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This: Hollowform speaking inside owner's head
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Hollow after Hollow were pouring out from the pit, easily a thousand plus. Some of them were turning and growing in strength, maybe ten or more Adjuchas and maybe even a couple of hundred Gillians.
They all desired one thing, and one thing only. That thing would drive some men insane and some men into monsters, that thing would make whole armies crumble, it would topple mountains, it would kill every organism in its way.
That thing was power.
Everything seems to want more power. Most are ashamed and try to hide it with lies and deceit but they all want power, and the ones that do admit it are usually cut down by those who want more power as well.
It is all a vicious cycle. Everywhere you look, you will see lust for power, everywhere you look, you will see greed for money to control people like puppets, that is power. Aizen wanted more power, Yamamoto wanted power as well, that's why he created the 13 court guard squads. That's why there are ranks in the squads; It isn't about protecting the weak, it's about desiring more power and beating your successors.
Everyone wants power but everyone has different reasons, Ichigo Kurosaki wanted power to protect, same goes with Yamamoto. Aizen just wanted to rule everything with pure power.
Power corrupts, you can't control it.
Sub-Chapter 1: Unexpected Arrival
A Lone man stood in the Forest of Menos, fighting off the tide of hollows. This man is not a Soul Reaper, nor is he an Arrancar. He carries a Zanpakuto but he doesn't belong to a faction.
This man is just a lone wanderer. The man swings his Zanpakuto once, cutting down easily a hundred hollows with one quick slash. He reaches for his second Zanpakuto and slashes once again, cutting down another hundred hollows. He hears a familiar sound, "A Garganta? Here?" He sees an Adjuchas opening a portal and he sheaths his blades, darting forward through all the disorientated hollows. He grapples with the Adjuchas which had a human spider hybrid like body, the man presses one of his katanas against the hollows throat
"Close the portal or I'll wear your head like a helmet."
"Argh, get off of me, filthy Soul Reaper. Or I'll enjoy ripping you open and eating you. Ha. I'll do that anyway" The Garganta closes as the Man applies a little bit of pressure on the neck of the hollow, as a consequence, the hollows head pops off like a grape. The Adjuchas disintegrates with a loud thundering noise, the man sheaths his blade and realises he is about 100 feet above the Soul Society.
"What am I doing here? The Soul Society? Why here?"
"A hell butterfly? What now?" Kyoraku-Taicho says to Ukitake-Taicho.
"Attention, Taichos of the 8th and 13th please locate and pursue the Ryoka that has entered the Seireitei." The Hell butterfly orders the two Taicho
"Ryoka? But I don't sense any-" Ukitake says before he is cut off by a sheer force of Spiritual pressure which could crush peoples lungs.
"This pressure, this isn't of an Arrancar or Hollow. Maybe an ex-Taicho?" Shunsui ponders
"I don't know, you tell me" The lone man from before says after he flash-stepped behind the two taicho. The Spiritual pressure from up close flattens the two captains, causing them to run out of breath and fall down to their knees. A wall explodes as a giant of a man steps out from behind the smoke
"Ah, so this is where the fight is?" Kenpachi-Taicho says as he walks towards the man, unaffected by the crushing Spiritual pressure. "Tell me, what is your name?" Kenpachi asks as he unsheathes his blade
"Tatsuya... Tatsuya Akihiro" The man says, lifting up his black sakkat and revealing black eyes with a red pupil, black Reiatsu with a white outline pours out of him and forms a dragon head.
"Are you here to fight?" Kenpachi says, his yellow Reiatsu pouring out and meeting Tatsuya's
"Maybe, maybe not. I only stumbled here through an Adjucha's Garganta. I was stuck in the Forest of Menos for as long as I can remember. Without my efforts, there would probably be Vasto Lordes everywhere" Tatsuya says while rolling his head around and reaching for the katana on his left side. He grabs it and disappears into a black blur, and going straight through Kenpachi. Tatsuya reappears behind the opposing Taicho and sheaths his blade, a spray of blood coming out of the side of Kenpachi. "Don't bother trying to fight me, it's not why I'm here." Tatsuya says as he pulls his Sakkat back over his eyes, his reiatsu stopping and the spiritual pressure being suppressed.
Tatsuya wears a black silk trench coat which is pulled together by a thick white belt with a black outline, a black sakkat with thin white lines on his head, covering his eyes while a face mask is worn to cover the rest of his face. Long straight dark blonde hair comes out from underneath the hat and blows behind him constantly. He wears a dark black kimono with white intricate lines which come from all limbs to what looks like a white hollow hole imprint on the front of his kimono. Instead of the kimono being a normal kimono, he has installed a zip which done the kimono up to his throat where a collar is joined by the facemask. The collar reaches up to the top of his throat but just below the chin. Thick white shoulder pads on top of his trench coat have the same kinds of patterns but the white hollow hole pattern is in the middle and the white lines come from all directions. Thick black boots cover his feet and have white laces.
He wears a tighter version of a Hakama which is black with thick white lines going up his legs and meeting the lines that go off of his Kimono. The Hakama is kept up by another thick black belt with white outlines.
Tatsuya moves his right arm to the side and reveals a second Zanpakuto. He then turns around and looks at Ukitake and Shunsui, he flash-steps in front of them and offers them both his hands. They both look at each other and pull themselves up with the help of Tatsuya, he then walks towards Kenpachi and heals the wounds he inflicted to the still dazed Taicho.
"Having trouble comprehending how I managed to move so fast and still cut straight through you?" Tatsuya leans into Kenpachi's ear and says "I've killed 4 Vasto Lordes with ease. Aren't they supposed to be as strong as Taichos?." Tatsuya pulls out his phone and shows the three stunned Taicho a video of him fighting with several Vasto Lordes at a time. "I used a hollow lure and managed to bag myself some Vastos"
"You must be able to use Bankai then" Ukitake and Shunsui both say at the same time. All the while, Ukitake is recording everything that is said and seen by stealthily using a Hell Butterfly live transmission. "Yes I can. Oh and by the way...
I want to be a Soul Reaper"
Sub-Chapter 2: Trials of a Madman.
"Tatsuya Akihiro, you will be assessed for the Taicho's seat by Taichos Kyoraku, Kenpachi and Ukitake. If you are as strong as you say you are, then you should have no trouble... Fending off all three at a time." Sou-Taicho Yamamoto says as he commences the Trials.
"First, I will use only one Zanpakuto" Tatsuya says as he pulls out the Katana on his left side. This Katana has an Iron Cross as a guard and a long black with faded white patterns ribbon coming off of the end. The sheath is black with the same patterns as his kimono. "This sword right here is Zanmato" He holds the blade in a reversed grip with the back of blade resting up the side of his arm. He tilts his hat up as his spiritual pressure and Reiatsu is released, flattening nearby trees and blowing bits off of buildings.
Kenpachi charges at Tatsuya, swinging his blade diagonally upwards which would usually knock anyone who blocked it flying, but Tatsuya blocks it with one hand and drags his blade diagonally left up the side of Kenpachi's face, cutting his eye patch off. "Now you've done it" Kenpachi says as his full power is released, his yellow reiatsu engulfing the area and forming a laughing skull. He then swings again and Tatsuya steps backwards, getting cut across the front of his chest
"You've ruined my coat." Tatsuya takes his coat off and throws it to the side, revealing his other Katana. "It's on now. Move swiftly and decapitate, ZANMATO" Tatsuya releases one of his Shikai which turns Zanmato into a double edged version of itself. Shunsui and Ukitake seeing double edged blade, both jump in the fight and start attacking, all of the attacks being fended off by a double ended katana.
"Looks like we've got to release our Shikai, huh Ukitake?" Shunsui says to which is responded with a nod from Ukitake.
"All Waves, Rise now and Become my Shield, Lightning, Strike now and Become my Blade" Ukitake's Zanpakuto is released, forming 2 blades, Shunsui does the same with his blades. Kenpachi stops the two Taichos and says
"This one is mine." The two Taichos nod and step back out, Kenpachi rushes at Tatsuya, slashing in every possible direction into something hits, which nothing does.
"Let's end this." Tatsuya pulls out his second blade which is the reversed colors of Zanmato."Meet Yamato" He shouts out. "Strike from afar, YAMATO" his second Zanpakuto forming like the first but with a hand cannon on the grip "Strike" Tatsuya says as a black with white outline blast flies out and engulfs the Taicho standing on his own, it carries on going and takes out the side of a building on the other side of the Seireitei. As the whirring and zapping of the Cero-like power fades out, a chill-triggering laugh appears from the smoke
"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, So much power, this could be fun" Kenpachi says, blood covering his entire torso.
Tatsuya smiles once again, going into Bankai release form "Bankai, Bushi no Hokori (Pride of Samurai.)" Black Reiatsu engulfs the entire training ground and rockets upwards in a cascading black and white tornado, a jagged white and black crystalline double ended blade appears in his hands, spinning above his head. He slams one end of the blade down into the ground as black light seeps from cracks in the ground, it then slowly creeps its way under the captains feet and explodes upwards in a black and white tower. The blast levels the entire training grounds and damages nearby buildings. The light fades away and reveals Yamamoto taking the hit and suppressing the damage on himself
"ENOUGH" The Sou-taicho says "You shall be Kyoraku's second Fuku-taicho because there are no vacant Taicho spots right now." Yamamoto adds as Tatsuya places his blades on his back as they change back into their normal forms.
Sub-Chapter 3: What's my story?
"So, what's your story?" The Taicho said to his new Fuku-taicho as he leans back on his chair and put his feet up on the table, almost knocking over the paper work that Fuku-taicho Nanao was working on
"Hey watch it Taicho." The raven-haired Fuku-taicho said to her Taicho
"Sorry, Nanao-chan" Shunsui said in quick reply. Tatsuya pulled off his Sakkat and pulled his face mask down to reveal a manly yet smooth face, a crescent scar on his chin lighting up with the colour of his Reiatsu. He sat on the window sill and said
"Sunlight, it's been forever since I've seen it. I don't really like it. Being trapped in an endless forest full of things trying to eat you can do that to you. But it's very good training, you should consider sharing it with the Sou-taicho" Tatsuya said with pauses every now and again.
"I might do that, if new recruits turn out to be as strong as you that is." Shunsui said after taking a swig at his bottle of Sake.
"Anyway, you still haven't answered my question. What's your story?"
"I don't really know. I remember waking up one day with a letter on my chest and blood surrounding me, to this very day I haven't opened it. Too much danger of hollows, I've been battling constantly for what seems like 90 years." Tatsuya says slowly in response to the repetition of his captain, he pulls out said letter and places it down in front of him
"It's time." He says as Nanao passes the letter opener to him and continues doing her Taicho's paperwork, to which Tatsuya plunges it into the hoop in the envelope, cutting open the red ribbon which adorned it and tearing a hole in the top. He grabs the paper and places it down, carefully putting Yamato and Zanmato on the top and the bottom to stop it from rolling back up. He starts to read it out loud
"To Tatsuya Akihiro,
if you are reading this then you either cannot find me or you have lost your memory due to some extensive research done to you by Aizen and then dumped into the Menos Forest to test your capability by sending wave after wave of increasingly stronger hollows. Luckily, the surveillance would've worn of after a year and would've disintegrated after you left Hueco Mundo I just want you to know that I love you and whatever you do, don't you dare die on me. - Lots of love and hope
-Your little bee."
"Just a question. Do you know who 'Little bee' is?" Tatsuya said to him with a puzzled look on his usually blank face. He then looks out of the window to see the Taicho of the Second squad walking through the Seretei: Soi Fon. She looks to her left and sees a man in all black with some white, and long blonde hair staring at her. She then rubs her eyes and shakes her head in disapproval
"It sounds like what Yoruichi-San calls Soi Fon, the second squad Taicho and leader of the Punishment Force. Don't you agree, Nanao-chan?" Shunsui says to Nanao, to which is replied with a half-bothered nod of approval followed by some scribbling.
"What? You mean that girl out there?" Tatsuya points stealthily at her as Shunsui looks through the other window and nods as well. "I'm gonna go talk to her." He says while walking out, pulling up his face mask and putting on his Sakkat, placing his two blades in the slots on his back. "Oh and how are your wounds from the trial?" Tatsuya says mockingly and walking out before a response could be thrown back at him. He then quickly walks back in and grabs the letter and flash-steps out before anyone could open their mouth.