It was cold, but that wasn't too bad the worst part was that it was raining. Ichigo hated the rain. None more so than today. Today Ichigo died or rather is dieing. He faced of with Kugo Ginjo and he was almost deprived of the power he sought to protect but Uryuu was there and stopped Kugo from taking it but that didn't stop him from killing him as the life slowly left his eyes.
"Why does it have to end like this, powerless to protect my friends and about to die in the rain, the same way Mum died. It can't get much worse than this, can it."
Pant, pant. "I can't keep this up for…where's Ichigo? Ichigo can't have died yet, no he's still alive, on the brink of death but still alive" Uryuu said to himself. "Come on Urahara you could have at least come already."
"Are you getting distracted?" Kugo said snapping Uryuu from his thoughts. "I though Tsukishima would be enough to handle you but I was wrong, now I must kill you so I can absorb Kurosaki's power before he dies" Kugo was suddenly enveloped in a wash of purple reishi and his power sky rocketed.
The first thing that happened when it cleared was Kugo lunging at Uryuu swinging his giant sword at him. Uryuu went on the defensive and used hirenkyaku to dodge Kugo, but it wasn't enough as he was cut across his arm and blood started to flow out of the wound. Uryuu looked down at the wound and growled to himself a little at the mistke of underestimating the enemy. Just where was everyone.
"Guess I won't be able to hold back" Uryuu thought. Uryuu's pendant began to let of a slight blue glow. The reishi in the surrounding air was absorbed by Uryuu. Instantly a white cloth like reishi substance began to cover Uryuu.
"What are you doing Uryuu? You know you can't save Kurosaki" Kugo laughed evilly "just give up already if you don't someone will notice and get in my way" Kugo continued throwing his arm out to the side gesturing to what may be his loss. Kugo lunged at Uryuu once more whom just disappeared and reappeared behind Kugo ready to fire an arrow at his back. Uryuu was surprised however when Kugo managed to turn around just in time to block the arrow from piercing his back.
Not too far in the distance a senkaimon could be felt opening alerting the two to the presence of shinigami from soul society coming to interfere with their battle. As the gate opened several captains and a few lieutenants could be seen stepping out. These captains consisted of Byakuya, Zaraki and Toshiro.
"What are they all doing here" Kugo said gripping his head in frustration slowly floating down to the roof top of the house that was being destroyed in their fight. "I can't take Kurosaki's power like this…well if I can't have him no one can" Kugo thought as he gained an evil grin on his face and looked up towards the captains and Uryuu. "What now will I do? You ask yourselves this question" Kugo said holding both his arms up in the air, sword held high as well. "I will do this" Kugo said flashing over to Ichigo in a burst of green gripping him by his shirt making the shinigami move their hands to their swords and begin to unsheathe them in anticipation to what Kugo may do. Kill him? No that wasn't his objective because Ichigo would go straight to soul society, so what?
"Ichigo!" Renji and Rukia cried out at seeing their friend. They were silenced by Byakuya whom had a slightly solemn look on his face at seeing both Ichigo and the two lieutenants like this.
"What do you plan to do with him?" Toshiro said narrowing his eyes slightly "do you plan to take him with you because he was a substitute soul reaper just like you?" Toshiro said making Uryuu's eyes widen at the statement and look at the captain.
"No I won't be taking him with me at this point in time," Kugo said raising his sword at the shinigami "I…will be making sure that no one can have him not even you…he" Kugo said gesturing to Ichigo in his grasp "will be lost to oblivion not even your prestigious scientist will be able to help him once I'm done"
"Then we won't let you" Toshiro said drawing his sword completely holding it out in front of him in a battle ready stance.
"I'm afraid it's a little too late for that, you see," Kugo said pausing for a moment "you lost the moment I picked up Kurosaki" Kugo continued confusing the shinigami in front of him. "Just watch as you and I lose a precious source of power"
As soon as Kugo finished his speech the sword he held pointed at the shinigami in the sky swept downward carving open the air in front of him like fabric forming a garganta making the several shinigami eyes widen at the action in realisation of what he was about to do.
"Without a set destination Ichigo will be lost in the void forever and in his current state any mere fluctuation in the void would tear him into pieces causing him to die and be lost forever" Uryuu and the shinigami thought and realised.
However everyone was too late as Ichigo's form sunk into the void never to return causing a crestfallen look to appear on the shinigami and Uryuu's faces. However that was slowly replaced by anger and Uryuu lashed out the instant he looked back up to Kugo who had a smug look on his face at what he just did and punched him in the face so hard he went through to the bottom floor of the house
"Now no one wins," Kugo said "we were all weak in the first place, we depended on him to stand on our own two feet," Kugo began to shout at them as he rose back out to the roof of the house looking at all of them intently. "Now look at yourselves, you finally have the courage to attack once a dear friend has left you, how pathetic, you were all going to kill him anyway like what you want to do with me, so I don't see the difference, obsticles must be removed after all and Kurosaki was just an obstacle to be removed especially since once he dies he won't remember a damn thing when he gets to the Rukongai."
Byakuya and Kenpachi just looked at Kugo coldly before Byakuya drew his sword and said Kugo's death sentence "Bankai, Zenbonzakura Kageoshi." With that said dozens of giant pillars of swords rose out of the ground before each broke apart and surrounded Kugo who was surprised that the captain would go all out from the very beginning. "Don't even bother trying to escape fool, that kido I placed on you will stop you from escaping the inevitable" Byakuya said pointing at the six glowing bars that now surrounded Kugo's waste as he struggled to escape. Without an escape in mind and death slowly closing in on him Kugo gave up.
"Huh…should have known it would come to this" Kugo thought to himself as he was finally swallowed up in a giant mass of pink blades that cascaded down upon him and ripped through his flesh killing him almost instantaneously but not without a cry of pain that was silenced by his death.
"Let's go Toshiro, Zaraki…and lieutenants" Byakuya said looking over to Renji and Rukia who stood there with a look of sadness upon their faces, one that would surely break down into tears the moment they were alone.
(Urahara Shouten)
"So that's what happened Uryuu, eh" Urahara said listening to Uryuu's explanation of what happened to Ichigo. "Well I can confirm to you what Kugo said, Ichigo…will not be coming back" Urahara said trying to hold himself back from breaking down just like Uryuu was at this very moment. "Ichigo's body will break down into reitsu and be lost forever, however he might be reborn in another world, that is a fact that cannot be confirmed as to the reason that no one has ever come back once a similar occurance has happened, they have all been assumed to be dead" Urahara continued.
Ichigo and Uryuu may have gotten on each others nerves in the past but they were good friends whether they knew it or not and that made it all the more difficult for Uryuu and it would definitely hit hard on the others once they recovered from Tsukishima's fullbring.
"For now all I can say is that we will never see him again and that I need to go talk to Isshin to tell him of the news, you may go home now Uryuu-san" Urahara said getting a slight nod from Uryuu. He had a blank look on his face, a sign of a slight depression already sinking in.
(Kurosaki clinic)
"That's alright I understand Keisuke, you can leave now" Isshin said after having listened to Urahara. How was he going to tell the girls about Ichigo, they already knew more or less about the fact that Ichigo was once involved in the affairs of shinigami. Ichigo had already come close to the point of dying in front of his family multiple times and it had caused them to become a wreck, now he had to tell them that Ichigo actually had died this time and they would never see him again.
(Inside the void)
"Uh…where am I? Am I dead? Probably… but shouldn't I be in Heuco Mundo or the Rukongai then?" Ichigo said to himself in his thoughts. And then he remembered catching a glimpse of being thrown headfirst into a void that looked all too familiar. "A garganta then, so if I've been falling for a while I won't find my way back out of here…" Ichigo's thoughts stopped when he saw a blue glistening trail flowing out in front of him. His eyes followed it to it's source and saw his left arm breaking down into tiny bits of reistu. "So I'm gonna die alone huh…not the best of things but oh well people die eventually…and I wasn't able to protect my friends either"
"Don't worry kingy ya still got me" a voice in Ichigo's head spoke.
"So your back huh" Ichigo said to his hollow.
"Yeah, fullbring does use hollow reishi after all" the hollow spoke back "It only makes sense I'd be back sooner or later"
"Well it's been nice talking to you" Ichigo thought and his hollow silently agreed, with that final thought Ichigo shattered into millions of reistu particles never to return to what he once called home.
(Hospital somewhere else in another world)
"Congratulations Kushina-san, you have twins" the nurse said causing Kushina to freeze up for a moment before she responded.
"Whoo, I'm gonna have twins" Kushina shouted at the top of her voice jumping out of the chair she was sitting on and throwing her arms into the air.
"Careful Kushina-san, don't be too loud you might hurt some peoples ears" the nurse said blocking her ears.
