Episode 2: Kisuke Urahara
Ichigo Kurosaki opened his eyes. His eyes widened when he realized that a large African American man was lying on top of him. He had glasses, and a large mustache.
Ichigo screamed as soon as he saw him.
"What a good reaction. Quite excellent." He said.
"What the hell are you doing?" Ichigo tried to push him off.
"Boss, you wanted me to let you know as soon as Ichigo woke up! Well, he's awake!"
"Wait a minute... you work for Mister Hat and Clogs, don't you? Why are you under the covers with me? Get off!" He kicked the man off of him. He went to stand, but his shoulder began to hurt, so he sat back down.
"Hey, it's Ichigo." Said a voice. Ichigo spun around, but he got a sharp pain in his neck, so he had to turn his whole body to see who the voice belonged to. It was Devil Flame. He was sitting in a folding chair. "I've been awake for couple of hours. Master Urahara told me what happened. You didn't really heed my warning."
"Yeah, sorry about that..." Ichigo said.
"Ah, it's not a problem." Hikaru stood up, and he folded the chair up. "Well, I'm off to train. See ya."
As he walked out he passed a blond man wearing a striped green and white hat.
As he passed him he said, "Master Urahara." And he nodded to him.
Urahara nodded to him, but said nothing.
Hikaru walked out of the shop, and he teleported away.
Hikaru teleported to a medium sized brown house. It wasn't too small, but it wasn't exactly big either. He didn't walk in, he simply walked over to the side, and he punched their telephone pole. The pole wasn't even dented.
"Damn." Hikaru mumbled. He wasn't looking at the pole. He removed his fists, and then put them in his pockets. He took a deep breath.
Someone teleported behind him. He had the same white hair that Hikaru had, but he had blue eyes instead of Hikaru's grey. Their jaws were shaped similarly, but Hikaru's forehead was bigger.
"Would you like me to train you?" Asked the man.
"No. This is something I must do by myself."
"Do you want me to go with you to the Soul Society?"
"I don't want your help."
There was a short pause.
"I'm sorry. But this is just something I need to do on my own. I need to prove that I'm worthy of my name."
"It's not like you're the self proclaimed Devil Flame. And it's also not like someone else worked hard to get that name for you."
"I'm not trying to prove it to anyone else. But I can't prove anything with your help." He turned to face him for the first time. Hikaru smiled. "I can't use a crutch all the time. And if I do, I'll get too used to it and I won't be able to walk without it when I have to."
"I understand."
"But, Dad. Make sure you eliminate all the hollows in the area. And tell Mom that I'm going off on another journey."
His father nodded. "I'll see you when you finish."
"It's dangerous. I might not be coming back." His smile faded when he said this.
"Right. I'll see you when your mission is done. Don't come back until it's done."
Hikaru grinned. Then he jumped straight up into the air, and he landed on the telephone pole. He stepped off the pole, and using his Spirit Energy he walked on the air. For a Quincy he was never very good at manipulating his Spiritual Pressure. But compared to Ichigo he was pretty good. Walking on the air was good practice for him. Flying was also good practice for him, but he was going to take it one step at a time.
After a few minutes of walking on the air, he started running. After a minute of running, he began to sprint. After sprinting for several minutes, he then began to fly across the skies.
After a minute of flying, he lost control, and he started falling. He managed to catch himself before he hit the ground, and he soared up into the air.
Hikaru took a deep breath, and then he stopped flying. He was just standing there. Now I'm an enemy to the Soul Society. He thought. I might as well help Ichigo rescue Rukia. I wonder who all he's going to take with him. In Karakura Town the only people with at least a glimmer spiritual pressure are... Ichigo, Kisuke, Yoruichi, two of Ichigo's friends, Ichigo's sister, his dad, and a Quincy.
He paused a moment.
He probably has no idea his dad or his sister has spirit energy. And he can't take Kisuke because he's the only one who can open up the portal to get to the Soul Society. Yoruichi might go, but I don't think so. I hope he doesn't take that Quincy. Because if I see him, there's no doubt that we're going to have a battle. We don't need that. He thought. If a confrontation can be avoided that'd be great. I'll go tell Urahara.
Hikaru took off, flying over his city, and after almost an hour he made it to Karakura Town, and he flew to Urahara's Shop.
He looked around, seeing that no one was there. He then went down to the basement, which was almost like an entire dimension. There was rocks everywhere. Hikaru jogged across the air, and he found Urahara. He landed on the ground, and he saw he, and his two assistants were standing in front of a large hole.
Hikaru looked down the hole, and saw Ichigo and Tessai were down there. Ichigo's arms were bound.
Hikaru grinned down at Ichigo, who was about fifty yards beneath him. "Need a little help, mate?"
"No!" Ichigo yelled, out of breath. "I can handle myself!"
Hikaru's grin broadened. "Good! I was making sure your will wasn't broken!"
Hikaru then turned to Urahara, and his grin faded. "I need to tell you something."
"Yeah?"
"I don't want that Quincy to join Ichigo's group. If we meet, we will battle. And it won't end very well."
"I'm afraid that can't be helped." Urahara flicked a fan out in front of his face. "We need as many people with spiritual powers as we can find."
"Why not send Ichigo's dad?"
"So you picked up on that, huh? Well Ichigo's father's spirit energy... is still recovering."
"What did you guys say?" Ichigo called. "I can't hear you, but I can hear my name!"
Hikaru and Urahara teleported away, out of ear shot.
"What do you mean recovering?"
"Long story, and it's not mine to tell. But anyway, I suggest you try to work it out with him before you meet him when you go to the Soul Society."
"I can try, but it's not going to work." Hikaru walked outside, and he let his spirit energy spike way up. He walked towards the Quincy's spirit energy, letting his spirit energy spike up every once and a while.
Uryu teleported in front of Hikaru. Uryu had black hair, that looked a little like dark blue. His eyes were blue, and were behind a pair of glasses, and he was wearing a strange white uniform. The uniform also had a blue cross on it. Uryu's appearance greatly contrasted Hikaru's, who had white hair, and grey eyes. He was wearing a black leather jacket, that was open showing a white shirt.*
"What are you doing here?" Growled Uryu.
"Well I need to speak with you. I allowed my spiritual pressure to spike up quite a bit so you knew that I wasn't trying to do a sneak attack."
"There is nothing to talk about."
"Ichigo Kurosaki is going to take both of us to the Soul Society to rescue Rukia. We must either burry our differences, or we must be able to set them aside like adults."
"Our beliefs are too different for us to get along."
"I'm trying to bury the hatchet, Quincy. If you don't try to help me it will never work."
"That's exactly what I'm saying. We can't. If there's two much friction between two objects then neither of them will be able to get anywhere until one of them forces the other out."
"Are you planning to push me out?"
"Precisely." A blue bow appeared in Uryu's hand.
"This doesn't have to end in a fight."
"Of course it does."
Uryu fired an arrow at Hikaru jumped off to the side, and then blue energy burnt up his arms. Uryu fired another arrow at him, but Hikaru caught the arrow, and threw it off to the side.
Uryu teleported behind him, and shot another arrow at him.
Hikaru jumped to the side, and charged at him, but Uryu teleported backwards.
Hikaru then started running fast, and he punched at Uryu's head, but he ducked, and teleported backwards. Devil Flame may be fast, but his speed is no match for the range of my bow. He thought.
Devil Flame suddenly teleported up to Uryu, and punched him in the jaw. Uryu fell backwards, and launched an arrow at him, but this time catching him off guard.
The arrow stabbed into his shoulder, and he stumbled backwards he ripped it from his arm, and then punched at Uryu. Uryu created another arrow.
Suddenly someone teleported between them. The person was a young man, he had blue hair, he was wearing a silver jacket, and black pants. He had a white headband tied around his head, and he had a burn scar across the side of his face. With his left hand he caught Hikaru's fist, and with his right he caught Uryu's arrow.
"Takiji..." Hikaru's eyes widened.
"Alright, tell me why you two are fighting." Takiji said. Hikaru's flames disappeared, along with Uryu's bow.
"You wouldn't understand." Said Uryu. "This is a Quincy affair."
"I'm not a Quincy." Growled Hikaru.
"Even if I'm not, you could still explain it to me. You'd be suprised."
Hikaru looked over to Taiji. "Fine, then. We'll explain it to you."
Notes: *This wasn't the first time I described him, I just wanted to show the sharp contradiction between their appearances. And I figured most of you forgot what he looked like over the span of however long ago the last episode was.
Also, I was wondering how Japanese you guys (being my fans) wanted me to get. Like Hikaru would call him Taiji-senpai instead of just Taiji. But I won't use other Japanese honorifics like chan or san. I might use the term sensei, though. And maybe nakama, but I wouldn't want to just throw it in there for no reason. What do you guys think?