D-F: Hi again with chapter 10! Sorry for such long updates and such, but I've decided to type up a bunch of chapters for this first, that way I can post faster. Well here we go with ch. 10 enjoy and thanks to everyone who reviewed and faved!
DISCLAIMER: I do NOT own Bleach or it's characters. I DO own Kyo Flynn and other OCs that appear in this fic.
CHAPTER 10
The hollow was huge. It's mask was pure white and devoide of any markings, with horns sticking out from the top and also at the sides of the mouth. It's upper body resembled a human in some ways as it had two long human like arms and it's lower body was much like a centipede complete with hundreds of legs. It roared angrily as Ichigo, Rukia, and Kyo approached it. "We have to be careful, it's a strong level Adjuchas." Rukia warned, never allowing her gaze to leave the hollow. Ichigo smirked, "This thing's not that bad." Kyo shook her head at the orange haired teen's overconfidence. "I'll blast it with Ceros and make it weaker, Ichigo finish it off with your zanpakuto." The small arrancar commanded. "What gives you the right to tell us what to do?" Rukia growled. "Sorry, I didn't mean to give any commands. I just figured this would be the best way to get rid of the hollow." Kyo replied.
The hollow watched the soul reaper argue with the arrancar. It amused the creature, yet confused it. Shouldn't the soul reaper be trying to destroy the arrancar? After all she was a hollow like the one in front of them. However attempting to think about this was hurting the hollow's head. It much more wanted to devour the souls of all three spiritual beings in front of it. With a deafening roar it lunged towards the two who were arguing.
Grimmjow watched from a distance as Ichigo Kurosaki, the black haired soul reaper whose name he couldn't remember, and the girl he was after all ran towards the hollow he had lured into Karakura town. He was itching to fight Kurosaki, their last fight didn't end as well as he'd hoped it would. However, he was not there to fight the orange haired strawberry. Grimmjow had been sent by Aizen to nab that arrancar girl Kyo Flynn. He couldn't understand why Aizen would want her. She was supposed to be only half arrancar which meant she was much weaker than most of the other arrancar. Looking at her she seemed too scrawny to be of any use to Aizen's army. He didn't bother thinking about Aizen's reasons for aquiring Kyo anymore as the group began attacking the hollow.
"Cero release!" Kyo cried as she leapt into the air behind the hollow. A blast of black and red energy shot at the hollow. The creature turned last minute, avoiding the cero and struck out at Kyo hitting her and sending the girl flying. "Kyo!" Ichigo exclaimed as he swung Zangetsu at the hollow's mask, missing by mere inches. Rukia was standing a few feet away. She glanced over at Kyo who was bleeding a bit but still standing, "She's fine Ichigo! Watch out, it's charging a cero!" Black and red energy was forming around the horns on top of the hollow's mask causing the air around them to crackle. The charge became bigger and bigger as the hollow lunged a claw out at Ichigo who didn't move in time and was tossed into a nearby tree.
Kyo saw Ichigo hit the tree and felt a slight change in his spiritual pressure. She could feel the hollow inside him begging to be let out to fight. She was quite sure Ichigo wasn't allowing that to happen though as the feeling died as soon as it came. The hollow finished charging its cero and aimed the blast at Ichigo. Kyo used sonnido to put herself between the hollow and the soul reaper. She began charging a cero as fast as she could, knowing it wouldn't be strong enough to fully destroy the hollow and its cero. She hoped it would at least keep Ichigo and herself from too much harm.
"Cero release!" She called as at the same time the hollow released the cero it had been charging. As the blasts collided a feeling of being caught right in the middle of a lightning storm washed over the area. The ceros exploded in an almost slow motion silent blinding light. Dust from the aftermath of the blast floated around keeping Ichigo, Kyo, and the hollow from view. Rukia found that she was holding her breath without knowing it. Come on Ichigo, be okay. She thought to herself, then felt a slight amount of guilt at not being worried about Kyo even if she was an arrancar.
Grimmjow's first thought when he saw the stupid little arrancar leap in front of Kurosaki and fire a cero into the much more powerful cero of the Adjuchas class hollow was 'damnit! Aizen's gonna be pissed if she's dead.' He watched the dust clear away to see Kurosaki still laying on the ground, bleeding slightly, Kyo still standing barely, and bleeding heavily and a very confused looking hollow staring at them. The blue haired arrancar smirked at the scene in front of him, he half hoped the hollow lost. This was all quite amusing.
"Ichigo are you alright?" Kyo asked weakly, hardly able to stand. Ichigo looked up at her and nodded. "Good. Think you can beat this thing?" She asked, on the verge of collapsing. Ichigo nodded again as he stood up, clutching the hilt of Zangetsu tightly. The hollow roared as the substitue soul reaper moved to stand in front of Kyo. Ichigo seemed to glow with dark energy as the air around him grew heavy. The hollow lunged at Ichigo who used flash step to dissappear then reappear behind the soul eating creature. The hollow whipped around, but not fast enough as Ichigo brought the blade of his zanpakuto down to slice through the hollow's mask breaking it and causing the hollow to disintegrate.
As the last remnants of the hollow faded away Kyo allowed herself to drop to her knees. "Kyo, are you okay?" Ichigo asked as he knelt beside the exhausted girl. Rukia came to stand beside the kneeling teens and gazed down at Kyo. "That cero really took alot of energy from me." The arrancar halfling stated as she stood up and stretched. Ichigo looked at the cuts all along her arms and hands, "Those look really bad." Kyo looked down at her injuries and shook her head, "Nah, they're not bad at all just a few scratches."
Rukia whirled around to look behind them. "There's an arrancar here too." She stated and Kyo nodded. "I think it's that blue haired one you called Grimmjow." Rukia nodded as well, they both recognized the spiritual pressure. "Where is he?" Ichigo asked looking around frantically. The teen was ready to fight the blue haired arrancar, but he couldn't tell where he was or else he'd already be gone after the hollow. "Ichigo, don't go after him. We don't know why he's here and rather than attack we should try to find out what Aizen's plan is." Rukia tried to reason with Ichigo so he wouldn't rush off blindly into a battle. Ichigo scowled down at the short black haired girl, but he knew she was right. Kyo looked at Rukia saying, "You're going to return to the Soul Society to let them know about this?" Rukia turned to her and nodded, "Yes, this may not have been an isolated incident but we need to find out for sure."
Rukia left to open a Senkaimon back to the Soul Society while Ichigo and Kyo headed back to Orihime's apartment to pick up their things. Both teens were silent as they walked, Kyo looked up at Ichigo noticing that his ever present scowl was planted firmly across his features. "You know that was a pretty stupid thing you did that back there." He stated glancing down at her frowning more, if that was possible. Kyo didn't have to ask, she knew he was talking about her blasting a cero at the much stronger cero of that hollow. Her gaze dropped as her face flushed. "Why didn't you just move us both out of the way?" Ichigo had stopped walking and was staring at Kyo with such intensity that she had to stop and look at him.
"Sorry Ichigo, I wasn't really thinking I guess. I just wanted to keep the cero from doing too much damage. A person could have been walking past at the time and would have been caught in the blast." Kyo's face was still tinted pink under the gaze of Ichigo. The orange haired teen's scowl softened a bit, he understood how she felt about protecting people who couldn't protect themselves against the hollow attacks. They remained silent as they arrived at Orihime's place.
The door was unlocked which meant the other's were back as well. "Hey guys! The hollow's gone!" Kyo cheered. Orihime jumped up from where she was sitting and hugged Kyo, "That's good, it's horrible when hollows attack the town." The bubbly teen let go of her friend then and her gaze was drawn to Kyo's arms that were now bandaged. "What happened to you?" Uryu asked eyeing the blush that was creeping across the girl's cheeks. "Yeah, let's just say firining a weak cero at a strong cero is a bad idea." Kyo grinned sheepishly. Ichigo rolled his eyes as Uryu frowned at the girl.
The group, except for Orihime, got their things together and prepared to go back home as they had school in the morning. Uryu and Chad said goodbye and went separate ways as Ichigo and Kyo said goodbye to Orihime and began walking home. That was a lot of fun, despite the two hollow attacks and the others finding out about me. Kyo thought to herself. In truth she really hadn't wanted to tell them, she didn't think they would take it so well. "Ichigo, can I ask you something?" She glanced at the orange haired teen beside her then looked away quickly as he nodded. "Sure, go ahead."
The arrancar halfling took a deep breath and let it out before she asked, looking anywhere but at Ichigo, "Why didn't you automatically hate me when you found out what I am? Every other soul reaper would have tried to kill me once they found out that I'm even half arrancar, yet you and the other's seem to accept it, Why not distrust me?" Ichigo considered her question for a moment. He hadn't at all expected it nor did he really know how to answer. "Well... uh.. Truthfully I guess the others don't trust you fully, they've learnt to hate the arrancar and even hollows. And Rukia has been trained to fight hollows, it's one of the main things soul reapers do." Kyo looked up at him again with those bright purple eyes, "And what about you?"
Ichigo sighed heavily, "I'm not really sure what to think. In a way I guess I don't trust you, call it soul reaper instinct I guess. But then again, you haven't done anything to give anyone reason not to trust you." Kyo nodded, "Yeah, it's just the arrancar part of me." Ichigo nodded back. "Thank you Ichigo Kurosaki!" Kyo blurted suddenly. This took the other teen by surprise, "For what?" The younger girl giggled, "For sort of accepting me, despite the worst of me." And in a rare occasion Ichigo's usual scowl was replaced by a warm smile.
It didn't take them long to reach their houses and Kyo was just turning to head to her place, saying goodbye to Ichigo as the orange haired teen called to her, "Hey, Kyo." The girl turned around expectantly, gazing at him curiously. "Well, do you want to...um.. try dreamwalking again? For practice?" Kyo's eyes brightened as she nodded, "Sure that would be great, thank you Ichigo."
D-F: Kinda just a filler chapter. I'm trying so hard to keep Kyo from becoming a mary-sue and I'm doing my best to keep the characters, well, in character. Alright hope you enjoy this chapter! Next time we get to see Kyo attempt to use her dreamwalker powers purposely. YAY! XD okies R&R and all that great stuff!