Disclaimer: I do not own Rosario + Vampire or Bleach.
A/N: The author's note before this chapter was replaced with an actual chapter. Oh and there are absolutely no 'puns' intended in this chapter. It's not my fault the damn things look like snakes and are white.
Shinigami + Memories
Ichigo awoke the next morning, feeling like he had forgot something. He looked around the room and saw Kon sleeping on the floor by the door. 'He must have been with that Gin guy again.' Ichigo thought, getting out of bed. Yukari had made a brand new Kon stuffed plushy after Kon was torn to shred's. She had even made extra copies since, inner Moka seemed to have taken a liking to ripping the poor stuffed animal to shred's.
"Good morning Ichigo-San." Tsukune said, sitting at the table that was moved to the corner of the room to make room for Ichigo's bed.
Ichigo grunted as a response to tired to actually make a verbal sentence. He walked over to the closet and put on his school uniform not even caring to look into a mirror. After that he popped some toast into the toaster.
Tsukune sighed, getting up from the table to start walking to school. When all of a sudden Moka burst through the door slamming Kon into the wall, panic in her eye's.
"Ichigo-San something's wrong with Rukia-San!" Moka shouted.
"Rukia?" Ichigo asked. "Who's that?" Tsukune also had a questioning look on his face.
Moka gasped. What was going on? First Rukia was like a lifeless doll, now Ichigo didn't even know her.
"You know Rukia! Rukia! Come on Ichigo you have to remember. She's the shinigami you came here with your best friend! The one who first turned you into a shinigami!" Moka said, becoming more panicked.
Ichigo just shook his head.
"She's love's chappy the rabbit... she sleep in your closet..." Moka said, becoming desperate.
Tsukune blinked, going wide eyed. Ichigo had a girl sleeping in his closet?
Moka grabbed a hold of Ichigo's wrist and dragged him out of the room.
"Hey wait for me!" Tsukune shouted, following behind them.
"Nee-Chan are you sure this is the place?"
"Yeah I can tell she's near."
Two figures stood at the cave of Youkai Gakuen. The taller one holding a scythe. As fast has they had arrived they were gone again.
Kokoa sighed, staring at Rukia's lifeless form. She wasn't really dead, more like a vegetable state.
'What the fuck happened last night to make her like this?' Kokoa thought, resting her head on her hands a board look on her face.
All of a sudden two black holes appeared beside Rukia. A scythe began to appear out of one, while the head of a girl came out of the other. When the portals disappeared A girl with blonde hair and a purple streak in it stood, with a taller man with blue hair, holding a scythe next to her. Kokoa growled, knowing that these two were bad trouble.
The two ignored her starting to pick up Rukia's lifeless body.
Kokoa really didn't care about the shinigami, but she knew if she let these two take her away her Onee-Sama would be very mad. So she attacked the man with the scythe.
"KOU-CHAN!!" Kokoa shouted. Kou flew into her hand, turning into an oversized hammer. She swung the hammer side ways, trying to knock the enemy's away from Rukia, so she could go all out. When all of a sudden she stopped seeing the look in the girls eyes.
"I WON'T LET YOU GET IN OUR WAY!!" The girl screamed. Black holes appearing around the room.
"Oi! Stop!" Ichigo shouted, using all of his strength to try and resist Moka from pulling him any further. "Tell me what is going on!" 'What the fuck is with this monstrous strength!?' He thought.
"I already told you Ichigo-San (sob) Rukia (sob) is acting weird (sob)." Moka cried, breaking down into tears. She released Ichigo's arm, and collapsed onto the ground.
"MOKA-SAN!" Tsukune panicked, running up to her.
"You remember Rukia? Right Tsukune?" Moka asked, looking up to him in hope.
"Ahh..." Tsukune said, looking away. He didn't want to upset Moka more by telling her he didn't.
Moka's eyes widened, and new tears began flowing. "It's Rukia! Rukia! Our new friend!"
'Rukia?' Ichigo thought. Flashback's of a girl with a little shorter than shoulder length black hair appeared in his mind. Image's of her smiling, laughing with his friends, of her crying, the time she left, and the very first time they met appeared in his mind. "RUKIA!!" Ichigo shouted.
Moka looked up startled. "Ichigo-San?"
"Where's Rukia? What's wrong with her?" Ichigo asked, kneeling down on one knee.
A small smile crept across Moka's face. "You remembered?"
"Yeah... I'm sorry that I forgot. It was like something was blocking my memory of her." Ichigo sighed.
"Ummm.... I still don't know who this Rukia is." Tsukune said.
Moka frowned, but now wasn't the time to talk. She needed to help Rukia. "Follow me Ichigo-San, Rukia is in my room." Moka said, wiping the tears away.
They ran through the forest as fast as they could, but no matter how long they ran the forest seemed to be never ending.
"I thought the girls dorm was right next to the boys." Tsukune panted.
"It only took me a few minutes to get to your guy's room, why is this happening?" Moka said.
Ichigo looked around the forest. "Some kind of kido I don't know about?" The sky above them began to turn black. Ichigo didn't like the looks of this. Different place's in the sky began to swirl, when all of a sudden giant white snakes shot out of the holes.
"What are those things!?" Tsukune shouted.
"I don't know, but we have to hurry!" Ichigo shouted, grabbing a hold of Tsukune and Moka and shuushin'ing to the school.
When they arrived at the school, most of the student body was frozen in place. Those that weren't were trying to fight off the intrusion. At the sight of the school Tsukune quickly pulled off Moka's Rosario, and began to channel his own youki.
"Try and save those who haven't been frozen yet, I'm going after those things." Ichigo said, holding his sword out. "Bankai!"
Before Tsukune or Moka could argue Ichigo was gone, slicing the closest one in half. The snake that Ichigo cut turned into two attacking the forest around the school.
"Tsukune you save anyone who's not frozen I'm going to go show some snake's their place." Moka said, ignoring Tsukune's complaint's as she ran toward one of the nearby snake's. She jumped into the air bringing her foot down, that was pulled into the Snake's body. Moka growled, punching the snake. The same thing happened as her arm began to be pulled into the snake. Moka flared her youki, shattering the hold the snake had on her. 'So these thing's don't like youki, eh?' She smirked.
Tsukune watched Moka out of the corner of his eye as he ran around campus looking for student's who hadn't been frozen yet.
"Help me! Tsukune-San!"
"Hold on Yukari-Chan!" Tsukune shouted, seeing Yukari running from a snake that was gaining on her. He ran in front of Yukari getting between her and the snake. "AHHH!!!" Tsukune yelled, slamming his fist into the snake's nose. The snake's head exploded, but rapidly began to regenerate. Seeing this Tsukune grabbed a hold of Yukari and began to run. The snake roared, lunging in their direction.
"Getsuga Tensho!" Ichigo roared.
The snake splattered all over the ground as Ichigo landed next to Tsukune. "You two ok?" Ichigo asked.
"Y-Yeah thanks." Tsukune panted. "Yukari-Chan do you know the others are?"
Yukari shook her head no about to cry. Tsukune sighed, "It's ok Yukari-Chan we'll find them."
"EWWWW!!! These things are so gross!"
"Shut up milk jugs we need to find Tsukune."
"Kurumu? Mizore?" Tsukune said, running off into the direction their voices came from. With Yukari following behind him.
Ichigo was about to follow them when he heard a large crash behind him. He turned around to see Moka pushing a tree off of her. A white snake flying at her.
"Shit!" Ichigo growled, "How many of these fucking things are there?"
Moka picked up the tree that had fell on her, and used it like a baseball bat to hit the snake that came near her. As the snake went flying backwards Moka heard a "Getsuga Tensho!" Black reiatsu hit the snake destroying it. She looked to her left to see Ichigo already fighting another one.
Moka humped, looking around the area. There we're about five snakes in the area, but could easily double if they split apart. One of the snake's turned and started flying in her direction. Moka waited until the snake got closer then kicked the snake on the side of the head, making it fly off course. Before it got to far away Moka grabbed the end of it's tail and swung it around releasing it toward another snake. When the snake's collide a large explosion erupted, shattering the tree's that were frozen. Moka looked down at her hand that was beginning to freeze from holding onto the snake. She saw the remains of a nearby tree and flared her youki, then walked over to the tree and punched it with her frozen hand shattering the stuff that was around her hand like glass. Moka flicked the stray hairs out of her sight and went after the next enemy.
When Tsukune arrived at where Kurumu and Mizore were he saw Kurumu high in the sky using aerial move's to dodge snake's that were coming out of the black portals. Mizore was building an ice wall around her self against two snake's, and shooting ice shuriken that would go out the other side of the snake. He could tell that the girls were already starting to run out of energy.
"Kurumu-Chan! Mizore-Chan!" Tsukune shouted, running after them.
"Tsukune!" They shouted in unison. Kurumu sliced one of the snakes in half before flying down to help out Tsukune. Mizore sent ice spike's out of the ground penetrating one of the snake's. The snake blasted apart turning into smaller one's. The littler snake's lunged forward to attack Mizore. Flaming tarot cards rained down finish's off the smaller snakes. Mizore gave Yukari a look of appreciation.
"What are these things?" Kurumu asked, watching as the snake's continued on a rampage of freezing the campus of Youkai Gakuen.
"I don't know." Tsukune said.
"Tsukune-San we need to find Ruby-San!" Yukari said.
"Don't worry Yukari-Chan we will, but first we need to take care of these things." Tsukune said.
"That's impossible! No matter what we do the thing's keep regenerating!" Kurumu said, getting into a defensive stance for the on coming enemy's.
"Milk jugs is right." Mizore said, using her ice to make another wall. A bead of sweat rolled down her cheek as the snake collided with the wall. "Run!" Mizore shouted, as the ice wall began to shatter.
Tsukune grabbed a hold of Mizore threw her out of the way, letting the snake hit him on full force.
"TSUKUNE!!" The girls shouted. Tears began to form as they saw Tsukune frozen. Kurumu ran up to his frozen form and hugged him. "TSUKUNE!!" Kurumu cried, sliding down to the ground. Mizore walked up behind Kurumu and put a hand on her shoulder, tears sliding down her own cheeks.
"Tsukune-San..." Yukari said, pulling her hat down to cover her eye's.
Kurumu stood up wiping the tears out of her eyes. A new look of determination in her eye's. "Come guys this isn't how Tsukune-Kun would want us to do. We have to defeat these things!"
"I couldn't have said it any better milk jugs." Mizore said, nodding in approval.
"Let's go find Ruby-San she'll know what to do!" Yukari said.
"Good idea Yukari-Chan!" Kurumu grinned.
"Where do you think she would be?" Mizore asked.
"Let's check the Chairman's office!" Yukari said.
Kurumu and Mizore nodded in agreement. The girls took off toward the school. When they made it to the entrance the doors were frozen solid. Kurumu slashed at the doors to try and break them open, but nothing changed.
"Let's go around back!" Mizore suggested.
Kurumu nodded, and the girls ran toward the back of the school.
Ichigo gritted his teeth as he blocked a snake head on. He could tell he was starting to run out of energy. His feet slid across the ground from being pushed back by the snake.
"Know Your Place!" Moka shouted, jumping over Ichigo and kicking the snake away.
"Thanks." Ichigo panted, sticking his Zanpaktou in the frozen ground.
"You can pay me back by calling me Onee-Sama, since it will be inevitable." Moka smirked, seeing Kokoa's handy work for herself. 'Kokoa only you could be so clumsy as to mess up this bad on your first time, but it shouldn't have worked unless...'
"Onee-Sama? Why the fuck do you want me to call you Onee-Sama?" Ichigo growled.
'Such a perfect match.' Moka mused, "It is not my place to tell."
"Yes, oh great Onee-Sama." Ichigo snorted as sarcastically as he could.
Moka growled, "Even if my sister has claimed you, I shall not tolerate your insolence! Know Your Place!"
Ichigo didn't expect it at all as Moka's foot collided with his jaw. He could feel himself flying through the sky. Another snake began to come out of the sky, heading right for Ichigo. Ichigo snapped out of his shock. Now wasn't the time to fight against comrades. He raised his Zanpaktou above his head waiting for the snake to get a little closer. When it neared Ichigo swung his blade down and held it in place as it cleaved through the snake. The two halves regenerated turning into two separate snakes.
"Shit." Ichigo growled.
Kurumu neared the back of the high school to see that it was gone, nothing but rubble remained of the Chairman's office. Three snake's surrounded the ruins. Kurumu squinted to see that the snakes were surrounding Ruby who was guarding the body of a frozen Chairman.
"Ruby-San!" Yukari shouted.
"Everyone!" Ruby shouted, shooting thousands of raven feather's at one of the snake's.
Mizore began to freeze the remains of the snake as Kurumu flew over to Ruby.
"Where's Tsukune-San and Moka-San?" Ruby asked.
"Moka I don't know, but Tsukune..." Kurumu frowned.
"I see..." Ruby sighed. "First the Chairman and now..."
"Watch out!" Kurumu shouted, pushing Ruby out of the way of a oncoming snake. Then flew into the sky herself. In the sky she could see two more snake's heading their way. She could also see Ichigo in the distance fighting with Moka against four of them. The situation was beginning to look bad.
'Tsukune...' Kurumu sighed.
"BOOM!"
"You girls alright?" A certain perverted werewolf asked, standing in front of another destroyed wall of the school.
"Gin-Sempei!" The girls shouted.
"Sorry it took me so long, that damn wall was harder than I thought." Gin said, charging at a snake near him.
Kokoa awoke with a huge head ache. She laid in a pile of ruble that used to be the girl's dorm's. "Kou-Chan?" She mumbled, pushing herself up. The little bat didn't answer. "Kou-Chan?" Kokoa said a little louder. There was still no sign of the little bat. "KOU-CHAN!" Kokoa shouted.
"Sama..."
Kokoa heard a faint sound. "Kou-Chan?" She said, standing up and looking around the area.
"...oa-Sama..."
A feet away Kokoa saw Kou with his wing crushed under part of a wall. "KOU-CHAN!" Kokoa cried, running over to him. She pushed the building off of him and gently picked the wounded bat up. "Are you ok Kou-Chan?" Kou said as softly as she could, cradling the little bat in her arms.
"Hai..." Kou wheezed.
"Oh Kou-Chan..." Kokoa cried.
"Do not worry about me Kokoa-Sama... You need to find Ichigo-Sama." Kou said.
"Ichigo-Sama?" Kokoa said, giving Kou a funny look.
"It is the only title I can give to the one Kokoa-Sama has claimed, even if it was an accident..." Kou said.
Kokoa blushed. "Don't bring that up baka!"
"Now's not the time Kokoa-Sama! You need to find Ichigo-Sama! This is serious!" Kou said.
"Ok, ok." Kokoa said. She looked in the direction of the school and gasped. There were white snakes attacking the school everywhere! Kokoa took off in the direction of the school. With Kou resting on her shoulder.
Ichigo and Moka stood back to back surrounded by snakes. One wrong move and they would be frozen. He was about to use his hollow mask when something caught something orange running toward them out of the corner of his eye. He turned his attention to see that it was Kokoa.
"Ichigo!" Kokoa shouted. "Onee-Sama!"
"No, Stay away!" Ichigo shouted.
"But!" Kokoa cried.
"Go back Kokoa!" Moka added.
"But, but Rukia!" Kokoa said. "She's been taken!"
"What!?" Ichigo shouted. That was the last straw he brought his hand of his face a white mask beginning to form.
Kokoa and Moka froze feeling a powerful youki spreading across the area. Kokoa stared at Ichigo in awe as he made quick work of the snake's around them. Kou shivered on her shoulder from his over whelming power. Ichigo stood in front of them as a crack began to form in the mask.
"You couldn't have used that earlier?" Moka growled.
"I was about to when I saw Kokoa, but I didn't see a reason why to earlier." Ichigo said in a menacing voice that sent chills down the two girls spines. Another crack formed in the mask. "Another reason why is that I can only use it for about eleven second's..." Ichigo said, as half of the mask fell away. "I was working on the time before you guy's came, but I only raised it by about three seconds." Ichigo said, as the rest of the mask fell away.
Moka nodded.
"Now what did you say earlier Kokoa?" Ichigo asked as more snake's began to appear in the sky.
"There were these two weirdo's who..." Kokoa blushed, remembering how easily the girl had defeated her. "Knocked me out and when I woke up Rukia was gone..."
At the Chairman's office...
The girls panted as more snakes came.
"MOU! This is worse than those plant things, when we fought Ruby!" Kurumu growled.
"KURUMU!" Yukari shouted.
"What?" Kurumu shouted, turning around to see Yukari staring at her in horror. She turned back around to see a three-headed one flying at her.
"Daiguren Hyorinmaru!" A kid with wings made of ice flew over head. He stabbed the left head of the snake. "Ryusenka!" Ice began to cover the snake.
"Kokujo Tengen Myo!" A giant armored samurai came out of the ground in front of Kurumu. The giants sword swung down into the snake, shattering it. The armor began to turn toward them, revealing a giant dog like human creature that seemed to be controlling the armor.