Chapter 9
"Thinking"
"Zanpakto"
"Specking"
"Attacks/kido"
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"… Keep working, punch, slash, stab, and cut!" this was the commands of Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez to his new student for the time being, the young shinigami named Deion…
Flashback 8 months ago…
Deion looked at the hollow before him, the smell of death radiated off him.
'This is it, I am going to die today' he thought as the panther like hollow came closer.
"Damnit! I wanted a strong one, you're not even worth killing or eating, this is some bullshit!" Grimmjow complained, leaving Deion to sweat drop.
"Well, if I'm not what you wanted, can you send me back to the soul society?" He asked.
"Why the fuck should I help you?" the question made Deion think for a second.
"Well If I go back, then I can become as strong as a captain like you wanted." This appealed to Grimmjow
"I got a better idea, I'm not strong enough to send you back now, so until then we will train each other, mainly me training you, and then I will send you back. You will help me get food and I will fight you to train, sounds good?"
"Well that's fine with me, how long will it take?" Deion asked.
"Who knows, anyways after I send you back to that dump you shinigami live in, the next time we see each, we fight to death and see who has become stronger." Grimmjow declared, and then he dragged the boy with him off into the desert.
Flashback end…
Deion's time with Grimmjow was very tense and hard. The adjuchas class hollow kept the dark skinned shinigami on his toes, attacking him in the middle of the night, which was all the time, using him as bait to devour other hollows, and nearly killing him on many occasions. But this day was his last day in the realm of the hollows, as Grimmjow and Deion where resting after a long training session that has lasted for about two weeks.
"Damn you got strong, but you still haven't released your sword like shinigami do. So you're not leaving until you do so." Grimmjow said.
"I know, but he or she has not said a word in a long time, so I think we should fight again to see if they respond." Deion suggested. Grimmjow nodded. The two were lying in the sand, looking up at the moon.
"What are your plans for when I leave, Grimmjow?" Deion asked the self-proclaimed king.
"Well there is a rumor going around about someone claiming to be able to give more power to hollows, I'm going to see if they are true." He said. Deion nodded then turned back around.
"We will fight for the last time in three hours kid, so get some rest." Grimmjow ordered. The two got up some time later to stretch out and do some warm ups
"If you don't release your sword this time, then you were a waste of my time, so I will kill you." The hollow stated. Deion hardened his face as Grimmjow came at him. He jumped into the air to avoid him, only to get smack by his tail. Deion walked it off and charged at Grimmjow and gave him a deep cut on his left, hind leg. Grimmjow howled in pain.
"You will regret that you bastard!" he yelled, charging a cero.
"Take this, Cero!" the beam of red light came from his mouth, making Deion duck for cover.
"So that's how you want to play?" Deion said before he flash stepped and slashed Grimmjow's paw and his right leg. But it was a short lived victory when Grimmjow took his paw and slashed across his chest, drawing blood. Deion fell to the ground in pain.
"What's wrong cub? You done already for the day." These words fell on deaf ears, but another's words were heard.
"Child, you are losing to this hollow, I can help you. You have done what I ask of you, now hear my name, you must say…" Deion listened to his Zanpakto, then stood up to face Grimmjow.
"I see you still have some fight left in you, good now let's go!" he said before charging at the young shinigami. Deion smiled and said,
"You're right; I do still have some fight in me. I want to show you what I can do." He took a deep breath.
"Turn to Stone, Hanko-tekina mono!" in a burst of reiatsu, Deion turn his Zanpakto from a plain katana into a huge claymore with six spikes running the length of the blade. The blade was grey in color and was as wide a half a foot.
"That's what I'm talking about! Last strike wins the fight got it?" Grimmjow said. Deion nodded and both charged their reiatsu. When they finished, both hollow and shinigami ran at each other. They made contact and that made an explosion that was very powerful. When the dust cleared, Deion and Grimmjow could barely stand, but Deion fell first.
"You win again, Grimmjow." Deion said to the adjuchas.
"Yeah whatever, get up we are leave now for the soul society, I'm opening the Garganta so get on." He said. Grimmjow then swiped his paw in the air, making a dark rip in it, and then stepped in. over the seireitei, the two opened the next Garganta.
"Well, you're home kid, now remember; next time we see each other, we fight to and only to the death." Grimmjow said.
"Don't worry; it will be the best fight of our lives, I promise." Deion said, jumping off his back.
"See you later, Grimmjow." Deion said before speeding off in a flash step. Grimmjow turned around.
"Later cub." Then the walked away, closing the dark opening behind him…
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Deion, still partly injured, made his way to 4th division to get healed. He could not believe that he was home after all that time. He turned the corner to 4th when he saw Hanataro, sweeping up the floor.
"Hey Hanataro, long time no see." Deion said. Hanataro looked up and nearly fell over at the sight of his friend.
"D…D…Deion! You're alive!" he exclaimed and stutter.
"Yeah, I found a way back not too long ago, do you mine healing me?" Deion asked the shy shinigami.
"Sure, follow me." He led Deion into his barracks and began to heal him.
"So what happened to you?" the healer asked.
"I will tell you later, about an hour to be right. I need to gather the others and tell all of you at the same time." Deion stated. Soon, Hanataro was done healing him.
"Meet me in front of 5th in one hour." He said before thanking him and leaving in a flash step. Deion first went to 5th to see his team. He went into the female barracks and found a sleeping Momo.
"Momo, wake up." He said, giving her a gentle shake. The cute girl opened her eyes to see the one person that she missed dearly.
"Deion! You're alive." She all but shouted at the dark skinned warrior before her.
"Yeah, I'm home. I need to get Renji, so can you get Rias and Akeno and wait outside for Hanataro?" He asked her.
"Ok, but Renji was moved to 11th about a month ago."
"Good, I can get Ikkaku and Yumichika too." He said before speeding off to 10th to get Toshiro. The white haired lieutenant in question was in bed, thinking about his lost best friend, until said friend popped out of nowhere at his window.
"Damn, I knew you were alive." Toshiro said, opening the window for him.
"Yeah and man do I have a story for you, but I need to get the others, meet Momo outside of 5th." Deion told him. Toshiro nodded and got up to get ready. Deion found the other three guys in 11th and told them what to do; only Rukia was left, but did not find her or most 13th at their barracks. Disappointed, Deion headed back to 5th to tell them about what happened to him. When he got there, he was greeted by Rias and Akeno giving him bone crushing hugs and Momo sobbing on his chest. He was also punched or kicked by Renji, Toshiro, Ikkaku, and Yumichika for being a dumbass.
"Alright, do you guys want what I did?" Deion asked.
"Yes!" all of them shouted. Deion took a breath and began the tale. Starting with the fight with the Menos Grande, waking up in the sands of Hueco Mundo, Meeting the Adjuchas Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez and living with it for the past 8 month. He also told them about getting his Shikai for his Zanpakto and that he must fight Grimmjow to the death the next time he sees him.
"Well damn Deion; you are one badass, getting trained by a hollow of that level." Ikkaku said, slapping Deion on the back.
"I would say, you can become a seated officer in no time now, like Momo." Akeno said, causing Deion to turn to the girl.
"You're a seated officer now?" He asked.
"4th seat now, but you could be a lieutenant with your power." She said. Then Toshiro had something to say.
"Alright, we need to keep what Deion has told us between all of us from now on. The central 46 might see him as a traitor, Deion; do you have anything to tell your captain?"
"Yeah, I'm going to tell him that I was lost in the world of the living and just now found my way back." He told the white haired leader. Toshiro nodded.
"I suggest we all go back to bed now and we act surprised in the morning." He said. Everyone said their goodnights before head back to their divisions. Unknown to any of them, some people were watching them, one was a stealth force member, and the others were all captains.
"It seems he made it back alive, Captain Aizen." Said Gin Ichimaru, Captain of 3rd division.
"Indeed he did, he does walk the path of justice." Said Kaname Tosen, Captain of 9th division.
"We have nothing to fear from him, that was just a test, and he passed. He will be an important pawn in my plan." Said Aizen. The two other captains nodded, and then all three vanished into the dark of the night…
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25 years later…
Toshiro watched as his captain's office was searched.
"Are you sure you don't know anything about Kurosaki's whereabouts?" Byakuya asked him.
"No, I told you that three years ago, why are we doing this?" Toshiro was in no mood to deal with this. Ever since his captain just disappeared, he has had to do the work of a captain and lieutenant. The long hours in the office had him missing many important days, like Momo promotion to a lieutenant and three of Deion's Rebirthdays. He hated the constantan investigation of the 6th and the disgrace of his division.
"Captain Kurosaki has not been seen for a long time, I'm just making sure you had no part in it." The 6th division captain stated in a cold tone.
"Well I had nothing to do with his disappearance or will I ever know why he disappeared."
"Very well, I will leave you to your duties." With that, Byakuya turned and strolled out of the office with his men. Toshiro let out a sigh and sat back down at his desk. He finished about three fourths of his paper work before he heard a knock at the door.
"Come in." he said without looking up. The door opened and three people entered; Captain Aizen, Momo, and Deion.
"Hey toshiro, we got some news for you." Deion said. Toshiro had a questioning look about what his friends and the 5th division captain wanted.
"Alright, I'll bite, what is it?" he asked.
"You have been summoned to 1st division for a meeting." Aizen said, Momo giggled and Deion smirked.
'What have these two done?' he thought as he got up to follow Aizen out the room. When they left the compound, Aizen led Toshiro to 1st while his friends waved at him.
"You think he can do it?" Momo asked.
"I know he can, we worked on it for years." Deion said. They walked to an open field just outside the seireitei.
"You sure you can reach it Deion?"
"I have to reach it, Grimmjow must be ten times stronger by now, and I must get Bankai." Deion declared. For the past 10 years, Deion has done some training with his Zanpakto, only to find out that he still has a long way to go.
'What did she mean by being something I'm not?' he thought as he stared to commune with his Zanpakto. What felt like hours were washed away when a scream broke him out of his inner world. He quickly got up and found Momo in the clutches of a hollow.
"Momo!" He yelled in panic. He didn't have his Zanpakto on him, neither did she. Thinking only about getting her to safety, he launched himself at the hollow. The hollow only knocked him away as it prepared to eat her.
"You want to save the girl, do you?" the women's voice said after years of nothing.
"Hanko-tekina mono is not with you, but you need power. I can give you power, call my name, it is…"
"Defend, Judo-tekina mono!" like before, a wave of reiatsu washed over everything, but Deion just stood there with a sword hilt.
"Why is it only a hilt?" he asked. He then took a look at the hollow. It was compressed into a ball that just got smaller.
"My shikai puts a barrier around anything you want it to. It can protect or kill at your command." Judo-tekina mono said.
"You can now work on Bankai with my brother."
"I have two zanpaktos?" Deion asked, only to hear nothing.
"I thought your Zanpakto's name was Hanko-tekina mono?" Momo asked when she recovered from the attack.
"I have two now…" Deion trailed off when he saw Toshiro standing there with a captain's Haori on him.
"I see you two have a surprise for today as well." He said.
"You can say that again." Deion laughed as the three of them head back to the seireitei…
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5 year before Rukia's mission…
For many years, life has been normal for the shinigami. Only some parts were out of the ordinary, like Deion having two Zanpaktos and the death Kaien Shiba, the lieutenant of 13th. But on this day, Momo finally decided to Deion and Toshiro about her feeing for them.
'I want to tell them at the same time, that way they don't think I'm two timing or playing them.' She thought to herself as she walked towards Deion's barrack. Even with two zanpaktos with shikai, he has yet to promoted to a higher rank, not even a 20th seat. Momo worries about how it affects him sometimes, he does a lot of training in the woods, and he is as powerful as any 3rd seat by now, maybe even lieutenant. But he sits as a guardsman. Momo entered the room to find him packing his bag.
"Oh, hey Momo!" He said when he turned around.
"You going somewhere?" she asked.
"Yeah, didn't the captain tell you that I'm going on a yearlong mission to living world?"
"No, he didn't." she stated in a sour tone.
"Well, I leave in about five minutes, so come with me to senkaimon." He took her hand and they headed to the senkaimon.
"Ah, guardsmen Deion, you made it just in time, you are depart for Tokyo now." Said the gate guard. He opened the senkaimon as Deion stepped up to it.
"Wait, I need to tell you and Toshiro some important." Momo yelled.
"Sorry, I can't be late Momo. Tell us when I get back." He said as the senkaimon closed. She stared at it, and then made up her mind.
'I will wait for then.' She said in her head before headed back to the office…
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AN: One more chapter until Rukia leaves for the living world, two until Ichigo shows up. Lemons next chapter, it will not take the whole up.
Hanko-tekina mono (Defiant one): the first Zanpakto of Deion. He is a melee type. More about him later.
Judo-tekina mono (passive one): she is the sinner Zanpakto from chapter 4. She is a kido type, in shikai, the blade vanishes and an invisible shield is used. The shield is controlled by the hilt.
Well, I skip the most time in this chapter then in any other one. About 35 years pass in this chapter.
Next chapter: Momo's true feeling, Rukia changes fate?
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