Hello readers.
Cloud Narukami here with another chapter of The Frozen Dragon.
After getting a number of feedback on whether or not Ichigo should get Zangetsu or Ryujin Jakka; after thinking it through…I'm still stuck though I am leaning towards Ryujin Jakka. Also someone suggested Senbonzakura. So now I've decided to throw up a poll, poll will close early 2015. I will also add other to the poll, but if you choose other than please send me a pm informing me of your choice. Now the poll isn't a definite choice, I'm just doing it to get a clearer idea on who you guys want and then I decide from there.
On a side note I've gone back and changed the ages a little, Ichigo is now 16 but was still only 10 in the 3rd Shinobi War. Tier is 18 as is Sui-Feng. Mikoto and Shizune are 19.
Apologies if the battle scenes aren't very good, but in all fairness I really haven't much idea on how to write them, so if someone could help me with that it would be appreciated. PM me if you can and are interested with that.
Also I've been thinking of having Ichigo have 2 kids that will be in team 7 with Naruto, so that means 1 boy and 1 girl. Suggestions? I'm thinking so far Ichigo x Mabui – Dante or Vergil (DMC) and Ichigo x Grayfia – Rias (Highschool DXD). I don't have to do this, I'm just thinking it would be somewhat original and stuff, so get back to us on this.
Oh and also I have recently started a few new stories, one was a Naruto x Legend of Zelda – Hyrule Warriors story where Naruto is the newly reborn Hero and the other story is a Fairy Tail story where Natsu was found and trained by 3 dragons; so check them out whenever you can/want.
Ichigo x Harem:
Mikoto U. x Mei T x Tier H. x Sui-Feng x Mabui x Shizune x Tsume x Kurenai x Konan x Kushina x Anko x Grayfia
Beta'd by TitansLegion
X Chapter 3 X
"Are we all ready for this?" Mei asks as she stands in front of her rebellion after finishing her motivational speech to increase the morale. Today was the day they'd take back Kirigakure and slay Yagura.
It had been 2 weeks since Ichigo and his ANBU squad had arrived at the rebellion camp. Since arriving a number of things had happened.
Ichigo and his squad had helped with numerous missions such as, destroying some of Yagura's outposts; reclaiming (Liberating) resources such as swords, kunai ect.
Mei in all this time was still figuring out her feelings about the fox-masked ANBU operative. On one side she was appalled by the idea of having to share her man with other women and thought a relationship between them was impossible.
Yet on the other side she was slowly beginning to accept the idea of sharing knowing a man/boy like him doesn't come around often; she could tell he wasn't overjoyed about having to have his girlfriends all share him.
From what Mei was able to pick up Fox was a good man; he was strong that much she was able to deduce from the start, gentle to his squad and friends yet as cold as ice when it came to battle.
She still hadn't found out why his sword seemed so familiar to her, it was on the tip of her tongue, she just knew it and yet she still hadn't been able to recognise it. She had a feeling she did know but she didn't have any proof just yet.
Oddly enough Ichigo had even managed the time to get to know Grayfia whilst on a few dates, or as close as you could classify raiding a few outposts as dates. As Ichigo discovered; Grayfia has a very strict personality.
Despite her serious personality, Grayfia also showed that she is a kind and wise lady who deeply loves her family and enjoys doing her "job" as his personal maid. Ichigo still found being called 'sama' annoying; though he was pretty sure she called him that from time to time to simply tease him.
From what Ichigo could tell Grayfia was around high Jounin in terms of skill, low kage in chakra control. Ichigo would rate her as an S-rank with her forte obviously being Ice jutsu and her clan bloodline.
Grayfia was around low-jounin in terms of taijutsu, high-chunin in genjutsu and high-jounin in ninjutsu. Over all she was a ninjutsu powerhouse, thanks to her bloodline abilities she could create ice straight out of the air around her without taking too much chakra to do so.
Another event that transpired over the course of the two weeks was the confessions of Mikoto and Shizune of their feelings towards Ichigo.
X FlashBack X
Ichigo had just entered his tent after having a shower to clean off all the blood that tainted him through his battles earlier. After drying himself off, Ichigo sat on the edge of his bed. Lying down on his back his eyes trailed to the ceiling of his tent.
'*Sigh*…..I hope this all ends soon. I need to return to home soon before Kaa-chan sends a platoon of ANBU to retrieve me.' Ichigo wished that he was exaggerating about that but knowing his Kaa-chan, he probably wasn't that far off.
He could still remember the time he was off on a mission that detailed his squad to eliminate a group of rouge shinobi and it was taking more time than expected, that's when another ANBU squad was sent in as back up by his Kaa-chan. It wasn't that it was hard, on the contrary after seeing the group they were sent after doing some shady dealings with another group of rouge shinobi; Ichigo decided to observe a while longer before striking.
Ichigo figured by letting they're targets have some more time they'd lead them to a bigger case, of which it did as it turned out the group his squad were sent to terminate were working for a tycoon called Ichijo Gato.
It was well known Ichijo was a businessman, though his business was hardly legal. He was the leader of a powerful shipping magnate whose shipping company was actually a front for much shadier activities, such as smuggling illegal goods and dealing drugs.
Anyway the point of story was his Kaa-chan was rather over protective of him.
'Kaa-chan…..Why does my heart feel this way about you? You're my Kaa-chan…..if that wasn't bad enough you're happily married with Tou-san right? So why can't I stop feeling this way?' Ichigo thought scowling at the ceiling.
Ichigo was no fool, he's known about his feelings for his Kaa-chan for some time now. He simply choose to ignore them and pass them off as parental love. But after a while he started realising maybe it was more than just that.
He couldn't stop staring at her whenever she entered the room, he'd make sure his eyes where anywhere but her, though that didn't stop him from looking at her though the corner of his eye.
He couldn't help but feel hypnotised by the way her hour-glass figure swayed from side to side, the way she called his name with such affection.
Ichigo knew it was wrong to feel this way about his Kaa-chan. He'd been doing a good job of not letting his feelings show, but he could feel his control slipping.
Ichigo didn't know what to do. He loved his Kaa-chan and his Tou-san, which only made things so much more difficult. But lately he'd noticed that his parents had been…..drifting lately.
Don't get things wrong, Ichigo could tell they still loved each other; it just didn't seem the way it used too. They were kissing less, eyes lingered on each other less and overall Ichigo could tell they were drifting.
Ichigo, as much as he didn't want to admit it, found his Kaa-chan to be one of the most beautiful women he's known in his life. She had a nice round plump ass, nice and perky c-d cup breasts and mesmerising ruby red hair. It would seem Minato managed to pass down his love for red heads to his son.
Ichigo sighed again. While incest was frowned upon it wasn't illegal as it was still occasionally practised by clans. Namely the Uchiha and Hyuuga clans; sometimes the head of the clan was married off to their siblings as to preserve the pure-blood members and produce heirs.
"Taichou?" A soft voice broke Ichigo out of his thoughts. Pushing his thoughts about his Kaa-chan to the back of his head, Ichigo sat up.
"Enter." Knowing full well the only people here that addressed him as Taichou were members of his ANBU squad.
Hearing the flaps of his tent open Ichigo turns to see Shizune and Mikoto enter his tent, both wearing their masks as standard ANBU rules are always to have their masks on unless in private and allowed by their commanding officer.
"Masks off." Ichigo gives them his permission. With a nod of their heads they remove their masks, revealing they're beautiful faces.
'They're so beautiful.' Ichigo thinks with a slight blush. Though he hadn't yet vocalised his feelings of them, Ichigo knew he had feelings for them. He just hadn't got around to telling them yet.
"So what can I do you for Mikoto-chan? Shizune-chan?" Ichigo addressed his squad members, both of whom were sporting blushes at hearing the affectionate term added to their names.
"U-Uh….W-Well y-you see…" Shizune trailed off nervously, looking anywhere but at Ichigo who was looking mildly amused at her behaviour.
"Yessssss?~" Ichigo teased, unable to resist teasing her. Smiling at seeing her blush while fidgeting with her fingers.
"Y-You see Taichou-"
"Just Ichigo, it'll be fine while we're alone." Ichigo interrupted Mikoto who blushed at seeing his smile aimed at her.
"H-Hai Ichigo-san." Mikoto looked down into her hands.
'Damn it Mikoto! Stop acting like some academy fan-girl! You can assassinate people without so much as blinking, so why is telling him so hard!?' Mikoto was beating herself up in her head.
'Why is this so hard?...Just remember what Tier-chan said. I can't bear the thought of knowing I could of had a chance yet never took it. I can do this!' Shiune thought with conviction as she looked up at Ichigo.
"Ichigo….There's something I have to tell you…." Ichigo looked slightly confused.
"Oh yeah? What's that?" He asked with a blush on his face as Shizune leaned in closer to him. Mouths inches away from each other. Mikoto looked on with jealously and envy.
"…..I like you Ichigo-kun." Was all she said before her lips crashed into Ichigo's. Ichigo's eyes were open wide with shock.
Yes he liked her too, it was just he hadn't expect her to be so bold. Shizune was known to be the shy one of the group. Which is why he found it such a shock as he felt her tongue lick the bottom of his lip.
After quickly getting back into control, Ichigo wrapped his arms around Shizune's waist as she moaned into the kiss. Minuted passed by as they sucked each other's face, eventually they parted from one another's lips.
Leaning his forehead against Shizune's Ichigo looked into her eyes.
"I like you too Shizune-chan…I've been meaning to tell you for some time now but each time I was going to something kept coming up." Shizune smiled and cupped the sides of his face with her hands.
"Oh Ichigo-kun…." And with that she went back in for a quick peck of the lips before hopping off his lap.
"….."
During the time Ichigo and Shizune were kissing Mikoto was trying to find her nerve to follow her friends lead.
Noticing this Ichigo smiles and moves over to Mikoto, kneeling down slightly to reach her eye level.
"…Mikoto-chan." Seeing he'd earned her attention he continued, "Do you feel the same way?" Mikoto looked down.
"…..Hai….."Cupping her cheek gently Ichigo looked into her eyes.
"What about your clan? Would they approve of this?" Ichigo asked knowing the Uchiha clan to be arrogant and picky when it came to clan matters. Mikoto thought about it for a few moments.
"Well honestly….I can't see any reason they'd disapprove. After all you are the son of The Fourth Hokage, one of the only shinobi to achieve SS-rank in the bingo book. And if that wasn't enough you yourself have numerous achievements."
"You played a crucial role in the 3rd Shinobi War at the age of 10; earning the monkiner 'The Frozen Dragon' and if all that wasn't enough you're an ANBU Taichou at the age of 13. My clan would have to be idiots to disapprove of you." Mikoto finished her thoughts.
Ichigo smiled and leaned in, "So then Mikoto will you do me the honours and be one of my girlfriends?" He asked with a loving smile on his face. Mikoto blushed at the close proximity of their faces.
"Hai, Ichigo-kun." Came her response before her lips found his as they engaged in a kiss.
X FlashBack End X
Ao kneels in front of Mei, "Mei-sama, they're approximately 6 minutes out." He informed the rebel leader who nodded.
"Good work Ao. Alright then let's move out!" Mei commanded her troops, everyone is ready to move out when Ichigo, still wearing his fox mask as always steps forth and puts a hand on Mei's shoulder, earning her attention.
"Before that Mei-chan, there's something you should know about me." Mei prompts him to continue, removing his mask he hears her gasp.
Slowly removing his masks puts his face on full display, revealing his identity as Ichigo Uzumaki Namikaze. Many were shocked to find this out if their gasps were anything to go off.
Ichigo knew the moment he heard he was being sent in to aid the rebellion that he would at some point need to use Hyōrinmaru, therefore rending his mask useless and in conclusion ending his ANBU career.
Not that Ichigo minded. Don't get him wrong being in ANBU had been eventful and challenging, but he quickly found himself wanting to drop the mask and stay in the village more. That and he hated seeing his Kaa-chan sad whenever he'd leave for a mission.
"Taichou!" He heard Bee exclaim knowing full well what her Taichou's actions meant, as did the rest of his squad.
"Haha…It's quite alright Bee. I think we both know if our goals to defeat Yagura, a Jinchūriki with perfect control over Isobu; I won't have the luxury of holding back. Against such an opponent I will need Hyōrinmaru to aid me." Ichigo rationalised with his squad who all agreed with his points.
*Gasp!* "Hyōrinmaru!...No wonder your sword seemed so familiar. You're Ichigo Uzumaki Namikaze, the son of Minato Namikaze The Fourth Hokage and Kushina Uzumaki!" Mei exclaims looking shocked towards Ichigo.
"I see some ones done their homework. Indeed I am Mei-chan." Ichigo smiles at Mei who in turn is slightly blushing. A scout appears and bows to Mei.
"3 minutes Mei-sama." The scout says. Ichigo turns to his squad.
"You all know what to do. Get it done!" He orders earning a chorus of 'Hai's!' in return. Ichigo then proceeds to kiss them one by one, tilting their masks slightly so he can kiss their lips. Grayfia made her kiss more heated when she grabbed his ass while they kissed before breaking the kiss off.
"There will be more of where that came from Ichigo-sama, after we done here~" Grayfia smiles a seductive smile at Ichigo who blushes.
Ichigo prepares to unsheathe Hyōrinmaru and walks forward until he feels a hand reach out and grabbed his arm, turning he sees Mei.
"Ichigo-kun….promise me you'll come back alive." Ichigo smiles and kisses her forehead.
"Only if you promise me something Mei-chan." Mei blushes looking into Ichigo's eyes.
"What's that Ichigo-kun?"
"If I end up facing Yagura you don't interfere alright? I can't guarantee you won't get caught in the crossfire between us ok?" Mei reluctantly agrees knowing she'd only be in the way between a fight of Ichigo and Yagura.
Mei knows she's at least at least a low-kage Kunoichi, but even with that under her belt she knows she'd wouldn't be much use in a battle against two titans such as Ichigo and Yagura.
Seeing Mei slightly down in the gutters, he lifts her head with his hand at her chin, making her look up at him and straight into his eyes.
"Mei-chan I can guess what you're thinking. You're not useless or weak. Just think where would the rebellion be without you? You're an amazing woman Mei-chan, so don't you dare think otherwise about yourself."
Mei smiles at hearing his words and nods her head; looking up at Ichigo Mei makes up her mind.
'Sharing or not I want him.' Were her last thoughts before she kissed him. Ichigo immediately responds to her kiss, having already figured out she had feelings for him, he simply wanted her to make the first move.
After a few minutes of kissing the two separate at sensing more presences approaching their location.
Out of the forest came hundreds of shinobi's. To the ninjas that were with Mei it looked very daunting. Mei was also feeling slightly nervous. This was her first time in all-out battle. This was her chance to prove she was a kage level worth kunoichi. Ichigo takes a step forwards and draws Hyōrinmaru.
'Ready to kick some ass Hyōrinmaru?'
"Hmph, always. Show these shinobi just who they're messing with." Hyōrinmaru responds through their mental connection. Ichigo smirks.
"Reign over the frosted heavens, Hyōrinmaru!" Ichigo yells as Hyōrinmaru transforms into his Shikai state.
Over with the hundreds of Kiri shinobi that showed up their apparent leader turned to his men.
"Alright people listen up! Today's the day we purge these bloodline scum and the bloodline loving sum with them! For the Mizukage!" He yells out as his men cheer, when all of a sudden the temperature drops drastically as Ichigo appears in the midst of the army.
"If you have time to give a speech, you should at least have kept a better eye on the enemy." He calmly states as the leader freezes solid.
"GET HIM!" A Kiri shinobi yells charging at Ichigo with a kunai.
Ichigo scoffs at him as he cuts him down with ease.
"Please, if you think that would actually work then your severely mistaken and misinformed. If you think you can overpower me you're dreaming, I'll show you the meaning of power." Ichigo states and begins to raise his Reiatsu.
As he builds his reiatsu a light blue/silver energy surrounds him as snow begins to fall and everyone near him begins to find breathing difficult.
Still surrounded by his reiatsu Ichigo begins to move, bringing out his Tou-san's special kunai that he uses to perform the infamous 'Flying Thunder God' in his left hand as Hyōrinmaru is in his right, he chucks the kunai and flashes.
Reappearing in the middle of some Kiri shinobi, Ichigo wastes no time in cutting them down, as they are still frozen at feeling his reiatsu, Ichigo continues this, cutting down a large portion of the enemy army.
Snapping out of her trance at seeing Ichigo kills off about a quarter of the army, Mei snaps back into reality.
"We can't let him do all the work people, so let's get in there and reclaim our village!"
Seeing a group of ninja charge at her, "Yoton: Lava Globs" Mei yells. Glob of lava shoots out of her mouth and instantly melting the ninjas that charged at her. Running through more hand signs.
"Yoton: Yokai no Justu;(Lava Release: Melting Apparition Technique)" A large amount of lava came from her mouth this time encasing the remaining ninja that charged at her. It forms a dome and seconds later she heard screaming and then stopped. Ao and Chojuro by her side ran forward to cut down more ninjas.
Chojuro taking out his Hiramekarei and channelled his chakra into it making it slightly bigger moves to cut down more shinobi-+ that tried attacking him.
Ao, not to be outdone by Chojuro, runs through some handsigns, "Suiton: Suidan no Jutsu!" Multiple water bullets come out of his mouth and pierces the Kiri shinobi that tried getting closs to him.
"Hehe Still got it."
X Tier X
"Ola Azul (Blue Wave)" Tier announces as she pulls Tiburón back as a yellow energy envelops it. Pointing forward at a number of Kiri shonibi she launches her attack.
"ARGHH!" It tears through her enemies with no mercy, leaving gaping holes in their stomachs as the bleed to death. The remaining shinobi look at her with fear.
"S-She's a monster!" "RUN!" Were some of the things they were saying trying to run from her. They didn't get very far as Soi-fon appears behind them and taps them twice on their shoulders as butterfly tattoo's appear on them, instantly they fall to the ground dead.
"Hmph. Pathetic, is this all that the Mizukage's forces can do?" She states with boredom evident in her voice as she flicks Suzumebachi clean of the blood on it.
"What were you expecting? The only real challenge would be Yagura himself. But Ichigo-kun's dealing with him." Tier replies as she slashes more shinobi down.
"Yeah…..I suppose your right." Soi-fon admits.
Over in the distance not too far from them are Grayfia, Mikoto and Shizune battling against Yagura's forces.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu (Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique)" Mikoto exhales a massive fireball towards Yagura's forces that burn a great number of them into ash.
"DAMN BLOODLINE BITCH!" A Kiri shinobi yells. "Suiton: Teppōdama! (Water Release: Gunshot)" The shinobi releases a averaged sized water shot towards Mikoto.
Grayfia seeing the attack coming moves to intercept the jutsu. "Hyōton: Bōfūsetsu" A large Ice dragon rushes the water gunshot, freezing it solid and continues on its path towards a group of Kiri shinobi.
"Thanks for the save Grayfia." Mikoto thanks Grayfia who nods and summons ice shard into her hands. Throwing them with precision they strike at a number of Kiri shinobi's throats, they fall to the ground clutching their throats.
"You're quite welcome Raven-san." Looking over her shoulder Grayfia see's Shizune engaged with numerous shinobi.
"Hehehehe looky at what we got here boys~ Bet we could have some fun with this one." One of the Kiri-nin says looking at Shizune pervertedly, Shizune shivers at the mere thought of being anywhere near intimate with any of them.
"Yeah right just look at her she's a plain as rice. Nothing special about her, I'm more of an ass man." Another Kiri-nin says, dismissing the idea of having their way with Shizune.
Shizune in the meantime gains a tick mark on her forehead.
'Plain as rice…..'
"True enough. I'd say she's 5/10 at best. I'd rather have a crack at the rebellion leader; now she's a babe."
'5/10 at best….' Shizune gains another tick mark at hearing their convocation.
"Hehehehehehehe…..Plain as rice eh? 5/10 at best hmmm?...HAHAHAHAHA!... Kage Bunshin no Jutsu." Shizune mumbles and summons 4 clones then starts to laugh like a madman .
"Oooohhhh boy, they're dead." Mikoto says to Grayfia who looks confused.
"How so Mikoto-san?"
"The last guy that insulted her about being plain or average ended up in a mental home. When asked why all he'd say was 'keep her away from me!' while pointing at her. Even to this day we still have no clue what happened."
Looking back to Shizune they see she exhales a poison mist, slowing killing the Kiri-nin.
"ARGHHHHHH!" They screamed out in pain as Shizune just continued to laugh like a madman.
"HAHAHAHAHA! PLAIN AM I!? 5/10!? HAHAHAHAHA! WHAT'S THE MATTER!? I THOUGHT I WAS JUST AVERAGE!?" They hear Shizune laugh out while continuing toutur-err….battling the Kiri-nin.
"…."
Grayfia and Mikoto turn away in silence.
"…We never speak of this, agreed?" Mikoto states more than asking.
"Agreed." Was the response Grayfia gave.
X Ichigo X
Ichigo at this time could not be stopped by any of the ninja's. Finally closing on the remaining ninja on the field, two ninja's appeared and went through hand signs "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique)" Two water like dragons shot out at Ichigo.
Ichigo seeing this channels reiastu into Hyōrinmaru and freezes the two dragons. Both ninja were shocked. "What kind of monster are you?" They said, shaking in fear.
Ichigo merely looks at them with a bored look on his face. "Monster? Nonsense. I am just just a man who came here today with skills beyond you." Ichigo quickly appears behind him and slashes one man with a fatal blow while he points Hyōrinmaru's tip at the other one.
"Freeze." He states and the Kiri-nin freezes from head to toe covered in ice. Throwing Hyōrinmaru's chain at the man and smashes it into pieces.
Looking forward Ichigo sees a man that looked to be like a child appear on the scene, light-grey hair, pink pupil-less eyes and what seems to be a stitch-like scar running from under his left eye, all the way down his cheek.
Ichigo recognises him as Yagura The Fourth Mizukage. Yagura taking notice of the man in front of him speaks.
"And who are you meant to be?" Ichigo chuckles, swinging around Hyōrinmaru around by his chain.
"Me? Oh I'm Ichigo Uzumaki Namikaze, the one who's gonna kick your ass." Ichigo stops swinging Hyōrinmaru around and grabs the handle and points Hyōrinmaru at Yagura. "How's it going?"
"You're a fool to think you will end this. I'm afraid you are the only one dying today, Namikaze." Yagura states.
"You know there's something I've been wanting to ask you." Ichigo speaks up. Yagura looks slightly curious.
"And what might that be?" Ichigo looks Yagura dead in the eye.
"Why are you doing this?" Yagura looks confused.
"This?" Ichigo shakes his head.
"The bloodline purge. I always thought Kage's were meant to protect they're people not slaughter them." Yagura looks confused for a moment before his eyes become unfocused and emotionless.
"Because….They deserve to die, they're nothing but bloodline scum. Nothing but a bunch of bloodline demons…." Yagura says in an emotionless voice.
Ichigo raises his left eyebrow in curiosity.
'Oi, Hyōrinmaru does something appear off about him?' Ichigo asks Hyōrinmaru through their mental bond.
"Hmmmmm….Now you mention it yes. From what I can sense he appears to be trapped in a genjutsu." Hyōrinmaru replies.
'What? Genjutsu? But I thought it's impossible for a Jinchūriki to be caught in a genjutsu.'
"Ordinarily you would be correct. However this genjutsu is hardlynormal."
'How so Hyōrinmaru?'
"….Ever heard of a Mangekyō Sharingan?" Ichigo mentally shakes his head.
'Isn't that what stories say Madara Uchiha obtained at some point of his life?' (I'm not going to bother explaining it, just google it if you don't understand what it can do.)
"Hmmm well I have a theory, a Mangekyō Sharingan wielder at some time came across Yagura and trapped him in a genjutsu."
'Any chance of us breaking it?' Ichigo asked.
"…Possibly…..if you can managed to get him to keep still for long enough, all you'd have to do is pump some of your reiatsu into his chakra system and theoretically he should be freed."
'Theoretically?'
"Well what are you expecting child? I've never attempted this before, how would I know how it'll turn out? All I'm saying is in theory this should work."
'The odds of it not working?' Ichigo asked curiously.
"Look at it this way Ichigo. It's either this or you kill him." Hyōrinmaru states.
'Thanks Hyōrinmaru.' Ichigo mentally thanked his Zanpakuto spirit. While their convocation happened only a fraction of a second actually happened.
'Thank you inner world.' Ichigo thought with a smirk.
"What are you smirking for?" Yagura asks. Ichigo chuckles.
"Just how I'm gonna kick your sorry ass of course." He retorts like a smart ass, pissing Yagura off.
Yagura runs through forty hand signs before saying "Suiton: Suiryūdan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique)" Shooting out a dragon made of water at Ichigo.
"Really? This attack again? Don't you people know anything else?" Ichigo taunted Yagura as he effortlessly dodged the attack with a flash.
Yagura getting a little angrier at his constant mocking. Dashes towards him engaging him in taijustu. Yagura jumps to give him a round house kick only for Ichigo to grab it.
Throwing Yagura back a few metres that then back flips away and comes back with a barrage of punches. Ichigo simply evades each strike with ease as if dancing gracefully through the battlefield.
Yagura ends up finally giving him a hook to his face, but realises Ichigo's body gets fuzzy and fades.
"Squelch!"
"Arghhhh!" Yagura cries out in pain and clutches his left arm which now sports a slash across the forearm.
'What?! How can he be this fast!?' Yagura thinks surprised as he looks at Ichigo who flicks Hyōrinmaru, getting rid of Yagura's blood.
"You know you're going to have to step things up if you want to beat me." Yagura snarls at Ichigo.
"You shall regret standing against me Namikaze." Yagura says and backs up and begins building up his chakra.
"I believe you've 'pissed him off' as they say." Hyōrinmaru states.
'You don't say!?' Ichigo yells mentally, gaining a tick mark on his forehead.
"Best be careful Ichigo. Remember he has perfect control over his biju." Hyōrinmaru reminds Ichigo.
'Got it.'
A tail then sprouts from Yagura along with a dark cloak of chakra. His voice more demonic.
"Now you will die, Namikaze!" He says charging at him much more faster than last time. Yagura at this time decides to unleash even more punches and kicks, adding in his tail as an arm.
Surprised, Ichigo jumps back avoiding Yagura's attacks; skidding across the ground Ichigo looks up at Yagura.
"ROAR!" Yagura lets out an ear shattering roar, while Ichigo was distracted by the roar he speedily runs through some hand-signs.
"Suishū Gorugon" Summing forth a serpent made of water, Yagura sends it racing towards Ichigo. As it gets close it turns into a dragon as it opens its mouth to devour Ichigo.
Seeing what was heading his way Ichigo swings Hyōrinmaru horizontally in front of him calling out, "ShinkūTasō Hyōheki" bringing forth a shield made of ice to protect him.
"BOOM!"
As the water dragon came into contact with Ichigo's ice shield it created a mist that quickly covered the area, blinding the two fighters view on one another. Unfortunately for Yagura, Ichigo could still sense his presence.
"Shinkūno Kōri no Yaiba" Ichigo calls out as Yagura's eyes widen at spotting a large blade made of ice heading right for him.
"ARGHHHHHH!" Unfortunately Yagura wasn't able to fully avoid the attack as it still managed to rip a hole in his side. Though it was already starting to heal it didn't mean Yagura didn't feel it none the less.
X Mei X
After Mei was done fighting the remaining batch of shinobi on the battlefield she sped forward to catch the fight between Ichigo and Yagura. To say she was surprised to witness his skills was an understatement. He was able to cut Yagura with ease even in his partial transformed state with just Shikai alone.
She had heard stories of 'Konoha's Frozen Dragon', the things he'd achieved in the war, the difference he made and all at 10 years old. He was practically a legend sitting beside his father the 'Yellow Flash'.
Hearing of his skills is one thing, to witness his skills first hand is another as Mei and her rebellion were finding out. Tier and the rest of Ichigo's squad however were simply watching Ichigo with admiration in their eyes.
"Simply Amazing. To actually be able to keep up with Yagura and with such ease." Said Ao. "Did you see that move he pulled? He was this close to taking Yagura out. I'm glad he's on our side." One rebel said.
Mei watched the battle unfold with admiration and fear, 'Remember your promise Ichigo-kun.' Mei thought, hand over her heart.
Chojuro snapped her out of her thoughts "M-Mei-sama shouldn't we be there helping Ichigo-san?" Mei shakes her head.
"No, I promised to not interfere." Ao, Chojuro and the rebels reluctantly nod witnessing one of the greatest battles they have ever seen.
"I wouldn't worry all that much if I were you." Bee spoke up earning Mei's and the rebellion's attention.
"He's not even trying just yet…..." Ao looked somewhat sceptical.
"Uh-huh…..He's already fighting an Kage level shinobi who happens to be a Jinchūriki, who is currently using one tail's worth of power and Ichigo-san's not even trying?" Ao says. Mei shakes her head.
"No I believe Bee's right Ao." Seeing she had their attention she continued, "If what I've heard about Zanpakuto's are true than he still has Bankai to utilise correct Bee?" Bee nodded.
"Correct Mei-san, Ichigo-taichou is currently only using Shikai at the moment."
"Well I believe that won't be for much longer from the looks of things." Shark announced, drawing their attention back to the fight.
X Back With Ichigo X
Yagura was not currently fairing too well. Yagura was panting heavily. To make it worse he was bleeding with some of his clothes tattered, ripped and some places frozen with ice.
'I can't keep this up. I need to fully transform.' Yagura thought. Ichigo stood there unfazed with only a few scratches here and there.
"You know I expected better from a Kage, much more from a Jinchūriki with perfect control over his biju." Ichigo taunted Yagura who was fuming by now.
"THAT'S IT! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR DEFIANCE! YOU DIE NOW!" Yagura yelled while building up his chakra as a blood red sphere appeared around him, growing rapidly to epic proportions.
Turning his gaze to Yagura he finally sees him transformed into a huge turtle like creature, with a crab like shell and the three of its tails behind him.
"Rooaarr! You're done for now Namikaze!" Yagura in full state started to form what looks like to be a water ball of titan proportions. Yagura shoots one out at Ichigo.
Ichigo knew it was time to take him seriously now. Flashing to the side letting the water ball to come crashing into the ground where he once stood, turned into a crater 10 feet deep and 20 metres wide all around.
'Better kick things up a notch.' Ichigo thought, raising Hyōrinmaru skyward, Ichigo began building up his reiatsu as he was surrounded yet again in a light blue/silver energy. The air around him quickly began losing temperature.
Clouds started to gather in the sky as it darkened. Even from as far as where Mei and the other all stood they could feel the effects taking place. Looking straight into Yagura's/Isobu's eyes, Ichigo said one word that brought shivers down Yagura's/Isobu's spine.
"Bankai." Was all he said as the air whipped around him, covering him with an ice vortex.
Even in his transformed state Yagura/Isobu was shivering slightly from the drop of temperature, as snow began to fall around the battlefield.
'What is this power?' Yagura/Isobu thought looking at the vortex of ice covering Ichigo.
"CRACK!"
The ice vortex started to crack, slowly fracturing the whole vortex.
"SMASH!"
Ice shards were sent flying as something smashed the ice vortex form the inside. As the shards began to die down, you could see the shards were turning back into water which in turn went back into the atmosphere.
Looking towards Ichigo, Yagura's/Isobu's eyes widened. Standing there was Ichigo covered in ice.
"Daiguren Hyōrinmaru." Is all Ichigo says, staring at Yagura/Isobu.
Ichigo's Bankai causes ice to flow from Hyōrinmaru onto him, starting at his right arm, which ice forms onto in the shape of a dragon's head around his sword hand, encasing the sword up to the hilt, which also changes from the shape of a four-pointed star to that of an eight-pointed star.
The ice continues forming up over his shoulders, with two large wings sprouting from his back and a long tail. The ice forms down his left arm and encases his hand, which ends in a claw. Ichigo's feet are encased in ice in a similar manner to his left hand, as they also end in claws.
"What is that?" Yagura/Isobu asks. Ichigo smirks.
"This is Daiguren Hyōrinmaru, Hyōrinmaru's true form." Yagura/Isobu roars.
"Doesn't matter what it is. It won't help you!" Yagura/Isobu curls himself into a ball and begins bouncing.
"BOOM!"
Quickly bouncing over to Ichigo, leaving biju sized craters in his wake Yagura/Isobu finds himself above Ichigo.
"Chōdan Kōro." He announces as he falls down with tremendous force, hoping to crush Ichigo in a single hit.
Ichigo simply stands still, raising Hyōrinmaru in front of him.
"ShinkūTasō Hyōheki."
"BOOM!"
X Mei X
"…."
Not a word was uttered. You could hear insects and animals of all kinds chirping, buzzing, growling and roaring. The silence was defining.
Mei and her squad now had their jaws dropped at what they just witnessed. Ichigo's Bankai was utterly beautiful, seeing the way the ice shined in the light, he looked like a knight in shining armour, or one would suppose in this case a knight in frozen armour.
Now they had just witnessed Ichigo block one of Yagura's attacks while Yagura was in complete biju form. Not many people have the honour of saying they faced a Jinchūriki with perfect control and actually could fight them on even ground.
Mei watches as Yagura distances himself from Ichigo; she sees him form a black ball. Mei eyes suddenly widens at realising what he's about to do.
"Yagura is forming his tailed beast ball! We have to stop him!" She yells.
"Wait Mei-sama, I thought you we weren't to interfere?" Ao says; Mei looks at him with a fierce gaze.
"Forget what I said! If we don't do something he's as good as dead!"
Before Mei and her rebellion could rush towards Ichigo; Shark, Bee, Pig, Raven and Grayfia all stand in their way.
"What are you doing?! Do you want him to die!?" Mei yells angrily at them. Shark shakes her head.
"Of course we don't."
"Then why are you standing in our way!? Don't you want to help him?!" Now Pig speaks up.
"Don't be stupid Mei-san, of course we want to help. Unfortunately the reality of the matter is even if we tried to help him, we'd only be in his way!" Pig yells at Mei, the rest of Pig's squad look at her with slight shock.
In all the time they knew the girl, she had never once raised her voice that way at anyone. This outburst had surprised them for a few moments before understanding why she did so. They all felt the same why as her.
Any girl at seeing their love fighting for his life against something as strong as a biju would also be panicking right now.
"Just have faith in him. He'll pull through." Shark said as she placed a comforting hand on Pig's shoulder, Pig relaxed slightly at her words and touch.
"Thank you Shark." Looking towards Mei, Pig bows slightly. "Apologies for my outburst Mei-san."
Mei looked at Pig with understanding as she placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I'm sorry as well Pig-san. I shouldn't have accused you all of not caring about him, I should have known better, again I'm sorry about that." Pig nodded.
"Forgive and forget yes Mei-san?" At seeing Mei nod, Pig continues, "Now let's just wait and have faith."
And with that they all turn their attention back onto the battle.
X Ichigo X
Yagura finally was ready to fire his tailed beast ball. Aiming it Ichigo. Yagura then fires his tailed beast ball at Ichigo. The force of his ball that he fired was creating shock waves in the air while the ground started to crack.
Yagura knew there was no why for him to dodge since he knew Ichigo hadn't had the time to throw a marker to flash too. Turning around Ichigo sees the ball incoming.
Seeing the tailed-beast bomb of destruction heading his way, Ichigo only really had one thing on his mind.
"You know something…I've always wanted a pet turtle."
Then Ichigo does something no one could have expected. Instead of quickly throwing a marker to flash too, or using one of his numerous techniques to avoid the ball of doom, he did something else.
He charged at it.
Instead of avoiding it like any sane person would Ichigo actually charged the tailed-beast bomb of doom.
Gathering a tremendous amount of reiatsu into his blade, Ichigo thrusts Daiguren Hyōrinmaru towards the tailed-beast bomb.
"Ryūsenka."
Upon Daiguren Hyōrinmaru's contact with the tailed-beast bomb, instead of it blowing up taking everything within half a miles with it, it did something everyone witnessing didn't think possible.
It froze solid.
The moment the tip of Daiguren Hyōrinmaru touched the tailed-beast bomb a huge burst of ice erupted from the point of contact, encasing and freezing the tailed-beast bomb.
"Shatter." Was the word that came from Ichigo's lips as he swung Daiguren Hyōrinmaru at the giant tailed-beast bomb, shattering it into thousands of ice shards.
"!"
Yagura/Isobu was shocked to the core, their strongest attack, frozen solid by a human, a fellow Jinchūriki he could believe; but just a simple sword wielding human. Not so much.
'I suppose it isn't an impossible act really. It's just very, very ,very unlikely that someone actually possessesthe amount of strength; but still to come out of the confrontation without so much as a scratch?'
So lost in thought Yagura/Isobu never noticed Ichigo steadily building up his reiatsu again.
By the time Yagura/Isobu snapped out of his thoughts it was too late, Ichigo was a few metres away.
"Sennen Hyōrō."
"WHAT?! WHAT IS THIS?! NAMIKAZE!" Yagura/Isobu roars at Ichigo.
"….."
Ichigo for his part kept silient. Creating multiple ice pillars, which encircled himself and Yagura/Isobu.
"This…..this is where out battle ends. It's been fun; let's do this again sometime yeah?" Ichigo says happily, smiling at Yagura.
At his command, when he turned his sword 90 degrees counter-clockwise, the pillars then move towards Yagura/Isobu, enveloping him then proceeding to crushing him, leaving him alive frozen within the ice prison.
It was a good thing Yagura/Isobu was distracted while he formed Sennen Hyōrō,as it was a technique he still hadn't mastered completely and needed time to perform the technique.
The reason he was still alive was because Ichigo was hoping to be able to save him. Sighing, Ichigo released Bankai and reverted Daiguren Hyōrinmaru back into Hyōrinmaru's Shikai state.
"Ichigo-kun you did it!" Came a familiar voice, turning Ichigo sees everyone running towards him with cheer at his victory.
They all pounced at him so fast he didn't even know what had hit him until he felt the familiar lips of Bee on his. Chuckling he returned the kiss. After Bee had her kiss it was Shark that followed up, then Grayfia who pushed Raven and Pig to the side wanting her kiss before them, then Raven and finally Pig.
By the time the girls had all gotten their kiss he could feel his lips slightly sore, his girls really didn't hold back their passion. Not that he minded.
"Ichigo-kun….."Mei's voice brought Ichigo out of his thoughts, turning to Mei he saw numerous emotions run over her face; relief, anger, love, longing, annoyance and a bit of lust.
"What? I promised I'd come back alive didn't I? You didn't seriously think I was going to stand you up for our date did you?" Ichigo smiled at Mei who blushed in remembering their promise.
"Hmph!" She turned away still blushing, "I'm expecting fancy dress lover boy!" Mei told Ichigo while emphasizing the words 'fancy dress' with her finger.
"Hahahaha of course, nothing but the best for you Mei-chan." Mei blushed again.
"Ichigo-sama, might I ask why you didn't kill Yagura?" Grayfia moved to her master's side.
"Oh you noticed that did you? Perceptive aren't we Grayfia-chan?" Grayfia gained a hardly noticeable blush on her cheeks as Ichigo pecked her forehead with his lips.
"WHAT?! YOU MEAN HE'S NOT DEAD?!" Ao yells out.
"Ichigo-kun?" Raven speaks up.
"Easy people! Before anyone goes and makes a scene let me explain alright?"
"Proceed Ichigo-Taichou." Shark says.
Ichigo then proceeds to tell them how he found out that Yagura has been under a powerful genjutsu and that his actions are more than likely not his own.
"So he's been controlled all this time by a Uchiha?" Mei asks. Ichigo nods.
"I'm certain of it. Hyōrinmaru picked it up when we first came across him. But if you don't take my word for it you could always have Ao here use his implanted Byakugan to check it out." Ao goes on the defensive instantly.
"How do you know that?!" Ichigo sighs.
"Honestly Ao-san. I just defeated Yagura in his complete biju form and you think for some reason you would beat me?" Ao looks down in slight embarrassment. "I know you have it because I sensed a slight disturbance in your chakra, after checking it out I found that it was familiar to a Hyuuga using the Byakugan. And besides I'm not going to take it from you."
Ao looked surprised at hearing that.
"You're not?" Ichigo nodded his head.
"Yep. My orders as I recall them were to aid the rebellion nothing more. Anyway, Ao if you would." Ichigo indicated to Yagura who was still frozen in Ichigo's ice prison.
"Hai Ichigo-san." Moving his eye patch to cover his good eye, Ao revealed his implanted Byakugan. Quickly going over Yagura's frozen form he discovered Ichigo was correct.
"He's correct Mei-sama. Yagura is under a powerful genjutsu."Mei looked shocked.
"So he hasn't been himself all this time?" Ichigo wore a thoughtful look on his face, one that the ladies found utterly adorable.
'Must resist….' They all thought looking at Ichigo's thinking face.
"Hmmmmmmm from what Hyōrinmaru could tell he's been under the genjutsu for years." Everyone looked down in thought.
'Who would do all this? Control Yagura into doing a bloodline purge? Why would they?' Were the thoughts of everyone present.
"So can you break him out of the genjutsu, Ichigo-taichou?" Shark asked. Ichigo scratched the back of his head.
"Well in theory yes…." Pig looked at Ichigo funny behind her mask.
"In theory?"
"Yes…Hyōrinmaru believes it'll work and that's good enough for me."
"So how are you going to go about this?" Bee asked. Ichigo stepped toward Yagura's frozen form and placed the tip of Hyōrinmaru against Yagura's ice prison, which started to glow as he poured his reiatsu into it.
"Like this." He stated as the ice prison containing Yagura shone so bright it temporarily blinded.
X Yagura's Mindcape X
"Huh….So this is his mindscape eh?"
Looking around him Ichigo could see stunning waterfalls, beautiful lakes, ponds of all kinds all over the place.
Clearly the guy liked water.
Everything seemed so peaceful as he started to walk in no particular direction, just following his instincts. Everything seemed so kind, so….alive; or at least until he came across what he saw before him.
There bounded in chains was Yagura. Behind Yagura was the also chained form of the Isobu.
Walking towards Yagura Ichigo drew Hyōrinmaru. With a quick few slashes Yagura was free of his chains.
Catching Yagura before he fell to the ground, Ichigo placed him softly on the ground.
"Whoever did this to you sure did a good job of it." Ichigo lightly hit Yagura's cheek.
"Ughnnnn…..Just five more minutes….." Yagura sleep talked. Ichigo just hit him harder in response.
"OW! What the hell?!" Yagrua exclaimed in pain, clutching his cheek as he looked at Ichigo.
"Who are you? And how are you here?" He asked. Ichigo sighed at sat down.
"You're going to want to sit for this. We're going to be here a while."
X Chapter 3 End X
Well Merry Christmas all this here is my gift to you all, sorry if this is late or early but I'm uploading it whenever I feel like it. Hope you enjoyed it please leave a comment or pm me with ideas and what not. Leaving reviews really motivates writers you know? Also remember to check out my other stories when you got the time.
Also I know Ichigo was quite op, but in my defence I stated he'd be op/godlike in the summary so yeah, please no complaining about that. Remember to vote for the poll.
The reason why I didn't kill Yagura is simple. He's going to be Gaara to Ichigo like Gaara was to Naruto, they're going to be like brothers and the best of pals.
But as always please no flaming, I will just ignore and report them. Constructive criticism is another story.
Merry Christmas and a happy new year, Cloud Narukami out!
