AN: It's been a little while since I posted anything other than a hiatus notice for my Fairy Tail story, Natsu the Chaos Angel, and so I felt that the world deservered a glimpse into why nothing is getting written, it's because of this little project that I have been working on.
Chapter 1: New Faces
It was a warm day in Remnant, the sun was out and there were few clouds in the sky. This was appropriate, considering the day that this was, this was the first day of new students in Beacon academy. However there was one student in particular that looked decidedly less enthusiastic than all of the others. This student was Ichigo Kurosaki.
=High Description of a Modified Post-Dangai bankai look=
Ichigo was one of two students to be moved to Beacon under special conditions. The condition for the other, while impressive, was much easier than the conditions which Ichigo had entered under. Ichigo was seventeen, he had shoulder-length orange hair that covered his deep amber eyes while still being somewhat spikey. He wore black jeans that were fairly tight, to be comfortable, but loose enough to retain full range of motion; he had black leather combat boots on that had plenty of grip to allow for his fast movements. He was wearing a black vest-shirt with a red tribal design on the center, but over this he wore an unbuttoned robe that seemingly had the sleeves ripped off, showing his well muscled arms, and the bottom of the black robe was just as tattered as the sleeves. The robe had a red inside and parts of the edges were lined with white. He had a tattoo of a chain encircling his right arm and a single fingerless glove that went a quarter of the way up his forearm, also on his right arm. And to top off this look were his trademark scowl and sword; the sword was an authentic looking tachi (70-80 cm katana looking sword) with a black and red grip and cross-shaped guard.
Ichigo seemed to be quite thugish in all, based solely off his appearance, one may think that he tried to make himself look as scary as possible so that he would be left alone, in which they would be partially correct, the sword was simply his weapon of choice, and the tattoo was simply because he thought it looked cool, the glove was to protect his hand when using his sword and the robe was passed down from his grandfather, who the sword was named after, Zangetsu.
=Description Over=
Ichigo was on an airship headed to his first day of formal education ever, this was the special circumstances with which he was admitted to the academy, he was trained by his grandfather in using his hereditary semblance and by his father in the use of the sword, his older brother taught him how to access the darker side of the families semblance, as the two of them inherited it from their mother, Masaki, while got their natural skill with the sword from their father, Isshin. Both sides of the family were hunters and huntreses, and this was the only reason that Ichigo was being allowed into the prestigious acadamy anyway, he had heard that the other special case was only fifteen, but had had education from one of the best hunters currently out there.
Ichigo was looking foreward to seeing his two cousins again, Byakuya and Rukia, who were already at the school, but in different positions, Byakuya had recently become a teacher there and Rukia was in the year above him, even though she was a midget. He hadn't seen either of them in years but he was sure Rukia was still annoying and Byakuya still didn't react to a lot, something Ichigo prided himself on the ability to do. He was then interupted by a blonde boy, who was almost vomiting, running into him.
"Ugh- Sorry! Humph-" the entire apology was meaningless to Ichigo, he just felt sorry for the unfortunate weakness.
"-This man was responsible for the string of recent dust robberies across Vale-" the TV screen was droning on about some guy that was robbing a bunch of dust from across the city, in all fairness Ichigo was half-surprised they weren't blaming it on the White Fang, they seemed to be being blamed for everythin these days anyway. Ichigo didn't understand the discrimination against Faunus as a race, sure one or two indeviduals had done bad things but there is no sense in hurting an entire race because of a few peoples actions, besides to Ichigo the Faunus had always been cool, having cool looking animal parts and sometimes cool abilities.
"I wonder what we are going to do today? Will we get put staight into teams or will that be saved until later?" Ichigo absentmindedly asked his old friend to his left, Uryu Ishida. Uryu was quite a smart individual who was one of the friends Ichigo really had growing up. He was dressed in his families typical colours of blue and white while just wearing jeans, a t-shirt and a white jacket with blue stripes and he also had a metal bow on his back and a simple steel sword on his right thigh. (for the bow think of the one he uses during the soul society arc, and for the sword just think of a seele schnider with a steel blade rather than a reishi one.)
"I would assume that today we must ajust to the campus then sleep in the main hall before being asigned teams tomorrow through some form of test involving grimm." that was Uryu's initial assessment of the situation. It was completely correct but neither of them knew that yet.
"Why are you always so serious, lighten up,"
"Is this just the pot calling the kettle black?"
"Good point, we could lighten up a bit, also, everyone elses weapons fold up or transform or something, mines a sword so whats it going to do? But surely you could get a cooler bow than that?" Ichigo asked,
"I like this one. It's personal prefrence. And for the record, there is a teacher in Signal with a sword that transforms into a scythe."
"Eh shut up, I bet it has a gun too… that sounds cool, but I bet its massive and heavy, I think I'll stick with this and my semblance, thank you very much." Ichigo said patting Zangetsu at his side
"Well it does have a gun and it is large, so you were right in some regard, there's clearly a first time for everything."
"Hey! What's with the drive by?!"
"I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about."
"Okay, fine, I'll drop it for now four eyes," Ichigo said that with a smirk but his only response was a glare from all four eyes of Uryu Ishida. They rode the rest of the journey in silence.
===At Beacon Academy===
Ichigo and Uryu had stepped off of the airship and had begun walking towards the school, behind a tallish blonde haired girl and a short girl with dark hair that was red at the tips, who was wearing a cape. All was seemingly going well until the blonde suddenly dashed off leaving the cloaked girl confused and alone. At least she was alone until a rude girl with some sort of regal motif going on bumped into the caped girl and accused the caped girl of being stupid and seemingly wanting recognition for something unknown until a girl with long black hair and a bow walked past and identified the princess wannabe as Weiss Schnee, whoever that was.
"Sorry 'Weiss' but I saw the whole encounter, you were in the wrong, stop stomping around as though you own the place just because your family is important, we're all first years here, therefore we are all equal, so shut up for a minute and leave this poor girl alone," Ichigo decided to step in, Weiss just scoffed, rolled her eyes, flicked her hair and delicatly stomped away, like the prissy princess she seemed to think she was.
"Thank you! She was really weird and rude! I'm Ruby, Nice to meet you,"
"Yeah, I hate people that think they deserve credit for a name, I'm Ichigo, this is Uryu,"
"Cool! I've heard of both of you! Ichigo you're an exception to the rules like me! And Uryu was top
of Yang's class last year at Signal!" She seemed oddly chipper, " So what weapons do you use?"
"Well if you know Uryu, you must know that he uses the bow and his sword. I just use Zangetsu here." He said proudly patting his sword again, seeming quite happy that they both used bigger and cooler weapons than whatever Ruby could have on her. Until she pulled out a GIANT scythe with a scope, then his faced dropped into shock,
"Awesome! This is Crecent Rose, a full action scythe and high powered, customisable sniper rifle that I built myself, with some help from my uncle, so what does your sword do?"
"Umm, It's really sharp and it channels my semblance, that's about it, Uryu's do the same but with a bow and the sword is just regular. Definitly not as cool as your's..."
"Oh, so your semblance must be pretty powerful if you need a sword to channel it, would it be weird if I asked what it is?" Ruby's facy dropped slightly at the revalation that neither of the weapons did anything really special.
"No, my semblance is my main form of attack anyway, It's a form of energy manipulation that I can imbue into certain objecto to change their properties like speed and shape, some even give me a power boost. And if I put it in my legs then I can go really fast or in my arms and I get crazy strong."
"Wow! That's so cool! Mine allows me to briefly become rose petals and go really fast, it works since my attack style is built around speed anyway,"
"I belive that we should be getting going now." Uryu spoke up for the first time in a while.
"Oh right! We should get go-" she was cut off by vomit boy walking up to the trio
"Uh, do you guys know where we're supposed to be going?"
"Nope," Ichigo
"No," Uryu
"Also no, sorry," Ruby
"Damn," Vomit boy
===At the Assembley Hall===
The afore mentioned Vomit boy had introduced himself as Jaune Arc and he just used a simple sword and shield, his didn't even do what mine did or what Uryu's did. But he seemed nice enough, Ruby was currently moaning about her encounter with the ice princess to her sister who was looking at Byakuya with some interest, even though he wasn't speaking or even looking at any of the students apart from Ichigo or Rukia.
"You again?!" and a gasp was all he heard over Glynda's speech that no one was really paying any attention to. It was Weiss and Ruby freaking out about each others presence, to be honest Ichigo didn't really care about what they were saying just the fact that it was annoying. So he directed a glare at the arguing pair and he moved some energy to his lungs to increase the preassure with which he breathed, creating a large wind that shut them up. Ichigo just blurred out the rest of the talk and followed Uryu to the temporary dorm.
===In The Ballroom\Temporary Dorm===
==Yang's POV==
I had decided to get little sis away from that stupid princess in case they had an actual fight on the first day, that would be bad. So then we went and stashed our weapons in these super cool lockers that could fly to your location if you typed it into your scroll. After that we went to this massive room where everyone had set up sleeping bags and was sleeping on the floor.
"It's kinda like a big slumber party!" I half shouted at Ruby who didn't look amused
"I don't think Dad would aprove of all the boys though..." she responded while looking around. So I did too, I definitly aproved of the boys, especialy tall, muscly, tattooed ones with shoulder length orange hair, normally that would be an awful combination but for him it just worked.
"I definitly aprove of the boys, especialy that orange haired guy you were talking to earlier, y'know the one that is currently very shirtless," Oh my god what is wrong with me, I'm almost drooling, god damn it Yang, pull it together- ohmygodhescomingover, what do I do? I'll just act playful and sexy, yeah that will work, wait work for what? Do I have a crush already?! That was fast.
"Hey Ruby and you're Yang, right? Nice to meet you, I'm Ichigo, I guess we're classmates from now on… makes sense to be friends right?" he said that while ruffling his hair. That showed off his arms, chest, hair and face all in one movement, why does he have to be so hot?
"Oh we can be more than friends if you want," I purred at him gaining a blush from him and a slightly nervous expression, which somehow still looked cute on him. Then, less than three seconds later he snapped out of it and just winked back.
"Time and place."
"Right here, right now."
"Slow down there, we've only just met, your sister is next to you, looking quite horrifeied I may add, and we are in the middle of a public dorm."
"Damn, but I'll hold you to that, you owe me."
"That's fine, but probably not a good place for me to be." Ichigo wrapped up the flirting much to my dismay, I just stared at his equally well muscled back and licked my lips, this year was going to be fun. But I should probably getsome sleep, the trials are tomorrow, time to show off and kill some Grimm!
===The End===
===For Now===
AN: Got no idea where this came from, but it has simply murdered all my inspiration until I could get it down, the speed at which that happened was incredible by the way, I came up with the idea for Ichigo's power and that was it, just to pre-emptively clear up any concerns about his power:
-He can use an ability similar to Shunpo
-He can't use kido or energy based attacks without a medium to channel it through
-He can use Getsuga
-He can use his hollow mask, but it's more for effect
-He can break his sword (not zanpakuto) into petals like Byakuya in Bleach but they are black and red not pink
Bye for now!