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A Different Path
Chapter: Four A different Outcome and New events.
Ichigo and the Vaizards were still training, when they felt a large reiatsu just sweep through the whole town.
"What the hell." Ichigo asked looking away from Hiyori who was about to beat him senseless with her sandal a moment ago if it were not the fact that a large reiatsu just swept the whole area.
Almost all the Vaizards all thought the same thing when they glanced at each other, it would seem that Aizen has finally made his move they all thought.
Ichigo knew he was the substitute-shinigami of Karakura Town and he had to protect it. He knew his friends would get involved, but he also knew none of them would be able to deal with the threat that was just up ahead. Ichigo made a move up the stairs when Kensei grabbed him from behind trying to restrain him.
"Damn it let me go!" Ichigo shouted as Kensei showed no trace of planning to let him go.
"Kensei let him." Shinji said not even bothering to look at Ichigo. Kensei reluctantly released Ichigo still staring at him. With that being done, Ichigo grabbed Zangetsu and made his way towards the opening.
"Ichigo," Shinji began, "You have a total of a minute and 45 seconds to kill the threat, before you become vulnerable."
All Ichigo did was nod not even bothering to turn around saying, "Thanks, all of you." Ichigo then ran through the opening and went outside and charged at full speed towards his destination.
Back to Ulquiorra and Yammi
"I came here many times when I was just a hollow, but man it's still as boring as it was when I left." Yammi said looking around at the landscape with an annoyed look on his face.
"Don't complain. I believe I said I could handle this alone, but you're the one who wanted to come Yammi." The stoic fourth Espada said without even turning around.
"Alright, Alright, My bad." Yammi said as he started making his way towards up from the crater they made when they landed.
Yammi made his way to the top and noticed all the civilians that were gawking at the crater that was there.
"Was that a meteorite?" One of them asked peering over to look in.
"Nothings there." Another added.
"What do you think could've feel in there?" Another asked as he and a group started asking questions.
Yammi continued to stare as he watched, "What's with these guys?" He then took a deep breath and the souls of the humans around him or within the mile radius, were all being sucked in.
As Ichigo made his way towards the two, he noticed that anyone who had low spirit energy were getting their souls sucked by something. He knew this was no normal threat, so he grabbed Zangetsu from his back and started to flash step towards the park.
When he arrived, he was shocked to see the number of dead bodies on the ground. He then rushed to one and started to check on him. He then saw there was nothing he could do seeing as their souls are no longer in their bodies.
Ichigo then turned his attention to where the souls were being sucked. He started sprinting towards the massive opening.
Ulquiorra made his way to the top and saw Yammi sucking in the souls of the humans near him. He then thought, "Why did I bring this idiot with me." He continued to wonder why Yammi would waste his time sucking in souls that barely even held in reiatsu, he thought they were trash.
"Nasty!" Yammi said as he tried to get rid of the foul taste in his mouth.
" Naturally, did you actually think these souls would be appetizing?" Ulquiorra asked as he observed the damage Yammi caused with his gonzui.
"Yammi quit messing around." He then said. "We need to find the person Aizen-sama told us to find."
"Yeah." Yammi said as he took a step forward. As he continued to walk, a blue shaped crescent of spirit energy came howling at him. It was too late for a dodge, the attack slammed at him with great force cutting his shoulder.
"Shit, who in the hell did that?" Yammi asked as he covered his arm to stop the bleeding.
"Hey are you the one who did this to all these people?" Ichigo asked as he made his way in front of Yammi.
"So what if I am." Yammi replied as he started to stand up and tower over Ichigo.
"Because I plan to kill you." Ichigo said as continued to look at the towering giant above him.
"Hey Ulquiorra, is this the one Aizen-sama told us about?" With the mere mention of Aizen Ichigo became aware as to who these two were.
So these are Aizen's people, Ichigo thought not taking his eyes off of Yammi. He then noticed another person behind the big oaf. He saw he was shorter, had black hair with a mask fragment on his left side of his head, he had green eyes with little lines coming down them as if they were tear lines, and the hollow hole located around his neck/chest.
"It would seem that your foolish attacks were enough to draw him in." The one Ichigo saw as Ulquiorra said.
"Well then let me kill him." Yammi said as he pulled his right arm back and aimed a punch at Ichigo's head. All that was heard was a massive clank and dust filled the whole area. Yammi pulled his fist back to survey the damage to only see Ichigo standing there with a smile on his face.
"Is that all you have?" Ichigo asked in a tone Yammi just despised.
"Don't get so cocky punk." Yammi stated as he once again aimed a punch at Ichigo who just raised Zangetsu in an offensive pose and struck Yammi in the chest with the other end of Zangetsu's blade. Yammi fell to the ground by the pain and started to stumble when trying to get up.
"Do you want me to fight for you?" Ulquiorra asked not really caring about the situation that was happening in front of him.
"Shut up!" Yammi said as he started to draw his zanpakuto.
"You're planning on using your zanpakuto?" Ulquiorra asked wondering should he really jump in or let Yammi die.
"How many times do I have to tell you, shut up!" Yammi shouted in frustration. He didn't think this kid could have really made him draw his sword.
Ichigo watched as Yammi started to draw his sword, He has a zanpakuto, Ichigo thought.
"I guess I should raise it up a notch." Ichigo said as he placed Zangetsu In front of him. He then shouted "bankai!" And his body was surrounded by a black, dense reiatsu.
Yammi watched as he saw Ichigo get surrounded by the reiatsu and the dust. When the dust cleared he saw Ichigo standing there with a black almost coat with ripped ends, and a small black long sword in his hands.
"Tensa Zangetsu." Ichigo said. Yammi was shocked for a while but got over it as he tried to take a swift strike on Ichigo.
It just happened in a flash Yammi thought, He just swung and Ichigo flipped over him as if nothing happened. He then felt a pain in his right arm and noticed his right arm was cut off with his sword falling on the floor.
"My arm!" Yammi wailed as he turned around to see Ichigo gone again. He then saw a shadow above him and then felt another stinging pain on his chest.
He then noticed a giant gash running down from his shoulder to his abdomen. In a flash, Yammi felt another searing amount of pain on his head. Ichigo had moved with incredible speed and swung the other side of Tensa Zangetsu on Yammi's head with so much strength that he knocked out the 10th Espada out cold on the ground.
Ichigo then turned around and stared at Ulquiorra raising Zangetsu at him.
"I guess your next." Ichigo said as he continued to stare at the silent Arrancar.
Ulquiorra just stared at Yammi's unconscious body and just closed his eyes. What an idiot, he thought.
"Kurosaki Ichigo, you have proved to be interesting just like Aizen-sama said you were." Ulquiorra said as he then turned his gaze upon Ichigo.
Ichigo didn't say anything; he just continued to stare the cold, silent Arrancar down, waiting for him to make his move.
"It was an interesting feat to watch you defeat Yammi as if he were nothing." Ulquiorra continued. "Did you know out all the Arrancar under Aizen-sama's wishes, you defeated the 10th strongest there is."
Ichigo contemplated on this as he then stared at Yammi prone body lying in the ground. He then thought if this what Aizen really called strong; he could almost destroy the whole army.
"But you should also know that Yammi is the weakest of the Espada." Ichigo then turned and stared at Ulquiorra and was surprised, what was the Espada he thought.
"If you're wondering, the Espada are the ten strongest Arrancar in Aizen-sama's army." Ulquiorra continued. "And like I said before Yammi is the weakest of us all." He then stared at Ichigo directly in the eye.
"So that would make you stronger than him?" Ichigo asked feeling that this answer was obvious by the lack of facial expression on this ones face.
"Of course, I am the cuarto Espada Ulquiorra Schifler and that unconscious idiot you defeated is the 10th Espada Yammi." Ichigo was surprised to have heard this, now he understood why he had this uneasy feeling inside of him when he came face to face with Ulquiorra. This guys the fourth strongest Espada.
"So show me what you got." Ulquiorra said as he took out his right hand from his pocket. Ichigo was still unsure but he charged anyway.
He moved at his fastest his bankai could go and tried to take Ulquiorra from the back to have his sword just dent his coat not doing much. Ichigo was shocked at this, what the hell why can't I cut him, Ichigo thought.
Ulquiorra almost sensed the confusion upon the orange haired substitute shinigami, "If your wonder why you can't cut me, it's because my skin is as tough as what you humans would call steel." Ichigo was confused and stepped back. He then put his hand across his face and stared at Ulquiorra.
"I guess with you I will go all out." Ichigo said as he raised his sword and a dense, black reiatsu swirled around him and caused a towering force of wind. Ulquiorra just watched as the tower of wind blew towards him as he watched Ichigo come soaring out with a hollow mask dawned on his face. He was actually surprised.
Ichigo started swirl the reiatsu around him and swung down with great force. Ulquiorra had then gotten over this and stretched out his hand to intercept the incoming attack. Ichigo continued to push with as much strength he could muster and that was enough to send Ulquiorra crashing into a sent of trees.
"How could he have this kind of dense reiatsu, it's almost like ours." Ulquiorra thought as he got up and pointed his right index finger at Ichigo and charged a green cero.
Ichigo saw this and started to charge up as much of his reiatsu he could before time ran out. Just as Ulquiorra released his cero, Ichigo released a monstrous Getsuga Tenshou.
The effect of both attacks was on a whole different scale as the park ground broke apart reveling most of the earth, trees were sprawled everywhere, and the air was filled with a heavy amount of dust.
Ichigo knew he had only about one minute left in his hollow form so he knew he had to end this here and now. Ichigo waited till the dust lifted and then started charging again another Getsuga Tenshou. When he spotted Ulquiorra unharmed like himself, he unleashed another one of those monstrous crescent moon fangs. Ulquiorra knew he couldn't charge another cero, it would take to long, so he took and grasped the black Getsuga with both hands and tried to push to see it didn't move an inch except go forward. He then felt his feet start to break the ground and he then continued to push with all his strength to finally see there was not stopping it. The whole area of the park was consumed in the black Getsuga Tenshou's energy.
Ichigo watched as the mask on his face cracked and crumbled until it was nothing, leaving his face bare. Ichigo surveyed the damage and thought there was no way Ulquiorra could have survived. Ichigo felt as if he couldn't move due to having used so much of his reiatsu. That's when he heard a rustling sound behind him and saw Ulquiorra brushing himself with his hand as if nothing happened. All Ichigo could see was Ulquiorra standing there as if nothing happened with his clothes torn and his fourth Espada tattoo beaming out.
"It would seem that you can hold that mask for about two minutes before it breaks and it would seem you passed that limit." Ulquiorra said as he looked at Ichigo's shocked face. "How unfortunate." He said as he once again extended his right index finger a fired a cero from that range. Ichigo knew he couldn't dodge it or move, so this is how it ends.
Out of nowhere a blast of red spirit energy comes between Ichigo and the cero, where it collided with the substance as if it were a shield. As the shield dissipated, Ichigo saw two individuals known as Urahara Kisuke and Shihouin Yoruichi.
"My, My, My. Sorry were late Kurosaki-san, we were shocked to see you handled the situation pretty well, but we believed we should let you rest and take a breather." Urahara said as he looked at Ulquiorra pointing Benihime at him.
"Urahara Kisuke and Shihouin Yoruichi, it would not be in my favor if I were to fight both of you here." Ulquiorra said as he tapped the air and a garaganta opened up and he stepped inside and left.
With Ulquiorra gone Ichigo felt he could drop his guard and he collapsed on the floor to see Urahara and Yoruichi surround him.
"Hey Ichigo are you okay?" Yoruichi asked examining his body to find minor scratches and wounds.
"It would seem you did a number on the landscape Kurosaki-san." Urahara said as he observed the area.
"I know, but what do you guys want to do with that guy?" Ichigo asked pointing to the unconscious body of Yammi.
Next chapter will take place in soul society.
SORRY I DIDN'T UPDATE ON FRIDAY, BUT I UPDATED TODAY SO NEXT WEEK IT WILL RETURN TO SAME SECHUDULE WITH UPADTES ON FRIDAY AND SUNDAY.
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