much damage, and now it started to take its toll as her movement slowed.
One of the monsters behind her got an opening and too it, slashing her on her right side close to her chest. She screamed out in pain again as she collapsed on the cold ground below her. Her sword fell from her hands as it looked like this was her last moment alive. She had a good run, had a good life. But it comes to an end now…. Just as the blond accepted her fate, she heard someone shout out.
"HEY!"
The creatures stopped and turned towards the sound, seeing the orange haired teen standing a few feet away from them, they all roared and narrowed their eyes in response.
Ichigo stared them down, not showing any fear, "You damn ugly basterds are such cowards. Ganging up on a single girl like that… FACE ME INSTEAD!"
The blond felt a sudden burst of warmth in her heart, was this what it felt like to have someone put their life on the line for you? She didn't know the feeling, but this could be it. As the creatures roared and rushed towards the teen, she felt fear rise up inside her again.
"I… have to do something." She muttered weakly, sitting up she placed her right arm in front of her, palm open. Placing the left arm on her right she took a deep breath, closing her eyes, and gathered her energy. Opening them back she was ready.
"Hadō Number 33, Sōkatsui!" she exclaimed as a massive blast of light blue energy fired from her opened palm towards the monsters.
Seeing this, Ichigo dived out of the way as the blast sent them all flying back. The blond had put a good amount of her energy into that blast, she didn't want to do this, but she has no choice. If she dies here, then those things get just what they want. At least with Sōkatsui she bought them some time.
Ichigo rushed over to her, kneeling down beside her he looked her over. "You okay?"
"Do I look okay wise guy?"
He gave her a blank look, "Whatever." He looked towards the four creatures that had already gotten up and started making their way back to them. "So, what now?"
She looked at them, then back at him and sighed. "I can't fight anymore, I have too much injuries to take all four of them down. However there is one way we can make it out of this alive."
"What's that?"
She looked him deep in the eyes as she spoke, "To save the both of us… you have to take my sword and run it through your chest."
This caught Ichigo off guard.
"Wait what? Are you nuts? That would kill me."
"Do you want to save yourself, and your sisters or not!?" she shouted now, it was either now or never. He must do this.
"Yeah. I do."
She smiled a little, "Good, by doing this I'll be able to transfer half of my power to you, all you have to do it run my blade through your chest." She finished as she raised her sword to him.
Ichigo smiled, "Then give me that blade, sword wielder."
She smiled warmly at him, "My name is Lucy, Lucy Heartfilia."
"And my name is…." He took her blade in his hands and drew it close to his chest, as the creatures closed in on them Ichigo accepted what was going to happen next, and whether it would kill him or not, he didn't care. It's now or never.
"Ichigo Kurosaki!" he pulled the blade forward and drove it straight through his chest, suddenly and explosion of energy enveloped the two. Blowing the creatures back as vast amounts of energy emerged from the area. As the dust cleared, he stood, staring the enemy down as he prepared to annihilate them.
TO BE CONTINUED…