Hollow King
The Quincy war had ended a week ago and Juhabach the leader of Vandenreich and his followers fell to the hands of the captains of Soul Society, as for Ichigo Kurosaki the human Substitute Shinigami had escaped from Quilge prison with a small push from an unexpected enemy that haunted him with small laugh.
"Is he back?" Ichigo asked himself while he lied on his back on his comfy bed, he closed his eyes and entered the bizarre sideways world of sky scrapers.
"Ichigo, it's been a while since you last came back here" the tall man with a black cape and sunglasses warned with a small smile at seeing his master.
"Yer!...? It's back to normal, it's not Karakura town anymore" Ichigo said surprised observing his surroundings,
"you came here looking for something, no someone" Zangetsu stated.
Ichigo's eyes narrowed slightly in agreement,
"before while I was in that dome thing; I felt a small push giving more power to break free. Does that mean he is still here?" he questioned seriously.
"Oi! What's with this whole he crap! You can't get rid of me that easily, Ichigo!" the discoloured clone grinned psychotically.
Ichigo's frown deepened greatly as his in disgust looked over at the white self of him,
"YOU! You just seem to love coming out of nowhere don't you!" the orange haired Shinigami hissed.
"ICHIGO!" a certain black haired girl roared smacking Ichigo across the face;
"what the hell!? Rukia what the hell was that for?" Ichigo yelled,
"did you listen to a word I said?!" she responded lowering her voice trying to calm down as the anger marks pulsed furiously.
"No…" he mumbled lowering his voice as well;
"I said that we need to go and speak to Urahara!" she frowned,
"Does Urahara know he is back? Is it that obvious, but Rukia doesn't seem to notice. The hell he only showed his face now! Why am I worrying?" Ichigo's muddled up thought drifted in his head as he followed Rukia at a reasonable running pace,
"It won't be long till I will be king, Ichigo!" he recalled his white self warned grinning wildly.
"Ah, Ichigo-kun, Rukia-chan; come sit, sit" the green and white stripped wearing hat man requested, they joined the table with Yoruichi, Urahara and Tessai.
"You said something is happening to some of the captains, even Byakuya was affected" Rukia questioned as her worry for her elder brother radiated through.
"What happened?" Ichigo asked seriously,
"We don't know what exactly had happened but, just after the new head captain finished off the leader of the rebellion army there was an explosion in the research and development lab.
Shortly after that a small spark of hollow reiatsu appeared than concealed itself.
11 hours after that Captain Hitsugaya's reiatsu dropped dramatically than sparked again then returned to a steady level, he hasn't waken up since then, other Captains have also been 'attacked' and left in a similar state."
Urahara was being dead serious while explaining the situation until he finished and put on his usual goofy grin plastered on his face.
"Who was attacked exactly?" Ichigo questioned,
"Hitsugaya, Byakuya and Suì-Fēng, but for now you should just focus on your schooling" Yoruichi in her cat form warned.
"How can I with that happening!" Ichigo yelled,
"Just do what you always do and be an idiot, you'll forget if you think about something else!" his hollow laughed inside his head,
"Che, is there any!" "There is nothing that you can do, this is soul society's problem"
Urahara warned sighing.
"Hello, Orihime! Care to join us?" two dark and yet familiar figures questioned her with a smirk,
"So you better head home...!" Urahara warned him.
Ichigo, Rukia, Yoruichi and Urahara froze in shock as a familiar friend's reiatsu dropped dramatically and sparked dramatically high.
"ORIHIME!" Ichigo yelled running off at top speed heading blindly in the direction of the vast power.
By the time he reached there with Yoruichi beside him, Orihime was on the ground in a deep sleep.
"Orihime! Hay are you ok? Come on say something to me!" the orange haired teen yelled panicked.
"Ichigo!? Ha, I'll see you soon!" a voice from beyond that only Ichigo could recognise called.
Yoruichi looked sullenly from Ichigo's shoulder as he picked her up bridal style and rushed her to the candy shop that belonged to Urahara.
"Ha, who would have thought that it was even capable of her to exist with such a human? Heheh I'll have to find her later to see what she's like!" the hollow mused grinning to himself.
"Why won't she wake up?" Ichigo yelled frustrated,
"calm down Ichigo!" Yoruichi protested at his behaviour;
"If you want, I could wake her up for ya, Ichigo!" the white demonic male laughed at the desperate king.
"As if you could do anything!" the orange hair male yelled at the hollow; his grin only widened,
"Ichigo, what are you doing?!" Rukia asked, "ha?" he question and noticed his hand was on her just above her chest.
"Ha, why is it moving by itself?!" he thought panicking mentally, a red lined black reiatsu engulfed the sleeping orange haired women before them;
"What happ!"
"Ichigo, your too stupid to even realise that someone else is controlling your hand, which is another reason that I should be king!" the hollow manically laughed.
"Hm? Ah! Rukia-chan, Ichigo-san and everyone else! What happened?" the confused girl asked frantically.
"Ah! You're alright!" Ichigo yelled hugging her,
"a thanks would be nice, Ichigo" his hollow sneered with a smirk; the male simply ignored the comment but gave a grunt in recognition.
"Ichi-go-kun!" the girl blushed,
"Orihime, do you know what happened before you fell asleep?" Urahara asked in a dead serious tone;
"ah, well I saw Grimmjow and another person, he had white skin and black and yellow eyes, short boy with spiked up hair."
"Did he look like this kind of?" Urahara asked showing a picture of Hitsugaya,
"Yer but different colour" she pointed surprised at the photo.
"So someone has made people to hollowfy. This is a serious problem, especially since all of soul society is still down in man power."
"Wait! So I'm not the only one with a hollow now?!" Ichigo yelled in surprised,
"why are you yelling?! Jees you gave me an earache Ichigo" Rukia warned hitting him across the back of the head at full force.
"It's probably because he knows what it was like to have a hollow, he must know how bad the situation is! We have to keep our guard up, even though Ichigo's hollow is no more doesn't mean they won't try to wake him up!"
"I'm already awake and kicking, right Ichigo!" his hollow mused psychotically.
The carrot top substitute growled out load without realising it; causing all eyes to fall on top him.
"Hay Ichigo; is everything alright? You seem off today!" Rukia pointed out.
"Yer, I'm fine; I just don't want to think about putting up with that blastedhollow!" he sighed with a growl in the back of his throat.
"My Ichigo, that hurt my feelings! You know that I aren't leaving any time soon, Ichigo!" his hollow grinned broadly with sarcasm saturating his devilish words.
"Shut up you bastard!" Ichigo rumbled down to his unbearable hollow down in his sidewards inner world.
"Ichigo, you don't look well! Why don't you go home and rest!" Orihime warned full of concern, snapping him out of his thoughts.
"But you!"
"I'm fine, besides Urahara-kun and Yoruichi-chan are here. Go home and rest please" she warned her eyebrows arched up as her eyes lowered with a small smile promising she'll be fine.
"Ah! Alright, I'm leaving you to Mr hat and clogs, stay safe ok!" he sent a gentle smile to her and headed home.
He laid in his bed staring up at the ceiling, close his eyes and the darkness consumed him.
Opening his eyes to see a blue skyscraper and white clouds moving down;
"Yo Ichigo! Ya gonna sit around like an emotional bitch? Or are ya going to actually do something?" the hollow smirked.
"You're gonna get out of my bloody head!" Ichigo roared standing up and glaring at the white devilish clone.
"My, my Ichigo! Hasn't anyone told you be careful for what you wish for, it might just come true! It still hasn't sunk in has it? Heh! We'll I aren't a parrot so I'm not gonna repeat what blondie already stated" the hollow warned the idiotic king.
"What do you want?" he growled,
"Don't know what ya talking 'bout! You're the one who came to me and started acting like a bitch, not the other way around Ichigo!" he mocked.
God this hollow was driving Ichigo nuts,
"YOU can go fuck yourself! God dammit hollow shut up! Just go and leave me alone, you give me nightmares enough!" he thundered.
This caught the hollow's attention as his eyes widened in amusement.
"So your scared of me, Ichigo!" he smirked while he loosely running his bleach white hand through his silky soft snow white hair.
"NO!" he yelled angered,
"ya really bad at this, ya already admitted you have nightmares of me, only fears lurk in nightmares Ichigo!" he mused head now slightly tilted to the side his hand rested while still on his head.
"… Hollow! Tell me why are you still here? HELL what's your bloody name!" he yelled frustrated.
"My name? Ha! Ichigo I don't have a name. Though I've been here for a long period of time, Zangetsu isn't very talkative so I never needed a name! But frankly being called by what I am is annoying. It's the same as calling you human all the time! Since you're the king for now come up with a name" he warned with a scowl on his face.
"A name, Hichigo!"
"Ya a fucking idiot! I may look like ya, but that doesn't give ya the right to give me a cheap rip off of your name, besides if Zangetsu were to call Hichigo you'd react thinking he called you! Now wouldn't you? Give me something orginal" he sighed with irritation at the stupidity.
"Akuma!"
"No!"
"Why not?" this was irritating both of them a LOT!
"What part of ORGINAL don't you get?! Ya a real moron to the bone ya know that?"
"Fuck you!" he roared. "Saiko!"
"Do you even know what that means?" irritation was written across his face and you could tell he was reaching his limit before he snaps.
"It mean psycho!"
"Ya know what? I'm choosing my own name, ya chose fucking retarded words for names! Ya can't even think of a name instead of words!" after a few seconds "Atsushi" he warned emotionlessly.
"what does it mean?"
"Unlike YOU I chose an actual name! It means pure ambition, suits me if ya think about it!"
"Yer, your ambition is being a pain in the ass!" Ichigo remarked pissed.
"No! It's wanting to rip ya bloody head of since ya never seem to use it for anything!" he yelled flash stepping and grabbing Ichigo by the top and pulling him closer to him.
"YOU said that I use my head to fight!" he yelled grabbing his hollow by the top.
"Ya fucking DO! But ya never seem to use it for anything else, hell if you truly were smart you would rely on your instincts to fight!" the growled.
WHACK! Both of them held the back of their heads and turned to face Zangetsu who was standing beside them,
"WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" they yelled in unison.
"You're both being too noisy" he warned turning away and flash stepping away.
As they both growled a bang was heard at the wooden door that marked the gate of Ichigo's plain room.
"Yuzu wants ya!" the hollow warned plainly,
"HOW THE HELL CAN YOU TELL!?" Ichigo roared as he made is way out of the world,
"cause I don't SUCK at telling the difference between people's reiatsu!" the grinning demon yelled to the orange moron.
"What's up Yuzu?" Ichigo asked calmly to his cute little cream coloured hair sister.
"Dinner's ready" she cheered with a smile as bright as the sun,
"'kay, let's go" he warned kindly and walked down the stairs followed by his cheerful sister.
"Ichigo! You're feeling better now?" the raven haired girl asked who was known as Karin interrogated,
"ah yer!" Ichigo warned blankly.
As they all sat down and ate dinner and the shinigami father acting more childishly than his own daughters at the table, a certain raven of 200+ years old watched him through the window.
"And then I booted the ball and it hit the top post on the corner and because of a spin the ball went in the goal. It was so cool and I even got a reward for the most goals made!" the raven smirked as her family cheered her on for her achievement and all laughed while the easy and calm aura surrounded them.
"Ichigo seems a lot better, it's the first time I've seen him relax in a while" Rukia thought to herself with a smile.
As the family spilt to their respective beds to sleep, a smooth and luring voice caught the orangette's attention.
"What do you want?" Ichigo sighed to his hollow,
"I thought we already established my name isn't you! It's Atsushi! Anyway, ya know Zangetsu hasn't shown up for a while?" the colourless tone man warned.
"No, where is he?" Ichigo asked confused;
"you find him!" the hollow ordered lazily.
"Why me? You live in here and you have nothing else to do so YOU find him!" Ichigo growled in disagreement.
"Hay! Quit hiding and come out already, we know your awake!" a foreign warned.
"Who's there?!" Ichigo growled,
"… ya an idiot! He aren't in this world ya know!" the hollow warned with a blank and unamused tone at the stupidity.
Ichigo's eye snapped open to meet a set of black and gold eyes,
"You! Your Byakuya's hollow!" Ichigo pointed out,
"I am, but I'm not here for you so shut up!" he warned icily just as Byakuya would have.
"What do ya want noob?!" the short haired hollow warned crossing his arms over the back of Ichigo's chair as he sat on it backwards.
Ichigo's eyes immediately shot to his demon's husky and luring voice.
"What are you doing out!?" Ichigo yelled startled and crawling his way against the wall backwards,
"me? I could always come out! Just didn't want to" the hollow blankly warned.
"You could.. always… come out?" he repeated dumbfounded,
"yer, in fact I come out when ya asleep and draw on ya idiotic father's face!" he warned.
"Wait… that was you? GOD Atsushi! He bloody blamed me for that!" Ichigo roared throwing his pillow at his hollow's face.
It hit him dead centre in the face before plopping to the floor.
"Well what do ya want with me anyway?" the demon asked looking to his fellow demon.
"It's simple, you awakened naturally and have been the strongest of our kind, we want you to be our king!" the white Byakuya warned.
The demon's eyes widened at the statement, a psychotic grin graced his white lips as his eyes lowered in sweet twisted amusement.
"Well that offer I aren't passing up! Later Ichigo, have fun being the soul societies bitch!" he grinned and disappeared from sight along with the white long haired male.
Fear and panic consumed the boy and was drowning him in a pit of abyss,
"whatdoIdowhatdoIdo!" the rapidly decreasing and down falling state of mind caused heavy breathes and panic consume him.
"ComeonIchigoclamdownwhatshouldIdo?" his mind blurred,
"Urahara!" he yelled and jumped from his window with horror written on his face as he ran at top speed to the candy shop 1/3 of the town away.
"Urahara! Urahara open up! Come on this isn't a joke! Open up!" he yelled as he banged on the door repeatedly as soon as he stepped foot on the premises.
"Jees Ichigo, you don't even give me time to move before yelling at me! Ichigo are you ok?" the blond asked in surprise after taking a look at his pale and terror stricken face.
"He's gone! He'sgone, he'sgonetheytookhimandhejoinedthemandhe'sgoingtobe kingand!"
"ICHIGO! Calm down for a minute and talk to me!" the shop keeper warned with worry encasing him.
As the hyperventilating boy sat down at the table with Rukia, Yoruichi and Renji looking extremely worried.
"Now tell me who's gone!" Urahara ordered in a calm collected tone,
"my hollow! He was awake since the last war and he only showed himself tonight and then after you sent me home,
Byakuya's hollow told him to come out and then Atsushi said he could always leave and he comes out at night and walks around and then! The other hollow said something about awaking naturally and told him to be king and he left!" Ichigo blurted with barley a breath in his panicked and rushed warning.
"I see, this is a massive problem we have on our hands, Ichigo we need you to calm down and think straight, I'll deal with everything" the older and wiser man warned.
Elsewhere:
"Ah, so you're finally here! Good! Cause I want to have a decent fight. Ichigo maybe strong but he stupid and your seem a LOT more challenging then he!" the cat male purred in devilish delight.
"Well if it isn't Grimmjow! And funny enough I been wanting to fight ya too!" the overpowering white teen cooed devilishly.
"Good! CAUSE THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL AM I EXCECPTING A KING WHO CAN'T BEAT ME OR FIGHT!" Grimmjow roared.
"So your saying you'll except anyone who is stronger than you to give you orders and be there slave!" he mocked.
Grimmjow's blue eyes widened with a flash of realisation, a low dangerous growl swelled in his throat before seeped through his pearl white teeth that was clenched shut to encage anything from leaving his burning hot cavern in rage.