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"Hm...it seems you're the hollow within Mr. Kurosaki..."Tessai noted and stepped into the room. Shirosaki grinned and held his ground. Tessai and the boy looked on at each other for some time before the boy glanced about the room.
"Hm...wonder where my sword is? You wouldn't happen to know would you? After all you being the maid here...perhaps you were tidying up and put it somewhere?.." The hollow suggested and walked closer to the man but smirked when Tessai took a step back. "Oh?...hehe...Scared of me?" Shirosaki inquired as he got even closer and jabbed the older man in the forehead with a cold finger.
"NOW!" Tessai suddenly bellowed and a net flew out of no where in an attempt to capture the deranged teen. However Shirosaki just let out an airy chuckle and dodged easily.
"Really now did you expect me to fall for that?.." He questioned. "Hm...do you really have such little faith in me?" He continued with mock hurt on his face, and put a hand up to cup his chin as if pondering their levels of stupidity. He watched on as Ururu charged down the hall at him and he began to laugh whole heartedly at such a puny child being pit against him.
Shirosaki however, wasn't about to waste his energy on a child, of course it was then that he realized that this 'child' had a kick that could crush his skull easily. He dodged her attacks easily and backed down the hall as he did so.
"Tch...I think I'm growing tired of you..." He said suddenly and moved to attack her back but he was suddenly plunged in pain as what felt like electricity ripped through his body.
"GYAAHHH!" He screamed and writhed as he fell to the floor, when it stopped he lay there numb, panting and in a cold sweat.
Above him stood a very serious looking Kisuke Urahara. In his hand he held a small device. Almost looked like a remote to unlock someones car. But as the golden eyed boy looked up at the man in confusion, hat n clogs smiled innocently.
"Hehe...hello hollow san ^^" He greeted cheerily leaning over him dangling the device on a chain just out of reach.
"Tsk...what the hell is that!" Shirosaki demanded as he got back to his feet and his body pulsed with energy.
"The body you are in is not yours. It belongs to Ichigo. The collar I put on you when you had your back turned will keep you in check. If you cause trouble I will press this button..and your collar will deliver a rather painful few seconds of electricity." Kisuke answered as Shiro tried his hardest to get the damn collar off, but it was metal inside and had an outter leather casing. Inside the collar there were tiny electrode spikes but they were not sharp, and there were twelve of them.
"I wondered if maybe Ichigo's immunity to you would falter after being exposed to the seireitei in it's condition." Urahara added.
Shirosaki was furious at being treated like an animal. In one swing he brought his hands around and gripped onto the front of the shop owners clothing.
"You had this planned?" Shiro concluded as he glared deeply into the mans grey eyes. Kisuke just put on a chibi grin and held up his fan.
"Yep! So be a good little hollow and go back to where you belong. Let Ichigo have his body back...hmhm..." Kisuke smiled much too casually for the current scenario.
"Heh?! Ha! Hahaha! Listen to you giving me orders!" The hollow cackled and used pure reishi to create a sword, inverted white and black. "Shall we?"
Kisuke sighed exasperatedly and fanned himself.
"Ah...hollows...such dominance issues...so...you want to play with my Benehime?...sure. Why not, she doesn't get out much." Urahara acknowledged and drew his zanpakutou. Shiro smiled darkly and began the dance, but, he was greatly confused when he was simply knocked back on his ass. All Kisuke had done was use Benehime's hilt to knock the teen in the forehead, thus sending him backwards. Shiro was growling under his breath for a moment before he looked up at the man who once again stood over him.
"W..what-?"
"Aahh...so you've begun to notice hm?.." Hat n' clogs wondered with a smile as he sheathed his sword and watched Shiro's evaporate. "You see...with that shock collar, it also suppresses your power. If Ichigo is in control though he has full access ^^ now be good hollow san and let Ichigo come back.."
Shirosaki glared evilly but his glare broke into defeat and he sighed and looked down, then back up and gave Kisuke a 'you suck' pout.
"You know...for a shop keeper, you're pretty sharp. " Shirosaki admitted, even he knew Kisuke was freakishly good at solving problems and somehow knowing the answer to everything.
Kisuke just looked down at him beyond the fan and watched as Ichigo's eyes cleared up and became his own again. Kurosaki sighed heavily and rubbed his head, carefully standing up. He looked around realizing he was free again and grinned triumphantly.
"Ha! He showed you good didn't he Shiro! Ya damn bastard!" Ichigo yelled and knocked on the side of his head, looking up as if to see the hollow.
"Oh shut the fuck up! I could have taken him out! I just didn't wanna get fucking shocked again! So don't get cocky school boy!" Shiro yelled from the confines of Ichigo's mind.
"What'd you call me!?"
"You heard me gingersnap! You couldn't do half the shit you do without me!"
"Why you son of a-!"
"Hm...both of you are like children..."A deeper voice said from within Ichigo's mind.
"Shut it!" Both Ichigo and Shiro retorted.
"That's another thing strawberry! Your fucken zanpakutou is annoying as hell!"
Within his mind Zangetsu glared at the white hollow and simply looked away in a 'I'm done here' style.
This pissed off the hollow.
"Shiro! Don't start a fight! If you and Zangetsu start bangin' around I'll get a headache!" Kurosaki screamed and temporarily flailed.
"Don't turn your pointy ass nose up like you're better than me! You don't even got fucken legs half the goddamn time! What're you going for?! Ghost?! You're a fucken scare crow!"
"Hm...coming from the one who's bleach white, I'd say your statement is invalid." Zangetsu said smartly but kept his bland expression.
"ENOUGH!"Ichigo yelled. His head was beginning to throb, he rubbed it and it was then that he noticed Kisuke, Tessai, Ururu, and Jinta were all standing by watching him with faces of complete confusion, concern, and possibly fear as they watched Ichigo end the fight with himself.
"Uh...w..what? That was Shiro and Zangetsu arguing. Um..Ya know those- never mind.."
Ichigo didn't see what happened when something hit his face with ridiculous strength and he was sent straight to the ground, Ichigo's first instinct was to fight back but the attacker was gone as soon as it happened.
"That's for throwing me through the wall earlier! My damn arm is broken thanks to you!" Jinta shouted and walked away in a hissy fit. Ichigo sighed heavily figuring he deserved that and got up. No wait, HE DIDN't DESERVE IT SHIRO DID!
"Haha..." Shiro chuckled to himself inside Ichigo's mind.
"Shiro I'll hit you so hard when I get my hands on you!" Ichigo bellowed and screamed at seemingly no one.
"Ha! Really!? Well good! Then you can explain to the asylem why you beat the hell outta yourself!"
"Uh...Kurosaki kun, how are you feeling?" Kisuke asked as he walked over to the table.
"Not crazy!"
"Hm? I never said you were! I know how annoying merged souls can be ^^" The man answered and then took Ichigo by the wrist and lead him into a back room, right as Uryu walked in, seeing his friend being dragged away he followed even as the others tried to tell him not to.
"Hey Ichigo. What's going on." Uryu asked as he followed without any care.
"Ah Quincy san! Do join us, you may be able to help!" Kisuke replied and once they were in a back room that was well lit, Kisuke stopped and Ichigo yanked his arm away wondering what the hell the retired captain could have wanted by bringing him back here.
"What's your deal hat n' clogs!?"
With that Ichigo went quiet as he looked at Kisuke's expression, he hadn't seen him that serious in quite some time. He bit back his questioning to wait and see if the man would give him some answers.
"Ichigo, I need you to lay down." Urahara stated without any humor, a chill ran up Ichigo's spine, this was weird.
"W...Why?" The boy replied and took a hesitant step back, Uryu looked at the two and was just as confused as Ichigo, and of course this was when the storm really had to hit outside. Lighting crashed every minute or so and the rain pounded at the one window. The whole atmosphere gave the substitute shinigami the creeps.
"Ichigo, I fear you may be very ill. I've been doing some studying since I gave you that tea and put you to sleep, as you walk, you trail a very sweet scent." The blonde man stated, Ichigo wanted to blow him off and call this some stupid trick of his, but...for some reason he just couldn't. Something was up, he could tell by the way the man was looking at him. And the fact that he was using his first name.
"Come on, I'm not sick..." He played off and sighed, annoyed. "I'm gonna go home and check on my sisters. If you find something strange then get back to me on it. I don't want to stay here anymore, Yuzu is afraid of lightning."
"Ichigo..lay down."
The orange haired teen didn't like getting orders from the guy, especially creepy ones.
"Why." He stated firmly. He figured that if the man wanted him to do something strange like that, then he had better have a damn good reason.
Suddenly Kisuke brought his hand out from behind his back and held a little kit, almost looked like a tool box. "I need to draw some samples from you. ^^" The man smiled in his usual manner once again. The hell?! Hat n' Clogs was acting stupid! Did he really expect Ichigo to take him seriously?
"Hell no! I told you I'm not sick dammit!"
"Uryu...if you would.." Kisuke said suggestively and crooked his finger to tell the quincy to go over to his side of the room with him for a moment. The black haired boy looked confused and slightly concerned but did as he was asked, and went over to Kisuke. Ichigo silently fumed when the two turned around and began to have some secret conversation.
"Hey!" Ichigo yelled but was ignored and just glared and spun around and grabbed the door to open it but in that instant the once-was captain turned to him and his friend did the same.
"Kurosaki kun, just a moment." The man in green and white said with a smile, Ichigo just growled.
"Pffft...screw you, I'm going home." The substitute shinigami snapped and moved to slide the door open but when he did he was grabbed from behind by Uryu, who was surprisingly strong. "H..Hey! The hell!? Let me go Uryu! What has gotten into you both!"
"Sorry Ichigo, but it's for your own good." Uryu said as he practically tackled Ichigo down. "If you would just let him get the damn samples this wouldn't be a problem!"
"Goddamn it get off!" Ichigo bellowed and knocked the quincy off of him as his body pulsed reiatsu, and as he did one of his eyes became gold and black. Shiro was making a come back. "No! Damn it hollow stop!"
"As I thought..." Kisuke muttered to himself as he watched, he sighed and held his hand up. "Hey, Kurosaki kun.." He said getting said teen's attention and Ichigo glared back at him and tried to focus on him but was fighting for control. Ichigo watched as Urahara revealed what it was he was holding. It was the remote for the shock collar he was wearing. Ichigo had forgotten all about it. Remembering that he definitely wanted it off he threw his hands up to it and starting trying to find a clasp to remove it, but couldn't find one!
"Shiro san, I know you're there too, if you do not stop, I will use this, and you both will be shocked."
"What!?" Ichigo protested. "Don't shock me with that!?" Ichigo flailed, Shiro's hold faltered but he came back. "Screw you shinigami!" Shiro retorted. "Are you crazy!? Shiro! Stop! Hat n' clogs, don't do anything stupid, I'll kill you if you- shut up Ichigo! Just let me have control and I can get you out of here, and that damn collar off...and I'll kill the guy...No damn it!"
Kisuke sighed and smiled authoritatively. "You sure you want this Shiro kun? I will use it..."
Shirosaki growled like a demon and continued to take over Ichigo, thought he fought and protested, Ichigo couldn't keep control for some reason. No matter what he did, so his inverted half managed to take over completely.
"Tch...that's better..and I thou-uhn!" Shiro winced and fell to the ground as the collar shocked him in pulses. Uryu panicked and turned to Kisuke.
"What are you doing!? He's not some dog to be punished!My father is the director of the hospital! You could stop his heart with that!" Kisuke simply ignored him though and he continued on.
"Ichigo, if you can hear me still, this is why I need samples from you, I need skin samples and blood samples. You should be realizing now that there is something wrong and You are losing yourself to hollow control."
"Nng!...tch...f...fuck you...I- gaah!...ssss..." Shiro tried but couldn't get Ichigo's body to cooperate long enough to even stand through the jolts. And Kisuke was beginning to worry about Ichigo's health if the hollow didn't stop, he couldn't keep shocking him. Thankfully though, Shiro gave into the torture and hid himself back within the maze of his hosts mind. As Kurosaki regained himself, he winced and shivvered, a cold sweat covered his body and all he wanted to do was sleep. "Dammit...U...Urahara..you...you're really a pain...in the ass."
Seeing that Ichigo was once again 'Ichigo', the old captain of the twelfth squad went to work, Ichigo was too tired now to protest much, though when Kisuke pulled out a needle and three viles, he found a new energy. Urahara and Uryu jumped slightly when Ichigo forced himself to sit up, gasping and trying to shake the white dots from his vision.
"Heh! Not a chance...I'm still, not letting you jab me with anything...I...I...I'll just go...to the hospital..or...see my dad..." He concluded as he pushed his body to stand and began to hobble away, but the blonde shop owner just sighed and in one quick, almost invisible movement, grabbed onto the boys arm and kicked his feet out from under him, sending him straight back to the floor, where he then picked him up and set him on the bed. The orange haired boy coughed having had the wind knocked out of him, and all the little dots were back in his vision.
"Ichigo Kurosaki, as a prior captain in the 13 gotei squads, I forbid you from standing, let alone leaving this room." He said sternly and this caught Ichigo off guard entirely, making him just stop everything and listen. A hint of worry rested on his young features, he'd never been spoken to like that by him. And though he normally would have said 'screw you', this was so sudden and strange that he just decided to see where things brought him.
"All right, tell me whats wrong with me?" The teen began to cooperate and he felt his heart racing a little in what he tried not to believe was fear. Was he actually sick? He swore that if this was some kind of prank he'd kill him. Somehow. Maybe...um..he's pretty strong...hm..
"I need to test you to find out, no sense in worrying if my assumptions are false. Just let me get the samples." Kisuke replied and began cleaning a spot in the crook of Ichigo's elbow. The smell of alcohol and the cold wipe made him shiver and tense up. "Relax your arm..." Ichigo just huffed, being spoken to like a baby was insulting.
"Heh, who knew you had a fear of needles huh?" Uryu teased, but ended up having Ichigo in his face.
"I ain't scared! I...I mean...I just...pssht! it doesn't concern you anyway!"
"Yep, you're scared."
"No I'm not!"
"My calculations say you are. Clean and simple."
"Damn it Uryu I'm not- tch! Ow!" Ichigo winced as Kisuke began drawing the blood.
"Oh Kurosaki kun ^^ It'll be okay..." Urahara comforted, which made Ichigo's blood boil. He knew he was giving him a hard time. The damn guy.
"Seriously!? I'm not freaking scared! I'm fine!"
Uryu pet his head to relax him.
"There, there...it's all gonna be fine."
"DAMN IT STOP THAT YA CREEP!"
Uryu laughed slightly and sighed, sitting back. He watched as Kisuke once again was serious as he finished up filling the viles, and as for a skin sample, all he did for that was take a small razor blade and scrape Ichigo's skin onto a little microscope glass.
"Alright. You rest here Kurosaki kuuuun ^^ Nothing to worry about. I was just giving you a hard time! But stay in bed, you really might have some kind of illness!" The shop owner said, once again his usual chirpy self.
Ichigo didn't even bother in protesting, he was just annoyed. So annoyed he was numb. Like how when you get so pissed off that you simply can't function, can't even move. So instead he just laid there and counted the dots in the ceiling.
As Ichigo laid there though, he heard the tv from the neighbors house whos window was open even though it was pouring rain outside, he could decided to sit up and lean against the wall and look to the left out his own window and listen to what he could pick out. He watched as the screen showed a breaking news bulletin and in the video it showed a famous cake and pastry shop had been demolished by what the public was calling a 'poltergeist'.
"What the-?" Ichigo muttered to himself as he leaned closer to the window to hear better.
"Police and investigators say they have not found an explanation for the occurrences, following the destruction of the shop, all of south centre street's telephone poles were seemingly cut down by some invisible force. Eye witnesses claim it is the work of government conspiracy workers, poltergeists, and angry gods. More investigating is taking place-" The reporter continued but Ichigo had heard enough, knowing he couldn't get out by the front door, he silently opened the window more and took the screen out, then carefully made his way out of the opening. When he did though his stomach sank like a iron brick and he took off like a mad man. All he needed was for Kisuke to tie him to his bed or something, and he knew the man would sense him leave almost immediately.
"Shitshitshitshitshitshit.." He uttered to himself silently without even realizing it as he ran as fast as his body would take him. Once he decided he was a safe distance away (about 11 blocks) he began looking around. And he knew for what, he was gonna find out what poltergeist...or...whatever it was, had done so much destruction. But he had this sinking feeling that it wasn't a ghost, and it wasn't a hollow.
Hmmmmm Interesting things happening!