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Chapter 10:
"Let's go to Ichigo." Tōshirō said with narrowed eyes. Ash nodded and quickly dodged a large cero aimed at his chest. He countered the cero with a powerful one handed slash across the hollow's chest. He muttered a number the vaguely sounded like 20 before hi reiatsu began to form around him. Tōshirō noticed this and allowed his own power to leak as well.
"Ready?" Ash said as he stared blankly at the terrifyingly large line of hollows directly in front of them. Tōshirō grunted his reply and they both shot off into the fray, leaving only a visible trail of power behind them. One by one, all the hollows brave enough to get into their path fell, their only remnants being a faint scream of agony before they were burned to ashes or frozen solid. Ichigo wasn't shocked by this display of power; in fact he saw it as a challenge. A challenge he would gladly accept. He held his impossibly large blade high above his head and, with one swing, cleaved five hollows down.
Ash and Tōshirō kept up the mysterious technique for a short period before coming out of the lines of light. From above the attacks had made a checkerboard pattern and killed everything and anything unfortunate enough to be in its general area. "Shirō. I'm up to twenty-one." Ash said with his typical lazy demeanor. "I'm at twenty-four."
"I'm not going to lie, but I'm pretty tired. I can go longer but not without my shikai." Ash declared as he narrowly avoided being run through by a small but agile hollow. These hollow were definitely getting more powerful but the change was gradual and it allowed them to use the absolute minimum force needed. Right now they were fighting at approximately 75% of their base power, but the waves weren't slowing down.
"Me too. But Urahara said not to as it'll put us on the shinigami's radar. Just fight for now." Tōshirō replied with beads of sweat dripping down his cheeks.
He turned his teal eyes to his immediate left and just barely caught sight of the man that did this. He looked far more exhausted than he or Ash and looked as though his powers were at their peak and still required multiple shots from his bow to ensure a kill. 'That idiot! If the hollows don't get him, I will!' Hitsugaya silently proclaimed with a sharp glare at the drained teen.
A glare that would be noticed and returned.
-At Urahara Shoten-
"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING?!" Karin shouted as she and Yuzu watched in awe as two people, about the same age as them, took down these massive monsters. That is until a large man came into view with his sunglasses catching the sweat from his brow. With a silent chant, an opaque barrier appeared around the shop's area. Karin couldn't fully see the barrier but could tell it was there by two things. 1. Being the air appeared distorted and 2. The freaking monsters couldn't get in.
"Now now Kurosaki-San. No need for the language." The man clad in all green so happily declared. Karin sent him the famous Kurosaki glare and ignored the man. She turned her attention to her twin, who had been silent the whole ten or so minutes they were there.
"Yuz. Are you ok?"
"Ash and Tōshirō are out there." Yuzu's voice was no higher than a whisper. Karin's eyes widen as she fully remembered the events that took place before they got here. They were looking for Ash, Tōshirō and…..
"Ichi-nii is out there too!" She suddenly bellowed, startling everyone. Now, no Kurosaki ever panicked for anything at all but at this moment Karin and Yuzu couldn't even breathe properly let alone think straight.
"Calm down." The cat supported. "Those three are fine. Trust me, it's gonna take a lot to kill anyone of those guys."
But the entire sentence was seemingly unheard as both sisters suddenly yelled "KILLED!" in nervously.
-Back with the fight-
Before Ichigo could fully realized what was happening, more then a dozen hollows descended on him, leaving him trapped in a circle. He was feeling somewhat fatigued and knew that he couldn't beat all of these things without sustaining at least some kind of major injury. They all pounced at once cause the orange-headed teen to swipe horizontally on instinct and just hoping that his back doesn't hurt to bad in the morning.
He felt a pool of blood splash on his back and hastily turned around to an unexpected sight.
Tōshirō stood behind with his sword emitting an icy smog. Blood just seemed to freeze and fall off the blade. "Watch yourself Kurosaki." Tōshirō warned in a slightly commanding voice, causing a chill to run down Ichigo's spine.
"Yeah thanks." He replied somewhat shakily.
Suddenly a massive shadow loomed over them, almost completely blocking out the intense rays of the sun. "Whoa….." Ichigo gaped in awe. Tōshirō's eyes widened and his mouth feel agape as he tried to fully comprehend the monster's size.
From his position atop a building Ash almost lost his balance from shock. He instantly spotted his brother's white hair and went to shunpo towards him but was stopped by a hollow that almost resembled a giant ape. "Hello boy." The hybrid sneered out with a creepy grin plastered to his face. Before Ash could blink, he was punch in the stomach…hard. He puked up some blood before being thrown far back into his brother's direction.
"That is just huge." Ichigo commented as the behemoth raised its ginormous foot to take a step. Tōshirō glared and braced for impact before there was a resounding BOOM! Not far behind them.
He spun on his heal and pointed his sword at whatever just arrived but lowered it the instant he saw those red eyes. Ash rested on one knee with his sword apparently keeping him up and his eyes half lidded. "That hurt." He said half-heartedly. Tōshirō was by his side in a second ad glare furiously at the direction from wence he came.
"REIGN OVER TH-...!" Tōshirō began before Ash grabbed his sleeve.
"No! We can't do that here!" Ash was a teen that very seldom yelled and for him to yell, and at Tōshirō no less, was truly a moment defining situation. "How are you still calm?" Tōshirō suddenly questioned causing Ash's eyebrow to go up.
"Why aren't you?" Ash shot back. Tōshirō briefly pondered the question before realizing a few things. One being that he was very out of character. Two being that even though he and Ash have been "brothers" for as long as he could remember, he never really noticed that Ash's composer never broke aside from a minor blush. It's funny how well you may think you know a person and yet they can still somehow surprise you.
The white-haired teen calmed his nerves and quietly cursed himself for allowing his emotions to control him for an moment.
"You're right."
After a quick sigh from both teens, Ash stood up and sheathed his blade causing Tōshirō to mirror his previous action. "What? It's time for me to fight seriously." The raven-haired Kita said with a small shrug.
-Across the battlefield-
Ichigo had gotten over his initial surprise and was now thinking of a way he could kill this thing and not his Karakura town wiped out of existence.
"Kurosaki." The boy named Uryu spoke from slightly behind him. "Watch as I show you the full extent of my power." He proclaimed as a gust of wind shot out of his body.
"The extent of it?"
"Yes the extent of it. I've been holding back the entire time."
"Really? I've been at 100% since the moment you called me here." Ichigo's words stunned the boy. 'What? He doesn't seemed the least bit exhausted at all. Despite him fighting as much, if not more, hollows than me! Kurosaki Ichigo, you are truly an amazement.'
"You need to tap into your full power Kurosaki." Uryu said as he adjusted his glasses.
"My what?"
-Across the battlefield-
Ash blocked a powerful blow from the suddenly very powerful hollow with a pinch of his own making a shockwave burst forth from the impact. Their fist stood connected for a moment before they both vanished from sight with their respective techniques. There was suddenly several large shockwaves that appeared in the sky from seemingly no where for a short period of time before both fighters reappeared; neither of which sporting a scratch.
Ash jumped forth and sent a roundhouse kick the monster's stomach causing it's "eyes" to widen and at Kita's sudden speed. His kick connected and he cause the hollow to over in agony before he growled and glared furiously at Ash. He then disappeared and reappear near a shop that just so happened to have swords on display in its window. A roar was all it took to make the glass shatter and for the monster to grab a shiny silver sword from its place on the sword rack. Ash sighed then surprising sat down with his legs crossed.
The beast didn't bother to question why and just lounged at the prone teenager like killing him would make him a long. But before he even got within five feet of Ash, the white-haired sibling appeared.
CLANG!
The sounds of the swords connecting echoed loudly through the vast, almost hauntingly quiet park.
Tōshirō sent powerful blow after blow to the hollow causing it to good on the complete defensive. The hollow noticed that it was out matched in everything that could possibly be considered and began to flee in fear. But Hitsugaya didn't allow that to happen.
The beast dropped its weapon and made a beeline for the large hole in the cloudless sky. Tōshirō used his advantageous speed to suddenly appeared a few meters in front of this poor nameless hollow. He swept it's legs and kicked it upwards as it was falling towards the slightly damaged earth. He jumped up and use a shunpo to get higher above the still ascending hollow. He turned his sword into reverse grip and spoke quietly. "Dragon's Descent."
He shot down at the beast and easily bisected the poor creature with a cold, emotionless state. Not missing a beat, he shunpoed to Ash and smacked him in the back of the head.
Ash just grunted in pain and rubbed his developing bruise. "Why?" His tone icy.
"You could have easily killed that hollow and you know it."
"You hit me because I was having a little fun?" His tone got so icy, that the air seemed to become visible.
"No I hit you because of this!" Tōshirō suddenly exclaimed. He gestured to the minor cuts and scrapes on Ash's visible body. "Look I know you're whole back but please don't hold back to much. Had you fought seriously, you would be clean." Hitsugaya chastised.
Ash looked down at his body and sighed. "Yuzu will be mad…" Tōshirō couldn't help but smirk at that but the moment didn't last long. There was suddenly an enormous wave of power that washed over them. They both had to raise their own reiatsus to eliminate the minor discomfort.
"Damn Ichigo." Ash said, sounding a bit impressed.
The creature identified as a Menos Grande, whom all but ignored Ichigo and all the fights that went down turned its full attention to the abnormal teen. It opened its mouth and began to charge a beam of condensed reiatsu in front of its gaping maw. Ichigo saw this immediately and raised his reiatsu to extreme lengths, all but forcing Uryu to his knee and made him gasp for breath.
The beam immediately dissipated and the creature made a sound of what seemed to be fear. It's head suddenly got contorted as it somehow slowly but surely went back into the portal from wence it came.
-The Shoten-
All the hollows slowly began to disappear into the void and the barrier was even more slowly let down.
'Well that definitely alerted Soul Society. But at least Kita and Hitsugaya suppressed theirs at the last moment so maybe the old man won't be to suspicious.' Urahara thought with a tone of interest.
"Finally." The red haired boy exclaimed as he took off his sweaty shirt directly in front of Yuzu Kurosaki. The girl herself easily averted her eyes and worry began to over take her features. "Hey, my name is Jinta." The boy tried to introduce himself but he was very clearly being ignored. "Oi." He tried again and once again got no response.
He waved his hand in front of her eyes and caused her to jolt back in surprise. Coincidentally he had positioned himself in such a way that she would fall on to his chest and into his arms had his plan succeed. He was not disappointed.
Yuzu laid chest to chest with the the red-headed boy and blushes madly as she realized fully what position she was in. Karin had her eyes glued to the cat as it spoke corny joke and she failed to notice that three people had entered the premises. Two of which being extremely furious.
Ash cleared his throat loud enough to gain everyone's attention. He saw Yuzu on top of that boy and immediately lost all sense of his control. The second he locked eyes with the girl he vanished at an incredible pace, the wind alone almost fully blowing everyone away. Yuzu squealed in shock and quickly got up to try at least see Ash's general direction but failed to be quick enough.
"WHAT WAS GOING ON IN HERE?" Ichigo is bellowed as the Tōshirō, Karin and Ichigo turned their glares onto the lone red-head. Then everything got cold, very cold. Within a second, Tōshirō hovered dangerously above Jinta with his sword a centimeter away from the boy's throat.
"What happened?!" Tōshirō seethed through gritted teeth.
Jinta became paralyzed with fear when he connected eyes with Tōshirō. The only thing he saw in those teal orbs were fire and murder.
"W-well she f-f-f-fell! Yes that it! S-she fell!" Jinta's voice was filled to the brim with desperation and plea.
"HOW?!" Tōshirō shouted.
Jinta figured that lying would probably not be good for him in the long run, so he just told part of the truth."I-i-I kinda wanted her to notice me…..so I maybe scared her…"
"You did WHAT?!" Karin said as she began to shake as she tried to contain her anger. "THAT GUY WHO JUST LEFT WAS HER BOYFRIEND!"
Jinta's eyes widen to almost impossible levels. "ASH KITA IS HER BOYFRIEND?!" He sounded as thought he knew what he was going up against and he didn't like it one bit.
"ENOUGH!" Urahara surprisingly yelled. It took a lot to annoy Kisuke but I guess to stares a lined perfectly. He quickly tapped the bottom of his cane to Karin's forehead and made her lose consciousness instantly. He quickly shunpoed to the distressed twin sister and did the same and got the same result.
"WHAT THE FUCK URAHARA?!" Ichigo bellowed as he charged at Kisuke, primed to end him before a large puff of smoke sent him sailing through a wall.
"ICHIGO!" Yoruichi yelled. "HE WIPED THEIR MEMORIES BECAUSE THEY WERENT MEANT TO SEE ANY OF THIS! CALM DOWN!"
From the corner he sat in, Tessai turned his iPod up to the max volume and continued to pretend as though he were paying attention.
-A few moments later-
"Now then…Jinta is basically dead." Kisuke said cheerfully.
Yoruichi agreed.
"Sadly no he isn't. Ash isn't the type of guy to fight for stuff, but then again he really liked Yuzu so I'm not entirely sure." Tōshirō said as he finally calmed his nerves.
"Where is he anyway?" Ichigo asked to which Tōshirō just sighed.
"I don't really know, Ive never seen him so angry at anything before."
'Well today was an eventful one. Ash where ever you are, hurry home ok? It won't be easy for anyone to explain why Yuzu's Ash-kun suddenly disappeared without a trace. But at least now we can plan to confess to them in a better, less bold way.'
A/N- Some thoughts from Tōshirō at the end. Sorry for the extremely long wait for this one but my PC broke and I wanted to tell those who reviewed via a thank you replay but couldn't cause they're guests. I'll try to make it up to you and if anyone of you want/care you can ask me a question and I'll answer it as compensation for the long wait. Rebel signing out.