Chapter 2
Ukiryuu woke up groaning. He had the biggest head ache ever in his entire sixteen year-old lifetime.
Ginjo was right next to him.
"Eh, so fainting in class is one of your new hobbies, ain't it?" he growled.
"Shut up," Ukiryuu answered back sharply, rubbing his tender head.
"Anyway, why did you faint?" Ginjo asked. He scratched his electric blue hair thoughfully.
"I don't know…" Ukiryuu muttered. He was just as perplexed as everyone else of the reason why he had fainted so suddenly in class. Then, he remembered the light brown haired girl.
"Well you just ruined my reputation at this school with your sissy swoon," Ginjo hissed angrily. He crossed his arms across his chest.
"Shut up," Ukiryuu repeated. He massaged his temples. "I think I might know why…"
"Then spit it out already, bro!" his brother replied icily. "The sooner we get you fixed, the less you'll swoon."
"That girl…" Ukiryuu began.
Suddenly, the door bursted open.
"Uki-kun! Gin-kun!" Nell wrapped her arms around both of the siblings. "I brought some munchies!"
"You mean that girl?" Ginjo whispered into Ukiryuu's ear.
"No!" Ukiryuu replied.
"What are munchies?" the tall blue haired youth asked.
"What?!" Nell shrieked as Ukiryuu winced. "You don't know what munchies are? They're junk food! Comfort food! Things that you can eat! Basically any type of food…"
"Oh," both siblings chirped.
Nell took out bags of food from the tote bag dangling from her shoulder. Potato chips of all flavors, chocolate bars, and even three cups of instant ramen tumbled out.
"Ramen…yummy!" Ginjo grinned as he snatched the ramen.
"Sorry about bursting in here," Nell apologized. "I decided to visit you, Uki-kun. So, how was it fainting? Did it hurt?"
"Afterwards it did, though, but not while having it," Ukiryuu scratched his head thoughtfully and replied. "Why are you asking me this?"
"Three more minutes!" Ginjo announced as he rubbed his hand gleefully for the ramen to cook.
Nell planted herself onto Ukiryuu's bed. Her long green hair flowed down her lithe back.
"So, when are you going back to school?" Nell asked again as she munched on some chips.
"I can return tomorrow, according to the doctor," Ukiryuu answered. Nell was kind of annoying…
This was followed by 40 seconds of unbroken munching of Lays' potato chips.
"Two more minutes!"
The only sound from then was the hissing of the steam from the ramen, and the munching of chips.
"One more minute!"
Ukiryuu buried his head into his hands as he massaged his temples. Oh how he wished he could return to Japan…
"It's ready!"
Kablaam!
There was a crashing sound from the floor under Ukiryuu's room.
"Was that the ramen?" Nell asked.
"Ginjo," Ukiryuu said solemnly, "did you fart?"
"Shut up!" Ginjo growled. "I did not fart'n'that was not the ramen!"
Ukiryuu stepped out of bed to investigate. He opened the door and…
…The thing that stared back him was a monstrosity. It was huge, and had what looked like a bone covering its face. The foul breath blasted from its mouth was fetid, like rotten flesh that had been decaying for several days outside a refrigerator, or something someone didn't flush down the toilet. The thing's talons were sharp and hooked, with black tips the color of the deepest night that gleamed the brightest day. Sharp teeth stuck out of the jagged slash of a mouth.
The thing reached out its claws and swatted Ukiryuu aside.
Ginjo gaped in horror as he saw his brother fall before that…thing. Nell screamed with horror in the classic horror movie lady screams. The thing moved for them.
The blue haired teen moved in front of the beast to protect Nell but he was swatted aside like a fly. His unconscious body landed next to Ukiryuu's.
Before the thing was Nell.
The hollow grinned. Three reiatsu soaked souls ready for the taking. The girl seemed to be radiating the most reiatsu, so he made for her first. He opened his gaping mouth as he prepared to eat her…
Ukiryuu formed a sword with his hand. It was green handled with a green sheathe and eye marking on the hilt. He drew it, and promptly it turned to a white lance made of bone.
Ginjo was in a darkness.
"What the hell?" he growled. He was so not having one of those sissy faints like his brother! Hopefully he wakes up.
A silvery shape illuminated the darkness. Ginjo peered at the shape until he took its feline form as a panther.
"Do you want to save yourself?" the shape mewed.
"Save myself? From that thing?" Ginjo asked.
"Yeah, what else would you want to save yourself from?" the panther growled, abandoning all politeness and clearly annoyed. "Oh, hurry the hell up already, before you get killed!"
"Well, sure…saving my skin, eh?"
Then, he blacked out.
In the moments before that happened, the thoughts that sped through his mind were, "Oh…I'm beating Ukiryuu on the fainting record…"
Nell screamed as the thing went toward her. It was like the stuff that her night mares were made up of, like clowns. Except that this was a sadistic parody of one even sicker than the people sporting grease painted faces, cheesy smiles, pranks, and suits that tried to be funny, but instead was an epic fail.
The thing moved for her, but then it whipped around.
Ukiryuu was sporting a lance. He raised it to strike the hollow.
To his right, he saw his brother looking confused with a glowing blue katana. Finally, Ginjo had gotten a zanapkutou.
"Ukiryuu," Ginjo growled. "You better have an explanation for this!"
"Apparently," Ukiryuu coughed, "I have."
The hollow snarled with anger and leapt for the twins.
Accepting his natural instinct, Ukiryuu stabbed with his lance.
Feeling something deep down drive him, Ginjo lashed out with the katana.
The hollow was surprised to see the two humans with zanpakutou and shikais. How did two humans end up with shinigami weapon he did not know, but they were a threat, and threats were to be eliminated. He lunged at the humans.
Unexpectedly, it was met with a spear of green as well as a wave of blue spiritual energy. The green spiritual energy tore a hole through its chest while the blue one lacerated his sides. He screeched with pain.
How dare these puny humans retaliate against him?! The hollow had escaped a hundred years of shinigami just to be brought down by two pathetic humans? He roared in rage and agony as his green blood seeped from its wounds.
"Wow that is cool!" Ginjo grinned as he inspected the sword in his hand.
Ukiryuu observed the hollow thrashing about in throes of pain. He knew that the hollow was not finished. The wounds that he inflicted with his brother were not enough to kill the thing.
"Ginjo, hit it again with your sword along with me!" he snapped.
They prepared to launch their attack, but a yell stopped them short.
Renji Aburai, 6th company captain watched the fray with interest. Two humans had successfully used zanpakutous against Piketooth the hollow, who was named after his huge sharp teeth. They had managed to even near-fatal wound the hollow which had taken the lives of over two score shinigamis. How they had gotten it, he was perplexed about it. The captain knew that even though the two possessed strong spiritual power, he believed they were not enough to kill Piketooth. Renji decided to step into the fight.
"Ho, Piketooth!" he yelled.
The startled hollow and teens looked up at the shinigami.
Renji believed he cut a handsome figure, with his red hair swept back, and his black robe fluttering in the wind, accented by the white hakama bearing his company number.
Piketooth snarled at him. The wounded hollow attempted to attack the captain but he was stopped by the attack of Ukiryuu and Ginjo. Piketooth was torn to pieces by the steel-like intensity of the two weapons. Inside his mind, he was angry because he was proven wrong.
"Nice," Renji grinned. "May I ask how two humans like you possess Zanpakutous?"
"Zanpakutous?" Ginjo echoed thoughtfully. The conclusion dawned on him. "You mean this?" He gestured to his katana and Ukiryuu's lance.
"Yup," Renji answered. "They are the manifestations of your souls."
"Cool…" Ginjo said.
"You two are coming with me, I'm afraid," Renji ordered. "How to deal with humans with zanpakutous are beyond my office."
"What?" Ginjo cried. He glared at the red haired captain. "Are you a pedophile? A gay molester? I ain't going with you!"
Renji grabbed Ginjo. "Shut up, big mouth. You are and that's final!"
Ginjo glowered daggers of anger at Renji. "You don't tell me what to do, pedophile!"
Ukiryuu backed away slowly from Renji.
"I'm not a pedophile, you idiot," Renji roared. He grabbed Ginjo and Ukiryuu and popped out a bunny headed candy dispenser. He took out two balls and handed them to the teens.
"Eat it!" Renji commanded.
"It's poisonous!" Ginjo exclaimed. "Don't do it!"
Renji felt his patience run out. He grabbed Ginjo and shoved it into his mouth. Ginjo's soul floated out while his body stood up.
"Hey," Ginjo commented as he inspected his inert physical body. "I never knew I was so handsome."
Seeing the rough treatment given to Ginjo, Ukiryuu immediately ate the candy. His soul popped out of his body.
"The soul candy will serve as you until you come back," Renji explained. "They are artificial souls."
"Where are you taking us, pedophile?" Ginjo whined angrily. "I demand to know!"
"Shut up!" Renji growled dangerously. He dragged them out of the hospital and out into the night.
They stopped at an abandoned warehouse.
"You're staying here!" the captain ordered.
Captain General Yamamoto listened to Renji's report of the two humans with zanpakutous.
"That is strange indeed," the old man stroked his long weird beard thing. "This is even stranger than Ichigo's case. Humans with zanpakutous…"
"They have high spiritual pressure," Renji reported. "Above average. One of them looks like the cuarta espada. The other looks like sexta. Apparently, they're brothers."
"What are their names?" Yamamoto asked. "
"Ukiryuu and Ginjo Kurosaki."
"How did I guess?"
A/N: This is the updated version of the story. I tweaked a little bit around the third so the second and first had to change.
Reviews appreciated!