Somewhere in the midst of a large American city sat a single building, to the unknowing eye it was a normal little business, but to those who know the password they would be shown the truth behind the building and behind the man dressed in red who owned it, yes for these people and these people alone would learn the truth about the building with the large crimson neon sign that read, Devil May Cry.
The day was like any other in the shadow covered room, the sound of light snoring could be heard coming from a man who was leaning back in his chair with his feet crossed right over left on the desk in front of him that was covered in countless pizza boxes and a single rotary style phone. The man was wearing a zip up black turtleneck shirt with three quarter sleeves, on his hands he had a pair of black biker gloves with his knuckles, trigger finger and thumb bare, he had three black straps going horizontally across his torso with large gold buckles, his shirt was tucked into his red pants which were covered bar the crotch by a pair of black motorcycle chaps under which were a pair of brown loafer style boots, and sitting on his face was a porn magazine, the man's name was Dante and he was sleeping. Or he would have been had the phone not rang, with a groaned as he lifted his right foot and slammed it on the table causing the phone's receiver to be sent flying into his outstretched hand, using his other hand to remove the magazine from his face as he brings the receiver to his ear, "Devil May Cry."
"Oh but Devils never cry," the voice had a goofy sing song to it, like the man it belonged to knew more than they let on, but they knew the password so Dante didn't care.
"Well how can I help you," Dante asked sitting up in his chair, "I do anything as long as it ain't babysitting, I've had enough of that already."
"Oh I can assure you that this isn't like anything you have ever done before, I need you to go to a little place in Japan called Karakura town, once you are there find me, My name is Urahara Kisuke and I'll be the sexy candy shop owner with a nice hat, once you do that I can fill you in on the rest of the job"
"Ok but you must know that I expect to get paid for this, and the number won't be small," Dante stated matter of factually.
"Oh money is no object, I can pay you any amount you ask for."
those words were like music to Dante's ears, "well then, you've got yourself a deal, I'll see you in Japan," with that the man bade Dante farewell and Dante hung up the receiver and stood up from his chair and grabbed a three (technically four) things, his long red coat, his twin pistols Ebony and Ivory, and the large sword rebellion, putting his sword on his back and his pistols in their holsters he walks into his back room and grabs a few things for the road before walking to the door and kicking it open, quickly drawing Ivory and shooting the peeping Tom of a demon that was sitting outside his window before skillfully twirling the gun in his hand and re-holstering the firearm, "let rock."
As Urahara Kisuke hung up the phone he had a deep sigh, while he did not like the idea of bringing outsiders into this, he knew that if Ichigo wanted to successfully infiltrate the Seireitei and save Rukia he would need this man's help. While he had never met the man known as Dante personally he had heard of him through the grapevine more than a few times, apparently the man was one of only two sons born to the demon Sparta, but while that increased his faith that Dante's strength would be greatly needed, it made Kisuke worry what Dante would be like in character. He guessed he would have to wait and see.
A few hours later.
Ichigo was becoming impatient, he was growing tired of waiting for Geta-boushi to contact him so he could get into the soul society and save Rukia, so he decided to calm his nerves by going for a walk and blowing off some steam, a few minutes pass and he was a few blocks away from Geta-boushi's shop when he saw the last thing he expected (he didn't know why considering he was near Urahara's shop) the man in front of him was around 6'6" had platinum white hair and was dressed in a red leather trench coat with a large sword on his back, as the man walked he scratched his head as he looked at a map.
"The hell is it?" The man spoke in English and Ichigo was suddenly glad that the language was taught in school, "it's bad enough that the guy wasn't at the airport like he said he'd be, but now I have to find his freaking shop with a map that I can't read."
"Would you like some help?" Ichigo spoke up as he Walked forward to meet the man.
The man turned to look at him scratching at the white stubble on his chin, "yeah thanks, name's Dante by the way."
"Korosaki Ichigo."
"Anyway, I need help looking for a certain business establishment, I've figured out by wandering blindly around here that it's in this area, Dante circled the part of Karakura town they were in on the map with his finger, "but I can't tell were," Ichigo nodded urging Dante to continue only for Dante's next fraise to cause Ichigo's palm to meet his face, "the place is run by a guy that goes by the name of Urahara Kisuke."
After the kid, Ichigo, facepalmed he stated that he not only knew where the shop was but personally knew the guy who owned it, he led Dante there only for both of them to be surprised by the nice little gathering of teenagers outside the shop which Ichigo was more interested to see more than Dante. So as the kid started to talk with his friends Dante slipped into the shop only to be greeted by a man with shaggy blond hair who was only a few inches shorter than he was wearing a green silk shirt and pants covered by a black kimono with a white diamond pattern along the bottom he had on a pair of wooden sandals, in his hand was a wooden cane, and sitting on his head was a green and white striped hat, "so you must be Kisuke," Dante was the first to speak.
"Yes that is my name, but before we discuss I need you to eat this," Kisuke holds out a piece of candy to Dante who picks it up and sniffs it before shrugging and popping it into his mouth, if the candy was poisoned his demon blood could easily tank the toxins, "now then for your job Mr. Dante what I need you to do is help Ichigo save someone from being executed."
Dante scratched his chin, "is that it, well I already agreed to help so guess I don't have a choice, let's get this over with."
Later in Kisuke's underground bunker
As Dante walked through the large open room he couldn't help but yell and listens for the echo, only for one of the Ichigo 's friends to speak up.
"Could you at least act professionally?" the one wearing glasses asked in an annoyed fashion.
Dante just shrugged as he continued to fallow Kisuke deeper into the bunker, only for Kisuke to stop and turn to face the group, "can I have everyone's attention please, first off you are probably wondering who this is," he says gesturing to Dante, "his name is Dante, and he is going to help you save Rukia."
"Nice to meet ya," Dante says giving a two finger wave.
Both The one in the glasses and the tall muscular one nodded as they introduce themselves as Uryu Ishida and Chad respectively, before Ichigo's busty orange haired friend got in Dante's face and introduced herself as Orihime before she began gushing over how cool he looked with his long coat and big sword.
After a little bit of humoring the young girl Dante decided to push her aside and turned to Kisuke, "so now that introductions are out of the way how's about you tell us why we're here."
"But of course, voila" was all Kisuke responded with as he snapped his fingers causing a large object to appear next to him, it appeared to be a giant doorframe covered in sheets of blank paper, "this is the gate that leads to the soul society, it's called the Senkaimon, or tunnel world gate, and I'm going to show you how to go through it, but first we need to change one thing," as he says this he raises his cane and slams the end into Ichigo's forehead and then in an act that surprised everyone there except Kisuke and his little posse, he pushed Ichigo's soul from his body.
"Well that's not something you see every day," was all Dante said as he looked at Ichigo's new look, he was wearing a loose fitting black Kimono like garb with a white sash tied around his waist keeping the uniform's pants from falling down, he had on a pair of tabi socks and sandals, and strapped to his back and wrapped in a white cloth was a large sword not as long or as stylish as Rebellion but much wider with a shape that reminded him of a butcher's knife, but something else Dante noticed was that he felt two different energies coming of of the kid, neither of them were demonic, but one was darker then the other, "hmmm."
Kisuke claps his hands "Can I have everyone's attention please, now one more thing about this gate, it has a spirit conversion Machine within it allowing all of you to pass in your present states, as of right now only one of you has they ability to pass to the spirit world, and that is Ichigo."
At this Dante speaks up, "actually the kid and me can both go through as is,"
Uryu raises an eyebrow at this, "what do you mean,"
Dante looks at the kid wit his eyes, "I'm not going to go into details as it's kind of personal, but I've been to hell and back, and I'm not being metaphorical ether."
"Be that as it may, hell and the soul society work differently from one another, and you will still need to use the gate," Kisuke explains causing Dante to nod in understanding, "anyway the whole process is extremely taxing and I can only have the gate open for us only four minutes long," at this revelation the whole group went silent until Ichigo spoke up.
"Is that long enough for us to make it through?"
"No in fact the whole plan is kind of sketchy, four minutes is all I can give you."
This time Orihime spoke up, "then how will we ever make it?"
"You run forward and don't look back," a small black cat spoke up next to Orahime shocking Dante though he didn't show only scratching his scruff and uttering a simple, "that's new," he continued to watch the cat that was obviously more then it let on, "so is anybody going to introduce the pet?" Dante noticed the glare that the cat was giving him and ignored it.
"That's Mr. Yoruichi," Orihime stated a matter of factly.
"are you all ready?" Kisuke asked and everyone nods before both Kisuke and a larger fellow in glasses and an apron place there hands on the ground causing the gate to open before the group jumped in.
well there you have it the prologue to a new fanfic hope you like it, and as always fallow, comment, Critique, and time me ideas on how to make it better.
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