Chapter 3: Chapter 3

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A/N So next chapter great. Someone has asked about the changes and I under his trepidation. But, when you adopt a story you're not just continuing someone's work, you're expanding the universe they worked tirelessly to create. You are taking someone's work and going further than the original therefore adding more to the story's universe. Your version could be entirely different then what the author planned if they continued the story since you don't really know what they would've done. If they continued the story. Anyway Enjoy!

P.S: Important stuff at bottom

"I said careful with the girl dumbass. You'll lower the value if she bruises" A man yelled behind him as his partner dragged a girl.

"But, Boss at this rate will never get to the meeting place in time. She going to have to pick up the paste." the flunky responds.

"Ed then you should just carry her she's only as little girl. Goods with such quality are fragile. Remember we sell people not corpses. Besides we are almost there" Another states as they continue on their trek.

3 hours later

The man trembles as he shifts his head to the side looking at the shadows of the room.

'We made on time without a hitch, but I can't stop this uneasiness. I can't stop my hands from shaking. Like an itch, like a bug if under my skin. I feel foreign to my own '. The laments as his entire body trembles.

"Harkov you finished taking a piss the boss needs you." Ed calls out to his coworker.

"Yeah, yeah I'll be there." Harkov snaps back. His fist clench tight. Like a noose around a man's neck.

'Faster this is over, the faster I go home…' He walks back to join his fellow traders. The tightness around his neck ever growing.

"I can't shake the feeling that the Grim Reaper is about to drag me to hell." He spoke softly to himself as he wiped the sweat from his brow and rubbed the back of neck. Tugging on the collar.

'Feels too tight.'

Outside

"I said No" Ichigo groaned daggling a flailing young boy up to his eye level.

"But I have to help" the child yelled swing at the orange haired Shinigami's face.

He missed every single time. He releases his grip on the boy's clothes and the child lands with a plop on the grass.

"You wanna help go, get the guards" Ichigo yelled before turning around heading to the nearby building. He looked back to see if the boy and had ran off.

'Of course he's standing right there. Stubborn kid' Ichigo grimaced as the child stood there gritting his teeth at the young Shinigami.

'Sounds like a little shit I know' Shiro gibed.

'Fuck off' Ichigo turned back to the child and sighed.

"Why" he asked.

"Why what" the boy questioned.

"You are an idiot….Why do you want to help" Ichigo replied looking back at the boy in front of him.

"Because she's my friend and I can't let here suffer this kind of fate" the boy cried out.

"Good let's go" Ichigo responds as he heads to the entrance.

Inside the Building

KNOCK

KNOCK

KNOCK

'What the hell, no one knows we are even here' passed through Ed's mind as he approached. He cracked it open to reveal a smaller brown haired child with puffed up read eyes and tears down his face.

'Never any easier' he sighed before looking down at the child in front of him.

"What's wrong kid" he asked squatting down to the boys level a small smile graced his face.

"I can't find my parents" He hears as he stares down at a brown haired European child.

"It's ok why you don't come inside and…." Blood splashes across the floor. He looks down to see a giant blade pinning him into the wall.

"ED what hell is taken you so long" his leader calls from back. His eyes widen as he take in the scene before him. He feels a shiver a pressure pushes down on him he turns.

"The devil the fucking devil" he cries before the loud crack of his neck fills the air. Eren peaks out from the doorway and views a massacre.

"Were did you learn this" As he stares it the scene before him.

"War teaches many things. Go get the girl" Ichigo commands and the young boy scurries off to find her. Ichigo holds his breathe as he stares at the site before him.

'Shit' he says to himself before a shout floods his ears. He turns to see young boy with a knife to his throat.

"You bastard. You've ruined everything all the work and preparation gone. I take the boy and the girl as payment for the damages you've caused. Orange-haired devil!" the man shouted. Ichigo leaned his head to the side to see the girl behind the slaver. The slaver tensed in response.

"Even flinch and I'll slit the boy's throat!" he shouted. Eren began to squirm in his grasp and yelled.

"What are you doing fight! You have to fight! It's the only way to survive in this world!" His eye looking directly at the girl. She held a knife in her shaking hands. Her eyes shifted back and forth between Eren and Ichigo. A lump stuck in her throat.

"Abandon your fear look forward and never look back" Ichigo spoke. Then suddenly something snapped within the girl and she rushed forward with the knife.

Later That Day

Soldiers burst through the door do see a gruesome site.

"What the hell happened here" one of them shouted.

"Slavers captured two children" Ichigo called out from. They turned and were shocked to see an orange haired man carrying a giant slab of iron the shape of a knife.

"Make sure those kids are safe." The man commanded as he walked past the two soldiers.

"Hey explain what happened here" One soldiers shouted as they turned around only find that the man was gone.

Back with Rukia

"You idiot where supposed to be keeping a low profile" Rukia screamed as she smacked him on the head.

"Hey quit it. I couldn't just let that slide. Besides I was discreet" Ichigo retorted rubbing the back of his head.

"You call that discreet. First you get caught stealing and now this" Rukia smugly remarked.

"I got caught! You were the one who told me to make a distraction! He saw you stealing the damn food!" Ichigo shouted kicking the crate out from underneath her making her land on her ass on the ground with an 'oof' making her narrow her eyes as she stared up at him before pushing herself up from the ground.

"That's not possible, I was doing things like this before you were born." Rukia scowled at him. "It's your own damn fault. Don't blame it on me you ass."

"Yeah well the life of the Soul Reaper has dulled your talents!" Ichigo growled. "Now where is the damn food I'm hungry." Rukia sighed and reached down next to her holding out a small bag, where she got the bag from Ichigo didn't know but at the moment he didn't care he was hungry. He grabbed the bag and opened it looking through the assortment of food.

"You better not eat it all!" Rukia growled at him. "We're going to need it, we don't know if we have to leave this town soon and if we do we don't know how far away the next is, so we have to ration it out." Ichigo sighed but nodded his head pulling out the other half of the loaf of bread he had seen Rukia eating earlier before handing the bag back to her. Ichigo leaned against the wall and crouched down next to Zangetsu as he ate pieces of the bread, his mind filled with thoughts on how they were going to find Kisuke, he was pretty sure if Kisuke didn't want to be found, he wouldn't' be.

"What now?" Ichigo asked. "Where do we start from here?" He questioned looking up at Rukia who was once again sitting on the crate that Ichigo had kicked out from under her having re positioned it. She looked up to the sky and frowned slightly.

"Ask around, if there isn't anything here we move on. Though that may take us longer then it sounds. This is just a small town, while you were running from the guards I had a talk with a lady about the area, apparently that big wall there." She gestured to the massive structure. "Is Wall Maria."

"Yeah the merchant said something about that." Ichigo nodded in agreement before stuffing another piece of bread into his mouth.

"The gate just south of here opens up into a large complex that's more on the outside of the wall, it's the Shiganshina District." Ichigo nodded in understanding. "Everything all right?" She asked noticing his lack of response.

"It's just something one of the guards said... he told me the walls haven't been breached in over a hundred years." Ichigo explained to her.

"I heard him say the same thing." Rukia agreed. "What do you think he was talking about?"

"Maybe one of the creatures Kisuke found?" Ichigo mused over. "There is only one way to find out about that." Rukia turned to him to see him looking upwards. "We go to the top of the wall." He suggested.

"I'm sure it's guarded." Rukia told him turning her attention to the large structure as well.

"Look at the size of that thing, I'm sure there are places that aren't guarded." Ichigo told her.

"Well before we go on a little adventure let's just ask around for Kisuke first alright?" Ichigo nodded and pushed himself up from the ground. "You have to be careful now, guards will be looking around for someone with orange hair who has the knack of disappearing into thin air."

"It was that or I get sent to jail." Ichigo told her. "I didn't see you helping me out." Rukia simply shrugged.

"Either way, we shouldn't show our powers so carelessly, the last thing we need is some sought of witch hunt on us." She told him to which he nodded.

"Agreed." He finished as he stuffed the last of the loaf of bread into his mouth and stood back up dusting himself off. "So, you get to ask the questions." He grinned. "I can't simply go about asking people, guards are looking for me." Rukia scoffed in annoyance.

"You'd probably just start a fight with someone anyway, it's better if I do all the talking. You just remain silent and try to act as inconspicuous as you can." Rukia told him making Ichigo's eye twitch in annoyance. "Anyway, let's get moving. We're starting on the far side of Shiganshina, that way we don't have to backtrack that much." Ichigo shrugged as Rukia walked out of the alley, Ichigo grabbed the bag of food before grabbing Zangetsu and placing the Zanpakuto on his back before walking out of the alley after Rukia and into the busy street.

As they walked they kept sure to keep an eye out for Kisuke, knowing there luck they wouldn't just randomly see him but they kept an eye out just encase they caught a glimpse of the ex-captain. As they walked down the streets towards the large gate they heard idle chatter about the 'last scouting team to head out' something to do with a group that had left the confines of the walls to help humanity, or that was what the two had picked up. When they saw the gate Ichigo stopped and groaned.

"What is it?" Rukia asked him. "There's the gate, let's go already."

"Idiot, look who's guarding it. It's the same guard as who was chasing after me." Ichigo said pointing to the blonde man who was talking to two kids, a boy and a girl who both had stacks of wood on their backs.

"I blame you for being such an idiot, I told you to make a distraction not get the attention of the guards!" Rukia huffed out.

"If you hadn't gotten spotted none of this would have happened in the first place! I would have gotten a slap on the wrist and everything would have been fine!" Ichigo growled back at her. Both sighed in annoyance as they turned back to the guard that was now being shouted at by the young boy before the two children walked off.

"Well, I can simply walk on by, I'll see you on the other side."

"You're shitting me right?" Ichigo questioned but Rukia was already heading towards the gate making Ichigo growl under his breath as he watched Rukia simply wave to the guards who gave cat calls as she walked through without any sign of being stopped. Ichigo sighed before looking around before using shunpo to the rooftop nearest the gate.

He glanced up to the top of the wall judging the distance before looking back down to the gate, he sighed before using shunpo and appearing before the blonde guard making him jump in shock at the presence standing before him.

"You're breath reeks of alcohol, how do you do your duty?" Ichigo questioned making the guard narrow his eyes.

"Apprehend him men!" He ordered by Ichigo was gone before he had finished his sentence. "Damn it! Search everywhere for him!" Ichigo heard the guard shout out as he appeared on a rooftop not far from the gate. He looked down into the street to see Rukia looking up at him. With a shrug Ichigo continued to walk along the rooftops completely forgoing into the street below. He looked up to the wall and frowned.

"It's like they're trying to keep out King Kong or something." He crouched down on the corner of the building and looked out over the village within the walls. Smoke rose from most chimneys and Ichigo noted that it had been cold during the night and even the early morning and it was only starting to warm up now. "Damn it Kisuke where are you?" He thought before he saw Rukia walking down the street again.

He stood up and leapt over the gap between buildings and continued to walk after her, what better way to stay out of sight then not being in sight at all? He watched from the rooftops as Rukia went about asking people and he was getting bored, he wanted to go up to the top of the wall already.

It was now mid afternoon and from what Ichigo could tell Rukia hadn't been successful at all trying to find any information on Kisuke. She landed on the rooftop next to him where he was laying down and sighed in annoyance.

"I'm down there working my ass off and you're up here looking at the clouds?" She asked in irritation.

"You were the one who told me to keep out of it." Ichigo shrugged. "Plus I've been looking for Kisuke, where your short height won't allow you to see I can." He smirked before Rukia's foot planted itself in his side making him groan.

"Did you see the garrison walk through?" She questioned sitting beside him.

"Yeah, that was pretty gruesome." Ichigo nodded. "Looked like they went to hell and back."

"I spoke with a few people, they left only a few days ago and had six times the men that they came back with." Rukia shook her head. "What ever is out there, it's eradicating human life in this world." Rukia continued. "Kisuke must know something about all this... otherwise why would he have come here?"

"Perhaps I wanted to set up a candy shop?" A voice behind them questioned making them both whirl around to see Kisuke standing, cane in hand fan waving in front of his face. "It's been a while you two." He told them.

"Kisuke! What the hell!" Ichigo shouted getting to his feet. "We've spent the last couple of hours looking everywhere for you!"

"I know." Kisuke laughed pulling the fan away from his face, the stumble that was usually on his chin actually forming an actual beard. "Ah it's been so long since I've seen a familiar face. Three months in fact."

"What?" Rukia asked. "You've only been gone for a few days." She told him. "What are you talking about? Months."

"It's been months my dear." Kisuke told her. "Time here... it travels faster then back home. I'm now sure of that." He explained, they watched he drifted off in his thoughts.

"Who cares about that now?" Ichigo muttered. "We're going home, open the damn portal gate vortexy thing and let's go." Kisuke shook his head. "What? Damn it Kisuke!"

"I can't." His defeated tone made them both stop. "I can't open the gate home, I've tried... it's not like I haven't been trying to get back. I brought several devices with me so that I could open the gate back but they stopped working as soon as I entered this world." He shook his head. "I left strict instructions with Yoruichi not to let Mayuri touch any of my stuff, what happened? How did you get here?" He questioned.

Both couldn't answer him, if what he was saying was true. They were stuck here.

A/N: That wasn't so bad right. Anyway sorry it took so long. I'm trying and will start getting these out faster than before.

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