So this is a kind of idea my friend My Beautiful Lie and I came up with a looooonnnngggg time ago when I read her story, The Crimson Night. (I suggest you check it out, it's good, even if she hasn't updated in a while.) All I have to say is that I thought her story was a bit of a Bleach/Blue Exorcist crossover and we kinda spawned the idea from there. I just got around to writing it. Oh, My Beautiful Lie, if you read this and wanna collaberate on this together, or just take it over, PM me so I know. XD
"Karakura Town?" Rin Okumura asked when his twin brother, Yukio, said the Exorcist Cram School Class had a mission to said town.
"Yes, Rin, Karakura Town," Yukio said, trying not to let his exasperation show. Izumo Kamiki rolled her eyes at Rin. "It's a Western Tokyo city with an average population. Despite this, it seems that demons are readily attracted to it. Your mission while in Karakura town is to take out as many lower-level demons as you can. You will each have a mentor of your chosen Meister with you to guide you and help if things get out of hand. Suguro, since you're doubling Meisters as Aria and Dragoon, which would you prefer for this mission?"
Ryuji Suguro, the top kid in the class despite his punk looks, thought for a moment. "Dragoon," he said. Yukio nodded.
"All right then. We leave tomorrow. Meet at the train station at 10:00 in the morning. You're all dismissed."
Ichigo Kurosaki sighed. His day hadn't been going so well. Last night hadn't been fun, either. Hollows had been running rampant around his hometown, Karakura Town, last night, which meant, even with the help of Hitsugaya's task force and his friends Rukia Kuchiki, Orihime Inoue, Chad Sado, and Uryu Ishida, he'd barely gotten any sleep. And this morning hadn't helped matters any when he and Rukia had almost been late for school. They had to skip breakfast in order to get there on time. Then at lunch he'd gotten into a fight with one of the bullies at his high school and had gotten detention. Because of the fight, he hadn't eaten his lunch, since the teacher had decided to go on a rant that lasted until the bell rang to go back inside for class. So he was tired, hungry, and pissed. Not a good combination.
Ichigo sighed again and turned his head to look out the window. At least he had a desk with a good view.
Something moving caught his eye. He frowned and squinted a little, looking in the direction of the movement. Is that…? he wondered, looking hard. Naw, it couldn't be. The thing he was looking at was hardly the size of a cat, not the normal size of a Hollow. And besides, he couldn't sense any spiritual pressure coming from it. Then it jumped and bit a woman passing by the school.
Ichigo yelped and jumped up. "T-Teacher! I've gotta go!" he cried, then without waiting for an answer bolted out the door and made for the stairs.
He ran outside and used his Substitute badge to get out of his body and into his shinigami uniform, Zangetsu slung across his back and itching for a fight. He hurried over to where the woman was screaming.
"Hey! You bastard!" Ichigo yelled, trying to get the Hollow's attention. It turned its head to him. No, it turned its body. It was just about the ugliest Hollow Ichigo had ever seen, and he'd seen some pretty ugly ones. It had a ball for a torso and a head in one with three red spikes above its oddly shaped eyes. Two red lines curled from the left and right horns and its slitted eyes had light green circles with two points on either end around them. It had a giant red nose and long arms that contradicted its tiny legs. But maybe the worst thing was its mouth, a long slit filled with tiny, pointed teeth. It hissed at Ichigo and turned back to the woman, munching on her arm while she continued screaming.
Ichigo was confused. Usually Hollows left whoever they originally attacked for a shinigami. Shinigami were tastier, apparently, and their spiritual pressure made Hollows even more powerful. So why wasn't this Hollow going for Ichigo, clearly a shinigami, with his shihakusho and zanpakuto?
Ichigo shook his head and darted forward. It didn't matter. The Hollow, or whatever it was, was attacking a person and he had to get it away from her. He grabbed one of the Hollow's arms and flung it across the school yard.
He turned to the woman as she stood up from where she'd fell when the thing had attacked her. "Are you all right?" Ichigo asked, immediately smacking his forehead. When would he remember that normal people couldn't see him?
To his surprise, the woman looked at him. "I-I think so," she said. "What was that thing?"
Ichigo blinked. "Not sure," he said when he heard a hissing. He turned to see the thing picking itself up from where he'd flung it. And was it just him, or were there suddenly more of it?
"You need to get out of here," he said, pulling Zangetsu off his back as the cloth unraveled from around the blade. The woman was frozen, staring at the multiplying things. "NOW!"
That spurned her into turning and running. One of the things, the original one, Ichigo thought, started after her.
"Oh no you don't!" Ichigo yelled, and promptly sliced the thing in half. It let out a growl before it dissolved into ash.
Another thing jumped for Ichigo, latching onto the sleeve of his shihakusho. He made a grab for it and it bit his fingers. Ichigo yelped and shook his arm until the thing went flying off.
Damn, Ichigo thought. How many of them are there? I can't use Getsuga Tensho. I might destroy the school…
"Heads up!"
Ichigo didn't need a second warning. He quickly jumped up, hoping he was going the right way just as a mass of blue arrows appeared below him and pelted the little monsters.
"Uryu!" Ichigo cried, turning to see the Quincy boy with his reishi bow, aiming for the growling, hissing mass.
"You were taking a while, so I thought I'd come out and save your lazy ass," Uryu said.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Ichigo grumbled.
"What do you think it means, dumbass?" Uryu snapped back, letting another arrow fly as a monster charged him. "What are these things?"
"I was hoping you could tell me," Ichigo said, slicing one himself. "One of them was attacking a woman a few minutes ago. That's why I ran out here. I thought it was a Hollow, but they're obviously not. You seriously have no clue what they are?"
"If I did, I would've told you!" Uryu growled. He let loose a new wave of arrows, taking out about half of the things. "Just how many of them are there?"
"Not sure," Ichigo said. He cut down three more enemies. "Can you set up a barrier of reishi that'll keep my Getsuga Tensho from destroying the school?"
"Depends," Uryu said, coolly shooting down two more that leapt at him. "Are we talking a shikai Getsuga Tensho or a bankai Getsuga Tensho?"
"A shikai one would do the trick, I think," Ichigo said. "Can you do it?" Six of the little beasts clung to the bottom of his shihakusho. He shunpo'd to Uryu, sending the little bastards tumbling to the ground.
"Yeah, but try to take it easy, ok? I'm not sure if the barrier would be too effective," Uryu said, maneuvering around so he was behind the swarm. "Distract them!"
"Easier said than done!" Ichigo yelled. Thinking desperately, he turned around and waggled his butt at the monsters. "Hey! Over here, you ugly bastards!"
"What are you doing?" Uryu shrieked, looking up from his reishi wall-making.
"You wanted me to distract them!" Ichigo shot back. He yelped as something bit his behind. "I think it's working!" He reached around and pulled the small buttmuncher off and stabbed it with Zangetsu. It crumpled to ashes in his hand. "Are you ready yet?"
"Ok, try it!" Uryu hollered. Ichigo turned to see a giant blue wall of reishi protecting the school.
"All right! Here goes nothing!" Ichigo yelled. "Getsuga Tensho!" A wave of pure reiatsu emitted from Ichigo's sword and turned all of the monsters to ash. The attack plowed through them with no problem and slammed into Uryu's barrier, taking it down but dissolving with the reishi wall.
Ichigo sighed in relief and landed next to Uryu. "Not bad, eh?" he asked, slinging Zangetsu over his shoulder in his usual fashion.
"You idiot!" Uryu snapped, hitting him and knocking him down. "I told you to go easy! We're lucky that the barrier took your attack with it! Don't you ever think? You might've destroyed the school anyway!"
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry," Ichigo groaned, sitting up. "But at least they're gone, right?"
A loud snarling made them both look up to see a giant one of the monsters glaring down at them.
"Is that…a crown on its head?" Ichigo asked.
"Uh huh," Uryu said, as dumbstruck as him.
"This isn't good, is it?"
"No, probably not."
The giant monster leaped at the two boys.
"Look out!" Uryu yelped, and they darted to each side.
"Great," Ichigo snapped. "How are we supposed to deal with this one?"
"El Directo!"
A powerful attack swallowed up the biggest monster from behind. It let out a loud screech as it dissolved.
"Chad!" Ichigo called gratefully when he saw his friend, still in his attack pose.
"Ichigo," Chad said in his normal soft way, "what was that thing?"
"Hell if I know," Ichigo said. "There were a bunch of smaller ones earlier. One attacked a woman. That's why I ran out here. Then the other appeared and Uryu helped me take them down."
"Ichigo! Chad! Uryu!" a familiar female voice called, drawing out their names. They all turned to see Orihime running toward them, Rukia right behind her. The girls stopped in front of the boys. "The teacher sent us to get you."
"What happened out here?" Rukia asked.
"Didn't I just explain this?" Ichigo grumbled. He gave them a quick version like he had Chad and Uryu. "This isn't normal Hollow activity, is it, Rukia?"
Rukia thought for a minute. "No, it's not," she said. "I'll let Captain Hitsugaya and his task force know about this. Now we better hurry. The teacher said if we're not back in five minutes, she's locking us out."
"Shit!" Ichigo quickly returned to his body and took off, the others at his heels.
Sooooooo...what do you think? I did mostly Bleach to start, but (if I continue this) I promise I'll put in more of the Blue Exorcist cast! And I've decided I'm not gonna put my Bleach OC Sakura and my Blue Exorcist OC Safaia in this. It's just gonna be the original characters. Please review so I can know what you think!