Chapter 3-New
Disclaimer- you know the drill, except the plot and anything which is not present in the original series, everything belongs to the GREAT KUBO TITE
Ichigo just stood there. The king was offering his help. His friends were fighting a lost battle. More like dying. He needed to do something. The door of opportunity was open. He replayed the words of Spirit king in his mind, again and again.
"Either I can cancel your request returning everything back to normal OR I can give you power...my power to fight, you always wanted power don't you. Power to protect. Crossing limit after limits. Reaching new dimensions of power every time when you felt for it. So what do you say?"
He couldn't believe he heard them correctly. He needed confirmation.
"Your powers?"
"Not truly but yeah close enough that the difference in our power can be seen only by me, even if I want to I cannot give you all my powers. With some other effects, which might be pleasurable or not."
Ichigo was shocked. Power of spirit king, he never dreamt about it, but it was in front of him. A single yes and he will again get the power which he wanted to use to protect his near and dear ones. No one will be anywhere him so he will not have to worry about failing to protect his near and dear ones. It's other effects were in the farthest corner of his mind. If he could save his friends and family, he would not care for the price. But... what if he will be corrupted by such power? Sure the power of spirit king was no joke. If it ever felt in wrong hands the scenario could not be imagined. He feared himself. He was so surprised that the words came out before he could think "But If you..."
"I have infinite resitsu and I will give you near to infinite resitsu. Now if you know the laws of math, It is as simple as that." He answered intercepting the question. He knew so because of Ichigo's last experience of taking powers from Rukia.
"But what if I got corrupted and try to overthrow you."
"Having power and having the knowledge how to utilize those powers are completely two different things. It will take you centuries to figure out the extent of those powers. Also I have faith in you, Kurosaki Ichigo; you are a good person who seeks to protect not to destroy. Beside after sharing my power we will be like siblings. And I will always be there to guide you to the right path whenever you will be in confusion. Just what the older sibling do for their younger ones."
"But my hollow..."
"Its not there. It was a part of your shinigami powers hidden inside you. You will know why in near future. So you ready..."
"But what if-"
"Do you believe in yourself?"
"I…."
"Do you believe in yourself Ichigo?"
"I don't know."
"Then believe in me."
Fake Karakura Town
"Give up Isshin; you know you can't over power me now with the geezer gone and me evolving in the new dimension of power." Smiled Aizen. He was in his butterfly form toying with Isshin, Yoruichi and Urahara rendered unconscious. If the any one saw them from far, they will no doubt think that they were dead. Barely alive and Isshin was fighting with all his might on the verge of losing but he vowed to fight till his last breath.
"I... (hmph)...will not give...(hmph)...up. Not... (hmph)... my last... (hmph)...breath...(hmph)..."
"I guess you don't want to witness the formation of ouken and see my rule. So let's end the play.'' Aizen delivered the final blow.
"Dad...are you all right?" said Ichigo slapping his dad trying to bring him back to his consciousness. He woke up so suddenly that if Ichigo has not intercepted that he would have been hit pretty badly. Isshin saw the scowling face of Ichigo with the emotions of worry and care in his eyes.
"What? Where? ...Who are you...YES. I know you. You are the psychopath from the other day. What are you doi-" But was cut by Ichigo planting his fist over his face.
"Stop calling me psychopath and is this how you treat you savior, you old beardo. Geez how were you able to join Gotei 13."
"How do you-"
''It's a long story without subtitles. I will explain everything later. Right now I have to take care of Aizen." Ichigo said with a determined look.
"You are underestimating Aizen. There is no way you can fight him alone. I can't sense a fucking ounce of reistsu in you. This is no place for you." Isshin said with a worried look.
"You are underestimating me Dad. Don't worry, it will be over in an instant.'' Ichigo said as he shumpoed to Aizen. Isshin Sat there in horror. The boy has not shunpoed. He just vanished. This boy knew too much. Could it be another plot of Aizen? He quickly removed the thought from his mind. He saved his life. This boy may also be after Ouken for all he knew. That's why he saved him and went to kill Aizen. That has to be the reason. But why was he calling him dad? He wanted to help but in his battered position he could do nothing. He looked in the surrounding to find all his comrades lying nearby. It spiked his curiosity in the intention his so called 'son'.
With Aizen
Aizen was smiling. His powers are devastating. From the impact of attack not even a single speck of Isshin remained. He never knew his powers could be this devastating.
''you look happy Aizen." Aizen's eyes narrowed. He looked around to see the source of voice.
''Yo. Long time no see Aizen. Remember me? Oh who am I kidding? Of course you cannot remember me. We haven't met yet.'' Said Ichigo smirking. Aizen looked at him with disbelief. He had never seen this boy. He had a most outrageous bright mop of orange hair on his head. He was not carrying Zampakuto, so he could not be a shinigami. He couldn't sense any resitsu from the boy, nothing like he had ever encountered before.
''Who are you? What are you doing here?"
Ignoring the first question, Ichigo answered the second one "I'm here to stop you."
"So, you must be the last resort of Gotei 13? If so then I will advice you to back off while you can. There is no way you could stand a chance before Me. I fought and defeated whole Gotei 13. What makes you think you, a single person, can defeat me alone? Just before you came, my attack erased the existence of kurosaki Isshin who was the last man standing." said Aizen while trying to figure out his powers. The boy wore a black hakama and haori with cloud like incarnated designs of white color. He had orange hairs falling on his shoulders. Although it looked like a simple outfit and the boy looked simple but he could tell that the boy was anything but simple if standing in front of him without being affected by his reistsu without having a single ounce of reistsu himself.
''My name is Ichigo, Kurosaki Ichigo. I was previously a shinigami but now I am something more than that. I know what you are looking for. This...'' Said Ichigo as he managed to pull out Ouken from his sleeves.
''How?'' Aizen was shocked, so much that he ignored the surname kurosaki, all this pain, all this controversy, all this fight was only for that key and it lay in front of him. For once he felt all his hard work of around 150 years was futile as the entity held ouken in front of his eyes.
''Give it to Me.'' said Aizen advancing towards him, his hands extended.
''Not so fast Aizen. I want you to win it. I cannot simply give it to you.''
''Don't be so COCKY...'' snarled Aizen firing a cero.
''Now...now...you should let a man complete his talk.'' Said Ichigo stopping the cero with his bare hands. The cero stopped there and remained there as a ball of red light. Aizen was shocked this man has stopped my cero as it is nothing but pebble for him.
''Nah.. telling your cero as a pebble for me is a bit of...overstatement.'' What? He could hear his thoughts? I can't feel any of his reistsu. But he is demonstrating such a power. A being of lower dimension cannot feel the power of a being of higher dimension unless the higher being desires so and lowers his reistsu just so that they could feel it. Does that mean that the boy was standing on even higher dimension than him? Completely out of his league?
"Of course I can hear them, while most of your thoughts make no sense but on the last part you are right. I'm completely out of your league. So tell me were you going to fight him with this level of power?''
Power of spirit king? Yes it does made sense. He held ouken, he had immense power. ''I know who you are? You have the power of spirit king, you have ouken, and you must be spirit king. Are you not?''
''Well sorry to disappoint you but I am not.'' He raised his finger as Aizen prepared for second attack and said '' I have the power of spirit king but yet to know how to control its capacity and its extent so lets fight somewhere else I don't want any more casualties.'' Before Aizen could respond he found himself standing at different place. It was nowhere near Karakura town but some deserted place in soul society. How could this happen they travelled from real world to soul society without passing Dangai, with such an amount of speed. He said something about he had yet to know the proper control of his power. Just how much power does this Ichigo guy possess? I must better finish him off before he could get a chance to attack. Plus if I can kill him I don't have to go through the pain of creating a new one. Yes that will do. Thinking this vaguely he attacked Ichigo with all the power he could muster.
''Che...You think this level of power could affect Me. Sure you can do more than that. Come again.'' said Ichigo enjoying his powers. He was toying with Aizen. He wanted him to feel the same, others felt while he toyed with them.
''How did you acquire such power? TELL ME.'' Aizen snarled. He jumped to land a kick on him. He expected to do some damage but no such luck. He may have more luck in moving a mountain than him.
''The spirit king himself gave me this power and ouken. I am just fighting to protect my comrades.'' He replied without even moving. All those kicks and punches were so feeble he didn't feel like to block them. Meanwhile Aizen was attacking with all his might. Why wasn't hogyoku doing anything about it? He was giving it his all, a couple of right hooks, a few left jabs, while knowing he really ain't got a chance.
"It won't Aizen. It no longer sees you as its master. I made sure of that." Aizen was seething in anger. He was so close to victory that he could almost taste it, but some brat with power to rival his own was standing in his was of all the time. Couldn't he have appeared before? Was soul society aware of the fact and reserved the boy as last resort? If that is so then he will not let them have them stand in his way now of all times when he was so close. He would not them. He would not allow it. Not now, not ever.
"He gave you his powers? Why? Why you-"
"You will not understand any of this. I'm here on my own behalf. You hurt my comrades. I am not fighting for revenge; I am fighting to protect them. I am not fighting because I want to Aizen but because I have to. You have left me no choice. You are just tensionized (of course there is no such word, but I use it in my daily life) Aizen. I think I should just end your tension and this game." Ichigo's voice was dripping in anger and such a venom that Aizen felt a shiver run down his spine. His eyes widened at this he saw no way to escape. He simply closed his eyes and accepted his fate. Ichigo held out his hand, palm facing the sky and summoned a stick make of black reistsu (same one as in the last fight of Aizen and Ichigo, in the original series) and moved it in the downward arc and before Aizen could even have any second thoughts; he was dissolved into nothingness.
''At last it's over.'' exhaled Ichigo. Now he could go meet his friends but the words of spirit king came to his mind.
Flashback
He was afraid of himself but listening to king's words and the urgency to save his friends he decided to take the chance and regret later.
After giving Ichigo his power, spirit king said "To use your powers just believe in them. And about your friends, they may accept you as their savior Ichigo, but you possess such power, apart from your family everybody will fear you to turn into threat. It's the fear that shakes man off his path and his decision. And it's in their nature to fear the one who rise above them. The people around you will try to be comfortable and treat you as warmly as possible so that you don't turn against them. But on your back they will always try to find your weakness. When this will happen you will become frustrated. Because I know you live for other's faith in you. Plus there will be some changes to your body for your powers to adjust them. When this happens..." Ichigo felt the weight a weight in his pocket "Feel free to drop by your other home and your brother. I will clear all your tensions."
End of Flashback
''That is a distant future. Until then I will be with them." Smiling over the memory he vanished and appeared in fake Karakura town, not on the spot where others were. He wanted to walk to that place. At least it will give him some time to think. He wondered how they will react. How will he convince them? Will they really fear him instead he being their savior? And what about the changes that spirit-I mean brother was talking about? That is to be thought later right now about meeting my friends and soul society. But now that he knows the truth, and knows about most of their lives, he was sure he can convince them. After all he has the power of Spirit King.
Authors note:
Inuyashaket: I AM NOT GETTING REVIEWS. (ToT) WHERE DID I GO WRONG?
Ichigo: what happened to him? (Points towards Inuyashaket)
Spirit king: Nothin'. He's just little upset for not getting reviews.
Inuyashaket: WAAAAAA….. IS MY WRITING SUCH A CRAP?!
Ichigo: (wincing and putting hand over his ears)Upset is an understatementin my view for such condition.
Inuyashaket: (after a moment of composing) Ok I'm fine now.
Ichigo: Thank god. My ears were likely going to fall off.
Spirit king: The feeling's mutual bro.
Inuyashaket: (still ignoring them) maybe I should stop writing and give it a rest.
Ichigo and Spirit king (together): WHAT?!
Inuyashaket: (noticing them) Ya I think I should stop boring the fanfiction readers.
(Ichigo and Spirit king faces each other.)
Ichigo: Is he really gonna do that?
Spirit king: Don't know. Betternot take any chances. (Looks towards readers) Hey people out there! Please, only you can stop him from doing that. I just go a little sibling. I want to spend some time with him.
Ichigo: Yeah, and I recently got those powers. I wanna use them for a while and also there's my family.
(Inuyashaket again starts crying, tears flowing with a rapid force and soon the whole set goes underwater, I mean undertears.)
Spirit king: JUST DO IT FAST.
(Ichigo nods in approval and swims away to search for drain plug to drain the set.)
