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The Hollow
'Where am I?' I asked myself as I opened my eyes.
"You are in your own world." A male voice said.
"What do you mean?" I asked looking around.
I saw that I was in a little village with a mountain in the distance.
"Welcome." The voice said as a white wolf, with deep blue eyes, appeared in front of me.
"Who are you?" I asked him.
"You should know that by now." he said, as his mouth didn't move.
"Are you Kariu?" I asked.
"Yes." he said.
"No offence, but, I didn't think you would look like this." I said trying to not sound insulting.
"None taken." he said.
"Where is Shariu?" I asked.
"Since Shariu was not yours you cannot see it." He said.
"But it looks exactly like you." I said.
"I know. But Shariu still doesn't belong to you." He said.
"Then why could I release it?" I asked.
"I don't know. But I have a bigger task to do. You were almost killed by Killing Dart, and he killed the woman that you loved the most in the world. I brought you here because you are about to become a hollow." he said.
"What do you want me to do?" I asked.
"Stop from becoming a Hollow." He said.
"What do you mean?" I asked as the buildings started to break into millions of boxes.
"The second the final box falls you will become a hollow." he said.
"What do I do?" I asked as I fell into a dark pit.
"Find me." he replied as he disappeared.
'Thousands of boxes and I have no time.' I thought.
"Time is not the problem. Neither is the number of boxes." A growling and speaking voice said.
"Who said that?" I asked looking around.
"I did." A werewolf looking creature with a white mask, black fur, and a hole in his chest answered.
"You're the Hollow." I said.
"Yes. And this is the box." he said tossing me a box.
"How do you know?" I asked him.
"I just do. Now OPEN IT!" he called.
I opened it and heard another voice.
"Where am I?" I asked as I opened my eyes and say a blue sky.
"We are underneath the Sôkyoku." A voice said that was not Kariu's or the Hollow's.
"How long have I been out?" I asked.
"About three days." A female said.
"What!" I said as I sat up.
"Calm down." said a male's voice.
"What's the worst?" I asked standing up then feeling a pain on my left shoulder.
"Or your wounds will open up, for the third time." He said with a smirk.
"Urahara don't tease him." The female's voice said.
"He still has a lot to learn Yoruichi." The male's voice said, as he appeared in front of me along with a dark tan woman standing next to him.
"You used a flash step?" I asked him.
"He is quick, pleased to meet you. I am Kisuke Urahara. And this is my friend Yoruichi Shihōin." He said pointing at the woman standing next to him.
He had white skin, yellow hair, and green eyes. His friend had dark skin, short black hair and dark eyes.
"I think I've heard of you. She is the leader of the Secret Remote Squad. And you are the Third Seat in the Twelfth Squad." I said.
"You are better than I thought." He said.
"What happened?" I asked.
"Killing Dart escaped and, as far as we know, is no longer inside of the Soul Society." Urahara said.
"And how many Shinigami were killed?" I asked.
"Forty-four total. No Captains were killed and one Assistant Captain got involved. Mainly third seats and below were killed." Urahara said.
"Not to mention my fiancée." I mumbled.
"What was that?" Yoruichi asked.
"Nothing, where is Shariu?" I asked.
"The Central Forty-Six have declared that Shariu and the body of Second Seat Desiree are to be destroyed immediately. That was three days ago." Urahara said.
"Her body was burned yesterday." Yoruichi said.
"Then let's get started. If you haven't already noticed, we are underground in a secret room that Yoruichi, and I, have built." He said.
"So why am I here?" I asked looking around and seeing desert and dead trees knowing that he was going to answer my question even if I didn't ask it.
"Thirty-nine of the Shinigami were killed by Killing Dart. The other five…were killed by you." He said with a stern face.
"Me?" I asked.
"When you were bitten you somehow changed into a Hollow and killed those Shinigami as they tried to detain you." Urahara said.
"Somehow you changed back as they stopped you." Yoruichi said.
"How did I get here?" I asked.
"My squad stopped you and I brought you down here." Yoruichi said.
"Now the most important thing is to give you control over that Hollow." Urahara said.
"And how do I do that?" I asked.
"We must release it." He said.
"How do I do that?" I asked again.
"Concentrate on how you felt before you became the hollow and make contact with it." Yoruichi said.
"I have the feeling." I said.
"What is it?" Yoruichi asked.
"I feel anger, regret, and an empty feeling." I said as my Spiritual Pressure took a steep increase.
"Control it. Fight it and try to make contact." Urahara said.
"He already has. I have been able to make contact with him for quite a while." A voice said that was deeper than mine.
"Who are you?" Urahara asked.
"I am Wereu. A werewolf Hollow." It said as it looked at them.
"Why don't you show us your mask?" Yoruichi asked as she looked into its eyes and say that the blue part of my eyes turned red and the white part turned black.
"I don't wish to fight." It said.
"Well that's a first." Urahara said, scratching his head.
"We wish to fight as one." It said.
"Then release him." Yoruichi said.
"I never forced my control of him." Wereu said.
"What do you want?" she asked.
"Peace. And to kill the Hollow that killed Desiree." Wereu said making a fist.
"Then you must have loved her too." Urahara said.
"I'm part of him. So of course I did." Wereu said.
"I'm sorry. But as you know, we didn't save her." Urahara said.
"Don't remind me." I said.
"You have control again I see." Urahara said.
"I think I always had control." I said.
"Well this is a day of firsts." Yoruichi said.
"What's this?" I asked as I started to feel a sword materialize in my hand.
"That's not possible." Urahara said.
Shariu started to materialize itself in my left hand.
"Now we need to talk to it." Urahara said.
Over the next three months I trained in the "room", if you could call it that, with Kariu, Shariu, and Wereu. Urahara showed me a doll that would force my Zanpackuto, or in my case Zanpackutos, to manifest itself. I showed them what Kariu looked like with out the help of the doll. But with Shariu I had to use the doll.
"How may I help you Joe?" a female voice asked.
"That's very impressive." Urahara said.
When I looked at Shariu I saw that she looked like a brownish blonde wolf. She had blue eyes and what looked like a scar across her back, under the fur.
"How have you been since the incident?" Kariu asked with concern.
"Not to well. I have been meaning to meet you Joe." Shariu said.
"What has been on your mind?" I asked.
"It's about Desiree." She said.
"What about her?" I asked.
"Before she died I stopped time and told her that I could save her. She refused and told me this. 'Tell Joe to find another person to love. I know that he wants to be with me. But I could feel that last night was the last night we would spend together. Tell him that I love him and I will always be with him. Also, tell him how to release you. You can help him in the future. That is the least that I could do.' Those were the last words she said before you released me." Shariu said.
"So as of now" I started.
"I am your second Zanpackuto." She finished.
The next day I saw the Sun for what looked like the first time. After I walked around the Soul Society for a few hours and I learned that Assistant Captain of Squad Five was replaced by a man named Aizen. The last was discharged for negligence. I bumped into a girl with short brown hair and deep red eyes. She came from one of the Noble families. I forgot which one, and her name. We dated for a year and she found out about the Hollow and I broke up with her to protect her. 50 years later I met a girl with brown hair and blue eyes. She came from District Eighty. The worst District in the entire Soul Society. I forgot her name as well. She was killed on her next mission. I was becoming the most known Soul Reaper for having the worst luck when it came to women. After a while I figured not to try to fall in love again.
Another 150 years went by and I started to change. Both Kariu and Shariu were on my back. Kariu's hilt pointed to my right and Shariu's to my left. I had learned to release them both and trained on how to wield two blades at one time by Captain Kyôraku. Yoruichi started to teach me about a technique she was developing that she called Shunkō, or Flash Cry. She said that she was trying to combine hand-to-hand combat with Kido. When she tried it out it formed two butterfly wings on her back that disintegrated the clothes on her back and shoulders. She helped me with trying to master it but I never understood it. My hair became longer and I decided to comb it back. It turned into a brown afro, with the hair about three inches long. I grew a small beard and thin mustache. No girl would still go out with me. I didn't care. I still didn't like stupid people either.
I was sitting on top of the barracks when I felt a group of Spiritual Pressures start to disappear rapidly.
"What is this?" I asked.
"Smells like trouble." Wereu said.
I jumped off the top and ran for the area. I ran through where the gate was supposed to be and wasn't noticed by the townspeople.
When I reached the area I saw that there had been struggle. I followed it and found a single Shinigami in open grassland. She had short black hair looked like she was tied up and knocked out. As I got closer I felt something weird. She flipped over to where her back was facing me and I saw that the back of her uniform was torn apart. Her back was filled with scratches and future scars. Three hollows then jumped from the shadows and attacked.
"Die!" they shouted.
I pulled Kariu off my back, spun, and slashed all of them.
"Are you O.K.?" I asked the girl as I got close to her, Kariu still in my hand.
She woke up and screamed.
"It's o.k. I'm here to help." I said as I held her and cut the bindings.
"Please help." She whispered as she gripped her hands on the front of my uniform.
"What happened?" I asked.
"They came out of nowhere and attacked. They killed everybody in I was with." She cried through tears.
"You're o.k. now. All of the Hollows are gone." I said.
"No. They can hide their Spiritual Pressure form us now." She said.
"Move they might be able to hide from you but not me." Wereu called.
I Flash Stepped to the left and used Kariu to block any attack that would to come. Three more Hollows jumped down and bolted for us.
"We need to get out of here." She said.
I then ran for the Soul Society. We weren't stopped at all as we ran. It seemed strange. I felt multiple Hollows the way home but none wanted to stop us, it was like they were either scared of me, the girl, or were making sure that I got home.
When we reached the Soul Society I was stopped at the gate. The girl had fallen asleep in my arms, probably from the stress of the day.
"You cannot enter." The giant Gate Guardian, Jidanbô, said.
"Why can't we?" I asked him.
"Only Shinigami are allowed inside. She is. You aren't. You must leave or I will be forced to kill you." He said as he pulled out one of his axes.
"Who gave that order?" I asked as I reached for Kariu.
"It came from the top. It's a new rule. Now go or be killed." He said.
"Fine, take care of her." I said as I set the sleeping girl down.
When I tried to stand up she wouldn't let go of my uniform. Her hands were still clamped to me.
'Silly girl, it seems that you have an admirer.' Wereu said.
"Hey, Jindanbô, It seems that I won't be leaving after all." I said.
"What do you mean?" he asked as he started to pull out his other ax.
"She won't let go of me." I said.
"If she won't then…then you must head straight to the Fourth Company's barracks and stay there. If you cause trouble don't blame me." He said.
"Don't worry, I won't. I'm not that kind of person." I said with a smile.
He opened the gate and let us through. As I walked through the gate I felt that everybody was watching us, watching me. I walked straight to the Fourth Company's barracks and showed her to the Soul Reapers in charge.
"If she won't let go then we will just have to heal her while you hold her." Captain Retsu Unohana said.
"I know who you are." I said as we walked down the hall.
"How, might I ask?" she asked.
"Do you remember a woman named Desiree?" I asked her.
"I do remember her. She was my Second Seat." She said.
"She was to be my wife." I said as we reached the nursing rooms.
"Please take a seat." She said as she pointed to a bed.
I looked outside and saw that Captain Two was waiting for me.
"What do you want Yoruichi?" I asked as I sat down.
"I'm here to make sure that you don't do anything stupid." she said.
"You were ordered to, weren't you?" I asked.
"You disappeared and brought back this girl. What did you expect?" she asked.
"I expected people to help. What happened around here?" I asked.
"They fear what's inside of you." She said.
"The way that they act they should. I felt that I needed to help. No one even knew that she was out there." I said.
"You need to lie down." Retsu said.
I lied down and held the girl on top of me. I got a better look at her and noticed that she looked younger than me.
"You left on your own and didn't call for backup. What if this girl was killed when you tried to bring her back?" she asked.
"I didn't think I needed to ask for backup." I said.
"You will always need backup, even if you are ranked as a Captain." She said.
"I didn't think that I needed permission to help someone! I think that all it takes is a man with enough guts to help! Without being asked!" I shouted as I sat up.
"If you don't calm down I won't be able to heal her." Retsu said with a stern face.
"I'm sorry." I said as I calmed down and lay back down on the bed.
"We need to remove" Unohana said before I cut her off.
"Do anything that will help her." I said.
They removed the top part of her uniform, or what was left of it, and gasped at the sight.
"What happened to her?" Yoruichi asked.
"She was attacked by a group of Hollows. All of her friends were killed." I said.
"You need to stay quiet as I heal her or we will have trouble." Unohana said.
"I know. You know. Any other man would have taken advantage of this." I said as I felt the girl's breasts through my uniform.
"But you have morals and a good conscience?" Retsu asked.
"You could say that." I said as I started to blush.
"Even with that monster in you?" She asked.
"I want to get that point behind me. And he's not a monster." I said.
"I believe you. If he was he would have taken over your body long ago." She said.
"I wish that were so." I said.
"What do you mean?" she asked as a green light came from her hands to heal the girl.
"Wereu controls my anger, and that has grown since the Desiree died." I said.
"I'm sorry." she said.
"That's ok. Could you teach me how to heal someone?" I asked.
"If you would like to learn I will teach." She said as she grabbed my hands.
I started to calm down and concentrate. My hands started to glow and heal the girl faster then the other healers.
After the girl was healed I left the Seireitei, as ordered, and wandered the districts, protecting them from Hollows as much as I could. After that was when I found out that I could change into Wereu and chose to stay in his form. And hope that I would never look back at what I had left behind.
*End Flashback*