A/N my first story :D Anyway this is after the Aizen buissness. I haven't really thought about where this story is going, but I'm just going to go with it. so yeah, enjoy; maybe have a cookie? Moved this from my wattpad :)
Hey, I'm Ichigo Kurosaki, 18 years of age, brown eyes, orange hair. Oh yeah, did I forget to tell you I was dead?
I'm just the average Japanese guy I guess if you exclude: watching my mother being eaten by a hollow when i was nine; secrets being kept from me; being able to see the dead; helping the dead; getting insane powers; losing said insane powers; having everyone pitying me; having my life manipulated by a power crazed man who wanted to become god and after that dying at eighteen. Yep, just the normal Fred, a guy you can find anywhere.
I guess I never was particularly normal, I seem to finally get a moment of peace from this madness and BAM! I get dragged back in again, although this time I don't have a blade almost the size of me. Or friends to back me up. No, I'm in an alley, a few paces behind me there's my dead body. Did I forget to brush my hair this morning? Looming over me is a monstrosity of a hollow, 80 feet tall and stinks like a half decomposed body on a hot day. Sometimes it amazes me how people can't see these things. It's times like this i'm happy I have some knowledge of hollows, if I was an average soul and found this, I wonder how I would react? As well as that I'm lucky that hollow did'nt straigh up eat me, I had no idea it was there. The hollow had only swatted me at the wall a few feet behind where it felt like I fell at terminal velocity after.
I need to think quickly, before I get eaten.
I can run. But not too far, it looks quick, as well as that I could be putting other souls in danger.
I can't negotiate with it, it looks as stupid as a brick...
I can fight but I'm...I'm..weak. I can't fight without my shinigami powers. This isn't some punk picking on me because of my hair. This is a beast, a hollow, fighting upon pure instinct and hunger. But I won't give up! I can't give up! I need to face it head on and abandon my fear. Past the putris stench wafting from it, I can see a mask, and large arms, with long lanky hollow legs. Past the smell it's seemingly a normal hollow. That's it the smell is the only weapon other than its smell, or is it a defence?
This is still useless, how can I attack it?
"y... ...he.r.?" A faded voice seemingly whispered, it was so quiet, is someone else here? What did they say?
"Get away it's dangerous" I have to warn whoever it is, I look around there's no none, just my voice reverberating around the alley. Damn I swear I heard someone..Don't say I'm losing it.
With a loud cry the hollow launched forward finally attacking; I was kind of curious how long it was just going to hang around watching. It swung with its arms using them like scythes, ferociously attacking. I, miraculously avoiding the hollow; yet the smell so close is making me nauseous and the energy putting into dodging is exhausting. I'm so sleepy. Yet that thing seems as energetic as a kid who found the energy drink and chocolate stash which has been hidden from them and pigged out.
"Need some help? kid?" Well that would be nice, I don't exactly like being killed then attacked by a frenzied hollow; it's not really what i was planning to do today, I'm happy that my thoughts stayed in my head at that moment. Wait, someones here? Is it the same person as before? No this voice is louder, younger. "I said: need some help kid? Are you deaf or stupid? Maybe you just like play-dates with hollows?" The voice got smaller and footsteps followed.
" Wait! Help" My voice sounds so pathetic, I'm ashamed. But with that the hollow froze before evaporating. Finally. I slumped against the near-by wall, some what relieved.
" That's all you needed to say" In the dark I could see a man slightly taller than me, dark hair and the gleam of a sword. " What's your name?" My name? wait why do I need to think? Must be shock. "well? Maybe you are stupid?"
"I'm not stupid, I'm Kurosaki Ichigo. Why didn't you help me before? Where you the one talking to me?" I was now standing, legs shaky "who are you?"
"Well Ichigo, I did help you, did you really think I would walk away and let a soul die?" He has no respect for me using my first name like that, but since when did I have much respect? But he didn't understand me did he, i was talking about the voice before, it must have been someone different. Aswell as that why didn't he tell me his name?
"Now I'm going to send you to a much cooler place, the soul society. You will never be hungry and theres some pretty cool pe-" I can't take his crap, I've seen Rukia trying to be nice to souls before departing them and I've tried to be nice but it makes no difference anyway. They're going to forget, so why not cut the crap and slam the blade into their head? Well not slam...but show no mercy! Wait forget I can't forget everything!
"Don't give me that speech and get that hilt away from my head, nu-uh no konso for me! I'm not losing my memories." I try to move away from him but I can't move back any further. Day light started to edge away the darkness, just how long have we been here for? But I can see his features more clearly now, aqua eyes, shaggy black hair and he looks some-what like me? But over his face is astonishment.
"How do you know all this?" Ah he wants to know how I know all of this about the soul society and i want to know who the arsehole is.
Does it matter?" Let's hope I get a reaction, I'm almost in the mood for an argument, maybe now that I'm dead I should find Renji?
" I guess not. You won't remember anyway." wait he gave up that quickly? "I know that look, I'm not going to pester you into telling me, you have a ridiculous amount of reiatsu. No human should have that much and whatever your business is I don't want anything to do with it." He's being really solemn all of the sudden, wait reiatsu? I lost it, it's gone what is he talking about and why does he want nothing to do with people with high reiatsu? I suppose it's none of my business. Returning to his cheerful attitude he gave a big grin and said "I understand you might not want to lose your memories but you have no choice. If you want to go to the academy and eventually have a good life climbing ranks- which i have faith that you will be able to do, then it's necessary. They can tell ryoka apart from normal souls and kill on sight." With his hands he made a poofing motion. Before grabbing his blade and pressing the hilt to my forehead. Man, that's playing dirty he didn't even warn me!
"I swear I will find you, that was a pathetic trick." A blue glow engulfed my body and I slowly started to sink into the ground. Dread filled me, instead of the normal serene peace. I thrashed my limbs trying to escape the inevitable. The last thing i saw before the blue glow completely engulfed my body was his smug face mocking me- I swear when I found that guy I will kick him in the face...maybe twice. Going between being all serious and smug the nerve!
I guess my next destination is the soul society, to be exact the rukon district. If I remember correctly I've only really been there once and that was to break into the soul society to save Rukia, it was a shame to see people living in a place much worse off compared to squad barracks. Maybe I should ask squad six if I can stay them, surely they will remember me? Or squad thirteen, Rukia's Captain always has seemed to be really nice. I'm not a soul reaper anymore though am I? What if I don't even keep my memories- not everyone does? What if they've already forgotten about me? Maybe I should just live normally for once, by the rules. Just sit back and let the soul society take care of their own bussiness. I think it's fair to deal with their own bussiness, after saving Rukia I should have just stopped there. I didn't need those powers for an ordinary life. Anyway they never really helped me, when I tried to save Orihime they didn't want to help, only Rukia and Renji and the only reason why they sent help is because they needed us to help defeat their enemies. And once they were gone and by powers were gone too they just left me they could have visited to me, couldn't they? So why did they leave me on my own?
Darkness.. is this what it's like when travelling to the rukon district when not travelling through the dangai? It's nice when it's not a race to get out to the other side with all limbs still intact- I remember when Yoruichi got mad with Orihime as she protected us. I never did give her the recognition she deserved.
Am I falling?
Or am I floating?
Where am I?
Who am I?
What is my purpose here?
"Ichigo...look forward...never...forget..confuse,,remember us"
That's right I'm Kurosaki Ichigo and I'm in the Rukon district, that was strange, that moment of forgetfulness...but more importantly that voice again..?
The ground beneath me was a dusty, pale brown colour. With splattering of blood. There was broken down houses without doors and only ragged pieces of cloth covering the inside of the one room houses. For some reason my clothes had been exchanged with rags-damn, I liked those clothes! A few people littered the street and there were also a few market places.
"You're new here then kid?" This guy had dirty blonde hair and looked like he could use a good shower and shave. He looked rather slim, with very little muscle although he towered over me by at least 4 inches. "I'll take that wide-puppy eyed starring as a yes then. This is Inuzuri, district 78, you see here kid, we have a total of 320 districts 80 north, 80 south, 80 west and 80 east. The nice areas are the first few districts but out here, see, you can tell the soul reapers want nothing to do with us. They only want the strong. I'll give ya a hint kid, only cause I think you need one with hair that colour. 1. Don't draw any more attention to yourself than you can. 2. drink- food isn't essential unless you have reiatsu 3. If you do over the years get reiatsu eat and attempt to become a soul reaper- I may hate them but the pay is apparently good and there is always food." Wow. Does this guy ever shut up? Wait Rukia and Renji grew up here, I remember a while a go before they left me they were talking about their struggles growing up here and how they tried to make life more equal.
"Thank you, I'm Ichigo K- K- -" Wait he doesn't like soul reapers maybe I shouldn't tell him my name just in case if he's heard of me, I think I'm going to need all the friends I can get here. "Ah it seems as though I can't remember"
"Don't worry about it kid, not many people can remember everything when they have passed on. I'm Hayate. Anyway it's getting dark. Find shelter and don't get eaten; lately we've been getting a few pests" He seems nice, but i'd appreciate it if he didn't keep calling me kid. And if by pests he means hollow? I gave him a quick wave before wandering of to find shelter. I wonder if I'll see him again?