A/N: So…I know I haven't updated my Naruto fanfiction in a…well…a long time
Safara: Oh author where are you
Me: oh…shit I've got to run… enjoy my latest fanfiction.
Chapter 1
Cain Zephyrs was ticked off. He had been able to see ghosts for as long as he could remember sure. He even had learned to avoid the worst of them by drawing himself into his body by meditation. Hell, he had even developed a neat trick of compressing his, well he didn't know exactly what it was, into wires and that seemed to work out well enough. The spirits he knew about were easy enough to deal with once you knew what worked and what didn't. No. he was pissed off for a completely different reason. Some punks were trying to beat him up because, off all the things possible in the entire universe, his hair was white. Not just the kind of white that people's hair turns when they get old, no, this is blinding, neon white.
"Get lost." Cain told the punks, getting ready to pull knives from where he had hidden them in his clothes, he was an old hand at fighting, and he had dealt with these types before. He was just about to show them his knives when he saw a blur of orange and saw the would-be assailants fall to the ground.
"You ok?" the orange haired kid asked "those guys just don't know when to give up. First me then Chad here." He motioned to the large Hispanic looking kid who was walking up to him from behind. "They don't stop until they have either been beaten down or the person that they had been targeting has been 'educated'" he motioned to his own unusual hair color "guess they didn't like your hair color huh?" he extended his hand towards Cain, "The name is Ichigo Kurosaki, nice to meet you!" he didn't smile so much as stop the permanent scowl on his face for a few seconds, but then again Cain wasn't too good at reading people's emotions.
"The name is Cain, Cain Zephyrs" he tilted his head to one side and looked at Ichigo for a minute, then said without any preamble, "You can see ghosts too can't you?" Ichigo face faulted so hard onto the ground it was amazing he didn't have any brain damage.
"How do you even know about that?" Ichigo asked completely astounded that someone else besides him and his siblings could see the spirits. Just then a girl with raven hair wearing the school uniform for karakura high school ran up behind Ichigo and kicked his back with a flying kick. "WHAT THE HELL RUKIA!"
"You go off and don't tell me where you are going and then I find you in some park beating up some punks and saving some guy with weird hair! Off course I'm going to punish you. You've got work to do." She struck Ichigo with a glove that had a flaming skull on it. As the glove passed through his head another Ichigo popped out dressed in black and had a giant sword. It could be best described as a two handed long sword.
"Care to explain?" Cain asked, genuinely curious, as the appearance of a second Ichigo wasn't really surprising to him so much as made him really curious.
One long explination that I am far to lazy to go into right now and seriously, you should know that if you are reading this right now.
"Interesting." Cain mused, "so the ghosts with holes are known as hollows, they are the souls of the departed that have failed to cross over in time and have turned into demon like beings that live by devouring other souls. You" he points at Rukia "are a shinigami, tasked with the protection of this world's souls or whatever and because of reasons that I don't really care to remember at the moment, no offense Ichigo,"
Ichigo punched Cain, sending him falling into the ground "None taken Cain"
Cain rose to his feet rubbing his cheek in pain "I deserved that I think. Anyways, so you're a substitute soul reaper or whatever and you slay these hollow things in order to send them to the soul society. So…what happens when I kill one?"
Rukia looked on in shock "You've killed one!? How!?"
Cain took a deep breath and concentrated, he pushed his hand together as if he was praying and then slowly brought them apart, at first it looked like there was nothing there, and then the sunlight reflected off of them, "I found out how to do this through meditation and necessity. I was being attacked by a hollow and something inside of me responded to the danger. All of a sudden I found myself able to manipulate my internal energy that made me visible to these things, I don't have much power in terms of brute force, but these are razor sharp." He dissipated the spirit wires and shrugged. "I guess normal people don't do that huh?"
There was a roar from nearby and suddenly a hollow appeared. "I guess I'll just give a demonstration." He walked towards the hollow, his hands already in the preparatory prayer pose. His spirit wires forming between his fingers, "I guess I've been watching too much anime recently, but I call this, Battle Waltz" the wires wrapped around the hollow as he crossed his hands, "Finale!" the spirit wires drew tight on the hollow and sliced it into pieces, thankfully, it had no blood to spray everywhere otherwise it would have been too messy to clean off of his clothes. "that is how I killed the hollows that came after me, I can actually reabsorb the energy used to make the wires, so I can keep this up indefinitely." He shrugged.
Ichigo and Rukia were not sure whether to be impressed by the efficiency of his dispatch of the hollow or to disturbed by the brutality of it. "well I guess you are hanging with us then" exclaimed Ichigo.
