A/N: Once again I don't own Bleach. Bleach is the property of Tite Kubo. Also this chapter is not just written by me I had some outside help in developing the dialog for the second part of the chapter. Rating changed to M for a more intense language set and a later relationship between *spoiler* between Yoruichi and Justin (an OC, duh) and other possible relationships between some of the other OC that I have placed in the story and characters actually from Bleach *end spoiler*.
Chapter 4: What A Fool
When I woke up I was laying towards the side of the room. As I sat up Yoruichi came over to me and told me to lie down.
"How long was I out? What happened?", I asked.
"Well you've been out for a good thirteen hours and you pushed yourself to far and released your shikai when you weren't ready", Yoruichi replied, "Lay down and get some sleep after a while I'm going to take you into Seireitei. You need medical attention that we can't give you here".
"Fine, how long?"
"About three maybe four hours I'll leave you with the fourth division so they can help you".
"Okay. I guess I should rest then".
A few hours later Yoruichi woke me up and we started to leave for Seireitei. As we started to head into the forest. Luke and my friends ran up to us.
"Let us go with you" Luke said.
"Look its dangerous and I don't want anyone else to get hurt", I said.
"Yeah but the rest of Seireitei will be busy dealing with the Bount problem".
"He's right but without a zanpakuto he won't be able to do much", Yoruichi whispered to me.
"Screw this I'm going whether you like it or not", Luke said as he turned around revealing his zanpakuto.
"I think he may just be a great help if he doesn't push himself like I did", I whispered to Yoruichi.
"Yeah, I guess we should keep the group together", she replied.
"Yeah, we should".
We let Luke and the others come to Seireitei with us to get me to get healing from the Shinigami in the Fourth Division. When we got to the Fourth Division Headquarters we were met by Captain Unohana who already knew the situation that I was in thanks to a brief talk with Yoruichi while I was asleep so she would be ready for my arrival. As we were walking into the building I felt a strong reiatsu.
"Yoruichi is that Ichigo?" I asked.
"No its not. It feels like a Bount reiatsu", she replied.
"Ah, just making sure there is a lot I have to learn in that area".
Before I stepped into the building the ground exploded behind me creating a gap between me and the rest of my friends.
What are you going to do know?
"Shut up", I muttered, Its time you had some fun".
Really? How long?
"Five minutes".
As soon as I finished saying minutes my hollow mask had formed and I went off looking for the person who separated my friends and I. If we end up fighting someone then I want to fight using shikai without you.
Fine, my Hollow replied, Just don't die.
"You won't let me anyways", I muttered to my Hollow.
You got a point.
"The only reason I know that is cause I can already read your thoughts. I was planning on going to find the Vaizard after this but I probably wont need to".
You know I have seen your bankai it will make you equal with me, he muttered, Learn bankai and then I will give you full reign over my powers.
"I knew you would say that. Thats why Fire Tempest has already given me her name".
Your zanpakuto is a she!?!
"Yep I'm surprised you haven't seen her".
With that my hollow fell silent. We ended up just going back to the Fourth Division where the mask disappeared. I walked into the building and Luke was waiting for me.
"Hey Justin, where'd you go?", He asked.
"Nowhere just went looking for someone and didn't find them so I came back", I replied.
"Ah well you kinda are gonna have to wait for that healing".
" No I'm not. I don't need it".
"What?"
"Well lets see my Inner Hollow healed me when I released the mask earlier".
"Your Hollow!"
"Yeah contrary to what I thought I can actually get along with him".
"Did anyone see it?"
"I don't think so. We were careful enough not to draw any attention. Also I would like to keep this between us".
"Yeah that sounds like a good idea. I won't tell anyone".
"Tell anyone what", Yoruichi asked as she walked in.
"Nothing really", I replied and quickly looked down.
When I looked away Yoruichi must have noticed because she didn't press the issue any further. We followed Yoruichi to the office of Captain Retsu Unohana, where she began to explain the how and why I got my injuries.
"He looks fine to me. There don't appear to be any major wounds", Captain Unohana said, "Have trained him at all yet?"
"No I haven't", Yoruichi replied, "He hasn't had any training that I know of and we're the only ones besides Kukaku that knows about him. Well, so do the Bount. He was attacked by some Shinigami that were acting strange and after he knocked them out they returned to normal".
"Interesting, very interesting could there be a possibility of having knowledge of high level and forbidden kidou?", Unohana asked.
"Yeah", I replied before Yoruichi could say anything, "there is. Since I've been here I've been able to do stuff that I couldn't do before. And before you ask I don't want to talk about it. At least I don't want to right now".
Yoruichi looked puzzled and shook her head. I who before anyone else felt a strange reiatsu walked to the window. Before I knew it I was muttering to myself.
"I don't have much more time before this all goes to Hell".
"What did you say?", Yoruichi asked.
"Nothing I was just thinking out loud", I replied, "I tend to do that sometimes".
"Yeah he does and sometimes it's really funny", Luke said.
As I stood by the window watching the sky the reiatsu that I had felt began to disappear. My Hollow began to laugh and told me that the reiatsu that I felt would make a good opponent for him.
Sure it would, I thought, You just want to see how long you can get me to let you use my body.
No really I want to fight that person. Whether you use the mask or not, my Hollow retorted.
Oh leave him alone and don't be such an asshole, a female voice chimed in, He's right you know you stupid Hollow. As I turned around she said; I only appear like this in your Inner World.
When I turned around I saw a flame that had formed the shape of a human female. Surprised, it took me a few seconds to figure out who it was.
So how many different shapes do you have, I asked her.
Three but I only will use two of them when I manifest my self outside your body.
I think that I should stop staring off into space now people might start to get a bit worried.
Yeah we'll just wait here until you decide to fight again and use me first not him.
You got it, I replied and shook my head.
When I finally saw the sky that I had started to look at it was already dark.
"Holy shit, how long was I staring off for?" I asked myself out loud.
"About three hours", Luke said, "I've been sitting here waiting for you to snap out of the nice little trance you were in".
"Damn, really?"
"Yeah".
After looking around I asked; "Where did everyone go?"
"Um… I only remember that Yoruichi said she was going to go and look for Ichigo. But that's all I remember".
"Alright so if we find Ichigo we might find Yoruichi".
Luke and I left Division Four without letting anyone know because they would probably try to stop us. We searched for hours until we were to tired go any further. When we sat to rest we both fell asleep.
"Justin….." someone whispered in my ear.
I didn't open my eyes but I rolled over and fell back asleep.
"Geez, your not very cute when you have something on your mind and its bothering you when your asleep".
"Shit, five more minutes Yoruichi".
"Five more minutes, my ass, get up now", she said and kicked me.
"Don't kick me", I said and she tried to kick me again but I grabbed her leg and flipped her to the ground. "Bakudō 1: Sai. I told you not to kick me".
Yoruichi looked at my face and noticed that I was asleep the entire time and said; "Hm… good work but a low level kidou doesn't work that well on me", and she proceeded to break the restraining.
Once she had broken through my Bakudō she was pierced by the Bakudō put in place for when she broke through the first.
"Shit, when did he get strong enough to use Bakudō 61?"
Since the Bakudō had come from someone with twice the reiatsu of a Captain Yoruichi was unable to break free of the Bakudō. When I woke up I saw her there exhausted from trying to break free. I released her from the Bakudō and woke her up. When she opened her eyes she punched me in the face.
"Damn it! What the fuck was that for?!" I asked in a surprised tone.
"Don't give me that shit your the reason I was even on the ground in the first place!" she yelled, "Don't even try to play like you don't remember using kidou to stop me from waking you up!"
"Well you shouldn't have tried to wake me up. I was fucking tired! You also don't need to bitch at me for restraining you its your fault!"
Yoruichi calmed down and remembered that she had kicked me a couple of times.
"Your right I should take it out on you but you did surprise me when you threw me to the ground", she said, "and that hurt alright next time hold back some of your strength".
"Hm..did you say something?"
"Damn it, Justin your such an ass, you know that?"
"I've been told that many times".
"Did you even hear what I said?!"
"Yeah something about not using so much strength if I have to throw you again. Or something like that", I said as I remembered that I had never told her my name, "How do you know my name anyway I never remember telling you?"
"Your brother told me. He know the name of everyone in the group an noticed that you and Luke were gone".
"So he noticed huh?" Luke inquired.
"Holy shit, when did you wake up?" I asked.
"About two or three minutes before Yoruichi punched you".
He saw the whole thing?! I thought, Damn it!
"I noticed that he was awake about a minute into the argument", Yoruichi said, "I'm surprised you didn't".
"Don't be such an ass, I was busy yelling at you for hitting me!" I yelled at her.
"You can stop yelling now", a new voice said, "I could hear you all the way over in the Tenth Division's complex".
Turning around I saw Ichigo and he didn't look very happy about something.
"So whats your point?" I asked him.
"How do you think I was able to find you?"
"Who cares?"
"You should your reiatsu flares when your pissed off. Thats how I found you", he said in a calm voice, "I'm surprised that some of the Captains didn't come looking".
"I did", a bored voice chimed in.
"As did I", said a voice that sounded oddly familiar.
I turned around a came face to face with Kuchiki Byakuya and Shunsui Kyōraku. As usual Shunsui was looking out from under his hat and Byakuya was looking at Luke and I with a look of interest on his face.
"Ugh, too many people....Later", I said and flash stepped away.
"Shit, he has a lot of reiatsu", Shunsui said with a look of surprise and pain on his face.
"That doesn't usually happen", Yoruichi said, "He must have concentrated to go farther than he normally does".
After she said this a Hell Butterfly came and informed Byakuya and Shunsui of massive damage appearing the World of the Living after a massive release of reiatsu.
"Has that kid undergone any training?" Byakuya asked.
"None what so ever", I said from behind him.
"When did you get behind me?"
"I was here the whole time. You didn't notice?"
"You would think that someone of Captain level would be able to sense when someone with my reiatsu level showed up behind them", I said as he flash stepped away from me, "Nice try". I brought my foot up and connected with his chin before he even could dodge my attack.
"Shit. Your fast but can you dodge this? Scatter, Senbonsakura."
"Um... about three seconds ago. Too bad I was hoping to save this for the Bount, but you pushed me. Bankai, Fire Tempest the Winged Scorpion!"
Surprised that I could use my bankai with no training everyone but Luke, who knew I was capable of learning bankai, took a step back to prepare for my retaliation against Byakuya.
"Lets mix this up a little bit. Protect your self!" I declared as I flew towards Byakuya who tried to use his shikai to protect himself.
I formed the full blade of my bankai and burned straight through his defense and slid my blade across his shoulder.
"Your dead", I said as I sealed my zanpakuto and a blade from his shikai cut across my face, "Nice try but only the one that you surprised me with cut me and the rest got burned away before they could touch my body".
"So even when you seal your zanpakuto your bankai's defense still remains?"
"No that is one of the shikai abilities. I'm able to use it whether I'm using my shikai or not".
"You know..." Byakuya started.
"Hadō 33: Sōkatsui!"
Everyone looked towards where I shot the spell.
"Hey you could watch where you're shooting", someone said and then walked out into the open.
"Okay so lets see. This is an interesting group. Theres Yoruichi, Shunsui, Byakuya, Ichigo, Luke, me, and now Uryū".
"Wait a minute since Uryū just got here I know you shouldn't know his name and I didn't hear any one else tell you their name. Most importantly I never told you my name, so..."
"Shut up...you really are the most annoying strawberry that I know", I interrupted Ichigo.
"You fucker what did you call me!?"
"You heard me STRAWBERRY!"
"Ichigo let it go lets not get worked up over one of the meanings for you name", Yoruichi said.
"But he..."
"No buts just shut the fuck up!"
Ichigo turned back to me to apologize for yelling at me but I had went and sat up against a tree and fell back asleep.
"Wow that guy really needs to get used to not sleeping all the time", Uryū said.
"He's not just sleeping he's resting for the next time he has to fight", Byakuya stated.
"Not only that but I think that kid Is protecting someone whether he'll acknowledge it or not", Shunsui input, "He looks like thats what he's fighting for".
"But who would he be fighting for?"
"Who knows".
"I have a pretty good idea", Yoruichi said as she walked over and picked me up, "I'll talk to him about it later. Right now I have to get him back to Unohana, she's taking care of him and his friends while I'm too busy to train them".
"So, when are you going to tell us his name?" Ichigo asked.
"Oh, right. His name is Justin", she replied.
"And mine is Luke", Luke said so that they would know if they saw us again.
