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"Come on, Ryu! I know you've got more than that!"
Ryu panted heavily as he glared across at his twin brother. He had been at this all morning on his weekend, and during the afternoons after school for the past week. He tossed aside the shattered bokken and stared at his brother intently. Ichigo set down his dual blades and held his hand outwards
"Trace on."
In a flash of blue light, a second bokken appeared in his outstretched hand. Ichigo tossed the wooden blade to his brother, whom caught it and set about the exercise that he had been at for the past six days.
Flashback: one day after the battle with Grand fisher.
Ryu yawned as he walked alongside his brother, it was the weekend and his father still got him up early. Ichigo capitalized on the opportunity to start training him. He was curious as to why Ichigo was starting it so soon, but when asked, the orange-head would merely wave off his questions.
The teen looked around at his surroundings, Ichigo had led them to an obscure clearing in a distant part of Karakura town. He came to a halt when Ichigo stopped in front of him and turned around. He was wearing that outfit that he wore when they fought Grand Fisher; he later discovered that it was the male version of an exorcist's uniform.
Ichigo turned around and locked eyes with his younger twin, "Before we start Ryu, you should know something. Now that you've unlocked the Boosted Gear you're going to be targeted by people among the three factions. Despite this there's a chance that we could seal the Boosted Gear away. You could still have a chance at a normal life. If that's what you want, then walk away now, if you're truly willing to surrender your normal life, then take this sword and pass this training."
Ichigo stuck his right hand out as green patterns ran themselves down his arm. "Trace on."
In a flash of blue light, an ordinary wooden bokken materialized into Ichigo's hands, now that Ryu wasn't in the heat of battle, he could afford to be shocked.
"How did-"
"'I do that?'" Ichigo smirked at Ryu's scowl, "I get that question a lot at the vatican. I'll tell you the full extent of my powers later, when you're ready." Ichigo thrust the tip of the bokken into the ground as his smirk faded.
Ryu was now faced with a decision, he could take the sword and abandon all pretense of a normal life, or he could take a chance and try and get a nor-.
"Who am I kidding?" Ryu smirked as he grabbed the handle of the bokken and pulled it out of the ground. "I've never been normal, and I know I never will be."
Ichigo smirked back as he held his hands out "Trace on." A pair of european long swords appeared in his hands in a flash of light.
"This is your trial Ryu." Ichigo pointed his sword at the teen, "If you want to learn to fight against the members of the three factions, then you'll need to learn to really control that power of yours." Ryu raised an eyebrow in obvious inquiry. "I'll consider you having enough control when that bokken in your hand can take more than two hits from these swords."
Ryu stared at Ichigo like he was insane. "How will I be able to do that? It's not like I have any memory of controlling it."
Ichigo smirked, "You do, but it was only due to emotional stress." Ryu's eyes widened as he remembered the power surge through him at times where he was suddenly stronger. "This time you'll have to really learn how to control it. Reinforce that bokken with your reiryoku and I'll consider you having enough control to move on to stage 2."
Ryu stood forward and nodded, his stance rigid as he closed his eyes and tried to tap into his reiryoku, key word being tried. No matter how close he was to having it in his grasp, it always slipped out.
Ichigo sighed, he knew that Ryu had no experience in controlling reiryoku, but he didn't think it'd be this bad.
'We have a lot of work to do.'
Flashback end
That had been six days ago and Ryu had made progress, he could manage to at least channel his reiryoku down the wooden blade, he just couldn't get the right amount. Ichigo always broke the bokken with the second hit because the reiryoku was too small and it barely reinforced the bokken, or there was too much and it was too unfocused.
Ryu shook his head to clear the distracting thoughts before tapping into his reiatsu and focusing it through the wooden sword. Keeping it under control and yet putting enough so that it felt sturdy, Ryu nodded and charged his orange-haired mentor. He swung outwards in a horizontal slash that Ichigo parried and countered.
'One.' Ichigo struck out with his second sword and the bokken shattered on contact. 'Two.'
Ichigo sighed, it was progress, but it wasn't nearly as enough as Ryu would need to actually learn to fight. Some people would say that Ryu's focus should be increasing his brute force and sword style first and that he should learn control later on. Ichigo disagreed. While it was fine to have a lot of power, that power could be your undoing in a battle, especially if the opponent was stronger than you. Besides, Ryu already had power; he just needed control to bring out the best of his abilities.
"Okay, let's take a break."
Ryu nodded before throwing the broken handle aside and walking to a tree. Ichigo's eyes narrowed as he saw Ryu stagger slightly, maybe they'd also have to work on stamina. After all, Ryu had less of it in his body than his spirit, which ran on spiritual power as opposed to natural energy. If he wanted to use the Boosted gear to its fullest while in his body, then Ryu will have to work on improving his natural stamina.
Ichigo sighed before dismissing the two longswords and running a hand through his hair. There was a lot to work on, Ryu could fight, and he had monstrous amounts of reiryoku; but he had little control over it, and the concentration that he used to control it wasn't practical in the heat of battle. Ryu would have to keep practicing until controlling reiatsu would be like breathing to him.
Deciding that he had enough standing around, Ichigo moved towards his brother, who was leaning against the tree while drinking from a water bottle. At the sound of approaching footsteps, Ryu looked up to see his elder twin walking towards him, his neutral scowl in place. Ryu stared at him with both eyes visible; he had taken to keep his hair short after the battle with grand fisher, which of course, drew questions from his friends and classmates. He waved them off by saying it was from an accident he suffered as a kid, not the whole truth.
The sad part was, that wasn't entirely a lie either.
"Ryu." Said teen was brought out from his thoughts by the orange-haired exorcist in front of him, "You need a lot of work, so much that I don't think that we can cover it all in the schedule I have set up." Ryu raised an eyebrow; Ichigo had a schedule? "Which is why, I'm going to have you do a little practice on your own. Every night, I want you to take a paper and channel your Reiryoku in it to the point where you can't rip it. This'll help your concentration, as well as your control."
Ryu nodded as Ichigo spoke the last sentence before looking up at the sky, it was still early in the day, but that didn't mean that it wasn't sunday, both of them would have school tomorrow.
Ichigo smirked as he remembered the first day that he walked into Ryu's class.
Flashback
Ryu sighed as he waved off another wave of concerns from the person that sat behind him. What was his name again? He didn't really remember. The entire class had taken notice of his shortened bangs and that they paid special attention to the scar that ran down his left eye.
Ryu dodged questions from his friends every time they enquired him, or he gave an excuse that he was in an accident when he was younger. Thankfully, Orihime seemed to buy it, Tatsuki was a little suspicious, but nodded anyway, Chad just nodded (Ryu felt pretty bad lying to a friend that he considered a brother), Keigo and Mizuiro bought it with a little concern, but he waved it off.
The ringing of the bell and the voice of his teacher jolted Ryu from his thoughts.
"Class, today we have a new student transferring here from Italy, make sure to make him feel welcome." Ochi-sensei then turned to the door, "You can come in now!"
With a small 'click' the door opened and the footsteps of a tall young man sounded throughout the room, the instant Ryu caught sight of a head of bright orange hair, he slammed his face against his desk.
'Goddamn it.' He sighed, 'Why did you have to transfer here?'
The teen turned around before grabbing a piece of chalk and writing the kanji of his name on the board. "Yo, my name's Kurosaki Ichigo. Nice to meet everyone." Ichigo spoke with a scowl all too reminiscent of a certain red/black haired teen.
Ichigo surveyed the classroom and smirked when his eyes locked with Ryu's, the teen in question scowled at his elder twin before turning out the window, to which Ichigo snorted before slipping back into his neutral scowl when the teacher told him he could sit in front of Ryu.
Time skip: Lunch
"THIS IS BULLSHIT!" Ryu sighed in his place next to Orihime, Rukia, Ichigo, Chad and Mizuiro. Keigo had just come out to the roof and screamed the instant he saw Ryu sitting next to his friends. "Why do I have friends that always get popular with girls? It makes it hard normal guys like myself to get a girlfriend!"
Keigo lurched forward as a foot connected to his back, "Maybe if you were a little quieter, it'd be easier for you."
Ryu glanced upward to meet the irritated scowl of one of his childhood friends, "Hey, Tatsuki."
"Hello, Arisawa-san."
"Tatsuki-chan!"
"Hm."
Tatsuki nodded to each of them as she stepped forward and sat in front of the black/red haired teen that was casually eating a bento. Then turning to the orange haired teen sitting next to him eating in the exact same manner. Tatsuki sweatdropped.
'They're definitely twins, identical at that.' "You never told me that Ichigo would be transferring here, Ryu." Tatsuki spoke.
"Eh? Tatsuki-chan knows Kurosaki-kun?" Orihime asked.
"Yeah, he would spar with me sometimes." Tatsuki smirked, "I remember he would cry every time I knocked him down."
Ichigo's eyebrow twitched and he briefly considered tracing kanshou and bakuya to whack the girl with. Then he remembered that this wasn't the vatican and Tatsuki wasn't Dulio.
Ryu smirked along with his childhood friend before Ichigo gained a mischievous glint in his eyes, "Inoue, I honestly believe that you're way out of my brother's league."
Ryu's smirk instantly vanished as he grabbed Ichigo's blazer and walked away, his bangs shadowing his eyes. Leaving a blushing Orihime, a fuming Tatsuki and an angry yet confused Rukia.
Flashback end
Ichigo smirked again; sometimes he understood what it was like to mess with someone, now he knew why Yoruichi-san liked to tease him sometimes.
Ryu glanced over to his elder twin out of the corner of his eye and sighed at his smirk, despite abandoning his normal life at the beginning of this training, sometimes he missed it.
-XXXX-
Ryu yawned as he barely managed to keep awake, the training at night keeping him from getting any sleep. He managed to keep the paper from ripping apart for around ten minutes, but that didn't mean he had enough control to measure out the reiatsu it took to solidify the bokken yet. That didn't even compare to the nightmares.
Ryu frowned as he remembered those; they had just started out after he gained the Boosted Gear. It was never anything clear, just shouting, blurred silhouettes, and blood spurting from the wound before it became clear that the blood was on his hands.
"You okay?"
Ryu jumped and prepared to summon the Boosted Gear before he turned and saw Chad standing next to him with a worried glint in his visible eye. Ryu shot him a reassuring smile.
"I'm fine Chad, just a little tired."
Chad looked at him for a moment longer in concern before turning away as the teacher walked in and all of them moved to sit down, save Ryu and Ichigo who were already seated.
"Class, today we'll have two new transfer students joining us, be sure to make them feel welcome." The teacher turned towards the door, "You can come in now!"
The door slid open once again as two girls walked in, Ryu's eyes widened at their appearances.
The first one walked with a confident yet cautious stance, no wasted movement in her steps. She was surrounded by an air of both dignity and confidence. She had flowing black hair that reached her waist in length and bright red eyes that seemed to take in all of her surroundings. The karakura high uniform fit her body in a snug fashion, showing her womanly curves and her long legs.
The other was the exact opposite; she walked with her hands behind her head and a large easygoing grin on her face as her heavy steps echoes throughout the classroom. Her shart blond hair was messy and two locks hung down the sides of her face. The karakura high uniform clung very tightly to her body, in fact, several were undone and the ribbon was absent, showing off a bit of her generous cleavage.
In short, both women were beautiful in their own right. Ryu wouldn't be surprised if Keigo was drooling with hearts over his eyes as he oogled the blond woman.
"Ladies, can you introduce yourselves to the class?"
The black haired woman turned and eyed every student down with scrutiny. Each student (sans Keigo) squirmed under the piercing red-eyed gaze before her eyes landed on Ryu, who instantly fell down on his desk as a migraine instantly pierced through his skull.
"Taicho-sama, is there something wrong?"
Ryu turned toward the voice of one of his most loyal subordinates before looking away.
"It's nothing.. I'm just thinking."
The little girl tilted her head, "About what, Taicho-sama?"
Ryu smiled as he stared out at the sunset, "Sometimes I wonder if I'm actually doing what's right, if I'm actually fulfilling my purpose of enacting Justice on this cruel world, and if we're giving our all to give it everything we've got."
The little girl walked up to stand next to him, "I don't really know what you're talking about, but I think that what Taicho-sama is doing is right. Taicho-sama is brave and sometimes foolish, but Taicho-sama is kind, and he never stops believing in us."
Ryu smiled before turning around, "Let's head back, the other's will be worried."
The little girl nodded before turning back and following behind him.
Ryu gasped as he shot upwards, his eyes glancing to discover that he had been taken to the nurse's office.
"You're awake." Ryu turned and came face to face with a neutral faced Ichigo. "You passed out in the middle of class when those girls walked in, lot of people were scared, few of 'em were worried."
Ryu nodded before looking down at his hands, what was that? That little girl… had that been a memory of when he was younger? Ryu scowled, it didn't make any sense. None of it did.
"Well, glad to see you're awake."
Ryu glanced up to see the blond transfer student saunter into the room with that ever-present easygoing smile.
"Name's Leone, I transferred here along with the girl that made you faint."
Ryu's eyes narrowed as he looked at his hands, that memory… Who was that little girl? Was she maybe someone he knew when he was younger? Not to mention the memory only surfaced when he made eye contact with th-
"Although I'm not really surprised that you did faint, making eye contact with a girl as pretty as Akame."
Ryu was instantly jolted from his thoughts as he stared at Leone incredulously. Honestly, she thought he fainted from something like that?
Ryu then groaned, Tatsuki and Keigo were never going to let him hear the end of this. Not to mention Ichigo was going to use this excuse to up the difficulty in training from this point on.
"RYU!" All three inhabitants looked up as a petite raven-haired girl sprinted into the room. "Good, you're up, now come on!"
Leone raised an eyebrow at Rukia before Ryu was dragged into the hallway, then her eyes widened when she felt the air shift around her.
Instantly spinning around, Leone was met with the point of a curved sword.
"I had a feeling that you weren't an ordinary human, this only confirms it." Leone's eyes narrowed at the words of the orange haired teen. This isn't good, she knew that his brother was the Hakuryukou, but she didn't think he could use swords as well.
"Tell your boss that I'm not going to allow Ryu in any of your adventures."
Leone's lips thinned before the feeling vanished and Ichigo's swords dissipated, 'Projection magic?' Ichigo stuck his hands in his pockets before walking away.
'This isn't good.' Leone thought to herself, 'I'll have to warn Akame about him.'
-XXXX-
Ryu's eyes narrowed as he surveyed his surroundings before sighing and resting his enormous sword on his shoulder. "Honestly, I go through all of this trouble changing into my shinigami form just to discover that there's no hollow?"
"Don't blame me!" Rukia screamed, both were completely oblivious to the rather large spirit cowering against the alleyway. "There was a hollow! The diareishinki wouldn't go off if there wasn't one."
Ryu gave her a deadpan stare, "Then where is it?"
Rukia grumbled under her breath as her eyes met the earth. Both of their conversations were interrupted as the large spirit leapt from his position.
"WAH I was sho shcared!" The plump plus cried, "Thank you sho much I-URG!"
"Tell that to the man who saved you." Ryu spoke, jumping out of the way and allowing the spirit to fall on his face. "By the way, you wouldn't have seen the being that saved you by any chance?"
The spirit looked down, "I was sho shcared, I closhed my eyesh and cowered againsht the wall in fear." The plus admitted sheepishly.
Ryu sighed, "Well, might as well get on with the Konso."
"Konsho?" The spirit backpedaled as Ryu drew his sword and raised it, "You gonna shtab me with that shword?! No shtay back!"
The spirit cried out as Ryu placed the hilt of the sword on his forehead and he fell into the earth with a flash of blue light Ryu sighed yet again as he saw a Jigokucho guide the floating soul to the soul society. "I really don't have time for this." He muttered, "Exams are coming up and I'd rather have my record free of any additional absences."
Rukia huffed and prepared to tell him they were in the same boat before Ryu raised his weapon in front of him and glanced around wildly.
"Wha-"
"Sh!"
Ryu's eyes narrowed, "Whoever's hiding, come on out!"
Several seconds passed before footsteps sounded throughout the quiet alleyway, revealing a teenager with black hair and bright blue eyes wearing a white tunic and dress pants, a pair of white shoes with blue crosses covering his feet, a pair of glasses resting on his nose.
"I'm surprised you could sense me, Kurosaki." The teen said, "I thought your ability to sense reiatsu was as bad as your brother's."
Ryu's eyes narrowed, "How do you know Ichigo."
"I won't deem that with an answer, but shouldn't you be going?" Ryu raised an eyebrow at the stranger's words. "Can't you sense it? You could sense me after all."
Ryu's eyes widened as a series of goosebumps ran down his neck. There was something… sinister off in the distance. It was something wild and filled with the intent to consume, to relentlessly feed until everything around it was gone.
"It seems as though you can sense the reiatsu of that hollow." As soon as the stranger spoke Rukia's daireishinki gave several high-pitched beeps.
"Ryu ther-"
"I know."
Rukia's eyes widened, Ryu was horrible at sensing reiatsu when they had first met, now he could sense a hollow at least a kilometer away? She knew about the training with Ichigo to improve his control with his own reiatsu, but did that mean that Ryu sensed it instinctively?
"You aren't going to do anything to stop us?" Ryu asked.
In response the teen raised his right arm, revealing a loose bracelet and an elaborate cross was wrapped around his left wrist.
'Could this guy be and exorcist?' Ryu couldn't be entirely sure about the meaning behind the cross, but what the teen did next dissuaded any thoughts about the teen being with the church.
The cross-lit up in a flash of blue light before extending outward and curving into the shape of a crude recurve bow. It was seemingly translucent and seemed to be made of reiatsu. Ryu's eyes narrowed as the boy pulled back on the string and released the arrow in the direction he sensed the hollow.
Instantly the feeling vanished, completely. Ryu's eyes widened at the strange feeling, it wasn't anything at all like when he cut hollows with his zanpakuto, there was a small presence even after they faded away. But with that arrow, nothing remained of that hollow.
"Who are you?" Ryu's eyes narrowed as he gripped his sword tightly.
"Ishida Uryu." The teen adjusted his glasses "Quincy, and.." The teen looked up, revealing cool blue eyes that reflected a calm fury,
"I hate Shinigami."
AN: So there isn't much to say about this chapter other than the fact that our favorite Quincy was introduced, sorry for the lack of conflict if you wanted to see it.
And to those that are asking yourselves if Akame and Leone are the Akame and Leone from Akame ga kill! Let me confirm that the two are Akame and Leone from Akame ga Kill! With minor differences. You might see some other characters as well.
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