The Princess of Las Noches
Chapter 3 - The Meeting
Ichigo found herself in the top of a building. She didn't know how she got there, but at the same time, she felt the place belonged to her. The sky was dark, and there only were the moon and stars for the light source in that place. Then she heard a voice.
"Ichigo…"
Ichigo looked around her to see where that voice was coming from
"Ichigo..."
Ichigo turned around and saw a shadow figure in the top of a pole. Ichigo couldn't she his face because of the darkness.
"Who are you?" she asked.
"I am..." Said the shadow as the moon shone on his face. He was a man around of 30, jet dark hair with mustache and beard in his face. He was dressed all in black. And he was using a visor. Ichigo only looked at the man confused. She couldn't hear his name.
"Can't hear my name? That's very sad Ichigo, I thought you know me more than anyone else in this world." Said the mysterious man as he walked toward her.
"Stop that bullshit!" snapped Ichigo as she did she stepped back a few times. "What do you want from me?!"
The mysterious name stopped to get closer to her. He looked at Ichigo with a serious look in eyes as he held his hands.
"To guide your heart." Said the name as he summoned a big blade to his hands. "Guide it to the path you know to be right. And let his sword give you the strength to help you to follow that path."
The sword was flouting towards her. Ichigo didn't know what that meant as she looked confused at the sword flouting in the front of her. For some reason, she felt she had to touch that sword. Before she could touch it, she heard an alarm sound.
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
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Ichigo fell from the bed. She groaned before she turned off her alarm clock. She got up and went to the bathroom to wash her face. She looked at her reflection in the mirror. She couldn't stop thinking about that nameless guy.
"To guide your heart." Said the name as he summoned a big blade to his hands. Guide it to the path you know to be right. And let his sword give you the strength to help you to follow that path."
Ichigo wondered what that guy meant with 'to give her the strength to follow the right path, and that sword would help her to follow that path'. She looked at her bracelet for a moment before she sighed and shaking her head to get rid of these thoughts.
'That's stupid. Follow the right path? I am on the right path. I am helping father to change the rules of Soul Society.' Thought Ichigo as she started to dress in her school uniform.
When she entered to the living room, she smiling at a sleeping Grimmjow. It had been a few weeks since both of them were in the living world. Since then, Ichigo had been spying the Shinigami group at the Karakura High School and also in the battle field when they were facing some hollows in the area. Neither Grimmjow nor herself had fought with them yet, since Aizen didn't order them to. Ichigo had been surprised with Grimmjow because he hadn't complained about not getting a night's worth fights yet. She wrote a note and leave it in the café table before she left for the school.
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Hitsugaya Toshiro glanced down from the roof at the school grounds. Looking back up, he eyed Ichigo curious manner. It was clear that he was all curious and suspecting about that new transfer student. Turning to the berry-haired girl, he gave Matsumoto Rangiku a concerned expression, which the Vice-Captain returned. Matsumoto couldn't understand the reason why her Captain was suspecting on the new girl.
"So…" Matsumoto began. "What do you think is the deal with that Tsukishiro girl, anyway?"
"There's something strange about this girl, but I don't know what it is." The young Captain said to his subordinate.
"Don't you think you're a bit paranoid, Captain?"
Ever since Hitsugaya was suspecting something about Ichigo since they day she was enrolled to Karakura High School, they eyed the girl as much as they could. Being in the Kendo club, Renji and Ikkaku took this opportunity to get closer to her, and from what they could see, there was nothing in special about the girl, except her crazy cat attacks whenever Renji is too close to her. Even Rukia, Tatsuki, Chad and Orihime didn't feel anything strange or weird in the girl.
"Aizen is too quiet lately ever since that attack I don't know what he's planning, but we must be very careful, especially when Aizen is up something and we still don't know anything about the mysterious white haired girl.." Explained Hitsugaya to Matsumoto. His eyes were still on Ichigo
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In the school backyard, Ichigo was talking with girls of her class to know them better. In the same group was Rukia, Tatsuki and Orihime.
"How are your wounds, Inoue-san? Arisawa-san?" asked Ichigo, pretending she was worried about them and how they got their wounds.
"We're almost healed, Tsukishiro-san." Said Inoue happily. "See? Tomorrow we should remove all the bandages."
"That's good to hear." Ichigo smiled back.
Tatsuki just nodded. She wasn't paying very much attention. Her mind was somewhere else. Ichigo has also noticed this. She thought the substitute Shinigami was up something and her instincts are telling her to find out what the girl was planning.
"So Tsukishiro-san, how do you like the school?" Rukia asked, attempting to push conversation.
"Well… … I'm not entirely sure yet. I think it's a fine school. It was my first time to be in a school. You see, I was home schooled for most of my life." She replied.
Well, that wasn't all a lie. Living in Las Noches ever since she was born, Ichigo was somewhat home schooled by the 10 Espadas. She learned all the combat arts from them and it was Szayel who taught her how to read, write and being more tactical, analyzing her enemies before attacking. And whenever they could, Aizen and Tosen were the ones who taught her the Shinigami combat arts. Of course, no one of them needed to know about this detail.
"Oh, I see, but don't you feel alone being home schooled for the most of your life?" asked Orihime to Ichigo.
Before Ichigo could say anything else, a pair of hands came out from behind her, seizing her by the breasts.
"There are my new little sweets!!" Chizuru shouted, giving Ichigo's boobs a good squeeze with her hands. While the other girls didn't look overly surprised, Ichigo simply was in shock as her face was as red as tomato from the embarrassment and from anger. Before Ichigo could do anything on the scenario, Tatsuki shot forward like a bullet, seizing the school lesbian by her waist and dragging her backwards away from Ichigo. Chizuru struggled against her captor's grip, creating a small exchange which resulted in the two girls tumbling backwards and landing on the grass.
Ichigo sweatdropped a she watched Tatsuki beating Chizuru senseless for her inappropriate actions.
'Wasn't she beaten up by Yammy?' thought Ichigo to herself. And she was thankful Grimmjow wasn't around, or else he would have killed Chizuru for touching her breasts. Ever since the incident with Renji, Ichigo had forbidden Grimmjow to be near of the school grounds. But that didn't stop the Espada number 6 to attack Renji in his cat form whenever he was close to her outside of the school grounds.
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Ichigo was now walking to her apartment and send the reports to her father. She just found out two weird people were offering Tatsuki help to control her power; both saying she's one of them. She was surprised when she saw they had Zanpakutou and they call themselves as Vizards.
'What's a Vizard?' thought Ichigo to herself. 'Hirako Shinji and Sarugaki Hiyori. I never heard those names from Father, but they do have Zanpakutou. Something is not right.'
The girl was so deep in her thoughts that she never saw the baseball ball coming and hitting her forehead. The next thing she knew was a child voice asking if she was alright before everything around her went dark.
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Ichigo groaned as she opened her eyes. It took a few seconds before her visoon be focused. The next thing she knew was a face of a big man with glasses too close to hers. That scared her pretty much.
"EEEKSS!!" She punched the man's face but she only got her hand hurt. The man's head is made of steel?
"Are you alright, miss?" Asked the man. "I hope you didn't get hurt much."
Ichigo released she was on a futon and there was a bandage in her forehead. She remembered something hard had hit her forehead before she lost consciousness. Then, she saw the large man dragging a red haired kid. The kid didn't look more than 10.
"Ginta-dono, what do you say to this young lady here?"
"I'll apologize to her, Tessai! You don't need to force me." snapped the kid before he cooled off and bowed to her. "I am sorry for what happened, Nee-chan. I didn't mean to hit my baseball ball so hard."
Ah, that's what happened. She was hit by a baseball ball. She sat up and looked around; the place looked like a type of shop. Before she could say something, the large man that the red haired kid just called Tessai turned around.
"Manager, she's awake!" he called out. The wooden door slid open seconds later, revealing the owner of the house, along a raven haired kid. Ichigo recognized the man right away.
"Sorry about what happened, young lady. I hope you didn't get hurt too much." Smiled the man as he waved his fan.
The man was none other than Urahara Kisuke himself. Ichigo cursed in her mind. She didn't released she was so close to his shop. Her father had warned her about him. That man is not easily to be fooled and she knew he can be very strong, though she had blocked his attack once but she believed she couldn't do that twice.
"Heheh, I am alright now!" she smiled brightly as Urahara smiled back.
"I am happy to hear this. But are you sure you're alright? You were unconscious for a few hours. Can we know your name, pretty lady?"
"Well, you see…" Stared Ichigo as she looked at her watch "Oh my, look at the time! I have to go now. Thanks for helping me!"
Ichigo quickly grabbed her stuff before she just ran off out of the shop, without seeing the confused faces of the people in there.
"Wow, sure she was in a hurry." Commented Tessai. "And she didn't even try my tea."
Then Renji just arrived and asked what Urahara did to scare Ichigo to run off like that. Needless to say Urahara was surprised to hear that girl was the same girl Renji had mentioned to him sometimes before and the one who had a crazy cat that attacked him whenever he's too close to her. That made Urahara realize something; she kinda looked like Masaki.
'Hum… I think I have to check this girl.' Thought Urahara to himself.
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Ichigo was catching her breath as she slumped against the nearest post.
'Shit! Shit! Shit!' Ichigo cursed mentally. 'I hope that weirdo doesn't suspect anything.'
Then, Ichigo stared to walk again. She was in a few blocks down the route to her apartment, when the familiar form of a blue eyed cat with raven fur caught her eyes.
"Grimmjow?"
"Where have you been?" asked Grimmjow to Ichigo." I have been looking for hours for ya, Hime-sama." Then, he noticed her bandaged head. "AARGTH! What happened to your head?!"
"Gee Grimmjow, calm down. You don't need to freak out. I was in a little accident, nothing more." Sighed Ichigo before she smiled at the disguised Espada. "Wanna walk me home?" She asked. Grimmjow jumped up onto her shoulder, using his unique balancing abilities to their fullest. Ichigo smiled at him before she stared to walk away.
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Asano Keigo and more 5 boys from the newspaper club finally had finished their edition for tomorrow. It was very late. Keigo groaned because he was very sure his sister will hit him again for coming home late, thought lately she had been in good mood ever since Ikkaku and Yumichika stared to live in his home, against his will.
"Hey Keigo, Wanna go to McDonald's for a snack?"
"Sorry guys, But I have to go now or else my sister will kill me."
The boys felt sorry for Keigo. They've met Mizuho once and she was a bitch, thinking she can boss everyone and always abusing of Keigo whenever she's angry at him (which she always was).
"Hey guys, is our school near bat hangouts?" asked one of the boys very nervous.
"Hum? What do you mean, dude?" asked another boy.
The answer was soon answered when Keigo and the other boys looked around them. All the trees had bats, a lot of them. The young boys didn't like this, nothing a bit. Then, the bats flew and stared to group themselves to attack the boys. The boys couldn't do nothing but scream in agony.
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"Ikkaku!" shouted Yumichika.
"Yeah, I know." Muttered Ikkaku as he got his soul candy.
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"Matsumoto!"
"Yes I felt too, Captain."
"W-What's going on?" asked Orihime nervously.
Hitsugaya looked at Orihime with a serious look in his eyes. "Stay here, Orihime."
With that, Both Hitsugaya and Matsumoto left their gigai after swallowing a soul candy. They rushed to the direction of the school.
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"Tatsuki! Did you feel that?!" asked Rukia.
"Yeah, I did. It's coming from the school grounds. Let's go!"
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"Did you feel that, Grimmjow?" asked Ichigo to the cat in her shoulder.
"Yes, sure I did. And I never felt this type of energy before. It's not Shinigami energy and much less a hollow energy." Grimmjow said. "I don't like this."
Ichigo used her reiatsu as her school uniform changed into her Arrancar outfit, with the collar covering half of her face. The red gem in her bracelet glowed as it changed into a black gauntlet with a red gem settled at the center of her right hand. Grimmjow jumped out from Ichigo's shoulder as he returned to his Arrancar form (this time clothed, Szayel fixed the naked problem after he head many complains from Ichigo and a little from Grimmjow.)
Let's check out."
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The Shinigami gasped in pure horror when they saw the sight before them. Tatsuki fell to her knees as she cried in agony, which none of them could blame her. Before them was the sight Karakura high school students' bodies lined the floor, all of them unmoving. Blood splattered the walls and lay in large pools on the floor. One of the dead bodies was Asano Keigo. Her hyperactive, pervert friend was now dead.
"Dammit! How will I explain this to his sister?" muttered Ikkaku darkly. Though he thought both the brother and sister were annoying, but they were good people. Mizuho, though she always abused her brother, she would have an attack when they tell her about Keigo.
Away from the sight of the Shinigami, Ichigo and Grimmjow were looking at the scene from the top of a building. They saw what happened to the group of human boys.
"What do you think Grimmjow?" Ichigo asked her bodyguard.
"Definitely is not a hollow doing." Grimmjow said as he sniffed the air. "I can't smell or sense any hollow that passed here. Whatever killed them, it wasn't a hollow, but something else."
Ichigo was quiet. The attack looked like it was caused by a hollow, but it wasn't. She agreed with Grimmjow. She didn't feel any presence of a hollow that happed in this area and she knew those boys haven't had any reiatsu strong enough to attract hollows. The energy she felt was much more creepy. She looked to her right and saw a shadow in another building. She blinked twice before the shadow just disappeared. She narrowed her eyes. Something wasn't right and she would find out what happened.
To be continued…
Yeah, chapter 3 finished and with my first Cliff!
I know some of you might be angry for killing Keigo in there, but his death is important to the story.
And I decided that Aizen and his Arrancar/ Espadas will be not the main villains of this story. In this story will show up other characters that will play as the villain, to make this story more interesting.
Next chapter, the Arrancar and the Shinigami will find out who or what that had killed Keigo and the boys.
Ps: check out my profile, in there has the link for the picture of Fem!Ichigo. I hope you like the picture.
