Well would you look at that? A new chapter!
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"W-What the hell are you doing here?!" Uryu exclaims.
"Yes, Masamune." Chad agreed but much more politely and calmly.
"Well what are doing here?" Hiro asked back.
"I thought you weren't going to show up." Ichigo said casually making the Quincy look at him with shock.
"Technically I'm the one who came first and had to wait for you." Hiro points out, standing up and the chair under him turned to the sands of Hueco Mundo.
"... Touché." Ichigo said, unable to think if anything else to say.
"I don't understand! What is he doing here?!" The annoyed Quincy asks.
"Easy, Ichigo invited me." Hiro stated, putting an arm over Ichigo's shoulder cutting Ichigo off from replying.
"Why would he invite you?" Uryu asked once more.
"Cause I'm his boyfriend. That's right, Ichigo is actually a girl. An ugly gir. But love is love man." Hiro huffs then turned his head to Ichigo direction, pucker up his lips and proceeded forward.
But Ichigo saw it coming. So he used his left hand and planted it on Hiro's face and pushed his back.
"Okay. Jokes aside. We must be on our way, we have a long walk ahead of us.." Hiro's face turned serious, catching everyone, even Ichigo off guard as he points behind them
Everyone turned their head and their eyes widened.
Far ahead in the distance, a large castle was visible to their eyes. Their eyes widened not because of that. But because of how far it was. It was incredible that they were even able to see it.
"Orihime is kept there? It's like a 3 day walk!" Chad exclaimed his one visible eye was as wide as rice cups.
"Yes. Which is why time is of the essence." Hiro said and walked forward.
"Wait for us, Senpai!" Ichigo went after leaving the two humans behind.
Uryu and Chad shares a confused glace and walks after.
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Urahara kept his eyes on the closed Garganta, deep in thought. As he thought about it, small parts of the blur became visible to his mind. Like he was sure it was a human that went in. It wasn't a Shinigami or a Hallow. A human. And judging by the physical form of the human, it wasn't anyone he knew.
"Something wrong?" He heard a voice ask, breaking him from his day dream.
He turns to see his long time friend, Yoruichi. "No, nothing of importance."
"Now we both know that's a lie." Yoruichi purred.
"You seem happier than usual... Anything I could use to blackmail anyone?" The hatted man asked, bringing his fan to cover the bottom part of his face and wiggling his eye brows... Even though knowing it wasn't visible.
"No, not really." Yoruichi sighed. "I'm beginning to wonder if Ichigo is really straight or gay."
"Now we all want to know the answer to that don't we?" Urahara asked with a smirk.
"True, but if he is gay, you better watch out. He might have a thing for you." Yoruichi spoke.
"True, I am devilishly handsome after all." Urahara says with pride then blinks in realization. "I walked right into that, didn't I?"
"More like gloated in but meh!" Yoruichi yawns and stretches like a cat. "I'll be going to bed now."
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The now rescue gang of four were running towards their destination. Everyone but Hiro were panting as they were out of breath. It was already established that Hiro had to go with them and also that he also had powers of his own.
Uryu collapsed and fell on the ground, still panting. Chad also stops but was able to keep his feet under him.
"Senpai!" Ichigo's yell stops Hiro who simply looked bored.
"Hn?" Hiro turned to see the sad state his friends were in.
Ichigo stops running, hands on his knees, breathing deeply.
"Tired already, we've been running 3 hours, 5 tops." He said with a raised eye brow.
"Running for countless hours may be what your used to, but not us." Uryu said, fixing his glasses while using Chad's giant body for support.
"Why are we even running? We could've been Flash Stepping in that fortress by now." Hiro questions.
"I don't do Flash Steps." Uryu said coolly, even the mere thought of using a Shinigami ability disgusted him.
"But don't Quincy have an ability similar to it?" Hiro asks confused.
Ichigo glanced at Hiro cause Hiro already knew the answer to that. In fact, Hiro should know the answer to all this mess!
"It's all my fault. I can't do anything like flash step at all." Chad states and Hiro raised his eye brow
"Bullshit!" Hiro bellowed, catching everyone off guard. "Using Extreme speed is child's play! For anyone who could control spiritual pressure."
"I've tried, I can't make it word." Chad interjects.
"It took me a simple 3 hours to learn. And with a great teacher like me, you can learn it in 3 minutes." Hiro said.
"But-
"No buts! Ichigo, Uryu! Take a break!" Hiro ordered then points at Chad. "Your coming with me!"
And the next thing Chad knew he was whisked away by the raven haired man.
Uryu sighs in annoyance. "Ichigo..."
"Yeah?" asks Ichigo then sits down on the sandy floor of Hueco Mundo,
"Hiro Masamune, who is he? Who is he really?" Uryu asked, traces of seriousness detectable in the Quincy's voice.
"... A friend." Ichigo answers, also trying not to get himself in trouble by saying anything he was not supposed to.
Uryu raised his eyebrows at the vague answer.
"Why do you call him Senpai?" The glasses wearing teen asked.
"... Its because he is. He's someone I am to trust. I will give my life if he tells me to." Ichigo said, his voice completely serious. Something few people ever brought out from him.
Uryu eyed Ichigo in shock. Ichigo really respected this man. And Ichigo doesn't respect anyone. Like anyone at all.
'Not like I have a choice.' Ichigo thought grimly.
"Back already?" Uryu asked and Ichigo turned to see Hiro, but no Chad. "Where's Chad?"
Hiro only gave a toothy smile which made both younger men feel uncomfortable.
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Chad blinks, Ichigo and Uryu were no where to be seen.
"Impressive, eh?"
The tall man swiftly turns to meet the smaller figure of Hiro. "Where are we? Where is Ichigo and Uryu?"
Hiro raised an eye brow, surprisingly Chad was calmer than most in the world. "Let me just teach you how to do this so we can be on our way."
Chad only nods in response.
"You see, being able to move that fast is dependent to how good the caster or user is at controlling energy. The better the control the better his or her reaction time, speed etc." Hiro explained then a white board magically appeared behind him which surprised the forever calm Chad. The board had a human like figure drawn on it.
"The selected form of energy is to be concentrated on the whole leg. And slightly more at the bottom of the feet." Hiro says, marking the lower part of the badly drawn human on the board. "It's simply more like jumping in different directions. The better the control and more spirit energy used. The faster one could become. Arrancar, Quincy and Shinigami use this but no one ever really researched it. Cause since they could already do it, why bother?"
Chad was about to speak but Hiro interrupted.
"Here is a fum fact. Though this ability is called by separate names by all three factions, it's completely based on the same principals. The three factions known as Arrancar, Quincy and Shinigami are just to proud to admit it." The specticals wearing teen shook his head in disappointment then smiled like a mad man.
Chad's eyes widen when he looks to see that the sands of Hueco Mundo no longer visible to him. Suddenly he hears an unearthly screech. It wasn't loud either. A small skeletonized bird with a hollow mask and bat wings fly by his head.
And he suddenly felt sick as realization hit him. His stomach dropped.
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"Seriously, where is he?" asked Ichigo, still lying on the ground accompanied by Uryu.
"He should be here by now." Hiro said looking at a 'watch' which seemed to be invisible in the eyes oh his companions.
Suddenly Chad appeared straight above Ichigo.
And falls...
"Offf!" Ichigo grunted in abdominal pain.
"My my..." Hiro covers his face. "I knew you were gay Ichigo. But doing something like this in public is... so bold!"
The reason he said such a thing was because Chad had landed on top of Ichigo in a scandalous position that can't be explained.
Chad gets off Ichigo and said Shinigami turns to his sides. Both groans in pain.
"Are you insane?" Chad asks, still recovering.
Hiro brings his left index finger to his chin and gives an innocent face, looking upwards as if thinking. Then he looks back down at the tanned man. "Hell yeah!"
'This is the man Ichigo is willing to lay his life for? I feel sorry for you Ichigo.' Uryu couldn't help but think. Luckily he was able to move out of harms way.
"Get up already, we got a long road ahead of us." Hiro ordered, it was obvious that he was the leader now. The man has shown great power in dominance for it, even though the others didn't fight much.
"Easy for you to say. Your not the one who had his balls crushed." Ichigo was able to moaned out.
"I'm pretty sure sure they were flattened instead of being crushed. But true, very true." Hiro said. Running his hand through the imaginary beard of his.
Then a childish scream catches everyone's attention.
They turn their heads(while Ichigo had to raise his) to see a small figure running not far from them. Behind the small figure were three larger ones. The first was thin. Second was fat and third was long like a worm.
The smaller figure screamed again. The child was obviously a girl. Suddenly Ichigo appears between them, punches Thin of the head, bops Fat on the head with his Zanpatou while Chad appears in front if the large worm Hollow and punches it in the head.
"Stop! Stop stop!" The little girl's voice prevented Ichigo and Chad from hitting the hollows. Taking the hood of her cloak off to reveal her face. "Why at you hurting Nel's friends."
Ichigo and Chad made a face then glanced at the each other.
"Friends?"