A.N.: This is a request by killercroc.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.
Warning: Genderbender! Lime!
Chapter Three: The Affections
Meanwhile…
Karakura Town
All was quiet throughout Karakura Town. The denizens had gone to sleep for the night, the moon making its nightly trek through the dark sky. Everyone was snoozing in their beds. Everyone except for a certain orange-haired teenager.
Ichigo Kurosaki jumped through the night sky, on his nightly patrol for Hollows. He had been busy training with the Vizards, trying to control the power of his Inner Hollow. Though he'd managed to beat down his darker half during their confrontation, he was still having a hard time controlling his mask. Right now he could only wear it for eleven seconds. Frustrated at his lack of progress, Ichigo quietly left the warehouse that the Vizards were hiding out in and decided to blow off steam doing some Hollow hunting.
Landing atop a telephone pole, Ichigo looked around, the quiet tranquility of the night air would have been soothing to most but for Ichigo it was the calm before the storm. He knew that he was running out of time and that the battle with Aizen was looming.
Feeling tired from the nightly sprint, Ichigo relaxed and tuned his spiritual senses to try to detect any nearby Hollows. When nothing caught his attention, Ichigo decided that it would be best to just return to the Vizards for the night and get some much needed rest. "This was a waste of time," Ichigo said, his shoulders slumped as he turned around. "What was the point of coming out tonight if there's nothing to take my mind off things?"
He started to slowly walk back in the direction of Shinji and the others. But the boy only took a few steps before the air shuddered. Stopping in his tracks, Ichigo looked up and could feel something off in the distance, a feeling he hadn't felt since Rukia had been taken right before his eyes.
A Senkaimon.
"A Soul Reaper? What are they doing here?" he wondered aloud before his senses alerted him to something of equal importance: a second Senkaimon was opening up far off in the opposite distance. "Two Soul Reapers? What's going on?" he wondered again, confused why two Soul Reapers wouldn't just use one portal to get here. "Maybe it's Orihime and Rukia?" He knew that his friends had gone to the Soul Society to train. Perhaps Orihime had returned home while Rukia had gone to check on Renji, whom Ichigo knew was over at Kisuke's training with Chad. Deciding that it was not his problem, Ichigo continued to walk away.
Then he felt the spiritual presences of the two new arrivals.
Now Ichigo was really confused. He knew those two anywhere, after almost getting killed by them. "Wait, what are Byakuya and Kenpachi doing here?" His scowl deepened as he felt the two Soul Reapers energies. He knew it was them. There was no mistaking the familiar presences. But something felt…off…
Continuing to walk away, Ichigo shook his head. He had bigger problems to deal with. Whatever those two were here for, he was sure that they could handle it. "Those guys are like a walking army," he said, remembering his battles with them. "They'll be fine. Besides, I need to get to bed."
Hurrying along, Ichigo made his way back to the warehouse. But before the Vizard's secret hideout could come into view, Ichigo heard something off in the dark distance. The sound made him stop dead in his tracks and turned his blood into ice.
It was the sound of tiny bells jingling.
Panic swept through Ichigo like a flood. "Dammit! I do not have time for this!" He didn't want another confrontation with the psychotic man. His stomach still hurt whenever he thought of the final battle with Kenpachi.
He took only a few more steps when the sound of bells jingling was heard again, this time much closer. Then he heard a voice cut through the night, making shivers run down his spine.
"Ichigo…I've been looking for you…"
The tense feeling in Ichigo's stomach tightened, knowing that the man was close. But again, something seemed off. 'Wait a minute. That sorta sounded like Kenpachi. But it sounded more like a…'
Too confused by what he was hearing and sensing, Ichigo was caught completely off guard when a dark shadow burst from the night abyss and slammed into him. Slamming into a wall, Ichigo cursed as he stared into the eye of Kenpachi Zaraki, his hands grasping his shoulders tightly. "Ken-Kenpachi!" he gasped, regaining his bearings. As he spoke, the full moon escaped the confines of the dark clouds hiding it and shined light down on them. "What do you think…you're…" The words died in his mouth as the shadowy figure was revealed. He knew that it was Kenpachi Zaraki, but this was a completely changed person.
The female captain grinned as she pinned Ichigo against the concrete wall, happy to find her prize so soon. "It's been a while, Ichigo. I'm so glad I found you…" she grinned.
"Kenpachi! What the hell?!" Ichigo shouted into her face, completely confused by the woman's sudden change.
"What's wrong?" Kenpachi teased, leaning close until Ichigo could see his reflection in her eye, shaking in her arms as she pulled him away from the wall and wrapped her arms around her, pushing him into her busty chest. "Cat got your tongue?"
"What's wrong? You're a chick! What the hell happened to you?!" Ichigo demanded. "And…let go of me!" He squirmed and tried to break her embrace but the woman was just as strong as her former self.
"Don't want to," Kenpachi smiled. Ichigo froze when the brutish woman pressed her nose into his hair and sniffed. "You smell nice."
The sudden creepiness of the now female Kenpachi sniffing his hair made Ichigo try to squirm out of her grip more. "Kenpachi! Get off!"
The woman's response was to push him back against the wall. Grabbing his wrists, the woman pinned them above his head. She looked Ichigo up and down, taking in his features. She'd been driven by an almost insane compulsion to find him and now that she had him in front of her, that urge only grew. She wanted him. Badly.
Ichigo saw the bestial look in the woman's eye and felt his cheeks burn in embarrassment. He knew what that look in her eyes meant. "Ken…Kenpachi…please let go…"
To Ichigo's surprise, Kenpachi slowly let go of his wrists. Ichigo breathed a sigh of relief before Kenpachi's hands, now smooth and soft, cupped his face. Before Ichigo could figure out what was happening, Kenpachi pressed her lips to his. "Mmmhhh!" he gasped into her lips. Ichigo's surprise left his mouth wide open, Kenpachi easily slipping her tongue inside. Ichigo became rooted to the spot, his mind short-circuiting from such sudden events.
Kenpachi's hands left his face to slip through his clothes. The woman could feel a dark thrill surge through her as her fingers touched Ichigo's bare skin. Every time Ichigo squirmed, more of his top was loosened.
Ichigo's brain finally came back on. Putting his hands on her shoulders, Ichigo pushed the crazy woman away. "Kenpachi! What do you think you're doing?!" he said, only for Kenpachi to push him back against the wall. "Why are you acting like this!" he demanded as Kenpachi started licking his neck. His breath hitched when the woman did the unthinkable and dipped her hand into his pants.
"What do you think I'm doing?" Kenpachi chuckled, tasting Ichigo's sweaty neck. She enjoyed his gasp as she reached into his underwear to touch his manhood. "I'm going to make you mine…" she said, a dirty grin on her face.
Before anything else could happen, a third voice came out of nowhere, interrupting Kenpachi's groping of Ichigo. "Get off of him, you bitch."
"Huh?"
Something hit Kenpachi, sending her flying away. Hearing cries of anger, Ichigo turned to see Kenpachi stuck in a blue Kidō neck, stuck to it like a fly in a spider's web. "What the…who the hell did this?!" the woman roared, struggling to break free.
Ichigo felt a hands on his shoulders and gasped as the unknown voice whispered into his ear. "Let's get out of here and find someplace more…quiet."
Ichigo gave a cry of protest as he was swept of his feet and carried away, his rescuer Flashstepping them away from the tangled Kenpachi.
When they finally came to a stop, Ichigo found himself in a park, lamps illuminating the night. "Thank you," Ichigo said as his rescuer as he was laid down on the ground. "I…I…" For the second time tonight Ichigo was at a loss for words when he saw the person who saved him. "Byakuya?!" he gaped, his jaw hanging as the woman knelt down.
"Are you hurt?" she asked gently, putting a hand to his cheek. "I knew that he would try something unsavory and wanted to get to you first."
Ichigo merely stared in disbelief. First Kenpachi and now Byakuya Kuchiki, of all people, was a woman. 'Did Hiyori hit me too hard during that last spar? Or did I walk into some weird twilight zone?'
Byakuya gave a girlish giggle at Ichigo's stunned expression. "What's the matter, my Ichigo? Cat got your tongue?"
"I…you…WHAT THE FUCK?!" Ichigo yelled, on the verge of a major mental breakdown from such shocking events. "WHY ARE YOU A WOMAN? AND WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'MY ICHIGO', BYAKUYA?!"
The woman put a finger to Ichigo's lips, silencing him. "It's been quite the day for me as well, Ichigo. There's no need to shout at my face. As to why I called you mine," she leaned forward, her hand sliding up his shoulder. "It's because I want you to be mine…"
Ichigo went rigid when Byakuya kissed him, too shocked at everything that was happening to struggle. Unlike Kenpachi, Byakuya's smooch was soft and gentle, not trying to force herself on him.
Pulling away from Ichigo's lips, Byakuya turned away and started to ponder out loud. "Now, how is this going to work?" she said, tapping her chin. "The Soul Society's customs demand that the man should court the woman. But he's not old enough to understand the finer subtlety of courting a woman. Does it still count if I used to be male?"
That last sentence made Ichigo snap back into focus. "Whoa! Whoa! WHOA! Who said anything about me courting you?" he asked, sitting up.
"Isn't it obvious?" Byakuya smirked. "If you're going to be mine, we have to make sure that we do this properly. I-"
"THERE YOU ARE, YOU BITCH!"
Kenpachi emerged from out of nowhere, bits of the blue sticky net still clinging to her clothes. She stormed over to the two and grabbed Ichigo by the arm. "Back off, you noble cunt!" she demanded with an angry eye. "He's mine!"
"You back off!" Byakuya said, grabbing Ichigo's other arm and pulling him away from the brutish woman. "Ichigo wants a real woman, not some brute."
"A real woman? That's rich, coming from you!" Kenpachi sneered, pulling on Ichigo's arm. "Let him go!"
"No, you let go!"
To cap off the insanity Ichigo had landed himself in tonight, he suddenly found himself in the middle of a tug-of-war between the two, cringing as the woman stretched his arms out. Soon the pain in his shoulders began to make itself present, making Ichigo feel like a teddy bear about to rip in half. Finally, Ichigo had enough of this madness. "ENOUGH!" he screamed, stopping their argument.
The two women stopped pulling, letting Ichigo slip out of their grasps. "I have had ENOUGH! I want some damn answers!" Grabbing both women's wrists, he started to pull them along with him as he headed for a certain shop. "Come with me! And no arguing or I swear I will stab you with Zangetsu."
Both genderbended women looked at Ichigo before looking at each other. "He's cute when he's angry."
"I agree."
"SHUT UP!"
Minutes later…
Urahara Shop
Kisuke was roused from sleep by a harsh banging on the door to his shop. "Kisuke! Kisuke, get out here!"
Sitting up, the sleepy shopkeeper adjusted his white and green striped nightcap and wiped the sleep from his eyes. "What's all the racket?" he mumbled.
Beside him, Yoruichi woke up from another round of banging. "What the hell? Who's up at this hour?" she grumbled angrily, hating that her sleep was disturbed.
"Kisuke, get out here NOW!"
"I believe that would be Ichigo."
Yoruichi laid back down and put the pillow over her head, trying to drown out the banging. "Remind me tomorrow to claw him. Please go and tell him that women need their beauty sleep."
Slipping a robe on, Kisuke shambled to the door. "Alright, Ichigo, I'm coming. Jeez…" he said as he reached the front door. "This better be good." He turned on the front porch light and opened the sliding door.
What he found waiting for him was a distraught Ichigo Kurosaki with two women standing behind him. Kisuke stared for a moment when he recognized the familiar features of Kenpachi Zaraki and Byakuya Kuchiki but also noticing that they were women, the latter of whom was trying to smack Kenpachi's hand away every time she tried to cop a feel of Ichigo's butt. He rubbed his eyes and stared again. When the image was still there he merely stared at the pair with the same amount of disbelief that Ichigo had.
"Okay, that settles it: no more booze before bed for me."
Later…
Urahara's living room
Kisuke poured everyone a cup of tea while the two female captains explained themselves, Ichigo sitting uncomfortably between the two. Yoruichi sat next to Kisuke, staring slackjawed at Byakuya's chest. Kisuke listened to Kenpachi as she explained the serum that had caused such dramatic changes. "Wow. Just…wow," he said, unable to keep himself from staring at Kenpachi's chest. "I can't believe you two were foolish enough to actually drink something Mayuri made."
"Desperate times called for desperate measures," Byakuya said, her hand slowly crawling up Ichigo's thigh before he smacked it away.
"Kisuke, you're the smartest person I know-"
"Really? Thank you!" Kisuke thanked, happily taking the compliment.
Ichigo was about to resume speaking when he paled as Kenpachi's foot started to gently touch his. "Stop it!" he told the grinning woman, scooting away only for his thigh to touch Byakuya's, making the woman smile. "Can you please turn them back? Please!"
"Why?" Kisuke ask. "This is way too funny."
"I'm serious!" Ichigo shouted, smacking Byakuya's hand again.
"Still though, this is quite baffling," Yoruichi said, still eyeballing Byakuya's chest and wondering how come she had tits as big as here. "How come they're so enamored with Ichigo?"
"Mayuri did say that the key component of the serum was Ichigo's blood," Byakuya told them.
"What?!" Ichigo gaped. "You drank my blood?! That's disgusting!"
"Hmm…" Kisuke hummed and sat back on his cushion, flipping his fan open. "I have a few ideas but nothing substantial. The best guess I could come up with is that when they turned into women, the part of the serum that contained your blood mixed into their bloodstreams and affected their brains. I wouldn't know where to start on how to fix this," he admitted.
"Kurotsuchi said the same thing." Kenpachi grabbed Ichigo's shoulder. "Now if you'll excuse us, Ichigo and I have a rematch in his bedroom…"
Byakuya reached across and smacked her hand. "Back off, you oaf."
The two women glared at each other and Ichigo suddenly felt really small being caught in the middle again. "Guys? A little help?" he asked, not sure how to keep the two women from getting into a catfight. "Could you please stop them?"
"Stop them? I want to see where this is going." Yoruichi grinned. "I always knew you could be a ladies man, Ichigo, but this takes the cake."
"You're not helping!" Ichigo shouted before the two women reached around him to grab their tops, sparks flying from the threatening look they were giving each other. "Help…"
Sipping his tea, Kisuke decided that he might as well stop the pair so that he and Yoruichi could get back to sleep. Both of the women turned when they felt Kisuke's spiritual pressure rise threateningly. "Both of you. Stop," he glared. "I don't need you two bringing down my house. You're ladies now. Act like it."
Both women decided that they needed to tone it down a notch for now. They both knew what Kisuke was capable of and didn't want to piss him off. They let each other go and turned away, though Ichigo had to smack Kenpachi's hand again when she tried to touch his thigh.
"I'm going home…" Ichigo said, needing some peace and quiet. He knew he should be getting back to the Vizards but after tonight he really wanted some sanity. He turned to the two women and glared. "Don't follow me home and don't try to molest me while I'm sleeping!" he told the two.
"I give no guarantees," Kenpachi said.
Sighing, Byakuya turned to the shopkeeper and her former mentor. "May we stay here for the night?"
"Sure. Just keep the catfighting to a minimum."
"Or if you do, make sure you videotape it," Yoruichi added.
Ichigo stepped out the shop and sighed, wondering if this was all real or if this was so nightmare he'd yet to wake up from. Running a hand through his hair, he began to walk home, hoping that things couldn't possibly get any crazier.
Little did he know, two Gargantas opened up in the nearby distance and two genderbended Arrancars emerged…
To be continued
