Title: Honor and Glory: Struggle for Power
Summary: A competition to find the strongest fighter in all of the Seireitei has been set up. An all out no holds battle arena has been erected… is this another corruption plot or will it unlock secrets to the Soul Society's dark past? IchiRuki RenTat IshiOC
Shalan's Shout Out: Howdy Y'all! How're you doing? I'm at it again… this one came to me… while I was watching Burst Angel… I know… I should probably focus on the others but I mean… I've been updating those like crazy I just need a break… sorry… but I promise… I will update them sometime next week… and if you're lucky… maybe this weekend…
Note: I just thought you guys should know that I actually like Mayuri… and once he takes off his mask… he's really hot… XD of course most of the captains are… meaning the men of course… most of them mind you not all… but I think that he should just go without his mask… XDDD just a side note… he shows up quite often in this one… and may even have a pairing… not with Nemu…
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Bleach.
Chapter: A Plot of Mixed Peoples
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"Hot chocolate!" Kisuke exclaimed as Yoruichi handed him a steaming mug.
"Why are you drinking hot chocolate at this time of year?" A woman's voice spoke over the cell phone that he had in his hand.
"Because it's as cold as shit in the house…" Kisuke shivered and the woman laughed.
"Kisuke the last time I checked shit was fairly warm so that's not a good explanation…"
"If you lived in this house your shit would have icicles…" Kisuke grumbled.
"What was that?" Her voice darkened. "Now what were you talking about?" He sipped from the mug.
"Hmmm… my tong'!" He exclaimed. "Ow ow ow… ho'!" Yoruichi chuckled and he looked over. The tall dark skinned woman stood in the doorway with a slight smile on her face and he stared at her. "You di' 'his…" He scowled at her and she nodded.
"KISUKE!" The woman's voice shouted and he turned his attention back to the phone.
"Yes… what is it darling?" He asked mockingly and he could almost feel her anger over the phone. "Temper, temper… come now… calm down… how are you all doing in the Soul Society?"
"How would you like to come and see?" Her voice was taunting and he frowned.
"You interest me young one… continue…" He sipped on the hot chocolate again.
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"Once more Uryu!" His sensei's voice rang across the training arena. He looked over. She was still there. Only a year before… he had received an email from a woman telling him that she had been contacted by his grandfather. He had come to find out that she was a German woman that travelled the world quite often… and because of this she hadn't received his grandfather's letter until some years after his death. When she had contacted him he wouldn't dare believe her… there were only two practicing Quincy left on the planet, weren't there?
"Katarina-sensei!" He complained as she stared at him blankly. "I think I've done enough for today…" he panted, sweat pouring down his face and chest.
"Uryu! If you quit now… you will always just quit when you get tired… go through it again!" She shouted. He sighed and jumped off, running through the complicated obstacle course she had created. When she had arrived he had been even more shocked. Her power was simply amazing. His father had remarked that he was the true genius of the Quincy… but she seemed to be more powerful than even him.
Katarina von Hausen.
The last remaining Quincy female… she was truly deserving of her title. Uryu looked at her as he flipped over one of the bars that was in his way. She stood there, her sandy blonde hair braided all the way down hung just below her shoulder blades. Her bangs were brushed to one side… and she reminded him of someone… but he hadn't yet been able to put his finger on it. She stood on the platform nearby in a pair of knee length tan cargo shorts with a tight white long sleeved shirt. Her bare feet were buried slightly in the sandy ground of the ocean side training grounds.
"THAT'S GOOD URYU!" She called to him and he landed on the ground in front of her. "Woo…" she jumped slightly. "You shouldn't scare beautiful young women like that…" He shrugged, well knowing that he hadn't surprised her at all… "Now I have some…" they looked over at where her jacket was. Her cell phone was ringing from within her jacket pocket.
"Who's calling you?" Uryu's eyebrow lifted and she shrugged, walking over and picking it up.
"Katarina…" She answered it by flipping the brilliant pink RAZR open. "Guten tag…" She smiled. "How have you been doing?" Uryu lifted his eyebrow further. "Ah… you shouldn't say such things…" she blushed slightly. "Yes… of course I remember… hold on I have someone here…" She turned to him. "Uryu your training is finished for today…" she told him and he sighed happily. Saved by the cell phone…
"So how have you been doing my darling?" Kisuke asked as she laughed, watching Uryu disappear from the training chamber.
"I've been doing alright and you?" She asked as she sat down. "What is this all about Urahara? You haven't called me in years…"
"I have a proposition for you that you may be interested in…" She smiled lightly, her red lips parting.
"You have me hooked… tell me more…" she leaned back on the roman couch as he began to speak.
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He sat in his lab, looking at a file. His cell phone rang. "Nemu! Get that…" he called. There was no response. He sighed impatiently. "NEMU!" he called again. "Oh… that's right…" he grouched and stood up. "I told her to go get me something to eat… how annoying…" he frowned and picked up the phone.
"Mayuri Kurotsuchi?" He heard a soft feminine voice on the other line.
"That German accent… it couldn't be…" he licked his lips to wet them slightly. He could almost hear her smile as she spoke again.
"It's been a long time…" she said and he looked up as Nemu walked into the room. He was actually rather glad he had answered the phone instead of Nemu. Suddenly images flashed before his eyes and his heart nearly stopped, buttery blonde hair spilled across a cold metal table, crimson lips parted, panting in his ear.
"Yes…" he stopped and swallowed, his voice nearly squeaked. "How have you been doing?" he coughed and Nemu looked over at him.
"I've been alright…" She laughed and again images flashed across his memory. Sakura blossoms falling around her as she laughed, her blonde hair pulled back in a braid. Her red lips as they brushed his for the first time. "I have heard a lot about you though…" suddenly he turned red. He wasn't sure why… but for some reason hearing her say that made him halfway embarrassed…
"What exactly does that mean?" He growled as Nemu walked over.
"I heard you have a daughter now…" she smiled and he looked at Nemu who bowed as she put his food on the table.
"Something like that…" he nodded at Nemu and she bowed again, walking off.
"Nemu Kurotsuchi huh?" She smiled. "Surprising… I would have never thought you were the fathering type…" she was teasing him… he hated being teased but for some reason… her laugh rang in his head again.
"Get to your point von Hausen…" he spat and then he regretted it as he heard her fall silent.
"Alright… I have a proposition for you… that I think you may be interested in…" She smiled again but he knew the damage was done… she was mad at him.
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"Ichigo…" he turned his head to look over at the short black haired woman. "What are you doing?"
"Reminiscing…" he ran a thumb along the scar across his chest and shoulder. "Just remembering some old battles…" Her arms wrapped around his waist.
"Stop reminiscing… there's nothing here but me…" She looked into his eyes in the mirror.
"Rukia…" he smiled and reached back wrapping an arm around her shoulders, pulling her up against him. "I know… but that doesn't mean I can't think about the past… besides… it was my past that lead me to you isn't it?" Her hand slid across his etched chest and abdomen, feeling the tightly wound muscles there as well as the deep grooves from the wounds he had received.
"Yeah…" she smiled, resting her cheek against his chest, her ear pressed to his heart as she closed her eyes. She could hear his heart beating, the steady ba-bump of the most powerful muscle in his body pumping blood to every vein in his impressive muscular system. She felt his wrap his arms around her and she smiled into his warm flesh, planting a kiss there and he smiled, looking into the mirror.
"Captain Kurosaki?" They both looked over into the doorway. "Woops… sorry…" Momo flushed and Ichigo lifted an eyebrow.
"It's alright Momo… we were just talking…" Ichigo smiled and Momo relaxed.
"Uhm… you've been requested on the phone in your office… I told them to wait on hold…" Hinamori grinned. "Do you want me to…"
"Nah. Tell 'em I'll be right there… I don't see why they can't just come out here they know where I live…" his eyebrows furrowed.
"Ichigo… it's the way we do things here…" Rukia squeezed him lightly. Ichigo looked down. Five years. It had been five years since she had changed his life.
"We need to change they way people do things here…" Ichigo told her and she chuckled.
"I think you've changed their ways forcefully enough already…" she slapped his well-built chest and he laughed as he pulled up his gi.
"Captain…" they turned around to look at Momo again and she smiled. "They're waiting…" he sighed and suddenly was pulled down into a searing kiss that made Momo blush.
"Alright… I get it… I belong to you but can I go and let myself belong to my office for a few minutes?" She let go of him but not before squeezing his butt and he patted her cheek teasingly. "You're so grab-assy…"
"I am not!" She protested. "Why are you calling me that? It don't do that all the time!" He backed away and Momo did as well. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING THAT?" He turned tail after his lieutenant.
"S-SORRY CAPTAIN!" She shouted as she disappeared.
"WA-WAIT MOMO! WAIT FOR ME!" He ran, looking over his shoulder as the short woman stormed out the door. "Gotta get outta here…" he used flash steps and disappeared.
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Renji yawned, walking out of his office then was suddenly blow over by an orange, black and white blur. "KUROSAKI!" He bellowed and the blur swung around.
"RENJI!" The blur ran past again then doubled again and disappeared. Renji sighed lightly then lifted his arms into the air and stretched nearly every bone in his body popping as he bent over backwards with something near a roar.
"Renji… are you alright?" Izuru asked him and Renji nodded.
"Why wouldn't I be?" He blinked.
"Uh… you sounded like you were in pain just now…" Izuru told him and Renji blinked.
"No… I was stretching Izuru…" Renji looked over. "C'mon let's get going… I heard there was some crazy thing going on at the General's common…" He walked off and Izuru followed the former lieutenant.
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Something beeped from the side table in the pitch black room. A mutter from the tangled mass of pillows and blankets. A figure sat up from the pile and rubbed one eye while yawning. Her shoulder length hair slightly messy as she leaned over and grabbed the little noise maker then snuggled back under the blankets.
"Who is it?" A deep voice said from beside her as she answered it.
"Captain Hasegawa… draft beers all night long for just six bucks…" she mumbled into the phone as she rubbed her eye again. "Hmm? A meeting?" She turned her head to look at the clock. "Tell them I can't make it Shuhei…" she yawned.
"But captain…" he groaned into the phone.
"Shuhei…" she whined back. "It's 4 AM… please just tell them that I'm going to miss this one…" she heard him grumble something else. "Then go for me and tell me about it later…" she yawned. "Byebye now…" she clicked the cell phone shut and tucked it under one of the pillows.
"What's this about a captain's meeting?" The voice said as a pair of muscular arms wrapped around her waist as she buried her face into his neck.
"I don't care…" she bit the skin of his neck lightly.
"If they find you here you're going to get into trouble…" his voice warned and she looked up at him.
"They can't touch me…" she smiled. "You'll make sure of that… right Quincy-boy?" her iridescent blue eyes met his cerulean.
"Your eyes glow in the dark…" he chuckled and she blinked then nodded. "Why is that?" He pushed some of her hair from her face. She leaned up and kissed him, slowly, gently, deeply. "Are you trying to wipe the question from my mind?" He whispered as they met again.
"Mmmhmmm…" she nodded as he pinned her to the bed, their lips clashing for dominance. "You want me to tell you?" She asked him as he hovered over her.
"Why don't you do th…" his eyes narrowed as more noise came from beneath the pillow. "I'll get it…"
"Uryu!" She laughed as he pulled it out and flopped over on the bed. "Give me that!" He examined the caller ID.
"Jushiro… Ukitake… why is Jushiro calling you?" He asked her, his hand on her collarbone, holding her away from him as she tried to reach for her phone.
"Maybe to tell me to get my butt out of bed and come to the Soul Society? URYU! Give me THAT!" She jumped over his arm and planted fell down with a yelp onto his stomach which earned her a grunt from him as she struggled across his body to his other arm.
"Ooop… it stopped…" they both looked over at the little phone in his hand. She glared at him as his arm tightened around her waist.
"Uryu! Give me the phone before every other captain in the Gotei decides to call…" she groaned and he chuckled. "Wah!" The phone rang again and she dove for it but his arms kept her in place. "URYU!" She complained.
"It's Renji this time…" Uryu looked at it. She grumbled something about him being a jack ass. "I am not… I'm just angry that you and your little cult decided to wake me up at four in the morning!"
"Cult! Uryu!" She reached for it again as it stopped ringing. "URYU!" He chuckled again.
"C'mon… just turn it off and let's go back to sleep…" he looked over as the phone rang again. "Shunsui Kyoraku… so he has your number too?" His eyes twinkled.
"Uryu ISHIDA!" She scowled at him. "I am going to break your arm if you don't give me that phone…" he looked over at her.
"Fine…" he sighed. "I was just having a little fun…" he tossed the little phone back to her and she answered it.
"Captain Hasegawa…" she was panting lightly.
"You've been a bad girl Kazi-chan…" Shunsui joked and she growled.
"YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT ALL OF YOU WERE CALLING JUST TO WAKE ME UP!?" She roared into the phone and Uryu laughed.
"Well actually… we have a few questions for you concerning this proposition you've been talking about…" Jushiro chuckled.
"Aah… so you've caught wind of that…" she smiled.
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That was a funny chapter to write XD I had a lot of fun with it… this will probably been an action packed story… you'll find out what the proposition is in the second chapter… anyways…
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