I split a chapter into two because I'm too lazy to finish it.
Chapter 05: Hero vs Villain Part 1
"It's been too long, everyone"
Tsukishima walks around the Xcution HQ, addressing his former comrades.
"Giriko, not drinking too much, I hope?" said Tsukishima, coyly smiling, while Giriko is still as a rock. Then Tsukishima turns his attention to the youngest in the room.
"Yukio, You've been playing too many video games again, haven't you?" the boy doesn't bother to answer, but his body language shows more than just annoyance.
Tsukishima picked it up and egg him even further "That's not good. You should read more books, you know?"
This time a frown appear on his face, and Tsukishima smiles in satisfaction.
"Tsukishima why the hell you come here?!" Ginjo tries to divert Tsukishima's attention from his surroundings, especially the fish tank that happens to be Ichigo's training field.
Tsukishima doesn't bother to answer the question, still studying the HQ, noting the missing members.
"Hmm... I don't see Jackie, or Riruka" then Tsukishima sees the fish tank, a knowing smile begins to form on his face, he then performs a mock-surprise,"Oh? Is that where they are hiding?"
"Tsukishima, don't!" Ginjo shouted, but Tsukishima already slashed the fish tank in two right when he said it.
As soon as the fish tank is sliced into two, black reiatsu erupted from it, startling those present.
When Tsukishima goes inside the room, Ginjo had made scenarios, the best which needed Ichigo to come out of the box armed with his fullbring, at least that way he can protect himself, even if it is just a little, against Tsukishima.
What exceeded his expectation was not only the black reiatsu that now obscure his vision, but also for the feel within said reiatsu.
'Is it complete already?' Ginjo wondered.
It took a while for the reiatsu to dissipate and Chad is the first person to see Ichigo. And boy, he choked, for the sight is too nostalgic for him. There he is, Ichigo Kurosaki, dressed in black garbs. The clothes itself is flickering, but the color itself brings back memories. In fact, he is so far in the memory lane, he needs five second to notice one crucial fact:
Ichigo isn't in his shinigami uniform.
In place of a ShihakushÅ, Ichigo is dressed in a tattered, form fitting, hooded black robe, with his combat pass insignia on his back, glowing green. The robe is fastened by a dark blue belt with silver buckle. In his right hand, he wields a long sabre-like sword made up of his black reiatsu.
Both Ginjo and Chad arrived at the same conclusion: Clad-type fullbring. A type of fullbring in which the user 'wears' his power.
'His Bankai works like that too' Chad realized, as he recounts what Ichigo tells him about his Bankai, 'He literally shroud himself in his bankai... To Ichigo, to wear his power like this, is his true self!'
Fullbrings are categorized into Four big types.
The first is Enhancer-type: a type of fullbring that doesn't directly becomes a weapon, but instead increasing the physical capabilities of the user, for example: Dirty Boots.
Second is 'magic' type: a type where the user can create a specific effect to an object with their fullbring. Time Tells No Lies and Dollhouse rest in this category.
The third is armament type: A type of fullbring that creates weapons from an object they have an affinity for. Some fullbrings that fall into this category are Cross of Scaffold and Book of the End.
And the last type, the specialization: more like a dump for fullbrings that doesn't reside in the other three areas, they can be a force to be reckoned with or completely useless in battle. The only example so far is Yukio's fullbring, Invaders must Die.
Within all these types exist fullbringers that resides a sub-category, clad-type, a fullbring the user can wear, a power that literally shroud the user within itself. Clad-type fullbringers usually pops up within Enhancer and Armanent type fullbring and very rarely appears in magic or specialization type.
Of course the rarity of Clad-type fullbring piqued Tsukishima's interest on Ichigo.
Tsukishima looks at the clean cut of book of the end, exactly splitting the fish tank in half, he smirks "Here is something you probably didn't know, In any event where the container is destroyed, Riruka's 'dollhouse' will forcibly eject its content. To think you were hidden away, training inside it"
'Oh god, tell me he doesn't just...' Ichigo whined inside seeing the new guy. Ichigo's doesn't look particularly interested in what he said, but he notes how the person in front of him LOVES to monologue, just like his enemy from 17 months ago. This alone is enough to make Ichigo suspects him. As a courtesy and common sense, though, Ichigo doesn't attack.
Tsukishima, done with his little monologue, walks towards Ichigo with his hands spread, a gesture of peace that Ichigo doesn't believe one bit.
"I must say, I'm surprised you have already mastered your fullbring to this degree. You should have told me that earlier, don't you..." at that moment, Tsukishima suddenly accelerate, thrusting his sword towards Ichigo's chest, Ichigo react accordingly by parrying it.
"Think?" Tsukishima finishes his sentence, looking surprised at Ichigo's reaction time. "Well... Well..."
"Who are you?" Ichigo doesn't look fazed from the attack earlier, though he is a lot more cautious.
Tsukishima returns to his usual, smug smile, knowing that he still has the upper hand.
"Hmm? They haven't told you about me? I'm offended" Tsukishima responded in mock-hurt fashion, then he proceeds to dramatically introduce himself, "My name is Tsukishima Shukuro, your friend already..."
Tsukishima never finished his introduction, for Chad already close the distance between them, armed with Brazo Derecha de Gigante. Ginjo tried to warn Chad against doing what he about to do, but Chad doesn't heed the warning.
"El Directo!" The reiatsu blast quickly drives Tsukishima out of the room, in addition to demolishing the wall. Chad goes out through the wall, making sure Tsukishima never shows his mug to Ichigo again.
Ginjo cursed as he runs after Chad with Ichigo, leaving Giriko and Yukio to deal with the crowd outside.
"He shouldn't have done that" Yukio deadpanned, while Giriko nodded in agreement. They ignore Riruka who opened the door and shout at what happened.
"Jeez, who do you think pays for all of this" Yukio clicked his tongue and frowned at the situation.
"I'll handle the neighbors, the police, and the fire department" Giriko, ever reliable, already make plans for the situation, all while looking at Riruka.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Riruka, suddenly feeling self-conscious under Giriko's stare, took a step back.
Divine intervention, after all, resides in impeccable timing, and boy did Riruka come at a great time.
Riruka will make for an excellent patsy.
While the rest of the fullbringers handle the civilians, Ginjo catches up to Chad on the roof of a building and scolds the latter for his hastiness.
"You fool, Don't make a situation worse than it already is! Ichigo's fullbring has been activated, we can afford to tell him about Tsukishima!"
Chad shook his head, clearly disagreed, "No, we don't even know how powerful Ichigo's fullbring is, and we don't know how he will handle the news. If we tell him that Tsukishima attacked Inoue, it will hurt his performance"
"I see, so he is the one" both Ginjo and Chad, surprised that Ichigo was behind them, turn their heads.
"Ichigo..." Chad is at lost for words and can only look at his friend who walk past him.
"You guys were looking out for me, and I didn't even realize" Ichigo pieced together the event before with what happen to Inoue. Anger starts to bubble up inside him.
Tsukishima arrived in great time, as if mocking the group, "Oh well (Yare, yare)"
Ichigo turns to Tsukishima, his clad-type fullbring flickered wildly "You are the one who attacked Inoue, did you also hurt Ishida?"
Tsukishima smirked, and asked back in taunting manner, "What do you think?"
That was the last straw. Ichigo fullbrought the concrete underneath his feet, accelerating himself to Tsukishima. Tsukishima raises his blade in anticipation. Tsukishima managed to block the attack, but stray reiatsu went past him, not enough to damage him, but it still surprise him. Ichigo push him into the air.
"Wow, you're good" Tsukishima is about to use bringer light to float in the air, but Ichigo has already jumped towards him. Tsukishima raise his eyebrow at Ichigo using bringer light to jump this high, but he's even more surprised when Ichigo accelerated midair, showing his progress with fullbring.
"You truly have come far with your fullbring, unfortunately..."
Tsukishima gracefully land on a railing and use bringer light on it, accelerating towards Ichigo, who is taken by surprise at the Tsukishima's speed. Ichigo, suddenly on the defensive from Tsukishima's maneuver, rises his blade to meet Tsukishima's attack.
"It is still incomplete" Tsukishima stated, seeing the weakness within Ichigo's fullbring. He concentrated his reiatsu and force Ichigo to put a bulk of his power on his blade. The act puts a hole in Ichigo's cloak, revealing the human body underneath. Ichigo, shocked by what happened, didn't register Tsukishima's right leg kicking down, meeting his shoulder.
"If you concentrate to your right side, your left side lose its fullbring shroud" said Tsukishima, he expected Ichigo to meet the ground harshly, more points if Ichigo screams in pain.
Instead of the delicious scenario, however, Ichigo backflips in the air and managed to slow down his fall.
'I didn't see any bringer light' Tsukishima noted when Ichigo starts to jump again. Putting back the thought behind, Tsukishima starts to dodge Ichigo's slashes, which is getting even more ferocious every second, in addition to getting even faster.
Tsukishima drops all pretense of playfulness, now calmly and carefully analyzing every attack.
'Interesting, where is this stamina coming from?' Tsukishima noted Ichigo still not slowing down, a rookie mistake that will cost him dearly. All Tsukishima has to do is waiting patiently until Ichigo wearing himself out, and when he does, he will strike back
As he expected, Ichigo's breath gets more ragged as time pass, and Tsukishima sees a hole in his fighting styles. Tsukishima capitalize by delivering a diagonal slash. To his surprise, Ichigo dodged it by a hair's breadth.
"You think I'm tired?" Ichigo smirks confidently while charging reiryoku and then, by swinging his blade, he releases a propeller shaped attack reminiscent to his previous fullbring, which now appears to be spinning faster and bigger compared to his previous one.
Tsukishima raise his sword to block the attack, and found himself having difficulties in knocking it away from him. A little pissed at Ichigo being more than what he calculated, he increased his reiatsu output to disintegrate Ichigo's attack. Then, in speed that is quicker than his laid back one, he appears behind Ichigo and, using bringer light, kicked him into the ground.
This time Ichigo isn't able to break the fall, and he meets the hard concrete harshly.
Tsukishima use another bringer light to accelerate while holding his sword in thrusting fashion towards Ichigo, who still groan in pain.
Thankfully, Ginjo, already waiting for intervention, blocks Tsukishima's overhead strike using his broadsword, pushing him back with his above-average physical strength.
"Geez, are you embarrassed that much?" Ginjo smiles at Tsukishima, satisfied that Tsukishima lose his cool, before his demeanor turns much more serious.
"Sorry, but I can't let you and Ichigo fight just yet"
Author's note
Bringer light is a fullbringer's equivalent to Quincy's Hirenkyaku. It is mainly used for high speed movement by influencing the soul of an object to help the user moves faster (making asphalt elastic, etc. Etc.) / holding their weight (making water/wind solid enough to stand on). The difference between bringer light and Hirenkyaku is that Hirenkyaku creates a platform from Reishi, while Bringer Light uses existing object.
There, the types and subtype of fullbring. Of course there exist more than one subtype. There are two more:
Subtypes:
Clad Type Fullbring: Already explained
Construct-Type Fullbring: A fullbring that creates something out of nothing as part of its power. It is different than transforming an object of their affinity into something else, it completely made something up from nothing but their reiryoku/surrounding Reishi.
Personification-Type Fullbring: A type of fullbring that brings out the characteristics of its user as a living-like beings that user and others can interact with.