Tamashi no Joka Sochi
Yep, I made a new story. Here are the reasons why.
1. There aren't much Fem!Ichgo stories out there so I'm adding one to the list.
2. This is a request sent to me by Vampy-chan321.( Man, me and her just share the same mind or somethingXD)
Anyway, as I and the summary have said, this story will have the same plot as the original Bleach only a few characters will be genderbent and such. Parings will come and it will still have the awesomeness of Bleach that all of you readers love. If you have any genderbent request, just ask me. Don't be shy.
Alright, I better stop my stalling and I'll post up the disclaimer.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach or any other material I use in this fic.
Now lets get this chapter rolling!
Prologue
We stand in awe before that in which can not be seen.
And we respect with every fiber that of which can not be explained.
And so fell the sword of fate…
Chapter One:
The Girl Who Sees Ghosts
"So what do you gotta say for yourself, bitch? You think you can just waltz around and beat up one of my pals?"
"Hn."
"What did you say! You little-!"
There was the sickening sound of a bone snapping. For a fifteen-year-old, the girl had a hell of a foot. The man she kicked at groaned, cursing as his groin ached from the girl's kick. The girl kicked at him repeatedly, snapping and breaking his bones as she did.
"W-We gotta stop her!" exclaimed one of the man's lackey's, shaking in his shoes.
"Are you crazy! No way! This bitch is tough!" exclaimed another man, his other pals nodding uneasily. The girl gave one final kick, just for good measure, and she looked at the other three, her chocolate-brown eyes darkening with controlled rage.
"OK, you dipshits! What the hell do you see right there! You, the one in the middle!" she demanded, pointing to the thug in the middle. The guy nearly screamed and he trembled at the girl's glowering face. He looked behind her for a brief second, seeing a small bottle of spilt white roses from behind.
"W-W-W-Well, some people left some flowers from that kid who died around here and-"
"Right!" yelled the girl as she sucker punched in him the face, his friends gasping as the man fell to the ground, holding his broken and bloody nose. The girl's glare went, if possible, colder.
"Alright, here's the next question. Why the hell is the vase knocked over?" she asked in a snarled tone. Both men flinched.
"W-W-Well, I guess that's b-because we were skating by and o-o-one of us knocked it over." stuttered one of the men with his buddy nodding in a agreement.
"Y-Y-Yeah, we didn't think-"
"Exactly."
Both men froze as the girl bared her teeth angrily, her pupils narrowing to slits.
"You didn't think!" she yelled as she kicked the both of them in the face with an impressive, round-house kick. Both men yelped in pain as they fell to the ground, their two other pals managing to wake up. They all gulped as a fire-like aura surrounded the girl, her appearance looking demotic and hell-bent.
"Now get the fuck out of here, you shit heads! And if you show your goddamn faces around here again, trust me, those flowers are gonna be on your graves, got it!" she yelled in pure rage. The group shamelessly screamed like girls and they ran away, giving shouted apologies as they left like dogs with tails between their legs.
The girl breathed deeply as she calmed down. She pulled out the rubber band that held her bright orange hair and she shook her head, letting her slightly spiky and shoulder-length tendrils cascade. She brushed dirt of her jeans and jacket and she turned, smiling slightly at the transparent little girl before her.
"There. I'm sorry for all that commotion. I promise I'll bring you some flowers tomorrow." said the fifteen-year-old, bowing her head a bit as she placed the vase of roses back in it's original position. The girl gave a sweet smile.
"Oh thank you. You came to my defense and we've never even met." said the little girl. The older girl picked up her neglected book bag, slinging it over her shoulder.
"It was my pleasure. After all, you look like a nice girl. You deserve to rest in peace." she said as she walked away, the little girl disappearing just like that.
My name is Ichigo Kurosaki. I'm fifteen-years-old, so I'm a high school student. My family runs a medical clinic in town. Maybe it's because we're entrusted with the lives of the living, I'm not so sure.
For as long as I can remember, I've somehow been able to see the souls of the dearly departed.
Ichigo yawned as she made it to her home, nighttime already rolling by with moon glowing with a few clouds. Sliding her spare key in the front door's key hole, she opened the door, beginning to take off her shoes as she did.
"I'm home-"
"Hyyyyy-yyyyaaa!"
Ichigo nearly yelped as a foot came striking at her face, making her dive to the ground. She ground and she moved to her back, seeing a middle-aged man with spiky black hair and dark eyes with crossed arms.
"Kept your guard down, old girl. Always make sure to expect the unexpected, especially arriving home late when everyone's already at the dinner table." scolded the man. Ichigo snarled under her breath as she got to her feet and got right up in the man's face.
"Is that any way to treat your eldest child! Who happened to help the poor soul of a spirit!" she snapped angrily as the man went forehead-to-forehead with her, his own face looking mad and angry.
"Oh! So it's the ghost fault this time, huh! How 'bout your messy room! Can you explain that, young lady!"
"Get out of my face, old geezer! I clean up my room when I goddamn want to!"
"What did you call me!"
"Stop it! Come and eat dinner, please." asked one of the girls who sat at the dinning room table of the Kurosaki household. She had light, hazel-colored hair and soft brown eyes. The two elders of the family hardly heard her as they tried to beat the crap out of each other.
"Just let them do what they want, Yuzu. This'll blow over soon." said the other girl, her bored look and short black hair matching with the tone of her voice.
Ichigo threw a punch and she caught her dad square in the jaw, sending him flying to the wall. Her orange hair looked messier than before and a vein could been seen right at her forehead.
"Sheesh! Learn to trust me, will ya! A seven o' clock curfew for a high school student is not cool at all!" she yelled.
"Speaking of which , big sis, there's another one of those ghost. Look behind you." said Ichigo's depress-looking sister. The redhead spun around and she nearly cringed at the real, creepy and pedophile-looking man behind her.
"The hell! Get away, sicko! Why do they come here anyway!" yelled the firstborn as she swat her fist at the ghost.
"It's because you're so nice, big sister!" cheered on the sweeter little sister, Yuzu. The other sister, Karin, rolled her eyes as she returned to her rice bowl.
Ichigo huffed and she met her father in a punch, both their fist hitting each others faces. Her dad fell to the ground with a bruised cheek, muttering on how his 'little girl' was getting stronger. Ichigo rolled her eyes as she picked up her book bag.
"Forget it. I'm going to bed." she muttered as she walked out of the room to take the stairs to her room. When she was gone, her father sighed as he sat up on the floor Indian-style.
"Wow, got her that time, dad." said Karin. Her father gaped at her with wide eyes.
"Me! What did I do?" he asked with the innocents that could have been confused for a child's, had it not been that he was a middle-aged man. His dark-haired child sat back on her chair.
"It's like this. Ichigo's saying that she's seeing more ghost lately. Remember when you said it's just a figment of her imagination? Well it's been years since that and Ichigo says that she still sees spirits. Face it, dad, Something's up with her." she said. Her fraternal twin nodded in agreement.
"Yeah. She can see and talk to them, dad. She even helps them out, too. She's not lying. Maybe she would like it if you believed in her." said Yuzu. Their father suddenly looked like he was going to wail and he crawled over a poster of a beautiful woman with cinnamon-brown eyes and light brown hair.
"Oh my dearest wife! How can I behave this way to my three little girls! Ichigo is a still growing lady that I can't control and the twins are at that stage of resenting me! Oh what should a I do!" he wailed as he clutched the photo.
"For starters, you can down that poster." muttered Karin as she took a drink of her glass of water.
Ichigo woke up groggily the next day, feeling like she hadn't slept in ages. With sleep still in her senses, she got up and changed into her school's gray uniform. Glaring at the skirt of her clothing, she walked out of the room, down the stairs, and to the kitchen, where her sisters were already enjoying breakfast.
"Morning." she muttered as she walked over to the table and grabbed slice of toast as her sisters said good morning back. She pulled out the sheet of paper stuck on the fridge and she read it, seeing it was a note from her dad, saying that he was going to be a late night meeting. Her eyes were then set on the TV, where a news report was happening.
"-And yet no one has discovered what caused these strange and sudden tremors. All appear to happen with the cover of night. We will have more on this story later on. And in later news-"
"Hey, that place is close to here, right?" asked Ichigo as she ate her small breakfast.
"Yeah, what of it?" asked Karin. The eldest of the Kurosaki children shook her head.
"No reason. See you guys later." she said as she went to the door, grabbed her shoes and book bag, and walked out.
She walked her way to school, eyeing and wondering about the tremors that were going around town. Reports like that had been happening for a couple of days now yet no one could identify on who or what was causing them. Shrugging, Ichigo turned at a corner of a street and spotted a few roses that were growing by a bush. Thinking of the little ghost girl, Ichigo plucked a few of them with out get thorns in her fingers. Smelling the sweet smell, she held the roses in one hand as she walked to the corner where she met the little ghost girl. She looked around and saw no one there.
"Hello? Are you here?" she asked, the wind being her only reply. She suddenly felt something. It was a cold and unsuspecting wind that racked down her spine. Biting her lip, Ichigo placed the roses careful ling in her bag and she ran her way toward main street, feeling more of the chilling and odd feeling. Looking around, an outburst of wing caught her off guard as hundred of people began running and screaming. Ichigo took a step back as plumes of smoke past her and a sudden creature began crawling and stomping near her. The creature was huge and spider-like, crawling like an arachnid with dull-gray skin and an odd, white mask.
"What the hell is that thing?" whispered Ichigo to herself, her eyes widening slightly.
"Ahhh!" the brown-eyes, high school student heard the scream and she spotted the little ghost girl, running quickly. Ichigo looked up and saw the creature come closer. Cursing under her breath, she started sprinting next to the little girl with the creature hot on their tails.
"What is that thing?' asked the little girl as they ran.
"I don't know. Just keep running!" yelled Ichigo as the creature came closer to them. The both of them gasped as they ran into a dead end and they turned, seeing the creature give an odd mix of a howl and screech. The spider monster snarled and lashed out one of it's legs, both Ichigo and little girl yelling at the top of their lungs. Then, something caught Ichigo's eyes.
A black raven…
There was a sudden screech that would have ripped the very fabric of the air and the strange creature came clambering down, using it's many appendages to hold it's bleeding wound. Both Ichigo and the ghost girl gasped as a person now stood before them, the blade of the sword in his hand dripping with the monster's blood. Ichigo blinked as she took a look at the person.
He was short, at least a few inches shorter than Ichigo. He was pale and her had jet-black hair that was done in of sort of style that reminded Ichigo of th head of a cockatoo. He wore a black robe with a white rope around his waist, a hilt right at his hip. His violet-purple eyes glared murderously at the monster as he charged, jumped forward, and slashed at the creature with his weapon. The creature gave a screech as it was struck on the head, the blow making it exploded into disappearing fragments. The boy turned to the two and gave a cool look right before a big wind blew, causing Ichigo to shut her eyes. When she reopened them, the boy and ghost girl were gone.
As people surrounded and checked what was happening, Ichigo remained shell-shocked, wondering on what just happened.
'Who… Exactly who was that guy?' wondered Ichigo as she laid down on her bed that night, the day's earlier events passing in her mind. The tremor, the monster, the ghost girl, and the boy with the sword. Just what was all that?
'I don't think I've seen him at school. Gods, what's happening to my life?' she wondered as she rolled to her side, resting her cheek against the cold pillow. Her eyes widen when she saw the wing stance of a raven fly by her window. She gasped as someone landed in her room. That someone was the boy from today. The boy looked around the room and he drew out his sword.
"T-The hell! Put that thing away! You're not slicing me up!" snapped Ichigo as she scrambled a bit. The boy didn't even seem to notice her, as if he were in his own focused and trapped up world.
"I sense something… And it's coming close…" the boy said to himself. His eyes widen as the wind from his lungs was knocked out of him by a very powerful kick to his behind, a very mad carrot-top being the deliver.
"Hey! Listen to a person when they're talking to you, idiot! Just because you saved my butt earlier doesn't mean you can just break into my house!" yelled Ichigo at the guy knocked down on her floor. The teen in black looked at her with wide eyes, as if she had grown two heads.
"H-Hold on. You can see me?" he asked. Ichigo rolled her eyes.
"Well, considering that my foot just kicked your ass a second ago, I'd say yes, I can see you, weirdo." she said. The boy stood up and he began poking her in random places. The Kurosaki was beginning to get annoyed, seeing that this guy hadn't even given his name and why he was here. Several veins popped on her forehead when the guy poked her between her breast.
"KEEP YOUR GODDAMN FINGERS TO YOURSELF, PERV!" she yelled angrily as she socked him in the gut, kicking him where the sun don't shine for good measure. The guy groaned on the ground and he shot a glare at the tall girl.
"Shit… No need to get so worked up…" he muttered as he got to his feet while holding his stomach. Ichigo walked to her bed and sat down on it with crossed legs.
"OK, bastard. Just tell me who the hell you are and why I shouldn't call the cops for breaking and entering and sexual assault?" she asked. The guy stood up and gave a cool look.
"Fine. I'll tell you. But you better listen. Because no mere human is suppose to know this."
Meanwhile, unknown to the two teens, the little ghost girl Ichigo had been seeing was running from something. Something that wasn't after her.
"So let me get this straight. You're what your people call, a Soul Reaper?" asked Ichigo with a raised brow. The guy nodded silently.
"And your telling me that you were sent here on a mission by team called the Soul Society?"
A nod.
"And you're also saying that your mission is to 'cleanse' the souls of bad spirits. Like that one that attacked us earlier?"
Another nod.
"And that thing, a bad spirit as you say, was only out and about just to get the soul of that ghost girl."
Another nod and one came from Ichigo.
"Yeah, yeah, OK, I believe in you- As much as I believe in flying pigs and the tooth fairy!" yelled the high school teen with a mad look. She grabbed the guy be the front of his robe and dangled him easily in the air.
"What do I look like! Some dippy-ass girl who believes weirdoes like you just because you saved me with some dumb sword! As if! For all I know, all of that could have been special effects for some horror movie or something!" she yelled with bared teeth, looking ready to murder the guy.
The swordsman grabbed her wrist and Ichigo winced slightly, seeing that his hands were strong. Putting him down, she threw the guy a scowl.
"'Sides, your story just sounds beyond belief. How can I believe it?" she asked. The guy brushed dust off his robe.
"Hey, didn't you just admit you could see ghosts? So why think I'm lying, huh?" he asked. Ichigo crossed her arms.
"I'd never said I believe you or think that you're lying. All of this just sounds too farfetched to me. So why don't you go and play swords somewhere else, OK, midget?" she asked, ruffling his hair because she could.
"Midget, huh? Well how about this! Bokudo, number one, strike!" he yelled as he made a striking hand sign. Ichigo yelped as she suddenly went down to the floor, on her knees with one of her arms around her back with her chest to the floor.
"The hell is this!" she yelled as she tried to get up, not doing so since it was like heavy chains were holding her down. The guy above her gave a slight smirk.
"Paralysis. What I just did is call Kido, a high level incantation that only a few Soul Reapers know. It's useless to fight against it so I suggest you'd be a good girl and think twice before ever calling me midget or any other term of the word. Now," the young man suddenly brought out his sword and raised it in the air.
Ichigo closed her eyes for a split second, thinking that the attack was for her. She then heard a cry not her own and her eyes opened again, seeing that the guy had struck the ghost guy that bugged her yesterday.
"Please… I don't want to go to the Underworld." begged the man. The guy smiled kindly.
"Fear not. You are meant for a better after life. With this seal, you will be sent to the Soul Society." he said as the room glowed and the man disappeared, a small raven fluttering in his place as it hopped out from the window and soared into the nighttime sky.
"What-What just happened? Where did that guy go?" asked Ichigo from her locked spot on the floor. The Soul Reaper sheathed his sword to his hilt.
"Alright, now I'll give you the reason on why I was sent here. I'll use layman's terms so that you can even comprehend what I'm saying." said the guy as he pulled out a sheet of paper from the breast pocket of his robe. Ichigo blinked with a sort of scowl as she looked at the two drawings of tiger heads with different designs and squiggles on them.
"There are two types of spirits in this world; the Wholes and the Hallows. The Wholes are what you see, the good kind who want nothing more than to 'pass on,' as humans put it. The Hallows are the bad kind who want to devourer the souls of all things, dead or alive other wise. Any questions before I continue?" asked the guy, holding up his drawing.
"Yeah, two actually. One, why do you suck at drawing? And two, why tigers? You got a fetish for them or something?" she asked. The boy scowled at her before he folded up his paper.
"Ignoring that, I'll just continue. There are two main jobs of a Soul Reaper. First, to allow souls to move on to the Soul Society. Second, to rid of the Hallows who interfere with the balance of Wholes." said the reaper.
"OK, I get that. But why was that one 'Hallow' from before going after that little girl?" asked Ichigo. The guy gripped a part of his hair from behind his head.
"I still don't know about that one. We of the Soul Society are still trying to figure out why the Hallows do these wicked things. As we speak, there is another Hallow wandering around he. It's looking for something… But I'm not sure what." he said. Ichigo gave a huff.
"Well maybe you should just kill it before it get's what it wants. Didn't you just say that Hallows were bad spirits?" she asked. The guy took a seat on the ground with closed eyes.
"The thing is, I can't senses it's presences. It's like some sort of other power is jamming my senses and-"
"Oi! Are you stupid or what! If you can't sense it, then just hear it like the rest of us are doing!" yelled Ichigo, a screech of an odd murderous howl ripping through the air. The guy gasped and a blood-curdling scream caught both the teens attentions, Ichigo's eyes widening more.
"Yuzu! That thing is with my sisters!" exclaimed the redhead. The reaper stood up and he opened the door, a sudden strong draft blowing past him as he did.
'This pressure… Why didn't I sense it before!' he mentally exclaimed as something crawled past him.
"I-Ichig-go!" exclaimed Yuzu as she crawled, bruises and scratches along her face. Ichigo gasped and she tried to move.
"Y-Yuzu! What happened!" she exclaimed, trying to break of the spell on her. Yuzu looked at her big sister pleadingly with tears gathering in her eyes.
"Bi-Big sister… It has… It has… Karin! You have to… Have to save her… Pl-Please!" begged the little girl before she fainted from exhaustion. There was another scream and explosion of stone and the swordsman was already sprinting down the stairs, Ichigo cursing at him as she tried to get up.
The black-haired man made his way to the wrecked living room, just in time to see Karin in the gruesome arms of a large and ugly-looking Hallow, this one more terrifying than the one from earlier. He drew out his sword just as Ichigo came tumbling down the stairs, still locked in paralysis. That didn't seem to stop her as she got to her feet and breathed heavily.
'How could she stand up? It's impossible!' thought the young man as the high school girl staggered her way to him, her brown eyes catching her little sister in the clutches of the monster. She tried to charge forward when the reaper held her back.
"Are you crazy! That thing could kill you with one swoop!" he yelled Ichigo pushed him back as she tried to move her arms from her back, growling as she did. The young man grinded his teeth at her.
"Stop that, stupid! If you fight it, you'll only cause damage your soul!" he yelled. He gasped when he felt an odd sensation of warmth radiate off Ichigo as she fought against invisible chains of Kido. His eyes widen as the carrot-top broke free of the Kido, her breath irregular from all her struggling.
'How did she do that! No human can break Kido! Is she… Could she be different?' he wondered, suddenly cursing when he saw that Ichigo was already charging forward with an umbrella as her makeshift weapon.
"Get your claws off my sister!" she screamed at the top of her lungs as she took a swing at the Hallow, leaping as the creature tried to catch her with his other hand. The monster hallowed in pain as the man suddenly sprang up and slashed at it with his sword, making it drop the fainted Karin. Ichigo caught her in time just as the young man landed and the ground. The Hallow disappeared with out a trace.
"Karin! Wake up, come on!" called Ichigo, shaking her sister a bit.
"Relax. That Hallow left without taking you sisters' soul. It seems… It was after another soul." said the young, sword-wielding man. Ichigo looked up at him.
"Do you mean… Does that mean it wasn't after the little girl's soul either? Then what! What soul is it after! Does it want that soul that much to hurt my family!" she yelled. The young man gulped before turned to Ichigo, his look serious.
"Yes. It appears that the soul it was after… Was yours." he said. Ichigo's eyes widen and she nearly gave a cry. The young man continued.
"For whatever reason they had… It seems that those Hallows were only using the little ghost girl to track you down. There must be something about your soul… Something that they want…" muttered the swordsman. The both of them were silent before they heard another howl and the both of them turned to see that the Hallow had returned, anger evident on it's white mask of a face.
"It's back! Go on, get out of here! Move!" yelled the young man as she bared his sword. Ichigo placed Karin down away from the action and she stared at the beast, her hands turning into beast as her eyes narrowed in a feral way.
"No. I won't. That monster just got that little ghost girl hurt and my sisters could have died back there, just because of me. Do you expect me to just run away like a coward!" she yelled as she ran past him and to the Hallow, her furious eyes boring to the Hollow's.
"Hey! If you wanna fight someone, fight me! I won't just sit around and let a bastard like you kill innocent people! Come on, you and me, one on one! Come and get me, you son of a bitch!" she screamed as the Hallow gave a sickening screech. With snapping jaws, the creature lunged for Ichigo, the redhead glaring her hardest as it struck.
There was another screech and the Soul Reaper was before Ichigo, his sword struck and blood pouring down the wound on his back. The Hallow staggered back with blood coming out of it's injured jaw.
"S-Soul Reaper…" stuttered Ichigo as the man with the sword fell to his knees, blood coming out from his back and the corner of his mouth.
"You are… So stupid! As if you could beat that Hallow… With just brute strength! Even if… Even if you could have somehow won… Another would just return… Waiting and watching until your guard is down…" muttered the man as he crawled to a lamppost, resting against it. He looked up at the fighter girl with a look of sheer questionable knowledge.
"Do you… Really want to save your family from this beast?" he asked, placing his sword on his lap. Ichigo nodded her head frantically as she kneeled to him.
"Yes! More than anything! If there is anyway I can beat that thing, then I'll do it! Just tell me what I have to do." she said, her voice nearly begging. The young man bit his lip before he held the blade of his sword to the girl, his eyes glowering.
"You must take my zanpakuto and strike it at your very being. From there, I will lend you some of my power, making you a temporary Soul Reaper. It's risky, but it seem like our only option." said the young man. Ichigo's eyes held surprise for a second before they darkened and dense with confidence.
"If that's the case, then give me your sword, Soul Reaper." she said. The young man, for the first time tonight, gave a smile.
"Riku. My name is Riku Kuchiki." said Riku. Ichigo took hold of the handle of Riku's zanpakuto just as the Hallow got near them.
"And my name… Is Ichigo Kurosaki!" shouted the girl as she drove the sword to her body. A suddenly flash of blinding blue light took over them and the Hallow backed away as it was blinded. It yelled in pain as it felt as large blade stab it's side. When the light cleared away, Ichigo stood before it, her entire being changed.
She was now changed into a black robe, similar to Riku's. around her waist was a white, rope-like belt and slung over shoulder, kept with her right hand, was a large and strong-looking zanpakuto. Riku's eyes widen as he looked at his own clothing, seeing that he was now wearing a white robe.
'How did this happen? I only meant to give her some of my power, not all of it!' he thought as he watched Ichigo slash and thrash at the Hallow, her arches and attacks looking like she was doing both kendo and ballet.
'This girl… She is unlike any other Soul Reaper I've met. She can see ghost, she has the intense strength to break free of Kido! And just by the way she wields her zanpakuto, it's like she's be doing this for years. And how large her zanpakuto is… It's beyond all belief!' thought the violet-eyed man as Ichigo gave a turn, her zanpakuto willing and ready.
"Alright, you piece of Hallow scum. This is for hurting my family! Take this!" yelled the new Soul Reaper as she dashed and brandish her weapon, swinging it in one smooth swoop right through it's very being. The Hallow gave a howl as it was destroyed, shriveling and disappearing into nothing but mere specks of shadows. As the smoke began clearing, Ichigo couldn't hold back the grin on her face. She did it. She won.
And this is how it goes. This is how my whole new life began. One filled with unexplainable adventures and twists. Where I would meet new people, both friend and foe. Where I would face both the forces of Wholes and Hallows. As if my life weren't corrupted enough!
My name is Ichigo Kurosaki. I am fifteen-years old. I have bright orange hair and brown eyes. I go to high school and now, in some odd twist of fate, I have become…
A SOUL REAPER!
TO BE CONTINUED…
And there you have it! The very first chapter of this story! So how was it? Give me your feedback and let me know in your reviews, alright? Sorry if there were some mistakes. I am sorry for that. Let me say, thanks, Vampy-chan! This couldn't have been done without you! Remember, if you have any genderbend request or paring ideas, just let me know. I'll take in request^_^
Well, I gotta go! Make sure to review and the next chapter will come real soon!
This is me saying, Peace!