Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today I bring you a new chapter for A Promise, thank you guys for checking out the story. Ichigo and Erza have finally got their Shinigami Powers and I thought of showing part of Ichigo's past with some of his female friends that he made during his early teen years.
I do not own neither series.
A Past worth remembering
Kurosaki Residence: 11:45 P.M.
After having their first encounter with a Hollow and a Shinigami, Erza and Ichigo collapsed from exhaustion for some reason. Rukia finally manages to gather her strength and pick up the two now temporary Shinigami's. She brings them upstairs and in Ichigo's room, placing them on his bed.
'For mere mortals, they possess extremely high Spiritual awareness but why?' Rukia asks herself as both of them were able to absorb her powers. 'Only time will tell I guess.' She sighs as she decided to put on the covers on the both of them. She did sense something going on between the two of them but payed no attention it and mostly tried to make sure that they are asleep.
Ichigo unconsciously moves to his left side and places his left arm around Erza's waist, bring her close to him.
Rukia looks at the duo and wonders what is going on between the two of them since she recalls the 'intimate moment' Ichigo did was if they were lovers but she never thought a mere 15 year old mortal to move fast like that.
'This is going to be interesting...' Rukia thought to herself as she decided to hide for now until the next day. 'Ichigo Kurosaki and Erza Scarlet: two mortal beings that have Spiritual Powers. I honestly didn't think they'll have this strange fate with the likes of death itself and other perhaps stronger adversaries in their future. She soon leaves the Kurosaki residence and disappears.
As Ichigo and Erza were sleeping together in his bed unknowingly, a strange mark on his back started to glow on his back between his shoulder blades. Memories started to flood into his mind, remembering some important friends of his past.
Flashback:
Couple Years ago
"Who's this friend that you met Erza?" A young Ichigo asks his best friend Erza. The two of them were walking down the streets of Karakura Town, on their way to Orihime's home. Ichigo was originally heading out to her house until Erza wanted to want him to come with her to meet someone of their past. As Ichigo grew a bit older, he hardly remembers his friends of his past and only remembers those who remained here.
"You should remember her, Ichigo." Erza said plainly, "She's one of our childhood friends growing up until she moved to a different town."
Ichigo tries his best to remember who this person might be and most of his childhood friends are mostly surrounded by girls. There was Erza, Ruby, Yang for starters, Orihime and Tatsuki as well but for some reason, he wasn't able to remember who might this person might be.
"I'm still drawing a blank Erza." Ichigo again can't remember who this person might be and follows Erza to the designated area.
"You do need remember of our friends Ichigo." Erza said as she shakes her head from his clear absent mind on their friends. "Anyway, they should be here down this street." She continues leading the way for the two of them.
Ichigo was trying his best to remember who was this person or people that are part of his inner circle of female friends but to no luck. Growing up with a lot of female friends when he was young would prove to be a but troublesome since there was a lot of friends he made during school to their respective breaks from winter break, spring break, summer break or their fall break.
'Let's see...there Yang and Ruby my neighbors, Tatsuki and Orihime: my friends during my time in the dojo, uh...another red head...Kallen was it? No doesn't sound right...' Ichigo scratches his head, trying his best to remember who was the other red in his group of female friends. 'Marie? No...Yoko? Not it either..'
"Almost there Ichigo. Hope you remember them."
'Them?' He looks at Erza a bit confusedly, "Wait there's more? I thought it was only one person we're seeing Erza."
"Guess you should had listen a bit more carefully next time." She said a bit angry with his lack of remembering.
They continue on and finally reach their destination, the playground.
"Why are we here?" He looks around the playground but there was no one there until he felt a unusual presence coming out of opposite side of the playground.
Ichigo sees the female who appears to be in her teens with her red hair, wearing a white shirt, blue jeans pulled at the knees and a pair of brown shoes. Soon some memories of his begin to come back to him as he instantly recognizes her, she is Aoko Aozaki, a older sister figure to him and some of his female friends.
"Aoko-nee-san!" Ichigo rushed over to his older sister figure and hugs her. Him and his friends met Aoko during when she was their baby sitter whenever his folks were out of town for awhile. While they were against the idea of having a baby sitter at first but over time, they eventually open the idea of having Aoko as a baby sitter and once she met Yang and Ruby, they welcomed her as the big sister figure they all see in her.
"It's good to see you Ichigo." Aoko ruffles with his hair affectionately. "I'm surprised that you brought him here Erza."
"Well Ichigo has been missing you since you moved out of town awhile ago." Erza stated. It was about a year or two now since they last saw her as moved to a different town and all of them missed having her around.
"How've you guys been?" Aoko asks her 'siblings'.
"Everything's fine. Kinda boring." Ichigo said, "Are you still doing those magic tricks nee-san?"
Aoko smiled the fact Ichigo remembered her magic 'tricks' growing up. She would do card tricks to entertain her 'siblings' but in reality she is a Magician, who practice Magic are called "Magicians." They have control over their own mysteries, but also practice Magecraft. Zelretch's Magecraft is at the level where he was given the title Wizard Marshall by the Association, while Aoko is inferior in skill as a magus to the lecturers of the Clock Tower. There are many magi who exceed them in the area of Magecraft, while their Magic is a unique Mystery only available to them.
"Somewhere in that line Ichigo." She brings out her case behind her, "Remember what I was originally going to give you guys couple years ago?" They nod their heads to her question, "Well since you all around that age and you all want to know magic," Aoko touches their wrists and both of them started to feel something crawling through their veins. "Relax, what I'm doing is unlocking both of your magic circuits." She would use small words for their 12 year old minds so that they can understand what she is saying and they slowly understanding what their older sister was saying.
"Nee-san." both of them felt these weird 'electronic' circuits in their right arm.
"You'll be fine, I swear it." She assures her 'siblings' as the unusual feeling was now gone. "Where's the others?" She asks them.
"I think they're home." Ichigo answered her as his eyes begin to turn sky blue. He saw the world in a different color now, he is able to see the magic circuits in their older sister figure. "Nee-san, why am I seeing these things?"
She raises an eyebrow, "Things?"
"I see some red lines across now." He started to wonder what these lines were.
"I see them two nee-san." Erza added as her eyes were more of a dark blue with a red center in her eyes.
'Seems they both of Mystic Eyes of Death Perception but Ichigo's eyes,' Aoko looks at Ichigo's new eyes, Eyes of Purity or Pure Eyes, are the ability to see that which normally cannot be seen. They are similar to Mystic Eyes, and, while both are inheritable, Pure Eyes differ from them. Mystic Eyes are traits of the body, something like inheriting the traits of a parent's body, while Pure Eyes are like inheriting fate and destiny, the offspring continuing the parent's will and quest. They are a more common occurrence than Mystic Eyes, and they can only be inherited by "humans" with high spiritual power. They can be said to reflect the parent's karma in the offspring, and they are an ability saints may often possess. 'Pure Eyes...who would have thought that.'
Growing up on a family of known magus, she decided to explore the world until she made her way to Karakura Town where she would baby sit her 'siblings' and once they were asleep, she studied different types of magic to be known in the Mage's Association and perhaps this was the first type she got to see two different Mystic Eyes with Ichigo having the rarest Mystic Eyes in the books and seeing Erza's Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, she could guess that there was something in her past that must had awaken her ability of the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception.
Aoko takes out a book in her bag and hands the book to them.
"I need you both to close your eyes." She ordered them to which they obliged and closed their eyes, "Both of you have this rare ability in magic." She said quietly enough for them to hear her as she continues on, "Once you both are a bit older, I need the two of you to read this and understand why."
Both Ichigo and Erza opened their eyes, revealing it to be normal for them.
"Ichi," He turns his head to her, "When you mention that you see things different, you as well Erza, you both saw a red line?" She asks them both, to which they both nod their heads. "Well I can't say for now but read this book, the both of you."
"Ah okay Nee-san." Erza looks at the book and wonders why their 'older sister' figure was giving them this book.
"Now, let's see the others." Both Ichigo and Erza lead the way until they heard,
"Wait for me!" They turn their heads to see a young girl with long wavy black hair, which she styles into twin-tails tied with black ribbons, wearing a white shirt with a red necktie, a red skirt and long black socks.
"Rin!" Erza was happy to see one of her childhood friends and hugs her.
"Rin...Rin..." Ichigo tries to remember who this might be until, "Tohsaka!" He finally remembers her full name.
Rin Tohsaka is part of Ichigo's group of female friends growing up and like Aoko, she moved to a different town couple years ago as they moved to Fuyuki City, about 50 miles south of Karakura Town. She's the smart one in the group and also butted heads with Yang growing up. In the group of girls in Ichigo's group, all of them besides Ruby do consider each other a rival since there was always a competition with them until some of them moved to a different town like Rin.
"About time you remember baka!" She flicks a finger on Ichigo's head.
"Hey!" He took offense to that and has a tick mark on his head.
"You do have a bad memory Ichi." Aoko stated a bit humorously to him, something she actually enjoyed.
"Come on!" He whined to them since he really does have a bad memory.
"Let's find the others." Erza said deadpanned as they begin to find the others, leaving Ichigo behind.
"You Jerks!" He said angrily as he chases them.
End of Chapter
Aoko Aozaki
Age: 22 (current)
D.O.B: 7/7/1989
Height: 5'4
Occupation: Teacher, Freelancer
Hair Color: Brown (originally) Red/Scarlet (Now)
Eye Color: Blue
Blood Type: A
Handness: Right
Abilities: Magic
Race: Human (Magician)
Family: Unknown Mother and Father, Unknown Grandfather, Touko Aozaki (Older Sister)
Ichigo Kurosaki, Erza Scarlet, Yang Xiao Long, Ruby Rose, Orihime Inoue, Rin Tohsaka (Adopted younger brother, sisters)
And that ends the chapter guys! Rin Tohsaka and Aoko Aozaki made their appearance in this story as part of Ichigo's group of friends. In the flashback, Ichigo and Erza are about 12 years old and both have the Mystic Eye of Death Perception and Ichigo is the only one with the Pure Eyes ability along with the Mystic Eye of Death Perception. Since the story has some elements of the other series, I wanted to include parts such as magic from DXD/Fate Stay Night.
Erza's Mystic Eyes are based on Shiki Tohno while Ichigo's Mystic Eyes are based on Shiki Ryougi for those who are asking.
I also want to know which characters from the other series that are in this story and the poll I previously did (check chapter 2 for the list). Those wondering about Erza's Zanpakuto and her future Bankai, all I can say is that her ability is based on Archer (Emiya's) magic with her ability of the Mystic Eye of Death Perception.
I hope to hear what you guys think of the chapter and as always, I'll talk to you all later.
