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"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Hollow Talking"
"Hollow Thinking"
Chapter One: Awakening
An orange haired teen sighed as he walked along the well beaten sidewalk, a familiar path he takes home every day from school, although he was planning on taking a small detour along the way. Turning a corner he spotted a group of skateboarders fooling around one of the lampposts, normally he would pay them no mind, but today however.
"WHAT THE... YAMA-NII(1)!" One of the boarders shouted out in alarm as the orange haired teen kicked one of them off his board "You got a death wish or something? Huh?" The orange haired teen stayed silent as he scratched his scalp, the teen is Ichigo Kurosaki; Hair color: Orange, Eye color: Brown, Occupation: High school Student, Special Skill/Ability... "Say something thing you-" the teen started charging forward with his fist raised only to be stopped by an upraised foot.
"T-Toshi-nii is down," one of the remaining boarders stuttered out "D-don't know what's going on but this is dangerous, if we fight this guy we'll be killed for sure."
"SHUT UP ALREADY!" Ichigo shouted as he stomped on the boarder that he kicked head "All you guys look over there!" he ordered pointed at the streetlamp that had a fallen over glass bottle with water and a flower in it "Question 1: What the heck can that be? OK you there the stinky looking one!" he shouted pointing at one of the remaining three.
"U-uhh, a-an offering f-for the girl that died here recently?" he answered shakily.
"Great Answer!" Ichigo shouted as he kicked the boarder in the chin knocking him out cold.
"M-Mit-nii!" One of the remaining two called out in shock.
"Question Two: Then why is the vase knocked over?" Ichigo questioned with a hard look.
"B-because we knocked it over while skate...bor...ding?" One of the remaining teens answered slowly.
"I see..." Ichigo replied "THEN SHOULDN'T YOU APOLOGIZE TO HER!" He questioned as he pointed at a small girl with the left side of her face bloodied and a chain hanging from her chest.
The remaining two teens took off screaming apologize as they ran like the hounds of Hades were on their heels. "Sorry about using you like this." Ichigo apologized as he righted the fallen bottle.
"Nah," the girl dismissed as she floated beside him "It's the least I could do after asking you to get rid of them for me."
"Okay then, I'll be sure to bring you some new flowers!" Ichigo stated as he walked away.
"Thank you!" the spirit called out "I'll be able to rest peacefully now!"
Yup that's right, Ichigo Kurosaki; Hair color: Orange, Eye color: Brown, Occupation: High school Student, Special Skill/Ability: can see Spirits. His family consists of a father who is a doctor, saving people's lives, not helping the dead, as long as Ichigo could remember he could see ghosts and spirits "I'm Home!" Ichigo called out as he entered the house.
Only to be met by a dropkick from his father Isshin Kurosaki, widower to three kids "You're late!" he shouted as He flew through the air and kicked Ichigo "Do you know what time it is you delinquent son!" he questioned "You know dinner begins every night at seven!"
"You Jerk!" Ichigo shouted as he shot up holding the stop that Isshin hit him at "Is that how you greet you son who just help a spirit find peace?"
"Silence!" Isshin commanded "No matter the reason one cannot disrupt the harmony of the household! Only punishment of blood can be rendered!"
"Oh stop it you two!" one of Ichigo's twin sisters, light brown haired girl with brown eyes named Yuzu pleaded "The food is getting cold!"
"Oh just leave them Yuzu," Ichigo's second sister Karin commented, she looked nothing like her twin with dark blue eyes and black hair with a sarcastic demeanor that is in contrast with her sisters kind and caring demeanor "More rice please."
"She's got a point Yuzu-chan," the final member of the household agreed as he crewed on some rice, this was Ryu Hisanaga, a brown haired green gold flecked eyed teen that was 6' even and slightly more muscular than Ichigo with a trio of scars over his left eye after a run in with a mountain cat during a hiking trip, he wore a sleeveless skintight black shirt and black karate pants with green runners, he is Isshin's godson whose parents had died mysteriously one night when he was still a child and had since moved in with the Kurosaki's "They'll keep fighting until Ichigo get sick of it," *SLAM*the house shook as Ichigo slammed Isshin to the ground and planted a foot on top of him victoriously "and stomps Isshin-oji(2) into the ground. By the way Ichigo you have another client."
"Huh?" Ichigo answered smartly before he noticed the office worker looking guy floating right beside him "Gah! I just exorcized one of you and another latches on!"
"Can you blame them?" Karin asked rhetorically "You can touch them and see them, plus you're a special A spiritual medium. Your troublesomes are fourfold."
"In other words, Sucks to be you," Ryu chipped in with a teasing grin "Sure I can touch and see them, but you're so much more empathetic."
"But still, I wish I could see them as well as you two can." Yuzu pouted "I can only see a blur."
"Not me," Karin stated "Since I don't believe in ghosts and whatnot."
"B-but can't you see them?" Yuzu questioned plaintively.
"Whether you see them or not, as long as you don't believe, they don't exist." Karin informed making Ryu laugh at Yuzu and the ghosts expression or rejection.
"An opening!" Isshin shouted as he jumped Ichigo and put him in a leg lock only for Ichigo to throw him off through sheer force.
"THAT'S IT!" he shouted in frustration "I'm going to bed!"
Ryu sighed as Ichigo stomped away and looked at the clock "I best be off to work now." He said as he stood up and grabbed his duffel bag "See ya'll in the morning."
"Poor Ryu-nii, he works so hard to get his own apartment." Yuzu said as she piled food onto a tray to take up to Ichigo.
"With this family can you blame him?" Karin questioned rhetorically.
"Ichi-nii has been having it tough too with an apparent influx of spirits seeking peace." Yuzu said making Isshin gasp in shock.
"He would talk to you about his worries and not his own father!" he asked scandalized.
"Not even I would with your childish communication skills." Karin answered bluntly as she sat on the chair backwards and faced the T.V.
"Ohh Masaki!" Isshin cried as he leaned against a large poster of the Kurosaki kids mother "Our Children and godson won't talk to me about their troubles, what should I do?"
"First start by taking down that ridiculous poster of mom." Karin suggested which Isshin promptly ignored.
Ichigo sighed as he slammed the door shut to the room he shared with Ryu, it was a bit small on space but still comfortable, and with Ryu's part-time job at a convince store Ryu pretty much only used the room to store some small odds and ends, clothes, his book bag and to sleep in, other than that he was pretty much out of the house working or training in martial arts. "Jeez, why is everyone in my family like that." He complained as he threw his bag onto his desk and spotted a black butterfly in the room "A black Swallowtail Butterfly? Where did that come from?" About to get up to change he froze when he spotted a black haired blue eyed girl that look around his age in his room dressed in a black samurai outfit complete with a sword at her hip "Wha..."
"It is near..." she stated as if she never noticed Ichigo, well, up until the point he planted his foot on her ass at any point.
"'It is near' my ass retard!" Ichigo shouted as the samurai-girl flew through the air and landed on the ground in a state of shock "What are you, some kind of burglar? 'It is near', do you mean the safe?"
"Y-you can see me, y-you just kicked me?" the girl questioned still in shock.
"What the heck are you talking about, of course I can see you." Ichigo stated as if it was the most obvious thing in the universe only to be interrupted by his father's flying drop kick to the back.
"Be quiet Ichigo! Quit making such a ruckus on the second floor!" his father commanded as he landed.
"Be quiet?" he repeated in shock "How can I be quiet when we have a samurai-wannabe breaking in, what the heck is with our security system?" he questioned as he pointed at the said samurai-wannabe much to Isshin's confusion.
"Who?" he asked as he stared blankly at the spot Ichigo was pointing at "I don't see anyone."
"It's useless," the girl stated emotionlessly "normal people can't see me, because I am a Shinigami."
Elsewhere
The child-spirits bloody and mangled form hit the ground as a monster stepped over it with a white, bone-like mask covering its head "Close," It moaned out "Strong... Spirit... is... Close."
Ichigo's house
"I see..." Ichigo stated as he and the shinigami sat beside a table in the room "So you're a shinigami from a place called the soul society sent to exterminate an evil, I believe you." He suddenly flipped the table they were sitting beside "Yeah right! Like I could believe that!"
"Y-you believe in ghosts but not in the existence of the shinigami?" she questioned in shock.
"Of course not!" Ichigo affirmed "Unfortunately I have never seen a shinigami, I don't believe in things I don't see, you want someone to believe you go speak with my roommate, he might believe you. Since Dad could not see you I'll acknowledge the fact that you're not human, but cut the shinigami crap, got it you little brat?"
The shinigami twitched slightly "You have spewed enough nonsense," she mutter before turning and pointing at Ichigo "Bakudo #1: Sai!(3)"
Ichigo suddenly felt his arms and legs seize up before he toppled to the floor "W-what did you do?" Ichigo questioned as he tried to free himself from the invisible restraints.
"It's called Kido, even though I look like this, I still have lived ten times longer than you have Brat." The Shinigami said putting emphasis on the word brat, she suddenly drew her sword making Ichigo's eyes widen in fear when she suddenly swung down, her target wasn't Ichigo though, it was the ghost beside him, shifting her sword at the last minute he tapped the ghosts forehead with the hilt of her sword.
"I-I don't want to go to hell." The ghost moaned.
"You will not be going to hell," the shinigami reassured "You will be going to the soul society and unlike hell it is a peaceful place."
The ghost sank into a portal that had opened up beneath him as she explained this and much to Ichigo's shock the ghost vanished "W-what happened to the ghost?" he questioned in slight awe.
"I sent him to the Soul Society through the ritual known as Konso(4)," she explained "It is one of the primary duties of the shinigami." She sighed as she reached into her shirt "There are two types of souls, and I will be giving you a visual demonstration so that even a brat like you can understand."
With Ryu(I don't Feel like doing the whole explanation, you should already know this if your reading the fanfiction.)
Ryu sighed as he placed the bag of garbage he was carrying in the dumpster and stretched his back letting out the kinks 'My shift will be over soon.' He mused as he look up at the sky, an uneasy feeling building up within him 'It feels Like a Storm is approaching, and not a weather storm either.' He sighed as he turned back and entered the store to finish off the last couple hours of his shift.
Back with Ichigo
"So you're here to hunt one of those hollows?" Ichigo questioned as the shinigami finished her explanation and seeing her nod he began to shout "Then why aren't you out there hunting it?"
"Because for some reason I just can't sense it anymore." She admitted with a troubled look.
Ichigo was just about to ask her what the hell she meant when suddenly he heard a roar that sent shivers down his spine "Hey Shinigami!" he shouted catching her attention "What the hell was that noise?"
"What noise?" she asked "What are you talkin-" another roar interrupted her and this time she clearly heard it 'What is going on?' she wondered to herself 'Not only did a human sense it before me, but it sounds like there is a filter to the hollows voice.' Her musings were cut further short when she heard the scream of a young girl.
"Yuzu!" Ichigo shouted in horror "H-hey where are you going release this spell, that thing is attacking my family!"
"Even if I do you stand no chance against a Hollow!" she retorted as she opened the door only to freeze at the amount of spiritual pressure coming from the Hollow 'H-how could I not notice this before?' she asked herself in shock.
"Ichi..." a voice called out weakly as a figure crawled into the doorway revealing a weakened Karin "Good... it hasn't... gotten here yet, daddy's back suddenly erupted in blood than me and Yuzu were attacked, I thought I had to warn you..., I wonder what it was, I could only see a little and daddy and Yuzu couldn't see it at all, before it sees you, hurry... get away..." Karin slumped forward as she finished the sentence.
"Don't worry, she is only unconscious." The shinigami reassured as she knelt next to Karin. Looking over to Ichigo she was shocked to see him beginning to stand up "What are you doing?" she yelled "If you try to break that incantation with a humans power your soul will-"
*CRACK*
Ichigo stood fully before rushing out the room with a bat in hand 'How? To release a Kido with a Humans power is impossible.' She thought to herself as she stared at him "Wait!"'What exactly is he?'
When Ichigo got downstairs the most noticeable thing was the large monster that stood outside of the giant hole in the house's wall 'This, is a hollow.' He realized as he stared at the creature who stared back 'Dammit why am I shaking?' he asked himself as he clutched his arm 'I'm not scared, I've seen thousands of ghosts, that's all this is is another-' he froze when he saw what the Hollow was holding "YUZU!"
Yuzu turned her head to Ichigo when she heard him shout "Ichi-nii." She whimpered in fear as she looked at Ichigo with pleading eyes.
"Graah!" Ichigo shouted as he charged at the Hollow only to be smacked away when the Hollow swung it's hand like it was swatting a fly. With an instinct honed from fighting on the streets Ichigo quickly brought up his bat in a defensive position but still was knocked back several meters as half the bat was destroyed Looking up at the Hollow his eyes widened in fear as the Hollow swung at him only for the shinigami to appear slicing at its arm halfway through and forcing it to go off track and to lose his hold on Yuzu who Ichigo quickly caught.
"Don't lose focus boy!" the shinigami shouted as she slid in front of him "Your family is alright for now, they haven't had their souls eaten yet!"
"Wait a minute, don't Hollows attack people to eat their souls?" Ichigo questioned "Than why did attack my family?"
"Hollows search for the strongest concentration of Reiatsu(5)," she informed "And never before have I heard of a human that could see a shinigami or defeat a Kido spell on their own, nor have I seen a human with such a high concentration of Reiatsu. It's most probable target is you."
"So does that mean it's my fault that all this happened," Ichigo asked fear in his voice "that my dad is over there almost dead, that Karin and Yuzu are covered in blood?"
"Wait I did not mean-" the shinigami began only to be interrupted by a backhand from the Hollow as it loomed over Ichigo "That. Is. Enough." Ichigo stated as it stood in front of the Hollow, his mind made up "You want my soul right? Than fight me face to face and try and take my soul from me! They have NOTHING to do with this!"
The Hollows head shot forward at Ichigo who prepped to dodge the too fast moving projectile only to freeze when the shinigami appeared in front of him taking the attack and gutting the gums of the hollow "W-why?" he asked in shock.
"I already told you, you cannot face him with your power, you are just too weak," she stated "And did you really think that if you just gave him your soul he'd be satisfied? Either way your an idiot."
"S-sorry, I just." Ichigo began only to trail off.
"Do not worry about is what I would like to say," The shinigami said "But unfortunately I am to injured to fight the Hollow, all we can do is wait to become it's food." The shinigami observed Ichigo's reaction as he clenched and unclenched his fists "Do you want to save your family?" she asked surprising Ichigo.
"What there is a way to help them!" he asked "Tell me!"
"There is a way... no to be exact there is only one way," he corrected herself as she drew her sword "You Become A Shinigami." She declared leveling her sword at him.
"What are you saying, how can I?" he asked dumbly.
"Pierce the middle of your chest with my Zanpakuto and I will insert half of my shinigami power," she explained "That will allow you to become a shinigami and fight on equal terms with a Hollow."
"I-is there some risk with doing that?" he asked apprehensively.
"I do not know," she answered honestly "Of course this is a plan set up on your high Reiatsu, the chances of success are not high, if it fails you will die. But there is no other way! There is no time to deliberate."
Ichigo gritted his teeth as he tried to think it through only to have his thoughts broken through when Yuzu called his name in her dream and tried to warn him in it. His resolved strengthened as he thought of his family and smirked at the shinigami "Give me your sword Shinigami," he ordered aming her give a small smile of relief.
"It's not 'Shinigami'," she amended "It's Rukia Kuchiki."
"Ichigo Kurosaki." He said introducing himself "Let's pray that this doesn't become our last greeting for either of us."
"The Hollow is coming," Rukia observed as she leveled her sword at Ichigo's chest "If we don't hurry."
Ichigo steadied her hands by placing his own over them "Let's do it."
"Yes." With that the sword thrusted through Ichigo's chest and an explosion of power erupted around them blinding the Hollow.
While it was blinded one of his arms was quickly removed from his body shocking the Hollow as Ichigo leveled a sword that was as long as he is tall on his shoulder shocking both the Hollow and Rukia 'I-I don't believe it, I only wanted to give him half of my power and somehow he took all of it, and not only that but the size of his Zanpakuto, I've never seen one that big before! The physical representation of a soul reapers power, not even the captains are that large!'
Ichigo remove the Hollow's legs as he ducked under one of its attacks easily able to outpace and out maneuver that Hollow with his new powers. "Realize the Mistake of Messing with my family Fish Face!" He shouted then swung his sword up and cut the Hollow straight through the mask killing it.
'This guy... who exactly is he?' Rukia wondered as she watched in a mixture of shock and awe.
Ichigo Kurosaki
Hair color: Orange
Eye color: Brown
Occupation: High school Student/Shinigami.
End Chapter
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Translations
1- Nii: Bro
2- Oji: Uncle/Old Man
3- Bakudo #1: Sai- Way of Binding #1: Restrain.
4- Konso: Soul Burial
5- Reiatsu: Spiritual Pressure