Title: Undermining the Peace
Pairings: Aizen/Ichigo and others
Rating: PG13
Warning: Yaoi, some violence. OC alert.
Summary: Consequences don't end after just a few days. After all, people can never be happy when their loyalties are divided by time, space, and worlds.
Disclaimer: Don't own Bleach or anything affiliated with it
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Chapter Fifteen (The Last Microwaveable Minute)
"Hey Stark aren't we supposed to be screwing people up in the Seireitei?" Lillinette looked over the from the highest point overlooking the whole world of the shinigami. Stark smiled broadly and rested against the wall.
"Are you listening to me? Get off your lazy ass and do what you're supposed to do!"
"Oh no. It would be irresponsible of me. Those shinigami down there are making their own messes. Why, if we interfered we might actually unite them together. The best thing we could do is wait."
Stark couldn't imagine a more perfect day. Even watching Grimmjow struggle with whether or not he would actually kill little Kurosaki wasn't annoying. All he had to do was lay down and rest while everyone else put it all together.
"You suck."
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Tetsu screamed when he saw his leg. The rumors about Karakura being a haunted place had to be true but it wasn't time to think about that. He wasn't in the best of shape but how did his leg go from supporting him to shriveled like an old man's, just ready to break?!
It wasn't just him but everyone else around the street. All the exits out of the city were crushed and buildings were going down everywhere. Now people's bodies were decaying in front of them. Some people were just dropping dead after talking to thin air.
He looked up and saw a glinting crown onto of a skull and shadow, some figures in white not to far after and shredding through people.
"AH AH!"
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The fire was out but Toshiro was far from being okay. His grandma hadn't made it out of the house in time but remained relatively unburnt. It was really only her left side that had scorch marks on them- nothing that couldn't be carefully brushed off. Far beyond his senses there was somebody creeping up behind him.
"Shoot to Kill." He looked up just in time to see some woman drop kicking the attacker behind him with Ichimaru's sword retreating. If he found out this man was responsible for any for any of this!
"Ichimaru! What do you think you're" Instead of seeing the traitor, all he saw was a mass of breasts, crushing his face into them.
"OH CAPTAIN HITSUGAYA YOU'VE GROWN AT LEAST TWO INCHES! Hmm, all those naps must be paying off for something, eh? Oh! Or is it girl?! Are you going through puberty?" The blonde woman pulled back.
She had a very happy open face and seemed like she was waiting for him to do something.
"Hey Ran, that'll have ta wait a while. We've got an old friend of ours here and Captain's got his own problems."
This was Matsumoto?! Toshiro watched with his mouth agape at the two taking on any of the rogue shinigami (like themselves but not) that tried attack civilians.
"KEN-CHAN LOOK WHOSE HERE!" Another stupid person had their blood sloshed over the streets. The form of Kenpachi loomed over the street, people giving him a great deal of space to walk by.
"We're you guys supposed to be dead?" Ichimaru hopped along towards the other captain- they'd gotten along very well from what he could remember, being that they had similar tastes. Matsumoto's arm was still around him, but was looking at the burnt house.
"It'll be okay, Captain. Didn't mean to leave you like that, but you'll forgive me, right? Now come on, we've got to stop these crazies."
"Matsumoto, you escaped death and returned to the place that wants you dead to fight people that don't know you exist. You call that a priority?!" The background noise answered all of them. One or two fo the buildings collapsed and the trio's laughter were head all through the section like some insane game of jacks.
"It's so great to be home!"
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"I still think you are all completely over reacting. Oh? No more back up for this?" Sousuke sighed and moved out of the way of Benihime's attack.
"Screw you AIZEN!" Killing them would be counter point to what he was trying to do, but combating Urahara, his former Captain and Urahara's old Vice Captain was time consuming.
"Hyapporankan." The glass rods overwhelmed Hiyori, pushing her back into the building.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" He carefully switched his stance and leaned over the two blades attacking him.
"Sho." It was a dangerous place to be, between Hirako and Urahara as it was debatable over who hated him more.
'So Ichigo is truly not in the Soul Society. Something like this would have drawn him one way or another.'
Aizen smirked and looked straight ahead at the girl struggling to get out of the bars. There were only two dimensions left- and his Espada were already working on one.
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It was just the four of them traveling down to earth (well the four of them that weren't planning on mass destruction and death) to find some old friends.
"Inoue they're not going to die in this so easily." She nodded and waved to Chad and the others before flash stepping to the hospital. It wasn't anyone's fault that her and Tatsuki's friendship was so strained but they did send letters every now and then. She had told her all about her relationship with the older Ishida so it would make sense for them to be at the hospital.
"Sado, are you sure she knows where's she's going?" Ulquiorra ran ahead to make sure the woman wouldn't get too damaged, not trusting that she was really a captain, but Hallibel had some concerns.
"Ichimaru said we had to help find Ichigo. He probably visited her at some point so one of our old friends must have noticed him. It's kind of hard not to."
The other two made it to the hospital without any interference- Barragan was keeping all of the underlings busy with extermination. There was rubble and sirens everywhere but something was odd and distorted somehow. Shapes seemed almost holographic, pale and multicolored versions on one another laying just out side of the lines. It had quiet the dizzying effect.
"Hallibel, do you see that?" It was over then but the same uneasiness rested around them. There was something wrong about the ground they were on.
"It's not an arrancar and I doubt it's a shinigami." She didn't say anything about him waiting outside with her and Ulquiorra, rather than go and greet his human friends again. They did come out.
"SADO~!" The group looked a bit beaten but overall okay. Two of them lingered behind just staring and moving very mutely. Inoue was beaming.
"Why are you smiling woman, this is all going to be destroyed."
"Ah, I know. But besides Kurosaki-kun, we're all together again! I knew we would be." She shared a look with the 4th and agreed. She was crazy.
"What's that?!" A green haired girl climbed over another human's shoulder to look out at the city.
The colors and shapes were going static again.
Chapter Sixteen ( Who's a Wise Man?)
"Shunsui, I love you. Have for many, many years. You've taken care of Nanao and made sure your division was kept right."
Lisa pulled her sword out and watched as her lover hide behind his very pregnant vice captain.
"But I swear that if you don't let me go and kill Aizen, I'LL KILL YOU!" Shunsui thought she might have been over exaggerating a bit. Sure Aizen ruined her life for many years, dragged them apart, tried world domination...but they were together now, right?
"Nanao-chan, tell Lisa how silly she's being." She pinned him with a glare that she'd learned from her.
" Captain Kyouraku I suggest you own up to why you've down this." She gestured around the room. After his meeting with Good Ole King Ichigo, he'd kidnaped the two and dragged them down into the sub-sub basement of the 8th Division, where he used to hide his really good sake.
"The King said so." He nodded to affirm what he said.
"The King of all of Heaven told you to shove us into a basement." Lisa's eyebrow rose.
"Yes." He hadn't stuttered.
"If it weren't so useful, I'd castrate you right now." Byakuya might still be out there, but Shunsui figured that he'd rather his wife and kid be kept safe- even if he wasn't doing it. Personally he was happier Nanao and her baby were with him. For all his good traits Byakuya didn't have a high family survival rate.
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Komamura sat next to the barrier they'd erected with Iba and Hisagi, calmly watching their friend and hero, Kensei, go crazy.
"aaaaAAAAAH" Flump.
After he'd tried bitting it, then slashing it, and even kicking it, he'd tried running and slamming his body into the blockade.
"Uhh, Kensei-san, we can't drop it. The Kido corps need to do that once the revolt is over." Hisagi tried to put it lightly, but the enraged man wasn't having it. He was very red now, and drooling a little.
"BUT AIZEN IS !" That was true as well. They could see part of the skirmish some of the people, mostly his vizard comrades.
"Kensei, is it really so important that you seek revenge? Your life is content now isn't it?" He tried his own reasoning. He'd found some great friends after he let go of his anger, especially after Tousan died. Kensei didn't agree-at all.
"I WANT TO KILL THAT MUTHERFUCKER!" Some more gnawing followed. Iba was the last to reason with him.
"You know, Vice Captain Hinamori could probably help you a lot." Clarity was back in his eyes and the temper seemed quelled-for the moment.
"And where is she?" Iba quickly realized where he'd gone wrong. Kensei stomped over and asked again.
"...she's on the otherside of the barrier, sir."
"I hate kido."
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Kon looked up at the sky, and saw a very fucked up coloring. Or maybe it was the three blinding suns, and two moons existing at exactly the same time. Besides that, Ichigo's spiritual pressure was being broadcasted everywhere. Like the air really, only much heavier.
"Ugh, mommy I feel weird!"
"It's alright sweetie, probably justa tropical storm heading by." The other vacationrs didn't know the differences between a storm and a cataclysm. He'd heard all about the weirdo shinigami that were hunting down people. S'why he stayed on his island out of everybody's way.
The ground wasn't too stable. Hell, even the few hollows that lurked around the tropical paradise had, well, faded and exploded into the air. People weren't dying-yet.
Kon wondered what kind of party Ichigo was having for the world to end up like this.
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"Eh, Tatsuki, do you feel that?" Orihime was under the watchful eye of Ulquiorra, but spent the time trying to make Tatsuki feel better. Apparently her fiancé had run away from her.
Whatever the answer was, was drowned out by the silence that seemed to happen suddenly. There was a sound and everything seemed frozen around them and color disappeared, besides the edges of things around them.
Those structures didn't stay for long.
Buildings crashed down and dissipated into the air and the wind rushed through them all. What was once a city around them, only a few buildings were left. The ground was covered in white sand, very much like that of Heuco Mundo. Pieces of buildings broke through the desert, but that wasn't the startling part.
Small marshes had appeared as well, like many trees adorned with flowers, and white walls of the Seireitei.
"Look up." Chad was the first to come together and looked at the sky. There were five different spheres up there, three suns and two moons.
"It...it's what happened?" People started screaming again. But it wasn't only peopled. There were shinigami, ryoka, people, hollows...everything. Ulquiorra picked up a piece of the crumbling Seireitei wall, letting it fall into the shallow sand over the road.
It had disintegrated before it reached the ground.
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"Ah, Itsygo, you know where everybody is right?"
"Yes Nel. Your brothers are somewhere over there, okay?" Ichigo adjusted the vest and pants he'd put on. He didn't want to be king, but damn if he wasn't going to his job. Making everything in one world was messy, but he need to get this done quick. No stupid time lag no distance problems. He'd sort it all out here and now.
He wondered what many of the Espada had.
What would Aizen do?
Chapter Seventeen (By Decree)
"Isn't that them over there?" Nel and Ichigo was drifting over the mess of each world looking for each of the people they had to visit.
"Yosh." She hopped off of Ichigo's shoulder and to her brothers in the sand. There was also a stock of pink hair- Aiko had somehow become tangled up with them in the mess.
"Wheres has you all been?" The brothers stared at her, wondering if she was in the same reality as them.
"Ahs Im stayin here wit dem for a while Ichigo. Sees you later!" Nel wanted to stay with him but she knew he had other people to worry about and everything. She hadn't seen her brothers in a long time either.
"Nel...we thought you were dead!" Dondochakka was crying in the background while Pesche hugged her. It was good to be back with them.
"Yous it!"
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The first group he found was pretty unremarkable. He barely remembered the names of any of them.
"So...err... do you like the world?" In hindsight it was a pretty stupid thing to ask when 'the world' was like some sort of fucked up five year old's bedroom. Some lego pieces, some clay, some sand, a general mess. There was only one person he was relaly going to say sorry to out of the bunch.
"I'm sorry I dragged the world into this mess." Komomura thought nothing of it and forgave him. Iba shouted about when it was going to be fixed. The world will separate on their own again.
"I'm sorry about dragging this war out and brining you harships." Komomura was starting to feel embarrassed and once again told him that as long as he thought he was going to help it would be fine. Ichigo took a deep breath and apologized once last time.
"I'm sorry for basically convincing Isshin to come back to the Soul Society." There was pause as the vice Captains looked at their furry leader. Kensei, was still banging his head against a rock, muttering about kido.
"I think maybe you should leave." The points ranked up- Isshin was worse than death.
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It could be considered amazing when two unrelated people can channel thoughts just by a glance. When Grimmjow and Ikkaku saw Ichigo walking over a sand dune towards them, with Kira and Tesla near by as well as his banged up sister, Yuzu, they quickly came to an agreement.
"This was a training accident." Ikkaku hoped the guy believed it, while Grimmjow had his claws in Kira's ankle threatening him to agree. Grimmjow might have been the attacker but Ikakku had left her to the big, dangerous world.
Ichigo's glared at all of them, like he knew they were lying. He ruffled her hair and turned back to them.
"Hey guys. Have any big complaints right now?" Grimmjow met his eyes and growled.
"We thought you died, fucker." Ikkaku nodded along, careful not to drop Yuzu's body. Tesla and Kira couldn't think of anything truly drastic in their lives to change- the world was fine for them to the most part.
"Kurosaki-san, will this is fixed." Kira gestured to the world around them.
"Yeah, yeah it'll put itself back together. See you guys later, I've got to see some other people. Tell Yuzu I'll be back for her." They watched him leap over another sand dune and onto a broken bridge, not realizing they'd just been with their king.
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"Ichigo! Never thought I'd actually see your face again. Maybe you'll let me see it instead of your hands?" He'd found Yoruichi and Soi Fong a few minutes after the others, and promptly covered his face.
"WOULD YOU PUT ON SOME CLOTHES WOMAN!" True, they'd been many naked women in hell- it wasn't the best place for clothes- but everyone there was starved, beaten, and barely alive. Nothing like that was being presented in front of him. Soi Fong was glaring it him, as if it were his fault that Yoruichi was parading around naked.
"I'm just gunna go now..." He scampered off without offering the chance to give some input on the way things ran. Some opinions just weren't going to be considered at all.
"Yoruichi-sama, shouldn't we go after him?" The woman wiggled her toes in front of Soi Fong's noes.
"It's over. Try smiling some more right now. It's not as if we've any standards to uphold."
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Ichigo didn't make it a habit to feel ashamed of himself-ever. Something that lingered from what his mom used to say about being proud, but the general idea stayed with him since he was an odd ball child. Now he was an odd ball king looking for the first teacher of his that he ever respected.
With a subtle elbow in the face. The two blondes were watching with bug eyes at the battery.
"WHY ARE ALL OF MY SISTERS HURT!" Karin was lying there covered in bruises and cuts, and a distinct type of slimy mud that could only be found in hell. She too was sleeping and Ichigo wondered why he wasn't able to speak to his sisters at all.
"Like your one to talk, Kurosaki-kun. That little act of teenage rebellion you pulled drove people crazy. Aww, you did go through puberty, didn't you?" Ichigo felt his eye tick and elbowed Urahara in the face, again.
"Well anyway, do any of you have problems you need to sort out? Other than killing Sousuke." There was another weary bought of silence for an answer and Ichigo was starting to sympathize with Sousuke's badside. People just wouldn't help themselves sometimes.
"Fine I'll be back but try to figure something out?" He wiped Geta Boushi's blood off of his arm and trotted over to whomever he ran into. The wandering wasn't exactly aimless but he was trying to avoid some confrontations longer then he could.
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He thought that, being gay, he would not get the fury of a woman. Clearly, he was wrong.
"Shunsui over there says that you're our King. Did you also tell him to barricade us in a basment?!" Shunsui was being held down by a very pregnant woman while someone that could have been her twin was glaring at him over the pages of a porno. Getting ready to say no he saw how pale and sweaty the other man was looking and quickly changed his mind.
"Y-eah, ma'am, he cared a lot about you and he wanted you safe and the basement was safe and so I told him to bring you into the basement..." Ichigo wondered what it was about women like her and Ochi that drove him into a stuttering mass. But he and Kyouraku needed to stay on very good terms.
Who knew when one of them would need an alibi. The other woman, a new Kuchiki, ordered him to go find her husband. It would have been a bad idea, he thought, to offer them a chance to change the world. They'd never give back the power.
"Right, so find Byakuya, gotcha."
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The next group he came across was this congregation of the fourth and thirteenth division, probably because of the familial relations between the highest ranked officers and Unohana needed to baby-sit someone. He'd heard all about her temper streak from Orihime's letters to Tatsuki and opted to float around the edges of the crowd, barely noticed.
Hanataro, carrying around boxes that doubled him in height, was the first to spot him and gave an exuberant wave only to fall over.
'The ground doesn't taste too good.'
"YOU-YOU!" Ichigo looked up and grinned at his attacker.
"Can't you ever just be happy to see me?!"
"NO YOU IDIOT! WE THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!"
"WELL I'M NOT SO STOP TRYING TO KILL ME!" Yumichika came over and lifted her off of his throat and chest.
"Very nice to see you again, Kurosaki-san. But if I may, don't you have other places to be first?" It was amazing. Rukia not only glared at the man holding her back but started snapping at him. She wiggled free after ruffling his hair.
"Promise I fill you in on everything later, Rukia." She hugged him and had that teary eyed look on her face.
"Stupid, you'd better." Their friendship was something he could fix, much like the ones with Chad and Tatsuki.
"See you."
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Nothing would ever make him more aware of his surroundings as having a body thrown over a grove of trees and just behind him.
"ICHIGO!" Or having Rangiku's chest in his face. It was mostly like the Rukongai where they were, and by far they were the liveliest of the groups. Kenpachi was killing whatever men were left standing up with little Yachiru cheering him on and tugging on a dazed Hitsugaya's arm.
Gin too, was watching with amusement on the makeshift campsite he'd made for Rangikut o rest on. Man usually couldn't give a damn about most people but he'd always have that soft spot for her.
" Ain't you 'possed to be dead, Ichi-berry?" He took the cup of sake she passed him and smiled.
"Nah, I'm still alive. Plan to be for a while too. What's going on around here?" Hitsugaya managed to pull himself out of Yachiru's grasp and stood off to the side of them.
"Family reunion or somtin like that. Hey, Shiro, don't you have somethin ta ask him?" Ichigo had met Hitsugaya before and thought the kid was okay. A little cold and angry, but okay. Now he looked a little shell shocked and off center, but alright physically.
"Is Karin alright?" Ichigo wondered why he wanted to know about Karin.
"She's fine, why?" There was a faint pink color on Toshiro's ears and Ichigo's alarms went off.
"Hey, why, what do you want with my sister?" Rangiku got up again and started pushing Ichigo over to the road.
"Well by now, Ichi, I'm sure you've got other people to visit!"
"No, what does he want with Karin?!"
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Ichigo thought that his friends were perfect, plain and simple. The gathering of shinigami, humans, a vizard, arrancar, and whatever Ishida was calling himself were working together- under Orihime's supervision.
"Yo."
"ICHIGO!"
"Kurosaki." Even Chizuru was happy or at least not upset at seeing him. It was an incredibly welcome relief. Tatsuki, however, was the most interested in having him explain a few things.
"Did you do this?!" He nodded and she screamed, pulling her hair from its roots. She continued, "Now how am I supposed to find him!"
"Find who, wait. Oh geez." She flashed the quincy star from her neckline and scowled at the hospital.
"Damn. Does Ishida know? This is going to be hilarious. You could probably find Ryuuken somewhere around- everybody's here even if it doesn't seem like it..." He didn't have to continue, because she was already rousing the troops.
"Orihime, Hallibel, get up! We're going manhunting." Chad laughed and waved Ichigo off. They'd talk-or something- later.
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He'd never thought he'd see someone else on the receiving end of his father's kicks or someone just above Rukia's height stabbing a man's leg like it was chicken, but Ichigo prepared himself to see some odd things. The man saw him and tried drawing the attack away from him. He was wearing one of the central uniforms.
"L-look there's Kurosaki, kill him instead of me! He started all of this!" The girl, Hinamori, stopped the attack after her captain did, and looked over at him, then to her Captain's back.
"Hey Dad."
"You don't look well."
"I only got out of Hell a few weeks ago. You'd look like shit too." The other man was having none of that.
"Kill the goddamn traitor already!" The heel in his gut and shoe in the face shut him up pretty quickly.
"AH! My son, the years haven't dulled your-" Isshin too was cut off.
"I've got one more stop to make. Karin and Yuzu are going to be perfectly fine, so just trust me on this?" Isshin agreed, like he had a choice. He knew he was far passed ever having a say in his son's choices anymore but he'd rather still be there for him.
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He was the last person Ichigo wanted to see, because he wanted the most time with him. Sousuke sat on a park bench, calmly watching one of the sunsets.
"You made it out of the battle alive?" Hard eyes looked over at him.
"Maybe I should start first. After I stabbed you and had Kyoka Suigetsu keep you busy, Gin and I went to fight the Vasto Lorde with back up coming. Tousan didn't make it out alive, nor did most of the lower ranked Espada. Neliel, that child of yours, released with Grimmjow as Hallibel brought some of your Ryoka friends to help. I had passed out and woke up not as myself until a few short weeks ago." He smiled, idly playing with the metal casting.
"Sado had taken care of Gin, Rangiku, and I as children in Mexico. Now I don't suppose you have some things you want to tell me?" Ichigo didn't bother to sit down and stayed a few feet away from the other.
"I guess when you lost," he had to rub some salt in the wounds, "Kyoka Suigetsu couldn't keep hold over me and I fought with Grimmjow and Nel. Grimm took a bite out of the bastard and he died but the damn Hell Gate opened for him and dragged me down with him. Got fucked up there for a couple of years until I hitched the first portal out of there. Nel found me. Bunked with Tatsuki for a while before I went with the Princess and became King. Decided that I had enough with people trying to kill my family, so this happened."
"You are King."
"What? Going to kill me for it?" This was it for Ichigo. Either the only person he'd ever felt affection for was going to kill or the other way around. Sou- No, Aizen now, probably, got up and still didn't look at him directly. He'd felt this before. That sensation of being choked and set on a table for cutting open.
"Three weeks, I'll probably start requiting and taking power and whatever government that has been made by then over."
"Are you fucking kidding me?! DO you give a damn about me you megalomaniac!" Aizen ignored him and started stretching but it was all a show.
"Barragan and Stark, at the very least, are waiting for my orders right now, as are Rangiku and Gin since I doubt they were going to do what I asked for them. But, as always, you've created a even better diversion."
" I thought you said you were waiting three weeks?"
"And people call me the impersonal one, Ichi. We haven't seen each other in years and you want to jump into the work right away." Aizen gave one of those theater sighs and continued, "I fully intend on spending three weeks with you, like it or not. You can be King all you want, because you've just destroyed everything you had. I just plan on rebuilding it."
"Rebuilding it your way."
"I missed you. Happy now?"
"A bit."
—The End—