Okay, first off I want to say that four stories, and more, is not to much for my life...as I have no life. Sigh, I am going to be so busy writing these, but this amazing idea popped in my head, and I just had, and I mean HAD to right about it. I don't even know if it's been used before though. So, basically, as you already read, the summary makes the Bleach story different, VERY DIFFERENT. Now, I wanted to make this early note, because of a few key things. They would be that I am changing the Bleach story line, maybe not by much, maybe by a lot. His hollow powers will affect the story line. Also, I have a poll up for who you guys want to be Ichigo's girlfriend. Lastly, I will be breaking the Bleach universe, slightly, to make this story possible, but its very slight, that's it. Also, this is not one of my main stories, meaning I will update it, but don't expect every week like my other stories, unless you guys quite seriously LOVE it. Yeah, sorry for the long author's note. Now read and enjoy! Kuma Akuma out!
A Different Side to The Story
Ichigo Kurosaki groaned as he stood from his bed, his head pounding. It had happened again, that dream. He saw bright orange hair screaming in agony as they were violated by something he couldn't see. Clothes were shredded as the creature that caused the air to distort sexual abused the woman in its hunger. This woman...she was being abused, by such a monster! A creature that had no right to exist! To take advantage of her like that! This woman was his mother...and the monster raped her...making her pregnant with him. It was a startle to Isshin, his mother's, Masaki, husband that she had decided to keep the baby. She had clearly stated to him that she had despised the thing for what it had done, but a child had no reason to suffer the consequences of that. Getting an abortion was not something she had wanted. She would love her son, because it was hers. She couldn't help it, it wasn't as if it had had a choice in the events that had taken place that day.
To Ichigo it was a surprise he had been born, but even more so that Isshin had allowed him to live with him.
Ichigo threw on his most comfortable clothes as he finished getting ready for the last day of the weekend. His baggy white pants that were held up a black sash did not cling to his body. He wore a white shirt that did however. It clung so tightly to him that it looked like a muscle shirt, however that was only because Ichigo was just a more lean muscular person in general. Ichigo had spiky, orange hair. He was fairly tall, and lean built, although he did lean more on the muscular side. He had peach skin and brown eyes. Lastly, and the most noticeable thing about him, was the white, bone-like substance on his face. It had been there on his birth and no doctor knew what it was. It was white and surrounded his left eye completely, trailing upwards like an eagle mask, with a red decoration just beginning before it ended. Doctors had wanted to do tests on it, but Isshin had turned them away every time. He also had a white, horn like markings sticking out the sides of his right eye, that ended just before it reached his eyebrows.
Ichigo nodded to himself in the mirror as he walked towards the door to his room. He looked good, or at least he thought he did. It was now time to go an enjoy the day...along with visit a friend of his. As he walked by his door he looked to the left, noticing his twin blades that lay against the wall. Again, like many strange things on his birth these blades seemed to materialize from nothing on that day, and they only responded well to him.
One looked like an oversized Khyber knife, with the grip at the base of the blade and a handle extending back from this about the width and length of Ichigo's forearm. There was a thin, hollowed-out portion running along the back edge of the blade from the base to the middle of the blade. The second blade was relatively small, being about the size of Ichigo's arm. It was similar to the bigger blade, but resembled a trench knife more than a sword. It had an enclosed handle, with a portion acting like a hand guard. The larger one was white and the smaller one was black.
Ichigo frowned at them. It wasn't that he disliked them, no he rather did. It was just the fact that it was almost impossible to bring them out into public without some people taking notice of them. It was strange actually. Only certain people seemed to take notice of the fact that he had a blade on his back, and no one in the police station apparently did when they saw him after they got a report of him bringing a blade into a public area. They had even forced him to completely strip once, and found nothing in his clothes or on him. Eventually the police, and some people in the town started calling those people crazy so they had stopped caring altogether, but Ichigo knew the truth. Those people weren't crazy. They saw his blades, and for some reason the other townspeople did not. Ichigo walked out of his room without grabbing the blades. He decided they wouldn't be of any use to him today. After all, it wasn't like there was someone out there who could actually prove to be such a threat to his family that he would have to.
Ichigo stepped out of his room, and into the hallway to see his younger, half-sister Yuzu looking at him.
"What is it Yuzu?" he asked.
Yuzu had short light brown hair, similar to her mothers, Masaki, with short bangs hanging over the right side of her forehead. She wore a red hair clip on the left side of her head. Her eyes were a dark brown color and appeared much softer than her twin sisters. She wore a green hooded sweatshirt, and an apron as she was cooking, at least Ichigo assumed she was..
"I've been calling you for the past five minutes. Breakfast is ready Nii-san."
Ichigo scratched the back of his neck. "Sorry about that Yuzu. I'll head down now." he said as he walked towards the stairs. Yuzu nodded and followed after him. As Ichigo descended down the steps he narrowed his eyes. He knew what to expect, his father wouldn't let him off that easy, even if it was a day off of school.
"Ichigo~!" Yelled a grown man as he attempted to dropkick his stepson. Ichigo rolled his eyes as he caught the kick with both hands, turning on his foot and slamming his foot into his stepfathers face, sending him flying into a wall.
The man groaned as he stood, his neck popping.
"What a horrible thing to do to your father," the man said, eyes downcast. Ichigo's eyes twitched. "Coming from the person that tried to dropkick me! What type of father does that!?"
Ichigo's stepfather blushed as he rubbed the back of his neck. Ichigo rolled his eyes, yet he smiled. He knew Isshin, his stepfather, was only attempting to build a relationship he would have had with his own son. This was just how they communicated. Isshin didn't attack him from malicious intent, just because he wanted to build a bond that was strong enough to be comparable to a son that was actually his.
Isshin was a tall, muscular man with spiky black hair and brown eyes. He had thin facial hair around his mouth and on his cheeks. As a doctor, Isshin usually wore a white lab coat over his casual shirt and trousers. He wore a black shirt with dark blue pants.
Ichigo rolled his eyes and walked into the kitchen, finding his other younger sister, Karin looking at him with annoyance, although he could tell it was more from Isshin and him fighting.
Karin had dark grey eyes and black hair that was straight and cropped to hang around her face, just above her shoulders. She was in sportswear. Her eyes were large and dark. She wore a red cap on her head.
Karin narrowed her eyes at Ichigo. "Keep it down next time. I'm trying to eat peacefully here and I can't do that if you guys keep acting like idiots."
Ichigo rolled his eyes but smirked nonetheless. Karin was always a bit more hostile to him, but that was because Isshin and he always had those little fights, more than they should have been having. Still, she cared about him, and he her.
Ichigo went over to the kitchen, getting some eggs and bacon. He then grabbed some toast, put some jelly on it, sat down on the table and ate. H ate in relative silence as he family began to join in, with even Isshin being quiet. There was no specific reason why, and his family was usually talkative, they were all just quiet today.
Ichigo finished first, putting his dishes in the sink before walking out of the house. He found no reason to stay after all, there was nothing to do, and he was not the type of person that liked to stay inside. Besides...he had something to do.
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Ichigo growled as he saw it. The little girl was being bullied by those skaters again. They didn't know it, but she was. They were tearing up her gravesite, and Ichigo had come to help her with the flowers she had wanted to put down today. Ichigo growled, his eyes narrowing, before he walked over to the skaters.
"DO you three have any idea what you're doing?" Ichigo hissed at them.
They turned at him, sneering. "Whatever the hell we want."
Ichigo shook his head as if he was talking to idiots. "No, you're not. You see, what you don't seem to realize is the fact that I'm angry. I'm angry because you guys decided to defile this girls grave."
The skater sneered at Ichigo even more, if that was humanly possible. "What's trash like you gonna do about it. You're just some weak, scrawny, ugly, piece of trash that deserves to be-" The leader didn't get to finish his insult as Ichigo had grown tired of him.
Ichigo slammed his foot in the leaders chest, throwing him into a wooden fence that broke on contact. The grunts of the leader growled and charged, swinging their skateboards wildly. Ichigo rolled his eyes, easily avoiding the skateboards and knocking the two out with two quick punches. The leader stood again, only to notice his grunts were out. His eyes widened as he glared at Ichigo before hopping on his skateboard and leaving his grunts.
"I'll be back!"
Ichigo smirked. "I'll be waiting."
Ichigo turned to the girl who was sitting there, cowering in fear of the skateboarders. Coming out of her chest there was a chain.
"Are you okay?"
She looked up at him, noticing who he was and nodded brightly. "Yeah, thanks Ichigo."
Ichigo smiled and helped her up before they began to walk towards the flower shop. "You ready to go buy the flowers?" Ichigo asked as they walked. The little girl nodded.
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Ichigo frowned as he walked by the building. What had happened looked like something akin to acid, but there was no way that could have happened. The building...it was missing a giant chunk of it that looked like it had been ripped off, or melted off. Yet, there was nothing alive that had the capability to do that, he was sure of it. Humans knew all of the species out there, so nothing could have done it, at least, nothing alive.
Ichigo heard a roar in the distance, a roar that was so distant. It was cold...cruel...empty...hollow. He didn't know what it was, but it ignited a part of him, a part of him he had been resisting ever since he was a child. He got hungry. Normally no one would think of this as strange, people got hungry all the time, but no matter what Ichigo ate, nothing satisfied the hunger he was feeling now. No...the hunger he felt was primal...animalistic...akin to the roar...it was hollow as well.
Ichigo felt drawn to the power and felt himself walking towards it. He walked slowly, before it became steadily faster, breaking out into a full on sprint. He tried to stop himself but he couldn't, yet he knew that if he didn't he would be putting himself in danger. Something told him, that meeting whatever gave off that roar without his blades would be a bad idea. However he continued onwards, coming to another building that had the exact same damage done to it, however this time the perpetrator was still there, looking hungrily at the people. The thing was massive, larger than any living creature Ichigo had ever seen. However the strange thing about it was the white, bone-like substance covering its face. The composition looked similar to his own.
However what he saw afterwards was even more terrifying, yet also exciting. A short and petite girl with light skin and violet-colored eyes appeared in midair. Her hair was black, with several strange hanging between her eyes. She wore a shihakusho, with a blades sheath attached to her waist. The actual blade was drawn and in motion. She slashed directly through the creatures face, splattering green blood all over the ground. However, the girl seemed not to care as the creature seemed to dissolve. Ichigo looked at the girl with wide eyes as he ran to catch up to her. He had to ask her, he had to ask her how she did that, how she knew it was there, but by the time he got there the girl had disappeared.
(-A Different Side to the Story-)
Ichigo frowned as he walked back to his house, walking past the girl from earlier. At least, he should have. She wasn't there, and her gravesite was even more trashed then when the skaters were there. A roar was heard in the distance, the same roar from earlier. Ichigo narrowed his eyes. He had a feeling it had to do with whatever was making that noise.
(-A Different Side to the Story-)
Ichigo lay on his bed with boredom, looking up at the ceiling as he thought about the strange things that happened today. First the strange markings on the building, then that large...thing, the creature that was making those roars, and final the girl from earlier, the one that slayed the large creature. He had no idea what to make of it. It just didn't make sense. Things like this didn't happen to him. Then again he could see ghosts, and that in it of itself proved that strange things would happen to him.
Ichigo's eyes widened as the girl from earlier appeared on his floor, landing silently. The girl stood and walked towards the door with some form of urgency. Ichigo however wasn't about to let a potential burglar get away this easy. No, he grabbed his swords instantly, and pointed one at her neck.
"Stop right there."
The girl froze, obviously surprised before she turned to see a blade to her neck. She narrowed her eyes and rested her hand on the pommel of her blade but did nothing, knowing if her challenger was fast he could kill her before she finished drawing it. Still, it wasn't as if the person could actually harm her. Her eyes widened as she saw the teen.
"Who are you," Ichigo asked.
"You can see me?" she asked.
Ichigo's eye twitched. "Of course I can freaking see you! Who couldn't!?"
Ichigo narrowed his eyes after he said that. After all, some people couldn't see his blades, and no one had seen that monster that was there beforehand, or this girl who had killed it.
The girl narrowed her eyes at him as she looked at the bone-like substance on his face 'It reminds me of a Hollow...but it's obvious he isn't one,' the girl thought as she glared at it.
Ichigo was no idiot to what she was doing and pressed his blade closer to her neck. "Do you know what that is?"
The girls eyes narrowed even further as he did that. He had officially earned an enemy. The girl pointed her index and middle finger towards Ichigo. "Bakudo #1: Sai!"
Before Ichigo could react his swords fell and his arms locked behind his back as if paralyzed. He growled at her, trying to free himself but found he couldn't.
"What did you do to me?!" he insisted.
The girl smirked. "I restrained you. But, since you can see me I guess you deserve to be enlightened."
(-A Different Side to the Story-)
Ichigo's eyes widened as the girl finished. "That's unbelievable." The girl nodded. "I can see how you would think that but I assure you it's true. It explains how you can see me, a Shinigami, which probably means you can see Hollows, and Plus. Hence, you already know I'm telling the truth." Ichigo growled as he knew she had him. With all the evidence he had seen throughout his entire life, it made sense. It also explained, at least slightly, what happened to his mother. A hollow, or something like it had violated her...raped her. He was a Hollows child, that much wasn't hard to put together.
The girls eyes widened as she heard a roar and a scream. She couldn't believe she hadn't noticed it. A Hollow was near, very close. Something had been blocking her senses, but it couldn't have been this teen...could it? She shook her head. She didn't have time to debate it now, she had to find it and slay it. She rushed out of the room before Ichigo could say anything causing him to growl. He grabbed his swords, still unable to break the Bakudo the girl put on him, before rushing out of the door and following her.
He found her rushing past Yuzu who lay in front of the steps. When he saw her he kneeled.
"Yuzu what happened!?" he cried. Yuzu looked exhausted, beaten, yet worried.
"Nii-san...save...Karin..." she said before she passed out. Ichigo's eyes widened as he stood, shooting past Yuzu to se the kitchen destroyed, with a large creature standing outside, Karin in its grip.
The creature was a humanoid Hollow, that stood around 16ft in height, with a fish-like mask and a dorsal fin on its back. It's shoulders were plated with what appeared to be part of his mas, and his body was covered with dark gray stripes.
"Believe me now," the girl said. Ichigo growled, now wasn't the time for that. Suddenly seals began forming around him, and the girls eyes widened. She couldn't believe what was happening.
"I will protect you! Karin!" Ichigo roared as he moved his arms, blasting the seals away from him. He charged the creature, preparing to attack it. The girls eyes widened in amazement as he did so.
'He broke my Bakudo...'
Ichigo rushed the creature who turned to him. It smiled, or the closest thing to it, once it saw him.
"I'd been looking for you. I'm happy you decided to show up. Now just sit there patiently while I eat your sister." the Hollow said preparing to bite off Karin's head. Ichigo's eyes glowed with rage as he rushed forwards. His blades were calling out to him, aching, begging, to be used.
An use them he did.
Ichigo used the larger blade to slice off the arm that was holding Karin before jabbing the smaller one in the creatures gut. He then spun on his right foot, lifting his larger blade and slashing directly upwards, cutting the creature in half. However he wasn't done, his left hand was free and he felt power building inside it, searing...explosive power that wanted to be unleashed. He had no idea how to do it though, yet for some reason he wasn't worried as the creature began dissolving. It came to him on instinct. As did the name.
"Bala!"
Ichigo fired his left fist forward as black energy gathered there. He fired it at the creature, in the shape of a black, swirling orb that exploded on contact. Needless to say the creature was gone when the explosion cleared.
The girl stood there, in amazement at what just happened. She had never heard of anyone who could do such things. There were no records of a Shinigami doing it, and humans didn't have many special abilities, the rarest was some having higher spiritual awareness. Excluding the Quincy, but none had a power like this according to the records.
Ichigo caught Karin in his arms before he turned to Rukia.
"What's your name," Rukia asked.
"Ichigo Kurosaki...what's yours?"
The girl, in her stunned state answered him. "Rukia Kuchiki."
Hey guys it's Kuma Akuma. This is my Bleach story I was hinting at, A Different Side to the Story. It will not be focused on, as I said earlier, it's honestly just a side project that I got lucky with. Now, as you can tell from the summary and the first chapter, Isshin is not Ichigo's father in this story. HE's his stepfather. Who Ichigo's father is has already been planned out and you will find out eventually. All you guys know is that he is an Arrancar. I think you'll kind of like and kind of dislike who he is. Anyways, in regards to Ichigo using Bala, well I explained it that it was instinct. Hollows have natural instinct that guide them, nothing more, nothing less. Sure they have intelligence, but they truly are nothing much more than animals in a sense. Don't get me wrong I love animals though. I'll also be changing how Arrancars, and only Arrancars work. Arrancars can reproduce, the rest of Hollows cannot. Since Arrancars take after Soul Reapers, some aspects anyway, who in theory are supposed to be able to reproduce, I think they should be able to too. Anyways, that's pretty much it. I already know the majority of the plot, but for the arc after Aizen recommendations are fine. Same with OCs, I have a guideline for them on my profile, only they can be sent in anytime. There is a poll for Ichigo's girlfriend. See you guys later, and avoid the Earl.