Ok here is the new story it's not gonna be anything like the last one so sorry if it disappoints you. This will only be probably a few chapters long or I may turn it into a full on story with more we'll see how it goes. I own nothing, but my Oc Zanpakto and any ideas I come up with
When we are born into a family people always say how much we look and act like our parents, how much we resemble our siblings, how uncanny it is and how there's no confusion as to which family you belong to.
I wasn't anything like my siblings...I wasn't like my big brother Ichigo, who could be a real hot head, but always meant well and always took care of his friends and family...I wasn't like my little sisters Yuzu and Karin either, they were complete opposites themselves, Karin was athletic and had a slight attitude especially when dealing with our overzealous father. Yuzu on the other hand was both mature and childish at the same time, she was sweet and motherly and took on more responsibility then someone her age had any right to due to our mother's premature death.
Me...I wasn't very special...I was quiet and shy...I didn't talk to many people, didn't have any friends that weren't my brother's friend first, I couldn't stand fighting even if it was to defend yourself, but don't get me wrong the only thing I hold in common with my brother is I can't just stand by while someone gets hurt...I have to protect them even if it means I get hurt...like him I'd rather it be me instead...it's just how I am. This got me in a lot of trouble over the years, in fact if it weren't for Ichigo I would have probably gotten the crap kicked out of me more often then I did...I might have gotten yelled at less though.
It's also why...when that dark presence came that night I couldn't just stand aside and let my brother fight it alone even if I couldn't fully see it. I don't remember much, but I got hurt. The next few days Ichigo was overbearing, angry and protective, more so than usual and it made me wonder...what happened that night after I blacked out?
Something had changed in him since that night. I couldn't put my finger on it, but I felt like...he wasn't quite my big brother anymore. Oh he still was, but he wasn't ya know? He was different...there was something there that wasn't before and it worried and confused me to the brink of losing it and just asking him, but I didn't. I didn't think he would tell me even if I did ask. Not if it meant I'd be in danger. I worried that he had finally been forced into one of the gangs that bothered him so often, I worried that someone was threatening him or us, I worried and worried.
Over the next few weeks I really didn't get much sleep. Things were just getting stranger around my big brother. Before it started he told me and our sisters that he had been seeing ghosts more often, could that be what was bothering him? And what about that transfer student that had been hanging around him so much lately? As far as I knew he didn't actually know her before hanging out and Ichigo wasn't really much for branching out all of a sudden...I mean he usually had a reason.
During this time that feeling I had been having got stronger, I had always felt presences somewhat like Yuzu only more reliable and I could tell if they were good or bad, I felt heavy around my brother like the weight of the world was pressing on my shoulders, but I had been brushing it off as worry for him. But then I started feeling it elsewhere. At school it was whenever I was near his friends and sometimes around town I would suddenly feel the same dark presence appear and then a few minutes later it would disappear as if it had never been there. I never saw anything so I had been putting it off.
Until something changed...that weird feeling that had been building up in me changed...now I was starting to feel weaker, sicker, frailer, like I was coming down with something. My Father and the hospital couldn't figure out what it was. On top of that the transfer student, Rukia, disappeared and the strangest thing was no one, but Ichigo and his friends still remembered her...what was going on with my brother? Then one night Ichigo didn't come home, at this point I was so sick and in pain I couldn't even leave my bed. It felt like my insides were shredding themselves in a meat grinder...not to be melodramatic, but it felt like I was dying.
And that's when it happened...at first I put it off as me being delirious from the sickness and fever that was ravaging my body, but a man came to my room and explained to me. He told me his name was Kisuke Urahara and he knew what was wrong with me.
"You are Ichigo's twin and therefore the closest to him, like his friends Chad and Orihime you have been tainted by his riatsu, his spiritual pressure. I'm surprised that it's taken this long to effect you so badly I had thought it would happen sooner to tell you the truth." He commented lightly and cheerful
"What's...happening...to me?" I asked between pants of breath unable to ever seem to get enough since I got sick
"To put it simply you are dying." He told me all hints of cheer gone and a serious mask in place "Unfortunately for you unlike his other friends you are not developing your own unique powers like they did. Your soul is trying to reject the tainted parts of itself. Like a body that's antibodies have too extreme of a reaction you are shutting down. In other words your soul is trying to tear itself apart."
I laid there in shock and horror, I was dying and my soul was trying to destroy itself.
"Is there...anything...that I can...do?" I asked almost desperate to hear a positive answer, but dreading that there wouldn't be one, that I would leave my family devastated once again and they would never recover again especially Ichigo
"Hmm. To tell you the truth...I don't know for sure. Usually when a soul begins to tear itself apart it happens in a matter of moments as the soul goes mad and finishes itself from the pain, but you somehow seem to be resisting it. I wonder?" He murmured at the end to himself "In any case the only one who can save you is yourself. In the end it'll be your choice on whether you live or cease to exist. There's nothing in particular that I, or even your brother, can do, though I do suppose I can help you prolong your life...at least for a little while."
"Whatever...it is...do it." I said as firmly as I could letting him hear my resolve
"Alright if you insist, but know it will only give you a few more days. Like I said I'm surprised you've lived this long already. You are living on borrowed time Eri Kurosaki tick tock." He said as he placed his hand on my forehead and then I fell into unconsciousness
? POV
I roamed this fucked up inner world where gravity ceased to mean anything and all it did was rain on and off never endingly. I thought I had seen every aspect there was...I was wrong.
I had traveled further than I usually bothered to go, after all everything looked the same here just more and more skyscrapers as far as the eye could see, when the scenery final changed. The world seemed to drop off...like I had reached to end of it and instead of being round it was flat and if I wanted I could jump off into the abyss.
Instead I looked around, there had to be a reason this part of the world was like this, the buildings here were more run down like they weren't as cared for or thought about as the ones where I usual hung around and then I spotted it.
There not far from where I stood was a vast chasm and surprisingly enough there was a bridge large and old, but with the same metal city design as the rest of this place.
"Interesting." I murmured allowed to myself
A mixture of curiosity and boredom sent me to investigate this bridge and where it may lead to. After all if this is gonna be my world someday I ought to know everything about it and where it leads to.
I jumped down and upon closer inspection saw that the bridge was in even worse shape than the buildings...at least the parts that I could see, it seemed to stretch on for ages.
I began to cross it slowly, wary of how well it would hold my weight, I was curious, but I wasn't stupid. Apparently though I wasn't cautious enough. The next step I took almost sent me tumbling down into the darkness as the bridge shattered under my weight threatening to take me with it. I sonidoed in order to get clear of the hole only to look back and see there was no hole to be seen.
"Huh, so this bridge has it's own defenses. Just where does it lead?" I asked myself chuckling now more determined then ever to find out what was on the other side
I stayed much more alert this time around and noticed a few...oddities between the traps that would seemingly randomly spring up, closer to where I started was more dilapidated and there were drawings and scribbles like those a child may make. Just what was this thing?
Finally what seemed like halfway across I noticed a extreme change in atmosphere and the appearance of the bridge. It had now faded from hard concrete and steal into frosted glass and spindly silver and it was in much better care then the previous section except for two equally worn paths in the middle and far right of the bridge, like someone had come this way often only to stop halfway across and go back.
It was strange...until the halfway point there had been all kinds of traps and pit falls. Pieces of the bridge suddenly falling away only to reappear after I was past them, falling debris trying to crush me, and the like, but ever since I crossed the halfway point all was still and quiet. It set me on edge.
Then I finally saw it...the end of the bridge and the other side.
"What the..." I trailed off in confusion
Where ever the hell this bridge lead it wasn't anything like the world I had been traveling through. In front of me was literally a world divided in two. On the side I was on was tall grass swaying in a gentle breeze, it was bright, and had such a sense of peace that it almost calmed me...almost. The other side a far way from where I stood was the complete opposite it was dark and everything was dead...like an atomic bomb had gone off and destroyed everything and in the distance I could see what looked like ruins of a once great city. And in the center of it all, split right down the middle between the light and the dark was a tree. One half was alive and thriving like it was the middle of spring and the other side was dead and burnt and scared. The branches reached up making a scooping bowl and floating there a few feet above the highest branches was...an orb. It looked to be about the size of a beach ball, split down the middle like the rest of this world and inside it were two...ghostly lights, one white and one black, each on opposite sides of their color pallet. They seemed to chase each other around and around and around.
"What the hell is this place?" I asked myself glancing around
"What are you doing here hollow?" a voice interrupted my musings
There in front of me was now a woman, lithe and thin with a moderate bust, she was extremely pale with golden blonde hair. She wore a yellow kimono that faded into orange and then a deep red, there was a sun pattern on her obi and tucked into it was a zanpakto half as tall as her.
"Who are you? You're not that old man." I asked instead grasping Zangestu's hilt
"I do not know how you came to be in my Mistress's world, but leave now. You are not welcome here. Especially now." She ordered though her voice was still warm
"Mistress eh? Didn't know King suddenly became a girl." I chuckled drawing my sword, but staying in a relaxed stance
"You do not belong here hollow. Return to your world and never return." The woman ordered again though her hands never touched her sword
"So this isn't King's world after all. Who's world is this?" I asked tilting my head curious
"This world belongs to Eri Kurosaki and you do not belong here." She said now drawing her sword and pointing it at me
"What's wrong with this place? Why is it like this?" I asked her just hoping it'd push her into attacking
"Mistress is...unwell. Her soul is hanging in the balance. Since her twin brother first became a shinigami he has been poisoning her soul, tainting it with his riatsu. And now it is slowly killing her. Her soul cannot take the strain of such different spiritual affinities combining in one being. So now it is tearing itself apart. If something does not change, if one side does not soon win...she will die...and then cease to exist. Her soul will tear itself apart until there is not even enough left to sustain itself. That appears to be her fate." The zanpakto said pointing at the hill
I looked over only to pause in shock, where before there had only been a tree with that weird orb, there was now a girl slouched over with her back to the tree seemingly asleep. But even from here I could see that she was too pale beneath her light brown curly hair. She looked dead even now and yet...
I moved to step closer and get a better look at her only to be block by a sword being held out in front of me. I glanced at the zanpakto to my right to see her face was still a gentle, if indifferent, mask with no indication that she would become violent, but nor would she allow me to get any closer to the girl.
"I cannot allow you to remain here hollow, let alone get closer to my mistress in her weakened state. Leave now before I am forced to cause harm to you and further harm to her." She said her eyes narrowing slightly
"Are you really so desperate to get me to leave that you would risk killing your mistress and yourself?" I asked tilting my head condescendingly this time
"If that is what it takes to protect her...then yes." She said sad, but with an unshakable resolve
"Hm. Fine." I grunted as I replaced Zangetsu on my back "But know I will return and Queen will be mine next time...you can count on it."
I returned to the bridge and crossed again, it seemed that it didn't care what came to King's side it only cared what tried to leave to Queen's...like I said interesting.