Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach, it is owned by Tite Kubo.
Characters/Pairings: Ichigo/Rukia, (minor) Orihime/Ulquiorra, and some other character romance.
Warnings: There will be mainly IchiRuki romance and romance between characters of my own; there will be language, gore, violence, and if you don't like romance stuff then you have been warned.
Brief: Ichigo and the others have been called back to the Soul Society for reinforcements against the recent hollow attack.
"So why weren't you and Byakuya in the Soul Society when this happened?" asked Masumi to Kenpachi.
"The Old Man sent us on a mission. As soon as we were finished we were told to pick up all of you," said Kenpachi with a bored look on his face.
"The mission was easy! Right Kenny?" asked Yachiru on his back inside his Captain's robe.
"Tch, that wasn't even a morning workout for me," replied Kenpachi. Yachiru just giggled and began playing with Kenpachi's bells. Masumi just stopped talking; seeing that the Squad 11 Captain would not provide him with a decent conversation. The group was running through the precipice world following hell butterflies. Urahara decided to stay behind and help with Yoruichi's injuries and anything else that had to be fixed or done in the World of the Living.
"We are almost there," said Renji. Ichigo saw that Kenpachi was looking forward to the fight, Masumi looked like he was about to blow his brains out due to boredom, Yasushi looked like he didn't care, Naomi was following Masumi looking as though she had something on her mind, Yasuko was running next to Yasushi with a serious attitude, and Byakuya was running like he owned the place. Renji was glancing from his Captain to Ichigo and Rukia, "What is that bastard looking at? Wait why am I worried or angry?" thought Ichigo taking a glance a Rukia.
"Rukia, stay close to me," said Ichigo thinking of what dangers could possibly be in the Soul Society.
"Yes, Captain," replied Rukia with a sarcastic tone on the 'Captain' part. Ichigo just smiled and nudged her a bit. The group reached the entrance into the Soul Society and entered. There was a blinding light for everyone and everyone's eyes eventually adjusted to the atmosphere of the Soul Society. What the group saw was large amounts of hollows in the Soul Society of all power levels. Several of the buildings were destroyed and some were on fire.
"This looks like a fight!" said Kenpachi with excitement in his eyes, he immediately ran off to fight any strong hollows he could find. Ichigo just rolled his eyes at the Squad 11 Captain; Yasushi and Yasuko watched the Squad 11 Captain as if he were insane.
"We should report to the Head Captain," said Byakuya walking towards the office of the Head Captain, Renji followed obediently.
"Ok," said Yasushi, Yasuko followed him. Ichigo and Masumi stayed behind looking at the fighting going on in the Soul Society; Ulquiorra, Stark, Lilinette, Grimmjow, and the vizards were waiting for Masumi to make a decision. Byakuya looked back and saw that the Squad 5 Captain and Lieutenant and the Special Forces were not following.
"Did you not here what I said, I said that-," said Byakuya before beginning cut off by Masumi.
"We know what you said, 'We should report to the Head Captain' I hope that didn't imply my squad and Ichigo and Rukia?" said Masumi starting an argument.
"I did imply that, so let's go, the Head Captain is waiting," replied Byakuya turning around to face Masumi.
"I don't recall you being elected the leader of the Soul Society and besides when you said 'WE', that doesn't mean my squad and Ichigo and Rukia; it could mean you four," replied Masumi with a smart remark and pointing at the four.
"Ichigo Kurosaki, are you following this man in his course of action?" asked Byakuya. Ichigo hesitated before answering.
"Yes," he said staring at Byakuya.
"I see… Rukia let's go," said Byakuya turning around as if he expected Rukia to follow him.
"Sorry Byakuya, but I'm staying with Ichigo, after all he is my Captain," replied Rukia getting closer to Ichigo in order to avoid her brother's wrath which was most likely about to happen. Byakuya's temper and patience were used up; he turned around abruptly and unsheathed his zanpaktou.
"If you none of you can follow proper protocol, then I'll force you to follow," replied Byakuya. Ichigo sensed what he was about to do and he and Rukia took a step back; Masumi didn't flinch nor did his companions.
"Think first, Captain of Squad 6, two members of my squad can easily over power you. Do you really think you can take on all of us including Ichigo and Rukia?" asked Masumi, Naomi gripped her zanpaktou, but Masumi put his hand on her shoulder saying 'there is no need for us to fight yet'. Renji then stepped next to his Captain drawing his zanpaktou.
"Renji?" questioned Rukia.
"Sorry, but I must follow my Captain, Rukia," replied Renji in an attack stance.
"We can still take you both down easily," replied Masumi. Before Byakuya could use his shikai a Menos foot cam between the two. It roared and fired a cero; Yasuko used sonido and cut down the beast in one swift motion.
"We will finish this later, Masumi and Ichigo," said Byakuya before flash stepping away to regroup with his squad and he took Renji with him.
"Looking forward to it," said Masumi, Ichigo was looking at Masumi like he went mad, but soon came back to reality when several other Menos Grande appeared and roared. Yasushi and Yasuko made quick work of them, but soon more appeared.
"They keep coming," said Yasuko.
"Rukia, can you go to our squad and tell them to regroup with us?" asked Yasushi when he attacked another hollow.
"Sure! Ichigo I'm going to deploy Squad 3 and our squad ok?" said Rukia.
"Ok, be careful," said Ichigo to Rukia.
"You worry too much," said Rukia smiling and running off to do her tasks, Ichigo smiled at her after she left.
"Alright I guess I'll make this quick; Naomi and I will go our own way while the rest of you can go fight on you own terms," said Masumi to his squad.
"Finally I get to have some fun!" said Grimmjow before using sonido to go fight. Ulquiorra, Stark, and Lilinette did the same; the vizards also went their own separate ways to find a fight.
"Ichigo, wanna come? Yasushi and Yasuko seem to have things under control here," asked Masumi.
"Sure," replied Ichigo. Masumi, Naomi, and Ichigo flash stepped away to a huge spiritual pressure that Naomi sensed in the middle of the Seireitei.
"Those two… they seem to think this is a game," said Yasushi while cutting down two hollows, he was using Kohei-na, so he could focus on killing the hollows that were increasing in numbers and he wouldn't have to block much.
"They seem to have the strength to back up their cocky attitude," replied Yasuko using her cero to decimate several hollows stupid enough to form a row. She then used the cero by firing it over her back, flipping and doing many trick shots with her finger cero, before switching back to her zanpaktou.
"Well… Masumi only has some of his power and he doesn't realize it and he's acting all superior," said Yasushi disappearing and directing the hollows attack back at the hollow's mask, he did this several times in quick succession before saying," Hado Number 63, Raikoho," a large blast of yellow lighting shot out of his hand and destroyed several hollows, but being replaced by Menos Grande.
"Is someone jealous?" asked Yasuko attacking the Menos with Yasushi.
"I'm not jealous, I'm just tired off him acting all high and mighty," he said while cutting down the last Menos Grande. The two got a break for a bit before more came; they both decided it wasn't the time for talk and rushed in and attack the group of hollows coming at them.
Meanwhile with Ichigo, Masumi, and Naomi
Ichigo just finished cutting down an adjuchas and Masumi jumped over him as Ichigo slashed another hollow down the middle. Masumi then slashed several hollows in a large circle and then slashed another hollow and moved to the right when he did this. Naomi then went through the opening and worked with Ichigo and Masumi in carving a path towards the immense spiritual pressure.
"Getsuga…" said Ichigo preparing a Getsuga Tensho.
"NO DON'T! You may need you energy in case the enemy is more powerful than we think," said Naomi while cutting down a hollow.
"It will make things a lot easier for us," retorted Ichigo.
"Ichigo… do what she says and try to conserve as much energy as you can," replied Masumi cutting down a Menos Grande.
"Fine…," replied Ichigo. He was about to attack when suddenly a foot came in contact with his head. Ichigo crashed into the wall and began rubbing his head.
"OW! What the hell?" said Ichigo trying to see who it was. Rukia was standing over him with her hands on her hips.
"Rukia?" replied Ichigo.
"Well if it isn't Ichigo Kurosaki, Captain of Squad 5. You're such an amateur!" said Rukia bending down to his face and poking it with her finger.
"HEY! What do you mean 'amateur'?" said Ichigo standing up and towering over her. He then noticed that there were a lot of Soul Reapers standing behind her, the soul reapers were muttering something about their new Captain and the new lieutenant. He looked down at Rukia and saw that she was smiling. It then occurred to him what she was doing; embarrassing him in front of his squad and he hasn't even met them yet. Before he could say something Rukia spoke up.
"Well? You gonna give your squad some orders, 'Captain'?" said Rukia saying the 'Captain' part slowly. Ichigo started twitching with anger and was about to start an argument with Rukia, but the looks he was getting from his squad made him stop. He thought what he should do and thought of something.
"Is Momo in there?" asked Ichigo shouting so that everyone in the squad could hear above Masumi and Naomi's fighting behind them. Ichigo could hear a female's voice saying 'excuse me' and eventually she got up to the front with Ichigo. She stumbled a bit coming out from the crowd, but straightened herself up.
"Captain Kurosaki, what can I do for you!" she said bowing respectfully to Ichigo.
"Can you handle the squad until I return?" asked Ichigo. Momo looked up confused for a bit, but then understood what he meant, bowed, and went back to the squad to give them orders.
"Getting lazy now are we?" asked Rukia a bit annoyed. Ichigo knew what she meant and was about to retaliate, but Masumi came in from behind Rukia and spoke softly into her ear.
"There's a reason for that my precious," he whispered, it scared Rukia and she screamed a bit in a girly scream. She closed her mouth and blushed, because she humiliated herself and screamed in front of Ichigo. Masumi and Ichigo were laughing on top of each other at Rukia. Rukia got very angry at Ichigo for laughing at her and making Masumi do that to her; so she decided to teach him a lesson.
"Oooohh Ichigo?" said Rukia in a soft voice.
"Yes… Rukia?" said Ichigo in between laughs while looking up. He was met with a kick in the face and fell backwards onto the ground mumbling an 'Ow'. Masumi was still laughing, but now at Ichigo. He then suddenly fell silent when Naomi came over and kicked him in the stomach. He fell over and held his stomach as if it were full of bullets.
"Dammit, what the hell Naomi," whispered Masumi, but loud enough for Naomi to hear him.
"Don't laugh at other people's embarrassments," said Naomi standing over Masumi, Naomi and Rukia high-fived each other and began walking ahead of the boys towards the massive spiritual pressure. The boys eventually got up and had to run in order to catch up with the girls who were getting closer to the powerful entity.
Earlier and somewhere in the Seireitei
Stark, Lilinette, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow decided to team up and go for the massive amount of hollows in the Seireitei. There were a few Captains fighting nearby and they were struggling to fend off them massive amounts of hollows.
"Hey Stark, there's a fight! Let's go!" said Lilinette pulling on Stark's espada robes.
"Do I have to?" replied Stark reluctantly.
"Yes you have to; Masumi said so, so… GO GET 'EM!" shouted Lilinette kicking Stark towards the mass of hollows. He rocketed towards the hollows and took out a few of them with his own speed and momentum before he crashed into the ground.
"Damn, that hurt Lilinette," said Stark in a casual tone, she appeared beside him and just huffed a reply, Ulquiorra and Grimmjow soon followed. The espada were soon surrounded by hollows.
"Looks like they won't listen to us, I guess we have no choice but to eliminate them," said Ulquiorra turning towards the hollows
"Finally some action!" said Grimmjow bouncing back and forth like he was in a boxing match with his fists in the front of him.
"C'mon Stark!" said Lilinette taking out her zanpaktou.
"Fine…," he replied taking out his zanpaktou.
Ulquiorra then spotted an opportunity to kill multiple hollows and extended out his arm and pointed his finger at them," Cero Oscuras," said Ulquiorra in a low voice, a green cero then shot out of his hand and killed multiple hollows. He then used sonido and began close quarters combat against the hollows in a smaller group, Grimmjow did the same and the reason for this was to let Stark take on the massive amount of hollows clustered together.
"It seems that those two think we should take on all of you," said Stark back to back with Lilinette with their zanpaktous drawn, they were surrounded by a lot of hollows.
"Fine, I see where they're going with this. Stark let's do it," said Lilinette. Stark looked down at Lilinette to see if he heard her right, the look in her eyes confirmed it and he stood beside her. Stark then placed his hand on her head and then Lilinette began to give off a large amount of blue spiritual energy. After a while Lilinette disappeared and Stark then began giving off the aura Lilinette was giving of.
"Kick about, Los Lobes," said a calm but glowing blue Stark, he was then engulfed in smoke. After the smoke cleared Stark stood there in his ressureccion.
"I don't want to do this, but orders are orders. Let's make this quick," said Stark, he then pointed his gun and fired a cero at a group of attacking hollows and then proceeded to fight against the massive amount of hollows.
"You guys are weak!" shouted Grimmjow after kicking a hollow into several other hollows and killing them.
"C'mon, is there anyone among you that is strong enough to fight me?" asked Grimmjow upper-cutting a hollow into another, killing both instantly. He was beginning to think he was going to have a boring day when a stranger appeared in front of him.
"And who might you be?" asked Grimmjow looking annoyed at the stranger.
"I do not have a name, but I will strip your name from you and take it as my own, Grimmjow Jeagerjaques," said the stranger with no name, he had blue hair and his hilt was curved.
"You look familiar… Were you that guy back in the World of the Living?" asked Grimmjow.
"That would be correct, now… lets fight," said the hollow. Grimmjow smiled at his opponent for, he seemed strong. He then charged at the hollow and began fighting.
Ichigo, Rukia, Masumi, and Naomi's fight
"Where are all the hollows?" asked Rukia. The group hadn't come into contact with any of the hollows so far and they were heading to the Head Captain's office. Rukia decided to keep Masumi and Ichigo ignorant of their direction in case they started 'acting up'.
"Beats me, where are we going now?" asked Ichigo getting bored due to the lack of action. Rukia turned a corner and stopped at what she saw. Naomi saw this and went up to Rukia.
"What's wrong Rukia?" asked Naomi coming to her side.
"Look at the Head Captain's office," said Rukia. The boys came around the corner and were surprised at what they saw. They saw several Menos Grande surrounding the building, facing away from the building, there were some adjuchas standing there protecting the building also between the Menos Grandes' feet.
"Why are they protecting the building?" asked Naomi. The group looked up and saw that a fight between two very large spiritual pressures was taking place. Ichigo stepped forward and a Menos Grande began charging a cero. Ichigo stepped back and the Menos Grande stopped charging the cero.
"They seem to be guarding the building and attacking anyone who gets too close," said Masumi watching the hollows. The Menos Grandes were forming a wall between the group and the Head Captain's building.
"What should we do to get past them?" asked Naomi. The girls then began to think of a strategy while the boys were playing rock-paper-scissors on something.
"I have an idea, Ichigo can you-," said Rukia before she was interrupted by Ichigo and Masumi running past them and towards the building with their zanpaktous drawn.
"This is our plan… follow us," yelled Ichigo back at the girls in front of Masumi. Ichigo lost the game, so he went in first.
"And stay close to us, you don't wanna get hit by those ceros, right?" yelled Masumi back at the girls. The girls saw what he meant; the hollows were charging ceros and were aimed at the group. The girls quickly caught up with the boys and were dragged closer to the boys by the boys' arms in order to protect them from the ceros. The attack group ran closer towards the hollows.
"Ichigo," said Rukia, from behind him in order to warn him of the danger ahead. Ichigo then raised his sword in a defensive stance as he, Rukia, Masumi and Naomi got very close to the hollows. The hollows fired their ceros at the groups simultaneously.
"Getsuga… Tensho," said Ichigo slicing in a horizontal sweep. The blue Getsuga Tensho came out of Zangetsu and hit the ceros head on and obliterated the ceros in an explosion. The Menos and the adjuchas thought they killed the group, but another Getsuga Tensho came from the smoke and cut down the Menos guarding the building. The group stopped short of the building, because they were surrounded by adjuchas and the espada like hollows from the World of the Living (that weren't fighting), everyone went back to back and got in defensive stances.
"Now what happened to that brilliant plan Ichigo?" said Rukia with sarcasm.
"Shut up!" said Ichigo annoyed that they were too careless to fall into a trap.
"Looks like we got some tasty ones here boys," said a hollow licking his lips.
"The boss says that anyone who comes near the building must die, so they have to die," said an espada that met with the group in the World of the Living. The group tensed up a bit, but Masumi looked relaxed.
"What are you doing Masumi? Are you being idiot again or what?" asked Naomi while keeping an eye on the hollows.
"No, I'm not being an idiot, everything will be alright," said Masumi sheathing his zanpaktous back into their places; everyone looked at him as if he wanted to die.
"Masumi, what the hell are you doing?" asked Ichigo.
"Oh, look an easy meal. This'll be easy," said one of the espada like hollows that the group met in the World of the Living. He ran at Masumi hoping for an easy meal, but was slashed down by something, killing him instantly. Then the weaker hollows began to be engulfed by kido coming from the sky in the form of yellow lightening. The espada like hollows (except for the one who got cut down) escaped before being killed.
"Took your precious time Shinji," said Masumi. Shinji and the rest of the vizards descended from the sky and stood between the group and the pseudo-espadas.
"Sorry Captain took longer than we thought," said Shinji with a smile.
"Don't worry about, think you can handle things here while we continue?" asked Masumi putting his hands in his pockets on his Captain's robe.
"That won't be a problem," replied Shinji. The vizards then attacked the pseudo-espadas in order to prevent them from getting in the way of Masumi's destination.
"Will they be alright? I mean those hollows are like espadas," asked Rukia while running to the Head Captain's office with Ichigo, Masumi, and Naomi.
"If I knew that they couldn't take those hollows, then I wouldn't have assigned them to fight them right?" responded Masumi. Just then the group felt two high spiritual pressures coming from Yamamoto's office.
"We gotta hurry," said Rukia. After a run down the long hall, the group opened the door to Yamamoto's office and saw Head Captain Yamamoto and the strange hollow like person that made Masumi's hollow go berserk. The two were facing each other, the old man and the stranger had their swords drawn and looked like they were about to fight.
"Ah Ichigo, Rukia, Naomi, and Masumi; so kind of you to join us, how's your hollow doing Masumi?" asked the stranger. The group flash stepped over to the Head Captain and had their zanpaktous ready for an attack.
"He's fine now, but you're gonna pay for doing that," said Masumi. The stranger just smirked and got into an attack position with his zanpaktou.
"Lieutenants Rukia Kuchiki and Naomi Shinobu, you are to stay out of this fight and if we need it, provide support. Captain Kurosaki, Captain Minoru, and I will take on this stranger who has invaded the Seireitei," spoke the Head Captain. Rukia and Naomi were hesitant at the moment, but stepped back.
"Don't worry, those two are going to be occupied anyway," smirked the stranger, then the two opposites of Naomi and Rukia came from behind him with an evil hollow like smile.
"You!" said Rukia and Naomi in unison. Their opposites just smiled and took out their zanpaktous and prepared themselves.
"What's your name?" asked Ichigo to the stranger.
"My name is Hidoi Hakai, it means Great Devastation," replied Hidoi.
"'Great Devastation', How appropriate for someone such as yourself," said Yamamoto.
"Why thank you Head Captain, I do like it myself," said Hidoi. He then began to look more human/soul reaper after he told his name to the group. The stranger eventually looked like a guy who was about 5 feet and 8 inches tall, he had semi-long, straight, brunette hair that ended at his eyebrows, his hair was swished to the right, and his eyes were purple with white irises and corneas. The hogyoku was in his chest where his hollow hole was.
"I take it that you have control over the hogyoku, am I right?" asked Yamamoto.
"You are correct Head Captain… What's wrong Masumi, you look like you've seen a ghost?" asked Hidoi. Masumi was in confused at what he saw. "Hidoi's actual appearance looks like someone I knew a long time ago," thought Masumi.
"Masumi, what's wrong?" asked Naomi from behind tugging at his Captain's robe.
"It's just that… that face… it… it looks familiar," said Masumi trying to register what was so familiar about the face.
"Oh this is interesting… But it doesn't matter, here I come," said Hidoi. Hidoi then attacked Yamamoto, who blocked it with ease and the room exploded from the energy given off by the fighters. The fighters then shot into the air in order to confront each other free from the small space.
"Ichigo we should-," shouted Rukia before Naomi and herself were attacked by their opposites and began fighting with them. Ichigo then came from behind Hidoi and slashed at his back, it was blocked by Hidoi, by grabbing Zangetsu and throwing Ichigo away. Yamamoto then flash stepped up to Hidoi and attacked him; Hidoi blocked the Head Captain's attack with his zanpaktou and began a clash with Yamamoto. Masumi then appeared above Hidoi and was about to cut down and spilt Hidoi in half with his zanpaktous. Hidoi looked up and a black cero formed on his head and was aimed at Masumi, his ears had the black ceros too and were facing Yamamoto and Ichigo.
"Cero," said Hidoi and the cero fired in a wide range according to its direction. The Captains dodged the attack and got some distance from Hidoi.
"That was a cheap trick," said Ichigo gritting his teeth, the other two escaped the blast. Ichigo barely dodged it and started bleeding on his head.
"Everything is fair in a battle, if anyone is being unfair it would be you three. After all it is three against one," said Hidoi.
"Enough of this foolishness, we will stop you right here Hidoi," said Yamamoto taking his upper half of his Soul Reaper uniform off.
"Oh and how will you do that?" asked Hidoi.
"All things in the universe turn to ashes, Ryujin Jakka," said Yamamoto, an explosion of flames erupted from the Head Captain and engulfed him in flames. The intense heat was felt by Ichigo and Masumi who had to get farther away, so that Yamamoto could release.
"Bankai!" said Ichigo in his bankai stance. A large blue column formed and dust surrounded Ichigo. After everything settled down Ichigo stood there in his bankai form.
"Tensa Zangetsu," said Ichigo. Masumi just stood there and looked out of place with everyone else, because everyone had already released, except for him.
"Well Masumi? Aren't you gonna do something? Oh I know, you can use your mask," said Hidoi pointing out the obvious.
"No thanks, I'll use it when I need to," said Masumi. Hidoi frowned at this and got angry.
"Are you insulting me?" asked Hidoi with anger.
"You can say that," retorted Masumi with a grin.
"Then I'll show you my power also!" said Hidoi, he then put his zanpaktou back in its sheath and everyone waited to see what he was going to do.
"Arise, Sekai no shihai-sha," said Hidoi, he gripped his zanpaktou and pulled it out and was engulfed in a black aura of spiritual pressure. His spiritual pressure became more powerful and more ominous than it was before. After a while the spiritual pressure bubble widened and dissipated. What stood there were three copies of Hidoi.
"That's it? You just copy yourself?" questioned Ichigo.
"Patience Ichigo Kurosaki, I will give you three a glimpse of my power," the three of the copies Hidoi said at once. Then the sky became dark and it appeared to be night time, Hidoi's three forms began to change into something else. One of his forms got a bit taller and two of his forms got shorter. A blast of black spiritual pressure then erupted from the three forms. After it settled, the image in front of the three Captains was surprise to all of them; Yamamoto opened his eyes in order to confirm his vision. What stood before them was a young man with black hair and a handsome looking appearance. The other two forms of Hidoi took the form of Rukia and Naomi and looked exactly like them.
"What is the meaning of this!" asked Yamamoto trying to figure out what was going on.
"This is one of my abilities, I look into you hearts and take form of a person whom you hold close to your heart and fight you as them. Do you recognize this person, Grand-dad?" responded Hidoi. Ichigo and Masumi turned to look at the old man.
"You're a grand-dad?" asked Ichigo and Masumi.
"Yes I am; why, is this, such a surprise to you two?" said Yamamoto glaring at the boys with fire in his eyes, the two boys just quickly turned their attention back towards Hidoi.
"Anyway, what Ichigo and Masumi should be worried about is that whoever I take the form of, that person will lose consciousness as I draw on their powers and memories for a time being. As I recall, Rukia and Naomi were in a fight, were they not?" said Hidoi with an evil grin. Ichigo and Masumi turned to find Rukia and Naomi. The girls were fighting normally, but looked like they were becoming unsteady.
"Is that all you have Rukia?" taunted her opposite, Rukia was having trouble staying awake and had to mentally kick herself in order to stay awake, but it wasn't working very well.
"Are we losing our balance?" taunted Naomi's opposite. Naomi's foot work was getting sloppier and she could see Rukia was having the same issue as well.
"Damn, what's happening?" asked Naomi swaying forward and backwards.
"Master Hidoi is using one of his abilities and basically you are going to be knocked out, and easy kill for me," said Rukia's opposite to Rukia. The opposites then charged in for an attack. Rukia and Naomi didn't have the strength to move and fell forward as they were beginning to black out. They were caught by Ichigo and Masumi.
"Ichigo," said Rukia in Ichigo's arms.
"Masumi," said Naomi in Masumi's arms and both girls blacked out. The boys blocked the girls' opposites' attacks and the opposites backed away.
"Rukia!" shouted Ichigo, but she was knocked out, he felt her pulse and it was still there. "At least she is still alive," thought Ichigo relieved.
"Dammit Naomi, wake up!" shouted Masumi, but it was no use and he did the same thing Ichigo did and checked her pulse. The boys then went towards the ground and put Rukia and Naomi in safe, yet comfortable spots. After they did so the girls' opposites did a surprise attack on the boys and slashed at their backs. It was blocked by Ulquiorra who grabbed their swords and then Grimmjow appeared and yanked the girl's collars on their robes and threw them in the sky. And Ulquiorra and Grimmjow went up to the opposites to fight them without explaining their sudden appearance.
"Ulquiorra and Grimmjow will fight those two, Yasuko and I will try to revive Rukia and Naomi," said Yasushi coming up to the building by jumping through the rubble that was left of the Squad 1 building.
"You two should focus on Hidoi," said Yasuko kneeling down and began healing the girls.
"Ok," replied Ichigo. Ichigo then went back to the fight in the sky with Yamamoto. Masumi was about to do the same, but Yasushi's hand stopped him.
"Masumi, if you need any help, give me a signal," said Yasushi trying to give his best friend some form of comfort.
"Like I'll need help; I'll be fine," replied Masumi looking Yasushi in the eyes. Yasushi looked into his eyes and immediately closed them because of what he saw in his eyes. After Masumi left, he finally opened them and blinked for a bit.
"Will he be alright?" asked Yasuko while healing the girls. Yasushi stood still in a stupor, but regained his sense of reality at Yasuko's voice.
"Don't worry about him, the only thing I'm worried about is how he can control his power," said Yasushi crouching down to help with the healing. "He's back to his normal self now. Heh; should be an exciting fight," thought Yasushi while he was healing.
In the sky
"I see you have finally chosen to come up here, Masumi," said the fake Naomi.
"Shut up, you picked the wrong person to use against me and you will pay for that," said Masumi his eyes were glowing yellow and red with resolve and this took Hidoi off guard. "Where did this power come from?" thought Hidoi while searching Naomi's memories for an answer, but found none. Then a huge spike in Masumi's spiritual pressure along with yellow and red spiritual pressure around Masumi came out.
"Ichigo, Gramps; I suggest you get some distance," said Masumi. Ichigo and Yamamoto took their fights elsewhere. He then grabbed his zanpaktous and flash stepped behind the fake Naomi and attacked. Hidoi blocked it in time before the attack connected to him. Masumi's zanpaktous were slowly going through Hidoi's zanpaktou like butter. Hidoi saw this and backed away before it cut the zanpaktou in three. "Damn, I'm gonna need more power to defeat him," thought Hidoi, he then got his other self, the one fighting with Yamamoto, to come over. He then grabbed his other self and absorbed him into the fake Naomi.
"Much better," said Hidoi in Naomi's image stretching rather seductively. Masumi just shivered at the sight and focused on the fight instead
"Don't worry Gramps, he won't be alive very long," said Masumi, Yamamoto sealed his zanpaktou and watched the fight with interest. A spike in Hidoi's spiritual pressure alerted Masumi to an impending attack.
"Shall we begin, Masumi?" said the Naomi imposter. Masumi gripped his zanpaktous and attacked again, this time the two combatants seemed to be equal in the fight as they slashed at one another, but Masumi was holding something back and Hidoi knew it too. Hidoi wanted to see Masumi's power, so he would have to force Masumi to use his full potential and he knew exactly how to do it.
"You sure you can hurt me looking like Naomi?" asked Hidoi. Masumi didn't respond and spin kicked Hidoi into a tower nearby. Masumi flew at the explosion hoping to finish Hidoi off quickly, but was caught off guard by what Hidoi did next. Hidoi looked at Masumi as Naomi, but with a weak and helpless expression on her face. Masumi's sword was about to connect with Hidoi, but stopped and retracted when he saw the eyes of a helpless Naomi. "Damn, that's a cheap trick," thought Masumi dodging an attack from the front. He saw an opening and went for it, but Naomi's face came into his vision and he stopped unable to move. Hidoi smirked and slashed Masumi's chest. Masumi backed off to get some ground, but was encountered by Hidoi again. He blocked the attack going for his head easily and slashed at what he thought was Hidoi's stomach. Hidoi made an expression of pain as Naomi and pretended to be chocking on blood in her throat. Masumi instinctively caught her, but dropped her as his shoulders were slashed. He then got a fair bit of distance away from him and began panting. "C'mon Masumi, it's just an illusion," thought Masumi gripping his zanpaktous.
"That's not being very fair, using people's feelings against them," replied Masumi breathing hard and trying to ignore the pain on his shoulders.
"I don't have any other options now do I? Besides that's what this power can do, I use the weakness of people's feelings for someone close to their heart in battle," explained Hidoi.
"Having feelings for a person is not weak… It makes you strong….because you strive to protect them no matter what… and if they do get hurt… then you get stronger and … swear to protect the person with all you've got," responded Masumi breathing hard, but soon getting his breathing under control.
"If that is what you believe, fine, but you cannot harm the ones you have feelings for," responded Hidoi playing with the fake Naomi's hair. Masumi just stared at Hidoi, but saw Naomi's body," Damn, I gotta do something about that cheap trick… I'm so gonna regret this in the morning," thought Masumi standing up straight breathing normally. He then felt his spiritual pressure beginning to be built up inside him and increase with each second.
"You ready Hidoi? Cause here's my power," said Masumi with a hint of anger in his voice. He grabbed his zanpaktous and slowly put them in place next to each other about 4 feet apart. The tips of the zanpaktous sunk into the spirit particles, like the swords were stuck in the ground, in the air and stayed put when Masumi let go of them.
Masumi then put his hands close together, but not touching, and said," Almighty One, grant me the strength to extinguish the evil from the world (the one with the crucifix began to glow yellow), Demonic One, help me to destroy my enemies that block my path to victory and teach others of your destruction (the one with the pentagon on it began to glow purple), Hear my prayer and answer it (both swords formed their shapes in the sky above the zanpaktou that had the specific shape on it), Hikari to Yami!" proclaimed Masumi, he then clapped his hands together and an explosion of bright yellow and red spiritual pressure came, but subsided shortly. Hidoi covered his eyes from the intense light and when he saw Masumi he was interested in what kind of power Masumi now possessed. Masumi now held a large yellow broadsword that glowed with yellow light in his right hand and a large, purple, red, and black dagger in his left hand that emitted a purple aura around it with skulls as a guard and a hilt. Masumi's hair was now completely black and his wounds were healed, but other than that, nothing about his appearance changed. Masumi stood there with the broadsword pointing at the ground in a slant by his side and held the dagger backwards in front of his chest. Both the crucifix and the pentagram were still attached to the chains, but he chains were longer now.
"Interesting zanpaktous you have there. What do they do?" asked Hidoi.
"Well for starters, I can see through your ability. Now all I can see is your actual form, not Naomi," explained Masumi," If you didn't use that cheap trick against me, then I might have not have used this… Or was that your plan?"
"Good job in figuring out what I was going for, Masumi. You still won't win this bat-," said Hidoi before Masumi appeared behind him with Masumi having his back turned to him. Hidoi was startled by the sudden movement and got some distance from Masumi and stood in a defensive stance.
"Why didn't you attack me?" asked Hidoi confused.
"I did attack you… look on your chest Hidoi," said Masumi turning around. Hidoi looked at his chest and saw a streak of purple on it and then the cut formed and blood came out of it.
"What the?" questioned Hidoi.
"Didn't see me coming eh? That's a shame, you should stop hiding your true power and use it or you will die," said Masumi slowly going past Hidoi as he kicked Hidoi in the gut, sending him back several feet.
"If you want it then I'll gladly show you my power with the hogyoku," said Hidoi unfazed by the attack. He then began to power up and the air around Hidoi began to distort. Suddenly his spiritual pressure dropped sharply and Hidoi's power was drastically reduced. The hogyoku then popped out of his chest and Hidoi caught in his hand, his eyes then turned to like human/soul reaper and were brown. His mask then came back to his face and it was in the shape of a headband on his head.
"What did you do to me?" question Hidoi in complete shock and confusion.
"I used one of your weaknesses against you. This dagger, Yami, will use the weaknesses of anyone I cut against them. In this case, I cancelled out your mastery over the hogyoku and it appears to have weakened you dramatically. That's not good news for you Hidoi," said Masumi in an attack position, the purple dagger's pentagram was glowing to show that it was active and the ability was being used. Hidoi smiled and then began to laugh.
Earlier with Ichigo's and fake-Rukia's fight
"What the hell is this Hidoi?" asked Ichigo blocking an attack from the look alike Rukia. The attack carried the strength of someone else, but had the face of Rukia; Ichigo noticed.
"I simply copied Rukia's appearance, abilities, and memories for a while, does this trouble you Ichigo?" asked Hidoi in Rukia's voice. Ichigo and Hidoi were trading blows, but Ichigo was holding back a bit, because he needed to figure out in his head what was going on.
"Why did you pick her? Why didn't you pick someone else?" asked Ichigo pushing Hidoi away with his sword.
"Didn't you hear me before? I said that I would use the appearance, abilities, and memories of the one closest to the person's heart; in this case, it would be Rukia for you," explained Hidoi before using sonido and appearing before Ichigo and attacking him, Ichigo blocked it with ease and counter attacked with the butt of his hilt on the fake Rukia's head, pushing her back a bit.
"You mean to say that Rukia is close to my heart? What the hell is that supposed to mean?" yelled Ichigo pushing Hidoi back further with a sword clash.
"You must be really thick, let me say in terms that you can't confuse. I take the person that you lo-," explained Hidoi, but was cut off when he sensed a high spiritual pressure coming from someone. He looked over and saw that it originated from Masumi and saw his other clone fuse with the fake Naomi.
"Your friend is pretty strong," said Hidoi facing Ichigo.
"Yeah… he is. Now let's finish this Ruk—Hidoi," said Ichigo catching himself before he said Rukia's name when he meant Hidoi. Hidoi smiled to himself at Ichigo's predicament and he/she attacked Ichigo with a stab. Ichigo blocked the attack easily and counter-attacked by hitting him/her in the stomach with his foot; sending her flying from the force. Ichigo then proceeded to slash at Hidoi after he flash stepped into intercepting him/her in the air. Before he was about to attack, Ichigo saw the hurt on the face of Rukia and he stopped his sword from connecting with the fake Rukia's body. Hidoi grinned and slashed at Ichigo, but Ichigo dodged it barely getting only a scrap on his face.
"Looks like you don't have it in you, Ichigo, to attack this face," said Hidoi attacking Ichigo again. Ichigo blocked the attack and counter-attacked at the right, it was blocked by Hidoi and Hidoi threw his palm out in Ichigo's face.
"Hado Number 33, Sokatsui," said the Rukia look alike. Ichigo then saw a blue light come from the fake Rukia's hand and the kido fired at him. After the blue lightening subsided, Ichigo appeared behind Hidoi with his left arm scorched, due to Ichigo getting hit when he dodged, and slashed downwards at the fake Rukia's back. Blood came out of the wound and Ichigo felt the blood land on his face.
"Getsuga…," said Ichigo pouring spiritual pressure into Tensa Zangetsu, and moved in on the faltering Hidoi. Before he could fire the Getsuga Tensho at the fake Rukia, she turned around and what he saw in those violet eyes made him stop and extinguish the attack that was charged up. Ichigo looked in the eyes again and it made his heart sink, but then he was met with a sword in his chest. Ichigo coughed up blood and the sword was pulled out of him and the pseudo-Rukia backed away.
"Dammit," said Ichigo covering up the wound in his chest that extended through to his back.
"You don't seem to be able to kill the one whom you hold so dear to your heart Ichigo. This should stir things up," replied Hidoi he then took a familiar stance to Ichigo and his eyes narrowed at what he was doing.
"Dance, Sode no Shirayuki," said the fake Rukia doing her movements of releasing her zanpaktou," Tsugi no mai, Hakuren," said the fake Rukia stabbing the ground four times and shooting a blast of ice at Ichigo. Ichigo saw the massive amount of ice coming at him and thought," Now's my chance," he then put his left hand up to his eye a pulled it down and formed his hallow mask.
"Getsuga… Tensho!" shouted a hollowfied Ichigo, releasing a powerful, hollowfied, attack towards the fake Rukia. Hidoi couldn't see anything due to the massive amount of ice, but when he saw Ichigo's Getsuga Tensho get close, he couldn't dodge it. He had to block the attack with Sode no Shirayuki. The power behind the attack was too much for Hidoi in his current state and was pushed into a building creating an explosion and it cut the building in half where it hit. Ichigo stared at where the impact occurred through his hollow eyes and waited to see if he had defeated the Hidoi copy/ fake Rukia.
"Nice try, but an attack like that won't kill me so easily," said Hidoi climbing out of the crater in the building. He/she was scratched up badly, bleeding from the head and wounds on his/her body, and had his/her clothing was torn badly. Ichigo saw that his attack didn't kill him/her, so he prepared another attack before he could see Rukia's face.
"Getsuga… Tensho!" shouted Ichigo unleashing another attack on the spot where the fake Rukia was thought to be by Ichigo. The attack created another explosion and cut the building further in half.
"Is that all?" asked Hidoi appearing before Ichigo with the face of Rukia badly cut, bleeding, and bruised. Ichigo couldn't move because he was too transfixed on the face of Rukia so badly damaged and it resulted in Ichigo's shoulders being slashed twice in quick succession before he actually moved. Ichigo backed away to gain some distance from his enemy. He was panting hard from his new wounds and was trying to stay awake from the pain he was feeling.
"I'm a bit disappointed in you Ichigo, you have failed to meet my expectations and now you must die for your failure," said Hidoi getting in attack position. Ichigo tried to get into a defensive stance, but all he could do was use his right arm, because his left arm was useless now, to somewhat defend himself.
"Here I come, Ichigo," said Hidoi, as soon as Hidoi stepped he stopped and doubled over breathing hard. Suddenly his zanpaktou's ability became ineffective and he looked like himself again. The hogyoku fell out of his chest and his mask formed on his forehead.
"What is this?" asked Hidoi, as soon as he said this, Hidoi and Ichigo felt Masumi's spiritual pressure. It was a weird feeling; Ichigo thought it felt of a mixture of pure spiritual pressure and tainted spiritual pressure coming from Masumi. Ichigo look over and Ichigo saw Masumi in his shikai, he was surprised to see a dagger and a broadsword as his shikai and wondered what abilities they could possess.
"What the hell happened?" asked Hidoi in his original form clutching a copy of the hogyoku.
"I don't know, but its bad news for you Hidoi!" shouted Ichigo with Tensa Zangetsu powered up and ready to fire a Getsuga Tensho. The copy of Hidoi threw the copy of the hogyoku back at the other copy, which fused with the other hogyoku making it one again; Hidoi blocked Ichigo's attack, but his sword broke and Ichigo whispered," This is for Rukia… Getsuga Tensho," and a Getsuga Tensho came out of Tensa Zangetsu, cutting the copy of Hidoi in half, killing him instantly. The copy turned into spirit particles and rushed back to the other copy making a complete, but less powerful Hidoi again. Ichigo then rushed over to help Masumi when he heard Hidoi laugh.
Masumi's and Hidoi's fight
"What's so funny?" asked Masumi surprised by his reaction to the situation.
"Masumi, do you realize what you have done to yourself?" asked Hidoi. Masumi did not understand his words, but then felt his power being stripped away from him. His zanpaktous sealed themselves and he was now back to his original state, panting hard due to the sudden loss of his powers.
"Dammit," said Masumi, trying to support himself against his zanpaktous and face Hidoi in battle.
"Sorry, but we can't fight anymore. The hollows I brought here have been killed and pretty soon the rest of the 14 Court Guard Squads will come," said Hidoi disappearing and reappeared where Yasuko was healing the girls, Yasushi was guarding, but didn't see Hidoi coming when his back got slashed.
"Yasushi!" yelled Yasuko getting up and ran towards Hidoi with her zanpaktou drawn.
"Quiet girl," said Hidoi. Yasuko charged at Hidoi with anger in her eyes. She slashed at his stomach, but he jumped over it and kicked her in the head next to Yasushi's body and her head started bleeding from the kick. Yasushi was barely breathing because the attack had cut some of his lungs. Naomi woke up, but her body wouldn't let her move. Rukia, however, was still asleep and appeared to be waking up until Hidoi sprayed something at Rukia's face and she was once again in a deep sleep. Hidoi picked Rukia up and carried her with one arm and she hung loosely and out cold. Ichigo appeared and was about to attack Hidoi with a hollowfied Getsuga Tensho.
"Now is not the time Ichigo. Bakudo Number 63 Sajo Sabaku," said Hidoi, a yellow chain descended from the sky and held Ichigo's arms to his body by constricting him. Ichigo was unable to attack and fell down due to lose of momentum. Hidoi then appeared before Masumi and walked towards him with Rukia limp in his arm.
"Where are you taking Rukia?" asked Masumi trying to stabilize himself from the amount of power he lost.
"I am taking her and you back to my palace, now please don't make this any more difficult than it needs to be," said Hidoi spraying Masumi with the same substance as he did with Rukia. Masumi started to fall, but Hidoi caught him and put him on his right shoulder. Hidoi then called his followers back to him. When they came, only the Rukia and Naomi opposites were still alive and they were badly injured from their fight with Ulquiorra.
"Where are the others?" asked Hidoi grabbing Masumi's and Rukia's zanpaktous.
"Dead," replied the opposite Rukia.
"That's unfortunate; let's make our leave," said Hidoi. Then all of the Captains of the 14 Court Guard Squads appeared and surrounded them, some wounded, others had scratches, and others were not even touched.
"That's far enough Hidoi," said Soi Fon with the Stealth Force next to her. Hidoi opened up a Garganta and was about to step through when he heard Yamamoto say something.
"What was your purpose in coming here, if you only wanted Lieutenant Kuchiki and Captain Minoru?" asked Yamamoto curiously.
"You will see if I can pull it off," replied Hidoi and he walked towards the Garganta with his captives and opposites of Rukia and Naomi.
"Arrest them!" shouted Soi Fon pointing a finger at Hidoi and the Rukia and Naomi opposites.
"Yes, ma'am!" replied the Stealth Force going in for an attack.
"Bakudo Number 21, Senkieton," said Rukia's opposite; a huge blast of Red smoke appeared and blocked everyone's vision of the three enemies as they entered the Garganta.
"Bakudo Number 62, Hyapporankan," said Naomi's opposite and numerous purple rods came out from the smoke and pinned down the Stealth Force. Ichigo, who was rolling on the ground, was struggling to get the Bakudo off when Naomi came over and helped him get free of the Bakudo.
"Naomi?" asked Ichigo.
"There's no time for 'Thank You's', we need to help Masumi and Rukia," she said, Ichigo sensed that she was panicking and distressed by the situation. She broke Ichigo free of the Bakudo with her own zanpaktou. Ichigo wanted to say something to her after she got him free to comfort her, but decided not to due to the situation. As the smoke cleared from above, Ichigo and Naomi looked up and saw Rukia's and Masumi's face in the closing Garganta through a tiny opening. Ichigo's eyes widened as it closed.
"RUKIA!" Ichigo shouted after it closed. He knew she was now with Hidoi in Hueco Mundo. After a while Ichigo shook himself out of his stupor and sat down to take in what just happened. He looked over at Naomi to see if she was ok.
"Naomi, are you ok?" he said while staring at her, he got no response. He got up and went over to her. When he stood in front of her, he saw tears forming in her eyes like she was about to cry, and she didn't let her gaze shift from where Rukia and Masumi disappeared. Ichigo didn't know what to do, so he did what he would do if his sisters were about to cry, mostly Yuzu. He comforted Naomi by hugging her. As soon as he did so, she started crying on his Captain's robe. Ichigo knelt down to Naomi and continued hugging Naomi, so he could be a source of comfort for Naomi, as she cried on his shoulder. "Rukia, Masumi; I will get you back," thought Ichigo looking up into the sky.
Fin Chapter 7.
Hope you guys enjoyed it.
Next chapter should be out soon or whenever my editor/ I can edit the next chapter.
Thank you for those that read my story and like it.
(Prophet)