Chapter 4
Chain of Fate
Helltanz's notes: Hehe I'm looking forward to the Wizarding World, can you imagine their reaction to Soi Fong.
Any way as I mentioned this is sort of filler material though it does deal with the Menos and that, it mainly is meant to be a stop gap until I can reread my Bleach Manga and since Chapter Five we'll mention, more than likely Harry Potter verse, i.e. the English Wizarding World briefly, but other than that will mainly focus on the start of the Soul Society Arc.
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Chapter Begin
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The Sky cracked further and the monster's beaked nose peeked through the crack and began to push.
"Its bigger than big. It's a hollow too?" Ichigo asked in surprise as he gazed up at the immense soul devouring monstrosity.
"Don't
start bickering again," the Captain of the third division stated,
"Go deal with the small hollows,"
"What are we going to do
about that thing?" The Quincy asked as the creature's fingers
began to pull open the crack in the sky.
"In its current state we can't fight it," Conceded the Vaizard, "When it comes through though I'll deal with it." He remarked, "Hadou 88 hiryūgekizokushintenraihō," The beam of highly focused spirtual energy slashed through the hollows in the sky.
Explosions ripped apart the mass of hollows, each of the corrupted souls struck by the high power kidou being ripped apart like an aircraft hit by a missile.
The Vaizard turned sensing the shift in spiritual pressure, "Former captain of the research division," murmured the third division captain, it was true the Soul Society had rescinded the order to kill on sight, which was an issue only given to captain level shinigami, but this was a serious issue to have this person at king's gate.
"Mr. Kurosaki." The Former captain waved his fan, "We have come to help you," He declared as his entourage flanked him.
"Go deal with the hollows," Haru ordered to Ichigo and Uryu as the Menos Grande ripped his way further into the human world, "And you and I will have a long talk about this later," The Vaizard stated to the Quincy.
The massive Hollow slammed his foot down on the third division captain's head, or that is what it attempted, it didn't work out quite as planned, and for its trouble a Cero blast ripped off the creature's offending leg.
Haru retracted his finger as his Captain's robe blew in the wind, "Weakling," He remarked as the beast howled in pain. He leapt forward, once again activating his Zanpakuto's shikai, swinging his bladen in rising left to right slash lopping off the Menos Grande's arm which dissolved into its base components after coming in contact with the glowing blade.
The massive hollow fired its own Cero blast.
The Captain's flash step allowed him to easily evade the slow attack. A massive aura of spiritual energy focused into the initial released blade, Haru brought his weapon down bisecting the immense hollow cleanly slicing through the mask.
The Vaizard dropped to the ground, his Zanpakuto stopped glowing, and he sheathed the odachi and slung the blade and its scabbard to his back.
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The captain of the third division frowned. True he now knew where Rukia Kuchiki was but in this case it was a severe problem, with some one like Kisuke Urahara, that which raised an issue though before his time, during his time at the academy.
His adopted father, Haru himself not having been born in the soul society, the former head of the Aramaki family, had informed him that Kisuke Urahara was responsible for the turning of several captains and lieutenants into Vaizard, this is what had resulted the power vacuum which had allowed the young Haru to take the captaincy of the third division.
The loss of those captains also caused some thing else the loss of the second division captain who had escaped with Kisuke.
"You saw him," Soi Fong demanded.
The 'natural' Vaizard set aside his fountain pen. "If you mean the former captain of the twelfth division, yes." He replied. "Shaolin this is hardly the time for going off on a revenge mission, Hollow activity has significantly increased these last few years as you have noted as well." The captain of the third division shook his head from behind his desk indicating he did not like where he suspected this conversation would likely end up going.
"I'll
defeat her,"
Haru rose from his seated position, "Because she
left you behind, that's why isn't it, not because its your job,
going off with foolish goals of revenge will solve nothing," He
commented walking over to her. The Vaizard wrapped an arm around her
shoulders; tilting her face to look at him, before knocking his
knuckles against her forehead, "Don't go doing anything stupid
Yoruichi is a seriously dangerous opponent." He reminded softly
admonishing her.
Yoruichi was a prodigy much like the two of them were, however she was really the only thing, which could cause Soifong to loose her normal level headed disposition.
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Kenpachi Zaraki was bored, and thus was immensly eager to start a fight with his self proclaimed rival.
"Spooky Eyes," Yachiru declared, "Kenny wants to fight, fight Kenny now." Shouted the pink haired diminutive lieutenant in her usual squeakiness.
The captain being pestered in question rolled onto his side pushing himself up into a sitting position on his futon.
"Damn you Zaraki," He groused as he rose from his mid morning, after spar, nap. The emerald eyed god of death didn't even bother to get dressed properly as Yachiru continued her childish shouts to come out and fight the eleventh captain of the the Gotei thirteen.
The sliding door opened. Judging by how impatient Zaraki's spirtual pressure seemed, it was likely they had gotten lost, how they constantly managed to get lost in somewhere like the Seireitei was beyond him.
"Good your up," Boomed the broad shouldered behemoth of the soul society as he readjusted his chipped longsword assuming a fighting stance.
At least he was taking this totally seriously, the vizard noted seeing that disgusting parasite that Mayuri's division had created had been removed.
The trip to the coloseum drew all manner of whispers and by the time they reached the only safe place for them to fight well, convincing him had taken some effort, they had quite the audience onlooking, this wouldn't be the first fight.
"None of those sissy spells got it," Shouted Kenpachi,
Haru nodded smirking, "I have already agreed to that, I won't go back on my word." The vizard stated as he entered the battlefield.
The eleventh captain grinned viciously at the same time the third division's captain unslung his sheath his right hand gripped the odachi's tsuka as he bent his knees and rotated his shoulders.
"Begin," Declared their 'referee' the captain of the tenth division, his tone was a bit grumbling at being stuck with this dubious honor. The youngest captain had labeled these continued fights as the 'Epitome of childishness'.
Kenpachi's immense spirtual pressure spike once more unlike his usual rash and with out concern attacks he used when fighting hollows and even other shinigami in most cases this time his attack held the epitome of kendo.
Of course this was easily Zaraki's most powerful field.
Haru's draw coincided with him, the third division captain, stepping forward, the sweeping slashes met with a tremendous impact.
The vaizard snapped his sword to the right stopping another attack.
Kenpachi continued to smile madly, and with his next slash obliterated the ground where the third division captain had been standing.
The Flash Step had been a monster to time, Kenpachi staggered as his side exploded, Haru winced his timing against the man had been off as his arm also began to bleed substantially.
The thirteenth division captain launched another attack before the wound closed, forcing the vizard to evade. Shunko was proving to be a problem for some reason it impeded even his substantial regeneration regeneration abilities, simply due to the sheer power by the attacks.
Zaraki for all his bluster about needing fancy styles, Kendo, when he chose to use it he was perhaps only matched by two other captains, the First Division and Byakuya Kuchiki, and in the later case that was only a suspicion, as the two had never actually fought to any truly serious degree.
The immensly long blades crossed with enough friction to cause sparks. Zaraki true to his usual form used his superior size to barrel into the fray, which in this case was foolish as Haru had expected as much and adjusted his stance tipping the other captain over his shoulder.
The counter hardly phased the spiky haired Kenpachi who turned about and brought his Zanpakuto crashing down.
He got a knee to the face as the third division's captain leapt into the air. Which caused Haru to get slashed as he leapt up however, the other captain spun around after the vaizard passed him and both slashed each other again.
Blood sprayed into the air, spritual pressure exploded outward ripping apart the ground violently.
"That is enough," declared the first division captain ennuciating the three little words while jamming his walking stick into the ground several times for emphasis. "There will be no more fighting from the two of you today," He announced.
Kenpachi grumbled under his breath but accepted the ranking shinigami's demand, if unhappy if with it.
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The captain of the fourth division had both of her fellow captains quickly patched up, and after a rather lengthy chastising the two captains went about their regular buisness.
Haru did not do much in the human world, well nothing which required his regular appearance he ran a Shinto Shrine… so he didn't really have much to do.
The most social interaction, he ran a tutoring program for high schoolers at said Shinto Shrine, which was really the only thing he made a regular appearance for.
So thus unlike the rest of the captains, which was in a way odd as he was not truly dead the captain did not actually use a gigai, in fact the only ones who had even less of a responsibility was So Taicho Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai, who did have any contact in human world.
Hence the captain's immense surprise at being threatened by thugs of a local bosozoku gangs.
The attack with the swords also was rather surprising, so he responded in kind. Well suffice to say street thugs are not exactly trained swordsmen.
Thus the resulting beating the captain gave them was surprising to the thugs who had expected they could simply gang up on him…
Haru sighed dusted his hands and sheathed Seiko in a respectful fashion, "Could someone please call an amublance…" He requested politely. The damage wasn't life threatening by any stretch still he'd rather have to deal with as little problems as possible.
One of the students nodded and whipped out a cell phone.
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The police were a tad skeptical that he had managed to take out several thugs all who were armed with, as Haru called them sharpened pieces of stainless steel because that was basically what they amounted to, swords with out a scratch.
Though the thugs had been roused and even they collaborated the story, after requesting protection from the 'Hannya Kannushi' which amounted to Demon Priest liberally translated, as did the local students though there description of him was slightly more pleasant.
"You seem pretty skilled with a sword for a priest, Kannushi-sama." Stated the detective, subtly attempting to look for tattoos or other distinguishing marks perhaps to link him to the Yakuza perhaps.
The captain of the third division shook his head, "Its not so grand to know something that has no important purpose in this era," He commented.
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The captain of the third division tilted his head, the problem with hollows wasn't to severe so he could pretty much relax, at least as far as his assigned area went. Haru slung his Zanpakuto over his shoulder as he continued to ponder the situation.
Isshin Kurosaki was not a rogue shinigami at least he wasn't labeled as such of course that would not likely stop the soul society from possbily attacking Ichigo on isght likewise Uryu was also possibly at risk, though hopefully his impetuosness had been curbed giving little reason for the shinigami to attack meant less of a chance there was for an incident.
This wasn't so much an issue with Ichigo's friends though well with the possible exception of the current captain of the research division. Captain Uruhara, no former captain Uruhara was also issue, though he was more brains than brawn he was still a captain level soul reaper what ever was his reason for involvement was also something to be concerned with.
Hollows however had the habit of creeping up at the most in oppurtune moments, not the case at this situation at least he did not think so. Haru set off via flash step, it was asimple enough monster just another dumb hollow who lacked any foreward planning ability, yes that was probably it, that had foolishly wandered into the Vaizard's den.
He sighed other beings tended with the exception of humans avoided his domain, that was simply accepted fact.
The captain lept down, his odachi blade swept through the air the Zanpakuto's tip pointed at the 'vampire's' throat.
"Master Kariya," exclaimed the soul reaper who had been the reason for the Vaizard showing up in the first place, so no hollow.
The vaizard spoke evenly, "You are intruding," He commented narrowing his eyes at the pair, "and I do not take well to deserters disturbing my domain." The third division captain stated.
"Please excuse us then," The bount stated. "We meant no offense," He said bowing after the odachi had been removed from its place at his throat. "It is not our intention to cause you any trouble."
Haru nodded, "I see. " The Vaizard remarked "Please excuse my poor manners as well I am not normally so hasty," He bowed sheathing his zanpakuto neither seemed to have any hostile intent that he could discern. He had only drawn his blade in the first place because of the sudden appearance of another shinigami, having expected trouble. "I will not inquire to your purpose here," The captain remarked, Bounts refrained from feeding on humans so they shouldn't be a danger no it would probably be alright if they were left alone, he decided. "Please enjoy your stay," The Vaizard gave another small bow and turned to leave, the Bount shouldn't be to much of a problem likely he and the resident two Quniceys in Karakura town would never meet.
There were other things to do before he went and paid Uryu his monthly visit, hopefuly he and the young Kurosaki were getting along.
He frowned as he set off Uruhara probably would keep a low profile,
however Yoruichi was also likely around, which meant Soifong might
also come to town, no he decided shaking his head the head captain
wouldn't authorize that.
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Chapter conclusion
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Helltanz's notes: To clarify Harry is a natural Vizard, unlike those who were subject to hollowification such as Shinji, he as I alluded possess an inner hollow however his hollow form can freely use Shinigami abilities and on the opposite side is also true, Haru doesn't have to wear his mask to access Hollow abilities, course they are weaker than they would be but he already is a Captain level Shinigami.
As for the Soi Fong scene, did you expect me to jump straight into fluff totally this early shame on you have patience though it will happen eventually.
For the Fight with Zaraki I rate him as one of the stronger captains, definetely more powerful than certain other captains, Toshiro, Kaname, Mayuri, or Retsu for example to be sure.
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