Disclaimer: Bleach and Shin Megami Tensei are the property of Tite Kubo and Altus.
Chapter 2: Revelations
"Congratulations Ichigo, today you've begun your new life as a devil summoner" grinned Urahara, regardless of the fact that he just let a flesh eating demon loose on Ichigo which could have killed him if he wasn't lucky. Of course he had the up most faith In Ichigo and he had yet to let him down once. He always exceeded his expectations of him time and time again, so why would this time be any different.
"CONGRATULATIONS! THAT'S ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY TO ME?" roared Ichigo, clearly looking pissed at Urahara for what had just transpired. He was just thinking of ways to get him back. Maybe he could summon that demon again and sic him on Hat and Clogs. That would be fun to watch.
"What do you want me to say Ichigo? I thought congratulating you would be the proper course of action considering what you just achieved" said Urahara
"ARE YOU MESSING WITH ME" shouted Ichigo.
"Maybe" smirked Urahara as he pulled down his hat to over his eyes.
"You bastered" Ichigo walked over to Urahara and grabbed him by the collar. He was about to beat him senseless until he was unrecognizable, but he was stopped before he could go through with it when someone called out to him.
"Sup Strawberry, you not dead yet" said a twelve year old red headed kid who came walking towards them. Behind him was a girl with black hair with pigtails and next to her was a much older man wearing an apron.
"Jinta you shouldn't say stuff like that, its mean" said the girl trying to calm down Jinta as he always seemed to antagonize Ichigo whenever he was around.
"Come on now Ururu, Jinta's only messing around" said Urahara as he removed Ichigo's hand from his collar. "Besides did any of you really think that demon could kill Ichigo now? Come on have a little faith in the guy."
"Just saying is all. Strawberry really can't do much anymore, now can he. I mean even Ururu here could probably beat you're your ass" Jinta said smugly, although there was some truth to what he just said. In a straight up fight, Ururu would most likely be able to beat Ichigo in his current state without much of a problem.
"Shut up you little brat. And stop calling me Strawberry" Ichigo growled while glaring at Jinta. He did not like it when people called him that. He name meant one who protects, not Strawberry.
"Settle down you two. Jinta's only just messing with you Ichigo, so just let it go" said Urahara while trying to calm Ichigo down. Not like he really cared, but he needed to ask Tessai something and he didn't want Ichigo interrupting him. "Tessai were you able to run that errand in the end?"
"Yes boss, the packages you wanted delivered should arrive on time" said Tessai.
"That's good then. Now come along then Ichigo, I figured you have some questions for me" said Urahara as he began to make his way back to the ladder leading up to his store.
"Your dam right I do. You're lucky you're not on the floor after what you just pulled" said Ichigo with his usual scowl on his face as he began following Urahara back up the ladder.
It took a few minutes for the two of them to climb the ladder; well it took a few minutes for Ichigo at least. Urahara on the other hand had simply flash stepped back up to his shop leaving Ichigo behind to manually climb the ladder. When he got back to the shop he noticed Urahara was back sat at his table waiting for him.
"Come on Ichigo sit down and I'll answer whatever questions you have" said Urahara inviting Ichigo to sit at his table. Ichigo sat down in the spot he was previously. Although Urahara had said he would answer whatever questions he had, he also had the felling he wouldn't give him the answers he looking for, after all this is Kisukie Urahara he was dealing with, a man that takes great pride in knowing far more than other people do.
"Well what do you want to know" asked Urahara even though he knew what Ichigo was probably going to ask first.
"Well for starters let's talk about why a demon came out of this thing in the first place" glared Ichigo as he put the black COMP down on the table in front of him.
"Well to be honest, I had no idea what type of demon would actually answer the summoning. It all depends on the will power of the summoner and more importantly the amount of Magnetite a person possess" answers Urahara. This only raised more questions for Ichigo.
"Magnetite? What the hell is that?" questioned Ichigo. Ever since he first met Rukia he had never once herd anyone mention this Magnetite stuff before.
"Magnetite is simply what demons call Spirit Energy in their language" said Urahara.
"Wait, Demons have their own language" asked Ichigo.
"What, did you actually expect a demon that originated in Europe to speak Japanese now" chuckled Urahara. "Demons speak their own language; the COMP was translating the language for you. Just as your soul used to translate languages for you" said Urahara.
"What do you mean my soul was translating for me? Every Soul Reaper and Hollow I met was speaking Japanese" asked Ichigo, looking a little bit confused.
"Think about it Ichigo, while it's natural for some of the spirits and hollows you've met to be speaking Japanese, most likely the spirits you met died in this country and some of the hollows were probably born here to. Don't forget the Soul Society is Humanity's afterlife; everyone goes there when they die unless they have a strong connection to the world, in which case they stay behind as spirits" explained Urahara, most of this was already well known by Ichigo. "Let me put it this way, if a Soul Reaper were to meet a spirit in somewhere say America and they spoke French for example, that Soul Reaper would be hearing French and the Spirit would be hearing English. That's because once you die you end up speaking what's known as the Universal Common Language" explained Urahara.
"So what you're saying is that my Soul Reaper powers natural translated a person's language for me" asked Ichigo. After all this was the first this question had ever come up. Now that he thought about it he never really gave it much though before.
"That's right, while you met a lot of Soul Reapers that most likely ever grew up in the Soul Society to begin with or were from Japan when they died, not ever Soul Reaper is Japanese. Now take the arrancars for example, from what I could tell each of them was speaking a multitude of different languages ranging from Spanish to Portuguese to Chinese. Now obviously you're not dead but spiritually aware people also have this ability, that's how your friends were able to understand Soul Reapers and Hollows when they were in contact with them" said Urahara "Unfortunately, this ability doesn't extend to the living"
"Well I suppose that answers once question" said Ichigo. "Alright, were exactly do Demons come from anyway, Hell"
"No. Hell is where human souls go if they have commented grave sins in live. They ever go there once they die instead of going to the Soul Society or end up there once a Soul Reaper purifies a hollow. Demons on the over hand are a bit more difficult to explain. The place where they come from is known as the Expanse. I'll explain what it is at another time" said Urahara.
"Alright, so what exactly is a demon anyway" asked Ichigo, a little annoyed that Urahara didn't explain what this Expanse place was, but he guessed he would learn about it eventually.
"Well Demons are a bit different from what you're used to dealing with. Demons are not born from human souls. In fact the term demon is a catch all term for any being created from human thought. This is because the Expanse is a place that is influenced by human thought and beliefs" explained Urahara.
"Wait, so what you're saying is that everything ever imagined exists in this Expanse place. You saying I could go to this place and meet Superman or Goku or even Batman" said Ichigo wondering what it would be like to meat one of them. Probably wouldn't want to get into a fight with either of them. It's not like they would kill him or anything, after all that would be completely out of character for them.
"Not exactly, Superman, Goku and Batman are all fictional beings, everyone knows this. Demons on the other hand are begins that at one point in time humans believed or still believe that they exist. They don't even have to be demons, even gods or angles would be classified as demons" said Urahara.
"You mean just about anything from any mythology or religion exists in the Expanse and would be classified as a demon?" questioned Ichigo rather skeptical of the idea of every god he had ever heard of actually existing, and being created by humans no less.
"That's right. The power of a demon is proportional to how many people believed in them or even know of them. Take Thor for example, he himself would be classed as a mid-level demon. While a lot of the world's population knows of him, people no longer believe he actual exists. Because of that he will never grow in power as Norse mythology is a dead religion." explained Urahara.
"Alright, my last question is what happened to that demon after a defeated him. Where did he go? Was it back to that Expanse place?" asked Ichigo.
"Nope" said Urahara with a completely straight face. "He went straight onto the COMP's Hard Drive and is waiting to be summoned"
"Are you serious? You honestly expect me to believe that you put a demon onto a hard drive" said Ichigo, Summoning a demon was one thing, but to store a living thing onto to a hard drive just made no sense. This wasn't Pokémon, this was the real world.
"I'm being very serous Ichigo. Everything in this world basically boils down to data. It's not that hard to believe that you could merely take one type data and convert it to digital information. Besides I didn't create it in the first place" said Urahara.
"So you didn't create the Demon Summing Program or the COMP? Then who did" asked Ichigo. He generally though Urahara had created the entire thing. If it wasn't Hat and Clogs, then who created it?
"No I didn't create the Demon Summoning Program. But I did modify that 3DS into a COMP. You see all a COMP is, is a handheld computer designed to carry the Demon Summoning Program and one or two over features. I decided to convert a handheld device like the one your currently holding as it wouldn't be out of place to see somebody of your age with one of them and it wouldn't draw attention like a computer strapped to your arm or one made out of a gun" said Urahara. Ichigo had to admit it did make a bit of sense to make it out of a common gaming device, but a COMP made out of a gun! How would that work?
"So that's what you meant when you said you had made some modifications to it" said Ichigo who remembered an early conversation he had with Urahara.
"Yeah I added a bigger Hard Driver, better RAM and my own personal touch, a battery that converts spirit particles in the atmosphere into electricity, so that way it will never run out of power, especially when you need it the most" Urahara said with a hint of pride in your work. "Ow and I also had Orihime make the COMP indestructible"
"So you got here involved with this mess as well" glared Ichigo, he preferred it if people weren't involved with his problems, especially ones involving Kisukie Urahara. "What exactly did you make here do to the COMP anyway."
"Go ask her yourself, you'll probably run into her tomorrow anyway. I'm sure she'll tell you in detail" said Urahara clearly dodging the question.
"Whatever. Ow that reminds me, I take it you want your sword back" said Ichigo who had previously put the Katana that Urahara had gave to him on the floor next to him just before he sat down.
"Right, the sword, that reminds me of one of the features I added to the COMP, the Inventory Program" said Urahara.
"Ow yeah that. What exactly does that do anyway" asked Ichigo, wondering what this Inventory program did.
"Well the COMP is designed to store demons, so I thought it would be quite capable of storing inanimate objects now wouldn't it" said Urahara.
"Are you serious? So how do I use it then" asked Ichigo while he loaded up the COMP again and activated the Inventory program. He had to admit, to be able to store things onto the COMP did sound rather useful.
"It's rather easy really, the COMP scans for nearby objects all you have to do is hold the object in front of the top screen and say place in Inventory. The program is voice activated, so it frees up your hands. If you want to take something out, just select the object from the list and move your right hand away from the COMP and it should materialize in your right hand, in the same position you place it into the COMP. Or instead of using the controls, just shout out the name of the item instead. Go ahead, try it out with that Katana I gave you" explained Urahara. Ichigo did as he was instructed to do. He placed the katana in front of the screen and said the phrase Urahara had told him to say. Just like he said, the Katana disappeared from his hand in a flash of blue light. On the screen the Katana was now placed into the COMP's inventory.
"Impressive isn't it. So any more questions or do you want to get going. I'm sure you sisters are worried about you being out this late" said Urahara.
"I know, but one last question" said Ichigo, looking right at Urahara.
"Ow and what would that be?" asked Urahara looking clueless as to what Ichigos question was.
"Why are you doing all of this for me" asked Ichigo. In his mind Urahara was being too nice; it seemed unusually kind for him to answer all of his questions.
"Because after everything you've done for me while you were a Substitute Soul Reaper I believed you deserved some honesty for a change. You should get on going home. Ow by the way, you can keep that sword I gave you. Consider it a gift for yours truly" said Urahara. It sounded like he was being serous. After everything Ichigo had done, Urahara probably felt indebted to Ichigo.
"Thanks I guess, I'll see you around then" said Ichigo. And with that Ichigo decided to head on home for the night. It sure had been a hectic day. First school, then fighting a demon and then realizing that just about every mythological being he had ever heard of was probably real, today defiantly counted as hectic day in his opinion.
Unknown to Ichigo a figure was standing on top of a nearby building looking down at him. There face and body covered with the shadows of a nearby building obscuring them from view. Even to a spiritually aware person, they would sense nothing as this person was very capable of hiding themself from those who would be looking for someone.
"Well aren't you an interesting person" said the unknown figure. "I hope you will be as interesting as I expect you to be. Please don't disappoint me know, I have great expectation for you, Ichigo Kurosaki" The person began to move away from the ledge of the building and walked away, disappearing in a black light that encased there body.
It was around 9:00 PM when Ichigo got back to his house. Instead of going through the front door and having to deal with his insane father, he decided to climb through his bedroom window that was still open. It wasn't much of a problem considering he had done this several times before when he got home late and didn't want to deal with his hyperactive father. Ichigo climbed through the window and fell onto his bed, hoping that nobody in the house had heard him.
"Well that was a hassle. Least I didn't run into that crazy bastered" Ichigo sighed. He'd take fighting a hollow or a demon any day of the week over having to deal with his crazy ass father. But unfortunately the world is not a very kind place. As Ichigo was preparing to fall asleep, his bedroom door was thrown wide open.
"So you think you can just climb through the window do you. You should know Ichigo I know all your tricks by now" shouted Isshin as he charged at his own son. Luckily this had happened many times before and it was already second nature to Ichigo. He quickly rolled of his bed and got behind his father and kicked him in the back, sending him flying out of the open window he had left open.
"It's night time old man. You keep shouting and you're going to wake the neighbors up" Ichigo shouted unaware that he was doing the exact same thing he told his dad not to do.
"What kind of ungrateful son kicks somebody out of a window" cried Isshin wondering where he had gone wrong when raising the boy.
"The kind that's sick and tired of you attacking him every time he comes home and wakes up" countered Ichigo. Ichigo slammed the windows shut and locked his bedroom door. Ichigo quickly went back to his bed and tried to get a peaceful night's sleep, hoping that tomorrow would be a bit more peaceful than today had been.
"GOOD MORNING IIICCCHHHIIIGOO" Keigo greeted Ichigo as he saw him walking towards there classroom. This was the usually morning routine ever since he first met Keigo back on the first day of High School when he was about to be beaten up by some punks. Regardless of what's changed in Ichigo's life, some things always stay the same.
"Sup Keigo" greeted Ichigo. He really was not in the mood to physically hurt Keigo today, must be the guys lucky day or something. Ichigo walked into his classroom and sat at his desk. Tatsuki wasn't here yet but Mizuiro was. Unlike last year, he wasn't in the same class as Chad, Orihime or even Uryu. He saw them know and then, Chad the most frequently but they all had their own jobs and responsibilities know, well Chad and Orihime did, he wasn't sure about Uryu. Also there time gets taken up even more by dealing with the various hollows that are drawn towards the town.
"Morning Ichigo" Mizuiro greeted him as he noticed Ichigo walk into the classroom.
"Hey Mizuiro" said Ichigo as Keigo walked into the room behind him, with a large grin on his face. Probably because he wasn't punched in the face as he greeted Ichigo today. In his mind when Ichigo didn't physically great him, it usually meant his day was going to go well for a change.
"You seem to be in a good mood today" stated Mizuiro noticing Keigo without a bruise on his face.
"What makes you think that" Questioned Ichigo. He couldn't think of any reason why Mizuiro would say that.
"Well you didn't attack Keigo this morning so I just thought that was the case" stated Mizuiro.
"I've just got a lot on my mind at the moment. I'll make sure to do it tomorrow" said Ichigo completely uncaring about the fact he was talking about physically abusing his own friend.
He wasn't lying; he did have a lot on his mind because of what happened yesterday and what happened on his way to School. On the way to school today Ichigo made an interesting discovery. He could see spirits again. He wasn't sure how, but he had a feeling it had to do with what had transpired yesterday at Urahara's place. Honestly he had mixed feelings about all of this. Sure it was nice to be able to see them again, but what would he do about hollows. Since he was now spiritual aware again he would become a target for them and without any real powers to defend himself with he was a sitting duck. Sure he had the upmost faith in his friends, but they couldn't be every ware at once. All it would take is for one hollow to run into him and he would be screwed.
Ichigo needed power and maybe that Demon Summoning Program was the answer. Ever since he used it he could tell he had gotten some of his spiritual pressure back, it wasn't much but it was defiantly a start in the right direction.
During class he decided to take another look at that COMP. He had to admit Kisukie made a good choice with putting it in a 3DS, that way it wouldn't really raise any suspicions too much. Like the last time he checked it, there was the Email folder, the Options menu, Inventory and DSP programs on the screen. He was wary about booting up the Demon Summoning Program in a classroom full of people, he wasn't exactly sure if Demons could even be seen by ordinary people or not. There were no emails on the COMP so he could skip that and the only thing in the inventory was that sword Hat and Clogs had given him. The only thing he could do was check the options menu. It had your standard options, such as display and audio options, it had a menu for network connections but it seemed to be locked and unchangeable. There was another option called translator which struck Ichigo as a bit odd. What was it supposed to translate anyway, Ichigo decided to leave it alone for a while. There wasn't much else he could do for now. He'd give that Demon Summoning Program a better look later.
The rest of the day went by rather uneventfully. Ichigo decided to head on home since he didn't recall having much else to do for the day. The basketball team was no longer paying him, so he didn't see much reason to continue to play for that club, so he might as well go home. But before he could get up from his desk he was stopped by Tatsuki.
"Hey Ichigo. Were you off to, don't you have basketball practice? " asked Tatsuki as she stood in front of Ichigo's desk.
"No, I'm going to head home. It's the end of the day and I'm tired as hell" said Ichigo as he stood up and walked away from his desk.
"I thought you were on the basketball team. Weren't they paying you or something?" Tatsuki questioned Ichigo as she followed him out of the classroom.
"I was on the basketball team but I got fed up because they weren't paying me anymore. I don't work for free you know. Besides it got to repetitive after a while anyway" said Ichigo
"You know if you need money you should think about getting a Job" said Tatsuki. "If you're interested I know somebody who's hiring. It's this woman called Ikumi. She runs this place called the Unagiya shop"
"An eel shop! Why would I want to work at a place like that? Sure I need some money, but I'm not working with fish. It's a bit beneath me, don't you think" scowled Ichigo. He couldn't quite tell if Tatsuki was just screwing with him, either that or she actually know someone who ran an eel shop.
"No you idiot, it's not an eel shop it's more of a… jack of all trades type of place, like delivery's and babysitting. You know that sort of thing" explained Tatsuki. Although she couldn't quite blame Ichigo for getting confused. After all, the woman did call her business the Unagiya shop; people were bound to get confused because of the name.
"Ow, well thanks I guess, I'll think about it and let you know" said Ichigo as he waved to Tatsuki as he left and headed home. Keigo and Mizuiro had already left by the time Tatsuki had cornered him. But on his way out of school he ran into someone he wasn't expecting to see today.
"Ichigo" It was Uryu Ishida that he ran into. The glasses wearing Quincy always did show up when he least expected it.
"Uryu" greeted Ichigo. "Something you need, because I'm kind of busy"
"Yes there is in fact" said Uryu as he pushed his glasses further up his noise. "Tell me, how did you regain your spiritual pressure"
"What makes you say that?" asked Ichigo.
"Don't play coy with me Ichigo. I could tell from the moment you entered this school that you were giving of more spiritual pressure than they should. Your spiritual pressure is roughly at a level similar to what you had before you met Rukia Kuchiki" said Uryu. If there was one thing he prided his self on, it was in fact his Quincy ability's, or to be more precise, the ability of spiritual sense. There was simply no way he would have missed it, especially being in the same building as Ichigo.
"Want somebody to blame, then go blame Hat and Clogs" said Ichigo. He thought it best not to bring up anything that happened the other night. Well, at least until he can get a full grasp on what actually happened?
"I thought as much" deduced Uryu.
"Then way did you ask me in the first place" asked Ichigo annoyed. If he already knew the answer then why was he asking him?
"To confirm my suspicions" stated Uryu "Why exactly did he restore your spiritual pressure in the first place? And for what purpose."
"I don't know. Go ask him yourself if you want" growled Ichigo. All if Ishida's questions were starting to annoy him. Mostly because he didn't know the answer to that himself, so what was he supposed to say?
"That's quite alright, the less I have to do with him the better" said Uryu. The very idea of associating himself with that Soul Reaper annoyed him greatly.
"Well your right, I did get some of my spiritual pressure back, but not any of my powers. I don't know why exactly why he deiced to make me spiritual aware again but knowing him it's probably not good a good one" said Ichigo remembering all of Urahara's questionable actions In the past. "Look, if you want to play 20 questions all day then fine, let's do it tomorrow because right now I'm tired, and honestly talking to you always gives me a headache. Later I guess."
Walking away Uryu stared at Ichigo, trying to come up with just how Urahara had made Ichigo spiritual aware again. It's possible that exposure to Urahara's spiritual pressure caused him to become spiritual aware again, not unlike what happened to several overs in the school. But if that was the case, then why wait until now, and not simple do it several months ago when Ichigo lost his powers. Whatever it was, it's probably not in his best interest to get involved, the less he has to do with Soul Reapers the better.
While walking home, Ichigo's mind drifted back to the conversation he just had with Uryu. Just why exactly did Hat and Clogs give him this COMP in the first place. Was he doing it for the fun of it, he certainly wouldn't rule that out. Or was he doing it to prepare him for something. Urahara always knew more than he let on, hell even Aizen admitted Urahara was more intelligent than him. So just what was he planning?
Ichigo's train of thought was paused momentarily when he noticed he was already outside of his house. Ichigo decided to take a gamble and open the door, hoping his father wouldn't try to tackle him for a change. Luckily it seems his father wasn't here, neither were his sisters for that matter. Probably due to the fact he was home earlier than he usually was and his sister's school didn't get out yet. But what about his dad, he ran a clink and the doctor wasn't here. Was it closed for the day or something? Ichigo just shrugged his worry off and went up to his room. Any day when his father wasn't around was always a good day in his opinion.
Putting his uniform and bag away, Ichigo made his way into his room. With both his father and sisters out of the house this was the perfect moment to take a look at that Demon Summoning Program without endangering anyone.
Sitting down at his desk and turning on the COMP, Ichigo booted up the Demon Summoning Program. Unlike last time were it summoned a demon, this time it showed a table divided into 3 columns and two rows, with the demon he summoned occupying one of the six boxes. There were three options currently available to him from what was indicated on the screen. The Y button would delete the demon from the hard drive, the B button would summon the demon into this world and the X button would show details of the demon itself.
Not wanting to delete it or summon it either, Ichigo decided to look at the details. He pressed the X button and the same information that was displayed after he had defeated the demon showed on the screen. Nothing had changed from last time; he still wasn't sure what would happen if he summoned this thing again, would it try to kill him again? It did say he would fight for him after all. Ichigo decided not to, if he was going to summon it again, he would rather not do it in his room and have all his stuff destroyed by a raging demon.
Ichigo was just about to turn the COMP off when he suddenly heard a beeping noise coming from the COMP. it looked like somebody had sent him an email. Closing down the Demon Summoning Program and opening up the email folder, Ichigo was right; somebody had sent him an email. From the name on the email it seemed to be from Urahara and it was titled Detection Program. Wanting to know what it was about, Ichigo opened up the email and began to read it.
Hey Ichigo, I hope you're getting accustomed to the COMP and the Demon Summoning Program, because you're going to need it if you want any sort of power again. I forgot to mention this the other day but as soon as I'm done working on some other things I'll send you some other programs that will make your life a lot easier from now on.
This is one of them; the program is simply called GPS. It's similar to what you would find on a Soul Reapers soul pager. Unlike the soul pager though, it detects all kinds of spiritual energy from Humans, to Soul Reapers, to Hollows and to Demons instead of just Hollows. If it detects a spiritual pressure that wasn't there previously, the COMP will alert you in the same manner as if you received an email.
Also keep the COMP on you at all times, never let it out of your sight and never turn it off. Not that you have a reason to turn it off anyway since the battery will never run out. Just thought I should tell you that
I hope this will all come in handy.
The moment Ichigo read the email and closed it, a program began downloading onto the COMP. It took a few seconds to download but afterwards there was a new program on the COMP, the GPS program. Out of curiosity Ichigo activated the program. It looked like the tracking function on Rukia's soul pager. There was one blue dot on the screen currently; Ichigo guessed that was probably him. After using the COMP's controls to zoom out he noticed two blue dots close together heading, towards his house. He guessed that was Yuzu and Karen. He was proven right a few minutes later when he heard his front door open and his sister's entered the house.
"Ichigo were back" shouted Yuzu.
"Don't bother Yuzu, Ichigo's never here at this time" said Karen in here usual emotionless voice.
"He could be. You never know that, he might have decided to come home early for once" said Yuzu hopefully.
"You know I'm right here don't you" said Ichigo as he walked down the stairs, with his COMP in his hand.
"What are you doing back so early" asked Karin in her usual tone of voice. Despite that, she was surprised to see her brother back so early for once. She didn't make it obvious of course. "It's rare for you to get back before us. Aren't you in some school club or something?"
"I was just feeling a bit tired, also I'm not on the basketball club any more so I decided to just go home" explained Ichigo." Ow by the way, now know were goat chin is?"
"Ow he said he was going on a business trip to Tokyo this morning and won't be back for a few days. You probably didn't know since you left before dad got up this morning" explained Yuzu, pointing to a note on the table. If Ichigo had been bothered to read this note before he left this morning then he would know quite well were his old man was.
After that Yuzu announced she was going to start cooking everyone's dinner, so for the next hour or so Karin sat herself down in front of the TV while Ichigo went back upstairs to do his homework and look up that demon on the internet. Kisukie mentioned that demons came from all kinds of mythologies, so there should be some information about it online somewhere.
Ichigo had heard of Ogre's before in some games he played and if his memory was correct, the main character of that American animated film was an Ogre, what was it called again? As it turned out, all different mythologies had their own type of Ogre's. But the word itself originated in France.
About an hour later Yuzu let them know that there dinner was ready, soon after all three of them could be found around a table eating. It was going rather peacefully until Ichigo's pocket started to make a noise.
"Is that your phone Ichigo?" asked Yuzu, since the sound was coming from Ichigos direction
"Ow yeah, probably just an email, I'll be back in a minute" Ichigo got up and went into the living room, away from the eyes of his sister. Ichigo brought out the COMP from his pocket and opened it up. It wasn't an email, it was the GPS program, and it found something. Turning it on, he could see two green dots next to two blue dots. The two blue dots were obviously humans, but what were the green dots. He had to go take a look. He apologized to both Yuzu and Karin saying it was from Chad and he needed his help with something. Ichigo grabbed a white coat from his room and ran out the door, hoping he could make it in time.
"KEIGO, GO TAKE OUT THE DAM TRASH" a brown haired woman shouted from across the room. This woman was in fact Keigo Asano's older sister, Mizuho Asano.
"But I took it out yesterday; it's your turn today" Keigo argued, but knowing it was already futile.
"CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BUSSY, NOW JUST GO AND TAKE OUT THE DAM TRASH" shouted Mizuho.
"Alright I'm going" Keigo sighed. There was just no arguing with his sister. Since his parents were working oversees he had no choice but to live in this apartment with his sister. The dumpster was on the ground floor of the apartment complex, so it was quite a walk. He expected this would be pretty simple, just go take out the trash and come back and get shouted at again. But what he wasn't expecting was to find some homeless looking guy waving to him by the dumpster. He was dressed like a bum with a black haori, green clothes underneath, clogs for shoes and a white and green bucket hat; he also had messy blond hair underneath the hat and rather unshaven stubble on his chin. All in all he looked like your typical homeless man. So if that was the case why was he waving to him?
After thinking about it he looked rather familiar to Keigo. Then it hit him, this was that weird guy that ran that candy store, who was also a Soul Reaper if what Ichigo said was true.
"W-Who are you and what do you want" Keigo asked nervously.
"Who me?" Kisukie asked while pointing to himself. "Names Kisukie Urahara and I have a little gift for you"
"Like what?" asked Keigo. Just what did this guy want to give to him anyway?
"This" Kisukie pulled a red device from the inside of his haori. "It's called a COMP. I thought it might be of use to you."
"A COMP?" said Keigo confused as he took the device from the man and gave it a good look over. "This is just a Nintendo 3DS"
"Of course, people would never expect it be anything else now would they" said Urahara. "It's the perfect disguise"
"Ok. But why are you giving me this?" asked Keigo while taking the COMP from Urahara. Honestly, he couldn't really think of a reason this guy would give him something like this. After all he only met this guy once, during the time he, Mizuiro and Tatsuki had followed Ichigo around after Orihime had disappeared
."Ow, no reason in particular" said Urahara. "I mean the world is a dangerous place after all, and I'm sure you wouldn't mind having a way to defend yourself when the time comes."
"So what does it do exactly" asked Keigo while looking at the COMP.
"You'll see. Just make sure when you turn it on and start up the DSP program, you're in a wide open space where you won't be spotted. Like that park not too far from here" said Urahara? "You never know who you might just run into their"
"Ok but…" Keigo wasn't able to finish asking his question because Urahara had just disappeared. Who was this guy Batman? He probably used that super speed ability Ichigo told him about. What was it called again, Flash run or something?
"Might as well see what this does then" Keigo sighed. Nothing was ever easy for him, from getting shouted at by his sister, to girls never paying much attention to him, to creepy shop keepers giving him things. He centrally was not a lucky person. Out of all the people he knew, he was defiantly given the short end of the stick in life. He was nowhere near as intelligent as Uryu Ishida or big and strong as Chad, he wasn't able to pick up women like Mizuiro and he definitely didn't have super powers like Ichigo had at one point. Hell, from what Orihime had told him, Rukia actually lived with him for a month! Life was just unfair sometimes.
So with that Keigo decided to head towards that park Urahara had mentioned to him. All the while calling his sister to let him know that he had taken out the trash and was going out for a while, not that she cared anyway. If it was the park he was thinking of, then it was the one elementary school kids use to play soccer. It took him about 10 minutes to walk there, in the meantime Keigo decided to turn on the COMP anyway, hoping nothing bad happened. To his relive, nothing happened. Other than the COMP turning on and loading it's start screen. Keigo noticed it wasn't an ordinary 3DS, mostly because it had a completely different start up screen and the programs were all different. There was an Email folder, an Inventory, a GPS, an Options menu and a program called DSP, the one Urahara had told him not to start up until he got to the park.
Before he realized it, he was already at the park. But to his surprise there was somebody else there as well.
"Mizuiro" said Keigo suppressed to see him here. "What are you doing here?"
"Ow, that weird shop keeper stopped by my apartment to give me something" said Mizuiro. He notice Keigo was holding something, it was a red 3DS. "Did that Urahara guy give you one of these COMP things as well and told you to come to this park"
"Yeah, he stopped me by a dumpster when I was taking out the trash" said Keigo.
"So what do you think this DSP program is?" asked Mizuiro while looking at the COMP's screen. One time he asked Ichigo who that shop keeper was and the only replay he got from Ichigo was that he was nothing but trouble. This made him weary of the guy's motives. "The only thing he told me is that it would be useful to me if I wanted to defend myself from the evils of the world. And that I should come to this park to try it out."
"Yeah, he pretty much told me the same thing as well" admitted Keigo, remembering the conversation he just had with the shady shop keeper.
"Might as well see what this DSP program does then. Well both select the program at the same time" Instructed Mizuiro.
"Y-Yeah, I guess" said Keigo timidly. In reality Keigo was not a big fan of turning on this DSP thing, that Urahara gut crept him the hell out, so whatever it was it could only be trouble.
Both Keigo and Mizuiro activated the DSP at the same time. The program loaded up the same way it did for Ichigo, both Mizuiro and Keigo where both a bit surprised when they found out that DSP stands for Demon Summoning Program.
"Demon Summoning Program!" said Keigo surprised and quite worried at the mention of the word Demon. "Does this thing summon demons or something?"
"Probably." Said Mizuiro calmly, like it wasn't fazing him one bit. "After all, the program is called the Demon Summoning Program so I guess its purpose is to summon demons."
He was quite right, as they both found out moment later as two balls of black and red spiritual energy flashed into existence. The energy was immediately replaced by two demons. In front of Mizuiro was a small looking…thing. It was covered blue from head to toe, and had no visible noise or ears. The only other noteworthy thing about it, was its large black eyes and what he assumed to be a small black mouth, it kind of reminded Mizuiro of some old alien design, but blue instead of grey.
In front of Keigo on the other hand was…a fairy! It was rather small, wearing a blue leotard, blue elbow length gloves and what looked to be blue boots that went up past her knees. She had long red hair and two pairs of butterfly wings.
"So these are demons Ahhh…" said Mizuiro lost in thought. They were nothing like he expected a demon to look like. He was expecting something intimating and hellish looking. But instead both he and Keigo summoned rather harmless looking demons.
"THESE THINGS ARE ACTUALLY DEMONS" panicked Keigo. "Wait, so you summoned a little blue alien and I summon a fairy, how is that fair." Keigo's shouting had the adverse effect of making the demons aware to his presence.
"So this is the Human world?" said the fairy demon with a hint of curiosity to its tone, while taking in its surroundings. After having a quick look around it focused its attention on to Keigo. "So you're the human that summoned me right. That means if I kill you I can be free to wonder this world to my heart's content.
"W-WHAT, you don't have to do that" said Keigo trying to reason with the demon. "Just go away, I'm not stopping you or anything."
"You kind of are actually. See, you summoned me and according to the contract if you win you can summon me at any time you want. But if win, I'm set free." said the demon.
Meanwhile with Mizuiro, the ghost like demon he summoned was still staring at him, paying no head to the commotion nearby.
"Human, you summoned me, correct?" asked the demon.
"That's right" replied Mizuiro still not fazed by the fact that there was a demon right in front of him.
"Good, then if you die I will no longer be bound by the terms of our contract" said the demon.
Mizuiro was afraid it would say that. He had overheard the fairy mention that a moment ago. He had no idea what to do. The only other time he encountered a supernatural being was that Aizen guy. At least back then he had some useful supplies, even though they didn't do much against him it was still more than he had at this moment.
"Keigo, Mizuiro" a voice shouted in the distance. Keigo looked towards where the voice was coming from. It was Ichigo, even though it was dark, his friends orange hair was a dead giveaway.
"I-ICHIGO, A LITTLE HELP HE…" Keigo want able to finish his sentence as the fairy had flied right at him and hit him in the stomach, head first. Despite her small size the attack hit like a ton of bricks, it knocked Keigo off of his feet and onto the ground just behind him. Luckily nothing was broken, and Keigo was capable of standing up again, albeit slowly.
"KEIGO" shouted Ichigo, as he sped up towards them ignoring the demons for now. All that was on his mind was his friend's safety.
"ICHIGO LOOK OUT" shouted Keigo as the fairy came flying at Ichigo. Instead of dodging the fairy Ichigo decided to attack it with his sword.
"KATANA" shouted Ichigo. While this did confuse everyone watching, it did have the intended effect. A blue light appeared in Ichigos hand which was soon replaced by the Katana Hat and Clogs had given him. As the fairy came flying at him, Ichigo swung the sword at her, intending to bisect the little fairy demon. Unfortunately the demon was able to see this coming and was able to move out of the way of Ichigos attack.
"Wow, where did you come from and how did you get that sword. It wasn't in your hands a minute ago" said the demon surprised. She hadn't expected somebody else to show up. But she had to admit this boy was interesting to her. While the other two boys did have more Magnetite than regular humans, this one had more than the two combined.
Ichigo quickly looked around the area. He saw Keigo in front of him on his knees trying to get back onto his feet after being knocked down by Tinkerbelle and Mizuiro was dogging the small blue demons attacks, rather well actually. He had to do something. He didn't think he could take on those two demons all by himself. So he thought it was about time to try summoning that demon, only this time it would obey him instead of attacking him.
"How about we even the odds a little" smirked Ichigo, even in times like these he couldn't help but be cocky. Ichigo open up the COMP and pressed the B button. He had turned on the Demon Summoning Program on the way here in case he needed it, looks like he was going to need it after all. "ORGE, come on out"
A sudden burst of black and red spiritual energy got everybody's attention. After the energy subsided, standing there was a tall green imposing green giant carrying a blooded knife. Two Keigo this thing looked scary as all hell, a small fairy was one thing but this giant green thing looked like it could break him in two with its bear arms.
"Why did you summon him Ichigo?" asked Keigo who looked like he was going to cry. Unlike the demons he and Mizuiro summoned, this one looked like it could break him with ease. "That things going to try and kill you, you know."
"No he won't because I already defeated him before, he now serves me and obeys my commands" said Ichigo who looked incredibly angry. Keigo had to admit, he had never seen Ichigo this pissed off before. "I'll show you what happens with the people who fuck with my friends. Ogre destroy that fairy…thing."
"With pleasure" roared the demon as it charged towards the fairy with its meat clever held high in the sky.
Keigo had a good feeling that this night was not going to end well for both him and that demon.
Well, that's chapter 2 out of the way. Took me a bit longer than I expected to, but I finished it in the end.