BLEACH: Xdimension chapter 2
Pairings in this chapter: Ichiruki, Ichihime, Ichiishi O.O
Is this death?
As Ichigo fell and fell into the bright spherical galaxy, his last thoughts were about the happy days he spent with his wife Rukia, and then the painful stabs of regret, when she left and when he'd hurt her. He'd give up anything just to go back and change something, so that their separation never was. Now, at the time of his death, with a clear mind at last, he realized like she said: it really was his fault …
Suddenly, the white atmosphere was replaced by a soft sky blue, and a downward force apon his body—like falling!
Wait! He was falling?
Ichigo turned his head and sees the green grasses, the river, and rooftops of the familiar Karakura town. He's not dead! The mysterious white portal had taken him back to the human world! Now maybe he can go back to Soul Society and apologize to Rukia!
Okay, a few problems… He was FALLING, from the SKY, and immobilized by the air flying past his sides at a tremendous speed.
God! You want me to die a painful death don't you?!
Ichigo came closer and closer, to Earth, to the rooftops… and to the rock hard ground that is probably his death. He began to panic, but what could he do? He could barely open his eyelids because of the wind, forget trying to move! Just as Ichigo began to make some mental preparations for death, out of nowhere a familiar voice yelled—
"Senten kessun!"
Three golden pieces of light created a shield under Ichigo in lightning speed, and caught him while lowering him to the ground. As he recovered from the shock, he looked up to see his big-chested friend.
"Hey, thanks Inoue!"
As Ichigo looked up, he noticed she was dressed in something very out of character today.
She had on a bright pink tank top that showed part of her flat stomach, shorts that stretched almost uncomfortably over her rounded bottom, and the most astonishing of all: she wore heavy pink makeup on her powdered face.
"Oh 'Inoue', you've never called me that before! Anyways, I was looking for you babe! Where were you?"
"What?!" Ichigo was stunned. "I've always called you Inoue! And did you just call me babe?!"
"I said," Inoue looked annoyed, "WHERE WERE YOU?! Answer the question!"
That was the first time Ichigo heard her raise her voice like that. She suddenly had a new atmosphere around her… Not her usual 'kind and friendly', but rather mean and vicious.
"Wha- I was in Soul Society!" Ichigo found himself raising his own voice. What was he doing? He'd never raise his voice at Inoue. She'd get sad and—
"Shut up! You weren't in Soul Society! Are you cheating on me?!" Inoue had gone full out, and her face was scrounged up in a powdery scowl.
"I REALLY WAS IN SOUL SOCIETY! And I'm not cheating on you! We never dated in the first place—I'm married! STOP MAKING FALSE ACCUSATIONS!" Ichigo was sure that he would made Inoue cry, and was about to start apologizing, but Inoue said the most unexpected reply:
"Freak! I knew it! You cheated on me! And worse, you got married behind my back?! Who is she?! Is she hotter than me?!"
Ichigo had lost it. "What happened to you, Inoue?! Why are you being-"
"NO! I'm not being anything!" She cut him off for the first time. "You're being a jerk! We're over! Until YOU apologize and dump that other girl!"
She returned her Senten Kessun to let Ichigo drop on the ground, then she turned swiftly—as if rehearsed—slapped her butt and walked away.
Ichigo felt disgusted and confused. Inoue… what happened to you?
When Ichigo returned home, he hurried as fast as he could, into his room and slammed and locked the door behind him.
At least this is the one place I can concentrate.
—And he took that back when he saw himself; looking back at him…
"What the he*l-"
It's another Ichigo, as shocked as he is! But that false Ichigo is sitting on his chair, wearing his clothes and reading… and holy Yamamoto-HE'S READING a CHIC MAGAZINE!
"What are you—who are you?!" They said in unison, but the Ichigo sitting down had a voice reminding Ichigo of his old high school friend, Keigo.
"Y-y-you're M-ME!" Both Ichigos said again. This was getting really weird. First with Inoue, now with… himself!?
Then an idea popped into Ichigo's head. "Uh… ME, do you happen to have a girlfriend named Inoue Orihime?"
"Yes…"
Gwoh! The Ichigo standing up jumped back.What?! Why is there two Ichigos and why is one dating Inoue and he didn't know?! Ichigo's starting to feel like something is missing here.
"Um... I kinda sorta broke up with her accidentally so… could you go and say something?"
"YOU BROKE UP WITH SWEETIE?! How could you?! She's the hottest girl there is!"
"WHAT-SWEETIE?! HOT?! IS THAT WHY YOU'RE DATING HER?!"
"You should know! You're me! I like hot women!"
"YOU BASTARD!" Ichigo got really freaked out, and then punched the perverted version of himself in the face. He looked around the room and saw his bed sheets, so he took it and tied up the other Ichigo and stuffed a sock in his mouth. "You're lucky that's a clean one!" Without a further due, Ichigo opened his empty closet and threw in the other Ichigo and shut it. He was safe… For now.
Okay, okay… Calm down… There has to be a totally logical explanation for this! I'll go find dad, Yuzu and Karin! Ya, I'll go find them!"
As Ichigo made his way into the kitchen, he sees Yuzu sitting on the couch watching TV, his father reading newspaper at the table, and Karin in the kitchen—their backs facing him. Ichigo walked slowly towards Yuzu, and then tapped her on the shoulder.
"'Sup Ichi-nii?" When Yuzu turned around to look at him, she almost had a tomboy face like Karin, with no usual smile… and no questions about what he want for dinner.
Ichigo jumped back. "Uh… never mind!"
Yuzu shook her head disapprovingly as Ichigo walked towards his dad. "Hey old man! Hello?! Hey don't you want to kick me or something?"
"Oh son, is that any way to talk to your father? Address me as FATHER!" Isshin added with a sudden burst of fury. He looked into Ichigo's eyes with such force that it nearly hypnotized him.
"Um… Father… don't you want to kick me or something of the sorts?"
"Oh hoh!" Isshin laughed a calm, sarcastic laugh. "Oh son, I would never do such a thing! Only Masaki would have done something as immature as that! Is there a hollow somewhere here? I thought you were upstairs reading some history papers! Oh hoh!"
What lies that imposter told! He was obviously looking at women in that magazine! Ichigo got angry, with a strong impulse to hit the other him. On the other hand, he was extremely weirded out thinking his calm and beautiful mother could abuse him every time he came through a door… while Isshin's laugh sent chills up his spine. He backed away slowly towards Karin's direction. Maybe she'll be the normal one…
"Hey Karin, shouldn't you be watching the FIFA with Yuzu?" Ichigo asked.
"Oh no onii-chan! I'm making dinner! It's not safe the leave the stove when it's on, silly!" She turned around and smiled sweetly at her brother, with two little pigtails, bouncing at the side.
Karin somehow changed girly and motherly; Yuzu tomboy and soccer obsessed; and his dad… Ichigo himself can't believe he's admitting this, but he'd rather have his crazy dad back! Inoue looks like she's been wearing makeup her whole life… Something weird is going on…
After dinner, Ichigo quickly ran outside to find Ishida and Chad. Maybe they'll know what's going on…
He decided to go to Chad's house first. A few seconds after he knocked on the door, his friend answered with an upbeat posture. "Yo Chad! Man, I'm glad to see you!"
"Oh hey Ichigo how's it going? I thought you were at home! Why are you dressed in your shinigami outfit? is there a hollow here? Oh no I must've not felt its reiatsu oh no I'm such a dummy! Did you kill it? It looks like you did because I can't feel it anymore okay so how was your day mine was good I watched a new episode of that show that thinks shinigami are evil Haha you know that show—"
"WOAH CHAD!" Ichigo was going to blow up. That was the most words he ever heard someone say in one breath, especially his usually silent friend. Who knew he had that hidden potential. "OK just come with me, we're going to Uryuu's!"
As they ran to Ishida's house together, Chad didn't stop talking for ONCE. He kept talking on and on about different subjects and asking Ichigo questions, but didn't let him reply. When thank Yamamoto they got to Ishida's house, Ichigo rang the doorbell and Ishida immediately answers the door. "Kurosaki-Chan! I'm so glad you came!" Ishida was wearing a shinigami cosplay with a sword at his side. "Look! I wanted to express my love for you and the shinigami so I went and sewn my own shinigami kimono and I even got a real sword!"
"I thought you hated shinigami!" Ichigo was again, weirded out.
"Oh no my little Ichigo-berry, I LOVE SHINIGAMI!" Ishida suddenly jumped out and hugged Ichigo tightly, and most disturbingly, he smelled him. "Wow you smell like you went through an Xdimension portal! Mmmm, whole lotta shinigami goodness! Did you have beef soup for lunch today? I love beef soup! Why do you smell like Kuchiki-san?"
"WAIT, BACK UP!" Ichigo had heard something very interesting that Ishida said.
Ishida obeyed and took two steps back.
"Well I didn't mean literally, but that's a good distance… Anyways I meant back up on what you said!"
"You smell like Kuchiki."
Ichigo was sad again, remembering earlier that day and Rukia leaving. "No, back up!"
"You had beef soup for lunch?"
"That is very creepy how you know that. Back up more."
"You smell delicious."
Ichigo tried his very best to keep calm as he fought the urge to possibly vomit or cringe in disgust. Ishida took his silence as a "back up" so he continued.
"You went through an Xdimension portal?"
"YES! Ishida tell me about that Xdimension thing!"
"Oh, the Xdimension portal can only be accessed by shinigami, very, very rarely. It leads to another dimension through space time, occurring at a relevant pace of the observer's world. In the alternate dimension, the observer and the people's emotions are completely reversed, thus, if the observer would have somehow traveled to the other dimension, they will have to realize everything is opposite! Well, emotion-wise." Ishida looked like he was just reading from a book.
"That's it! Ishida, what if I told you I'm Ichigo from the Xdimension?"
"Prove it."
"Ask me questions which you know the other Ichigo's answers."
"Alright it's worth a try." Ishida thought for a moment. "Okay, which kind of girlfriend do you prefer? A hot girl a nice girl or a very devoted guy?"
"Of course the nice girl!"
Ishida frowned and sighed at his answer, then continued. "I'm not convinced. Okay on the second one: what one word would you choose to describe Kuchiki? Flat chested, I don't care, or she's your wife? Hahaha she's your wife." Ishida's tone obviously stated that the last choice was a huge joke, but Ichigo disagreed.
"She's my wife."
"WHAT?! Okay are you serious?! You said you didn't even like Kuchiki—Ooh right! Okay I'm convinced."
"And Ishida, what if the observer is in the Xdimension? What would happen to his dimension?"
"Oh, good question. Research has proven that in his dimension, time slows. But you see, the two dimensions must occur in parallel, or at least a relative speed, or else one will collapse and the second will experience massive damage such as their world collapsing, or clashing together with other worlds-and thus, destroying everything."
Ichigo was shocked. "Is there a way to get me back to my dimension?! Wait—is my dimension already collapsing?!"
"Nope! If it was collapsing, you'd see whirlpools in our sky, followed by distortion of the ground and then pieces of the sky falling away… But you don't see that now do you?" –Ichigo shakes his head- "Oh don't worry! Stay as long as you like! Okay, you're asking how do you get back? I really have no idea. How did you come here?"
Ichigo was weirded out. "I… was using a senkaimon to get to the human world. And I had to run on spirit particles to get back… but then I went off course and ended up in a weird suffocating place… and there wasn't any more particles to build a bridge with and my bridge was falling apart… so I fell. Fell into what I think is the portal and now I'm here."
"Okay WHY do you need to use spirit particles? You can just walk!"
"There wasn't any ground after a few yards going into the gate!"
"Wow… you're lucky you're alive! It must be a gate malfunction… You're really lucky you ended up here… If not, you could've maybe been forever lost in the middle of soul society and the living world!
"Now that you mention that, yup. I'm really blessed."
"I know who can help you, Kurosaki! Go to Soul Society and find that elegant Captain Mayuri!"
Elegant Mayuri? Hoo boy…
A/N: Bleach©TiteKubo
I do not own bleach, I just wrote this fanfiction. But of course I owe the Bleach laundry detergent XD
PLEASE REVIEW! Seriously, I'd really appreciate it if you gave some feedback and stuff! Please go read chapter one! It explains how this started.
NEXT CHAPTER: Ichigo goes to Soul Society to find the Elegant Mayuri! Challenges will come his way, and a certain someone will be there waiting for him! All Genres: comedy, family, hurt/comfort, romance
